#15x04 atomic monsters

[monstermoviedean]

eating a hot dog and talking to a beaver. good job meat man

[aladygrieve]

I know we've hit this to hell and back but Atomic Monsters is insane. We finally, FINALLY get a respectful and accurate depiction of a fangirl*, clear indication that Supernatural knows who its audience is and what they want, and a detailed explanation of exactly why a bleak, grimdark, depressing bros-only finale would suck ass. And then they just...did it anyway. What the fuck. * No, Fan Fiction was not respectful. It was a condescending backhanded compliment, but that's a post for another time.

[winchestress]

I'll repeat myself. Is self-awareness any good when you do it anyway?

[deancrowleycas]

babygirl...

[shirtlesssammy]

Dean Winchester every day -- 310/326

Supernatural 15x04//Atomic Monsters

[wraithlafitte]

in the final stretch of spn! just finished 15.04 and oh my goddd dude. showing sam’s struggle with depression, him saying “sometimes it feels like i can’t breathe”, AND HIM SAYING “maybe i’ll feel better in the morning” ???????? it’s just so real. you can say what you will about s15 but sam’s mental health struggle was portrayed really well

[shallowseeker]

Becky Rosen-Baron, MIA.

Becky's "death" + Dean's side of the fireplace mantel

Becky loses her husband, then her "junior" and daughter...and then she herself dies. Just like Dean.

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The two sides of the mantel:

Ahh, the mantel, nestled as the hearth of home. Hearths are associated with home and family because the hearth was historically the main source of heat in the home, as well as where the cooking was done.

The left side is Chuck's side, black chess pieces. Sam is driving the car with TFW safely confined to the roadhouse at the end. The monster hand is pointed away from Sam.

The right is Becky's side: white pieces, glass half-fall.

It's also Dean's side, with Dean driving the car and heading towards Cas and "mini Cas," plus a family portrait showing what Cas and "mini Cas" are to Dean. The monster's hand is reaching for Dean's side, as Dean-action-hero figure frantically fights against it.

Awww. the cute little family picture with Rod Baron, Rod Jr, their daughter, and Becky Rosen, which also foreshadows the order of the losses (hub dies first in the form of Cas and finale-dad).

This is right next to...Dean in a car, Cas, and a "mini Cas." (Becky doesn't know about Jack.)

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Other suspicious details: Dean prime is in the car driving towards Cas in front of a reddish Hellscape.

Alternatively, the photo behind Cas bears some resemblance to a blossom, like the Leviathan blossom he was searching for, crazed, as he rushed through the lands of Purgatory on the verge of losing Cas. They even look like they could be two blossoms straining towards one another. Who knows? It could be a famous fanart I'm just not familiar with.

Anyhoo, both Cas and "junior/little" Cas are turned away from Dean.

This is a nod to Dean...without? Bereft. A la The Winchesters companion series. Here's Dean's ending. Limbo. Wandering. Searching for a happy family he doesn't have.

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If the more-discussed left side was Sam's ending, then the less-discussed right side is Dean in The Winchesters. It's the head side versus the heart side.

And the heart ending, which we sort of get from The Winchesters is a wandering, driving Dean, looking for this nebulous happiness he can't seem to find without Cas and..."mini Cas/Cas junior" Jack.

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Becky was "doing great"

But Becky's life is so cute, y'all. That hub is adorbs.

ROD: "We'll be fine, babe...it's just Lake Michigan. Hardly any chop!"

Famous last words, Rod. You don't know that it's you who is going to mishandle that "Michigan chop."

Becky/Rod - But OMG can we just take a minute? They LIKE each other. They tease each other. They know the motion sickness comes from him, probably. And he knows she's gonna be nerding out during her relaxing weekend (that's part of the point of getting away--to let her have that time).

AAaaaaaahhhhhHHHHhhhhh.

Rod knows about Becky's writing and her superfan status (hard to miss in her office hehe) and loves her for it. And it's just so damn cute.

BECKY: Four hours in a boat? Rod, Junior gets seasick in the tub. ROD: Where would I be without you? BECKY: Covered in puke. [BECKY taps on the window.] Have fun, sweeties! JUNIOR: Thanks, Mom, we will. [ROD and BECKY kiss.] ROD: (fondly)Wow. Felt that. You can’t wait to have the house to yourself. BECKY: (flirtatiously) Oh, you have no idea.

