See I'm still hung up on why THIS instance of a character being sent to hell is supposed to stick, narratively, when literally every season finale the show has ever had that I am aware of has that happen to someone and then next season they just kinda come back.
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect
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Well there's no next season this time. Also apparently it happens to lots of women and people of color, according to this thread, so having it happen to The Gay seems fittinghttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1106343533114462208?s=19 …
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This thread makes me sound so much more intensely hateful of the show than I currently am It's my own version of Eminem's Cleaning Out My Closet
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It's a very good thread, I'm sorry if it's inappropriate to dredge up, it just seems... Timely
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I still stand by everything I said, it's just that eventually the showrunners just... started agreeing with me Which I wasn't prepared for, and has left me emotionally anchorless
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Did they fix it, or just like... Acknowledge and keep doing it?
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I haven't seen any of the episodes before the pandemic forced a pause, and I'll probably write an addendum to that thread when I've done so (nah, on second thought, that can go on my Patreon) but the last two seasons or so made excellent use of the unique position the show was in
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @CuddlePotato and
The episodes I saw elevated the artistic success of the work by taking the story outside the diegetic conceit of the genre and recontextualizing it as a metanarrative about the nature of the medium and the idea of a storyteller as a kind of petty autocrat abusing the innocent
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @CuddlePotato and
Because the malevolent God of the SPN universe was coded with the tropes of a pulp fiction writer, the show kind of had a mea culpa about the misogyny and general pigheadedness of past seasons Literally explaining it away diegetically as the sloppiness of an arrogant creator
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Yeah if you quit Supernatural after S5 like many people did: 1) It's become unambiguous canon that the hack writer Chuck Shurley who writes "prophetic" Supernatural books in-universe and the actual God who created the actual Supernatural universe are one and the same
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2) This turns out to be a very bad thing Writers often claim to be benevolent deities who love their characters like their own children and wish them all the best in the world But ultimately they're just in it for catharsis and they'll slaughter billions for a good story
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I like the meta idea that one of the ways God is a huge irresponsible asshole is he inserts himself as a character in his own story so he gets to have his cake and eat it too Experience it from a human perspective and pretend all the tragedy hurts him as much as it hurts you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
A view of God that does, after all, have a pedigree (Rob Benedict, who plays Chuck, does in fact look a lot like classic white Jesus and his slobby fratboy persona as Chuck is very similar to that 2000s fratboy joke about Stoner Jesus)
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