HOLY MOTHER
OF CHUCK! I just rewatched 12×02 and noticed something I didn’t when the
episode aired. Lady Toni Bevell insinuated Dean was not straight.
She thought
she knew Sam and Dean. When torturing Sam, there was a moment when she told him
this:
I would
like names and locations of every Hunter… the passcodes to each and every Men
of Letters database held in the bunker, and then – oh, yes – let’s do discuss your relationship with the
demon Ruby.
After the
ridiculous hallucination Lady Bevell gave Sam, it’s not surprising she mentioned
Ruby. She probably thought that sex was the easiest way to get Sam to
cooperate. The interesting thing is that, according to her, she used the same
kind of information with Dean later in the episode. This is what she told Dean:
See, I
thought you might be on for a little
chat about your mate, Benjamin Lafitte. I’m sorry. You called him Benny.
You know, the vampire whom you released from Purgatory and… befriended.
What caught
my attention was the little pause she made before she uttered the word “befriended”.
I know the word “mate” can be used to refer to male friends, but that’s not the
only possible meaning.
You see? The thing is the contempt Lady Bevell showed
when she said that word along with the ‘befriended’ part. (How many queer people have heard the word “friend” casually said when the conversation is about their partner?)
You can say that of
course she would see Dean’s friendship with Benny as something worth of rejection. Dean was
a hunter and he became friends with a vampire, a monster that Dean was supposed
to kill, no questions asked.
But… don’t
you see the parallel? Tony Bevell mentioned Ruby and that was a call back to Sam’s
sexual relationship with her. Then she mentioned Benny and that was a call back
to Dean’s…buddy-buddy relationship with him?
All I’m
saying is that, subtextually, even the British Men of Letters thought Dean wasn’t
straight.
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