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elizabethrobertajones · 7 years ago

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13x09 watching notes

This was my watching set up today:

http://bocken.gavle.se/kamera/

Mittens, like 2 days ago: "so are you going to finish your wayward sisters rewatch by next episode?" Me: "hahaahahahaha no... I have all Christmas and into January before the Big Day, right?" me, internally: "right?????? Oh god please think this is intentional and I've got a timeline for it" Mittens: "yeah :)" Me: "cool :)"

Expectations: Avengers Assemble!!

(Or at least the equivalent of the first half hour of it which puts them all together :P)

I want to love Kaia and in the 0.5 seconds I've seen of her smashing Jack in the face I absolutely do and I understand being protective of the nougat child but seriously look at it from her POV so how was that even wank I saw yesterday. But I also want a lot more Kaia so that I can love her for other reasons, because "punched the nougat child" is understandably unsustainable.

Don't particularly need her to be introduced with the exact same shot Alex AND Claire were introduced with especially as I watched 9x19 second to last and will watch 10x09 but I have a worry since Jack was busting her out of somewhere and it would make Cas to Claire parallels for Jack's sake to be Cas :P

This is Berens though and he loves him some Wayward Sisters, and there doesn't seem to be much reason to worry about anything. They'll give us a midseason cliffhanger but THOSE are cool, and they'll set it up for the girls to deal with so that's VERY VERY cool, so my one and only concern and not in a paranoid character stanning way but an "oh no" is worrying Jack will fuck up and take it even MORE badly and go from trying to help to full on unstable descent as he starts to think he can't be saved from being evil... but no biggie :P Because of the nature of the entire enterprise it's pretty hard to be concerned about what happens to Sam and Dean just because the story is briefly leaning away from being ABOUT them. And more like happening TO them, that they end up needing to be rescued. So I have like... no worst case scenario for them that would upset me.

So I hope, as a real consideration, as the 2 rando gruff old hunters the girls meet, they don't come across too poorly because wowza doing the WS watch has made me realise how often when a leading lady is the star of the episode, Sam and Dean are used for casual misogyny to empower their arcs, and OBVIOUSLY that's how it just IS for women and all but when you're rooting for these guys in all the OTHER episodes, being reminded that even when they're normally mostly chill guys as soon as you flip it around and write a woman in their world obviously they're gonna fuck up and it would be unrealistic for them NOT to considering how ingrained it is in the way men are raised in society and blah blah blah this rewatch is taking me Too Deep but they got to stop telling the woman to stay behind and they can handle it because they might think "because we're the professionals" but I got to tell them how it looks from another perspective sometimes, and I feel exhausted on Jody's behalf all of a sudden :P

Anyway based on Jack running around grabbing Kaia and trying to do something heroic for Sam and Dean he's very much playing the toxic masculinity tropes and they may be more passive and the object of HIS quest in a narrative level, on the back foot with Jack and the chaos he'll cause on the level of the action.

It's baby's first narrative villification :') They fly the nest so soon.

*downs the rest of my coffee* Let's do this!

Recap: PATIENCE!!!

Also Jack

"You can use him as some sort of inter dimensional can opener and it ends bad" who ever woulda thought

More Patience! She's way more important.

And Jody's comment about it being her choice. I saw some criticism of Jody for being part of not respecting Patience here by telling her what to do like they all just offer her conflicting advice and she's undermining her father or veiled criticism of her for not going along with Dean or whatever, but it was supposed to be the same tone of her offering Alex help - which Berens wrote so he'd KNOW - that if the men deciding for her have decided wrong, and she NEEDS help or to use her powers to save people, Jody will be there, and it was NOT an order or a "if you change your mind, there's me" it was reaching out in case of the inevitable turmoil and I guess a suspicion it wouldn't leave Patience alone just because she wanted the powers to. That she had one foot in the life whether she likes it or not and if no one else will be there for her - and in respects to this Patience has been failed by her father AND Missouri - then Jody will help before someone else has to scrape up the pieces.

Anyway more montage of the car driving around, like, hey look these guys do this... reminding us what show we've come FROM.

Re-write history a little bit that the dialogue in 13x02 that Sam turned into being about Mary was not, when Dean was talking, about Mary 100%, since he's weighed like at least 70/30 to Cas over Mary, while Sam was just bringing up Mary first all the time... Interesting how these things get reshuffled for recapping - it's probably because on the nose Buckleming dialogue and Sam and Dean talking about Jack while he's in shot with them. It’s actually been SO much about Cas for Dean I wonder if they had to fish around for a neutral scene to turn into Mary angst.

Also moving Jack's dialogue about feeling bad in 13x04 that he didn't feel anything, to after 13x06 when he ran away - now you could argue soulless!Sam was motivated to keep doing broadly the right thing with hunting etc because he thought it was what was right even when he didn't have a soul to guide him, but Jack literally is being powered by an attack of conscience and fear that he's NOT good which has him all spun out and emotional and so on. So whatever he's struggling with I still see it as at WORST 50% lack of empathy because of being HALF human and half angel - and angels can care, they just aren't wired for it to be very sustainable or for them to be good at coping with it. Too much in the establishing Jack stuff has been about how he feels for him NOT to feel anything whether it's pertinent or not in this exact scenario.

OH GOSH I thought that was Kaia making out with a lady in the immediate open of the episode just because this guy has the same length hair and we were still fading in

my hopes are high but I'm not sure they were THAT high :P

"Speak of the devil" "Hello!"

Yeah see above narrative villification. There's SOME dramatic irony that Jack is still adorable and not badly intentioned like Lucifer, or that we wouldn't expect him to be right now, but it's still now comparing him in a dark way to Lucifer.

Also kinda low key reassuring that Lucifer is still on a narrative level a bad guy at least for now and especially in relation to Jack and in the contrast to Cas as a positive influence on him. For Jack, though, we've gone full circle from Jack saying "father" and us expecting it to be Lucifer but it's not, to this guy joking the devil is on the other side of the door and instead we get Jack... And unfortunately this has to be the ill-fated Derek mentioned in one of the later promo clips...

"You're... young!"

"I am!"

I have to say, everything he says I read with a :3 smilie after it. His mouth is shaped like that kinda.

So the first question of the episode is, where did Jack get money and PLEASE say it's the ole Doctor Who sonic screwdriver an ATM method.

Well the first question would be: wait can he do like SERIOUS research by either flapping around investigating or can he just stone cold read this guy's ancestry because he's kinda scary but his powers ARE cosmically timey wimey.

Derek is also wearing a white henley. Jack's earlier innocence being killed in him by use of Jack's powers? :(

Oh noooo Derek don't go there!!!

It's kinda terrifying how he just kind of dabbles in the terrifying AU but I suppose if it doesn't hurt him to get more than glimpses...

JACK GET YOUR HANDS OFF THAT MAN'S TEMPLES AND GO TO YOUR ROOM

If nothing else you're burning his feet

Nope you apparently burned out his eyes too. Smooth, kid.

He acted oblivious to the fact Derek was dead in the later clip and looked truly upset about it, so unless we see it again from Jack's POV or another flashback that he truly left him to it and he was burned out after by something else/something that happened to him because of this AFTER Jack left, it seems waaay more likely that if it was his powers he really did kill him on the spot - whether he instantly flapped away once he'd seen what he wanted without checking how Derek was, or bolted when the connection broke without realising that Derek was dead...

It LOOKS really bad on camera to us now, and it's going to look worse that Jack has a different version of events to what we saw on screen - yes we don't see Derek die on camera with Jack there and we cut from Jack doing that to Derek dead on the floor with no Jack, but the way it was cut it makes the intervening space not particularly hard to imagine at this point if you think Jack fucked it up after pushing Derek into it

In any case whether Jack meant to kill him or not and he DID and it's the sort of body count one accrues while trying to do a greater good to later feel terrible about in Winchester angst style. But in this case the greater good is to bring back Mary which means we already have one entire dead person to weigh against having her, a single other life, back. Not like one in the face of saving the planet

Anyways showing Jack's lack of empathy or consideration - I don't want to say compassion because I think that is a learned response, but he also hasn't learned to be CAREFUL with other people, to see them as weaker and more breakable than he is when he steps up to Derek and starts, like, boiling his feet... Like Cas in 9x11 NOT using them up for some supposed better end. Cas describes that mercilessness as something the "old him" would have done and that only on the other side of having been human did he have the learned appreciation for not doing that to Sam, even though he considered him his friend long before that.

Of course, Jack hasn't even mastered asking people if he CAN use his powers on them

And going from close up of his eyes to the title card... IT DON’T LOOK GOOD.

Why is Dean calling Patience aside from to remind us he knows her.

He's asking for help. I think with hindsight of feeling a wee bit better since Cas is back he knows he was pretty harsh to her at least about NEVER using her powers and just going for the easy life - that he spoke from the really dark place in his heart about it all. I suppose also a sign of their desperation - that he has exhausted all ends which might normally work, and Patience is a wild card resource for them to try.

As if that was breaking and going back on his previous stance, it cosmically unlocks Jody phoning in with a tip off about Jack's last known whereabouts and the horrifying news, because Dean has backtracked on dictating what Patience should do with her powers, and giving her a choice to come help them if she can... she can still reject it or apologise that she needs to get on with school and stuff if she wants because it's not truly her place to help, but Dean's no longer sick to the stomach at the idea of another kid getting dragged into the life, and I don't think JUST because of desperation but also because his mood has changed. It’s not AS black and white.

I love how much they work with Jody :D This is the sort of feeling that since *season 8* I've been feeling was missing - just using her even off-screen in episodes she isn't in as an acknowledgement she's a part of their lives and resources. I mean yeah it's all to a point NOW and has noticeably spiked in how often she's mentioned since WS was on the table for realsies, but... I like it

I love Patience's phone case.

Oh, he called SIX times, okay he's pretty needy. Perhaps this is a "while Dean's been driving up to where Jack attacked Derek every time they make a stop he calls again because NOW he's truly desperate" thing

Honestly though, if she's psychic why does she need to study? Can't you just... psychic up the answers on the day? :P

She's honest about Dean calling her, which is good. She's actually good at communication and not keeping it a secret. And I suppose seeking answers from her father about if this is something she should do - and knowing he'll say no so she can tell him and he can assure her she doesn’t need to answer the call, and that's that decided.

But NOW she lies to James about not having any visions, and you can see it in her face that this is why she flunked the test, and that Dean's calls might be something she's flip flopping on SPECIFICALLY but they're representing a call back to the life to her and she's struggling to resist it or ignore the visions. She can be honest to a point but it's still eating her up inside and the lie about her visions, about having to pretend to be normal, is where it’s getting to her

*nudges her out the door*

"He had quite the freaky imagination" "he hated that word" *sam immediately leaps on "freaky?"* because theeeemes while she meant "imagination"

There's giants in an AU out there somewhere

Dean just spotted the AU world he's been to, riiiight as she says he was a dream walker.

So they know he wasn't making any of it up.

Oooh do you suppose he painted the Thunderbird on the wall of the building? That would be awesome. I wonder if that was just doing art or if he saw it ever...

Anyway promo scene number 1. Dean makes the assumption that Jack is looking for Lucifer, right back to the start of the season for him, having to assume the worse and feeling really bad that Jack's not learned anything - that him going dark, hurting people HAS to be about Lucifer.

See also: speak of the devil dramatic irony. We KNOW Lucifer isn't still in the AU. Jack may or may not have sensed him returning but he's unbothered by it and has his own motivations, to help THEM. It's the same as when Cas was back but they didn't know yet and continued to grieve him - Dean's wrong about this but once again the framing of what they don't know has happened in other parts of the story is being used really well.

This is something I feel has been missing from past seasons and used WELL, which is to emphasise and play off what the other parts of the story are doing. Sam and Dean are considerably more oblivious than we are about the story and we're seeing them scramble by to make do. It's a good way to have them at a disadvantage where they can be as smart as their little noggins can possibly be and they're still working on bad intel but it's OUR advantage to know what it is and know more than them in this way, instead of feeling like they're being obtuse about stuff, it's on the epic level of who's dead or alive or off in an AU or our world that they have no clue about.

Sam hacks Derek’s email to find out about Kaia as the next dreamwalker on the list aaaand heeere she is!

Unlike Claire in her intro she has absolutely crappy nail polish that's all scratched off, and she's DESTROYING a plastic cup. Just a first shot of her hands and great character stuff :D

Awww no she's in rehab :( I hate this counsellor guy because he's just chucking her story at her in front of ALL these people? Like this is not how group chats should work, she's just being called out here! :( She should be allowed privacy until she's ready to talk about it, especially if she's only just ended up here and is probably still detoxing if she's still so fidgety and ESPECIALLY if she was sent here as a correctional thing.

Like wow no wonder she's on the defensive.

Blaaah I guess Trump did something between seasons to oust poor old fake president Rooney. I have no clue what's going on there and I don't want to ask but maybe Jack should look into what happened to his un-talked-about other father on the list :P

This does sort of confirm that there literally is a weird Buckleming AU though that we pass in and out of. They should really get Jack to help them with that too while they're at it.

I love Kaia's snark though, 10/10 who cares about plotholes. Give him a piece of your mind!

It's come up before, a few times in the periphery but I've *always* been concerned about the psychics who don't get support they need and end up in the system either locked up for their experiences with BEING psychic or in this case trying to cope with it while not knowing what the heck is going on or how to control it. It seems like Kaia had a mentor in Derek (oh no) and he could have helped but not enough right away to help teach her NOT to go to "the bad place" so she's been spiralling and self-medicating and if there had been a way out through Derek in her future without interruption... Not any more, she doesn't even know she's at her lowest point yet, though it probably already feels like it :(

It puts her in a STARK contrast to Patience with a ~similar~ gift as in they're both psychic but Patience has a cushy middle class life and currently uses her father as a support system no matter how much they're on different pages. Kaia is probably about as disadvantaged as you can get in America >.> I can see immediately how she'd pair better with Claire who might have started lower middle class or whatever strata that was where you own a nice house and have all that bland Novak lifestyle she grew up with, but lost it all and spent her formative years in the foster system as someone with nothing, albeit at least being white >.> And Alex was raised in a sketchy vampire basement but fell into being a Sheriff's daughter, became preppy with social aspirations and is now on track to being a nurse, all of which has made her since 11x12 the social aspirant like Sam was with his law school in parallel to Claire continuing to Dean extremely loudly.

Jack's evil smile from 13x01 is back. That thing where they cast someone who could look literally 1 days old adorable sniff the baby’s head cute in one moment and super scary spawn of satan in the next - he hasn't been framed like this since the last cut to ad break on someone stumbling across him in the wilderness with no clue how dangerous he might be of Sheriff Barker driving up to the naked guy harassing the people at the Salty Butt Place. Now we know unlike the hypothetical which was subverted to him being the nougat child in 13x01, that he poses a very very real threat to Kaia.

Jack is the Worst At Lying, still - he just radiates that peace and purpose which is the most terrifying mood for people to have in this show because if they think they know what they're doing and they're doing it for good, then they're really really not. He is getting exponentially better at research and understanding context cues, regardless - he didn't know "what's your poison" but when Kaia asked him why he was here, he tried to pretend he was also admitted to the facility and he has some awareness of a class A drug and even if he's not even really trying to act anything, he knows this is something to say to fit in in a scenario where he doesn't fit. Like Cas, his mannerisms really betray him.

So he goes right back to the truth, telling Kaia he knows her name and he's here for her when she brushes him off as being uninterested in helping him - as of course she doesn't feel that she belongs. So he tells her the truth, to the degree that he probably stole all this from Derek's head while discovering there was another, more powerful dreamwalker and that this is what DEREK thought of her (ow ow ow).

Oh gosh I love this shot of the Impala pulling up from outside through the barred windows - in this case we're looking at them from the inside out - they're not imprisoned, they're in the sun and a light rain and free agents, and the next shot they pull up and the chicken wire is off to the side in the other third of the frame showing them OUTSIDE it. It's more dramatic irony - Kaia dithers, then chooses to go after Jack - the car pulls up behind the window but she has no idea what that means like we do, no idea that these are the people who would save her and warn her about what Jack did.

ALSO THE TIMING ON PULLING OFF A CHARACTER INSIDE RUNNING OFF AND THEN CHANGING FOCUS TO CHARACTERS IN A CAR PULLING UP OUTSIDE

Sam listing how Kaia's entire family is dead. Nice. >.>

They assume her OD was about the death of her entire family (ouch!?!?) and "no wonder" she ended up here, not that it's to do with her powers

Jack does indeed do the thing where he knocks out someone to help Kaia get free.

And tells her they're just sleeping, just like Cas did with Claire

I would assume the parallels end there - Cas was genuinely motivated to help Claire yes to make himself feel better about not honouring his promise but also that promise was there and see also 9x11, learning compassion from the other side, beginning to understand his place in the world better, and finally making right what was a wrong he caused 6 years previously. Whereas Jack is doing this entirely self motivated without even a consideration of what Kaia would get from it - her freedom only benefits him and her powers only benefit his.

He's also getting way more dark in his attitude - "You're not the only one with powers" and about the door being triple locked, "was it?" - he's growing in confidence about what he can do and how other people and things relate to him.

Aka he's starting to get a sense of where he is in the food chain >.>

These lines in particular make me even more wary of how he's changed, when Sam and Dean catch up to him in a few seconds for the next promo scene.

Meanwhile Kaia takes him down a few pegs because he's visibly spiralling just because he's being rejected and he doesn't know how to handle that - very very raise an eyebrow symbolic about how Kaia appreciating the jail break but no thanks to being used is treated by Jack, now placed as our Grabby Young Man Who Doesn't Know What No Means.

"She hit me!" "Yeah, good."

I love casual feminist Dean Winchester. It's not that he thinks Jack should be hit because he's evil, but because you have to learn to be nice to women when you're a grabby dude who overpowers them. Treatment of women is basically made synonymous to not being a dick about his powers, as he's been shown being over-confident. He's the over-privileged white boy. (perhaps a good reason NOT to have cast him as non-white if this is a longer theme)

I've been saying all season not to get too precious about Jack eventually being treated differently by the narrative but I can still predict a mile off people being upset after they got invested in him to the point of this now being idk ooc or that the writers are being mean to him >.>

I already wrote in my tags about this promo scene how excited I was about the need/want stuff going on here - that Need is once more being framed as really really bad, that Want is being made clear to be different from need but when Jack is doing this for them, because he thinks it's what they wants, he is missing the nuance that want isn't the same as that you SHOULD do it or that it's the morally right thing to do.

Dean has been warned by Billie not to go poking at the AU after all, and that means any wants about Mary in it are now firmly placed on the other side of that cosmic line, that he can WANT her back but he can't HAVE her back.

To his credit Jack really does look pretty horrified that Derek is dead as I remembered and thought that can’t be the whole story from the open.

But he swaps pretty quickly to talking about what he's been doing, after sparing only a moment for him - already compared to the guard, he can shrug it off, especially as he feels his actions are justifiable to a greater purpose and he didn’t mean to kill him. Being able to set aside collateral damage is *especially* a Sam trait, as Sam works in Greater Good utilitarian morality, which is not a bad thing in some ways - it's a good leader trait. But this mission of Jack's has been cosmically warned AGAINST.

