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

[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.

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

I support those feelings :)

As for the poking joke - I'm guessing Sam's gonna be getting some of that crap his way soon (Jared mentioned getting some of that in a convention, so yeah), but I understood it as a dig at Dean - he's supposedly only noww learning about poking, when nobody does it.

[robynize.livejournal.com]

I agree with so many things, but this Dean stuff irritates me. Like, remember the Season 7 Dean who learned aLOT about the net (from Frank) and actually made Sam jealous? I do not like dumb!Dean b/c He is NOT DUMB. And at this stage of the game, as others have said, repeating season 1 tropes when they were still adolescents (with adult living for sure, hunting, etc) thisi s just a big sigh for me, flare of irritation. I can support we should see Dean struggling with base instincts, but Dean is a grown man who's been to Hell, tortured, torturer, etc but I am supposed to really find it funny that he can't control himself around Co-eds? I enjoyed these things ten years ago, but please don't cartoon my boys. Or, don't OFFENSIVELY cartoon them, you know? Sorry, I am wanking, I just don't think that I'll revisit this episode, and I own every one. Like MBBWB, no rewatch for me!

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

remember the Season 7 Dean who learned aLOT about the net (from Frank) and actually made Sam jealous?
O, I remember! That pissed me off some too. I like that Dean has flaws annd so forth, but that just felt like a gratuitous, cliche dig. I hate that they make the boys dumb - they make mistakes and should be shown to make mistakes, but not - things they would probably know beetter than to do, with no good reason, you know?

please don't cartoon my boys

Exactly. I'm ok with Dean looking at women, and I'd like more season 1 characterization back (like prank wars and brother banter and some of the depth the characters has then too ) - but this feels like it's just taking away from characters who are so wonderfully interesting, without giving anything wonderful instead of that, even. You can make funny episodes without flattening the characters - and those were funnier, too! I want to laugh cause I can identify with things, or cause 'it's so them', or just - I wanna laugh respectfully, not this cliche offensive stuff that's not even them!

I would like the show to be more like early seasons - Impala shots and brother melodrama, and sure, make food jokes and have Dean flirting - I don't mind - but.... remember the series was good in early seasons, please?