and C&P my comments from the other pertinent ep, "Sympathy for the Devil":
Finally, I know some fans are gonna be all weirded out and/or scared by the fangirl scenes, but honestly, I continue to find them really amusing and also a really nice way of paying homage to the people who are the reason this show exists. When Carver Edlund needs help, who does he turn to? I think there's a playfulness about the way fandom is depicted on SPN but also a very real recognition that we are the ones who make SPN successful....
Heeee. The fangirl scene didn't bother me as much as I think it has other fans. I feel like it's really evidence that Kripke *gets* the way that many of us are fannish about the show. From the way we archive our fic to the kinds of tropes we use in them to the pithy names we give our lj comms to Sam girls and Dean girls to the way that some of us lack boundaries when we meet the object of our fannish glee, this scene covers it all. And I think he's using these fangirl scenes to blatantly acknowledge and address the subtextual incest that many fans see in the show. It's a safe way for him to play around with that theme without coming out and actually textualizing the incest. Notice that this time, nobody said slash was gross or weird. It just was. :) Now the girl herself was a little more loopy than I would have liked, but *shrugs*. And yeah, her refusal to leave Sam alone was creepy.
Re: Don't read if you don't want SPN spoilers!
I'll link you to my post about the first episode:
http://lunabee34.livejournal.com/211477.html
and C&P my comments from the other pertinent ep, "Sympathy for the Devil":
Finally, I know some fans are gonna be all weirded out and/or scared by the fangirl scenes, but honestly, I continue to find them really amusing and also a really nice way of paying homage to the people who are the reason this show exists. When Carver Edlund needs help, who does he turn to? I think there's a playfulness about the way fandom is depicted on SPN but also a very real recognition that we are the ones who make SPN successful....
Heeee. The fangirl scene didn't bother me as much as I think it has other fans. I feel like it's really evidence that Kripke *gets* the way that many of us are fannish about the show. From the way we archive our fic to the kinds of tropes we use in them to the pithy names we give our lj comms to Sam girls and Dean girls to the way that some of us lack boundaries when we meet the object of our fannish glee, this scene covers it all. And I think he's using these fangirl scenes to blatantly acknowledge and address the subtextual incest that many fans see in the show. It's a safe way for him to play around with that theme without coming out and actually textualizing the incest. Notice that this time, nobody said slash was gross or weird. It just was. :) Now the girl herself was a little more loopy than I would have liked, but *shrugs*. And yeah, her refusal to leave Sam alone was creepy.