Soon, there will be no walls left

[jmtorres]

Okay, right, the lack of female fans was atrocious, I was seriously expecting more crossplayers and somebody to be genderswapped Dean and Sam and stuff, the lack was disturbing, and it was particularly awful that the ghost actress was a Hooters waitress instead of a fangirl there fangirling, but I do wonder, um.

Was the multiplicity of Deans and Sams, and particularly the elevation of, a recognition that multiple interpretations are possible and valid? I got the feeling that maybe the gay Dean and Sam cosplayers were Kripke going, "Okay, your wincest Dean and Sam are not how I think of Dean and Sam but if it works for you..." Was that? Possibly intended as a conciliatory message?

(Though why Girl Dean and Girl Sam and Drag King Dean and Drag King Sam could not have been part of that multiplicity is beyond me...)

Comments

[jmtorres]

--without taking away from your interpretation, I think that my interpretation is equally as valid. I understand why it's frustrating as hell to listen to the guy say "but this is what Supernatural's really about," but dude, bizarre con full of mens had a panel on homoeroticism, and the Featured Cosplayers were partners. I *don't* feel like the show was condemning the slash here. But that's me.

[ladyvyola]

Yeah, when lovers are finding some sort of emotional resonance LARPing as brothers, I don't think I'm being told that a slash interpretation is invalid.

Also, I found it hilarious that the entire con didn't fill up the one room. Small fandom but hardcore!