Ah you are brilliant and fulfilled an unspoken wish I've had ever since hearing this song - I LOVE this!! (I suppose you could have repeated the whole song again to fit everything else in...I wouldn't have complained!! LOL)
But anyway, you picked the perfect scenes to go with the beat and the repeat and the words and this whole vid is genius.
Thanks so much! It was awful cutting things (I really wanted to include that little dick who stole Sam's beefcake body and then slept around in Swap Meat), but alas, it wouldn't all fit.
This...just took all the thoughts I've been pondering lately about how Sam has been a vessel for bad of one kind or another, had his agency stripped time after time, is the female in the show's lexicon...and crystallized it into visual summary set against the perfect soundtrack. That your clip choice is wonderfully distilled and set against beat and lull in perfectly affective point after point...is just your amazing artistry. Downloaded, thanks for the link, to watch and ponder. Amazing work, thank you.
I think the "narrative genders" of Sam and Dean are very complicated, and it's one of the reasons I love the show.
Initially, I think Dean's great appeal was largely due to the fact that he was the caretaker and the more emotional one (forget what Dean SAYS, he is the more emotional one). Whereas Sam was the prodigal son, and always read very unshakably masculine in a quiet, self-actualized way.
But over time, Dean's psychoses have come more and more to the foreground, while Sam has become more subdued, passive, and inhibited. This has made Dean's parental nature seem more patriarchal to me--he's clearly taken up John's mantle. Sam kind of fulfills a narratively opposite role by default, becoming the wife/child figure. But Sam's mannerisms are still very masculine to me--particularly his calm and intellect-ualization of everything.
Oh, bb, wow . . . this is so relentlessly depressing, yet wonderful, too. Love your usage of the Gadreel and Meg!Sam clips, and the editing was just brilliant. Brava!
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You already know how brilliant I think this vid is, but I just have to say it again. It's epic.
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I think the "narrative genders" of Sam and Dean are very complicated, and it's one of the reasons I love the show.
Initially, I think Dean's great appeal was largely due to the fact that he was the caretaker and the more emotional one (forget what Dean SAYS, he is the more emotional one). Whereas Sam was the prodigal son, and always read very unshakably masculine in a quiet, self-actualized way.
But over time, Dean's psychoses have come more and more to the foreground, while Sam has become more subdued, passive, and inhibited. This has made Dean's parental nature seem more patriarchal to me--he's clearly taken up John's mantle. Sam kind of fulfills a narratively opposite role by default, becoming the wife/child figure. But Sam's mannerisms are still very masculine to me--particularly his calm and intellect-ualization of everything.
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