Episode 4.14 Sex and Violence
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Did someone say queer Dean content? Because we have some of that here...
Truly there’s been so much written about this episode, strictly about Dean and his sexuality, that I’m gonna take one little paragraph here to say that the surface-level parallels (including the vast majority of the THEN segment of this episode) are all sending up flaming red flags about Sam and what he’s secretly up to with Ruby. Even though Ruby isn’t even *in* this episode. Because if we weren’t already worried about Sam and the terrible secrets he’s keeping from Dean, this episode does its best to launch flare guns at us over it.
But the queer Dean content? I got plenty of that too!
Links that will likely be especially of interest this week:
The Superwiki page for this episode
But especially these posts:
- A very concise (but long, but still concise) read that I pretty much nod along to, written by Lizbob after this episode was mentioned again in Regarding Dean (12.11) (yes this is the post I mention specifically at one point in the episode)
- And a summary of this sort of subtext even going forward through s11, conveniently in one post
- There’s also a post with completely borked formatting (tumblr was having some sort of glitch the day I reblogged it that put the replies in a strange order, but scroll down and read Cass’ (thevioletcaptain) reply to the anon first, then jump back to the top and read the replies
- Three Very Simple Points
- And if you really want to dig into some of the meta written about this episode specifically, here’s a list of links curated by Mel
An interview with Jim Parrack (the actor who plays Nick) from the official Supernatural magazine (archived from the source) and if that’s hard to read (tumblr version with embiggenable images) (yes, that’s the one where he talks about leaning into the sexuality of the siren, while also playing the character as not strictly male or female)
The 20 second CW Promo for this episode
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