Jack carries on talking past the promo scene about how he's been nosing around to other worlds, which is pretty much making Billie shudder in her office >.>

"I researched, like you taught me." Why does that sound like it should inspire a note of regret about teaching him

Oh we ARE getting flashbacks to Jack's perspective on meeting Derek. Good, I was hoping we would, at least if not that he didn’t kill him, to see Jack's rationale or that he truly had no idea...

"I could see what he saw" OH BOY IS THAAAT A BAD PHRASE

Maybe just because I was writing about the end of 9x19 like 2 days ago but Momma uses basically a light version of this re: transforming Alex, to what Crowley's big old speech in 9x23 to Dean was, where obviously there was that line. There was another "see what I see" somewhere in either season 8 or early season 9 that made me absolutely flip a table when I heard it, but I can't recall what episode right now, and busy watching too much to go look :P

Maryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Okay so we see a glimpse, just a lil one, of Jack reassuring Derek - at this point I have to go with angels cleaning up after Jack but that may have been a big fake out but it's reminding us to be critical of his behaviour and that goes with his treatment of Kaia which very very much was something to be critiqued >.>

Mary's alive! We don't get much time for Sam and Dean to react to that but it's Dean who makes the louder surprise noise, because he had to let go of Mary - unfortunately telling him she's alive is like the one thing that would make him most likely to break the universe if it means saving her from something awful. Which is probably why Billie sent him back without telling him, because telling himself Mary was dead was actually healthy in the circumstances he didn't know better about

Boop

(I love this effect)

We're getting a lot of repetition, of what Jack sees this scene.

But this time with the "help me!!!" for Sam and Dean to respond to.

And Dean immediately says, "Mom!" because now she's ASKED for help.

(And just last episode we saw Dean strung up in hell yelling for help)

of course Cas saved him that time and it was a no personal consequences, just cosmic consequences resurrection - aka no personal cost on Sam or Dean for it, but it WAS how to get the apocalypse rolling. Awfully convenient that the second seal doesn't get broken until Dean's back alive, even though he broke in hell a month ago by their reckoning :P

And while Jack continues to explain to Sam what happened with Derek - how he stopped because Derek wasn't strong enough (he shouldn't have been forcing him in the first place because he still hurt him even if he may not have been the one to kill him?) we get them blurred out, their voices blurred, as we get Dean and his sad music, as he realises how he spent MONTHS trying to get over Mary and tell himself she was dead but that he was wrong and she needed help and it all hits him at once :(

Oh no Dean.

You've got to be stronger than this. D:

"Kaia, she's the key"

Cut to Kaia sticking out her hand, again - more close ups on her hands, and she's hitching a lift.

I'm no expert, but this is an angel, isn't it

DUDE you didn't have to knock her out - she WANTED a lift.

Although maybe that close up on the knife was to say Kaia spots it, hesitates and gets knocked out because she's not being quick enough to get in the car and might rightfully wonder what that knife is about.

They really cast Patience to be someone whose eyeballs we wouldn't mind seeing up close all the time.

What on earth is she seeing. That's not the main AU because it has trees and a scary animal skull, but it's Sam and Dean and Jody all together in the same place getting stabbed. Even with her vision filter, that blue-ness is like the blue other world we seem to see Claire and Kaia in together, at least, in the promo stuff for 13x10.

Other worlds all seem to suck and be some variation of Purgatory. Let's have a fairy world already.

Lo and behold it was an angel kill and they're hunting Jack, and he's unfortunately showed his hand by being interested in dreamwalkers, so now the angels are if lures him in >.>

Nooooo Kaia has to find out Derek died this way.

She doesn't even know what a Winchester is!!! D:

"You were right, this whole time, we should have been looking for her."

"I was just hoping. I didn't know."

Of course their stances are flipping - now with concrete proof Sam has to re-emphasise he was never doing this search because he knew all along that it was true, but Dean deals with objective truths so much - she's dead, she's not dead, and that his actions HAVE to have been one or the other. He's giving HIMSELF the "you should have looked for me in Purgatory" treatment, despite being on the same side as Sam in 7x23 while he thought Mary was dead and gone and there's no hope because what do THEY know about inter dimensional travel.

Sam's got what we could call a meta writer hunch - he had an idea based on that he could read Mary not being murdered in front of him and the idea she lived beyond the portal was the subtext. Sam doesn't want vindication he was right, he was just interpreting what he saw in a way that made the story he hoped for. Just because it pans out doesn't mean that he is any more knowledgeable or had a reason to INSIST things were one way or the other. Dean made his own interpretation from the same knowledge and came to a different reading, the more negative, miserable one, the one that didn't allow the story to continue after he could see it, but that it ended as soon as it was off-screen from his eyes.

Listening to Sam would have done NOTHING more for them in the time between 12x23 and now.

And in this season where dramatic irony about what happens where they can't see it is running the story... yeah, wrong direction.

"We find her, no matter what it takes" "Yup."

Oh dear, dear Winchesters.

I'd say "never change" but literally the entire point of everything since 8x01 has been "maybe pls change just a lil like not asking a lot maybe just don't... unleash untold havoc for the sake of saving family?"

Dean checks in with Jack. "You okay?"

Jack's pretty upset about them just assuming he turned evil and killed Derek.

But while he didn't do that, the narrative HAS turned to questioning how he is behaving, at least to course correct. Does he know Dean said "good" about Kaia hitting him because he thought Jack was evil and should be punished, or because he needs to learn not to grab?

In any case, it forces some honest communication about what they thought, so perhaps they'll be able to work from this later about nuances >.>

Dean confirms that they're Jack's family, which is nice. They probably need to hear Jack confirming that Lucifer ISN'T anything to him, but like with 13x01 reminding us that Lucifer's called out to Jack before, the recap of this episode reminded us Lucifer's called out to Jack before. Whether he is or isn't, whether Jack remembers him doing it or not (actually, 13x07 had Asmodeus doing it too, reminding us Lucifer had done it outside of recaps), the fear is there in what WE know as well, so the story is using what we know possibly AGAINST us to feed worries about what Jack may or may not do.

(BTW idk how obvious it is but I love treating these watches with the full treatment of what casual eyes might see as well as what I do - like rolling with misdirections - especially since I watch with casual viewers, my mum and my friend Cat, and I need to, well, see what they see. And to understand why they're seeing it. Because I think fandom arguments go down some utterly ridiculous pits of self-wankery, and I like to keep my impression of what the show is doing right up with what it's been recently TELLING us it's doing which the casual eye spots better than the meta eye (and my mum and Cat have 2 different surface text interpretations on Jack).

Whether this element ever comes into play I don't particularly care, like, I'm not making some huge spec that Lucifer's gonna manipulate Jack this way or something, but the reminders this happens, that the casual viewer may still be expecting Jack to be evil, that Sam and Dean CAN worry even at this stage that as soon as Jack disappears he's returning to Lucifer, seeing that alignment as NARRATIVELY compelling, even if Jack says it's not EMOTIONALLY compelling... If NOTHING else happens with this it's part of the emotional tone they're setting here... I'm preemptively defensive of the people defending Jack like this is all not a part of his story because he's inherently sweet)

And he considers Sam and Dean and Cas his family now, changing up from 13x01 where he was just asking for his father, and DEAN is the one who says, yes, we consider each other family. Weird as you are, so help me, I appear to have adopted you dammit.

I don't know if Jack can understand yet that Sam and Dean reacting like this might be also hurt on their side that Jack leaves, that if he starts hurting people, if he goes back to Lucifer, that's a loss and a defeat not just because they wanted to use Jack or to mould him to be good just to protect people from him, but a personal loss for them, that they couldn't save Jack, that he rejected their family.

And Dean validates Jack that looking for Mary was a "good thing" even though it's been dubious and presumptuously good and well-motivated (e.g. personal good decided by what benefits the Winchesters and their wants not the world) at BEST and at worst is gonna knock down Billie's cosmic house of cards.

I'm so proud of Patience immediately packing up and leaving when people are in danger. I mean her goodness was never ever in question but yeah :P

I like how her visions are like Sam's - their timing comes with enough room for her to do something about it :P

Oooooooooooooh shit James still has all his issues, he literally reverse-John Winchesters Patience "you choose that life, you don't come back". Same phrasing he used on Sam when Sam wanted to go to college, when Patience is like bye bye gonna go save people for a day or two, back soon.

He wants to emotionally blackmail her to stay and be safe but he CAN'T see what she sees - which is that people are going to die and those images are going to haunt her. Better to risk exile and keep people alive than to stay and feel like she was a coward.

...

On the other hand if Kaia or Claire doesn't snark at her that Patience is upset Daddy cut off her credit card at some point or another what even is the point :P

We're never gonna get to see that night with Sam and John now. But here's a reverse stand in to get us started on Wayward Sisters!

"You picked the wrong bait, I'm not the sort of girl people come for."

I need Claire to rescue her like eighty times in a row in defiance of that pls. Not that I want Kaia to be a victim, I just want her to feel like she matters to someone <3

"I'm not white, rich, blond... No one's going to fight for me. I don't matter."

*protectively adopts her in the meantime over Christmas if she doesn't get to meet Claire yet*

I love how Jack is just like Fuck You to the angels because they keep killing people and kidnapping people - not a great incentive for him to help them but they're doing how they always do or are no better than demons any more.

They also claim Jack should be "among his own kind" - he can pick which side he favours, but his half-angel side is certainly causing him more trouble than his half-human side >.> And he's been given NO incentive to identify as angel, although he accepts Cas as his real father it's an emotional bond, and while it neatly balances to give him an angel father and a human mother, Cas himself is an exile from Heaven for caring too much, and they wanted to use HIM as bait for Jack, until they lost him, and got this better lead on what Jack was looking for instead of Cas.

Also Heaven isn't exactly doing much to save Cas now are they? :P

n.b. unlike the Winchesters I suspect they know what's happened to Cas.

Anyway the belonging theme for Jack.

But he can pick easier "I am home."

YEAH. Now Cas needs to do it, because Jack is his anchor if nothing else.

Kaia like "WHAT THE FUCK"

WOAH Dean came close to Billie sighing and filing that notebook.

"Are you okay?" "NO WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"

Kaia having some issues with bad angels but you're the son of satan??? What???

"the whole world's insane, you get used to it."

Her FACE is amazing.

Contractually obliged as a shitposter to point out Sam talking about opening a door while waving his hand like that

I hate everything

Why the 6x15 parallels huh? :P

But yeah now Sam and Dean are on the save Mary train they want to use Kaia too.

Kaia like... "No." USE THAT NO. You don't have to break the world if you don't want to!!!

She points out rightfully that the angels only wanted her because if Jack did - if he backs off she's in no trouble and she can forget this ever happened. This whole thing is forcing her into it and if dudes being shitty about her boundaries kick off the whole mess for Wayward Sisters... lol

"We NEED you to dreamwalk for us" nope.

DEREK is the one who saw the AU. She ONLY goes to the Bad Place. If it's the blue AU, the one full of blood and death and *monsters* is she being literal, that WAS a monster skull, and the entire thing is that she's tapping a DIFFERENT AU, one full of much worse things, Purgatory-esque, and the reason for all this dark blue on everyone... That Kaia is linked to something different?

And they're just reading "the bad place" as she calls it as "well clearly that's our AU" without considering the horrors of what else might be out there in the cosmic multiverse?

OH NO She's been clawed up by the monsters there!

GUYS PAY ATTENTION TO CONTEXT SHE IS BEING MAULED BY MONSTERS IN HER DREAMS. RANDO AU DEMONS WOULDN'T DO THAT TO HER. DID YOU NOT SEE THE SKULL - oh wait, Patience did.

Patience, come save your new future sister, kay? :P

Woops, I thought Dean might crack with the blurry out bit earlier where it was all hitting him how he hadn't been saving Mary the entire time and he put the "you didn't look for me in Purgatory" weight on HIMSELF.

This definitely makes Dean being a bit of a dick to Donna in 10x08 look light in comparison :P I was saying up the top that the dudes look bad in these episodes because it's about the girls and their shit! And now Dean's abruptly been shattered by Jack's revelation about Mary.

Well Sam looks worried but he's not freaking arguing about this while Dean ABDUCTS A GIRL.

FYI Mary might be yelling for help but she also does not approve.

And this is the example Dean is setting for Jack - he tells him off for grabbing Kaia earlier but then when it comes to her most important ability to say no this episode, Dean snaps and insists she does it anyway. That this is "good".

I think Jack's visions are dangerous. Whether he manipulated Cas or not it's clear that with this parallel, what Cas saw was NOT GOOD for him, that when Jack shows you something it's stretching what you're SUPPOSED to know. He's dangerous on a cosmic scale not just because of his powers but the compulsion of what they can and can't do for you. Dean is the centre of the universe in other ways, the cosmic firewall, the balance. Billie was managing him as best she could, keeping him alive and on the job, and NOT telling him about Mary. Not giving him the motivation to do this. Jack casually shows them stuff they Can't Know, and it has literally driven Dean over the brink into threatening a girl with a gun and abducting her to use her powers, because this is cosmically UNBALANCED. It's WRONG. And now Dean is wrong, he's broken and hurt and Jack didn't MEAN to do this to him, but his vision still caused it.

I am surviving this by staring at a stinking adorable piggie I made last night, every time I get too stressed. Do you want to see?

Sam is trying to SUBTLY course-correct Dean but I think we're a bit far for that - it's literally counter knocking him out and talking him down when he's not right in front of the temptation.

Oh yes I know Berens co-wrote 12x19 so I'm giving this all the credit it's due that Jack's visions are not to be fucked with, and they can derail you utterly by playing on the thing you need most.

This is *literally* the stance I've been taking the entire time with what he did to Cas and I don't know if the debate got derailed in one direction by the fight for Cas's agency and in another by Jack having to be inherently good, but I'm literally seeing this as Jack is inherently a nougat child and that's been long established. But he did the thing again to Sam and Dean, and Dean had a light demonstration of how he would tell Jack to respect Kaia and all, but as soon as Jack boops him he's got a new dangerous element in his head of the Terrible Knowledge Jack has which should NEVER have been shared.

It's BROKEN Dean. It played off his most vulnerable aspects - his need to save, MARY, the loss and pain and walling Mary up in his mind as lost at sea, and now here she is stranded on a desert island and Kaia's the one ship that can navigate to it? His actions are irrational, and dangerous, and he's not in his right mind because his right mind was overridden by Jack's vision. EVEN IF THESE ARE HIS CHOICES they are not choices he was supposed to be making to the point of Billie, the highest power who's even remotely helpful in this world now God isn't answering, SPECIFICALLY having the most intense conversation of the show since the first time he had a sit down chat with Death, to warn him NOT TO DO THIS. But it’s such terrible, irresistible knowledge it changes his entire personality.

"That sounds like us" he said in 13x05

Cas making off with Jack to protect him and stop talking to Dean sounds like Cas. >.> Remember in 8x22 when Dean was pissed that Cas disappeared from the Bunker and he'd just gone to buy toilet paper and pie, and got derailed onto Metatron preying on his misery about breaking Heaven and his need to redeem? Metatron took a lunch date and an ease-him-in mission to manipulate him into it. Anyway Jack doesn't need to do that because he can just show the one thing that will utterly, utterly break you down and lo and behold Dean's now doing this without question, UNABLE to question. Literally, like, 10x22 shoot the kid levels of dangerous.

Dean is now the strongest answer that Cas was utterly changed by his encounter with Jack in 12x19 and I don't CARE about if it was for a greater good or not or that in some ways Cas actually seemed happy and at peace in 12x23 or 13x06 talking to Jack, because the discussion wasn't about if it was good or not, if Cas and Jack can’t be good despite that, if they earn it, just if it happened on way or the other. At least for what I was interested in. Because I like Jack and I think he's good and always thought they'd play it either good or down the middle because it's just more interesting.

It's just... He's too powerful. He's dangerously powerful. Maybe we will or won't see what he showed Cas, but when he shows Dean something in a mirror moment, Dean is fundamentally harmed to the core to the point of plunging into the depths of the worst we've ever seen him. It's the sort of knowledge that could drive someone insane, if this was a slower story - a Gothic novel where Dean learns this truth and can't do anything to save his mother for 200 pages but now he KNOWS.

Better not to know - Billie sent him back before she could betray anything about it to him. But as I said back in 13x05 that was the accidental hope, the chink in his certainty that I think he wishes he had known sooner, when Jack was still in their control, that they could have acted even just a few weeks sooner. That he should have listened to Sam and been encouraging that horrifying tutoring of Jack to use his powers that was shown for Sam to be a bad path to connecting with Jack, and in 13x03 (hi Berens) Sam recognised was forcing Jack too hard to do what he wanted. To the point of giving Jack a meltdown about if his powers made him good or evil under that pressure.

... And if they break the world, Jack's not going to think much better of himself or the goodness of the Winchesters :S

Jack apologising again.

"I'm sorry," he says, and it always sounds so weird coming out of his mouth. It always sounds like he knows he's supposed to say it, but he's curious about what it means, that he doens't quite understand it. It was a full on "I'm sorry?" the first time in 13x01, but even now it lifts at the end of the phrase, not sinking into apology.

He's mansplaining to Kaia how she can help.

DON'T SHOW KAIA THINGS. STOP SHOWING PEOPLE THINGS.

Five seconds... Uhoh.

He really likes doing that to people.

"Our powers can be good. We can do good things in this world."

STOP MAGICALLY MANSPLAINING AS WELL

Sorry, sorry.

Look they're all on this bizarre righteous crusade and she should choose, sure, and she's choosing to feel ABDUCTED. BECAUSE SHE WAS ABDUCTED AT GUN POINT

Jack might make her feel a wee bit better about her powers being part of a wider picture - of what she might see if she starts to control them. And again, abducted at gun point, she agrees to let Jack show her but this is an awful, forced situation for her, and it might be a first step on her journey where they finally start to relate about powers and he can ease how bad it feels for her, but this whole thing is happening to save MARY and... argh. It's a mess. She might be mildly more cooperative because he did that but at the same time it reeks of him trying to make her see things his way because he's on this mission to get Mary back and do some real good, and doing this, showing her things, makes her compliant. Empathy or not. Purposefully manipulating or just trying to help. It happens.

Wheeeee car chase

Wheeee stunts

Oh yay creepy boats this never goes well.

They've literally abducted Kaia to their own shady hideout congratulations you're being the villains again :P

Dean faces off against a bunch of angels and it looks really awesome. Run run run big crane shot throw all the money at this!

wheeeeee action.

The number of angels out there seems worrying, like they're either gonna have to help deal with a problem bigger than this squabble, or they're all going to get obliterated, because once the Winchesters are outnumbered, there's Problems that can only get resolved with Bigger Problems.

"Don't worry, we'll be fine." "We're screwed!"

ANGELS DOING COOL THINGS

That was awesome

"We go out guns blazing"

Dean NO.

I hope this is about subverting the ending he thinks he deserves - 12x22 was Berens of course with the discussion of how he thought they'd always die and keeping on bringing it up... Yeah.

He apologises for dragging her into the fight - again, not mind controlled, just mind-altered, but in this sort of drama he can still see what's going on, still feel bad for how he got her into being attacked by tons of angels, still come back to himself to see that much, even if he's now unable to let go that Mary is alive and calling for help.

And then Kaia and Jack decide they might as well just go to an AU to escape, aka worse problems than all the angels but at least it's novel :P

"Can you take us to our mom?" "Can you do it?"

