Episode 4.05 Monster Movie

SPN Georg

Aah, I love Ben Edlund. This one feels, in retrospect, like a microcosm view of the Grand Narrative of Supernatural as Chuck’s story. I could probably do a thesis paper on this episode, but instead I kept the podcast version under an hour... I mean, the queercoding in this one ALONE, the direct commentary on the Hays Code shoved into every level of the storytelling from the surface “black and white that’s all shades of grey” in the most literal sense to Dean’s admission that the “simple” film he’d want to live out is Porky’s II, there’s almost nothing about this one that turns out to be what it appears on the surface.

There’s a lot of bonus content for this one, too:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My (remarkably small) tag for this episode

But especially these posts: this one about the metanarrative of the series, my watch notes from my post s14 rewatch, this one from lizbob’s Dean And Cas Are In Love series, this one about the Dracula references, a chat with lizbob from 2017, my old rewatch notes from April 2017, and a very long series of posts on the queercoding in this one

Casting sides for Jamie and Dracula

Two 15 second CW Promo videos for this episode that remarkably still work on youtube: here and here.

and for the heck of it, have my queercoding tag if you’ve got a few hours to kill... :’D

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