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woodworkingpastor · 4 years ago

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Things that make for peace Luke 19:29-44 Sunday, March 28, 2021 Palm Sunday

Please pray with me:

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility. Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

When our children were little, Lynette and I read to them nearly ever day. We started out with age-appropriate books for babies and toddlers, before moving up into chapter books: The Chronicles of Narnia, Nancy Drew, The Phantom Toolbooth, and the entire Harry Potterseries. If you’ve ever read regularly to young children, you know that they don’t mind having the same story read to them over and over again. You also know that, as a parent, that gets kind of old. So I would try to do things to “liven it up” a bit. Sometimes I’d give the characters voices, other times I’d mis-read the story to see if they were paying attention.

I don’t know about your kids, but my kids hated that. When I’d add voices, they’d say, “Dad, read it right.” And one night, Rose took the story book to Lynette and asked her to read; I’d been mis-reading it too much for her liking and she told Lynette, “Daddy doesn’t know how to read it.”

This is not unrelated to how preachers feel at Christmas and Easter. We’ve preached these texts so many times that we look at these events that are crucial to our faith and kind of scratch our heads and say, “How do we tell the story this year.” I finally decided that I wasn’t going to worry about it; one lesson we can learn from our children is that there is value in telling the story over and over again. I didn’t just pull an old sermon out of the file, but I decided to be less concerned with possibly repeating myself.

Staying with this theme of things that are important to children, I’m curious to know how many of you have been to the Grandin Holiday Parade recently? If you’ve been to it, you know that parade is the coolest, quirkiest, family-focused parade ever. Right in the heart of Roanoke we have what is essentially a small-town parade, complete with Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, someone from 7-Eleven dressed up in a Slurpee costume, Brandon from Pops Ice Cream playing the bagpipes, preschool groups, greyhound rescue groups—it’s a fantastic event. The most fun I’ve ever had at a parade was the year Zach and I marched with the Cub Scouts, and Zach and I rode our unicycles.

If you’ve seen the parade, then you know that the Kazim clowns are always in it with their cars and their various hijinks and comedy acts. Get a picture of the Kazim clowns in your head for a moment. Now ask yourself, what would the Kazim clowns look like if they had airplanes instead of cars?

Hang on to that picture and follow me in your mind to the opening of Super Bowl 55. Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan sang the National Anthem, and then there was a military fly-over. This year—because it was Super Bowl 55—the fly-over included a B-1, a B-2, and a B-52, because the numbers add up to 55. But imagine how the crowd would have reacted if, as the last notes of the National Anthem were being sung, the military fly-over would have been handled by the Kazim clowns.

If you can see that—and how people might react to it—then you have a better picture of what actually happened at Jesus’ “Triumphal entry” into Jerusalem. This is another of those cases where what we think is happening in the story is different from what is actually happening. Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem tells a story about what God is doing in the world, and it is a different story that the one the world tells. You see, Jesus wasn’t the only person of power showing up in Jerusalem that week. King Herod was coming to town, too, and Herod would have had his own parade. When earthly rulers enter a town, it is intended to show off their power. For Herod, this would have meant riding in on a powerful war horse, surrounded by elite troops. Their entry is designed to demonstrate who is in control, and it is designed to intimidate any troublemakers along the way with a not-so-subtle message of “if you want to take us on, go ahead and try.”

If you remember the victory parade at the end of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, celebrating the liberation of Naboo, you see what military parades are about. It’s the same with the military fly-overs at the Super Bowl—they are about establishing how evil will be conquered.

But Jesus doesn’t enter Jerusalem that way. Jesus is telling God’s story, and in God’s story the Savior comes in weakness, riding into town on a young donkey. It’s a story that was first told by the Old Testament prophet Zechariah; Jesus is just filling a role here, and it’s a role designed to be attention-getting; it’s the Kazim clowns showing up to declare the victory of God. And if you’re having trouble wrapping your minds around that—if you’re like Rose that one night at our house and want someone else to tell you the story because you don’t think I’m telling it right—think back to what Luke has been telling us since the Sunday before Christmas. It’s Mary’s song all over again:

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty (Luke 1:51-53).

Have we not heard Luke tell us this story over and over again?

It’s the Rich man and Lazarus—whose life is vindicated? Lazarus, the poor beggar at the gate who probably starved to death just a few yards away from a sumptuous feast.

It’s Zacchaeus, the despised local villain, who demonstrates his salvation by giving back what he’s stolen because he loves God more than his earthly position.

It’s the Prodigal Son dragging himself back home on the outside chance that he can be hired on a seasonal help only to find that his father has been waiting for him the entire time.

Jesus is proclaiming a kingdom where the last shall be first and the least shall be the greatest, where the worst of sinners are welcomed guests at the banquet of God. This is what Jesus will be about.

The people that go to the Grandin Holiday parade understand what is happening and they enjoy it; it’s fun to stand alongside Grandin Road on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and see all children and civic groups march by. And in one sense, the parade probably doesn’t accomplish all that much—except to help us celebrate things we find important. Just that! Amidst all the children’s groups and middle and high school marching bands and clowns and characters, the parade affirms what we love about the place we live.

The crowd that is on the side of the road at Jesus’ parade understands this, so they throw their cloaks down on the road in front of him. They lift Jesus up and declare him to be their Lord with the chorus of Psalm 118,

Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest heaven!

Psalm 118 is a somewhat complicated Psalm that acknowledges a time when God’s people had been in trouble and God rescued them. So, of course, the people celebrate. The thing is, not everyone got it. Some people missed the meaning of what God was doing; as the Psalmist says,

The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. (Psalm 118:22)

Not everyone gets it in our day, either.

Palm Sunday is one of those tradition-rich holidays that brings back memories—possibly of robed children’s choir processing into the sanctuary, then taking their place at the front of the church to sing. But this isn’t where Jesus’ parade ends up. Jesus’ parade route brings him to an overlook where he can see all of the city of Jerusalem; seeing this, he begins to weep because the people’s inability to know the things that make for peace is killing them. This is where we begin to realize that the story Jesus is telling is different from the story we think we want to hear; the events of Holy Week are God retelling the foundational story of our existence as human beings.

To understand the story, we have to go all the way back to creation and see where things went wrong. We need to go back to the Cain and Abel story and see Cain take his anger and disappointment that God did not accept his offering and vent that frustration on his brother, Abel, killing him. We need to hear Cain say to God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Yes, Cain, you are. But Cain missed that because wired deep within us is this belief that violence is the only tried and true method to get what we want in life. It’s the basic story of humanity, and it’s a story that works its way into the stories we tell:

J.R.R. Tolkein told a story about two friends: Deagol and Smeagol. Deagol has a ring, and Smeagol covets it and asks Deagol if he can have it because it’s his birthday. Deagol refuses, and Smeagol kills him. That deed haunts Smeagol for the remainder of his life and transforms him into the pathetic creature known as Gollum.

Anakin Skywalker is consumed with the fear that he will lose his beloved Padme in the same way that he could not protect his mother Shmi. That fear twists him into giving into the dark side of the force, where he becomes the evil Darth Vader.

This story finds it’s way into our own believing the “good guy with a gun” mythology, where we believe that by carrying a gun with us we’ll be ready to overcome the despicable violence of our enemies with our own redemptive violence.

But Jesus knows this way of thinking is killing us. He sees what will happen if his people continue to believe that they can throw off the Roman government through force—an idea that will become incredibly important on Good Friday, when the people choose Barabbas over Jesus.

Jesus knows that the only way to peace is to eliminate our enemies. The issue becomes how. How do we eliminate our enemies?

