Every once and a while, in bi!Dean/Destiel fandom, you see the refrain, “We’re in uncharted territory.” And when it comes to a slash couple textually getting together, yeah, we kind of are. But when it comes to gradually, over the course of a season or more, ushering a main character out of the closet… there is a roadmap.
A roadmap that Supernatural has frequently been following.
Here I’m going to examine Supernatural s8-9 through the lens of the fourth season of the 1994-1998 sitcom Ellen—the season that famously set up its title character Ellen Morgan (Ellen DeGeneres) to eventually come out as gay, making it the first show to do so with a main character—and demonstrate how much they have in common.
First I’m going to quickly go over the ways in which the two shows are different, and then I’m going to get to the—in my opinion, more significant—ways in which they’re really, interestingly alike.
SPN and Ellen: How to Out Your Main Character in a Few Easy Steps, or why I believe SPN is going through with it
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