Internalized fannish insecurities wrt Becky, I assume. Other than that, I know people who object to it on grounds of making light of Sam's "date rape," and not handling date rape tactfully. Which on one hand I can understand, and on another, I really don't hold with, because personally, I did see a lot of tact with regard to balancing the humor and the gravitas of the episode, and I think they pulled that off really well. I can't speak for someone who might have experienced real date rape in real life, but I also feel like the episode made a point of Very Pointedly not bearing any sort of resemblance to real date rape in real life for exactly that reason. And even if the episode was largely fun and light, I think Sam's reactions speak for themselves in terms of how unwarranted he found the situation, and it wasn't at all a joke to him, or Dean, or even to Becky herself. And the fact that they react so straight-facedly and so normally to a premise that is so wildly zany serves as counterpoint to the humor of the episode for me. (Even as it increases the humor of the episode, because treating the ridiculous as normal is a Great Thing SPN does--and it had better, given that it's a show about the supernatural...)
tl;dr I think many people hate 7x08 because they either see too much of themselves in Becky and don't like it (and externalize that by talking about how little resemblance Becky bears to fandom, wich is a flat-out lie, XD), or because of insecurities wrt Sam, the emasculation of Sam, the trivialization of Sam's Feelings and Pain. And a small sliver hate 7x08 because of intense personal reasons which are not to be made light of. But I think mostly it's the former two reasons, which I will certainly make light of I don't even care. XD
I dunno, I really didn't feel like the episode was doing Sam any injury. But then, I have an extremely positive, extremely confident belief in Sam, so maybe that has something to do with that? (Which isn't to say that "I just love Sam more than they do!" Because for most of the year I have a fairly negative, extremely unconfident non-belief in Dean, and I am certain that I am 100% a Deangirl; it's just a different kind of love. XP)
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tl;dr I think many people hate 7x08 because they either see too much of themselves in Becky and don't like it (and externalize that by talking about how little resemblance Becky bears to fandom, wich is a flat-out lie, XD), or because of insecurities wrt Sam, the emasculation of Sam, the trivialization of Sam's Feelings and Pain. And a small sliver hate 7x08 because of intense personal reasons which are not to be made light of. But I think mostly it's the former two reasons, which I will certainly make light of I don't even care. XD
I dunno, I really didn't feel like the episode was doing Sam any injury. But then, I have an extremely positive, extremely confident belief in Sam, so maybe that has something to do with that? (Which isn't to say that "I just love Sam more than they do!" Because for most of the year I have a fairly negative, extremely unconfident non-belief in Dean, and I am certain that I am 100% a Deangirl; it's just a different kind of love. XP)