Love them and pray for them: “But I say to you, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you’” (Matthew 5:44).

Bless them. “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’ No, ‘if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.’ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Romans 12:19-21).

This is the story Jesus is retelling on Holy Week. And one of the reasons he can retell the story this way is because this is how God has responded to us:

For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! (Romans 5:10).

The story that Jesus is retelling is how God eliminated us as enemies through Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross. It can be a difficult story to hear because what we prefer is for God to come along and bless our thoughts, our dreams, our plans for how we will get along in the world. But do not be confused: just because Jesus is leading a parade does not mean that Jesus will be our mascot, something to prop up and celebrate our plans and schemes. The crowd gets it right when they sing “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.” Jesus will not be our mascot; he will be our Lord or nothing at all.

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garden-ghoul · 7 years ago

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ITS TIME FOR two blogs part 6 or something

“there’s one SUPER loud frog in the moat outside my room tonight”

now let’s take a moment to gaze into

THE PALANTIR

Merry is tiiiiiired. He’s really just a young teen, holy shit. He’s also a little cranky at some perceived slight during the talk with Saruman that I didn’t make note of. Gandalf comforts him by telling him that Saruman is probably confused and furious about his continued existence. “haha, okay,” says Merry, “but um when are we stopping?” Then there’s some, uh, other stuff. And Gandalf says:

‘There was some link between Isengard and Mordor, which I have not yet fathomed. How they exchanged news I am not sure.’

Guys. Last chapter he picked up the palantir and was like “Pippin this is really dangerous don’t touch it.” He definitely KNOWS what a palantir is, if he’s worth his hat. ???? COME ON DUDE WORK IT OUT

Pippin wants a look at that palantir so muchhhhhh. He can’t sleep. He’s squirming. He bugs Merry about it, and Merry tells him to go to sleep. “I'm sorry, Pippin, but you really must wait till the morning. I'll be as curious as you like after breakfast, and I'll help in any way I can at wizard-wheedling.” Wizard-wheedling! What a sport! Anyway how weird is it that basically every powerful magic artifact is full of bewitchment. Is it just because most of the ones we know of are subject to Sauron’s will?... or is it because magic is inherently corrupting? Like, look at Gandalf. Basically his whole thing is to use magic as little as possible. He’s practically a witch! Saruman wizarded it up with magic and look where it got him! Nomads are morally superior! This is some Cain and Abel shit!

...so Pippin steals that palantir from a probably-sleeping Gandalf. We get no description of what he sees in it, just that he is spasming and yelling frightfully.

'It is not for you, Saruman!' he cried in a shrill and toneless voice shrinking away from Gandalf. 'I will send for it at once. Do you understand? Say just that!'

Bro. Is Sauron speaking out of his mouth right now. Is that what is happening. This is rather frightening! But Gandalf after finding out that Pippin didn’t do too much damage to their cause is very kind and gentle. Presumably Sauron will think the Ring is at Orthanc and not look for it closer to home. I really like Gandalf telling Pippin to just say something if he gets a magical compulsion. A witch can help! Also now that I’m thinking of Gandalf as a witch I’m imagining if Granny Weatherwax had his place in the story. It would be so good y’all, she would like try to take Sauron on head to head and nearly become like Saruman but she’d stop herself at the very last moment... It’s a good crossover come talk to me about it later.

At that moment A NAZGUL flies overhead, and Gandalf jumps to his feet and basically shouts “every man for himself!!” Geez man be cool. He picks Pippin up and rides... not hell for leather. Detroit for leather maybe, or one of those cities that everyone jokes about being halfway to hell. And he sings this song that has made me feel a Thing. I had to sing it. Ignore the crap audio quality, my computer’s mic is awful.

Gandalf explains the palantiri. It means... Television. In Quenya I guess, Gandalf said Feanor might have made them.

‘Easy it is now to guess how quickly the roving eye of Saruman was trapped and held; and how ever since he has been persuaded from afar, and daunted when persuasion would not serve. The biter bit, the hawk under the eagle's foot, the spider in a steel web!’

This entire chapter is SO aesthetic. Gandalf talks a little about what might happen to Saruman when the Nazgul finds him; and now “every stride of Shadowfax bears us nearer to the Land of Shadow.” Yep that’s his true purpose. To fax people to the land of shadows. Fast as electricity! Um but yeah Pippin’s off to Minas Tirith. I wonder why...

Well, Gandalf’ not talking, here just before BOOK FOUR begins. Now let’s hear about something completely unrelated!

THE TAMING OF SMEAGOL

Ohhh the entire second book of the Two Towers is gonna be Sam and Frodo maybe? I want it to be more spread out, I don’t know if I can take so much depression all in a row. And that depression: Sam and Frodo are not having a pleasant time in the Emyn Muil. Hell. Emyn Muil might be my favorite name in the legendarium. It’s SO fun to say. I’m also very fond of Minas Ithil and Ossiriand. No, focus. The hills suck, is the thing. It’s like hiking in Canyonlands National Park, except upsetting difficult instead of fun difficult, because our friends are being chased by orcs and a magical evil eye. They end up by this cliff and Sam, who doesn’t want to climb it, immediately hefts himself over the edge to stop Frodo from having to climb down first.

'No, no! Sam, you old ass! ' said Frodo. `You'll kill yourself for certain going over like that without even a look to see what to make for. Come back! ' He took Sam under the armpits and hauled him up again.

(crying gently) I love Frodo Baggins. A strong old man. A Nazgul comes and screams at Frodo while he’s climbing down, and for some reason this makes him go temporarily blind. He snaps at Sam again (but in kind of an endearing way?) and Sam gets out his rope. Also it’s raining now. Frodo really is a strong old man! He helps Sam climb down by partially just lowering him down the cliff. And then he climbs down himself with no help. Sam is sad to leave behind this Good Good Rope, but as it turns out elf rope is a faithful dog and comes when called. Sam strokes it lovingly. A good boy.

As our hobbits are trying to sleep, they spot Gollum crawling down a cliff (head-first, for extra creepiness factor). Gollum fails in his weird climbing method and falls down, and Sam immediately pounces on him. Oh Sam. Be not so full of hatred, it’s kinda scary. Sam gets a bit hurt for his boldness, and Frodo menaces Gollum with his sword. But he takes pity and makes Gollum promise to come along with them. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer! No, closer. Closer.

Close enough that when they think you’re finally asleep and they try to run off you can still spring on them and tie them up with fine elvish rope! Yes, that’s close enough. But the rope burns him. Frodo makes him swear to “obey the master of the Precious,” which is honestly an oath full of holes even if he actually does keep it.

Frodo calls him Smeagol, now.

#blog of the rings #music

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elizabethrobertajones · 8 years ago

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Ketch is literally going to try and kill Dean just for saying that about his bike.

I know he seems deep and interesting and complicated to some people but that’s the facts.

In slightly unrelated news it turns out I have had this entire season sussed out since the day Robbie Thompson announced he was leaving and I cry-watched 8x13 while eating ice cream and realised Sam’s furniture-related hubris from 11x17 was going to get him one day because it had been a theme since they first met the MoL ever, but this is all escalating exactly as I have foreseen and it’s coming down to the most petty motivations you can imagine.

