#which was CORRECT for using vampires as a warped little sicko mirror of the Winchester Family Adolescent Experience

[shinelikethunder]

you know how one of the few banger episodes of s7 was the one where they saddled Dean Winchester with the teenage daughter of a missing hunter and made him lose his entire shit when confronted with how young she was to be inviting herself along on such a sketchy and dangerous case? and also, you know, the inherent horror and obnoxiousness and agonizing half-inexperience of Being Fifteen. and then just let him marinate in the psychic damage of finally glimpsing a mirror he wanted to protect from the life he lived instead of smash to smithereens

.......yeah i think SPN should've done a child vampire episode. and made it all about the deep deep uncanniness of a ten-year-old saddled with this violent misshapen shadow version of an adult's life experience. maybe just for spice toss in something about living into chronological adulthood but not being able to shake the weirdness of missed/mismatched development and aspects of the self that are still frozen in time? like, we are NOT talking IWTV Claudia being rightfully furious she can't fuck, we're talking decades spent on this godforsaken earth with the impulse control of a fifth-grader.

and, crucially, AVOID belaboring the metaphor about kids forced to grow up too fast. just stick Dean in front of the funhouse mirror and watch him bark at his own reflection in horrified semi-awareness.

#supernatural #dean winchester #krissy chambers #spn s7 #adventures in babysitting #and maybe also in the last paragraph some shades of #alex annie alexis ann #which was CORRECT for using vampires as a warped little sicko mirror of the Winchester Family Adolescent Experience #and EVEN MORE CORRECT for not giving either of them enough awareness to consciously be in on the joke #and TRIPLY CORRECT for letting dean react with outsize hostility & mistrust to an echo of shit he doesn't want to look too closely at