And I think that it is an easy sidestep to say that it's just a plothole. With the explicit sexualisation of possession in this episode and the possession of Bobby/attempted possession of Dean by Michael via Zachariah it means that every male hero of the show (Bobby, John, Sam, Dean) has had this sexualised violation made against them. And indeed it is a violation - Bobby stabbed himself to stop it, Sam said that Dean should have kill him.
I think we can learn extratextually from this. If you choose not to, that's your choice, but I do think the writers are saying something explicit with Bobby and Dean in Sympathy for the Devil.
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Date: 2009-09-14 04:28 pm (UTC)I think we can learn extratextually from this. If you choose not to, that's your choice, but I do think the writers are saying something explicit with Bobby and Dean in Sympathy for the Devil.