bluestar86:

f-ckyeahfutbol:

miss-devonaire:

f-ckyeahfutbol:

convictioncas:

f-ckyeahfutbol:

out-in-the-open:

Look at these dorks. I can’t believe they actually manage to get a season finished with all these shenanigans! (x)

This scene was so important in the episode, you guys.

We don’t see the shorts, at all. We don’t see Dean wearing them.

We hear Sam Winchester make mention of the shorts. We hear Sam asking Dean whether he is wearing shorts.

Dean doesn’t confirm that he is wearing shorts textually, he evades the comment with “It’s a free bunker“. Dean does not give actual unambiguous verbal confirmation that he is wearing shorts.

And yet, Jensen Ackles was wearing the shorts while they were filming. He was wearing the shorts all along, even though the textual support is meagre and open for interpretation.

And there was absolutely no one out there claiming that Dean wasn’t wearing them.

Interestingly, there was also no reason for Jensen to be wearing shorts, since we never saw them. So why would Jensen wear shorts, or the costume department give him any, knowing that there is no textual confirmation he’s wearing shorts at all?

What’s also interesting is that this decision was made by the director – based on the script alone, they could just as easily have shown us Dean in his short shorts.

Interesting how something that was subtext and never actually shown in canon turned out to exist after all. Amazing. I’m sure there are Dean Loves Shorts deniers out there. Clearly, this was an acting/directing decision, not a choice the character would ever choose for himself. No, this was spn pandering to people who have been saying Dean Loves Shorts for years now. It’s *our* fault they were pressured into including this in the show. And still, we were not satisfied. We didn’t take what they handed to us and say thank you. We had the nerve to demand more than subtext! We needed proof, and poor Jensen was forced to wear short shorts, knowing his character would never do such a thing! Shame on us! Clearly Jensen was uncomfortable with the idea of Dean Loving Shorts. We should stop reading into the subtext so much and accept the show canon from s1 at face value: Dean Doesn’t Do Shorts.

Season 11 was all about not subverting Dean’s season 1 character, but of making text out of the subtext of the first season, textually confirming that the things Dean said were not things that Dean actually meant. There were, in fact, several moments where he was made to eat his own words from the first season. I should make a list of them at some point.

#ISeeWhatYouDidThere