I’m as surprised as you are when I’m actually right when I make shitty jokes and predict an entire season a year in advance. :D

I actually have nowhere else to be today so I woke up early, watched Elementary while I waited for coffee to kick in and now here I am while it's still morning :D

Recappy all the BMoL stuff with a focus on Mom sleeping with Ketch, followed by our one sympathetic guy getting murdered by Ketch, and Umbridge pointing out the Winchesters suck to a clip of Dean wandering around with Lucille in the Bunker (listen I thought the whole thing was going to fall on Sam after years of him ripping up the wiring to install mini fridges and TVs, and putting his feet on the chairs, but nope at the last minute they shoehorn in a bloodsoaked Dean disrespecting the furniture which I'm taking a bitter Sam!girl stance on for no reason other than it makes me laugh that Dean yanked this one from under his nose)... Last thing we hear is that Ketch is going to come for them, and onto the cold open. Considering this is at least SUPPOSED to be a monster of the week (and I'm terrified of it) I'm like... deeply unappreciative of the total lack of warning.

I have a blanket though.

Idk if it was because the promo clip I saw (I think I may have missed one by noping out of this episode's promo stuff and going to bed last night because I don't remember a Dabb one) being the one with the Game of Thrones aliases but the kid Sam and Dean interview reminded me of Jon Snow... He looks even more like him in the dark wearing a coat with a fuzzy hood and it's making me laugh. He's not exactly a Jon Snow type personality though - like all we know of him right now is he likes watching his friends make out because he's kinda gross.

(I can never tell if scenes like this are What The Writer Thinks Kids These Days Do or What The Writer Did When He Was Kids These Days... I suppose either is revealing >.>)

Anyway hat buddy slaps Jon Snow on the shoulder and leaves him to it and I really can't make character parallels off this little info but I think hat buddy is wearing a red hat of the same style of plaid that both Sam and Dean have been wearing this season? It's dark though.

Oh good creepy goat mask guy/actual monster is watching

is that an axe or a hammer?

*retreats under my blanket*

that backpack is literally like an anglerfish lure, with the glowstick attached to it

oh yay it's full of money. You beat the trap, and the goat guy, you get a buttload of cash.

Monsters don't tend to use complicated traps though :P

I really really don't like the goat guy. Nope. Noooope. *adds a nope for every dramatic shot of him*

Anyway the first thing we hear is Cas's voice mail, with "THE MEMORY REMAINS" captioning it, so I've got emotional whiplash. Trauma from the goat guy to achey soul pains from Dean trying to get ahold of Cas still, wandering the halls of the Bunker and being miserable.

I mean he's *wandering the bunker* levels of miserable.

I could only find a bad download but I have a feeling Sam's pitying look when he hears the tail end of this where Dean is being all worried about Cas is possibly worse.

Oh NO Dean's been LOOKING for him. Including a standard "has any weirdo in a trench coat been arrested" google search which honestly I feel like should probably get more hits than Dean wants to deal with even if none of them are Cas :P

He's cleaning guns now, including reminding us of all the ancient MoL guns stashed under the table, which really makes me think about how the Bunker is possibly in danger because the BMoL have as many keys to it as they like and Sam and Dean don't know they're about to be hunted by Ketch, who really only needs to do a kill 'em in their sleep thing if he doesn't feel like making a grand entrance and villain monologuing at them. I mean it won't be good TV which is literally my only reassurance he won't do that, or at least they'll have a tip off and Bela him if he tries it (why are they always being nearly assassinated by Brits)... Anyway, the reminder that those guns show they are prepared to be attacked in their own home - but are they READY to be attacked in their own home? Dean cleaning the guns suggests maybe?

I still think this literally all goes back to Sam's hubris about 8x13 where we cut between them finding the Bunker for the very first time and Dean returning after a week of supply runs to Kevin and crap, walks in, and Sam's installed a mini fridge in the library already. Later Sam rolls his eyes at Dean wanting to get a pool table or whatever it was he told Cas in 8x22 but you started it Sam. (The next episode I watch with my mum will be 9x04, aka Sam is bored and stir crazy because Dean is keeping him in the Bunker, so he dives under the map table, and rips up several miles of wiring just to see where it goes.)

(11x23 was like... not that I'd been *waiting* for it per say but when Toni showed up and shot Sam and we'd recently seen Sam lounging with his feet on the furniture... I knew it was his own bloody fault he got shot and that moment earlier in season 11 had prepared me for it :P)

Anyway that sense of threat is coming back. We know there's SOMETHING they filmed right towards the end of the season with Dean wandering the Bunker with a gun in hand, so I am feeling like it's time to explore every scrap they give us about the sense of unease the BMoL give them about their own home, whether it's for us to know or them to feel.

Not sure Sam's got it even though Toni SHOT him here already, but Dean, at least, is cleaning the defensive weapons stashed under the tables and that makes me feel like he's at least HALF aware of it, and of course this season he is being shown rather more on the ball about stuff...

(This is what happens when you combine giving me the entire day to watch and a creepy goat mask guy I don't wanna see again - 15 minute free form essay on the Bunker vs Sam)

"He'll be fine. He always is."

Dean is like... yeah.

The other times he's dropped off the map include, not exhaustively

* being in the middle of an angelic civil war while working with Crowley * being mind-controlled by Naomi and eventually smashing Dean's face in * being possessed by Lucifer

So you can see why Dean's "yeah" is a wee bit unconvinced :P

Sam taps nervously on the table. Why do I always have to reassure Dean when I'm worried about Cas too? Do I even believe anything I'm saying or am I just saying it because that's what you do when Dean's worried about Cas?

Sam goes through all the books on demons. "It turns out we have a lot of books on demons"

Dean, who spent all of season 9, 10 and 11 reading every single book on demons to find info on Knights of Hell, the Mark of Cain, and how to get Lucifer out of your boyfriend, doesn't even look up from cleaning the guns.

Sam's emaaaail. Sadly I have a very low def download so I put in a request for more information which is my new way of saying good morning on new episode day:

elizabethrobertajones MITTENS I MUST READ THE WINCHESTER'S EMAIL I am pretty sure I can read some of it but I have a very very low def download but I'm pretty sure we have like 8 different stories underneath the one from "Mick" :P I can read "Dean: click this link!" (I think) which suggests Dean is perpetually sending Sam screamers or weird shit, Dean again which I think he used the email title line to say "You owe me for the gas I paid for last week"? then 2 Biggerson's emails including a monthly newsletter... are they keeping an eye because so much weird shit happens there, or have they been unwittingly signed up ever since they were the millionth customers and this is the long form version of the luck going bad? A life time of being plagued by it Sam has flagged this email he also flagged one which seems to say "Impala Owner's [something]" which says "I think I might have the part you're looking for" maybe he has to forward that to Dean And then Dean, "this is not a case IMO", Dean, "Professional Eating Contest videos" which I cackled at and Dean, flagged again, "question about that [something] research you were talking about"? I want to know more about everything but especially Biggerson's :P

Anyway insert fake shock about the case from Mick showing up from beyond the grave

[image of the anglerfish backpack]

Dean is having so much fun waving the Colt around and sighting down it and now fake-shooting it... I love how it seems to show him shooting forwards and then we go to Ketch checking HIS email (or... Mick's email) - Dean shooting Ketch? He's having so much fun with the Colt I am starting to feel like the narrative is going to have to sadly pat him on the head and take the gun away from him and let someone else deal with it.

NYOOOOOM *scrreeech* NYOOoooom

Straight to a sheriff with an interest in doing taxidermy at his desk, and Sam and Dean giving him at least 10ft berth, to suggest the proverbial pole has been deployed. Honestly is this commentary on how J2 hate the taxidermy stuff fans sometimes show them? Maybe 9x05 wasn't subtle enough about how it skeeves them out. Dean especially is hanging right the hell back, and I think 9x05 managed to establish it genuinely freaks him out.

