One thing about 10x13

[citrusjava]

Not sure who this was more offensive towards, these kids or gen-xers.

Better to consider it the ep in which Dean was British and Sam had a sparkly pink laptop.

Comments

[jennygeee.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it yet but can I ask what you mean by Dean being British :))

[frozen_delight]

I didn't like the episode very much, probably the worst one yet this season if you ask me, and the pink laptop also stood out to me the most. Now Dean has a pink phone and Sam has a pink laptop, it's a thing. :)

[elwarre.livejournal.com]

Did you really find the jokes offensive? I kind of thought they were cute, but I'm a weird behind-the-times Gen Y so maybe I missed the bite.

[ex1led-nyer.livejournal.com]

I didn't find any of them offensive, but I am old enough to be Sam and Dean's mother. (And yet, what I feel about that can't exactly be classified as maternal. But I digress.) I liked the generation gap conversation between Dean and the sorority girl.

Is Sam over the hill now, too? Does anyone still poke on FB? Is it still even an option? That 4.5 year age difference between Sam and Dean has been played up ever since Dean asked Sam whether Myspace was a porn site in Season 1, but now I'm wondering if Sam's got to step up his contemporary culture knowledge, too.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Whilst I went with the flow on this one, like you I found some things jarring - and half hearted. I read someone's comment somewhere saying these two writers in particular don't seem to have realised that the two men they are writing about have been through a TON of shit since Season 1, so simply repeating jokes that worked when Dean and Sam were ten years younger just sound crass now.

[ex1led-nyer.livejournal.com]

Agreed about the writers, though they're only my second least favorite writing team. You can guess who the least favorite is.

One thing I'm very much over is Dean's appalling table manners. Yeah, I sound like Emily Post, I realize that. :) But what's up with the face-stuffing, dude? At least the powdered sugar donuts made me want to lick the sugar right off that mouth, but noodles? Just, yuck.

[balder12.livejournal.com]

I somewhat enjoyed the episode--I liked the early season style monster of the week, and most of the interaction between Sam and Dean. I've seen people complaining that Dean's leering was overdone, but I think that may have been deliberate? I mean, the show does get cartoonish sometimes in how it portrays Dean's appetites, but coming after an episode where we saw Dean announce he was going to take better care of himself, followed by an episode where he fell off the wagon with alcohol, I think maybe the hyper-intense hunger and horniness were supposed to be Dean sublimating his lust for violence into more acceptable desires, or else just losing control of his id in general. Maybe I'm giving the show too much credit.

The one teen scene that really rubbed me wrong was the second kill with the two girls. I'm pretty sure it was deliberate caricature, but it was painfully unfunny. Edlund was the only writer who ever pulled off broad comedy, as far as I'm concerned, and only sometimes. I generally wish the show would stay away from it. I see your point that it can be kind of limiting and unpleasant to treat anyone over 30 like they might as well head off to the retirement home, but it amused me to see Sam and Dean framed as "old," because on a network or cable show they'd be the young up-and-comers. It's only on the CW that 35--at least for a man--is over the hill. And it reminded me of my life in fandom, which is the one place where, at the ripe old age of 32, I regularly feel like an old woman yelling at the kids to get off her lawn.

I may have liked it disproportionately because I watched it live, though. I've watched the last two episodes when they aired after spending the past season or so watching them on DVR, and it made a big difference to me. I like to think that post-episode spoilers and wank don't affect my enjoyment, but it seems like they do. I'm definitely trying to watch the show live from now on, to the extent real life permits.