Sam is in on it too. The forbidden knowledge temptation >.> The spell that unleashed Amara involving the forbidden fruit. I mean. Argh.

These angels are so cool. We never see them doing this badass stuff

"Are you ready?" "no. Let's go."

Love her

"Okay, I'm there, I'm in the bad place."

Oh no.

There's a monster.

WOAH COSMIC

He found it! That was such a cool visual of The Comos and I wish I had time to deal with it!!!!

Kaia looping between the Bad Place and Mary AAAAAAH

She's just a scared girl being tormented by monsters from another realm all her life!!!! STOP MAKING HER DOOO THIIIISSSSS

Ooopppppssssss

I guess you're all in the Bad Place now. Or the angels were vaporised. But Sam n Dean seemed to be too so I'm gonna go with a whole bunch of angels AND Sam n Dean were sent there.

New rift in the creeepy boat. Wondered if this would be a set piece for WS because it's SO big. Having Bad Place Monsters wander into the world from it

*pats my lil felt pig sadly*

Jodyyyy. Calling Sam to check in with him, and knock knock here's Patience like MOM HELP

ALL THE MELTED ANGEL BLADES. AAAAAAAAH

Woops no there's a bunch of burned wing prints. So the angels are super dead. Are Sam and Dean super vaporised? I guess not.

JACK FOUND MARY

Well at least someone accomplished some damn goals around here. THAT is a great shot of them seeing each other for the first time and she's like... strange boy???

and he's like MOM I AM HERE TO HELP.

Wait.

Grandma.

What the fuck.

What the fuck is wrong with this family tree. Mary is 29, 60, and whatever age Sam Smith is discreetly in between the two, Jack is 3 months old, and fucking 27. There's a 2 year age gap between Jack and Mary and she's his freaking Grandma what the fuck.

I'm just saying, life experience aside, Mary and Jack are both the most fucked up "millenials" in the cosmos.

Sam n Dean get to deal with their own nonsense over here in the Bad Place.

Sam never got to enjoy the whole stranded in Purgatory feel before! FUN FUN FUN.

I honestly think after that interview about Kaia that the writers cared more about fleshing out The Bad Place than they do about the Michael AU, that one was introduced to make a point, and to act as a place to stuff Mary and Lucifer for a while. This one is being introduced to cause trouble for Wayward Sisters for at least the first season if they get it, and is Kaia's entire unspoken trauma.

Dean's like "C'mon" because he knows what to do when you get stranded somewhere.

HEEEEE it's a giant chicken universe. I LOVE IT.

CLUCK CLUCK MOTHERFUCKERS

#Who the hell was saying Sam and Dean should fight a dinosaur because someone out there has some weirdass vindication going on.#I have to go like immediately I wish I could stay and scream about it #OH WELL WE HAVE ALL CHRISTMAS #13x09 #season 13 spoilers #merry christmas #my stuff

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sortasirius · 4 years ago

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“Despair” and Dean and Cas

Well well well, winning is my favorite thing.

As usual, this is going to be as long as hell. And fair warning, it’s extremely emotional.

So here it is, the thing that we have been barrelling towards for years, literally years.

Just want to point out this. Also, I will NEVER allow someone to speak negatively about this writing group, EVER.

Team Free Dads starting off the episode is so sweet, so scary. Cas’ calming, Dean’s fear, Sam’s desperation, really just hammering home how much they love Jack, how his pain is pain for them, how losing him is unbearable.

“I can’t stop this. I’m coming apart. I don’t want to hurt you. Don’t let me hurt you.”

Oof. If you’ve ever question whether Jack is a Winchester, this line should shut that shit down for you.

When I tell you I was PISSED when Billie sent Jack to the Empty to EXPLODE????? PAIN.

“Yeah the Empty can’t come to earth, not without being summoned.”

Hello Bobo, clue number 1.

The fact that they only had Jack in limbo for like five seconds was great for my heart health, thank u very much Bobo.

Also Dean wielding Death’s scythe?????? KING?????

Man, Sam and Dean’s growth. The way that they’re able to, idk, actually speak on how they feel without death looming or fear or pain. It’s just a conversation, just an honest conversation of Dean admitting his mistakes, admitting how he felt. Admitting that he fucked up, and Sam forgiving him for it.

CHARLIE AND HER GF CHARLIE AND HER GF CHARLIE AND HER GF

Also...hunters and their “dates.” Two hunters who are happily together, who are happily fighting monsters. Hm. Sounds like a Saileen/Destiel parallel to me boys.

You ever wish Cas would look and the mirror and take the great advice he gives others? Because I do. He’s always tried to be “useful” for Sam and Dean, for Jack, always tried to make sure that he’s useful enough that they keep him around. But what he doesn’t understand, what he’s never understood, is that they need him because of who he is, not because of what he contributes.

Remind y’all of anything?

And here we have Clue Number 2

And then, Sam’s realization. Eileen.

Did I begin full tilt screaming no in my apartment when he said her name? Who’s to say?

How can a lock screen cause me this much pain????

Okay but: Charlie loses Stevie, Sam loses Eileen. Clue Number 3.

I feel like I don’t talk enough about how much Sam loves Eileen. About how obvious it is that they are endgame, about how happy he is when he talks about her. This just feels like a blow to the stomach, but we’ve barely even started.

Sam immediately shifting into protective leader mode? He is the love of my life.

Dean’s simple nod, like it’s a given? Enough to do me in right there.

This is another episode where it’s just so clear that Sam is the leader of the North American hunters. Everyone knows him, everyone is willing to follow him. He’s knowledgeable and kind and fair and just and an incredibly capable fighter. Once again, I don’t believe his work on earth is done.

Can we also please talk about how FRIGHTENING IT WAS for Jack to kill that plant??? I don’t really have much of a comment on it because I was literally just like ?????

With Billie saying that it’s Chuck, the way that people were dusted, very similar to Becky and Amara, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised, especially with Donna getting taken off the board. It’s like I said last week, I don’t buy that he’s taken himself off the board, he’s too invested in the unraveling of this story to take a step back. He’s gotta break them before he can defeat them, that’s the only way.

And here we go, into one of the most painful and surreal things I will ever write about.

Dean’s speech. His guilt, his regret. The shame of not only trapping himself, but the pain, the horror of trapping Cas.

“I just lead us into another trap. All because I, I couldn’t hurt Chuck. Because I was angry and because I just needed something to kill, and because that’s all I know how to do.”

“Dean-”

“It was Chuck all along. We never should have left Sam and Jack, we should be there with them now. Everybody’s gonna die, Cas. Everybody. I can’t stop it.”

His narrative arc. Tied up in a bow.

“She’s gonna get through that door.”

“I know.”

“And she’s gonna kill you and then she’s gonna kill me. I’m sorry.”

Cas smiles.

Cas knows. He knows what’ll get them out of this, and he knows that he would do anything in this Universe for Dean Winchester. The human man he fell for.

“When Jack was dying, I made a deal to save him.”

“You what?”

“The price was my life. When I experienced a moment of true happiness, the Empty would be summoned and it would take me forever.”

“Why are you telling me this now?”

“I always wondered, ever since I took that burden, that curse, I’ve wondered what it could be, what my true happiness could even look like. I never found an answer, because the one thing I want, it’s something I know I can’t have.

“But I think I know, I think I know now...happiness isn’t in the having, it’s in just being. It’s in just saying it.”

“What are you talking about, man?”

The most selfless thing Cas does in this, and he does a lot of selfless things, is to tell Dean Winchester how impossibly good he is. To tell him that he is worthy, to tell him that he is adored.

“I know, I know how you see yourself, Dean. You see yourself the same way our enemies see you. You’re destructive and you’re angry and you’re broken and you’re daddy’s blunt instrument. And you think that hate and anger, that’s what drives you, that’s who you are. It’s not. And everyone who knows you sees it, and everything you have ever done, the good and the bad, you have done for love. You raise your little brother for love, you fought for this whole world for love. That is who you are.

“You’re the most caring man on earth. You are the most selfless, loving human being I will ever know. You know, ever since we met, ever since I pulled you outta Hell...knowing you has changed me.

“Because you cared, I cared. I cared about you, I cared about Sam, I cared about Jack, I cared about the whole world because of you.

“You changed me, Dean.”

“Why does this sound like a goodbye?”

Dean’s greatest fear. His fear of those loving him leaving him. The terror of being alone.

“Because it is.

The head shake. Don’t love me. Don’t love me if it means you’ll leave me, don’t love me, everyone I love leaves me. Don’t leave me. Don’t love me. Don’t leave me.

“Don’t do this, Cas.”

Just like I always thought. One last look at Dean before the Empty takes him.

“Cas-”

“Goodbye Dean.”

And Dean is left, broken on the floor, unable to answer Sam’s calls, unable to do anything. It doesn’t matter to him that Chuck has wiped everyone out, it doesn’t matter to him that Sam and Jack might need him. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter, because the thing that mattered still hangs on his lips, still waiting to be said, and now he won’t get another chance to say it.

The fact that I am writing this, even with all my spec, with all my analysis of the writers’ room, of their text, of the way Dabb and co had approached this story, nothing could have ever prepared me for this. Nothing could have prepared me for a three and a half minute, uninterrupted scene where Cas confesses not only that he loves Dean, but that he has always loved him.

I talk a lot about how these writers don’t get the credit they deserve. Unfortunately, from most of this fandom, they never will. We will likely never know the fights with the network they had, the steps backward they had to take, the way they had to beg and fight and claw to get this on the screen. But they did it. They did it for these characters, they did it for this dinosaur of a show, and yeah, they did it for us.

It was not easy, I can promise you, to get this greenlit. They had to fight for this, they likely had to call in favors and make threats and quite literally put their careers on the line (you may scoff at that, but WB is a BIG company, especially in the TV/movie world) for this story. This story of Dean and Cas, the man dragged out of Hell and the angel who fell for him.

I have tons more to say, and will likely have several more posts about this, but I want to leave all my babes who are worried that that was the end for Dean and Cas with some takeaways.

Sam is missing Eileen. Dean is missing Cas. That is no longer a fun subtextual parallel, that is it for them. Their respective endgames are missing, and they will not know their peace until they get them back. Chuck will not win. That’s not the story being told, and right now? He’s winning. He’s broken them, left them with nothing, left them with an empty world and a hole in each of their hearts where their person (or angel) used to be.

Our show is going to end with “contentment.” “Contentment” isn’t from Sam and Dean being filled with grief and hitting the open road. It isn’t Sam getting Eileen back and leaving Dean with no one. “Contentment” is Sam and Eileen, Dean and Cas. Together.

#destiel #spn #supernatural #my meta #destiel meta #spoilers #spn 15x18 #i cannot believe this #i cant believe i wrote this #this is real #theyre really canon

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letterstothemidnightsociety · 4 years ago

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THAT’S RIGHT BITCH! It’s October and I am still watching and inexplicably blogging about Supernatural - a dinosaur of a television show that’s been on the air longer than most children I know have been alive.

I know I’m An Old because I don’t think kids these days understand the struggle it was watching television before streaming. We had to wait for episodes. Hell, I don’t think kids these days even really have to wait for seasons. I mean, Voltron premiered on Netflix in 2016, capped off their seasons at 13 episodes a piece and, oh yeah - aired seasons 5 - 8 all in 2018. Was I mad about that? No of course not. Do I also say phrases like “kids these days? Yes, so who even knows if what I think is relevant anymore.

Alright, so speaking of seasons, last time I looked at pilots and pilot seasons and how the streaming era is changing everything we know about starting a TV show. But once you’ve got your pilot down, now what?

Not this kind of pilot. Also, based on the prerequisites for demon possession, we’re all agreed this co-pilot’s like, an alcoholic, right?

There’s a rule in TV (sort of) that the first six episodes (some might argue the first season entirely) should be a kind of rehash of the pilot. The pilot sets up your premise and once you’ve got your pilot down, your job as a TV writer is to re-establish that premise over and over again. You’re building your world, you’re writing it’s rules. You’re setting up a template, a formula for how your episodes are gonna play out. This helps your audience get to know the characters, get familiar with your world, get comfortable spending time with them. Essentially, you’re getting your audience to trust the show that they’re going to be tuning in to for at least the next 20-some-odd episodes.

I’d also argue that this is important so that later, you can break that format later. I’m not saying you should break the trust your audience puts in you, and that’s probably a real fine line of distinction. But if you break your rules right, it can hit the audience with a big emotional sucker punch. Or, it can stand out as a real breakout, tentpole of an episode - I’m thinking specifically about Ghostfacers! In season 3, or Once More, With Feeling, from Buffy. Those episodes work, really work, because they deviate from the formula, but they only work because we know the formula so well. And these aren’t big changes to the way episodes are done, they’re just shifted ever so slightly that they felt new again..

So what is the premise of the first four episodes Supernatural? What’s the formula they set up for the rest of the series?

Brothers. I said it in my last post, I’ll say it again, Sam and Dean/Jensen Ackles and Jared Jared Padalecki are what makes this show. Full stop. I think we could have gotten 5 seasons out of a show starring two other dudes. I do not think this show could have gotten 15 seasons with two other dudes. So from the pilot through Phantom Traveler, we learn that Sam and Dean have a sh*tty home life - their mother was killed by some mysterious evil thing and their father raised them to be little demon-hunting child soldiers while they look for the killer. Oh yeah, and Sam’s girlfriend died the exact same way which we will never forget because Sam’s gonna have a dream about it almost every episode from here on out. We set up the tension between the brothers - that Sam got to go to college while Dean stayed with their dad like a good boi. We learn that everybody hates each other probably because they are deeply and unhealthily codependent love each other so damn much.

Next we get the basic rundown of the season arc:

Dad’s on a hunting trip and he hasn’t been home in a few days. The Winchester brothers are looking for him and by extension, looking for answers as to what killed their mom/Sam’s girlfriend. We also get the basic rundown of every episode: dad is a mysterious and elusive sonuvuabitch, so every episode they go about, say it with me now:

“The family business.” I would also accept “Killing as many evil sons of bitches as I possibly can,” but why can’t I find a gif for it?!?

Backtracking on this but you know what else gets hecking established with the Winchesters? Sam is the cute one with the people skills and the puppy dog face, so you’d naturally assume that he’s the soft one. No. Not the case. Dean is the Sofffft Boi. The SOFTest boi. Dean wants Sam to talk about his feelings, Dean wants Sam to not keep things bottled up, Dean is the one who desperately wants to keep a hold of his family and also is just deeply broken and traumatized on the inside and oh no, I told myself I wouldn’t do this but I did it anyway. Sorry not sorry. This watch, I’m really picking up on the fact that Dean is, weirdly, the Mom Friend in this first season. Like, he’s basically a Trailer-Trash-Teen-Pregnancy Mom who’ll give you spaghettios five nights a week and a shot of whiskey so you’ll quit yer bitchin’ and go to sleep faster, but he’s the Mom nonetheless. Later in this season and in other seasons, I think you even see him do his dumb-baby-best filling in as the Mom when John went off the deep end. Anyway, I have a lot of feelings and we don’t have time to unpack all of that so I’ll just move on.

RUDE.

Next we set up our Supernatural Bag of Holding - what’s in it? What are the mystical artifacts they use to kill those evil sons of bitches? First up is The Car. Damn, I am not a cars girl, but that 67 Chevy, it does things to me.

This car has some weird pavlovian trigger for me, it’s not NATURAL.

The journal.

John Winchester, you journal the way I imagine a psycho killer journals and I would just really appreciate it if you could be ANY MORE ORGANIZED THAN THIS.

The Trunk Full of Weapons - I love that in these first few episodes (and possibly the rest of the series???) they give this HELLA conspicuous look every time they open the trunk full of weapons. It’s hilarious EVERY TIME.

No, you’re not being obvious at ALL, guys.

The Fake ID’s - from credit cards to impersonating feds, these boys are not afraid to break the law to save some lives and I feel like that’s...that’s the theme of the show maybe? They’re here to save people and they’ll do what they have to to do that? In a world that clearly establishes a dark vs. light/good vs. evil dichotomy, the Winchester make it their job to live in a world of grey? Basically?

Next on the checklist for this first season of Supernatural - it’s spoopy. *Spoop mileage may vary.* I said it last time, but I’ll say it again: this first season aired at 9:00pm at night. That means it’s primetime stuff for the 18 - 25 year old crowd, but they don’t want to risk some 13 year old watching it and getting too scared before bed. 9:00pm is X Files time slots, Fringe time slots. 9:00pm says you’re gonna get something a little more gruesome and gory and shocking than at 8pm. 8pm is for Friends. Vampire Diaries aired at 8pm its first season. 9pm is for the real adult content (but not too adult because the audience is still mostly children).

SPOOP!

But yeah, let’s look at the real horror vibe that you get off of these first four episodes. We talked about La Llorona from the first episode - this is a legit ghost that they fight. The kids at the end that literally drag their mom to hell? Pretty spooky stuff. The Wendigo in episode 2 is a literal monster of the week and so for me personally, it’s not that scary, but it is a cannibal monster that eats human flesh. Dead in the Water has vibes from both Jaws and Friday the 13th. Everything from the lighting to the sound design let’s you know this is a horror show, or as horror as you can get on network television. Listen to the scenes just before somebody dies and you get a nice creepy “Come play with me” whisper coming out of the water. I’m a little spooked just thinking about it now. Yes I know I’m a chicken, and I’m OK WITH THAT. And if we go past my season 1 disc 1 into episode 5, Bloody Mary is STILL terrifying and I STILL watched that episode with half my face covered. That’s where I am these days. It’s 2020 and the world is a nightmare but imagining Bloody Mary creepin’ out in my mirror does not need to be a part of it.

SHE F*CKIN CLIMBS OUT OF THE MIRROR GUYS! I DIDN’T KNOW SHE COULD DO THAT!!!

Then we get Phantom Traveler and our very first case of black-eyed-demonic possession. Watching this episode now, it’s like watching someone’s home movie of their first steps as a baby. They’ve never even done an exorcism before guys! They have to read the exorcism rite out of the journal! It’s so cute!!! Let’s not think too hard about how they got that full sized bottle of holy water past TSA in a post-9/11 world. And try to ignore how poorly these special effects have aged - the smoke from the demon possession?? OMG! THIS EFFECT! I’m pretty sure I could make that effect with my first ever graphic design software on my, like, 2009 mac book pro. So cute and soooo good! I’m gonna leave that CG plane alone, they’re doing their best.

SO cute and SOOO good!

You want to know what my favorite established staple of Supernatural season 1 is? The extras. LOOKIT these guys -

Wendigo you have Cory Monteith who later goes on to star in Glee.

You have Alden Ehrenreich, Debatable Han Solo, doing a lot of face work with very little dialogue.

You have Gina Holden who is in SO. MANY. Spooky-type things! My personal favs are Blood Ties and Harper’s Island, but she’s in Fringe, she’s in the SAW franchise, she’s in the Final Destination franchise, she was in some deleted scenes on an episode of Teen Wolf! I LOVE seeing Gina Holden, anywhere she pops up.

And speaking of Harper’s Island, you’ve also got Callum Keith Rennie who played John Wakefield in Harper’s Island, a show that was A+ Great and I highly recommend if you like Agatha Christie and/or murder mysteries.

