rionaleonhart | I'm Captain Basch!

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT SUPERNATURAL NOWADAYS. It has become so weird and meta. Here we are, happily 'shipping pairings in the show, and the show turns around and starts 'shipping us. It is bizarre. Who needs Livejournal entries to talk about Supernatural when Supernatural is so willing to talk about itself?

I was a little worried, at first, that this episode would be a rather mean-spirited depiction of the fandom, but by the end I was convinced that Kripke loves us really. Awww. (Possibly an inappropriate amount, given the Chuck/Becky. Which I sort of massively loved, but also found extremely confusing. Is Supernatural/fandom now canon? Because that's - that's really strange canon.) WE SAVE THE DAY. US.

I enjoyed the episode! I am just becoming increasingly bewildered by the dizzying levels of self-referentiality in Supernatural. Back in the first season, who could have predicted that the future would involve in-canon Supernatural conventions and Wincest fangirls taking an active role in the plot? I don't really object, but it is very odd indeed.

(I have to wonder what Supernatural watchers who aren't in fandom think of all this.)

Hmmm, that wasn't really long enough to justify an entry, was it? What else can I say?

...well, there is a video on YouTube of nothing but Vaan saying 'DON'T LISTEN TO ONDORE'S LIES'. Repeated over and over again. For five minutes.

It is the most inane thing in the entire world (with the possible exception of this), and twenty seconds in I was laughing so hard I was crying.

(I didn't watch the entire thing, if you're wondering. I managed to stop it after a minute or so. Had I watched it all, I wouldn't have been able to post this for shame.

That minigame was a nightmare.)

On the subject of 'WHY DOES THIS EXIST?'-reaction-inducing things on YouTube, have three John Barrowmans dancing to 'Single Ladies' in tinfoil trousers, if you haven't seen it already.

Ah, the Internet. Humanity's finest invention. I think what we can learn from this is that I should always make sure my reaction posts have a fair degree of substance, because otherwise the things I will dredge up to fill the rest of the entry will be incredibly stupid.

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It's kind of like a fingernails on a blackboard type thing. Every time she comes on I'm like "nooooo!" and want to skip ahead to the next part without her.
I guess it's supposed to be a mix of gentle mockery and yet saying 'we love you really' to the fans by having her turn out to be helpful despite being annoying but yes, there might well be an element of that. I can easily imagine some of the most, uh, outspoken crazies really hating her and going into in depth rants about the character and what it means and yet not realising her more annoying attributes are based on their own traits. Which is an amusing thought.
I really wish they'd toned Becky's hypnerness down a bit though.
(and I think the only way I can bear to watch another episode with her in is if Castiel is in it making WTF? faces at a fan convention full of fake-Castiels)

In conclusion: Kripke is evil for messing with our heads this way.

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