#SPN 2x01

[spn20rewatch]

Season Two, Episode 1: In My Time of Dying (November 13th)

Welcome to season two!

In the aftermath of the car crash, Dean is fatally wounded and the Winchesters are taken to a hospital. Dean is stalked by a reaper and John makes a deal with the Yellow-Eyed Demon to save him. -Super-wiki

Originally aired on: September 28th, 2006

Written by Eric Kripke, directed by Kim Manners.

Fun fact: Kripke gave himself a shout-out in this episode. See if you can hear it!

Enjoy (or cry over) the episode and tag any reactions with #spn20rewatch!

[2sw]

[sirlancenotalot]

[angelsdean]

John: I can’t watch my children die too. I won’t.

Also John, a few eps later: Hey Dean, you uh, might have to kill Sammy. EYE can’t do it and won’t be around to see it but, yeah. Sorry. Bye.

[boykingscourt]

his moles are so special to me. they are like my best friends

[pagannatural]

2.01

In My Time of Dying

-Dean looks like he’s witnessing a miracle when he first sees at Sam at the hospital.

-Sam can hear and/or sense Dean at least three times while Dean’s unconscious. He’s the only one. He can’t do this with anyone else at any point. Further evidence their connection is metaphysical.

-Dean references Ghost, a movie about a woman and the ghost of her lover. 👀

-Sam is appalled that John can think of anything but Dean when Dean might die, but Sam was ready to blow right past the possibility of saving John in order to get revenge last episode. One thing about Sam is that he really loves Dean more than anyone else and he won’t say it, but it comes out at times like these. I think Sam would feel pathetic if he actually said it.

-Sam is unwilling to entertain the idea of Dean dying. He sees the car and says that when he gets better he’s gonna want to fix it, and Sam knows his brother because he’s absolutely right.

He won’t let Bobby scrap Dean’s car, which is a metaphor for Dean’s life. Sam is ready to accept whatever condition Dean wakes up in. It’s also cute that Sam sees the impala as Dean’s, not John’s. It makes me wonder how many drives Dean took Sam on when they were younger, if Dean often snuck him away for little hang-outs like the fireworks. If they started lying on the hood looking at the stars when they were teenagers.

-That moment Sam says “felt like Dean” is this moment in the hallway outside of Dean’s hospital room

so what Sam is feeling as Dean is this reassuring, caretaking, determined presence promising not to leave him and promising to fight.

-The spirit board scene is one of my favorite scenes ever. What is it about this scene? There’s this sweet innocence to it, and the fact that they’re reaching across a veil to communicate because they just can’t let go of each other. It makes their relationship look really intimate and separate from everyone else. Sam saying “don’t make fun of me,” Dean grumbling that he feels like he’s at a slumber party, Dean sitting across from Sam and watching him. That moment when Dean touches the planchette, Sam is so happy to actually feel him, and Dean is in awe that he can. They need this contact.

Sam goes “it hasn’t been the same without you, Dean” and then the planchette moves and he says “Dean, what?” and then “Dean is it after you?” Sam really likes saying Dean’s name. He says it all the time. People like saying their crush’s names.

-Sam sits on Dean’s bed, his knee against Dean’s leg, and looks at Dean’s face. Ghost-Dean stands next to Sam, looking at Sam’s face. There’s something really intimate about them gazing at each other like this, with Sam not knowing Dean is looking at him too. They wouldn’t be talking so intimately if Dean were lying there looking back at Sam. Kind of like when you’re talking to someone before bed with the lights out and it feels easier to say what you mean.

-“We were just starting to be brothers again.” If this is them just getting started at being brothers again I would kill to see what they were like at their worst closest.

There’s so much in the word “brother” for them. It comes up over and over. I don’t think they ever do this with any other relationship word- neither ever tries to explain their love for John by saying “he’s my dad” with tears in their eyes. It’s like a sacred title. There’s no way they can express what they are to each other, so they use this word that’s only ever applied to each other and that carries their whole history.

The point their relationship has reached now is that Sam trusts Dean completely, Dean needs Sam, and they’re each others’ top priorities. Were they like that right up until Stanford or did something happen before then?

John wrote in his journal about them not getting along as well as they used to when Sam gets into his teens, and speculates that it’s from living in Dean’s shadow. But John was also aware that his boys had their own world that he didn’t have access to, and even very attentive parents often miss quite a bit of what’s going on with their teenage kids.

