I was really worried for the first act of this episode, because I do not trust this show to deal with women in mythology. At all. Given this show's uncomfortable misogynist streak, the strippers and the domestic violence and the -- anyway, I was not much of a fan of the first act. Having just finished watching the episode, I think I need a bit more time to figure out exactly how I feel about it in relation to the women's issues in the show. However, the story definitely zigged when I expected it to zag so it gets points for that.
The bromantic aspects were epic. Very epic. A very welcome chapter to the mytharc.
That said, if one did want to downplay the bromance of the thing, one could argue that the siren only went after Dean because he was the brother who ended up spending time alone with him after the siren-as-fed insinuated itself onto the Winchesters' radar in order to thwart their efforts to thwart it. And that the siren had to turn the brothers against each other because they have no women in their lives on whom to turn.
Um, OK, so even that argument can't beat the bromance.
I can't wait to read what Mira has to say!
Also I LOLed at how all the stripper-sirens had Disney princess names.
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Date: 2009-02-07 05:59 am (UTC)The bromantic aspects were epic. Very epic. A very welcome chapter to the mytharc.
That said, if one did want to downplay the bromance of the thing, one could argue that the siren only went after Dean because he was the brother who ended up spending time alone with him after the siren-as-fed insinuated itself onto the Winchesters' radar in order to thwart their efforts to thwart it. And that the siren had to turn the brothers against each other because they have no women in their lives on whom to turn.
Um, OK, so even that argument can't beat the bromance.
I can't wait to read what Mira has to say!
Also I LOLed at how all the stripper-sirens had Disney princess names.