Of course if it's a taxidermy goat head and the monster is a mask we're looking right at our guy. And he's got the big spooky eye through his magnifying glass... This episode is kind of dark and dusty and I love how it looks already. Somehow it just seems grimy from the like, 4 scenes I've seen.

If it is a guy in a mask, then Plush and Thinman are the episodes with overlap thematically. Promo stuff also suggested it might be a god, which the ritual pattern of disappearances going back a LONG time suggest. The 20 year gap, on the other hand, suggests to me a sort of legacy of being the goatman, and a child has taken up the super creepy mantle.

The makeout spot is called Weathertop so that's a Lord of the Rings reference, and an oblique sideways reference to Stranger Things, where the kids called the forest Mirkwood. Got a bearded sheriff dude in I think similar colours, although obviously he's super creepy with the taxidermy and so not sympathetic like our sheriff from that show.

Also 9x05 had the Joffrey Rat, which finishes the loop between all these references.

Oh boy, throw in The Chitters with the townsfolk apparently not caring about the disappearances, and having a good rationalisation for why the kid would have run away instead of being snatched. Of course if this guy is the goat man or helping him, then it gets a bit more complicated about why does it, not that it wasn't complicated in 11x19.

The kid was getting beaten by his dad, which is also pretty grim for telling us about bad parenting, which, of course, is a theme of the season just because Mary, and I guess Mary has all that coming for the long belated conversation about what her deal actually DID to their lives, explained in frank terms in the way you HAVE to have it on screen eventually even if you put it off all season in fear of what happens when you tell her the truth about how you were raised/raised yourself.

"Trying to take a kid from its parents, even if they're the worst people in the world... it's not easy."

(The only time we see kid Sam or Dean NOT under John's influence even when they're always alone when we see them, is 9x07 where Dean is purposefully ABANDONED and left to rot by John, and now I name-checked all the season 9 episodes in a row except 9x06 in that block of MotW, if we assume 9x08 has at least a tangential relevance if it IS a god :P)

Goes on to describe how Jarrod had to then spoonfeed his father after he became ill, and basically give HIM the duty of care that his father failed to give HIM, aka a really really blatant example of swapping the child/parent dynamic around, which shows the horrible duty of it all. And if you say this show isn't about the whole parental duty thing getting messed up and given to the wrong people, I'd say you never met Dean. :P In this case, Mary has basically been accused of running off and leaving her kids to look after themselves, or look after her messes in the case of the 12x12 hunt which became the focus of the argument ("Cas nearly died"!!) - basically in a way Mary parallels to Jarrod although of course Sam and Dean aren't exactly abusing her, just that they're the family she escaped, because there was a burden there she didn't want to deal with, and Dean saying he wanted her to be their Mom... Obviously I am analysing this sort of on the level of what I think the narrative has constructed about how they irrationally FEEL about it, not what I actually think the dynamic is or who deserves this sort of condemnation... Of course the parallel of the beaten kid and the father suddenly swapping around to be the burden on them works with Sam and Dean's entire childhood, and now the problem of how they relate to Mary, that she's now someone else for them to WORRY about and not fulfilling the "Mom" sort of role they might have expected.

Anyway final comedic beat to end it on like the sheriff has been happily making the taxidermied weasel thingy without really concerning himself too deeply on this problem. Sam and Dean kind of recoil, Dean somehow standing even further away than he was before while still standing in the same place.

Blah blah Dean and drugs subtext, probably talked over after this promo scene came out - "medicinal purposes" - also showing they're the cool feds who turn a blind eye, you know, if you give us the info we want.

But also of course, if Sam "oregano" Winchester did this exact same thing it would be a joke (hey, 11x19 again) while Dean doing it is like, duh of course Dean is chill with the stoner and has a wink wink moment about why you smoke, because he's ALWAYS been chill with the stoner characters for ~some reason~.

The factory he seems to work at has big crossed axe signs, I guess because of the tomahawk thing. It looked more like a hammer that the monster had? If it is a monster?

Dean is distracted in an OTT way by the waitress at the diner. The fact I have written like 15k so far of a not so mysteriously subtle project applying this to Destiel in an AU over the last couple of weeks is just making me laugh. Like, my head is full of Cas coming over with a coffee jug and Dean being like :D Hi! ... and now I have some extra visuals for this all in my head. Dean being a distracted dork by diner staff is my jam.

He likes that they smell like food.

Wondering if 12x12 is going to have more relevance here because of course this IS a trap set up by Ketch and idk how far he's going to let them get with the monster but he is totally around somewhere. Right back to the start of the season where they were being haunted by a motorbike. But anyway they all nearly died in 12x12 and a full 360 degrees around a diner table and a waitress interrupting the attempt to explain the plot is all being repeated in smaller scale here.

Dean does a goat impression

I like that the goat got downgraded from William to Bill. Got a lot of name stuff all of a sudden - the Michael and Mick thing from last episode.

"It's a shortened version of my name."

The waitress is getting way too much attention from not just Dean but the camera. Starting to think

[insert image of the anglerfish backpack]

For the first time in their goddamn lives Dean thinks to bring the Colt on a regular hunt. Like, they owned it at least for a space in season 3 where they were hunting monsters. Though some of these episodes were difficult to apply it to, 3x07 and 3x08 were pretty regular old monsters :P (It's a small window but it's enough to bug me that in the gap between Sin City and Dream a Little Dream, they never once said, hey, it might not be demons but you think the Colt might be handy? Even if we have no idea wtf is going on, we own this thing... Why not at least carry it and refer to the fact we are? OBVIOUSLY for storytelling reasons you don't WANT the kill-anything gun to be ruining the tension, but )

Of course Dean thinking he already knows how to kill the monster and telling Sam to be smart about it ("work smarter, Sammy, not harder") feels to me like it's got into a dangerous trap of thinking it's really simple and he has it all sorted. All they need to do is find it and Dean can kill it. He's waving around his phallic gun symbol, can't wait to shoot it off again, and thinks also he's got a chance with the waitress that the camera's been distractedly following as much as his eyes. Dean's NOT got it all sorted, and there's ALWAYS a catch, right? We're 9 minutes into the episode, he's not gonna hook up with the waitress and shoot the monster, and go home with a spring in his step because that's not how this works, even if it seems stupidly simple when you look at the elements he's got in front of him. Which, I guess, looks like what he thinks this life should be - hunting with his brother, badass gun in his pocket so he's the best in the game, and a pretty waitress who has been eyeing him up too, to seal the deal >.>

Oh jesus I'm with Sam about the coffee thing. "This coffee is hot, kind of like - " *finger gun and wink*

I'm genuinely feeling this from the POV of my fic. Poor Sam, trapped in the diner putting up with Cas and Dean.

Okay I edited in the this coffee pick up line but completely ruined because the terrible coffee AU is for fucking with the characters and also for Cas you have to ruin it to start with because if it all works they hook up and that's the end of the story :P

Poor, poor Sam.

Anyway, looks like not-Jon Snow going in the freezer (FREEZER, SEE? IT WORKS) with the PERISHABLES under the crossed tomahawks is maaaaaybe not gonna last much longer.

*jumpscare with his boss*

I feel like not-Jon Snow is probably not gonna make it

he's walking out into the snow

Oh gee there's a goatman in his mirror

Also AAA

Also they fucking killed him while he was lying on his back in the fucking snow.

