When I hear "Mystery Spot," I always think of the funny first, just for the visuals. Also, I think, because I was astonished when the episode turned halfway through into the giant angstfest with scary obsessed!Sam.

I seriously never found it funny, although I get that Dean died in shockingly slapsticky ways. I just kept feeling bad for Sam. I was kind of surprised to find out people had been laughing.

Guy who posted the news about Sera on IO9 called her a mook. I don't really know what a mook is, but he's taken it back, and replaced it by saying he hasn't liked the last two seasons, which is totally reasonable.

Hm, I'm ambivalent about the news. I think it's good for SPN, but potentially bad for Being Human.

Well, he has some sort of role in producing Being Human (and his wife is the new showrunner.)

I'm rather jazzed that Jeremy Carver is coming back as co-showrunner. I like Sera and I'll miss her stories, but Jeremy is pretty awesome and I missed his when he went to produce Being Human.

So I was surfing tumblr (as is my wont) and I saw this reblogged:

What aggravates me is when canons deliberately queer-bait, flirting with homoerotic tension and then laughing about it and going, “No homo!”; when they ruthlessly exploit the popularity factor of slashiness without ever allowing their central ~BROTP~ to really, actually, just for once, be textually gay - and when fandom lauds that as progressive and queer-friendly.

and the person whose blog I was on had tagged it, amongst other things "#I'm looking at you Supernatural! ".

Do you think that's fair? Do you think Show yells "Psych!" and takes a step back from having done something with gay overtones? I don't think that's fair. I think fandom spends a lot of time reading gay overtones into the text, and that when show *does* put the overtones in, they don't yell "no homo!" and undo it, they just change topic. They don't step back, they just turn right or left.

I'm a raging m/m slash fan in other fandoms, and I get its appeal. My slash bell doesn't peal for SPN, so I have no horse in the Destiel/Wincest race. I don't read homoeroticism in Show, but if others do, I'm a live-and-let-live kind of gal.

Show has "winked" and "nudged" at slash fandom with the occasional gay comment, but I don't read that as deliberate baiting and walking it back. I think it's a friendly nod to slash fans, but a few tinfoil hat fans aren't in the mood to be toyed with. So, no, I don't think it a fair assessment. I think someone's bitter that Show won't take things where she wants it to go.

I'm trying to parse out the meaning of "BROTP" .... I'm guessing TP stands for True Pairing. What's the BRO part? Or is this a wincest fan complaining? (As in Brother True Pairing?)

I think it's bro + OTP. Akin to bromance and the rest.

Okay, that makes sense to me. The complaint that a show would hint at the central bromantic pair being gay, but back away from it when it comes down to the payoff. Not so much when it comes to Supernatural though.