Honestly, Rennie looks like he’s about to murder a bitch in this episode of Supernatural, it is not a stretch to believe he’s a psycho killer.

Dead in the Water you’ve got Amy Acker, a regular in Joss Whedon and Whedon-adjacent type shows.

Good LORD, this wardrobe was SO 2000′s WB and it PAINED me.

And finally in Phantom Traveler, you have Jaime Ray Newman who also shows up in a lot of the shows that I like to watch. She was in Eureka, she was in Midnight Texas, both kind of terrible shows that I love because they are terrible, but she was ALSO in Bates Motel and Veronica Mars, which are generally considered to be more quality, so there’s that.

This still implies that they actually LIT scenes, which is a SURPRISE TO ME.

Point is, seeing these actors in Supernatural back in the early 2000’s felt like I was seeing the start of their careers. That may or may not have been the case, but as a viewer it was exciting to see them pop up again in other things.

So what about TV now? Do we still use those first 6 (sometimes more) episodes to re-establish the premise? Well, it certainly hasn’t gone away. Look at any network show that still produces 22 - 24 episodes a season and you’ll still see that the pilot season just keeps re-iterating the premise established in the pilot episode, specifically in anything that’s procedural - that’s you’re monster/problem-of-the-week shows. Think sitcoms like Brooklyn 99 or Superstore or dramedies like Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. The reason being that these shows play in the traditional model of television - on a network, once a week. They are not releasing episodes all at one time or relying on their audiences to stream a whole season in one sitting. These are shows that still assume that someone out there is going to tune in or stumble across their show one night while they’re surfing channels (lol) and need to be told, no matter what episode they’ve just turned on, what the premise of the show is. They need to be formulaic so that people can pick it up anywhere at any time.

But what about shows that don’t follow this traditional model? I mentioned in my last post that seasons are getting shorter and shorter, so when you’re writing a show that only has (8) episodes instead of 22, how much time do you really want to spend establishing the premise? Because of these short seasons, you’re also dealing with shows that are more serialized and less procedural than their predecessors - meaning, you’re dealing with a show that focuses on a season long story (think Game of Thrones or Stranger Things where each episode is an important chapter that you can’t skip) vs. a procedural (think the shows I mentioned above or any cop drama really) where each episode is it’s own contained story, neatly wrapped up at the end. These are shows where you can skip an episode and still know where you are in the show no matter where you start or stop watching. Supernatural is a little bit of both - procedural with their monsters of the week AND serialized with a season long arc. We’ll talk more on that in a later post.

Not only are we getting shorter seasons, but we’re also dealing with shows that are not released over long periods of time. A few streaming channels, like Disney+ and HBO Max, make a deliberate point to slow-drip their seasons, but most streaming channels will release entire seasons in one shot. You don’t need to worry about your audience missing an episode because they have 24/7 access to all the episodes all at once. And for the most part, they’re designed to be binged. They start at full speed and they don’t slow down to keep driving you to the finale.

Do I think the procedural is ever going to go away? No. As much talk as there is about dropping the cop drama from TV all together, I think audiences still love a good mystery series. And you can’t just think of procedurals as cop dramas either - a procedural also covers most if not all sitcoms. New Girl, Letterkenny, Parks and Rec, Superstore - these all have a premise that doesn't change from week to week. They may make tiny shifts away from what they set up in the pilot, but by and large, you know what you’re getting into any time you turn on an episode. I think we as an audience still like that kind of familiarity. We may be seeing a bigger swing towards more serialized content, but that doesn't mean that the procedural is dead and gone.

So that’s what we’ve got for Supernatural - two dudes, driving around in a car full of spears and hand guns, killing bad guys. Some day, they may even find that father that’s missing. What could possibly go wrong? A lot. Stay tuned.

#Supernatural #Supernatural Season 1 #Supernatural Rewatch #Sam #Dean #Winchester #Pilot #Wendigo #Phantom Traveler #Television #History of television #Dead in the Water #Jensen Ackles #jared padalecki

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valsworldofcreativity · 6 years ago

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Requests are open !

So i am taking request! You all can request for Eisuke, Soryu, Baba, Mamoru from “Kissed By The Baddest Bidder (KBTBB) & Sam & Dean Winchester from “Supernatural” & guys from "Lovestruck" from GIL, AFK,L&L, Castway & HIFL. Give me number & name of the guy!

Here are some of the prompts you can request from:

“You’re hair is really soft after you wash it.”

“Ssh. Stop fussing. I’m just braiding your hair.”

“You smell really nice.”

“Would it be all right if I borrowed your sweater? It smells like you.”

“I might have slept with your robe when you were gone.”

“If you steal the blankets, I am going to put my cold feet on you.”

“Here, let’s share the blanket.”

“You’re comfy.”

“You are my new pillow.”

“You are very endearing when you are half-asleep.”

“But I want to hear you sing.”

“We can talk over dinner.”

“Don’t be stubborn. Try it!”

“Don’t get up - I’ll do it.”

“Will you let me rub your back?”

“Care to give me a back scratch?”

“Star-gazing was a good idea.”

“You look beautiful/handsome in the moonlight.”

“I’ll always be here for you.”

“I’ll be here to protect you.”

“I think I love you.”

“You are my love.”

“How about something warm? It will will help you sleep.”

“It’s okay. I couldn’t sleep anyway.”

“Don’t be silly. I want to stay up with you.”

“It is not morning yet.”

“Shush and go back to bed.”

“I heard you talking in your sleep.”

“Your bed head is really cute.”

“We’ll do dishes together.”

“How about a kiss?”

“I love your hugs.”

Here, I saved some for you. Try it?”

“I just really need a hug right now…”

“You. Me. Movie marathon. Get all the snacks you can carry.”

“Join me in the blanket fort. We play until dawn.”

“It’s cake, how difficult can it be?”

“Sure, it *looks* safe, but watch what happens when I do this.”

“I had a nightmare… can you stay up with me?”

“We’re going to have to raid the neighbors if you want more pillows to turn this into a Pillow Fortress Castle.”

“This would look so cute on you!”

“Okay, but if you turn the lights off for this playthrough, I’m not being held accountable for anything I do when spooked.”

“I said we could share a blanket, but if you put your cold feet on me *one more time*…”

“You’ve been working too hard and I’m calling a Netflix intervention. Not taking no for an answer.”

“I’ve got a gallon of ice cream and if you don’t get a spoon my tummyache will be all your fault.”

“Fight me. Pillow fight. And by fight I mean cuddle.”

“My hand is cold. Unless we find somewhere to stop soon, it’s going up your back.”

“Oh my god, just pet my hair already.”

“After that movie you’re staying for a sleepover. I know you don’t want to go home and sleep alone anyway.”

“Is there a reason you’re gnawing on me?”

“C'mon, I need a Player 2.”

“I bet you can’t make it all the way through the movie without screaming at it.”

“If you put that in the microwave uncovered I swear I will beat you to death with a plastic spoon.”

“What was that flavor of cake you liked? I need to know because reasons.”

“When we get that house you’re handling the spiders.”

“Going to the mall alone is boring. Besides, I need someone to tell me how great I look in all the clothes I try on.”

“It’s not MY fault you scream like a schoolgirl on a rollercoaster.”

“It’s an arcade, do you need more reasons to go?”

“Please tell me why you were napping in my freshly dried blankets *while they’re still in the dryer*.”

“Can we please take cheesy best friend pictures in that photo booth? I promise to keep silly faces to a minimum.”

“I’m singing along to this song and you can’t stop me, so either deal with it or join me.”

“C'mon, with anyone else this would be too weird.”

“I hate this game so much. Here’s a link, you should totally play it.”

“I take no responsibility for any smells you may or may not encounter from this point forward.”

“HELP I HAVE A SPLINTER”

“Okay, but consider that if you don’t watch this show with me, I’ll still rant to you just as much about the feels it gives me.”

“If anyone turns that fan off again I swear someone’s going to bleed.”

“Help me, the computer’s making sad beeps again. Make it happy, please.”

“THIS MOVIE MAKES ME CRY EVERY TIME WHY DID YOU LET ME CHOOSE IT?!”

“I have in front of me: One DVD, seven remote controls, and an entertainment center. This will be a voyage of discovery.”

“If I die, you get my cat. So make sure I live through this.”

“I need someone to cling to in the haunted house, and you’re it.”

“Yeah, but you’re *my* nerd.”

“The remote is two feet thataway and I don’t feel like moving. We’re stuck with this.”

“You are aware this was the worst idea ever and you’re lucky you’re my best friend, or else I’d leave you alone to deal with this.”

“I’d say sorry my mom tried to adopt you again, but it was kind of my idea.”

“There is a perfectly good reason I’m eating these mini marshmallows right out of the package, I’m certain of it. Probably.”

“Okay but hear me out: Fluffy. Sharks.”

“Please keep your sick away from me and get better soon. I made you soup.”

“That sounds like a bad idea. I’m in.”

“If you don’t come up and sing with me, I will sing and point at you. The entire. Time.

Well, what can I say? I’m a badass.”

“Define normal.”

“Do I get bonus points if I act like I care?”

“Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.”

“Don’t look for any redeeming qualities. I don’t have any.”

“It’s amazing how fast the world can go from bad to total shit storm.”

“I love you. You enormously stubborn pain in the ass.”

“And you wonder why you’re still single.”

“Remind me to kill you. Please.”

“I’m listening to you. I’m just not paying attention.”

“That’s a little melodramatic, don’t you think?”

“Were you dropped on your head?”

“She’s crazy. And just when you think you’ve reached the bottom of her craziness, there’s a crazy underground garage.”

“She may seem like lollipops and rainbows but I bet behind close doors she’s latex and whips.”

“If my day gets any worse, I’m asking hell if they’re having an exchange program.”

“Sorry. I don’t speak skank.”

“If I survive, can I go home?”

“My middle finger salutes you.”

“This is a whole new level of moronic, even for you.”

“I don’t think I could ever stab someone. I mean, let’s be honest. I can barely get the straw in the Capri Sun.”

“I don’t have enough middle fingers to let you know how I feel.”

“Insanity run in my family. It practically gallops.”

“Oh darling. Go buy a brain.”

“Somebody’s cranky.” “Somebody needs to shut up.”

“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

“All due respect, but that’s a bunch of crap.”

“I am one of the few people in the world who can murder you and leave no forensic evidence behind.”

“Excuse me. I have to go make a scene.”

“What did I tell you about calling her/him the devil?” “That it’s offensive to the devil?”

“I heard that!” “You were supposed to!”

“I need therapy after this.”

“You didn’t get in trouble for lying. You got in trouble for lying badly.”

“I’m not weird. I am limited edition.”

“I turned out liking you a lot more that I originally planned.”

“I think you’re weird.” “I think you’re boring.”

“If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur.”

“You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?”

“I’m afraid I’ve been thinking…” “A dangerous pastime.”

“I’d explain it to you, but you’re brain would explode.”

“Wow, there’s a big surprise. I think I’m going to have a heart attack and die from surprise.”

“I’m gonna hit you so hard, it’ll make you ancestors dizzy.”

“Even when we were kids, I always kicked your ass!”

“Sarcasm is the body’s natural reaction to stupidity.”

“You’re good. A monster pain in the ass… but you’re good.”

“Well, excuse me, psychic wonder!”

“The female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

“Don’t look in her eyes, she might steal your soul.”

“She’s hot, but she’s evil.”

“Do I regret it? Yes. Would I do it again? Probably.”

“I already know that I’m going to hell. At this point it’s really go big or go home.”

“Go on, knock his teeth down his throat.”

“You’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters, animal abusers and people who talk at the theater.”

“What’s the point in screaming? No one’s listening anyway.”

“I’m not a damsel in distress. I’m a damsel doing damage.”

“So stick that in your juice box and suck it.”

“Never take life seriously. No one ever comes out alive anyway.”

“This place hold a lot of memories for me. Some bad, some… No. No, no, all bad.”

“A little gasoline… blowtorch… no problem.”

“Good, bad, I’m the one with the gun.”

“I know you can’t kill anybody, ‘cause I can’t kill anybody.”

“You’re insane, but you might also be brilliant.”

“What you call insanity, I call inspiration.”

“Sometimes I question my sanity. Occasionally it replies.”

“Why should we date?” “Because we are attracted to each other.” “I am attracted to pie, but I do not feel the need to date pie.”

“Why does everyone assume the worst of me.” “It saves time.”

“I like you. You’re different.”

“You successfully cured him/her of anything interesting about his/her personality.”

“Neither one us is drunk enough for this conversation.”

“You’re questioning my methods.” “I’m not questioning it, I’m saying it’s stupid.”

“Wow, somebody needs a Happy Meal.”

“I didn’t do it!” “Then why are you laughing?” “Because whoever did it is a freaking genius.”

“Idiots. I’m surrounded by idiots.”

“You couldn’t handle me even if I came with instructions.”

“I care so little, I almost passed out.”

“Well behaved woman rarely make history.”

“You’re so weird.” “You have no idea.”

“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it’s got a hell of a sense of humor.”

“You haven’t even seen my bad side yet.”

“Obviously you have mistaken me for somebody who gives a shit.”

“How’s life treating you?” “Like I ran over it’s dog.”

“Rule number one: don’t bother sucking up. I already hate you, that’s not going to change.”

“Oh God, we’re not gonna have to hug or anything, are we.”

“I’m so glad you could come.” “Cut the crap. Give me a drink.”

“You make no sense to me.” “Welcome to my life.”

“Have fun being deal.” “I will.”

“Damn, you’re strong for a little thing.”

“It’s called thinking. Go with it.”

“I made a new friend today.” “Real or imaginary?” “Imaginary.”

“Where have you been all my life?” “Hiding from you.”

“I’m getting real bored and impatient. I don’t do bored and impatient.”

“The girl is strange no question.”

“Do us a favor… I know it’s difficult for you… but please, stay here, and try no to do anything… stupid.”

“I know most people don’t like me; I don’t care, I don’t like most people.”

“You are a very strange person.” “Well, thanks for noticing.”

“I can tell that you think what you’re saying is funny, but… no.”

“I didn’t steal it. I permanently borrowed it.”

“I’m not shy. I’m just examining my prey.”

“If you pull out my earphones, I will pull out your lungs.”

“I don’t dislike you, I nothing you.”

“Are you crying? No, I’m impersonating a fountain.”

“Ah, he’s playing hard-to-get. That’s cute.”

“You’re kinda anti-social, you know that?”

“I feel like a freakin’ soccer mom.”

“My advice is much more subtle. Stop being an ass.”

“I’m just gonna pack up and go straight to hell now.”

“My ex? Yeah, I’d still hit that. Except this time it would be with a car or baseball bat.”

“She’s complicated like the DaVinci code, you know but harder to crack.”

“And just like everything else we do around here, it’s about to get weirder.”

“Such big evil in such a little thing.”

“Why do I still like you, knowing you’re a total asshole?”

“What does not kill you will likely try again.”

“Oh honey, I would but… I don’t want to.”

“And hello to you too… little homewrecker.”

“I’m gonna make you wish you were dead.”

“I don’t need anger management. I need people to stop pissing me off.”

“What doesn’t kill me might make me kill you.”

“In another life, I think I was in a mental institution.”

“I’m not crazy. I’m just interesting.”

“Don’t make me pop your ten grand sand bags honey.”

“This is fun.” “Seriously, we’re trying to hide a body.”

“You have something in your hair - let me get it for you.”

“Hm? Oh, sorry. I couldn’t help but stare at you.”

“Um, would it be okay if I held your hand?”

“Shut up and kiss me already.”

“You’re the most important person in my life.”

“Are you tired? Here, I’ll carry you the rest of the way.”

“I’m not much of a chef, but… I really hope you like this.”

“Sorry for calling so late - I couldn’t stop thinking about you.”

“I need you more than you need me.”

“I want to kiss you and hold your hand any time I want.”

“I can’t stop thinking about you… I can’t.”

“The truth is… I love you.”

“You like me more than you like them, right? Right?”

“Be mine. Please.”

“I am who I am because of you.”

“It’s been a long day… let’s take a bath together.”

“Wait, don’t pull away - I want to hug you for awhile longer.”“Ah- I adore your laugh.”

“Stop that, it tickles!”

“Ouch, I bit my lip… kiss it better?”

“I don’t want to get up… I’m so warm beside you.”

“You’re so intoxicating to me.”

“Your eyes are amazing… do you know that?”

“You’re just so wonderful.”“S-Stop looking at me like that! You’re making me blush…”

“Are you tired? Rest in your head in my lap.”

“You, Me, Order In, Netflix… waddya say?”

“I want to be more than just friends with you.”

“Fuck it - do you wanna get married?”

“Your smile is beyond gorgeous… please, keep doing it.”

“Whenever we’re together, I feel at home.”

“Will you say you love me? Pleeease?”

“Wait, don’t go! Can’t you stay the night?”

“Wow - you look… amazing.”

“*Puts hands over eyes from behind* Guess whooo?”

“I’m not jealous! It’s just… you’re mine!”

“I want to go on a date! I demand it!”

“We just met, this is crazy, I’m referencing a song… but call me maybe?”

“What? No! I wasn’t staring… I-I was looking at something behind you!”

“Do you want some? Here, open your mouth… I’ll feed you some!”

“It’s been a long day… here, let me give you a massage.”

“Is it alright if I call you princess?”

“It’s not like I like you or anything! … Okay, well- maybe I do.”

“I think your perfect. Even with your flaws, you’re nothing but perfect.

NO NSFW!

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angelkurenai · 7 years ago

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Imagine being transported to a different universe where you run into your favorite character, Owen Grady, whom Dean is jealous of because of his feelings for you.

“Where the hell are we?” Dean groaned as the three of you looked around. You huffed as you jumped down in a small hole, following after them. Dean held a hand out and helped you up on your feet when they got out of it.

“Well, I’ve got an idea but you’re not going to like the sound of it.” you sighed, looking around you.

“Do I ever?” Dean mumbled to himself and you shot him a look, hitting him hard on the shoulder and he frowned like a little kid rubbing the spot.

“You know what Winchester?” you glared at him before he finally offered you an innocent smile.

“Uh guys when you’re done flirting-” Sam said with a smirk, gaining a glare from the older Winchester and a frown from you “You might wanna take a look at this?” he pointed to something and taking a few steps ahead of you, you noticed a big skull in front of you.

“Please tell me that’s not what I think it is.” Dean breathed out with wide eyes and you placed a hand over your mouth, a gasp leaving.

“This… can’t be.” you whispered, taking a few steps to inspect the big skull.

“Oh I really wish it isn’t.” Dean made a face, tilting his head to the side as he looked better at the skull.

“Oh my Chuck.” you whispered still in shock and they both gave you a look.

“What? Stop judging me, there are more important things happening here! Just look at it!” you walked around the big skull, inspecting it closely.

“Yeah, buddy over here became someone’s, probably bigger, meal. Someone I don’t look forward to meeting by the way.” he cringed as he picked a wooden stick to poke some of the flesh that was left nearby.

“Apparently.” you nodded your head “But you’re missing the most obvious of all! Can’t you see?”

“I’m going to try to ignore the fact that you’re grinning like a child in a candy store in the face of a dead who-knows-what, and flesh nearby and just ask- what is it Sherlock?”