Was he a reference or was my brain filling in the gaps after the Martell and Stark thing, the eternal question of how much I just read into it all :P

Anyway Dean's happy... Sam's got the, I'm happy for you but we do have a job to do, look :P

hahahah Dean complains that Sam didn't order pancakes... Welp at this point I am basically just laughing because this is weirdly following the narrative of my story except completely NOT. Like, if/when I post it there's definitely stuff already in it that my brand of plundering canon will make it look like that was also edited in after watching this. Oh well

At least I don't have a fucking terrifying goat man called Bill in it and I'm not adding him if you paid me

Dean stealing Sam's not-pancakes is probably saying something or other, for the endless analysing of what the fuck is going on between the brothers now - Sam's ordered his healthy breakfast and Dean steals it from him and tries it for himself after both their initial impression that Dean's not going to eat it. But he's hungry and rumpled from his wild night with the waitress, so... Egg whites and veggies is better than nothing. He WANTS pancakes but he's settling for this, the Sam-approved food that's supposedly good for him.

Now I'm just comparing food and sex again and wondering if Cas is pancakes in this scenario :P That Dean obviously really likes hot waitresses and Sam knows it too because he knows aaall of Dean's corny pick up lines. He's absolutely not complaining about eating this after considering that there aren't pancakes on offer right now... Though the stealing from Sam side of it worries me. Mostly because Sam has previously expressed feeling left out or that Dean's attention is stolen from him - I watched 8x23 too recently so it's bothering me again that Sam said all that about Dean trusting another vampire or angel. If it comes down to attention, of course the whole picking up the waitress scene was really about Dean's attention, and not listening to Sam, and the camera running after her along with Dean's line of sight, leaving Sam's attempt to work with Dean in the dust for where OUR focus goes too.

And now Dean's stolen his breakfast :P

I mean Sam doesn't seem resentful but I worry. >.> Because 8x23 showed how much that can bubble under the surface. Sam being jealous of Cas is foreshadowed as far as I could tell in season 8 when I did the miniscule picking it apart rewatch, in like, ONE scene in 8x08, but he still bursts out with his fear about Dean trusting another angel over him, like there's already one who's stolen Dean's attention... Sam is such an under the surface guy, who knows what bothers him day to day at the moment, but we're on another Cas is Gone stretch of the show, even if it's so far been 2 episodes and his heavily flagged but unspoken absence in 12x16. And it's Sam's job to reassure Dean that Cas is going to be fine, when he's supposedly both of their family.

Heh, there's a new beer called 3 Sheeps with a neon sign behind Sam.

I have a feeling that my instinct to yell about sheep is actually from my own original novel where a character keeps flagging up her friends' behaviour by just posting a sheep emoji in the group chat, so idk what it means here.

[insert gif of Cas in 9x03 going "what sheep?"]

Separating the sheep from the goats?

Meanwhile, more of 11x19 vibes - Sam telling Dean about how Pan would take people into the woods for an orgy, after Dean calls him adorable because he plays a flute - I tell you what I'm not over, Dean in 3x08 when they were trying to diagnose a pagan god, and this exchange:

SAM: (Reading an article on the laptop) Huh… When you sacrifice to Hold Nickar, guess what he gives you in return. DEAN: Lap dances, hopefully. SAM: Mild weather. DEAN: (Looks out the window) Like no snow in the middle of December in the middle of Michigan.

I pasted that far into the conversation because I'm still not over the fact they had to use that lore to explain why the Christmas episode, filming in the autumn, KIND OF LOOKED LIKE IT HAD BEEN FILMED IN THE AUTUMN, buuut here in the snow, you can do a full on Jon Snow death scene re-enactment with your terrifying goat god. A little bit of balance happening here :P

Uh, anyway. Dean liking the idea of lapdances from Hold Nickar, and orgies with Pan.

Buuut then everyone gets murdered.

Of course the opening scene was kind of like an orgy with all the couples making out - I don't think they'd have had sex especially as it was so cold, but still. They made quite a point of showing what goes on at Weathertop. Also, while we're on the subject - in 12x15, quite recently, Gwen's boyfriend was hoping she'd dragged him out into the woods to have sex.

Sam also manages to gross Dean out with the "full to bursting with their moist slippery meat" and I honestly don't blame him for shoving the food away :P Sam's tried to gross him out before (succeeded with the chicken feet in that first Buckleming episode in season 7). I wonder if, growing up as ghost hunting kids, grossing each other out with real lore and stuff is a sick game they'd play :P

Anyway if I hadn't mentioned enough this episode freaks me the fuck out and it has a great horrifying feeling to it. It actually feels dark and creepy.

Oh my god the useless sheriff owns the place and is running it into the ground. Heir to a meat empire and he just wants to play with taxidermy and being a big sheriff in a small town. Is he a fucking Trump reference :P

Eeew meat processing plant actually on screen. This makes me uncomfortable :P the meat's all hung up like our characters often get tortured and I'm assuming there's some parallels to make just with the concept of a meat processing plant and what the BMoL want to do.

Also if the monster is connected to the plant, that's a great place to work to get a ton of meat if you NEED to eat it, so you can go quiet with the killing for 20 years if health inspectors are after you to improve your old ways into more modern safter ways to do things

/might be a metaphor for hunting too

Sheriff has absolutely no plausible reaction to Black Bill, stammering over a reaction, then dismissing him as a boogeyman, and using the exact same excuse from 11x19 for why all the others left.

Aand sorry for all the references but Jon Snow wakes up drenched in red light, and of course his resurrection in the show was, well... red. :P I have no idea how many spoilers I should be giving away. This is preeeetty old news I think.

Anywho. Sheriff not suspicious at all for his words leading directly to this - yeah he's lying but there's the truth behind them as if he just somehow knows he's alive and sleeping off being attacked

Oh wow he appears to be in the freezer in the meat packing plant, what an unexpected twist.

"PERISHABLE" behind him again

LOL "Billhook meats" well then.

Also all the fake warning signs about a coolant spill and toxic chemicals to keep people from going near the freezer. Do you ignore the warning signs and push on because you could save someone? Sam and Dean walk riiiiight past.

This is basically a lesson what dramatic irony is.

mittensmorgul New: Frodo: take a look at this Dean: Click this link! Dean: You owe me for the gas I paid for last week Biggerson's: New loyalty program member rewards

elizabethrobertajones I KNEW IT

mittensmorgul Biggerson's: Monthly newsletter

elizabethrobertajones they are part of Biggerson's cult

mittensmorgul (the subtitle on that one is "Visit our new location in Duluth Impala Owner's Group: Re: I think I might have the part your looking for (it says "your" I'm transcribing it exactly, not making typos) :P

elizabethrobertajones Okay I am curious about why Sam had that one :P maybe it's their shared account but the rest is all Dean trolling or bothering Sam

mittensmorgul Dean: This is not a case IMO (I can;t read the rest on this line, will come back to it with a different frame) aDean: Professional Eating Contest Video (this competition ends _____) Dean: question about that lore research you were talking about

elizabethrobertajones Gosh I love the details like that that make them feel like real human beings :D

I think Jon Snow is about to realise the meat is people?

Nope it's his poor friend, frozen and mutilated.

Oh boy, Bill does not have human hands.

*ketchups*

well this episode is rapidly becoming a top 10 Do Not Watch While Eating

the burger right after a meat processing plant is also really uncomfortable - Dean says he's hungry in there, and cheerfully goes to eat a burger after missing the giant warning signs that something is Not Okay, and the ketchup splatter is a vivid way to convey the death - and Dean's *eating* it. This episode he's in full on Dean mode, which is never a good sign. He gets like this when he's NOT doing okay, and this turns his attempt to eat a regular old meal really horrifying.

