Scuttlebutt is that J&J didn't really want to do any making out with guest stars anymore because they were entering their 40s and married And a show in its twilight years like SPN usually sees the stars end up with a lot more clout than the writers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
But I do think it's a fandom thing too Like you can see this shit start to shift when they created Anna Milton to be a love interest for Sam in S4 and they did this gratuitous sex scene in the Impala and were surprised to find a huge fan backlash calling it "disgusting"
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Anna was designed to be this idealized love interest to appeal to straight male fans, both in terms of eye candy and how her character was written It really backfired
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The extremely violent rejection of her by the fanbase (the typical fate of Canon Het Ships) made them realize they did not, in fact, have any remaining straight male fans
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The character Castiel ended up becoming, after having been written to be a guest starring bit part, is basically just straight-up replacing Anna's intended role on the show If Sam and Dean needed a third wheel to spice things up it sure as hell wasn't gonna be a *woman*
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@Nymphomachy has talked at length about this amazing paradoxical phenomenon of a show getting increasingly hostile to its own female characters as its fanbase gets female-dominated)1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
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The fans even hated Charlie Bradbury and a loud contingent of haters kept on dogging Felicia Day's mentions over it until she was also killed off
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Even though they, like, carefully constructed her to be a female recurring character who couldn't possibly threaten anyone's ship, because she was a nerdy lesbian who treats the main characters like her protective older brothers
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(Somehow the idea of the perky little sister character REALLY pushed the toxic fandom's buttons, like she got called a "Mary Sue" more than even Anna did As though Castiel is not this ultimate and overwhelming example of a "Mary Sue")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Oh yeah I did like the extra touch where in this most recent episode they brought back Charlie and gave her an actual relationship with another human woman (something they'd avoided the whole time she was a recurring guest star) only to then immediately kill them both
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That's less the Classic Bury Your Gays that Castiel's whole thing was and more the kind of Modern Bury Your Gays that's a result of "The gays don't have a series regular contract so we have very limited time in our shooting schedule for them" But still
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I've yet to see or hear a single reason to subject myself to this show, and the inverse can be said for reasons not to.
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