Current mood:	aggravated
Entry tags:	feminism, rant, suckiness, supernatural

I suppose I should...
Right, Supernatural. Last episode of the season.


Yeah, you saw that right.

See, the thing is I want to like the show. The boys are attractive. As a general rule the plots are interesting. But...

I keep asking myself "how many more skanky race and gender issues does this show need to have before I just give up?"

I'm still not sure, but when, at then end of a dramatic episode, where the main character ends up in hell with a meathook through his shoulder, I feel vindicated because he was a complete douchebag hypocrite to a woman who was going to hell (and he made rape jokes at her), and then engaged in slutshaming another woman in the finale?

Yeah.

It was a good episode. Very dramatic. Not too many narm moments. Too much Bobby, but honestly, for the most part any Bobby is too much for me. (Is it too much to hope that his disappearance means he's dead? Plz?) For the most part structured well. Some genuine creepy moments.

OTOH, mythology failure begins to get on my nerves after a while. If you want us to believe you do the research at least pretend to use some of it. Someone early in the season mentioned that Lilith is a "psychosexual demon" Yeah, would you stop it with the little kid thing? I know little kids are creepy, but Lilith is a full-grown demon, y'all.

And this is all ignoring the total failure of the main characters to grow or change or have any sort of emotional continuity in any meaningful way. (Yes, I remember Mystery Spot. Where is that coldness from Mystery Spot in the finale? Rottenfish and Bree over on JF pointed out too that Bela wouldn't have made the guys look half so dumb if they'd learned from their first experience with her. And also, why don't the boys ever seem to think about characters they've left behind or touched-- like Cassie or Ellen or Jo or Missouri.) They're supremely self-centered, but I'm supposed to like them. And... I kind of don't right now. Quite the opposite, in fact. The end of the season made me gleeful.

And I think that may mean I really need to take a break. From the show, from fandom. All of it.

Well, except from cunnilingusfic. They're doing a "Eat Bela Out Challenge". I'm okay with that. Also, I will break this intended fast if someone writes Sam/Lilith.

ETA: ... well, that was a little more bitter than I was expecting.

ETA2: I should note this mostly means I'm taking almost all of the comms off my flist. I'm probably not gonna defriend anyone unless this drives me into a depressive funk.