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finalgirlsamwinchester · 5 months ago

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supernatural was truly just. a fifteen year long experimental study looking into an audience's ability to empathise with the Narrative Scapegoat. the results? most people are still filled with the medieval urge to throw rotten fruit at the resident Freak in the town square.

#reflecting on the nature of most sam hate i encounter and it's exactly just that #mixed combo of poor media literacy but also just the nature of genre storytelling #no one's gonna notice the subversions you're trying to pull! people will read it all at a Literal surface level #even when this show gets incredibly on the nose w it's metatextual signposting #the way morality operates on this show is so fascinating! it needs its own post #sam tries escaping his family and the story he's trapped in #but that decision gets burdened w the moral weight of #well look! you're neglecting your responsibility to save innocent people from monsters #and now you've put innocent bystanders in the path of danger! your girlfriend's dead!#sam monstrosity studies #j.txt

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