Dead Man's Blood: A Supernatural Episode Review

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You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Dead Man's Blood” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

"Oh. My. Holy. Hell. It’s The DAD. The boys are shocked ghost white to find The Dad sneaking up on them. (The last time they were together, ages ago, they agreed that The Dad would be safer apart from his boys.) The Dad slips into the

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blood from a dead man, or presumably, a dead woman
:D Cracking! me! up! tonight!

GOOD!! I am well satisfied then.

description in addition to “boys,” “darlings,” and “my own true loves.”

I'm also pretty fond of "los bros. Winchester", or if they're trying to break my heart again, "oh, babies...". But when I don't refer to Sam & Dean by name, I do usually find myself saying "[the/my/our] boys". I generally self-identify as a feminist & I do, depending on context, get peeved when people refer to adult women as "girls", so I'm trying to decide how much cognitive dissonance I ought to be having over this.

No. It's not the same. "The boys" are an entity here. It's not a diminutive like "the girls" are. You're okay. Just keep saying it, you're okay.

I think I will definitely have to start referring to John as "The Dad", though, at least when I'm not being angry toward him. Talking of which, though I don't have anything related to the missing scene you wondered about, I do think you will like this fic, set just after the ep, which has one of those characterizations of John that I can sympathize with & even ♥.

Now that was sweet! All the love and caring you could ever want that you never see on the screen! Thank you. : D

Chide me if you will for not delving with any depth into scenes that involved the vampires, but with three gods stalking around, I was a tad preoccupied.

Oh, right. There are vampires in this episode. Has anyone in the history of this fandom ever complained about the boys crowding out the MotW? I think you're safe.

Yeah. Vampires, and they were pretty cool. By the end of the review, I realized I hadn't barely mentioned them! And I actually liked Luther.

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No. It's not the same. "The boys" are an entity here. It's not a diminutive like "the girls" are. You're okay. Just keep saying it, you're okay.

Ah, you're right! That's the context thing. It's okay to say "going out with the girls", but dismissive to say "this girl wants to sue her husband" (it's mostly a prof who's been driving me buggy with this lately). I am okay! ;)

All the love and caring you could ever want that you never see on the screen!

That kind of characterization of John, as a man who recognizes & regrets his mistakes, even as he's paralyzed to fix or stop perpetuating the damage they've caused, is powerful stuff that I could eat up with a spoon. I like JDM an awful lot, but I never feel that way about the John he plays. I don't doubt that he loves the boys fiercely, but I'm not sure he recognizes a lot of the ways that he's hurt them over the last couple of decades.

It could be a POV/framing kind of issue... maybe if we stuck close to him for an episode instead of seeing him from the outside or as the boys do, that would come through for me a little more.

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Hey, girl. You're right. John needs his own episode, he really does. We need to see what he thinks about what he's done, and maybe even some angst over it!! Cause I'm with you, the fallout from every single one of John's decisions have created two beautifull but broken boys. Not that I mind the fanfic, but there's so much of it, I'll never catch up. A single ep would go a long way here.