So his actual VM message would be this is John, if you can't reach me call my son Dean. Okay, that makes sense. It still feels weird to me that Chuck could write that many books without mentioning the name once! Would give his characters more of an air of mystery, though, if they had no name.
Sam OTOH DID have faith, praying to God and believing in Angels with no proof whatsoever, yet the Angels have pretty much distrusted him from the get go. An irony the writers have played on muchly, that the brother with faith has only a demon to believe in him, while the brother with no faith has the actual angel on his shoulder.
I am actually hoping that the Angels are manipulating Dean as much as Ruby is manipulating Sam and that Dean is mirroring Sam in as much as he has put his skepticism about them away and is beginning to believe in them against his original instincts. It does seem pretty likely that there will be all kinds of twists and turns before the story is done. I really can't (or don't want to) see anything good coming from Ruby herself, but I do feel that Sam's powers will be important in the end - I'm still hoping that it will be the combination of Dean and Sam together that wins the day, independent of those seeking to manipulate them both. One thing's for sure: it's going to be a real rollercoaster ride, that's for sure!
Chuck wants to protect both boys, which gives me hope that the show will eventually repair their relationship. *nods* I have never doubted that the relationship will eventually be repaired, because it is the central core of the show. It's just a question of how long it will take to get to a point where healing becomes possible, and then that journey provides still more storytelling depth, just as tearing it down has become.
As for the slash thing, well, I don't do slash at all, of course, so my perspective is immediately going to be different than yours. I had no problem with it, other than the sheer cringe-worthiness of fandom being so overtly mentioned in the first place - fans of all varieties were mocked in a variety of ways. And the slap was at the incest factor than the concept of slash itself - it wasn't about casual observers seeing two men together and automatically assuming gay, which previous gay jokes have been. It was the fact that fans know that these characters are brothers and still write them having sex, despite the fact that incest is a major societal taboo! It doesn't bother me at all that the characters of Sam and Dean, being both straight men and brothers, would find that concept disgusting. It is a natural squick. *shrugs*
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So his actual VM message would be this is John, if you can't reach me call my son Dean.
Okay, that makes sense. It still feels weird to me that Chuck could write that many books without mentioning the name once! Would give his characters more of an air of mystery, though, if they had no name.
Sam OTOH DID have faith, praying to God and believing in Angels with no proof whatsoever, yet the Angels have pretty much distrusted him from the get go.
An irony the writers have played on muchly, that the brother with faith has only a demon to believe in him, while the brother with no faith has the actual angel on his shoulder.
I am actually hoping that the Angels are manipulating Dean as much as Ruby is manipulating Sam and that Dean is mirroring Sam in as much as he has put his skepticism about them away and is beginning to believe in them against his original instincts.
It does seem pretty likely that there will be all kinds of twists and turns before the story is done. I really can't (or don't want to) see anything good coming from Ruby herself, but I do feel that Sam's powers will be important in the end - I'm still hoping that it will be the combination of Dean and Sam together that wins the day, independent of those seeking to manipulate them both. One thing's for sure: it's going to be a real rollercoaster ride, that's for sure!
Chuck wants to protect both boys, which gives me hope that the show will eventually repair their relationship.
*nods* I have never doubted that the relationship will eventually be repaired, because it is the central core of the show. It's just a question of how long it will take to get to a point where healing becomes possible, and then that journey provides still more storytelling depth, just as tearing it down has become.
As for the slash thing, well, I don't do slash at all, of course, so my perspective is immediately going to be different than yours. I had no problem with it, other than the sheer cringe-worthiness of fandom being so overtly mentioned in the first place - fans of all varieties were mocked in a variety of ways. And the slap was at the incest factor than the concept of slash itself - it wasn't about casual observers seeing two men together and automatically assuming gay, which previous gay jokes have been. It was the fact that fans know that these characters are brothers and still write them having sex, despite the fact that incest is a major societal taboo! It doesn't bother me at all that the characters of Sam and Dean, being both straight men and brothers, would find that concept disgusting. It is a natural squick. *shrugs*