(Ketchup also linked to Cas - "is ketchup a vegetable" - Dean counts it as one and he's definitely getting a good amount of his five a day with this burger, instead of the healthy food he stole from Sam)

"Grow up, Sam. 'Kay, burger's beef, bacon's pigs, soylent green's people, but this - this - this is heaven."

Now I have a Mittens awake, she's pointed out the big BS signs in the diner, which I think sums up everything I was going to say about Dean's mood. :P

He's got 2 burgers here in his speech - the hypothetical one that's beef, and the "But this is heaven" burger which is the right now burger.

Of course, burgers are so associated with Cas, from 5x14, which I feel like it's always inevitable that it's going to get mentioned sooner or later, and 10x09. And they make Cas very happy. And burgers are linked to Dean and his humanity and soul - in season 3 he's eating a bacon cheeseburger for breakfast because why not. In season 8 and 9 they're linked to his descent, so that Crowley mentions it was the fact he didn't eat one that tipped him off that Dean was really truly lost when it came to his humanity.

Not sure entirely what it means here, but I think Dean trying to signal normal and healthy and fine is a good start, that this is the Default Dean - waitresses and burgers and all

"Maybe they just run an evil petting zoo on the side" I mean they've met weirder

If the Bishops owned all the town, then no wonder everyone who got killed worked there.

I mean I suppose there would always be some services like shops and post offices etc to support a town but... yeah.

I guess even a town built for everyone to work in one place doesn't mean the ENTIRE populace works there. Shh Lizzy.

Gosh looks like Ketch is invading the Bunker already, for info gathering. This is not at all like 10x22, and

ELDON So this is what I know about Dean Winchester. He's got crappy taste in music, got a hot mom, and he loves flannel.

Basically what Ketch might think already :P

Oh my god "How does Sam get his hair so shiny" you can't lampshade this. You CAN'T FORESHADOW THIS WITH THE FANCY SHAMPOO LINE

when I heard Andrew Dabb was gonna take over the show, I think a line exactly like this is preeetty much what I was expecting at some point or another - weirdly foreshadowed, fan-servicey, and repeating another Dabb episode but flipped upside down :P

He also mentions the "ratty flannels", which, rude.

Creeeeeepy house *pulls blanket over my head*

"We just got lucky"

Creeeeepy basement in the creeeepy house. You only put that many locks when you really don't want something to get out

Did Dean shoot the Colt when the light blew? Nah, he just jumped and raised it.

Why is the Sheriff coming to his creepy empty house right now

*weary sigh* "Why's it always the rich ones? I mean, what are they like, 'Croquet's alright, but cha know what would be great? Murder!'"

I officially love this interpretation of Dean Winchester so much

Possibly because I spent ages trying to edit out him saying "I mean, [x] is like," of everything I write all the time and keep forgetting that there's always the possibility I picked up the verbal tic from him :P

Sheriff keeping his keys for his murder dungeon in a hollowed out book. Being the one to do the walk down the stairs with his gun out, but being caught out by Dean, who has the Colt on him.

"It's not what it looks like" "Really? Because it looks like a straight up murder room to me"

*rescinds previous love of Dean so I can apply it again*

Maybe the sheriff is just being blackmailed by the goat

"my family has a secret" "well, the best ones do"

It's a monster in the basement that made them rich, as long as they fed it human bood. Well that sounds like a creepy fairy deal to me, at least with the making them rich thing.

Goat dude is just a dude. I like that they invent another monster to do it.

Also he had the taxidermy skills to maintain the mask - knew it

ooops and then he tried to put a stop to the dark family of the history, and loses all his money bit by bit and the town dies, and now people are getting killed again

"I just wanted to help people, to make up for all the bad we've done" well that's an extremely Winchester thing to say, at least when they're feeling guilty and motivated to repair things from their dark legacy, rather than just hunting to do it to save people because that's their job and they're good at it. Sam especially is motivated by this, but Mary, of course, with her deal, started the guilt on the family (though of course the whole being manipulated by angels and demons to start the apolcalypse since literally forever may have a bit more to do with it :P)

And he wanted to leave a legacy

Wow, he kept the god locked up hoping he'd starve to death - not sure that's how it works

I hate this with Sam leaning over to look in the hole. Dean with the Colt is nowhere near close enough.

Dean "I kill gods" Winchester goes to investigate

I ALSO HATE THIS WITH DEAN EXPLORING

OH NO EYEHOLES IN THE MASK SHOT

AHHHHHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

NOPE

Well it's an empty suit, and an empty bed beside it.

Is it in the mirror -

no there's a guy behind him

AAAH

Dean gets punted through a dust sheet and down the stairs

Going through a dust sheet is never a good idea.

Is he dead, like, dead dead?

Sam gets locked in the murder basement while the bad guys all gain the upper hand.

I'm legit terrified :P

I mean they honest to god got the drop on the Winchesters in a way that didn't make them look stupid, but the bad guys look powerful and scary

Wait, is Sam locked in it? This is happening too fast. Where's he thumping from? *rewinds again*

OH the guy in the suit rushed down the stairs and locked Sam in WITH the sheriff

who... is helping him

huh

okay, so they are apparently working together.

I am so not sure I trust this

ooh Bunker montage. Light hearted music.

I am pretty worried the Bunker's days are numbered - I say that this time almost every year, because it becomes the centre of attention and this exact same thing in 10x22 made me convinced it was all going to get torn down.

But in this case, Ketch lampshades as well that you can't see a damn thing out of the telescope, which has been one of the big mysteries of the set since it was first introduced, so I feel like they're pretty much done with it now :P All the mystery is gone. Their home has been invaded again and again and is it even safe to set up shop here?

Honestly this might be an anti-Buckleming measure if they're getting rid of the Bunker, just because it would force Sam and Dean to be a bit less reliant on a home base and the googling in 12x08 was so bad I would consider burning everything down in order to force their episodes to be more dynamic >.>

I will miss Dean having his own room

Ketch invades Dean's room, in a long line of people invading that room...

He finds the porn, and very carefully separated from it, the photos of Mary. I'm pretty sure Dean's bedside table is filled with candy. Ketch looks at the photo of Mary, looking exactly as she does now (as she's, like, a few months older with a different haircut) holding toddler Dean, and has the most priceless face I've ever seen. I mean, he's kinda fond of Mary, maybe? Maybe that's a weird moment of softness? But I'm also pretty sure that's "wtf he's a TODDLER and she looks the SAME is she the person that dermatologists hate??"

Meanwhile Dean isn't looking so good

is he wrapped with saran wrap

Well I think they've finally found a way to tie up a Winchester and also keep him fresh in the fridge for months

"You got a lot of jokes" "right now that's about all I got"

I had to go for a walk which meant leaving Dean in clingfilm. He's right as I left him, deeply unimpressed :D This stuff is good.

"I'm a Bishop. That's what we do, right? Hunting people, killing them! The family business!"

So that's so many families over the years, from the Benders in season 1, to the Steins in season 10 who are being mirrored by the BMoL who see themselves as a messed up family, and then the Winchesters when they've strayed, have also done the family name a disservice. A dark mirror to their entire family, with these half-brothers, same father, different mother. I guess Sam and Dean both have a wildly different idea of who Mary is, going back to 1x01 which showed how Sam has a hypothetical idea of her and Dean has a sacred memory, which makes them speak of her very differently. Or, you could say, Sam was raised by Dean as his mother figure instead, and Dean did a very different job than his own void in the shape of the memory of Mary, represented by those photos Ketch was enraptured by...

