Although there are many things I disliked about this season, it didn't push the "I can't watch this" button quite like the decision that killing Ava would be more fun than have her be a romantic foil for Sam, or the decision that Sam should sleep with Madison and then kill her did. But those decisions underlined a fundamental philosphical problems for me--that dead girls are sexier than live girls, which is all over the television and really squicks me.
I give Dean a pass on some of the stuff he has done this season because the egregiously misogynistic comments, like the donkey show, seems intended more to make Sam angry and distract him from the desperation at hand than to express how he might actually feel, and in fact seem designed exactly to hide what he really wants. When he's not talking, but we see what he thinks and wants, it seems to be a family with a woman he can talk to and respect. But he doesn't want Sam to know that, because it would just make Sam sadder about their lives. So I sort of see the tragedy in the gaping wound of his life, between what he says and what he wants in his own head.
His response to Ruby seems tied up in Sam's reliance on her, and his fear that Sam will follow in the family tradition and give her his soul to find a way out for Dean. And the line about you all look alike, stated soon after admitting he could see demons, clearly had to do with the demon inside and not Ruby the girl.
I have a feeling that they've had to move away from the smoke-leaving demon banishing to the magical killing everything weapons for budgetary reasons--smokey columns probably cost more than a few sparkly red lights. Which is a pain. But it is easier for me to accept a budgetary shift in the mythology than to accept sleeping with girls and then shooting them, even if they are werewolves.
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Date: 2008-05-17 04:40 pm (UTC)I give Dean a pass on some of the stuff he has done this season because the egregiously misogynistic comments, like the donkey show, seems intended more to make Sam angry and distract him from the desperation at hand than to express how he might actually feel, and in fact seem designed exactly to hide what he really wants. When he's not talking, but we see what he thinks and wants, it seems to be a family with a woman he can talk to and respect. But he doesn't want Sam to know that, because it would just make Sam sadder about their lives. So I sort of see the tragedy in the gaping wound of his life, between what he says and what he wants in his own head.
His response to Ruby seems tied up in Sam's reliance on her, and his fear that Sam will follow in the family tradition and give her his soul to find a way out for Dean. And the line about you all look alike, stated soon after admitting he could see demons, clearly had to do with the demon inside and not Ruby the girl.
I have a feeling that they've had to move away from the smoke-leaving demon banishing to the magical killing everything weapons for budgetary reasons--smokey columns probably cost more than a few sparkly red lights. Which is a pain. But it is easier for me to accept a budgetary shift in the mythology than to accept sleeping with girls and then shooting them, even if they are werewolves.