My biggest beef with tonight's episode is the backhanded compliments, no, I can't even call them that, the veiled insults thrown at fans.
I get that SPN loves it's fans. Why shouldn't it? The SPN fanbase is about as rabid and devoted as any fanbase I've ever seen. I won't join it in more than a casual way because of how rabid it is. Yet this show, more often than not, does nothing but put it's fans down.
Supernatural convention? Awesome. Sam and Dean attending the convention and being all wtf? Kinda funny. Showing that these fans, these people that spend the money to attend an event like this, dress up, role play, and really put their hear and soul into being a fan, are lame-ass dwellers who can't get laid and have nothing better to do than obsess over fictional brothers and a fictional story about fictional things? NOT FREAKING COOL.
They just aren't insulting some of their fans by doing this, they're insulting a whole community of people. People, whom if they hadn't spent the money on Star Wars and Buffy and Star Trek and didn't dress up or roll play or obsess or go to conventions all over the country, this show wouldn't exist. It wouldn't have already had that built in niche audience it played to that first season.
As far as the homoerotic subtext this show is constantly referring to? I don't see it, have never seen it, and will never see it existing between Sam and Dean. All I've ever seen are two brothers who love each other, in a non sexual way, that have literally laid down their lives for each other. Do I see the subtext with the other male characters, like Castiel, existing between either of the brothers and and them? Not really.
For that matter I don't see it between Jensen and Jared, either. And I know those two play it up. Hardcore. But again, all I see are two actors, very talented, underrated actors that have amazing chemistry and play off each other well that get along splendidly in real life.
So the show needs to stop trying to throw the homoerotic subtext in our faces. What it needs to show is better female representation. Most of the females on the show are either dumb airheads that parade around in practically nothing for Dean to gawk at or they're evil hell bitches bent on destroying the brothers and the world, all the while wearing practically nothing. And heaven forbid we get an actual kick ass heroin, she's either a grade A bitch, she dies, or she's written off and we don't ever see her again.
Ok, I ranted. Apologies. I'm stepping off my soapbox now and going to try and wrap my head around one of my fandoms turning one of their main couples into brothers. O.o
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I get that SPN loves it's fans. Why shouldn't it? The SPN fanbase is about as rabid and devoted as any fanbase I've ever seen. I won't join it in more than a casual way because of how rabid it is. Yet this show, more often than not, does nothing but put it's fans down.
Supernatural convention? Awesome. Sam and Dean attending the convention and being all wtf? Kinda funny. Showing that these fans, these people that spend the money to attend an event like this, dress up, role play, and really put their hear and soul into being a fan, are lame-ass dwellers who can't get laid and have nothing better to do than obsess over fictional brothers and a fictional story about fictional things? NOT FREAKING COOL.
They just aren't insulting some of their fans by doing this, they're insulting a whole community of people. People, whom if they hadn't spent the money on Star Wars and Buffy and Star Trek and didn't dress up or roll play or obsess or go to conventions all over the country, this show wouldn't exist. It wouldn't have already had that built in niche audience it played to that first season.
As far as the homoerotic subtext this show is constantly referring to? I don't see it, have never seen it, and will never see it existing between Sam and Dean. All I've ever seen are two brothers who love each other, in a non sexual way, that have literally laid down their lives for each other. Do I see the subtext with the other male characters, like Castiel, existing between either of the brothers and and them? Not really.
For that matter I don't see it between Jensen and Jared, either. And I know those two play it up. Hardcore. But again, all I see are two actors, very talented, underrated actors that have amazing chemistry and play off each other well that get along splendidly in real life.
So the show needs to stop trying to throw the homoerotic subtext in our faces. What it needs to show is better female representation. Most of the females on the show are either dumb airheads that parade around in practically nothing for Dean to gawk at or they're evil hell bitches bent on destroying the brothers and the world, all the while wearing practically nothing. And heaven forbid we get an actual kick ass heroin, she's either a grade A bitch, she dies, or she's written off and we don't ever see her again.
Ok, I ranted. Apologies. I'm stepping off my soapbox now and going to try and wrap my head around one of my fandoms turning one of their main couples into brothers. O.o