When the show first started, I was eyeroll and refused to watch it because I though they were probably gonna screw up the folklore anyway. Not that folklore is set in stone, but still, appropriation at its most prime-time-friendly! OH HOW THINGS CHANGE, and yet don't. The first thing that piqued my interest was I think an aside someone said about Castiel and Dean's relationship. And I was like hmm, this relationship may hit a lot of my buttons.
So I think I was preemptively adoring Cas before he even appeared on my screen, and there still needs to be more of him on my screen. Less making him pass out for an entire episode and more saving people hunting God. I was never really into the Wincest, I dunno. I love their love but I'm not interested in stories that are all about only it.
Yes, selfish Sam! Dean gave the best part of himself to his family, but Sam with the "I just want to be noooormaaaaal" made me eyeroll. 'Cos mostly I have heard that shtick before, and Sam needed to be something more than this trope to be interesting. In theory his story is a compelling one, because he goes from rejecting this whole life to having no choice but to be a key player, how the mighty have fallen etc, but. Maybe later.
I'm also non-white ESL from a majority POC Asian country, currently in the USA, and I'm fascinated by the Americana, or at least how it's portrayed. How much they romanticize it is kind of revealing.
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So I think I was preemptively adoring Cas before he even appeared on my screen, and there still needs to be more of him on my screen. Less making him pass out for an entire episode and more saving people hunting God. I was never really into the Wincest, I dunno. I love their love but I'm not interested in stories that are all about only it.
Yes, selfish Sam! Dean gave the best part of himself to his family, but Sam with the "I just want to be noooormaaaaal" made me eyeroll. 'Cos mostly I have heard that shtick before, and Sam needed to be something more than this trope to be interesting. In theory his story is a compelling one, because he goes from rejecting this whole life to having no choice but to be a key player, how the mighty have fallen etc, but. Maybe later.
I'm also non-white ESL from a majority POC Asian country, currently in the USA, and I'm fascinated by the Americana, or at least how it's portrayed. How much they romanticize it is kind of revealing.