if you think that I could be forgiven

Oct 25, 2010 10:42

As I was drifting off to sleep last night, I realized something about my dissatisfaction with s6 of SPN so far. It's a matter of genre and expectations. ( tl;dr with vague spoilers for what's aired )

tv: supernatural: meta, the boy/boy melodrama

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sistermagpie October 25 2010, 19:43:35 UTC
I definitely questioned *exactly* this because the feel of noir is completely opposed to the feel of SPN. You just can't have the relationship that Sam and Dean have in the center of a noir. It's pure and straightforward at its heart.

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musesfool October 25 2010, 20:05:32 UTC
You just can't have the relationship that Sam and Dean have in the center of a noir. It's pure and straightforward at its heart.

EXACTLY. It doesn't fit at all. (Well, maybe if they added some actual, textual incest... *cough*)

I mean, if Sam had stayed dead, he could have been the Archer to Dean's Spade, but meh. Right now he feels more like Mary Astor's character. Or possibly Peter Lorre. (Okay, not really Peter Lorre, but the mismatched imagery amuses me.)

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sistermagpie October 25 2010, 20:16:17 UTC
It's like in noir terms right now Sam is the femme fatale to Lisa's good girl/angel!

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musesfool October 25 2010, 20:23:24 UTC
Yes! This!

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hummingwolf October 25 2010, 20:17:43 UTC
(Okay, not really Peter Lorre, but the mismatched imagery amuses me.)

I don't even have a TV anymore, yet that imagery amuses the heck out of me.

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musesfool October 25 2010, 20:23:48 UTC
*preens*

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