I like your thoughts about the incest needing to mean something besides fan gratification. If that's true, it's a whole lot scarier than i thought.
I figured all of this was sort of...accidental by-product? well, i did up until mitch pileggi's awesome (and terrifying) guest spot. if it means something within the narrative, i'm almost too scared to know. somehow, making incest visible and not just subtexty good fun feels like it's a monster.
maybe it is? maybe it's correlated with their monsters, much like other MotW reflect other aspects of Sam and Dean's relationship? Maybe we're being built up for something?
I wrote a short little post (http://madame-meretrix.livejournal.com/37694.html#cutid1) about other ways that incest is canonized in this episode, if you want to check it out. All of the mirroring between Sam and Dean and their parents and grandparents is what struck me most.
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Date: 2008-10-04 02:46 pm (UTC)I figured all of this was sort of...accidental by-product? well, i did up until mitch pileggi's awesome (and terrifying) guest spot. if it means something within the narrative, i'm almost too scared to know. somehow, making incest visible and not just subtexty good fun feels like it's a monster.
maybe it is? maybe it's correlated with their monsters, much like other MotW reflect other aspects of Sam and Dean's relationship? Maybe we're being built up for something?
I wrote a short little post (http://madame-meretrix.livejournal.com/37694.html#cutid1) about other ways that incest is canonized in this episode, if you want to check it out. All of the mirroring between Sam and Dean and their parents and grandparents is what struck me most.