Yes to all the Supernatural feelings. I love it for much of the same reasons - I identify with Dean so much that whenever he is on screen it feels like slipping into a well-worn old leather jacket that has been molded into the shape of my body so that I forget I'm wearing it because it just fits so well. What is weird about this is that I actually have nothing remotely in common with him.
Also I love Jo and Ellen so much and they were the awesomest (SPOILERS) and find it inexplicable that they were killed off. But I can't help thinking that their last moments were consistent with their character behavior but if the boys can escape death so regularly how would it have been impossible to suspend disbelief if even one of them had survived? But the show relies on killing off people we love and isn't the dreadful uncertainty what we are here for? Still, unintentionally or not, they fail the ladies so often and it makes me sad. Arrgh I have no easy thoughts about this.
Although, Supernatural has helped me pick out the problematic aspects of media in general much more easily than in some other shows because sometimes things happen and I'm like 'whoa that was completely unnecessary and/or incongruous (Dean's gendered slurs, fr'instance). Are you blindly following the dictates of patriarchy without examining them?'. Or when people of color appear and I'm startled into realizing that there is a weird lack of minorities in the show. This is probably not a good thing. This is torture.
Anyhoo, sorry for rambling, but just wanted to say that you are right on the money about Supernatural and the perils of loving it.
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Also I love Jo and Ellen so much and they were the awesomest (SPOILERS) and find it inexplicable that they were killed off. But I can't help thinking that their last moments were consistent with their character behavior but if the boys can escape death so regularly how would it have been impossible to suspend disbelief if even one of them had survived? But the show relies on killing off people we love and isn't the dreadful uncertainty what we are here for? Still, unintentionally or not, they fail the ladies so often and it makes me sad. Arrgh I have no easy thoughts about this.
Although, Supernatural has helped me pick out the problematic aspects of media in general much more easily than in some other shows because sometimes things happen and I'm like 'whoa that was completely unnecessary and/or incongruous (Dean's gendered slurs, fr'instance). Are you blindly following the dictates of patriarchy without examining them?'. Or when people of color appear and I'm startled into realizing that there is a weird lack of minorities in the show. This is probably not a good thing. This is torture.
Anyhoo, sorry for rambling, but just wanted to say that you are right on the money about Supernatural and the perils of loving it.