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okay i have a question and that question is: what precisely is going on here?

this is dean in one of the few moments this ep he spends in the strip club with no one directly observing him. and it sure as hell looks like he takes a look at what's going on and, despite all his earlier excited comments about "strippers", he is not interested and is, in fact, a little unsettled.

and, okay, we can read this as dean being somewhat upset by the idea of sex work. but that doesn't quite jive with 5.03 or 2.17. (doylist sidebar... is it supposed to look like dean is distracted by the boobs but wants to keep his head in the game case-wise? cause... it does not look like that).

like i don't know i don't know... the vibe is just... he's not into it. and that is... very interesting to me.

cause okay, of course, this is the famous "dean's siren is a man" episode. and it's true. dean's siren is a man. and plausible deniability disclaimer, of course, that man is allegedly a stand-in for his brother.

but i think discourse about his siren being a man misses the the fact that the siren chose to be a man because they knew they could not be a woman. like the siren has a very established MO and decides that simply cannot and will not work on dean.... why?

DEAN: What the hell am I supposed to do with him? SAM: Just take him to the strip club...keep an eye out for the siren. Come on, Dean, just... just focus on the naked girls. You'll forget he's even there!

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to be fair, this is me doing a specific reading maybe a little more than normal? cause i know maybe in that clip dean is just trying to stay focused and maybe the siren choses to be an FBI agent that loves zeppelin cause that will really work on dean and maybe the siren doesn't want to be a woman because they know dean thinks the suspect is a woman and maybe dean is just so excited getting to finally talk about zep that he's more focused on nick and after all doesn't he glance over at the dancers a few times and on and on...

"You'll stay here for years, disembodied, scared, and over the decades it'll probably drive you mad. Maybe you'll even get violent. (...) How do you think angry spirits are born? They can't let go, and they can't move on." — Tessa, 2x01

Here's to evil skanks <3

Jensen Ackles saw this early script draft and made the choice that Dean would NOT make Cas feel bad for hugging him after the angel thought him dead