“Well, first shut up Watson, it’s not my fault that I’m immune to blood and bones after all these years of hunting. And second, oh I don’t give that a second thought when I realize-” you stopped, laughing softly to yourself before looking at them and motioning to the skull “Guys this- this belongs to a triceratops!”

And you were only met with silence.

“A what?” Dean asked after a long pause and you looked at them to see actually both of them looking at you a little confused.

“Seriously?” you placed your hands on your hips “Were you even paying attention during Jurassic World?”

“Is that the movie you fangirled over those- what was it? Raptors?” Sam asked and you rolled your eyes.

“Seriously Sam I expected more from you.” you huffed “And… partially yes, but more for the Alpha I’d say.” you smirked softly at the memory of your favorite actor, as a scowl instantly set on Dean’s face.

“Sure, Owen. Oh the Alpha male, yes, yes we know.” he rolled his eyes.

“Oh yeah, right! Yeah, that was actually a good one.” he paused for a second “How come you even remember his name?” Sam raised an eyebrow as the older Winchester scoffed.

“Anyone would with how many times she’s mentioned it.” he said a little grumpily, looking around him “But luckily no sight of him around so how about we get going before we end up like fella over there?”

“I say I agree.” you sighed “As much as I’d love to see a velociraptor from up close I don’t plan on becoming food for it.”

“Too bad your prince charming won’t be here to control them huh?” Dean raised an eyebrow, a hint of jealousy not only in his voice but also on his face. So much so that you couldn’t fight the smirk off your face.

“That’s why he’s the Alpha after all.” you shrugged, trying to hold back your grin “But yeah, shame.” you gave the bones one last look before you followed after the grumpy older hunter, who was mumbling incoherent things to himself. You glanced at Sam to see him grinning as he followed along with you. But you didn’t get to walk far away before spotting more bones, most of the time belonging to other dinosaurs.

“Well, someone apparently forgot to clean up after the party, mom’s not gonna like this.” Dean mumbled and you took a few steps to stand next to him, following his line of sight.

“That’s… weird.” Sam muttered before you could.

“What?”

“Look at that.” he pointed ahead of him, although your vision wasn’t that clear because of the fog that surrounded the place. Somehow you appreciated the fact that you were no longer in the forest but you didn’t like what could pop out of that grey looking smoke.

“Yeah so, more bones. We got it, it’s freaking Jurassic Park. We face monster on an everyday basis, why has something so normal to be weird for us now?”

“Not, that’s not the weird. It’s…” Sam shook his head and you narrowed your eyes, finally able to understand what he was trying to say “Those can’t be… bones.” he finally breathed out.

“Well, you became an expert in dino anatomy now?” Dean gave his brother a look but you shook your head, rushing to what for the first time seemed to shock you more than the prehistoric creatures you were coexisting with at the moment.

“I don’t have to be an expert, Dean, just look better! What kind of bones have glass on them? If we’re supposedly in a world of dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures.” Sam said matter-of-factly and the older Winchester glanced at you, a silent conversation going on between the two of you as your eyes moved back and forth, staring into his – in a way it seemed to happen more and more often lately – before you gave him a weak nod.

“Then let’s take a better look.” he said firmly in a low and rough voice as all three of you got your guns out. They wouldn'tbe of much use but if there was something else around, more than just dinosaurs, you should better be safe than sorry. Your steps were careful, slow and calculated.

However when there was a deep rumble you all looked up and when the ground shook Dean’s first thought was to take hold of your hand and give you a look.

“Stay behind me.” he instructed, standing slightly in front of you protectively when you noticed the deep rumble came from what was only a few feet in front of you.

“What the hell is going on here?” Sam asked, although he didn’t expect an answer.

“I’m not sure. But what I do know is that-” he sighed, lowering his gun “We defintiely have company, and it’s not Raptors.” he moved to the side and you felt your eyes go wide and all air get knocked out of your lungs when you stared at what Sam had previously realized wasn’t bones. And oh was he right.

“No way.” you breathed out as you stared at the large sphere in front of you.

“Are you even up there?” Dean asked in annoyance, looking up at the sky “Out of all the freaking movies, it had to be this you created a universe out of?! So many fucking universes and yet we ended up- here?!”

“Wait isn’t this what they had in-” Sam’s words were interrupted by a deep rumble, stronger than before as the earth shook and all three of you knew it wasn’t something normal as a typical earthquake. More like something close to a volcano accompanied by an earthquake.

“Do you… hear that?” Sam asked, looking in the direction the smoke was coming from and you and Dean frowned.

“…Blue?” he asked and a soft laugh left your lips. You gave him a look and he shrugged but didn’t say anything because Sam spoke up before him.

“Uh guys, check that out.” he pointed in front of him at the fog-like smoke and you followed his gaze, squinting as the sound from before kept being repeated. A figure slowly started appearing and then realization downed on you as you understood the very simple sound… a word.

“Run! Run!” the person was sprinting as well, fear all over his face, as he motioned frantically with his hands “Run!” he yelled at you and when it all became crystal clear another gasp left your lips.

“Are those…” Sam trailed off as he looked at the dinosaurs running right behind him.

“Is that…” you trailed off as you looked at the man.

“Owen” Dean all-but-groaned.

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fracturedlayers · 7 years ago

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Fewer things brought swifter retribution than messing with Bernadette’s things, but that hadn’t stopped the Graceless Nephil from combing through her bunker stash of... well, relics stolen from the people she killed. Usually she took weapons, sometimes articles of clothing, though Sam and Dean finally managed to discourage that, seeing how earth wasn’t like purgatory and walking around in a dead man’s coat was a great way to get ID’d.

Jack wasn’t interested in guns, knives or broken jewelry. Wasn’t interested in the spare needles for the vials strapped to her gauntlets, wasn’t interested in an alarming number of angel blades, wasn’t interested in a faded picture of a little girl that looked like her with a different name scrawled across the back.

He found what he came for, what he’d overheard Bernadette and Gabriel discussing a while back. Vials upon vials of Grace. At least 30, if not more. All glowing in a box tucked in the back of her closet.

Jack yelped as a hand materialized in a plume of red smoke and clamped over his mouth while a dangerous voice whispered in his ear.

“What part of stay out of my space was too hard to understand.”

The Nephil scrambled away as deft hands reclaimed the box of stolen Grace. Pale blue eyes locked with brown and his jaw set with anger before holding out his hand.

“Give them to me. Castiel doesn’t need them, and Gabriel will recover on his own. You said it yourself, they’re just going to rot in here with the rest of your shit.”

Rarely did Jack swear, and it did nothing to defuse the situation.

“Don’t you fucking judge me, you have no IDEA what I’ve BEEN THROUGH. If I wanted even a hint of the real world, I had to SCAVENGE IT off a dead man’s BODY. I had to KILL to catch a glimpse of life on earth!”

“YOU’RE ON EARTH! YOU DON’T NEED A N Y - OF THIS. NOT ANYMORE.”

Jack turned and clasped both hands over the back of his head, eerily similar to Cas. It was like looking through a mirror sometimes, but he still wasn’t Cas, who would be immensely disappointed in both of them right now. Her especially.

“Look,” she breathed, putting the box back on the shelf, “you don’t need it. You’re still you, or did you not listen to a word Gabriel said?”

“I listened,” he muttered, swiping at his eyes, “but what if it doesn’t have to be like this. Castiel stole an angel’s Grace when he lost his, and he’s fine.”

“Is that...?” Bernadette tilted her head back with disbelief before steepled hands pressed against her chin. “Oh my sweet summer child. He’s fine because he managed to recover some of his own Grace. When all he had was Theo’s, it had a shelf life. It wasn’t his, and it was dying, and he was dying with it. That’s why I stole from all those angels. I thought... I thought the variety would buy him time. But you have to understand, he wouldn’t have needed that time if he hadn’t stolen Theo’s Grace. He would have just stayed human. He would have aged like Sam and Dean, but he wouldn’t have been on such a short clock. He gave up decades for a few months of being an angel again. I don’t know if he knew that would happen, but still.”

Jack looked horribly frightened and torn, and he pushed back more tears as they threatened to break free.

“But maybe you’re right, maybe with variety-”

“Jack, you’re so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn’t stop to think if you should.”

His face pinched in at that, yet another eerie echo of Cas.

“What does... Dr. Ian Malcolm’s issue with genetically engineered dinosaurs have to do with this?”

Bernadette’s eyes slid shut, and she raised both hands emphatically.

“I am, so proud of you for knowing that. But ignore the dinosaurs and think about what he said. Think what Gabe would say.”

Jack swallowed hard, but he was always eager to show he could listen.

“He said I’m still me. I’m... the son of Kelly Kline, and I have three dads and what happened to me isn’t my fault.”

“It’s not. You’re still you. But Jack, if you do this? You might end up living on borrowed time. You might feel like you don’t have enough Grace and want more.”

He rounded on her then, and made as if to grab her arm.

“You think I would hurt people like HE DID-!?” but she teleported out of reach, face tight as she pointed at his livid form with warning.

“Do NOT touch me. You’re looking for a fight and right now this is one you will not win. I’m not saying you’d want to hurt anyone, I just know Satan wasn’t happy unless he was eating Grace. Maybe it’s addicting, I don’t know. What I do know is I’ll never be able to look anyone in this bunker in the eye again if you do this and it goes south.”

“They wouldn’t hate you,” Jack muttered, looking down at his tied shoelaces, “Castiel loves you. I felt it. So does Gabriel. He hides on his bad days because he doesn’t want you to think he isn’t happy to see you when he can’t keep up. They’ve both been mad at each other, and Sam and Dean, and everyone still loves each other. They’d still love you. I wouldn’t hate you either, even if you don’t like me.”

Bernadette was pale and stricken, though that last statement returned some life to her face.

“I do like you, Jack. I just... I don’t know what I’m supposed to be to you. You picked Cas as your dad, hell you two even look similar. And he thinks of you as his kid, and I’m... fuck, I’m nobody’s mom. I can’t be your sister and date your dad-”

“Are you two finally dating-”

“Shut up, okay, I will destroy you.”

“Is that why you stayed in his room last night and he didn’t come out like he usually does-”

“Okay- OKAY yes, you’re extremely observant, again, shut up. My point is... I don’t know what I need to be to you. And I don’t know what Cas wants me to be to you, and I might as well ask him the meaning of life because that’d probably be just as easy for him to answer.”

Jack’s ice blue eyes narrowed in thought.

“What about... my aunt? Castiel is technically my uncle.”

The corner of Bernadette’s mouth dipped in approving contemplation at that.

“I suppose I could be a crazy aunt. I’ve been worse things. You don’t have to call me that, though.”

Jack smirked, weak as it was, for the first time since he’d entered that room. He chanced a step forward, eyes drifting back to the box.

“Still, it’s... it’s my body. And it’s my life. Why can’t I make this decision on my own?”

She sighed heavily, and scrubbed both hands down her exhausted face.

“Jack, you’re still a kid. You haven’t seen your first birthday. This could be a death sentence when you’ve barely lived. Even if you get your powers back, it won’t be the same. It won’t be like it never happened. If a lack of Grace was killing you, then absolutely, I’d have half of them shoved down your throat already, but we. Don’t. KNOW. Look, nobody here wants to see you hurting. Nobody. But losing you would be so much worse. I’m sorry, okay, I’m sorry, for how awful I was to you in the beginning. I’m sorry I blamed you for Castiel’s death because the guy I should have taken it out on was in another dimension. I’m not... I’m not gonna bury these vials, but I want you to think about it. Really think about it. Talk to Cas and Gabe, maybe they have a better idea of what might go down. I’m not an angel, I’m just-”

“Someone who swallowed a jar full of powers she didn’t fully understand.”

“Injected them, actually, but that’s fair. Okay, that’s fair. I thought I had to get stronger to protect Cas, and I’d be lying if I said the thought of being something more than human in and of itself wasn’t appealing. But there was a WIDE fucking margin of error in purgatory. Nothing stays dead in purgatory. If the ADAM and the plasmids killed me, I would have just woken up somewhere else.”

The Nephil looked back down at his shoes in defeat, and turned as if to leave. She materialized in his path with a cloud of red smoke and caught his gaze.

“Talk to your family. Think about this. Consider every angle. And if the answer is still yes, come find me.”

He swiped at his eyes again and nodded.

“Thank you.”

#jack.#ic #bernadette is at nichtsehen #illusivexemissary #mindofcolcrs

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rahullkohli · 7 years ago

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pairings: dean/cas word count: 2,010 tags: fluff fluff and fluff notes: i meant to do a 24 days of christmas thing, but december kicked me in the teeth, so instead i’ll just do small destiel stuff here and there throughout the month. they will all be in this tag

”Now, that is extremely inaccurate,” Cas exclaimed with lines filling his forehead. With a small sigh Dean pressed the button on the computer, pausing the movie. ”What is?” He asked and took a mouthful of beer. Every time this happened whenever they were watching a movie it called for alcohol.

”An angel doesn't get his wings just because a human rings a bell. We are created with wings,” Cas explained, and turned slightly to look at Dean where he was faced with an amused smile. ”What?” He asked. ”Do I have something on my face?” A small laugh fell from Dean's mouth with a shake of his head. ”No. But come on, man. That's not the point of the movie. You gotta... You gotta learn to separate things. It's not like they had angel consultants. People make up stupid shit for entertainment value.”

It happened from time to time. They would watch a movie, and Cas would point out mistakes. Whether it be something biblical or historical. Once he even corrected the narrator of a dinosaur program and Sam ate it all up. Dean found it both annoying and endearing.

”So what you are saying is that I should not pay attention to detail when we watch films?”

Dean chewed on that for a bit, let it sink in, and searched for a way to phrase what was on his mind. ”No, just... remember that it's just a movie. Like... when I watch a movie about vampires I know that ain't how they're really killed. You know, stake to the heart and all. But I don't let it ruin a good flick for me.”

Cas bit his lower lip and nodded quietly as he looked back to the screen where the Hollywood-angel in black and white was sitting with a pondering gaze. ”I can do that. I can do that, yes.”

Dean pressed the button and let the movie roll again as he clincked his bottle against Cas'.

To Dean, Christmas was definitely the most horrible time of the year. It came with a lot of baggage for him, and even though they had found a home in the bunker, it still didn't feel quite right to celebrate when childhood memories showed their ugly face, and with all the crap going on in the world. So this year Sam had taken a trip to Chicago to see old Stanford friends for the holidays, which was a welcome surprise for Dean who had already planned for beer and movies and nothing else. The fact that Cas was there to share it with him... Well, that definitely made it all way better.

The rest of the movie went by in silence, save for a few laughs here and there. Right up until the end of the movie where that line made its reprise. ”Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings,” little Zuzu beamed proudly, and Dean half expected Cas to come with another confused remark. But he didn't. He kept quiet, all through the roll of the credits.

They helped each other clean up and got ready for bed as usual. It had gotten late, and they had run out of drinks, so there wasn't much else to do than hit the sheets. Choosing to watch A Wonderful Life with Cas wasn't something Dean had done with the whole angel theme in mind. It was a classic, and he wanted to share a bit of the human experience with Cas. There was a lot he had missed, and how could Dean not let him have a little slice of the good things. They faced more than enough of the crap on a regular day.

They went about their business and soon found the warmth underneath the sheets with the dark of the room surrounding them. It was real nice, Dean always thought, how Cas would stay in bed with him even though he didn't need sleep himself. It was a good way to chase away bad dreams, Dean had found, to have Cas there with him. Close enough to feel and touch, to seek refuge with when the terrors crept into his head and filled him with adrenaline and fear. Cas was always there. To make him feel safe.

”Do you ever miss it?” Dean suddenly asked, not sure where he was going with it, but the question had been fiddling around the back of his head for a long time, maybe even years, and for some reason it felt like he was gonna choke on it if he didn't get it out.

With a small huff Cas turned around, meeting Dean's eyes through the dark. ”I thought you were asleep by now... Miss what?” He wondered, voice gruff with unuse. ”Just... Heaven. The other... Other angels, y'know.” Now that the words were out of his mouth he was a little scared. What if Cas said yes? It wouldn't be right for Dean to do anything but tell him to go back, then. If Cas really missed it, it would be selfish of Dean to keep a hold of him on Earth.

But there was no way in hell Dean could go through the rest of his life without Cas there.

”I don't get... Why are you asking me this all of a sudden?” Cas stared at Dean, eyes flickering and brows narrowing. ”I just – You know what? Never mind, okay? It was just a dumb thought,” Dean mumbled and squeezed Cas' arm gently, his thumb brushing over soft skin.

The room fell silent again, and Dean watched Cas for a while. He could see that a billion thoughts were flying around in his mind, and he didn't want to press him about it. It was a big subject, and not one that was usually brought up. Talk of angels and Heaven was rare – not just between Dean and Cas, but in general. It appeared that Cas wished to not speak of it, so nobody else did. It only ever resurfaced whenever they were working a case where it was pertinent, all other times Cas might as well have been a regular human there to live and die like the rest of them.

Dean had just returned to closing his eyes, ready to get some sleep, when Cas spoke again. His words were soft, and he almost seemed ashamed which broke Dean's heart. ”I do. But I don't,” he said. Dean kept his eyes closed, feeling like it might be easier for Cas to get the words out if there was no eye contact. Or maybe he was simply to scared to see it for himself.

”I mean... They were my brothers and sisters. It's my home. For ages. I have seen worlds created and destroyed with them by my side. I have fought and killed to protect them and our home. For eons the angels were the only ones I saw, and I had never been apart from them for more than days before I met you.”

The word pierced like needles in Dean's ears. Home. What he himself had longed for. For a lifetime before they found the bunker. And even that felt like it was missing something from time to time, in order for it to be a real home. Cas had left that behind to be on Earth with him.

”I'm sorry, man,” Dean said quietly. ”I don't think I've ever said it out loud. I guess I kinda just hoped that you knew, but... I'm sorry. I never wanted to take you away from your home. Your family. I can't even imagine –” He broke off, taking a moment to breathe. ”The times Sam and I have been apart for more than a couple weeks has always been wrecking. Not knowing how he was doing, or if he was even still breathing. It's scary. And the angels these days... They're falling like flies.”

”Dean,” Cas cut him off firmly, grabbing his wrist. ”Let me finish.” Their eyes met each other, and Dean gave a nod. They were so close, the beds of the bunker ridiculously small, and Dean could feel the moist warmth of Cas' breath on his skin, and the rising and falling of his chest when he breathed. He always found it strange how these so very human functions still were there even though Cas wasn't technically a living organism with need for it the way he did himself. But it always felt good when they were lying in bed, and Dean could use Cas' breathe as a way of calming himself. That was a part of what made the bunker home for him.

”What I mean is... I miss it. What it was. Before the wars, before God left us and the worst we had to worry about was humans losing faith in us, or using their faith as an excuse to do bad things in our father's name.” His fingers had started to dance up and down Dean's arm, tickling on skin that made his hair stand on ends and a rizzle run down his spine.

”But that's not how it is anymore. It hasn't been that for a long time. It was good for me. I was content. But I was also someone else than I am today. I had no thoughts that were bred of my own mind, nor any wishes or curiosity. I was a soldier in line with the rest of them. It was good because it was all I had ever known.”

A smile curled at the corners of his lips, and Dean couldn't help but return it. The knot that had been sitting in the back of his throat had started to desolve, and his chest was no longer heavy as it had been minutes before.

