#spn10.12

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samsdemonbro said: Yay nice answer :) I know it’s true for me I would have cared less about the swift thing if it weren’t for the changing of so much else in show and the lack of recent classic rock. I may have even enjoyed it.

Yep.

samsdemonbro said: As for calling that homophobic, absolutely ridiculous, that implies no openly homosexual men are masculine, or that they all like t swift. What? These stereotypes can themselves be homophobic. Music taste is no indication of sexuality

Excellent point. The homophobic accusation certainly plays into gay stereotypes.

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SPN10.12: "About a Boy" Review

I’m going to admit that with “About a Boy,” Adam Glass nearly redeemed himself with me. I know that Glass can be an able writer. He wrote season six’s “Mommy Dearest,” but since then he’s gone on to write some very iffy episodes, including “Southern Comfort,” “Freaks and Geeks,” and “Bad Boys.” Even in otherwise good episodes, Glass has a tendency to mischaracterize Sam or continue reading ...

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The Easter Bunny, Santa, and Monsters

FLASHBACK, 1991

INT. MOTEL – NIGHT

Sam is on the couch reading a comic book. Dean walks inside the room, holding a bag of groceries.

Sam: Thought you went out.

Dean: Yeah, to get you dinner. (Tosses SAM packaged food) Don’t forget your vegetables. (Tosses him another bag of snack food, Funyuns)

Dean takes off his jacket, sits down on his bed and opens a drink can. Sam sits on the other bed.

Sam: I know why you keep a gun under your pillow.

Dean: (Lifts his pillow and sees his gun) No, you don’t. Stay out of my stuff.

Sam: And I know why we lay salt down everywhere we go.

Dean: No, you don’t. Shut up.

Sam turns around and grabs something under his bed. It’s John’s diary.Sam tosses it onto the nightstand between the beds.

Dean: (Stands up) Where’d you get that? That’s Dad’s! He’s gonna kick your ass for reading that.

Sam: Are monsters real?

Dean: What? You’re crazy.

Sam: Tell me.

Dean: (Looks away, hesitates) I swear, if you ever tell Dad I told you any of this, I will end you.

Sam: Promise.

Dean: (Sits and looks at JOHN’s diary) Well, the first thing you have to know is we have the coolest dad in the world. He’s a superhero.

Sam: He is?

Dean: Yeah. Monsters are real. Dad fights them. He’s fighting them right now.

Sam: But Dad said the monsters under my bed weren’t real.

Dean: That’s ’cause he had already checked under there. But yeah, they’re real. Almost everything’s real.

SAM: Is Santa real?

DEAN: (Smiles, shakes his head) No.

Sam: (Pauses, looks sad) If monsters are real, then they could get us. They could get me.

Dean: Dad’s not gonna let them get you.

Sam: But what if they get him?

Dean: They aren’t gonna get Dad. Dad’s, like, the best.

Sam: I read in Dad’s book that they got Mom.

Dean: (Exhales) It’s complicated, Sam.

Sam: If they got Mom, they can get Dad ,and if they get Dad, they can get us.

Dean: It’s not like that. (Moves and sits next to SAM) Okay? Dad’s fine. We’re fine. Trust me. (SAM looks sad and worried.) You okay?

Sam: Yeah. (Looks away)

Dean: Hey, Dad’s gonna be here for Christmas. Just like he always is.

Sam: (Holds back tears) I just want to go to sleep, okay?

Dean: Yeah, okay.

Sam lies down on the bed and cries quietly. Dean stays sitting on the edge of the bed.

Dean: It’ll all be better when you wake up. (Sam cries harder.) You’ll see. Promise.

This is from "A Very Supernatural Christmas" written by Jeremy Carver. Sam was eight. This scene destroyed Sam's childhood illusions of things like the Easter Bunny. Adam Glass writing that Sam believed in the Easter Bunny till he was eleven shows just how out of touch the writers are with Sam's characterization and how many fucks the showrunner gives about that.