#(building on that one thing where when Sam's in danger it's treated as nbd

[themanicgalaxy]

SPN 5X7 the Curious Case of Dean Winchester

O wait I've heard of this one...?

oo nice invocation of them with the apocalypse

ok turns old

ah yes the Mary dying sound

25 year old dying of old age is So Neat tho

ah Bobby!!

Dean...tries

lmAO BOBBY

I love grumpy old man Bobby it's what he deserves

oho Tuesdays?

oOO it sounds like Psych Music

oh it's him but Young, DAMN

D E A N

ah yes the boomer hate my wife thing

WHAT IS XBOX DEAN YOU O L D MAN

ah the LORE

ah yeah he was acting a bit Angrier than normal, he does something

ah he does know doesn't he

heh the 100

damn good job Dean

BOBBY WANTS HIS BEST YEARS BACK UH OH

n O O HE LOST

"you IDIOT" hahahaha

you hypocrite

oh damn but he's FUN

the "ok but disclaimer" was fun

man witch

"make it 50" you're an idiot

I love you idiots

save Bobby first nice nice

ooo NICE visuals

AHAHAHAH OLD DEAN

PALPATINE

JOHN MCAIN

SAM IS ENJOYING THIS AHAHAHA

"shut up Sam" DFAPJAPHAHAHA

lmAO DEAN IS O L D

n o CHEESEBRUGER

HE'S WEARING THE SAME THING AHAHA

yoU'RE OLD

ok no this is fucking hilarious actually

just STEALS HIS CAR

Dean likes him

I get like...Loki and Tony vibes(tho not shipped, I don't know what they're like shipped)

F L O O R 2 AHAHAHA

H'ES ALREADY WINDED

thE FUCKING JAZZ MUSIC

thE FUCKING CATARACTS

ah sh's got magic

bud ur od

dammit 900 year old sexy witch is so MUCH FUN

HE GAVE SAM AN STD OH MY GOD

I’m good, Bobby’s better, we both lost I liked that

“when you get to be our age” “you’re thirty Dean” LMAO

oh BOBBY COMING TO TERMS WITH HIS MORTALITY

He feels old and washed up and he wants a way out

Dean is like…yeah I understand

gf gives them the reversal?? what?

he cursed her to I think?

god I wish I know how to play poker well

ah so he always wins, or he controls the game, I see

It was for Sam’s benefit

Dean’s taking this well

their bitchy banter is so funny

Ah Sam Supremacy right here we go hi kripke

hey maybe that’s why I don’t like him, I don’t like being told this

show don’t tell etc

ahh the hair hiding shadow, neat

a H THEY’RE STALLING HIM! GOOD FINALLY SOME FUCKING EMOTION IN THIS ARBY’S

DNA…oH THE SETUP WITH THE TOOTHPICK

the fucking occult symbols in the back of an Alley is Good

ah he caught them

whaT IS WITH THE GODDAMN NECKLACE

oh goody more stairSS

O H HE BLUFFED HIM

what happened to Dean??

boy the dependence thing is so fucked man

…does he want the game…have some modicum of fairness?

“there’s poker and then there’s suicide” what was he trying to accomplish?

she’s crying

aw Sam…?

Sam + Witches is good actually

oh he wON

AND HE CASHED them in for DEAN “with pleasure”

THE LIL HEEL TAP

oh she outlived her daughter and she hates it

she doesn’t want to live forever oh WOW

wait…was..the plot of this one entirely driven by the lady witch and her choices?

like she wasn’t given a name but STILL

and SHE DIES!