”Before I met you and Sam my existence wasn't my own. But now I've got a life. I am fighting because I believe that the war we are battling is for something good. I let myself be entertained by popular culture like movies and music, and you showed me that it can be enriching. Even when it doesn't make complete sense.”

Dean chuckled, the smile on his face now wide and open. As much as Cas never spoke of Heaven, he also didn't talk about how he was adjusting to Earth in this way. It was mostly a random remark every now and again, or Dean would pick up on small signs, like if Cas made a pop culture reference, or he turned up the volume when a song came on the radio.

”And you,” Cas continued. ”Not just my time on Earth with you and Sam. But my time with you. Alone. I can actually feel what humans sing about, and – at first I didn't understand when people talked about having butterflies. It made no sense for people to have insects in their organs. But the fluttering feeling when I'm with you... I get it now. It makes me feel like swarms are flying around inside of me.”

Now Dean was full on laughing, cheeks warm and his heart popping and dancing in his chest. If this wasn't what life was supposed to be, he didn't even want the real thing. ”Babe, that is some sappy ass shit,” he grinned and ran hand down the back of Cas' head. ”I turned you all soft and gooey,” he chuckled and leaned closer to press his mouth against Cas', letting it linger for a while.

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laurenpandora · 7 years ago

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ScoobyNatural

So, I loved this episode. Honestly one of the best episodes ever. I know it's had mixed reviews from some people who really dislike Scooby Doo but the rest of us loved it and I really think they did a fantastic job with this. The animation was so good, the characters look like them, and although their movements are a lot more cartoonish it's still believably them which I'm really happy about. I've been hyped for this episode for weeks and honestly it was worth the wait.

So this episode starts and we're launched straight into the episode with no recaps or 'previously' scenes. Which is jarring enough in itself, but we're also launched straight into the middle of a fight scene. This kinda messed with my head a little as SPN doesn't usually start with them already in the middle of a case, fighting the monster. The next confusing thing is the fact that they seem to be fighting a human-sized plush dinosaur in the middle of a store. Bit weird but we go with it. Dean commenting that "killing Barney" was pretty satisfying made me laugh.

The store owner offers them something from the store to say thankyou and of course Sam is very humble and refused, but Dean can't miss an opportunity like that. "Take it easy, she's delicate" They carry out a large TV and of course Dean personifies the thing, calling it a 'she' which is what he also does with his car so we can tell he's already quite attached to the Television.

"Be like Elsa. Let it go." Sometimes Dean's references show a very different side to him. He wants Sam to drop the case because 'it's over' but Sam obviously knows something is wrong about it. Dean distracts Sam though because he's so excited to show him what he's been doing with one of the rooms in the bunker.

"The Dean cave.. or.. Fortress of Deanitude.." That's actually kind of adorable. He's so happy about it and I love that. Dean being at home in the bunker is my jam. He never had a home for so long, sleeping in the car and cheap motels and living on the road for years, and now that they have the bunker, and he can decorate, and make it his, he gets almost domestic and this is just so good for him. The rare happy Dean moments seem to be increasing and that is so beautiful.

He makes a big show of turning on the TV, and something isn't right. It sparks purple and they're both confused. Dean actually tilts his head and I'm instantly reminded of Castiel. I wonder if Dean picked that up from him?

Then they're both sucked into the TV.

They freak out because they're suddenly animated, and they do it in such a cartoonish way both at the same time saying "you're a cartoon! I'm a cartoon!" it's very funny.

"Maybe this is an angel thing. Or the trickster." "No, he's dead." "Or is he?" No! He's not! It's almost like they know. Dean even said it really ominously. This makes me so happy. Dean calls out Sam for being confused about the car getting there, like as if everything else about this is just mildly weird, but the car being there is just not possible.. XD

They drive to a Malt Shop - I have no idea what one of those is - and see the Mystery Machine, which is how they figure out they're in Scooby Doo. Then we get the ScoobyNatural title scene, which seems pretty late on in the episode but I guess it wouldn't have made sense to have it at the beginning.

Dean fanboying over the Scooby Gang is so childlike.. but then he's instantly after Daphne which I find a bit creepy. I know it's a cartoon, and I know that it's all meant to be fairly innocent, Dean has been a fan of this show since he was a child, but it's still weird to me. Canonically Daphne is in her late teens. Dean Winchester is in his late 30s. That's a little weird to me. But since his Daphne crush probably started when he was a child himself, and the characters are just animations.. I'll let it go for now I guess.

"I dunno. Cas is kinda like a talking dog" Dean compares their lives hunting to Scooby Doo and it's kinda cute. He sees the characters as 'role models' which is kinda funny because the Winchesters have literally saved the world so many times, and the Scooby Gang.. not so much. He even seems quite nervous to meet them.

Scooby is apparently the heir to a fortune left to him by an 'Old southern Colonel'. Please tell me this was an intentional reference to Asmodeus? Even Dean called the guy 'Evil Colonel Sanders' earlier this season, and we've all been calling him that since before then, so this can't be a coincidence, right?

"There are no words in this newspaper, Dean" This really got me. One of my favourite things ever is when cartoon characters point out stuff like this. Even though obviously Sam and Dean do know theyre in a cartoon, the 4th wall breaks like this still make me laugh. Dean decides they have to play along because he assumes it's like the Changing Channels episode and they have to 'play their part'. Honestly a lot of us were hoping that Gabriel had something to do with this episode, but I guess we're waiting for the next episode to see him again.

The part where Dean eats the giant sandwich actually reminds me of Changing Channels:

Dean really dislikes Fred and I'm guessing it's because he's jealous of him? Not just the FredxDaphne thing but his, and I quote: "perfect hair, his can-do attitude, that stupid ascot". The way Dean talks, he's so needlessly angry at Fred just for being Fred, he either low key wishes he was more like that, or he's got some weird crush on Fred too? I wont read too much into that right now. I did notice though, that as they speed off racing the mystery machine, there is a large sign that just says 'LUBE'. I'm sure that's just a completely innocent background image but what can I say, my mind is often in the gutter.

So they get to the house and yes the late Colonel is actually called Colonel Sanders, which Sam and Dean both notice, but I think it was more as a 'thats kinda stupid' reaction than anything. "Spend a night in a haunted house for a million dollars? That can't be legal." Trust Sam to think of it that way, but he's got a point. But then, it is a classic movie trope. Velma points out that 'things like this happen all the time' because obviously in cartoons, in her universe, they do.

Dean doesn't want to tell them that they're in a cartoon, they're innocent and pure and he wants them to stay that way (despite flirting with Daphne, ahem) which seems like a good plan until crap starts getting real. "Oh Dean. Boys and girls don't sleep in the same room, silly." Yep, Dean is right, the Scooby Gang are definitely innocent and pure. Daphne calls out Velma for being interested in Sam, which I thought was a bit of an unexpected development but kinda funny.

Then one of the background characters is killed.

"Jinkies" "Jeepers" "Zoinks" "Ruh Roh" "Son of a bitch." This really got me, just all the Scooby catchphrases and then Deans which is just so wildly different.

"We should look for evidence. Like fingerprints. Or fluids." This sentence is where it starts to get a little uncomfortable. It's a little like watching the first 'Don't hug me I'm scared' episode. It's slowly pushing the boundary of not so happy and innocent. They're still so chipper though, someone has just died and they're all like 'ooh a mystery'. That's not normal, guys.

Then they see an ominous figure at the window in a trenchcoat and I think we're supposed to think it's the ghost but everyone I watched this with already knew it was gonna be Castiel. "Castiel? It sounds like a great italian pizza place." I'm dying. Actually dying of laughter. Poor Cas.

Cas explains how he got there and we get a scene where he's at the bunker talking about getting the fruit of life. He didn't check they were there before launching into his story about the fruit, which is good because it means we get to hear about it. Apparently he had to make a deal with some Djinns and he may have technically married their Queen? This particular scene was hilarious and was what sparked the tweet from Rachel Miner that I posted the screenshot of the other day.

"Killer stuffed dinosaur?" "Uh I didn't mean a real..." "It's a book we're writing. Yeah. About Killer stuffed Dinosaurs. It's called-" "The Killer Stuffed Dinosaur..In Love." The hell kinda books has Cas been reading? I hope someone writes this book though. SPN Fandom, don't let us down. I would do it but I can't write. Which you can probably tell from my posts..

They try to fight the ghost but quickly realise that it's definitely not a person in a costume. Velma's levels of denial are almost impressive.

Then they find a chopped up guy and it gets pretty disgusting. "That's not good." Really, Fred? Really? "Do they always just.. walk away from dead bodies? or?" Sam is the cynical commentary I didn't know I needed for this episode, I love it. Also Fred cockblocking Dean at every turn is magical.

"Wonderful. I once led armies and now I'm paired with a scruffy philistine and a talking dog." Sassy Castiel is my favourite. <3 Velma is still insistent that the ghost is just an 'unscrupulous real estate developer' or something similar, even when Sam tries to explain the truth. I know I'd have trouble believing in ghosts in her position, but the stubborness is quite painful. Dean tries again to flirt with Daphne by asking what she looks for in a guy, and she basically just describes Fred which is hilarious. Dean notices a book "The one that isn't painted into the background of the car- hm - library" and there's that cartoon 4th wall again. Pointing out how the important props are always so obvious in cartoons. They fall down the secret passage and Dean is trying to get handsy with Daphne in the dark. Yeah ok Dean that's definitely creepy, stop it.

Now we've got the obligatory Scooby Doo running about the house scene, complete with music and doors and popping out of vases. And Scrappy Doo randomly even though he wasn’t even there. Fantastic. Love it.

"We have to stop this ghost" "We almost did. Dean had him by the thigh" "He what?" I don't even know what to say about this so I'm just gonna leave it here.

Scooby and Shaggy falling off the building, being saved by Cas with his coat as a parachute is possibly the best part of this entire episode. This was the point where I started wondering if Castiel still has his angel powers inside the cartoon. Shaggy gets badly hurt which just doesn't happen in Scooby Doo episodes, as pointed out angrily by Shaggy: "I have jumped out of a biplane in a museum and was fine!".

This I guess is the final straw and they decide to tell the gang the truth. Which seems like a good plan on the surface but then they all start having a mass existential crisis. "We've been stopping real estate developers when we could have been hunting dracula? Are you kidding me? My life is meaningless!" "If there are ghosts.. that means theres an afterlife! Heaven! Hell! Am I going to Hell?!" ..Daphne, what did you do?

"Scooby Gang does not have nervous breakdowns." Yeah you tell them Dean.. Like, you just ruined their lives, ripped apart their entire concept of reality, and they're all scared teenagers but yes lets tell them to pull themselves together. He does make a damned good motivational speech though. He tells them how they're heroes and honestly, even I felt better after this speech.

"We can help. We have to." "F**king right you can." Dean swore. And they bleeped him. This doesn't even happen in regular Supernatural episodes. Like holy crap. I think I heard somewhere that the F word wasn't in the script but when Jensen said it they just left it in? I've been watching convention videos on youtube so it was probably at Paleyfest or something?

Their weird rube-goldberg style trap for the ghost is.. inventive? The salt and the coconuts and the soap and the washing machine.. They send Shaggy, Scooby and Castiel to sneak around the house and the animation of them sneaking is just gold..

I cannot imagine Cas walking like this and that just makes the whole thing funnier. And of course the three of them end up in the washing machine instead of the ghost. Because Cartoon logic. "Freds traps never work" of course they have a plan B which seems to be some kind of glowing salt circle. I wish salt circles were that pretty in real life. It's kinda sparkling.

The ghost turns out to be a child, who is being controlled by the pawn shop owners friend, Jay. When they go back in the other room the Scooby Gang are freaking out, yelling about shotguns and traps and panicking about the ghost, so the boys decide they need to get the kid to fix the episode. "Kill it with fire!" is not something I ever thought I'd hear from Daphne.

Sam seems to be in pain trying to tell Velma she was right. Which is understandable, as she's been so smug about him believing in ghosts for the whole episode. It's gotta be difficult to tell her she's right when she isn't.

They finally get to do the whole pulling the mask off part, completing the episode, and Castiel sneakily fixes Shaggys arm, which I guess answers the angel powers question I had earlier. Everything is back to how it should be.

They say goodbye to the gang and Cas saying goodbye to Scooby and Shaggy is so beautiful but so funny at the same time. Velma kisses Sam, which is weird af and then she wanders off talking about his shoulders... I don't even know what to make of that.

"That was the coolest thing that's ever happened to me. And that includes the Cartwright twins." "What did you do with the Cartwright twins?" For gods sake do not ask, Cas. Sam doesn't want to know either.

They're all back in the real world and Dean has to smash his TV open. I kinda wonder if he couldn't have just taken it apart to get the knife out? I guess that would have taken time but it seems to me that would have been the better option? He could maybe even have just tipped it upside down? Seeing as it was just dropped into a hole in the top of the TV. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Maybe I'm just upset about breaking electronics. Either way, they set the spirit free, and it's super emotional.

They go to confront the 'bad man' as the kid called him and Dean is wearing an Ascot scarf thing over his jacket and plaid shirt getup. It clashes badly and does not suit him at all to be honest. They expose Jay for what he's been doing, but of course no one but them is going to believe it, so they also have some convenient tax evasion dirt on him so that the police can take him in.

"Velma was right. It was a shady real estate developer after all." That is such a twist ending. That's hilarious.

Then the guy says the 'meddling kids' line, even though Sam, Dean and Castiel are not kids? They're grown men. Bit confusing but I guess it had to be done? Dean doing the impression of Scooby Doo was a little cringey though. "Dean. You're not a talking dog." That.

He's right that red is his colour. But the ascot is not a good look.

This was a really fun episode and I really enjoyed it. I rewatched it to write this post and I am half tempted to watch it a third time already... Very impressed.

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unleashthemidnight · 7 years ago

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SPN goes NSP: Guess Who’s Back (Just In Time For The Christmas) pt 2

Christmas Calendar: Masterlist SPN goes NSP: GWB part 1, part 2, part 3 Chapter name: Dinosaur Laser Fight People: Reader (x Gabriel), Winchesters, Danny Sexbang Synopsis: You were doing preparations for the Christmas celebration with Sam and Dean in the bunker when the party invitation threw you in the loop. Will you learn something new? Word count: 1100+ Warnings: Crack, language, song lyrics usage, The Frying Pan™ Notes: This is second part of the GWB and also part of the Christmas Calendar. NSP is amazing band called NinjaSexParty, whose songs, covers and music videos I have used. Songs are listed at the end of the fic. I would like to thank @serendiptious-esparza for helping me do some references by answering my questions; thank you darling <3 Here we go again, hope you all enjoy! This is still the shit that no one asked for. Reblogs and comments are loved Do not repost

It had been years since you were in school. Your hunting days happened shortly after graduation so you basically had more typical childhood and teen years compared to Winchesters. Sometimes you wondered how life would have been if you hadn't choose the hunter life. Would it have been even possible to just not do it? Would you have managed to avoid it all? You would probably have job from your field and somesort of apartment somewhere, maybe a significant other to go on your days and roam different stores and cities with. Someone who would hold your hand and whose hugs would tell you that everything would be okay. Someone who you would kiss in the rain. The things that you had with Gabriel. It would have meant that you wouldn't have met him. It would have meant that you wouldn't have met the Winchesters. You wouldn't have met Castiel. Sure you wouldn't have got yourself hurt multiple times and suffered from the pain unimaginable to most people, but thinking about your loved ones and not meeting them, the thought of that... You didn't regret any of that.

The hunter life wasn't easy, it never is. As much as you had have horror and pain in your life that you couldn't talk about to the most of the population, you didn't want to change a thing. You loved your memories. They made you the person who you were today. And you loved your brothers. They might have not been your real brothers, but family didn’t end with blood. And there you were now, back at the school, waking up at the familiar school desk near the windows in the backrow. Whiteboard, maps on the wall, cheap shelf for the books about different things. The technology was advanced since you had been in school but this classroom still used ever so familiar older school technology, the ones you could always seen in tumblr posts. The teacher’s desk was a mess; unfinished papers, tests to have, pens everywhere else than in the holder. Under one tipped over paper pile you could see handle of the… frying pan? What the... Your eyes soon found Sam and Dean next to you at the same row. ”Where are we?” you asked. ”Uh, school?” Sam answered shrugging his shoulders. ”Oh, are we now.” Sam received annoyed blank stare and sigh from you as you channeled your inner assistant district attorney from Manhattan. ”I just really - Wh- Why I can't move?” The boys didn't know and couldn't move either. As you tried to free yourself from the invisible force, other people, students by the looks of them, started to come in and found their own desks. You quickly decided to see where everything would go while Sam was more interested in what he would learn. The teacher walked in. You, Dean and Sam looked at each other not sure of what you were actually seeing. ”Hello class. I'm sorry but your normal professor couldn't be here today. So I'm your substitude teacher, Danny Sexbang, and this ninja science lesson's gonna rock your world. Are you ready to learn?! Alright, don't care, let's hit it!” Danny welcomed everyone. The substitude teacher was the same man as the host in the garage party. This time he had proper clothes on, a suit that would actually fit for the teaching job. 10 points to Gryffindor, you mentally noted. Only two things had remained the same with your jumping in different places: Danny Sexbang and the frying pan. By the process of elimination you made determinations on who just might be behind of the party invitation and knew more than wanted to tell. It has to be the frying pan. Everytime you tried to ask about something about the party invitation or the world shifting from your “teacher”, most peculiar things happened that either stopped you from asking things or you couldn't understand the response so you basically gave up with that. Maybe when class would be over, you could actually move and ask questions from other people. You didn't pay any attention to the teaching, Dean slept and Sam was naturally making notes on the papers that he had borrowed from another student. Sam said that he might as well make use of the situation when you couldn't leave. Danny walked over to your desk. ”Am I in trouble Mr. Sexbang?” you looked at him while playing your innocent card that was very familiar from your actual school days. Maybe you should have become an actor. Maybe you would have ended up getting a role as Marla McGowan on Broadway or the role of the doctor in The Normal Heart. ”Uh-huh,” Danny's voice got your attention again, ”But as much as I like to gaze into your beautiful starry eyes, I need you to close them and travel back in time with me for the next history lesson,” Danny answered to your question and whispered to your ear, ”It's gonna blow your mind.” Something in that made you shiver but still trust him. You closed your eyes. ”It was very ordinary day, day like this one at Dinosaur High, when stegosaurus raised his hand and called for high-fives. Tyrannosaurus saw this and got pissed because his tiny wrists caused his high-five to miss and he was like ”Fuck this!” Oh yeah, oh Hells yeah, it was classic old school futuristic prehistoric throwdown known as Dinosaur Laser Fight! But it was quiet because in space there's no sound. Did I mention that this took place in space? It did. Also, there were robots and sharks. It was a goddamn, balls out Dinosaur Laser Fight in space, with sharks - -” ”Doctor Sexbang, did this really happen?” one of the other students asked interrupting the monologue. The question made you open your eyes. You really wanted to see Danny's reaction. ”Uh, yeah. It's fucking science. Just ask Albert Einstein, he invented space. So shut your face,” Danny answered hurt from the question that interrupted his historically accurate storytelling, and then continued, ”- - and then bunch of fuckin' aliens from Mars showed up all ripping solos on V-neck quitars. The dinos, the sharks and the robots saw that the aliens came in peace so THEY KILLED THEM WITH LASERS. HOLY SHIT, CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT!?” The yelling managed to wake Dean up. ”And then they had a giant laser party. A Dinosaur Laser Party. The end. The assigment is to write 10 page analysis of one of the aspect of the aftermath of this fight. Mostly about the party. Make sure to add pictures so I don't fall asleep while reading those.” ”What did I miss?” Dean asked still half-asleep from you two. ”Just a punch of non-sense really,” Sam sighed disappointed. ”Mister Winchester, are you saying that my teachings don't meet your standards? This might not be Stanford but it doesn't mean you could be disrespectful,” Danny spoke to Sam making all of you tense up. Seeing your faces made Danny chuckle. Oh, he would have fun with this if the circumstances were different. ”Well then, I take that you won't do that again. Class dismissed.” For the third time, the world shifted making the classroom and everyone around you to disappear.

