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. . . so I didn't really hate that as much as I thought I would. This is not to say that I do not have complaints.
There was the thing where all actors (LARPers, etc) are bad actors, which is annoying, and two weeks in a row now . . but I suppose they sort of have to do that on television to distinguish the actors playing actors acting from the actors playing real people. (And in some alternate reality, Chuck now has a headache.)
Becky is still more than a little hard to take - I mean, seriously, why do the two male LARPers get to be cool in the end, but Becky has to remain pathetic even when useful? All the other (mostly male) fans were slightly exaggerated but not ridiculous .. Becky was a caricature. Becky would inspire backing away slowly without making an sudden moves from most fen, even in a convention setting. And she's the only female fan who got any serious screen time. I did see other females floating around, but they were background dressing and severely in the minority. (I *am* amused by the fact that Chuck/Becky is now canon - I just wish it had come about in a way less demeaning of female fans.)
. . and then there was the thing where the two heroic LARPers were a gay couple in the end, and Dean's discomfort with that. The two *did* go around playing himself and his brother all evening, I can see how it'd make one uncomfortable to discover that the pair of folks who want to be you and your sibling are in fact a romantic pair, regardless of the genders of the individuals involved. And I'm just choosing to give Dean / the writers the benefit of a doubt here and assume that's how we're meant to interpret Dean's awkwardness, and not that Dean's homophobic. It would be nice if we could have a canon gay character where one didn't have to employ said mechanism of "oh, they didn't mean it that way," though. The Ghostfacers apprentice dude who had the gay crush on the original Ghostfacer dude (and dude, *why?* . . but oh well) ended up being heroic . . . and yet there was still this campy we-are-making-fun-of-this vibe to the fact that he loved another guy, that I'm not sure would have been there if he'd been crushing on the girl. So . . yeah. I'm not sure if Supernatural is trying and just failing to be fair and equal opportunity, or if they want that laugh and are tacking on the 'but we'll make this person we're mocking heroic!' thing so as to avoid being blatantly bigoted. Really not sure. No cookie for them on that issue, regardless.
However, if you take out the sexuality issues and the gender issues and just look at the treatment of fandom overall . . it was not terrible. I mean, hell, they all but had Dean suggesting the two fanboys take up hunting themselves. Overall message seemed to be "the trappings of this are ridiculous but the idealism is real", which is a fairer hearing than fandom usually gets.
So basically - genderfail. sexualityfail. But possibly fandomwin? It's something.