fannish nonsense
While I was in the shower this morning, the plumbing made a sudden alarming gurgling noise. I turned off the water, listened for a puzzled moment, and then shrugged and turned the shower back on, with the vague expectation that the water was going to turn into blood and murder the fuck out of me. Obviously it did not, and I am not a horrifying ghost in a computer. The actual reason for this is that I live in the real world, but while I was in the shower I was mostly convinced on the logic that while I might be in the right age bracket to be murdered by the occult in the shower, I am not of the appropriate beauty standards or presentation of femininity. Nor am I blonde, although I bet that's just a bonus and only worth ten points.
So, um, I'm in season four! I am skipping fewer and fewer episodes as I go on, but I am also going faster and laughing more and clutching at my face a lot. I am still delighted that there is actual COLOR, and I am also delighted that the angels are terrifying and inhuman and that the poor Winchesters are bewildered because angels are supposed to be made of sparkles and light. NOPE.
I have come to the exciting revelation that Dean is my character type. I was confused for a while, because although he has the emotional inarticulation down, he is neither achingly morally upright nor an evil overlord. (SAM IS BOTH, so we've got those bases covered.) But![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
filia_belialis pointed out to me that Dean is basically Kara Thrace, minus abusive mom plus little brother to look after, and EVERYTHING MADE SENSE. Dean is totally one of my character types, he's just been disguising it by being a bro.
I suspect he also has some overlap with Ray Kowalski, except I say that and then my brain goes on a delightful tailspin. It is a tailspin where Caroline Fraser still dies when Benton is very little, which is a bit frustrating because I'm not subverting anything, but in any case Bob goes off to be a hunter instead of a Mountie, and Fraser is raised by his grandparents but eventually goes off to be a hunter as well when his dad goes missing, you know the story, came to Chicago on the trail of the demon killers of my father. The family Vecchio runs an Italian restaurant that's a road stop for hunters, but eventually Frannie gets tired of all that and runs away to become a hunter herself. Ray Kowalski and Stella also used to be hunters together, but Stella got tired of Ray running stupid risks and acting like he'd sell his soul to save her, so they split up and now Kowalski does stupid things for Fraser instead. Presumably Vecchio is Bobby in this scenario, although I'd be equally happy to have Thatcher be Bobby in this scenario, and they are equally likely to call Fraser and Kowalski idiots on a regular basis. I am not sure if there are any angels, though, no matter how hilarious it would be for Kowalski and Castiel to hang around in awkward silence.
ANYWAY. Yeah, I don't even know.
So, um, I'm in season four! I am skipping fewer and fewer episodes as I go on, but I am also going faster and laughing more and clutching at my face a lot. I am still delighted that there is actual COLOR, and I am also delighted that the angels are terrifying and inhuman and that the poor Winchesters are bewildered because angels are supposed to be made of sparkles and light. NOPE.
I have come to the exciting revelation that Dean is my character type. I was confused for a while, because although he has the emotional inarticulation down, he is neither achingly morally upright nor an evil overlord. (SAM IS BOTH, so we've got those bases covered.) But
filia_belialis pointed out to me that Dean is basically Kara Thrace, minus abusive mom plus little brother to look after, and EVERYTHING MADE SENSE. Dean is totally one of my character types, he's just been disguising it by being a bro.I suspect he also has some overlap with Ray Kowalski, except I say that and then my brain goes on a delightful tailspin. It is a tailspin where Caroline Fraser still dies when Benton is very little, which is a bit frustrating because I'm not subverting anything, but in any case Bob goes off to be a hunter instead of a Mountie, and Fraser is raised by his grandparents but eventually goes off to be a hunter as well when his dad goes missing, you know the story, came to Chicago on the trail of the demon killers of my father. The family Vecchio runs an Italian restaurant that's a road stop for hunters, but eventually Frannie gets tired of all that and runs away to become a hunter herself. Ray Kowalski and Stella also used to be hunters together, but Stella got tired of Ray running stupid risks and acting like he'd sell his soul to save her, so they split up and now Kowalski does stupid things for Fraser instead. Presumably Vecchio is Bobby in this scenario, although I'd be equally happy to have Thatcher be Bobby in this scenario, and they are equally likely to call Fraser and Kowalski idiots on a regular basis. I am not sure if there are any angels, though, no matter how hilarious it would be for Kowalski and Castiel to hang around in awkward silence.
ANYWAY. Yeah, I don't even know.
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Why don't some hunters make an effort to inform the people in charge? THIS MIGHT BE USEFUL.
You'd think, right? I mean, obviously it's "because the show's premise demands that they don't" but it still bugs me. In kind of the way it always bugs me in canons where there are crazy supernatural things going on behind the scenes of a real world-like setting, and non-clued-in people are getting killed a lot. (Harry Potter, Buffy and all the other vampire canons, etc.) Sometimes the canons will give a handwavey explanation like, "Oh they wouldn't believe us anyway," or "if the regular people knew there would be MASS HYSTERIA," but the more examples I see of this trope the more it feels severely condescending towards normal humankind, and ultimately kind of morally indefensible. People have a right to know if there's a serious danger they'll be murdered by dark wizards or eaten by monsters, yo! Even if it makes things harder for your little evil-fighting club.
I'm sort of...okay with it if the series seems to know that this is a messed up decision characters are making for selfish reasons (Being Human, arguably The Vampire Diaries) or there's been real effort put into trying to show that people really wouldn't believe them no matter how hard the heroes tried to get the word out (The X-Files). But otherwise it does make me a little twitchy.
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Oh also. I meant to ask - so does the Stella/RayK hunting team thing mean that the whole bank robbery thing was a scary supernatural event of some kind? Because that's kind of awesome. And hunter!Stella who left her wealthy background in order to kill monsters? BEST AU!STELLA CONCEPT EVER. ♥_♥
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but the more examples I see of this trope the more it feels severely condescending towards normal humankind, and ultimately kind of morally indefensible.
Yeeeeah. I mean, presumably it'd be a bad move to just drop all the information on the population at once, but -- if you presented evidence a bit at a time and let people know with some kind of ripple effect, that would be much better than trying to keep things hidden forever. Eh, who knows.
And YES, the bank robbery thing was totally a scary supernatural event! So presumably when Fraser and Ray first meet, Ray is hiding out in a graveyard to finally get the thing that dragged him into this life in the first place! It's a little eerie how well this works. And meanwhile, yep, hunter!Stella is off killing monsters and saving the world and generally being MOST AWESOME AU!STELLA EVER, and never mind the guys in this universe, I want the adventures of Stella and Frannie and Thatcher.