Christmas Calendar tag: @sumara62, @authoressskr, @be-fantastic, @pizzamanteachings Gabe tag: @nobodys-baby-now, @dlb1999 Hit me with ask or message if you would like to join!

NinjaSexParty's songs used in this fic, not in order

Dinosaur Laser Fight x

The Decision x

Ninja Brian was so Ninja that you couldn't see him in the locker that was in the hallway. The place where you never went.

#gabriel x reader #gabriel #gabriel fanfiction #reader insert #supernatural fanfiction #supernatural #ninjasexparty #danny sexbang #danny sexbang fanfiction #spn crack #crack fic #unleashthemidnight writes #SPN goes NSP #Guess Who's Back #unleash the christmas #rewriting the history #with dinosaurs and lasers

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bibliophileiz · 7 years ago

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Wayward AF

Since I can’t really organize my thoughts without screaming and jumping up and down and I’m just going to, um, “liveblog” on like my ... sixth? ... rewatch. Wayward Sisters was just. So good.

Obviously, spoilers abound below.

- First thing first: Opening song in the Then sequence has me pumped.

- Werewolf stuff: Love that Claire is saving a little girl with blond curly hair. Bet she kind of wishes she had that happy an ending to her supernatural adventure when she was that age. Werewolf fight scene is really good -- Kathryn Newton’s using actual defense moves women are taught in self-defense classes. I’m specifically thinking of how you jam the heel of your hand into the softer part of an attacker’s face when he’s on top of you. “I kill monsters. That’s who the hell I am.” Yeah, it is. Also, for all Jody (and Claire) go on about Claire jumping in without a plan, I think the ‘shooting a werewolf through a box while wearing a delivery hat’ thing constitutes a pretty good one.

- Alert, Claire has a journal. Repeat, CLAIRE HAS A JOURNAL!

- Loving all the overhead shots, but does anyone else think it makes Sioux Falls look like a theme park? It just looks so pleasant from above.

- (I’m sure Sioux Falls is pleasant, although I wouldn’t know because I’ve never been to South Dakota, but it looks like, Disney Land pleasant is my point.)

- Alex called Walt.

- ”You’re wearing my sweatshirt.”

- Related, how tall are all of these girls? Clark Backo looks like she’s almost as tall as her jeep, but the other women all only look a little shorter. (I am obsessed with tall girls because I myself am 5′1″.)

- All of these characters are wonderful, but Alex might be my favorite, which I didn’t expect.

- Walking into Kaia’s hospital room, Claire’s already got her flirt on, leaning against the door, flipping her hair around. Then she swoops in and saves her from the monster (with Jody’s help) a few minutes later. Kaia’s knight in a leather jacket.

- Alex snapping her rubber gloves before ripping the monster’s face mask off is weirdly attractive.

- Did anyone EVER think they would see a scene between two women comparing SCARS??? That’s the sort of thing you see between gruff over-testosteroned dudebros in Steven Spielberg movies.

- “I might puke.” Patience did not sign up for this.

- “Don’t tell me it tastes like chicken.” “No Sam, it’s a lizard. It tastes like a lizard.”

- “(The door) stayed open for a few hours.” Dean, it stayed open for a few hours only because your ex-boyfriend killed himself closing it early, wtf, show Crowley some respect.

- “If I go now, maybe my dad will take me back.” “Is that what you want?” Alex “I was raised by vampires” Jones can’t figure out why someone would want to hang out with anyone but Jody.

- I am here for the Patience vs. Claire standoff.

- “Believe me now?” Claire just got told.

- D-Train Sheriff Donna “She’s killed a lot of vampires” Hanscum and she has all that because she’s from Minnesota. She has a nickname for Claire, and it’s Rainbow Brite and Claire responds to it and just ... ugh, my heart. Patience’s face when Donna asks who knows how to use a flamethrower just makes my life. I was honestly expecting her to be a little over the top because ... Donna’s over the top. But she had the perfect amount of humor, toughness and sweetness, and just, ugh. I love Donna in this one.

- There’s a lot to unpack in the scene between Kaia and Claire in the back of the jeep, and I’m gonna need a whole other post about it.

- “Donna, I cannot lose another child.” Crying forever for Jody.

- Does the music during the monster scene when Jody and Donna are sneaking through the ship remind anyone else of the music playing during the Mines of Moria sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when the fellowship’s running from the Balrog?

- “Darth Dickwad!” Maybe that should be included somehow in Claire and Kaia’s ship name.

- It makes a lot of sense that Kaia goes in because she kind of knows her way around the Bad Place.

- The defensive position Donna, Patience and Alex take againt the monsters at the top of the stairs is actually a really good one. They can hold their ground and take out the monsters one at a time, and the monsters can’t charge them all at once in the narrow stairway. Also, I don’t think they really need Jody to help hold off the monsters, and Jody could have gone in with Claire, which I thought she was going to suggest. I really like how Jody’s kind of torn between helping Donna and the other girls and looking after Claire. Her maternal instincts are being pulled in two directions.

- I also super love Donna being a mentor to Patience.

- “Our hero.” You better believe Claire’s your hero, Dean.

- Simultaneously the best and worst part of the episode Kaia shoves Claire out of the way of the spear. Great moment. She looks up and holds out her hand weakly. Claire grabs it and whispers, “Kaia.” Kaia’s hand slips out of hers as she dies. Gold. Followed immediately by this fucking WASTE OF SPECIAL EFFECTS, WHAT THE FUCK A GIANT ROCK MONSTER?!?!?!?! I’m just saying, if you’re going to use your special effects budget, can you at least use it on a Lucifer-Michael battle that is cooler than them punching each other? Seriously? It’s just. The monster was menacing enough when we just heard it crashing through the forest, you didn’t need to ruin it with the stick figure monster. (Rock figure? It was kind of bulky.) I’m just saying, the time spent showing us a not-very-realistic monster could have been spent drawing out the drama of Kaia’s death scene. It’s just. It could have been like Boromir’s death scene in Fellowship of the Ring. (I know I keep comparing aspects of this episode to Fellowship. Trust me. That’s a good thing.) It. Could. Have. Been. Great. If it had been given more time to breathe. And I guess you can make the argument that it’s supposed to happen pretty quickly because the portal’s closing and the monster’s coming and Dean’s having to grab Claire to keep her from charging at spear-throwing Dark Kaia, which is also a great moment, but that argument is kind of weak when they spend, like, five minutes standing by the portal staring at the shitty monster when they really should have just jumped through it as soon as they reached it. As I said, simultaneously best and worst part of the episode. Really really good death scene, marred by the hideously designed rock giant monster thing. (Also, if we hadn’t seen the monster, then tumblr would have spent the next six months arguing over whether it was a dinosaur or a dragon or a giant, and I could have thrived on that shit.)

- Patience killed a monster!

- I also like that Patience realizes her vision was true but that she read it wrong. She saw someone die and then saw Jody cradling Claire in her arms and just assumed Claire was the one who died. She doesn’t realize until it’s too late that Claire was actually mourning the person who died. I’m a fan of Patience having to learn how to read her psychic visions.

- In fact, I’m just a fan of everything about Patience in general. I want her and Alex to be besties too. I feel like they’d bond over science and schooling, and Claire would make sarcastic comments about them being nerds together.

- Dean better feel bad for Kaia’s death after threatening her with a gun, that’s all I’m saying.

- I like the idea of Jody and Co. taking care of the monsters from the Bad Place (especially if Dark Kaia is going to keep opening portals), but I hope there are some Supernatural Verse monsters in Wayward too -- I feel like Claire still has a few bones to pick with angels, and Alex can take out some more vampires.

- Claire’s internal monologue at the end reminds me of Veronica Mars. I wonder if they plan to have Claire do an internal monologue for all the episodes if the show gets picked up. Not sure how I feel about that -- internal monologues can get really cheesy really quickly, but some actresses can pull them off. (It actually doesn’t work as well when men do it for some reason.)

- “I don’t care if I have to tear another hole in the universe. We’re going to find it, and I’m going to kill it.”

- I can’t see Kaia show back up at the end without breaking into a huge grin. I know it’s supposed to be, like, a dark version of her, but I can’t help it.

- Overall, I’m psyched and I hope this can be a show. I’m telling all my friends who have sort of gotten away from watching Supernatural to try this one out. It will make an amazing show, and I REALLY want to see Claire’s reaction to like jerking the hood off and seeing KAIA!!

- (Also I want an episode where they have to deal with angel shenanigans, and they’re like, “We don’t know anything about angels, let’s call the Winchesters” but Sam and Dean are busy, so they send Cas, and he’s there all awkward and nerdy and totally hitting it off with Alex, and Patience is so confused because maybe by this time she’s seen pictures of Claire’s parents, and she’s just like, “Isn’t that your dad?” and Claire’s like, “Ugh.”)

- 10/10 would watch Wayward Sisters if it became a show.

#wayward sisters #supernatural #supernatural spoilers #wayward sister spoilers #claire and kaia are in love #but that fucking rock monster

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elizabethrobertajones · 7 years ago

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13x04 watching notes

TBH that is my exact strategy when I am tired and want to go home.

it's 2am and I just woke up after a lengthy power nap/full REM cycle because going to bed at 9 is for cool kids so uh I'm watching the episode but also it's 2am. I didn't do it deliberately but here I aaaam.

Getting right in there with Dean telling the the truth in the recap - is he really gonna spill it all to a therapist? experts have been awaiting it ever since 1x10 so

"experts" being me, I am an independent judiciary body

*grief grief grief* *Jack angst*

Oh yeah Cas recap because Cas is back

Should I even write expectations for this episode? I'm a bit late since I already started watching :P Blah blah Glynn blah blah probably going to be fine, blah blah swear I saw someone say she's "never written Cas before" but uh we just had recaps from 12x19 so I mean who wrote that?

this guy has a weird reaction to the dead wife coming back

like, oh, okay, that happened. guess we say hello

Is this the "understated" reaction when Cas comes back

Oh we're doing regular old stabbing? Is this a shapeshifter thing or a revenge curse thing? Is it all going to be romantic couples? because lol pls don't

Also the recap did expressly list off 2 dead moms and a dead crowley along with a dead Cas who is also a brother and father to active main characters

Sam like "hey"

Dean like >.> Are you trying to be friends after I yelled at you?

Sam being remarkably cool about Dean's netflix and holy oil suggestion

Dean being extremely less cool about Sam's suggestion

They're sort of recapping the argument from the end of last episode for us, which is good because it wasn't in the recap unless it was but it's 2am and my brain randomly discarded that

oh my god it was

okay these are not meta notes

Sam's trying to play at grief counsellor and it's super not working because he's using it as their fight. You don't get in a snappy comeback about "oh so you want to move on"

Dean looks extremely murderously done with all this because How Dare etc

"For me"

God damn puppy dog eyes.

awww Jack's watching The Clone Wars. Because he is a wee new baby and this is his star wars generation I guess.

mittensmorgul pffft. (I have never seen Clone Wars so I have no idea what that even means)

elizabethrobertajones It's the adventures *drum roll* of Darth Vader when he was still Anakin, before he went evil Ashoka or however you spell it is his Padawan

mittensmorgul aahhh

elizabethrobertajones Jack's identifying with her and not with the pre-evil but still getting the Imperial March music layered over his bad decisions Anakin the entire show is 10000 episodes just an endless "we can't make him go evil because that happens in the movie but we can tease basically everything up to that" stuff

mittensmorgul At least he's iffy about Anakin...

elizabethrobertajones yeah good choice, basically it's also brand new he found the non-dinosaur version of Star Wars of the previous generation :P and it's less political than the prequels I think The Clone Wars is generally well-liked whereas nerd rage dictates the Prequels are the Worst and I guess it's Too Soon to get into the newer Star Wars films since we don't know how the arcs of the new kids pay off

[side note: I haven't watched it per se because there's tons of it but I've been in the same room as my brother watching it, and seen a lot of pop culture general knowledge that I've sponged up so I could be wrong about some little details as I mostly know how it's been described to me]

Also Jack's identifying with the female character, because fuck off toxic masculinity, she seems awesome and he has no idea he isn't “”supposed”” to. She also is one of the aliens with the huge tentacle things on her head so idk if it's a good idea for him to get too into this without meeting more of the general population - Sam's probably right

Uhoh, Jack kinda does a snarky eyebrow about "you're the good guys" - Did Sam fail to sell it or is Jack really just starting to have trust issues now he's watching TV with black or white morality (literally a dark side and a light side - hrm.) and given his experience of the Winchesters yelling their very shades of grey takes on him at each other

Well he hasn't learned to be cagey about overhearing that

*blink blink blink* *sigh*

"You're *using* me"

Oh no, poor Jack :(

He also implicitly trusts Dean's judgement more than Sam's bonding, despite how Sam has made all the movements towards him. As people have been meta'ing, Dean's being extremely honest and Jack's setting his markers by that, even if it's horrific to the point of deciding he has to be evil because Dean thinks so.

Sam says he, Dean and CAS closed the rift - hey, Cas got knocked out by Lucifer in round 1 of that as a distraction and Crowley helped you close it.

They probably have not explained Crowley to him at all.

At least Sam is being honest now about what happened with the rift, and that it's their mom

and Jack speaks the language of lost moms. Now HE looks at SAM with sympathy.

Probably also explains Dean...

I think Jack is defaulting back to thinking about Dean way more than Sam's opinion of him, although perhaps he may like Sam more now he was upfront and some of why "so uh yeah I was KINDA using you" is on the table

Jack was wearing a darker henley, which tbh with Dean wearing them again all of a sudden makes it blurry to me if this is not about his Dean-alignment more than colour coding his feelings on being evil (like how Amara's nail polish started off black and got right down to light grey by the end of the season). Now he's swapped to being the Cas Intern.

Ow.

and aww all the fake IDs. There's a lot to take in about these guys :P

Oh no Dean said "loony toons" on the episode which may or may not be an exact use of 8x08 for Cas, for Jack. Jack's a bit more of a trial run about wanting to BE a hunter since he is mostly just curious. Also amused Dean has to rephrase for Jack because he actually knows he's a week old or so, and he's not going to enjoy repeating himself or explaining, while he always found it kind of funny to just say a whole string of incomprehensible pop culture at Cas without slowing for a breath.

Not funny now, is it Dean?

Wait have they never actually fought a revenant aka, idk, it sounds like a naturally occurring zombie? They mention it from time to time but as far as I remember they've never actually called zombies revenants because they're one of the shows where they just embrace the horror movie tradition about zombies completely, so it always seemed like revenants were something slightly different, at least, in the sense that they get named like a different category. And they just lumped them in with ghosts here, as restless spirits but i guess this time *with* the body?

Dean tells Jack to sit, like he was a dog being kept in the car.

Unlike dogs he knows how to work the door handle.

Jack no don't touch the blood

oh good Dean stopped him

Aw no he's still wearing the dark henley under the tan jacket. That's awful :D

Pfft Dean's like immediately "it's a revenant" because they know what those are really well after a billion years hunting and we've never watched them ever name anything on screen a revenant before with that vocab, and they're really sticking with not crossing them over with zombies exactly...

I mean Dean said he wasn't a revenant after he got back from hell and I think they've chattered about them before

if I check this on superwiki it's way too early for there to be a spoilery "so it's not a revenant" line from later in this episode highlighted when I hit the search :P

Oh good, I'm glad I'm right.

A revenant is a visible ghost or animated corpse that returns to terrorize the living, usually people it knew in life. Unlike the zombie, a revenant is not under another person's control, and has returned from the grave on its own for a specific and often personal purpose. In 4.01 Lazarus Rising, Bobby accuses Dean of being a shapeshifter or a revenant. Dean proves he's neither by cutting himself with a silver knife. In 8.06 Southern Comfort Garth takes a call from a hunter asking how to deal with a revenant. Garth tells him to get a casket and some silver spikes, then nail it in and bury it. He also warns that getting bit will hurt like hell, but will not turn you into one.

I wonder if those were revenants in 4x07 and I only ask because it was like almost exactly an anniversary to it in OUR time :P It's still May or maybe June for them in-show

Okay Dean left Jack to dig but Sam chased after Dean rather than it being a synchronised Winchester ditching of Jack :P

Little on the nose about "You're starting to sound like dad!" :P

"Is that a bad thing" Oh Dean, no.

Fortunately the theme of this season is fathers so I suspect you're gonna have to deal with this at some point or another

Sam like "the drill sergent thing won't work on Jack" to the sound of Jack merrily digging in the background because Dean told him to

I really hope that wasn't an on-set hazing that they actually left him to dig :P

I love my smol gravedigger son

I love how Jack did all the digging anyway because Sam's still not actually dirty and Jack's still standing in the hole

Lol not a revenant, well there's a surprise. I'm glad I double-checked the lore anyway because I have the time to so I'm not going to spend the rest of the episode like "wait what IS the difference between them and zombies anyway and why have we never seen one?"

I mean it's not gonna be a ghost either, we're 9 minutes in and they're salting and burning because it makes more sense to Dean to do that than not to - I guess a precaution for accidentally angering her spirit for digging her up...?? :P I mean no he still thinks she's a ghost but I mean maybe it's not a total waste of salt.

OH NO Jack don't ask about if Kelly is a ghost, that's very painful.

OH NO I thought he was going to ask about Cas but instead Dean said "what gets burned, stays dead" and that hurts a lot

FORTUNATELY for me the viewer as opposed to Dean the grieving ball of angst over there, I can go check up on Cas immediately.

He doesn't seem to be doing too good but more in an existential way since he's at least up and walking about.

I like how Jack woke him up but it's probably got to be like a baby bird has to hatch itself.

He's using up all his "hellos" on the void. Save one for Dean.

You know if the MotW is imitating dead loved ones I have to say I am not exactly looking forward to this :P I didn't say earlier but the cold open gave me 11x13 vibes and honestly I don't want a repeat of the stress of waiting for Cas to show up for Dean but it not happening... Okay, belatedly 10 minutes in, there's a baseline expectation for the episode that that doesn’t happen. Then again I forgot to check the names at the bottom of the screen except for being happy to see Misha's there so they could spring anyone on us

Throw a real curveball in just like bring some random dead loved one from the first 3 seasons back :P

Or waste Jim Beaver's season 13 appearance on it and he's never even in the AU with Mary :P

Anyway Jack is waiting patiently in the car.

