2020 gets ever more surreal: SPN 15x18

[schneefink]

If I had had to guess yesterday what would most amuse and distract me today, I would not have guessed Supernatural. I wasn't even in that fandom! (I mean I did read dozens of fics and watched some vids etc., but that barely counts, pretty sure that's just normal levels of fandom osmosis with a huge fandom like that.)

That Destiel scene - or, well, DD correctly pointed out that it's not canon Destiel, it's a confirmation that Cas has romantic feelings for Dean but not the other way around, but still - had the perfect timing. Even without the Putin probably-a-hoax that came out at the same time, which made for some very confusing tweets to wake up to. A day earlier would have been too stressful, a day later more relaxed, but yesterday night was the perfect time to just be really surreal. Fucking 2020, man. Cas confesses his love and immediately gets thrown into super-hell, if I understood correctly, is just the most SPN way of doing a gay love confession *facepalm*
And all the memes! Too lazy rn to pick out individual ones but there are quite a few collected in this ff_a thread. (I thought this comment about why Destiel/SPN specifically had this big reaction is probably fairly accurate.)

Comments

[kutsuwamushi]

When I heard about it, I told my friend that they had totally ripped off Buffy.

Then I called them all cowards. Like ... I didn't get the sense that most people are CELEBRATING this. Maybe a few die-hard Destiel fans who will take any scraps they can get but all of my fandom friends think it was weak.

We are so PAST this being the level of "gay content" we think is progressive, praise-worthy, interesting, or whatever. It's fucking 2020.

[foreverdawning]

I think the episode took us all by shock. I'm going to guess though since this is the antepenultimate episode that Cas will come back. Maybe he won't come back in his Jimmy (Misha Collins) form but he'll be back in a woman's body and consummate the relationship with Dean. The way things are going now it wouldn't surprise me.

[primeideal]

Hahaha wut. I've never seen the show either and been avoiding FFA for the last couple days myself because I wasn't really up for socializing, but...thanks for the link, heh. Peak 2020.

[sheron]

I watched the show from season 1 (though I haven't seen the last couple of seasons that I plan to eventually catch up on) and let me just say it was unthinkable back in 2005, or even by the time Cas showed up seasons later that one of the main relationships would develop like this. I remember wondering if Cas was going to show up for more than 2 episodes! Times have changed.

(To me, it's especially interesting since the creators / actors were some of the first people who were casual about fandom and shipping. They made a lot of current ways of interacting with a fandom base popular)

Anyway I just wanted to say that even though I'm not in fandom right now, I'm excited by the idea of this episode. (I haven't seen the episode yet, and blocked the spoilers once I realized there were spoilers to be blocked, so I'll find out how I feel about the actual thing later)

[trobadora]

I'm still all !!! over this, but yeah, that was perfect timing - I found out while checking on the US election, which is not how I expect to get my fandom news! *g*

And Castiel and Dean and Sam have all died and come back so many times already, I'm just shrugging at that part.

[duskpeterson]

My reaction was, "Supernatural is still on?" I felt like I was being thrust back to two decades ago. Especially with the Bury Your Gays trope.

[lilly_the_kid]

I'm still watching, though im only in season 14, I always wait for DVDs and then watch a season in one go, the other way is too frustrating for me. But from what I read about this scene and learned during watching 14 seasons is that he won't stay in that superhell for long. And I'm just guessing they'll create a nice ending.

I mean I have very low expectations and don't care as much as I did in the beginning, so if I like it I'll be happy and if not, meh, I figure I have nothing to lose :D

[dolorosa_12]

Destiel becoming canon (but in a 'Clexa, fucked' kind of way) is just peak 2020.

[extempore]

Mein erster Gedanke war auch: Die Serie gibt es noch? O.O

Dann habe ich mir die Szene angesehen, und beinahe Mitleid mit den Schauspielern gehabt. Was für ein Schmarrn. Deans Schauspieler hat zudem seinen Botox-Mund noch immer nicht in den Griff bekommen. Oh well. Manche Sachen sollte man wirklich beenden, wenn es am Schönsten ist.