Really. Worst SPN Ever.

[gwendolyngrace]

I had to start this even before the show ended because WOW. PAINFUL.

Luckily there's also nothing (okay, well, ONE thing) that one needs this show for to maintain canon continuity. (And that was slipped into the very last scene, so:)



CROWLEY! That means we're going to meet Aziraphale, right?

Jesus Effing Whatever. That was the ONLY good thing about this entire episode.

Show friggin' jumped the shark.

So, MOTW was basically a more ghastly version of "Provenance", but all the fan crap just NEEDS. TO. STOP. NOW.

Although it looked like there were only about 50 "fans" and other than Becky and the actress, I only spotted one or two other women.

Um.... Yeah.

And as for the nods (along with the nudges and the wink-winks) to the homoerotic, really, show, you can do so much better. Their gay is pasted on, not yay. WHY? Seriously, WHY? It was not in any way foreshadowed - the "couple" didn't even have any chemistry until that incredibly painful and forced final moment. GAH. It just wasn't necessary - and it was probably the most insulting thing about the episode - and that's saying something, considering how horribly painful this episode was.


Yeah, I need to scrub my brain. I don't think I'll bother to download this one.

Comments

[bluejeanbaby01.livejournal.com]

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

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

Well, I do see the homoerotic subtext of the *characters*, but certainly not the *actors* - I agree that plays to me as very close collegial friendship and horsing around - but then I'm also *used* to the kind of play that actors indulge in all the time, so it doesn't read to me as anything "more". As for the brothers, I do see where it can spill over, but I also agree that one has to strap on the slash goggles and actively look for it to find it. Which is not generally how I like my slash - I like it to slap *me* upside the head, not dig around in the corners to turn up a hint of it. But all that said, the fact that other fans seem to see/hear it more front-and-center than I do doesn't bother me.

And I think I even get that the creative team obviously *thought* they were laughing with us, but really, no. Not even a little bit. I can even imagine a conversation wherein Kripke or someone else says in response to criticism, "Oh, come on, folks. We KNOW that the fans in the episode were not OUR fans - for one thing, we DELIBERATELY made them all guys so you'd know we weren't poking fun at YOU." But that doesn't explain Becky, who first of all, Chuck should throw to the curb RIGHT FUCKING NOW, nor does it explain the writers' seeming "need" to paste a gay couple into an episode that really didn't need it. As Tim Gunn would say, "Edit, edit, edit!"

I actually have a half a chapter written for a book in which the main characters are in fact both brothers *and* lovers, just so there's no way anyone can debate either point. ;^)