Also this guy wants to save the town by some sacrificing but for the greater good. Right up to sacrificing his own brother.

Dean's left in cling film in the fridge.

Lol

Hehehe Ketch saying "Bugger"

"I could use a pint!"

Ahaaha Dean in a wheelie chair

oh he got out the cling film.

Now he's banging on the door that they ignored earlier.

We just saw a "danger sharp blades" sign so I'm now hoping that comes back into play :P

This is still scary because right near the end we don't know what the actual monster looks like, in so many words.

Dean gets himself a large hook. Nice.

Owie, Sam got hit in the head with a large mallet

Oh dear, brothers confronting each other while Sam is out of action and Dean hunts the monster/is hunted by it in the next room

Brother feeling under appreciated when asked to stop, blurts out that all he gets in his life is the crap - the second hand, failing, run-down stuff. "Not any more, I'm saving this town!" he shouts, waving the Colt at his brother. "I'm the hero!"

shheeeeeesh

On the sheriff's badge the tomahawks are crossed, raised. On the meat packing plant logos, they seem to be hanging down if I remember right?

Sam gets in a second Colt kill of the year

Dean is looking seriously beat up and defeated, and got basically no easy kill that he wanted.

The sheriff sits gloomily by his dead (evil) brother, and says this is his legacy. He chose to end the family legacy of evil, and wasn't tempted by it, despite being super creepy and weird I guess those are just personality traits because this was a very dark mirror where a brother dies, at the hand of another (right after the Michael thing last episode where Mick had to kill his best friend and of course we have Ketch cheerfully wandering around clearly also a graduate of the exact same fight...) - anyway even though Sam killed the God and ended the ~cosmic~ suffering on the town, the Sheriff had to kill his brother to end the direct threat that it would be used and people would die directly for it. I mean leaving the god and hoping it starves is a bad idea because that's essentially what God did with Amara.

Thing is, with Mick dead but Ketch still giving them orders like he is alive, the Winchesters are working in a place where working with the BMoL has already blown up in their face and they have no idea yet that this decision hasn't worked for them; at the moment they've just lost their privacy to them but they're in a LOT of danger and clueless to it, though, as I said, Dean was cleaning the under-the-table guns as if half-prepared for the worst.

Awww home sweet home

BMoL listening in: "next time you hear me say that our family is messed up, remind me that we could be psycho goat people"

... "I have no idea what just happened to them but their lives sound interesting"

Dean that mini fridge is cursed. That mini fridge is why your home is bugged and your safety compromised.

I hope those cold beers are worth it, Sam

"What do you think our legacy is going to be?" Oh don't ask the heavy questions before you've even had a drink :P

Sam has completely obliterated the Winchester Gospels from his memory. Smart. He doesn't think they'd be written about in the history books and frankly he doesn't even want to deal with the fact 5 years of their lives are pulpy horror novels

"That's fine, because we left the world better than we found it"

Ketch listening in "I'm gonna go kill these emo fuckers right now before I shoot myself"

Oh my god this is why they get shot by the MoL this blatant fucking disrespect of their property

I mean, sure, brothers nostalgia but seriously this whole thing started because Sam was installing mini fridges willy nilly, and now they've ruined an antique table

Like, the BMoL's Code probably has a whole section on what to do about asshole hunters who ruin their property.

If you can't tell I find it kind of adorable that Dean decided to do that although the Swan Song flashbacks were a little on the nose and I'd have liked if they could trust us to remember that for ourselves, especially since it still doesn't explain that those flashbacks were FROM Swan Song if you're a super casual viewer it's still just them as kids reminding you they did that to the car as well once.

this whole conversation has a pretty nostalgic feel that the show is going to come to the end of its run sooner rather than later, which, when you're in season 12, you really have to start thinking about and writing towards, which I guess is why SO much has been tied off neatly with a bow this season.

Does make me vaguely worried about the Sam and Dean kamikaze ending but there's always room for one of them coming home without the other and looking at those names on the table or something. it moves it from the car to their home, which means they can now use that instead of the car for a nostalgic kick in the face at the end of all things to show us they're moving on and call this place home.

Ew, Ketch is just like, Mick got on a plane and left.

I hope Toni wasn't actually murdered, and there's like the Hot Fuzz bit where Sam or Dean or Mary drop into the dungeon of the castle and there's literally everyone who pissed off the neighbourhood watch for years in a big heap of corpses and skellingtons with a great big bushy beard. But the equivalent for Mick's stubble and chest hair

Ketch is like "I'd rather be with your mother" - I think they are trying to show he's caught nostalgia

And mentions a chupacabra which I'd been wondering about when all we knew about this episode was goats but quickly became apparent before we got to the episode that it wasn't gonna be so I'm awarding myself half a point for that anyway. They have goats on the brain.

Or chupacabra is a goat-sucker, or something that prays on goats. Sam killed the goat god, but Ketch has orders to kill them.

holy shit he stole the Mary picture. That pic has been used for SO FRIGGIN MUCH over the years it's like a literal hostage situation right now over a PHOTO.

Dean slagging off Ketch's bike in the background despite the fact he loved it when he first saw it. He’s like fuck you and the bike you rode in on

without knowing it

beautiful :’)

I think Dean slagging off the bike is probably another tick in the box where I think he and Ketch are going to be the ones to fight it out in the end.

