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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

In which I witter about Supernatural

So, thanks to a typo in his contract, Dean Winchester's gone to Hull, right?

Right?

Come on, there could be dramatic potential in Sam having to rescue Dean from East Yorkshire.

*ponders concept of Hullbound: Hullraiser II*

Sigh. At some point while rewatching the second half of season 1 and the first half of season 2 I became a little obsessed with Supernatural.

Alright, a lot obsessed.

Alright, I started reading Wincest when I ran out of episodes. *facepalm*

And I've been mainlining so much imagery and commentary and fic since season 3 finished that Dean and Sam are now making regular appearances in my dreams. I don't believe things have been this bad since the heady days of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanaticism. Which is ironic because I ignored Supernatural for ages for the sole reason that I'd read discussions of its problematic treatment of women, framed to suggest a conscious backlash against BtVS (Now BtVS, at its most basic level, was of course about subverting the horror movie cliché of the blonde girl victim, and sure enough Supernatural - in its very first episode - has not one but two blonde women meeting horrible ends in order to further the plot and motivate our two (male) protagonists). And - given that - it's doubly ironic my fannishness has reached critical mass now, when SPN fandom is currently exploding over the subject of misogyny in the series.

The seemingly constant use of gendered insults against women this season has certainly bothered me (to the point where, despite generally liking Dean and disliking Ruby, it made me ridiculously happy when the latter called the former a dick), and the lack of any real female allies means we've had less good stuff to balance out the nastiness. I think it's important that in previous seasons, not only did we have recurring female allies in the form of Ellen and Jo, we also got a number of women whose situations explicitly paralleled that of either Sam or Dean in some way, and with whom our protagonists clearly identified as a result. I can't really think of any examples of this happening in season 3 off the top of my head.

Still, for the most part, my enjoyment has outweighed my frustrations (which is more than I can say for Torchwood this year, but that's another post) and I'll be watching season 4. I don't seem to be able to look away at the moment.

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