DrSilverfish S11 Meta Masterpost
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justanotheridijitonBecause I am doing some blog housekeeping, here is the watch-along week-by-week list of my meta for S11, a season I felt quite ambivalent about at the time (largely due to the handling of the Amara character) but which, nevertheless, undertook some amazing narrative work:
1) The fall-out from Crowley and Demon!Dean's "summer of love" bore interesting fruit in the form of a child (released into the universe through the Mark of Cain) - Amara. So much subtext here (which I must return to and write about more fully at some point). In subtext, we could say that Dean's dark affair with Crowley in S10 "unlocked" his queer heart a little further, allowing him to connect more deeply with his "feminine" side symbolised by the eventual "reward" of the return of his Mother (yeah this equation of "feminine side" with queerness in men is, on one level, a reductionist cliche, but one often drawn on, symbolically, in filmic narrative). Amara (Dean's, and God's, anima, in a Jungian reading) bears the Mark of Cain over her heart for a reason.
2) The faux thrall-bond with Amara vs the true profound bond with Castiel - all the Destiel subtext this mirroring unleashed.
3) The unfridging of the feminine principle in the SPN universe, on a macrocosmic level (God's sister) and then on a micro-cosmic level (her gift to Dean of the return of his mother Mary). This was a brilliant and audacious narrative move, as well as a lovely piece of meta-narrative (the text's own commentary on itself) given that the show began with the fridging of the Winchesters' mother and has often adopted a Biblically inspired misogyny towards female power. This unfridging staked out the narrative form of the Dabb era as the Ouroboros, the story returning (especially psychologically) to the start (the origin fridging of Mary Winchester, but also, a continuous unfolding, to include, as we can see by S14, the fall of Castiel). In swallowing its own tail, the narrative has really blossomed and evolved from this new origin point of 11x23.
DrSilverfish S11 Meta
0) 11x01 Flower Meta (end comment on a multi-authored post) [October 2015]
0b) 11x01 Crowley's Orgy and Queer Representation (end comment on a multi-authored discussion post) [October 2015]
1) 11x01 Title Card: The Darkness and Gnosticism [October 2015]
2) 11x02 Form and Void: Or the Subterranean Lake of Queerness [October 2015]
3) Supernatural and the Monstrous Girl: Amara in Context [October 2015]
4) 11x02 Form and Void - Castiel's "Moe" (multi-authored discussion) [October 2015]
5) Feminism and Supernatural (my end-text addition to a multi-authored gif-post) [October 2015]
6) Amara's Symbolic Colours (my end-text addtion to a multi-authored discussion) [October 2015]
7) 11x03 The Bad Seed: An Angel and a Demon Walk into a Bar [October 2015]
8) 11x03 The Bad Seed: Homoeroticism and Violence (my end-text addition to a multi-authored discussion) [October 2015]
9) 11x03 The Bad Seed: Amara's Rainbow (my end-text addition to a multi-authored discussion) [October 2015]
10) 11x04 (Baby) and John Winchester's Ghost [October 2015]
11) 11x04 Baby and the State of Dean's Soul [November 2015]
12) Samuel, Sam, Sammy in 11x05 Thin Lizzie [November 2015]
13) Omnis Satanica Potestas 11x06 Our Little World [November 2015]
14) Our Little World and Familial Relationships (11x06) [November 2015]
15) Amara and Castiel (11x06 Our Little World) [November 2015]
16) 1x14 Nightmare: The Winchester Childhood Subtext (Back at the Start) [November 2015]
17) 11x07 Plush Review [November 2015]
18) A Note on 9x15 Thinman / 11x08 Just My Imagination Parallels [December 2015]
19) 11x11 Music Meta: Into the Mystic [January 2016]
20) Rock, Paper, Scissors (as Metaphor) in 11x13 Love Hurts [February 2016]
21) "I Read a Lot of Flash Gordon" 11x14 The Vessel [February 2016]
22) 11x15 Beyond the Mat: Wrestling and Queer-Coding (my end-text addition to a mullti-authored discussion) [February 2016]
23) Safe House (11x16): A Few Musings [March 2016]
24) The Bro-Dependency Ouroboros [April 2016]
25) 11x17 Red Meat: Winchester Romeo and Juliette [April 2016]
26) 11x19 The Closet in The Chitters [May 2016]
27) Things to Love About 11x20 (Don't Call Me Shurley) (Music Meta) [May 2016]
28) Key to the Kingdom 11x20 (10x11 There's No Place Like Home mirroring) [May 2016]
29) Don't Call Me Shurley (title meta - my end-text addition to a mullti-authored discussion) [May 2016]
30) We Happy Few 11x22 [May 2016]
31) 11x22 Music Meta - Bridge of Sighs [May 2016]
32) 11x23 Alpha and Omega [May 2016]
33) Form and Void to Alpha and Omega [May 2016]
34) "You're Our Brother, Cas" (11x23) [May 2016]
35) "We Happy Few… We Band of Brothers" (11x22 and 11x23) [May 2016]
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