But that squee was legendary.

Oh, yeah. That. Hee!

Looking back in my lj, I did find this chunk of discussion about Sam's powers after watching Shadow:

smonster: See, it's great b/c usually that whole 'discovering new uncontrollable powers' thing is limited to girls.

Which is a very superficial discussion of a complicated topic that would doubtless include words like 'gender-normative,' 'coding,' and many other grad school terms.

Man, amyth and I never did write our paper. It was going to be called "I Am My Brother's Keeper; Complementary Masculinities in Supernatural."

Amyth? Is so, so wrong about which one's the girl.

But then, my unwritten paper is titled "Dean and Demeter: Every Day is Mother's Day" or something and I've been known to burble about how Dean can be read as commentary on the sacrifices of the stay at home parent..

First half of first season, though, Sam was awfully girly, and Dean was very butch. It took a while to see through those masks.

Yeah, but by Shadow, I think it was pretty well established which one secretly reads Cosmo and watches Lifetime. So I still think my beloved Amyth is wrong like a wrong thing that's wrong.

Although guess I can leave room for the interpretation that John actually had two daughters...

But fall I did, and if I can claim that I played a part in pulling some of you in after me, then I'm a proud fangirl.

Between you, amyth and Plei, I got entangled and just so damn invested. Then Lee brought S1 dvds and I was lost forever.

Though early S1 does remind me of why I didn't stay at first. A mini-horror movie each week? No, thank you. I practice judicious watching through my fingers with this show.

But that squee was legendary.

But then, my unwritten paper is titled "Dean and Demeter: Every Day is Mother's Day" or something and I've been known to burble about how Dean can be read as commentary on the sacrifices of the stay at home parent.

I would read that paper. IJS.

That's one of the things that intrigues me about Dean. There is so much about the character that is stereotypically macho, but it didn't take long (probably because I was reading y'all's commentary) for me to spot that Dean's role is as much maternal as it is fraternal.

I think this jumped out at me the most in DMB when Dean was trying to get John and Sam to back down from their head-butting contest.

I started watching SPN because Everyone Was Doing It, and I figured I'd give the first season a shot. I'm not really into horror or generic WB pretty, so I didn't expect to like it. I watched a couple of episodes and thought, hey, it was a neat little show, maybe I could go with it.

And then Dean hit me like a freight train.

It's not that he's pretty, although it certainly helps; it's just that he's so complicated and unlikely and broken and problematically gendered!

It's not that he's pretty, although it certainly helps; it's just that he's so complicated and unlikely and broken and problematically gendered!

Oh, I want to pet this sentence and hold it close.

OMG it ate my post.

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What Bev Said, Plei. You devoured the season in order from the beginning. Amyth didn't start watching w/ the sound on until "Nightmare" and I think "Shadow" make have been my first full episode.

It's true that in how Dean relates to Sam and to kids, he's very maternal and nurturing. But in how he relates to the rest of the world, he's totally old school Han Solo macho.

Dean - get job done, kill the evil thing, bang the hot chicks, hey! free food, don't talk about emotions

Sam - make sure everyone's okay, moral relativity and empathy, women are PEOPLE, jeez, Dean, bitchface bitchface, uncontrollable powers

This starts to shift some in s2 (Nightshifter comes to mind), but in s1 I think it was pretty solid.