Apparently, some of you are having trouble understanding why many people, including myself, had a major problem with last night’s episode. So, I’m going to try and explain it as clearly as possible, because otherwise I might just headdesk and go on an unfollowing spree, which I may or may not regret later.
1) Can’t we stop finding every little thing to complain about and just enjoy the episode?
Personally, no. Because I couldn’t enjoy it. I was too busy being incredibly skeeved out that Becky:
hit him over the head with a waffle iron when he tried to leave
dragged him to a cabin in the woods
and left him there like that, for hours, long after he asked to be let up
I cannot enjoy this storyline in any context. It was presented as humourous, but I could not find it funny. At all. She was creepy, obsessive, and delusional, and she was half a step away from selling her soul to trap Sam in a nonconsensual relationship for 25 years. It’s not possible for me to take this lightly and enjoy the episode when the only thing I liked was Crowley’s beard. (And the scrawny hunter at times.)
2) Sam is tied to a bed! Why is anyone complaining that Sam is tied to a bed!
BECAUSE LACK OF CONSENT. THAT’S WHY.
I felt nauseous the entire time he was tied down. He didn’t want to be there. And this is completely different from when he was in the panic room or the episode in the insane asylum, where he was tied down to stop from hurting himself or anyone else. This was almost rape. It was nonconsensual and fucking creepy.
3) We’re all a little like Becky! Admit it~
I’m sorry, but no. If I discovered that the Winchesters are real, roofies, kidnap, and rape would be the last things on my mind. If you think that she is representative of the fandom, I’m a little scared of you.
And the thing is, she used to be a parody of the fandom. A caricature. The show never needed to acknowledge the fandom at all, much less the rather taboo slash subset. I found it hilarious that they did, and that they were making fun of us. But this? Really? I never thought of Becky as an actual serious character and never tried to take her seriously, but I think that was, in part, this episode’s intention with giving her a backstory and all. So, when the writers do decide to flesh her out a bit, they make her this creepy, obsessive stalker who was never good at anything in real life and only found people who related to her in the message boards online. No thank you.
4) A final note on Becky.
As Sonja said much better than me, Becky felt like a loser, so she needed a man to validate her and make her feel a sense of self-worth. Excuse me while I find a wall to bash my head against. This whole episode did a terrible disservice to her character. Becky discovered Supernatural was real. Then she started dating Chuck. Then Chuck dumped her and disappeared. She also doesn’t feel like she’s good at anything in real life. Now, Becky knows all about the hunting world, and she was actually trying to solve a case in this episode. How about, instead of chasing after some fairy-tale pipe dream where her prince charming falls in love with her and they live happily ever after, she decided to start hunting on her own? She needed to discover a sense of self-worth. Why couldn’t this have been through her own accomplishments, instead of by desperately and delusionally trying to snag the ~perfect man? If they wanted to bring Becky back into the series, they should have shown Sam and Dean running into her on a hunt. They could have had her grow up instead of keeping her a child.
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