#6.08 all dogs go to heaven

[horrorshow]

So, you gonna just lay there staring at me... or you want to hear what I dug up?

SUPERNATURAL 6.08 All Dogs Go to Heaven

[acecroft]

Dean Winchester in SUPERNATURAL 6.08 'All Dogs Go to Heaven'

[themistas]

SUPERNATURAL, 6.08: ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN

[becauseofthebowties]

DEAN WINCHESTER IN EVERY EPISODE ↳ 6.08 - All Dogs Go to Heaven

[alaynestone]

6.05 live free or twihard 6.08 all dogs go to heaven

[spacedean]

DEAN WINCHESTER in one random episode per day ‣ 59/327 6.08 ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN

[padaleckigallery]

Supernatural - 6.08 All Dogs Go To Heaven

[ballsdeepinturbohell]

SPN 6.08 - All Dogs Go to Heaven

GUESS WHOS NO LONGER UNEMPLOYED!! 😍 It took me approximately 6 seasons of Supernatural to find a job 💀

[castiellesbian]

Adam Glass:

6.02 Two and a Half Men

6.08 All Dogs Go to Heaven

6.12 Like a Virgin

6.19 Mommy Dearest

7.04 Defending Your Life

7.11 Adventures in Babysitting

7.18 Party On, Garth

8.06 Southern Comfort

8.12 As Time Goes By

8.18 Freaks and Geeks

9.07 Bad Boys

9.12 Sharp Teeth

9.17 Mother's Little Helper

10.04 Paper Moon

10.12 About A Boy

Eric Kripke

1.01 Pilot

1.02

1.09 Home

1.16 Shadow

1.22 Devil's Trap

2.01 In My Time of Dying

2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two

3.01 The Magnificent Seven

3.16 No Rest for the Wicked

4.01 Lazarus Rising

4.10 Heaven and Hell

4.22 Lucifer Rising

5.01 Sympathy for the Devil

5.09 The Real Ghostbusters

5.22 Swan Song

6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much

[spngeorg]

Episode 112: 6.08 All Dogs Go To Heaven

(except these dogs, because they're actually monsters, but purgatory probably needs doggos too so...)

I am not gonna sugar coat this one. It's... not good lol. Like it's one of the episodes I'd repeatedly forget existed at all until it came back up on the rewatch. Unfortunately I've rewatched the series so many times now that I'm incapable of forgetting it exists now.

Like all the worst episodes, though, there's like three minutes at the end of the episode that's actually too important to overlook as character/meta/overarching narrative plot points, and I did my best to not talk about it out of order. I mean, I had to suffer through this one (several times, thanks to having to edit it lol), so it's only fair that everyone has to hear about the weird dogs.

I do appreciate this one for demonstrating just how not-great Soulless!Sam as a hunter... Since everyone from Bobby to Samuel has been saying all season that Sam has been an incredible hunter over the last year, it's really satisfying to have some direct evidence that hooboy... being uncaring and ruthless is a terrible, terrible hunting strategy. So that's something, I guess.

Anyway, have some LINKS!

The Superwiki Page

My tag

Filming locations map

An interview with Jared and Jensen pre-s6 by KSite TV

CW Promo

SpaceTV Promo

SpaceTV teaser clip

Listen now on Spotify, or wherever you enjoy podcasts!

[magdaclaire]

worst episodes of supernatural (in my OPINION) in the order in which they occur

(seasons 1-3 are reluctantly. good.)

4.12 Criss Angel Is a Douchebag

(no notes on season 5)

6.08 All Dogs Go To Heaven

6.15 The French Mistake

7.14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie 

8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler

8.15 Man’s Best Friend with Benefits

9.05 Dog Dean Afternoon

9.20 Bloodlines

10.05 Fan Fiction

10.10 The Hunter Games

[I have no least favorites for seasons 11 and 12 because they were exceptionally mid)

13.16 Scoobynatural

14.13 Lebanon

15.04 Atomic Monsters

15.12 Galaxy Brain

[horrorshow]

Except that… I need your help. And you're clearly not gonna stick around for much longer unless I give it to you straight, so… I've done a lot worse than you know. I've killed innocent people in the line of duty. But I'm pretty sure it's not something the old me could've done. And maybe I should feel guilty. But I don't.

SAM WINCHESTER 6.08 All Dogs Go to Heaven

[daddycest-hub]

OK! :) Let's see... I'm DESPERATE for an Emily Walker X German Shepherd with Diggs's(Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore: Dog HQ) Form of Talking, Colonel's(Supernatural Dean and Dog) Accent & Attitude, and Lucky's(6.08 All Dogs Go to Heaven) Pervy Peeping on Hot Humans as they get Undressed & Shower & Dressed! X Stella Walker Lusty Lovey Dirty Dovey Mother Daughter Harem! ;) Interested? ;)

Oooo sounds like fun!