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Along comes Chuck, the metaphorical stop sign to Becky's life; her "off-screen murderer"

Chuck sees her big house and her van and her fam and notes sees that she's doing "great" for herself. She doesn't know it yet but he is the end of her life--he even appears in front of a stop sign!

BONUS: Becky's wearing the gray duster/caretaker warrior/hearth of house/"dead guy robe!"

Instinctively, she runs. See, even with their baggage, Becky's already got a bad feeling, "Well I don't need or want to see you."

So naturally, he worms his way in.

CHUCK: I’m sorry, I… I know we’re not together anymore, and it seems like you’re doing great. I just – I… I wanted to talk. Catch up. It’s been a rough couple of weeks. BECKY: That’s not my problem. [She turns to walk into the house.] CHUCK: Wait, Becky, please. I don’t have anywhere else to go.

So then, after denigrating her POV:

BECKY: I’m a writer, too, Chuck. CHUCK: Oh. I mean, fanfic… it’s not really the same thing… BECKY: Writing’s writing. The self-sabotage, the doubts, the struggle against time. So, whenever I have a spare minute, I write.

He steals.

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He will wind up taking everything

First, he steals her rosy little laptop with her cute little rose decal-skin and the rose keyboard cover and he even puts on HER GLASSES:

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Then, clever girl that she is, she fakes liking it to try to get him to leave! The LYING motif. "It's so good! I loved it....it's so good I'd love to get back to my own work."

CHUCK: "No...no no. You're shining me on. ...Come on, one note."

Then Becky makes her fatal misstep

She gives concrit, which is what Chuck said he wanted but not what he actually wanted. Just look at this face. Becky's starting to feel that...wrongness.

Something's off.

It's the same subtle change--that same whiplash we saw when he cruelly turned on Metatron in the diner.

After he writes his hopeless ending on her computer, and she lets her criticism rip. He sadistically enjoys her discomfort. He's sticking it to her, with her love of laundry and conversations and banter, which will appear in the terrible finale. Then, he says this:

[BECKY walks but turns to CHUCK.] BECKY: You have to leave. CHUCK: Nah, I kinda like it here.

He took a crap on her computer, wore her glasses, sat in her seat...now he's taking her office. Her house.

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Chuck takes all

[ROD enters the living room.] ROD: Babe, you wouldn’t believe what happened.

JJLKgj! Aw, Rod. He cannot wait to tell her that he's the one that wound up puking. KJALGJAGH get you a man like that!

Then he kills Rod right in front of her.

[BECKY looks at CHUCK.] BECKY: Please. ROD: Junior was fine, but I puked everywhere. [ROD walks in and sees CHUCK. He looks at BECKY, confused.] ROD: Babe? CHUCK: Hey. [CHUCK snaps his fingers. ROD disappears in a puff of dust.] BECKY: (screams) Rod?! What happened? Where is he? CHUCK: He’s gone. BECKY: What?!

Her children enter next; we can only hear them off-screen. Rod Jr. can't wait to tell her about the puke incident either. They just know she'll love it.

Chuck will take Rod right in front of Becky's eyes, but her children will die off-screen. "Away."

[ROD JR. enters.] ROD JR.: Hey, mom! We’re back! Dad got sick! He threw up all over the side – [CHUCK snaps his fingers again. The kids disappear.] BECKY: (gasping for air, on a whisper) No! (shudders) The kids. CHUCK: Oh, don’t worry. They’re not dead. They’re just away. [BECKY turns back to CHUCK.] CHUCK: Oh, yeah. I’m God. [BECKY looks horrified.] BECKY: What are you… No. You bring them back. You bring them back! [CHUCK smiles.] BECKY: Please…you can’t do this.

It echoes both Dean pleading with God in 13x01, "Now, you're gonna bring them back," and his 15x18 "Don't do this, Cas." Yeup. Becky is now bereft. Without. Rod's gone, like Cas will soon be gone.

CHUCK: Oh, Becky. I can do anything. [CHUCK steps closer to BECKY. He snaps his fingers. She disappears in a puff of dust.]

Becky faces him defiantly but quickly unravels into grief. "You bring them back...please."

And then he kills Becky.