What we see in teen-era flashbacks is a Sam who resents Dean for being “cool,” a Dean being protective of Sam but also respectful. We see a girl who’s dating Dean only because she thinks maybe he’s not as much of a tool as he seems based on how sweet he is to his little brother. We have Dean and Sam burning down a field when they sneak away to light fireworks, Sam wrapping his arms around Dean’s waist in delight. And we have Sam only wanting to talk to Dean about a case over the phone-not John- and asking for Dean’s advice. They were still close. We know Sam ran away from home once and Dean was out of his mind worried before finding him.

And based on “Providence” Sam and Dean both know Sam feels some type of way about Dean, which would’ve happened pre-Stanford.

And then Sam didn’t tell Dean about Stanford and they didn’t talk for years and Dean thinks Sam must hate him and Dean hates himself but Sam looks at him like a puppy in love. And now “we were just starting to be brothers again.” I wonder what happened for them to both know why Sam isn’t interested in dating when he’s with Dean, and if it had to do with this.

-Sam asks “can you hear me” to an empty room- Ghost Dean isn’t there. It shows how alone Sam feels without Dean.

-Dean objects to dying because he thinks Sam will die without him. This would be an insane thing to think in any other circumstances but I can see why he would think that (see: the babysitting years, the fire at Stanford, etc).

-Sam loves Dean so ferociously. He fights hard for him. He’s protective of Dean to John the whole episode, and it makes me think he’s always been mad at John not just for himself but for Dean too.

-John tells Dean he will have to either save Sam or kill him. Dean’s contract with John previously was always to save and care for Sam. Now saving him has a different and more religious meaning.

-So John thanks Dean for taking care of both him and Sammy, tells him he may have to kill Sam, and then dies. Iconic.

[uh-ohspaghettio]

They should’ve kept Dean’s forehead scar from season 2 for the whole show

[kirathehyrulian]

Poor Bobby.

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I've been craving the chaos that is spncarfuckersweek. So I decided to give in and make some edits to tide me over till next year's event.

[jamevaa]

Using the tray-table thingie at the end? Probably a chair in a corner? Nah, gonna almost sit on my fatally wounded big bro and lean in close.

Oh, Sammy. <3

[thefirstradiant]

Suptober Day 14: Fave Episode

mmm something something I live for the angst something something the time when Sam and Dean speak most candidly to each other in early seasons is In My Time of Dying when the other CANT HEAR. What if they couldn’t save Dean?

[SORRY that I didn’t know how to format this. If ur on desktop it’s probably chill or I would suggest turn phone to landscape. You can read the sides separately or in tandem. Title from In My Time of Dying obviously]

[wincasvy]

Happy Birthday Dean Winchester!

[mishaesque]

Scenic Supernatural 2.01 In My Time of Dying

[2sw]

Supernatural S2E01 In My Time of Dying

[sirlancenotalot]

an unnecessary woman - rabih alameddine /spn 5x16 - dark side of the moon + spn 1x18 + something wicked • how to wear your mother's lipstick - warsan shire / spn 12x22 - who we are • luvbug - icarus / spn 4x03 - in the beginning + spn 1x01 - pilot + spn 2x21 - all hell breaks loose (part 1) + spn 3x16 - no rest for the wicked • mother wound healing: why it's crucial for women / spn 14x18 - absence + spn 15x20 - carry on • susan smith - wych elm / spn 4x21 - when the levee breaks / spn 12x02 - mamma mia • motion sickness - phoebe bridgers / spn 12x22 - who we are • spn 12x14 - the raid / elektra - sophocles • spn 1x09 - home + spn 2x01 - in my time of dying / mamma told me - mother mother

[angelsdean]

hate how they retcon repear lore in the later seasons. tessa doesn't even look like tessa, she just takes on that form to get dean to trust her. but what she actually looks like, what she calls her "true form" is the scary floaty thing dean sees hovering above him when he's flatlining. and that form looks a lot more similar to the repear we see in 1x12. reapers are freaky! but they can glamour themselves to look like anyone. and it's not a vessel like angels, it's more an illusion. or like a shifter / siren. the reapers are not occupying someone else's body they're just altering their appearance to look more human.

anyways society IF they kept playing with reaper lore instead of demoting them to some class of angel.

[boykingscourt]

walking into the ocean