“just lucky” oh fuck…he outwitched him didn’t he

aW DEAN’S TERRIBLE APOLOGY

THE LIL LIP TWITCH THING HE DOES

like an aborted cocky smilE HE DOES WHEN HE’S DESPERATLEY TRYING TO HIDE/WANTS TO

“you’re not useless” oh my god

the literal only way he can say I love you is “I need you”

…this isn’t important at all I promise

he’s like so gruffly trying to get through this speech

and sitting down so they’re eye to eye

fuck me I’m tearing up

no but like he saw it needed to be said, and he said it! I’m so proud! of him!

insert Olivia Rodrigo Hope ur ok in there

and Bobby understood, said Thanks, then poked fun because Emotionsf dsiaoh;sdio

HE WAS TEARING UP

DEAN’S SMILE AT THE END

1 Witch antagonist! ok but I feel like Patrick is such a good case study in a complex but fun villain that is sympathetic, but still clearly the villain! Like it’s very clear he has a moral code(He’ll play some people, he won’t others, he wants an Actual Game, but for what? isn’t it implied he’s in control at all times?) but we’re never actually told what it is, or how it works. Like he’s good at reading people(makes sense he’d pick poker), he clearly wants connection(he wanted the lady witch with him? he doesn’t want to be alone? He clearly knows about the people he’s playing(mentioned the bar mitzvah)(Although was that for Sam’s benefit? did he know that before)) Like we don’t know SHIT about his tragic backstory, but he’s interesting and compelling enough that it literally doesn’t fucking matter. This episode is great, it gives me brainworms, I wanna watch it again

2 lady witch! Ok but…the entire plot was driven by her! She wanted the magic gone due to her own selfish reasons, but it was also like…painted as the objectively right thing to do! all she wanted was not to be immortal anymore, but she didn’t wan to take a central role? The locket makes you think that she’s got some kind of control she’s under(especially coupled with a semi ironic “I look good for my age”), but no, it’s he daughter she had to bury, which would probably fuck up any parent. Like would it be nice to have a name? yes! but she was still cool!!

3 DEAN!! MOTHERFUCKER ACTUALLY COMMUNICATED! Like he clearly understood Bobby’s shit even before, he sat down and he actually tried to feeling! He clearly was super uncomfy with it, but he knew someone had to say it and since no one else was going to, he ended up being the emotionally mature one and! it was great to see!! Was he terrible? YES! it was a godawful apology but Bobby saw what he was trying to say and that seemed to matter to him. plus his lil heel click was absolutely adorable, he was very happy to be younger again. Actually, speaking of, him being old was so fucking funny

4 sam the witch?? Ok listen…they clearly set it up that Sam did Something to win. And we know he has psychic powers, so I assume he outwitched them. He threw his own powers in the ring, and since he’s the antichrist, they worked. It was a subtle use of power, and that’s the head canon I’m going with ok(they clearly set up that he’s emotional, and while him not being read I think is meant to be as like…he ends up being Really Good at Poker cuz he’s a Man, I think it’s more he scrambled Patrick a little bit, due to the powers I swear it would be so good)

like the whole thing about him just being Innately the Hero was annoying, but this lil subtle thing? good! good! I like that!

Listen I like having some shit for interpretation, it helps the Unparalleled Media Experience

5 BOBBY! No but bobby getting to actually have to go through the stages of grief? Bobby getting time to shine as a character, wanting to die or be useful and being told that no, he is useful still(even as fUCKING TERRIBLY AS DEAN DID IT OH MY GOD DUDE). his lil tear up close up at the end that’s open to interpretation? god that was good. Like it feels as if they’re not brushing off what happened to him as they did with Dean going to hell, and it’s So interesting, especially cuz Sam had little reaction, but Dean tried to Feeling about it and it was so good

6 lil obligatory destiel. ok listen..this episode establishes that Dean can only say I love you as “i need you” this will Totally Not Come Back Later I Promise Wink Wink.

7 look the lore of this was fun, the villain was fun(patrick and Dean gave me Dean and Tony vibes a lil, I thought that was neat), the imagery was top notch(occult and fire in an alley? good shit), and him being old was SO FUCKING FUNNY “when you get to be our age” “you’re 30 Dean”

godDAMN THAT WAS GREAT