Dean and Sam Winchester I don't watch this show, and thus don't know anything about them (except that Sam makes a really hot girl--I do read the genderswap). I know, of course, that there's a massive amount of fic written about them.
Dean and Sam - and really, hunters in general - get coded as being working-class/lower-class/Southern/Mid-Western/redneck/rural/take-your-pick. The coding has always struck me as being definitive and deliberate enough to matter but vague enough to non-regionally-specific and thus allow for the greatest amount of identification.
Also, TPTB have talked in an interview about coding Bela, a new antagonist, as upper-class and how that was a subtext in her antagonism with Dean and Sam.
Unfortunately, the show, depending on the episode, does anywhere from shakey to just plain bad with racial and gender issues, which is disappointing.
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Dean and Sam - and really, hunters in general - get coded as being working-class/lower-class/Southern/Mid-Western/redneck/rural/take-your-pick. The coding has always struck me as being definitive and deliberate enough to matter but vague enough to non-regionally-specific and thus allow for the greatest amount of identification.
Also, TPTB have talked in an interview about coding Bela, a new antagonist, as upper-class and how that was a subtext in her antagonism with Dean and Sam.
Unfortunately, the show, depending on the episode, does anywhere from shakey to just plain bad with racial and gender issues, which is disappointing.