If you’ve been reading this LJ for any length of time since I first fell in love with this show, you’ve noticed that my posts on the subject tend to be less on the introspective side and more on the squee-fully incoherent “oh Boys!” “Oh, Show!” level. Especially this season.
What can I say? I’m fairly shallow when it comes to such things, and SPN feeds that in me like a gourmet chef with an unlimited budget.
(Besides…have you seen the actors?)
Almost from the moment I was able to stop giggling at episode 4 X 18, however – I started thinking. The wank has already hit Journalfen. Less than twenty-four hours, which honestly anyone with any sort of realistic awareness of fandoms in general and SPN fandom in particular figured was going to happen sooner than it did.
Spoiler-free summary? The show outed their fandom. It was impressively woven into the fabric of the season’s mytharc – but they busted us completely.
They even mentioned slashfic. Wincest slashfic, to be specific. And the character’s reactions in the context of the show were pretty much what you’d expect a) given those particular characters b) how any marginally sane person would react if they discovered that legions of people they never met were writing porn about them getting it on with their close relatives.
Not surprisingly, fandom go boom. A large chunk of us (myself included) thought it was the funniest, most awesome thing ever.
A different section of the fandom?
( Not so much. )
What can I say? I’m fairly shallow when it comes to such things, and SPN feeds that in me like a gourmet chef with an unlimited budget.
(Besides…have you seen the actors?)
Almost from the moment I was able to stop giggling at episode 4 X 18, however – I started thinking. The wank has already hit Journalfen. Less than twenty-four hours, which honestly anyone with any sort of realistic awareness of fandoms in general and SPN fandom in particular figured was going to happen sooner than it did.
Spoiler-free summary? The show outed their fandom. It was impressively woven into the fabric of the season’s mytharc – but they busted us completely.
They even mentioned slashfic. Wincest slashfic, to be specific. And the character’s reactions in the context of the show were pretty much what you’d expect a) given those particular characters b) how any marginally sane person would react if they discovered that legions of people they never met were writing porn about them getting it on with their close relatives.
Not surprisingly, fandom go boom. A large chunk of us (myself included) thought it was the funniest, most awesome thing ever.
A different section of the fandom?
( Not so much. )
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