And here we have these "withouts" culminating. The fun motifs about having the house to yourself end with a cheeky disappearance of the things Becky loves the most. It's cruel. She'd been trying to help Chuck, and he did not show the slightest glimmer of gratitude once her "fluffing" ceased.

And then she herself is gone.

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It makes you think of this too from 15x18:

DEAN: "She's gonna kill you. And then she's gonna kill me."

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Girls named Becky take things and break things?

In 13x01, the angel Miram ranted and raved about the specter-like example of a "super bitch named Becky."

This Becky would "take things and break things."

But the funny thing is...here? As Chuck settles into her office and takes her house…

He's the one taking and breaking. He stole everything from her the same way he tried to wrap himself up in Dean's gray MoL robe.

Just 'cause he can.

[samepisodebracket]

Round 1; Group 8

[ihavepointysticks]

I’ve seen the posts about your birthday episode of supernatural going around again.

If I go by month/day = season/episode I get 11x07, Plush.

If I go by day/month I get 7x11, Adventures in Babysitting.

If I go by November 7 is the 311th day of the year (using a non leap year) I get 15x04, Atomic Monsters. Which coincidentally aired on November 7, 2019.

The only other episode that aired on my birthday was 8x06, Southern Comfort.

[cam-ulu29]

If you think Chuck lost I don’t even know what to say to you you just need to go watch Atomic Monsters again and hear Becky’s description of the ending now that you know what happened.

[monstermoviedean]

so chuck's original ending was low-jeopardy, uninspired, lacking cas. but because becky "gave notes," chuck wrote a new, worse ending out of spite. "awful, horrible, hopeless." then he killed becky's family in front of her and then he killed her too.

i generally do not believe the people who worked on spn had active contempt for the fans. but it's hard not to take this personally, especially given 15x20.

[muchamusedaboutnothing]

Is anyone else out there losing sleep over the possibility that Jensen's new Countdown character Mark Meachum might channel a little bit of AtomicMonsters!Dean?

Asking for a friend.

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Dean Winchester

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Supernatural - 15.04 - Atomic monsters

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[bloodydeanwinchester]

okay yes another poll but it's just my favorite episode each season (but leaving off the ones that i think would be clear winners like laz rising and baby):

[seasononesam]

Stackednatural- 88/327

Atomic Monsters (15x04) November 7th, 2019

[ani-coolgirl]

what episode are you excited to write the first time part for

Oooh, there's a few:

Sacrifice (8x23): THEY GET MARRIED! Need I say more?

Dog Dean Afternoon (9x05): I just need an excuse for Dean to hump Sam's leg.

The Purge (9x13): Dean in a hair net and yoga!Sam delight me.

Soul Survivor (10x03): Okay, so I already wrote almost 40k of demon!Dean being a creep, but the world could always use more!

About a Boy (10x12): Sam being embarrassed that he used to have a crush on this dork (and still does).

Just My Imagination (11x08): More exploration of Sam's childhood crush.

Red Meat (11x17): Do I really need to explain?

The Chitters (11x19): I strongly suspect this one will turn out Very Soft.

Regarding Dean (12x11): amnesia!Dean hitting on Sam. Practically writes itself.

Stuck in the Middle (With You) (12x12): I'm thinking of trying to parody a different Tarantino film for the fic, which might be fun.

Scoobynatural (13x16): Scoob! And I can't wait to make @jinkieswouldyoulookatthis happy. :3

Exodus (13x22): For some Sam suffering after being alone with Lucifer for an extended period of time.

Mint Condition (14x04): Specifically for the end scene.

Lebanon (14x13): Something about them coming together for the first time after seeing their parents torn apart again is both heartbreaking and very weird.

Atomic Monsters (15x04): Sam's visions reveal a little more than what was shown on TV... ;)

Carry On (15x20): I basically already have it worked out.

Post-Series: This one too.

Okay, so that's more than a few... But making it through the average episodes are worth it when I hit the ones I'm looking forward to! I will admit that in the past my excitement has backfired on me, though, when I've hit a big episode and then gotten choice paralysis because there's so much to work with. But fingers crossed these all work out when I get there.

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

I could literally watch the 1st 4 minutes of Atomic Monsters over and over and over again and never get tired of it. 🥵🥵

The “my little random moments of pleasure” series: The ones with the Nathan Drake vibe  N°01