what’s so fascinating about the experience of watching spn is that the show is the most hardcore, literal case of return of the repressed i’ve ever seen
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in that the show has a collection of fixations that it is actively trying to suppress but which nonetheless bubble to the surface, usually in the form of whatever they’re trying to kill that week
i kind of adore it?? on rewatch w/ a friend, we just finished "children shouldn't play with dead things" and i'm fully missing how good a MOTW is when rooted in a character's insecurities, which SPN cornered the market on for so long.
and i was going to be like "the early seasons are perfect like this but the later seasons are too thematically dry to make the cut" but then i remembered dean's closest human friend is a queer woman who has to go to another dimension to be with the formerly-thought-fictional being she loves
prior to her dismemberment by a violently misogynistic man cult of course! of course. that show had the juice to unbelievable levels, but only 10000% against its will
it's a show that freud would love, not just for all the complexes, but bc everything it insists is not in its purview keeps bursting out of it anyway like convulsions
in the words of my friend, every week the winchesters go to a town and the locals are like “watch out for the legend of old man soneater and his daughters, they lived in the woods and fucked each other to death”
in particular that show’s obsession with male sexual victimization is FASCINATING for the way that the writers want to go there so so badly but can’t actually go through with it
no bc me and my flatmate were losing our minds on our rewatch like they've tried to be as macho and masc as possible to appeal to male audiences but they've accidentally written the most fascinating study of male repression instead no wonder it was exclusively watched by tumblr users
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(look, if u want to talk about SPN on discord or whatever...i am...always....ready...)