[themistas]

SUPERNATURAL, 6.08: ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN

[normalbrothershow]

6.08 all dogs go to heaven: "before we hand him over to a lifetime of demon rape?" referring to selling the guy off to crowley for information and torture (possibly meaning demon possession/general torture but this is seras season so to me and if taken literally this is one of the few canon acknowledgements of sexual rape as a common demon/hell torture method) + the dog shifter watching the woman undressing/showering/sleep and likely more, sleeping in bed with her etc

rewatching s6 and like. WOAH at the amount of rape/csa + implications and metaphors there are like. i noticed them generally before but not the regularity and amount. like → two and a half men 6.02: the shifter raping the moms to impregnate them + dean almost being caught in a motel with a baby that obviously isnt his. the third man 6.03: them leaving a kidnapped unconscious child on a motel bed for the police to find. live free or twihard 6.05: all the girls being 17 + the whole dean/boris thing. you cant handle the truth 6.06: the man at the dentist confessing to raping the dentist's daughter (without a mentioned age but it happened at his own daugters slumber party + he was scared of being caught/afraid to be around the girl due to not being able to control himself). and im only on episode 6. like sera was on a mission

[darkstar6782]

6.08: All Dogs Go to Heaven - My Rewatch Review

I’ve never cared much for this episode. I find the premise of it to be extremely disturbing—as someone who has always been afraid of dogs, adding a layer of ‘dog could be a monster in disguise’ is probably one of the horror tropes that hits closest to home in terms of real fears for me, along with the additional creep factor that the show lays on in the form of the skinwalker who actually cares about the family he is supposed to destroy. At least the show doesn’t shy away from just how disturbing an idea it is to have someone in your home who is not what you think they are, and allows the woman that the skinwalker took advantage of to be appropriately angry and freaked out by him, and doesn’t let him off the hook when he tries to explain himself. And the other side of the storyline, of all the ‘sleeper cells’ of skinwalkers waiting to turn hundreds of families into monsters en masse was also sufficiently terrifying, but since I know it doesn’t actually go anywhere, it significantly lowers the stakes of anything that actually happens in the episode and ultimately makes it fade into the background of the season pretty fast. 

The only thing that makes it even a little interesting is watching the shift in Sam and Dean’s dynamic now that the fact that Sam is soulless is out in the open, and trying to get into everything that’s going on inside their heads because of that change. It makes me wonder, sometimes, why Sam tried so hard in some respects to hide that anything was wrong with him from Dean in the first place, while not really trying in other ways. Not necessarily because it doesn’t make sense for him to have done so, but more because I am always a bit confused about what he chose to try and hide and what he didn’t. Like the fact that he never sleeps. He obviously must have pretended to, because the two of them share hotel rooms and it would have been impossible for Dean not to have noticed him being awake all the time, and now that Dean knows he doesn’t sleep, he has stopped pretending, but it doesn’t do a great job of making his case that he didn’t realize there was anything wrong with him until recently if he hasn’t slept in an entire year and went through a fair bit of effort to make sure Dean didn’t notice once they got back together. Especially considering all the other ways in which he didn’t really try to act like Sam.

I think it speaks to the interesting dividing line that the show is drawing between the idea of the body and the soul, though; the idea that what makes a person who they are is not just their memories, but their emotional center. Sam’s memories are intact—he says so directly in this episode—which could be what led him to do things like pretend to sleep around his brother; not because he has to, but because he knows that it’s part of being ‘normal’ and he assumes that he should be acting ‘normal’ even though he knows there is something different about him. But he can’t act ‘normal’ in other ways, like responding the way we know Sam would when he was reunited with his brother, or showing any concern or empathy towards others despite that being a core element of Sam’s character, because no matter how many memories he has of conversations with people, or emotional reunions with Dean, he can’t tap into the part of himself that makes real emotions possible, which means he can’t fake concern, or empathy, or understanding.

And that, at least, is where the parallels in this episode between Sam and the skinwalker elevate the episode’s place in the narrative just a little bit. Because Sam before the reveal that his soul is missing was a lot like Lucky as the dog; he was playing the part he was expected to play, and Dean accepted him for who he appeared to be, and initially didn’t even look all that deeply into the things that didn’t add up because of his own feelings towards his brother. Sam revealing that he knows he’s not the same person that Dean remembers, that he knows there’s something wrong and has been trying to hide it from his brother, is also a lot like Lucky revealing what he was to ‘his’ family. He knows it was wrong to hide his true nature, but he understands his own reasons for doing it, and he hopes that maybe they will too, but he has few expectations. Sam, at least, seems pretty sure that Dean will continue to tolerate him in his current state, more because of the promise that the ‘real’ Sam will eventually be returned to him, but there is definitely still a part of him that is obviously just saying what he thinks Dean want to hear in order to keep Dean from kicking him to the curb. Because I think the memory of what family means to Sam runs deeper than emotions (hence how he got himself mixed up with the Campbells), and that’s the only thing that keeps him relatively sane for a soulless person. And if he were to lose that connection, if Dean were to truly give up on him, who knows what kind of monster he might become.