#the working class diasporic themes here MAN. eric kripke you were almost there but you weren't | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rotzaprachim · 2 years ago

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thinking about hunting subculture in uh the cw’s supernatural as something both fundamentally centered around the need to help people, to serve strangers, to put your life again and again in danger in order to save the lives of people you have never met and who will never thank you, and also as a culture profoundly rooted in violence and the cycle of violence and sexism and misogyny in which one generation’s assured early death is by nature of the job passed onto the next as inheritance in a form of intergenerational child sacrifice that, if they don’t do, means that hunting subculture dies out and looping back to the beginning those people aren’t saved those strangers aren’t alive

#the working class diasporic themes here MAN. eric kripke you were almost there but you weren't #ironically i think so much of this show's weak spot comes precisely from kripke's obsession and downright bootlicking of like #the idealised and nonexistence Good Ol' American Exceptionalism Marlboro Man Blue Collar Americana #that is in essense profoundly WASP ish in which everyone is a vaguely christian white anglo with few aberrations #they were afraid to make hunter culture different in many ways aside from the whole burial rituatls and the like #there's so little consideration of what it /actually/ means to be blue collar in america in some places #as well as what it is to be part of a different creed that is not the standard creed of whtie middle america #to wander into a town and be a Stranger to it #and yet at the same time those themes permeate the entire show #he's so obsessed with making dean and sam applie pie american MEN #that he does many things!#ignoring all the ways they aren't that or their story isn't that #ignoring the whole reality of blue collar modern america as something which... isn't universally white and anglo #this entire show is about being a stranger idk he doesn't get what he wrote i feel

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