Hi there! And I offer your ears a kindly welcome back to the party.
I personally found it highly interesting especially after Chuck was shown, over the course of the last 4 episodes of the season, to essentially mimic Dean in every way they could possibly cram into the show. So here’s God, hanging out with the Winchesters at the end of all things, but what’s he doing?
- he takes really long showers (which we know is one of Dean’s favorite little luxuries)
- he constantly sings “crappy old folk songs” (while Dean’s been teased for years about his “mullet rock” addiction, Driver picks the music and all that)
- Chuck lies. He does it A Lot. And they’re very Dean-like lies. More like deflections, very much the way Dean performs Dean. Chuck performs Chuck. Even Metatron called him out on it.
- Without asking, he just decided to wear Dean’s BATHROBE. The dead guy robe. The one embroidered with Tyrone Power’s initials. I already wrote about that one right here.
- Chuck’s dietary habits are very Dean-like also. He asks for bacon, specifically, which surprises Dean. (not even mentioning how the guy Dean once referred to as “my gay thing” ALSO broke religious edicts and enjoyed bacon…) (plus the whole “bacon masterpost” that Cass made the other day. Because bacon isn’t just bacon, it’s become a symbol, a code word in authorial shorthand)
- Chuck found and watched Dean’s porn. While sitting at the table in his boxers with his feet up, eating and drinking just like Dean.
- Just like Dean once tried to point out the value of creation to Cas back during the apocalypse, Chuck attempts the same thing with Amara. And this is just ONE of the narrative parallels here.
- Chuck takes over Dean’s kitchen (because come on, it’s Dean’s kitchen) and makes pancakes for everyone. Like he’s nesting or something.
And this isn’t even mentioning the metaphysical parallel via Amara. Amara tried to use Dean as a proxy for Chuck. Chuck tried to use Dean as a proxy for himself in dealing with Amara. In all of their conversations, Chuck attempted to shoehorn Dean into the role that Chuck should’ve been playing all along. He told Dean that humanity would step up after he was gone, implying that Dean could somehow fill his shoes. Chuck couldn’t kill Amara; Dean couldn’t kill Amara (from the conversation toward the end of 11.22).
There’s obviously more to it than this, but these are the easily observable surface-layer comparisons that might prompt someone to wonder if there might be something deeper going on here with this comparison, you know?
Yes! There were a lot of really obvious, intentional parallels made between Chuck and Dean. I want to add margaritas to your list. Both Dean and Chuck are shown with a margarita glass in the episode.
To be completely blunt about it, God was made to be bisexual because he was a parallel for Dean and therefore it was just another way in which they were the same. Because Dean is Bi. Can I scream this from the rooftops already? Dean Winchester is fucking BISEXUAL and the show is practically SPELLING THIS OUT FOR US. *Breathes*.
There was no other reason for them to do it. None. At all.
For a start it is super controversial to make GOD bisexual in a world full of religious nut jobs still screaming for the persecution of LGBT people especially since apparently half of Supernaturals American viewing audience are right wing republicans (WTF?) and on top of that, give me ONE good reason other than the obvious as to WHY the writers would have brought him out of the closet?
Can you even imagine that conversation between Robbie and Andrew and the higher ups at the CW?
“We are gonna make God Bi.”
“Why would you do that? You can’t do that.”
“Why not? Nothing wrong with being bi. In the bible God loves all of humanity equally after all” *wink wink*.
“What kind of message does that give?”
“Exactly the kind of message we want to give our viewers”
“This is about the Dean thing again isn’t it?”
*Robbie and Andrew grin*
*higher ups at CW groan loudly.*
Higher Ups: “FINE. But keep it subtle.”
Andrew and Robbie *are not subtle at all.*
🙂
DEAN WINCHESTER IS BISEXUAL. GOD IS BISEXUAL. WE CAN ALL GO HOME.
Hah! Yeah, that too. Though clicking through that link to the Tyrone Power Dead Guy Robe meta basically covers it. 😀
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but Chuck has been the first character ever in the long history of the show who has been explicitly declared as bisexual. Sure we had plenty queer characters (and by plenty I mean we can still count them with one hand) and lot of them could have been potentially bisexual as well. Like Jenna. She confirmed her attraction to her own gender but hypothetical she could have been bisexual as well. Just… the show never went there. No, instead the first character who has ever been without a doubt identified as bisexual, was God. And as mentioned before this is a huge deal. This isn’t just any random character but still a huge religious affront to a lot of people.
Also Dean = humanity, and God created humanity after his own image. Case closed.
Yeah, casually making God canon bisexual really made me sit up again. I can’t say exactly *how* yet, but i, probably like most people, have to wonder why they did that? Like you said, it wasn’t just for kicks. So it got me me more into destiel again and thinking about it more, whereas up until then i’d felt like i’d been burned by it, frustrated, or just couldn’t figure it out, etc. So my ears pricked up and i’m in the “well that’s certainly interesting” mindset again.
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