#12x18 #season 12 spoilers #my stuff #look at this effin table

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All my friends weren’t allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn’t really know anything different. That’s how I was raised. – Katy Perry • Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a ‘bus movie.’ – Sandra Bullock • Everything I learned I learned from the movies. – Audrey Hepburn • Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments. – Jason Reitman • For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying. – Salma Hayek • For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don’t do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck. – Penelope Spheeris • Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. – Al Pacino • Give me B movies or give me death! – Clive Barker • Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. – Pauline Kael • great villains make great movies. – Staton Rabin • Hollywood’s old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies. – Gloria Swanson • ‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi. – Jerry Orbach • I always feel like I can’t do it, that I can’t go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. – Meryl Streep • I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. – Michael Caine • I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I’m not going to direct a movie. – Julia Roberts • I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff. – Anthony Hopkins • I don’t know what your childhood was like, but we didn’t have much money. We’d go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book. – Robert Redford • I don’t think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here. – Mel Smith • I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie. – Jean-Luc Godard • I don’t want to make movies for kids, and I don’t want to make movies for adults either. – Kristen Stewart • I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it’s hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don’t get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I’m sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine. – Vilmos Zsigmond • I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play – not a movie. – Kim Cattrall • I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera. – Steven Spielberg • I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in. – Morgan Freeman • I haven’t sold to the movies. In other words, I haven’t gotten any enormous checks yet. – Jack Vance • I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me. – Gary Oldman • I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. – Quentin Tarantino • I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you’re creating something. – George Hickenlooper • I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them – the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. – Sharon Stone • I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. – Sharon Stone • I make movies I want to see. – Neil LaBute • I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the ’70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don’t want to sing in front of anybody. – Liam Neeson • I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see. – Daniel Handler • I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies. – Julia Roberts • I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie. – Keanu Reeves • I was never a fanatical movie person. – John Malkovich • I wasn’t trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. – Quentin Tarantino • I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. – Neil LaBute • I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels. – Mithun Chakraborty • If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. – Jack Valenti • If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it’s because they have something, something special. – Roberto Cavalli • If you don’t like my movies, don’t watch them. – Dario Argento • If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don’t go back to the past. It’s only a ghost; it’s unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness. – Nhat Hanh • If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. – Michael Caine • I’m doing ‘Les Miserables,’ the movie. I’ve done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I’ve been like, ‘Come on, let’s do a movie/musical.’ – Hugh Jackman • I’m interested in doing movies I wouldn’t normally be interested in doing. – Eric Stoltz • I’m mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here – Kishore Kumar • I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. – Will Rogers • I’m not saying I’m a writer, but I’ve been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie. – Benicio Del Toro • I’m not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind. – Gene Siskel • I’m terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. – Oliver Stone • In every movie I do have a dialogue. – Jackie Chan • In the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things–love, fashion shows, and revolution. – Jeanine Basinger • It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made. – Dan Quisenberry • It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that – like that first book of Dante’s Comedy – they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us – we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time. – Barbara Deming • It’s just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics – characters and great writing. – Clive Owen • It’s something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others. – Blair Underwood • I’ve always found that when you’re trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas’s house or something, and it will have that motor sound. – Ben Burtt • I’ve always wanted to do a family movie. – Adam Sandler • I’ve always wanted two lives – one for the movies, one for myself. – Greta Garbo • I’ve got to see my movie to see how I’m acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft. – LL Cool J • I’ve had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration – in a dress. – Philip Seymour Hoffman • I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry. – Jackie Chan • Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars. – Dorothea Tanning • License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies. – Benicio Del Toro • Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. – Steve Sabol • Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn’t a hit, you shouldn’t view it as a mistake. – Ang Lee • Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you. – Michael Caine • Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working. I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good. – Akira Kurosawa • Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover. – Gene Tierney • Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down – there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. – Dan Simmons • Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. – Yahoo Serious • Movies are the art form most like man’s imagination. – Francis Ford Coppola • Movies are very subjective. – Jeff Bridges • Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due … and we wonder why we’re a debtor nation! – Molly Haskell • Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. – Walt Disney • movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion. – Jennifer Stone • Movies have now reached the same stage as sex – it’s all technique and no feeling. – Penelope Gilliatt • Movies make you immortal and ageless. – Kristin Scott Thomas • Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life. – Chris Rock • My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic. – Christina Ricci • My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one. – Lynda Obst • My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. – Burt Reynolds • Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie? – Sophia Bush • No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark. – Frank Capra • oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won’t know the difference and if somebody does it’ll be sheer gravy – Frank O’Hara • On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing. – Michael Stipe • One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria. – Delia Ephron • One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the ‘fantasy woman’ is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don’t think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently. – Jane Campion • People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired. – Daphne Zuniga • People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it’s interesting. It’s like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. – Amanda Bynes • People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape. – Neil LaBute • Quite often – a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. – John Malkovich • Really, it’s the director’s job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. – Jason Reitman • Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell the truth. I felt more at ease being bold with some than I did with others. I was incredibly fortunate to have worked with Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor. We share enough taste in music and art to have had a real camaraderie, and luckily that evolved into a deep friendship. – Gale Harold • So yes, I hope to act in other people’s movies, big and small, because that’s how I make my living, really. – Stanley Tucci • So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what’s going on inside my mind.

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The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for: Sit down, Shut up and Meditate (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech) – Marcelo Goianira • Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen. – Salma Hayek • Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie. – Jackie Chan • Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore. – Dennis Quaid • South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, ‘kiss-kiss’ and ‘bang-bang. – Hortense Powdermaker • Stars don’t make movies. Movies make stars. – Darryl F. Zanuck • The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. – Twyla Tharp • The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses. – Bruce Sterling • The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’ – Michael Caine • The fact is, when I wrote ‘Juno’ – and I think this is part of its charm and appeal – I didn’t know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made! – Diablo Cody • The great thing about the movies … is-you’re giving people little … tiny pieces of time … that they never forget. – James Stewart • The interesting thing about a movie is the movie. – Christian Bale • The movie business is a big gamble. – Jackie Chan • The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people. – Irving Thalberg • The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. ‘Larry Crowne’ creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message. – Julia Roberts • The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure. – Marshall McLuhan • The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. – Will Rogers • The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one. – Elvis Presley • The reason I took Early Edition – besides the fact that I liked it – was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It’s a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. – Fisher Stevens • The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part – Paul Hirsch • The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions. – Mason Cooley • The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man. – Leigh Steinberg • The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment. – Alex Winter • The truth is that everyone pays attention to who’s number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. – Tom Hanks • There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s. – Al Pacino • There’s an electrical thing about movies. – Oliver Stone • These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school. – Barry Sonnenfeld • To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it’s for them. – Michel Hazanavicius • To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence. – Quentin Tarantino • Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will. – Steven Soderbergh • We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. – Walt Disney • We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who’s watching my movie. – Donald Glover �� What I’ve learned is that life is too short and movies are too long. – Denis Leary • When I do a political movie, I do a political movie. – Antonio Banderas • When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. – S. E. Hinton • When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn’t really matter to me. I don’t go to the wrap party. I don’t go to the premiere. – Henry Rollins • Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed. – Steven Spielberg • White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I’ve never heard a black person say, ‘We’re going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here – have a nice day!’ – Michael Moore • with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business? – Lynda Obst • Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. – Clive Barker • You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else’s movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us. – David Niven • You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He’s great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn’t last long. – Chuck Liddell • You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends. – Marco Rubio • You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for: Sit down, Shut up and Meditate (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech) – Marcelo Goianira • Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen. – Salma Hayek • Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie. – Jackie Chan • Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore. – Dennis Quaid • South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, ‘kiss-kiss’ and ‘bang-bang. – Hortense Powdermaker • Stars don’t make movies. Movies make stars. – Darryl F. Zanuck • The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. – Twyla Tharp • The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses. – Bruce Sterling • The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’ – Michael Caine • The fact is, when I wrote ‘Juno’ – and I think this is part of its charm and appeal – I didn’t know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made! – Diablo Cody • The great thing about the movies … is-you’re giving people little … tiny pieces of time … that they never forget. – James Stewart • The interesting thing about a movie is the movie. – Christian Bale • The movie business is a big gamble. – Jackie Chan • The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people. – Irving Thalberg • The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. ‘Larry Crowne’ creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message. – Julia Roberts • The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure. – Marshall McLuhan • The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. – Will Rogers • The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one. – Elvis Presley • The reason I took Early Edition – besides the fact that I liked it – was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It’s a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. – Fisher Stevens • The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part – Paul Hirsch • The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions. – Mason Cooley • The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man. – Leigh Steinberg • The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment. – Alex Winter • The truth is that everyone pays attention to who’s number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. – Tom Hanks • There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s. – Al Pacino • There’s an electrical thing about movies. – Oliver Stone • These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school. – Barry Sonnenfeld • To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it’s for them. – Michel Hazanavicius • To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence. – Quentin Tarantino • Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will. – Steven Soderbergh • We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. – Walt Disney • We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who’s watching my movie. – Donald Glover • What I’ve learned is that life is too short and movies are too long. – Denis Leary • When I do a political movie, I do a political movie. – Antonio Banderas • When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. – S. E. Hinton • When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn’t really matter to me. I don’t go to the wrap party. I don’t go to the premiere. – Henry Rollins • Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed. – Steven Spielberg • White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I’ve never heard a black person say, ‘We’re going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here – have a nice day!’ – Michael Moore • with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business? – Lynda Obst • Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. – Clive Barker • You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else’s movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us. – David Niven • You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He’s great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn’t last long. – Chuck Liddell • You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends. – Marco Rubio • You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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