(or, well, not so patiently.. He's starting to get an idea of how the job works, and that Dean is usually repeatedly wrong about everything as he throws spaghetti at the wall about the case...)

Anyway, dead son, dead wife, so that's quite a neutral combination.

Asking what they had in common probably means the grief counsellor, but Dean says that and then we go back to Cas right when I've been musing on the loved ones coming back for them thing and honestly it's like Dean's words are just summoning Cas right now.

....... 8x08 used flashbacks to summon Amelia for Sam, just saying

I hope Cas finds Billie and hopefully a bar immediately and they can become drinking buddies.

I don't even think she's in this one?

I like those assertive footsteps though. "I have no clue where I am, I am just going to walk in this direction like I mean it"

Lol they're in Madison i was KIDDING about bringing back a dead loved one from like season 2 or something. Oh well, if it's her, it's her. I'm still bitter about Sarah because I only just re-watched it with my mum the other day.

I should probably stop bringing up Sam's dead or lost girlfriends because it's just bumming me out on his behalf.

Teehee "he's not our intern"

well

"I asked you to keep an eye on him" "I can see him"

It's amazing Dean didn't volunteer just to get away from Jack

Sort of weird existing in a post That Declaration world where I can just canonically know Dean staring at Jack is making him think sad things about Cas without any fear whatsoever

Oh boy killer grief counsellor probably. "Mia is promising to provide the catharsis I've been craving for so long" and then she gets ripped to shreds by her son.

I feel a little bad reading this woman's diary, but the first line is about not "getting over" it and learning to live with it. Blah blah heal and rebuild yourself, blah blah whole again but never the same

"Shrinks... Snake oil for the mind." "Or how healthy people deal" Pfft

Jack being baffled by the issues of customer vs hot dog guy without understanding it's an ancient war fought across the world

Dean equates "catharsis" to "happy ending" - I can't tell if he's innuendo-ing or accidentally revealing too much and being mournful about it.

The house has a great fence - its parts are all misaligned. Very visually uncomfortable :D

Awww someone said "hello" to Jack and Jack was like !!!!! another person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELLO! :D :D :D

how can you possibly think he's bad

Anyway I was about to type that Dean hates it because of course he feels the most vulnerable talking about his feelings all the time, either for performing Dean reasons about needing to keep up a facade of strength (LET YOURSELF CRY, MAN) or because feelings for Cas being inconvenient to him

UHoh Dean grabbed Jack's shoulder - he did it to Mick to be threatening last year in a Glynn episode, while Mick was wearing a long tan coat. And called Jack "Spock" which is not really accurate characterisation at all. Jack's pretty much nothing but a bundle of emotions, he's just not used to using them around other people. Now CAS on the other hand.....

I do like that Mia decided to see them because Jack is sweet and was upfront about losing his mother and he's just adorable.

They bluff their way in by losing a collective mother, Sam once again lining them up as family and siblings.

Play it cool, man. You’ll scare Jack off.

I'm starting to think we haven't seen Cas between scenes for a while because Dean hasn't said anything angsty enough

But idk if we trust her or not. She has a lot of alcohol stashed on that shelf.

Jack wisely doesn't sit on the sofa with them all.

"Oh well Mom was great and now she's dead so what's the deal with catharsis" Dean, no.

Sam continues with what should be the pre-arranged plan of spill closed truths like well we don't journal but our dad did

also I am so annoyed that confirms they don't keep hunter journals??? grarghgh

Google has ruined this generation

And Dean makes fun of journaling as being for little girls, even though Sam literally just said that about John. Last year in 12x04 he said he was a 13 year old girl when trying to text Mary so he's actually regressed even further backwards at losing her again >.>

"I'm good with death, closure, the whole friggin bottle of Jack"

it's a shame he would never put a bumper sticker on Baby, because that...

Oh boy we're still having this fight. "My brother's delusional..." yeah oh dear.

Is this going to be one of those things where I basically just want to transcribe the whole thing?

Dean calls out Sam for not being able to even admit that Mary's gone so he hasn't even moved past denial - which to be fair, Sam IS right she's not dead and that they DO have a means of getting her back and everything... Was thinking about how last season was a "Dean is right about everything" season and this time is clearly a Sam is right about everything one... but of course both only to a certain degree, and in this case it's much blurrier about approach and how these fights are going because of course Sam's not being a perfect Saint Sammy that Dean is being unfairly awful to in the entirety of what's going on here. Sam IS struggling and resisting confronting things in his own way and adopting Jack as a pet project is definitely a form of avoidance or at least wanting to get concrete closure on Mary's death before he will fully mourn. Which makes Sam and Dean existing in the same place terrible because they're only in the same physical location

anyway Dean's about to yell about how hard this all is for him too so I better unpause once I'm holding a stuffed toy again

"At least you had a relationship with mom" WAHEY

I mean that was awful but I'm delighted Sam yelled that because there's ALWAYS something else going on underneath Sam, and I've been waiting for more Sam and Mary angst, since I spent so much time on them last season and at least obliquely referred to this... Talked a lot about how hard Sam had it to reconnect with Mary... That Words with Friends scene from 12x07 was basically floating along waiting to come back up at some point or another, but it took Sam a long time to reach out to Mary personally, and really only in 12x14 (hi Berens, I just accept you and Glynn are brain twins these days) did he pick a side in THAT fight and picked Mary. And we said it was to get closer to Mary but he made it all about the BMoL instead of just confronting that he wanted a relationship with her, and the BMoL ended up just keeping them apart ANYWAY and tl;dr am I going to have to write the reverse version of A World Without Monsters from Sam's POV or can we just agree that my subtext in that fic was exactly what just bubbled up here? :P

I just spent the entire length of that paragraph trying to work out when I wrote the meta about how Sam felt about Mary and it took me until that last point to realise it was not a meta, it was a fic where I roundly abused poor Sam for the sake of making that point.

Dean's like hey therapy is great! *eyebrows at Jack* *snarky smile at the doc*

Sam is like *anger-drinks water*

*refuses to cry as well*

BLOOD

(CRY, DAMMIT, SAM.)

That sign was down earlier

is this the poor receptionist?

Or... ew, shifter gunk?

LOL Dean just takes a flask out of his pocket in the middle of their appointment

Mia asks him to look at Jack, which is the last thing he wants to do, but blah blah meta about 12x22 and how he needs to "see" Jack, and she's pointing out that Jack is terrified which is exactly what Dean needs to see about him

subtle

She actually points out his anger issues as well so I think Dean's getting homework whether he has to write it in a journal or not :P

*suddenly everyone is pointing guns*

Hey if she's a a shapeshifter why does she live in an all-white house when shifting makes bloody goo stains everywhere?

Or her assistant, I guess. They haven't had eyes on him :P

Ooh that explains why the guy was not surprised to see his wife. Well, kind of surprised, but not nearly horrified enough.

Sadly if she is telling the truth that means someone else is using her method to get their guard down to kill them for kicks...

Also shades of 9x13 because they had that spa where the monster would use their unique skills to help, but then of course another of their kind - a sibling - had to go and ruin it...

Oh hey, it's Cas! I guess the time ran out on a good transition from Dean, so we go over here on "I'm telling you the truth"

Lol it's another Cas... Who ever would have expected it. /Misha being the worst at spoilers

Or something with a very silly voice. "Friendly neighbourhood cosmic entity" that sounds like that and won't show its face is either someone pranking Cas or about to go very bad.

Cas is like "do I look like that" "I'm getting a new coat as soon as I'm alive again"

if this thing is The Empty itself it's probably kinda crazy after eons being nothing

Oh NO Cas's face when he says "every angel that ever died is here?" because oh boy did you put like 90% of them in here yourself. There's about 3 faces you'd be happy to see again of the entire lot. Hey, it's never too late to give Cas that guilt all over again that made him stay in Purgatory out of penance.

I mean among other things but it's probably worth mentioning there are a whole bunch of lil purgatory parallels here in the loosest sense of it being a hostile other realm, and the way Cas is basically Dean in Purgatory in here.

Cas has been back for like 5 minutes of screen time and I want to protect him and wrap him in blankets

there's no need to be mean, The Empty, just because you got woken up... I say... at nearly 4am... because I woke up when I didn't want to...

you know what, The Empty's being mean to Cas probably kind of justifiably, even if it's a dick.

pretty clever to use a shifter as the motw in this episode too

oh, poor Cas is horrified to think Sam and Dean made some sort of deal for him

he says "I don't know" which is ironically what Jack's saying all the time

like father like son

LEAVE HIM ALONE

last episode we had James keeping memories of Missouri, who he had cut out of his life, in a box. Now Mia has a box still dedicated to "Buddy" her asshole ex who hurt her, and good on her for leaving him. He's another shifter, we're halfway through the episode, so we probably need to find him now, and also have a good 10 minutes more of whatever's going on with Cas. :P

She also owns up to have done much worse things in her past with Buddy, although presumably not killing people, and probably because they were super toxic together, and she had the sense to get out and try and help people now.

Jack said "I'll come with" which is adorable. He's learning to be like them :D

Wheeeee he's riding shotgun! Guess Dean couldn't make him stay in the back without Sam around.

Sam's plan's don't always work out :< Oh no, Dean, you still don't have much faith in Sam's ability to handle himself.

Fortunately this does seem to be a mostly Sam is right season, and I think of all the overwhelming reasons why you don't trust Jack, not trusting Sam to trust Jack is probably relatively low on the list underneath the Cas stuff or you'd have just yelled that at Sam the other day instead.

Uh, why do I feel like the shifter just phoned Sam and somewhere between here and there something went really wrong?

Oh god I'm going to have to watch the face peeling scene with my own two eyes at 4 in the morning, aren't I?

Meanwhile Mia explains why her catharsis works to Sam - I hope he doesn't sneak back at the end of the episode for a chat with "Mary" because that would be AWFUL.

Oh it was that other guy - wait, also, Sam was already doing this before Dean phoned? Seems like he doesn't trust Dean's methods either :P

CAAAAAAAAAS

I love how Cas is so practical like, "will you pay me $200 to stop annoying you and go away?"

UHOH guess we're getting right into it. "You don't want to go back" "Sam and Dean need me" You don't want to be needed, you want to be wanted!

Wheeee text on that and also wheee over on the other side of the story last week Dean finally made the i/we distinction about Cas. Now we just need to get them alive and well and actually dealing with crap

oh boy I shouldn't have paused there except that i suppose for the sake of meta-ing remotely clearly it was probably a good idea not to watch straight through from that into the empty accusing Cas of having feeeeelings and "I know *what* you hate, I know *who* you love, what you fear." especially since Cas hates being needed but not wanted and uh Dean made the i/we distinction at long last over on the other side of the story so um does Cas fear something related to all that?

I mean to be fair Cas has been through this exact thing before with "he's in love... with humanity" / "all of it for one man" which was an "i/we" distinction of planetary proportions :P Of course he just mutely responded to it there because he was sad Dean was dead, and had no idea Metatron had accused him of being in love in any form, so that was Metatron's private joke to himself.

The Empty telling Cas there's "nothing for him back there" also makes like next to no sense if you take season 12's family read at surface value and has the bonus of being, I'm pretty sure, a line Elrond tells Arwen in the movie when he's trying to make her leave Aragorn and go across the waters to the undying lands.

I know they're just starting with it in a long selection of terrible things that happened to Cas but starting with his grace being stolen really sucks :P

Especially when I am still daily haunted by his season 9 arc.

See above: Metatron and "in love with humanity"

More miscommunication of the "didn't bother to call you" variety (I hope this doesn't blow up in Sam's face, although of course trying to nurture Jack is slow mo doing that, especially if he and Dean are meant to swap stances on the kid >.>)

The intern pulls Mia aside for a chat.

OH NO Jack wants to see his mom. OH NO OH NO

I will be so upset if that happens...

Oh nooooooo

he's crying.

Who can say no?

This is extremely awful.

I guess Glynn didn't want to let Kelly go like that. I'm glad if Mia was going to do this for anyone it would be for Jack and not Sam and Dean's cycles of nonsense.

I REALLY hope the bad shifter doesn't burst in here and try to/actually kill Mia right now. Jack doesn't need that in his life.

In the mean time, Mia better friggin HUG Jack even if it's technically hollow and he would know it.

Also did she do the whole disgusting skin thing or can she transform on the spot?

HUGS FOR THE NOUGAT BOY

They look so much alike :')

Oh no Jack you probably don't feel anything because they made you horribly depressed within 2 days. Also you have angel grace. Historically not good for helping you feel things. You're sweet and cry about your mom and feel bad about stuff in other ways so I think you have a heart no matter what, like Cas does.

Mia gets some catharsis from getting to hug Jack and reassure him that even if he's a monster and what makes him in-human isn't letting him emote how he's supposed to, he can still be good. She's got a monster soul, after all. There's a lot of good monsters out there.

I was about to say lol is this now Sam not on the phone because he actually is a shifter now mostly to tease past!Me but then they panned down and Dean's unconscious, which makes sense because they probably still want to show us Dean tearing his own face off at some point and honestly I'd rather just get it over and done with because if it's still to come after this D:

"that was too friggin easy" though - Dean getting overwhelmed in another fight. He's really not had a great rate of success... He only beat the wraith last episode with Patience's warnings, and other than that it's been a terrible track record even if he fights back as hard as he can when he gets jumped

shifter!Dean2 better not go in and try and kill Jack

Not gonna have much luck, I just don't want to watch it :P

MORE HUGS FOR JACK

WAIT NO YOU CAN'T HUG HIM AND THEN HAVE HIM KNOCKED OUT IN THE SAME SCENE

I TYPE NOT LOOKING AT THE SCREEN BECAUSE DEAN'S RIPPING HIS FACE OFF

Shifters are gross

Oh no don't call Cas a disappointment, The Empty, we're so proud of him!

He just told him to "save yourself" which is probably going to have the direct opposite result to what he wants while I'd hope Cas goes and does exactly that

"I'm already saved" blah blah Cas insults The Empty and I love him, "because somehow I'm awake, and I'll stay awake" - exactly how many times can I use "i love him" as punctuation in one sentence?

Where is that gif of the woman banging the pots and pans about not getting any sleep so they're not getting any sleep

that's something I ought to have saved :P

Someone almost certainly has made a post already.

Cas is the literal embodiment of "fight me"

This Buddy guy is a total douche. He says in this world everyone uses everyone. Which is a theme of the season I guess - Cas feeling used, Jack feeling used... He's the villain with the most negative version of the theme in his mouth right now

Dean's got to pep talk Jack if he wants to save the day or Jack goes and saves the daaay - I'd prefer Jack does it

Look, Mia's getting hurt and she was kind to you and in the most literal use of character mirroring in 1000 miles is an actual stand in for your mom!

Ooh is Jack gonna save Sam instead? Dean just pep-talked him specifically about how Sam believed in him which was having to start to admit that Sam, well, believes in Jack. Which Dean couldn't even accept last episode when he was saying that he was just using Jack

Yay thanks Jack, kinda figured Sam wouldn't get shot :P Jack's powers are fascinating - he's definitely bending time... from Sam and Dean's perspectives last time they were caught in it they were at least sort of aware of things, but Jack pretty much works in bullet time.

I also like how he kind of had a ridiculous "NooooO" because he's been watching Star Wars. I don't know if there's a "Nooooo" in the Clone Wars but I mean have you met a Star Wars

Anyway good riddance douchey ex with extra douchey powers.

I love the shot of them all standing together and Jack has that benign :3 face on again. He's really insufferably cute.

Ewww the Bunker sink is gross. I assume that's from decades of lying in disrepair and that those are stains Dean could not get out.

I guess Jack's getting a glass of water and Dean's midnight snacking. I have no other explanation for this encounter despite the fact it could theoretically happen at literally any point of the clock :P

Oh gosh, is he going to give Jack a beer

Yay, actions helped

Aw, the other beer is for Sam. Guess this doesn't have to be midnight after all. I thought he might have a longer chat with Jack

oops is this the beginning of the slide in the other direction? Sam's been undermined and even though he was proven right to Dean's eyes and Dean's had to grudgingly hand Jack the win in the case and admit it to Sam, Sam's like, "I guess"

And they don't know what Jack asked for from Mia because patient confidentiality! Argh!

Oh no Sam don't start wondering if Dean is right.

AAAH they're actually talking about things really well. Dean's like "don't say that" - even if he can't believe it he doesn't want to HURT Sam and rob him of his hope... Sometimes yelling about things does make them get better in the long run once you get it out there >.>

And Dean deputises to Sam for the feelings. And admits how HE has been feeling, because he believes in nothing, because all his faith has been taken away because there was only one thing he ever ended up believing in no i didn't see the next scene transition before i hit pause what are you talking about

Again, though, if this is Cas back in the mortal plane after annoying his way back to life (worrisome, since he's 2 episodes out of reuniting with them and where's Billie? Oh gosh is Billie back for reals too if he IS back? Whaaaat.) then that's another awfully convenient moment to transition scenes from. Dean finally using "i" instead of "we" about Cas and making it abundantly clear that he and sam didn't feel the same about that, was, whether the direct reason or just narrative karma they chose to bestow on Dean, what made Jack reach out to Cas. Now he admits out loud that he doesn't believe in anything with the implication when you look at Dean vs belief that this is about Cas, and we go over to Cas definitely at least in an improved situation.

Goddammit that's the new coat which means he didn't come back naked but wait! Lizzy's hope wasn't the same as everyone else's at all! Although that was a shallow moment of defeat :P Mwa ha ha, I was hoping Cas would come back and be gifted a whole new Cas get up and lo and behold unless he chose to manifest these clothes onto himself and there's noooo ulterior motive at all going on here (uh... probably not going to get more than 1 per show and we used it up on Mary :P) but he's confused and waking up and the last time we saw him he was in the clothes he died in... So of course if he's being sent back to earth then someone else chose the battle armour he'd be returned in. One Cas, fit for purpose.

Also, realising once he sat up more it was the new coat makes me pretty sure he is back on Earth.

Also he looks happy to be here and I think he can tell :P

Same, Cas. Same.

#13x04 #my stuff #season 13 spoilers #in which I am awake at 5:30am and the Empty is probably pissed at me

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Red Dawn Chapter 2 (SPN AU)

Title: Red Dawn Chapter 2

Summary: Calumet, Colorado is just a normal, American town. And the Winchesters are just a normal family. Until war breaks out on their doorstep. Now, they have to fight not only for their lives, but the lives of their friends, neighbors, and all of America. Based off the Red Dawn movies.

Warnings: Language, mentions of sexual content

AN: Still working on this, even though it got me some hate. I really hope you guys enjoy it.

Dean pulled the Impala into the parking lot of a bar he loved to go to when he was at home. Not much had changed around here since he left, and the bar wasn’t much different. The only difference was him. He had always had muscles, but the military had tones them, making them show more under his black t-shirt. He left his dog tags around his neck, just a habit from being on base. They clanged together as he climbed out the Impala. He shut his door after reaching into the backseat and grabbing his favorite leather jacket. It wasn’t cold, but there was a chill in the air and after being over there, it was a little weird to not be covered in layers.

Pulling open the old door, Dean made his way into the bar. There weren’t of people in the building. Some older guys sitting around, shooting the bull. There were a couple of burnouts who either hadn’t left for college or dropped out. Dean bypassed them and made his way to the bar, settling himself on a stool a few away from the old men.

“What can I get you son?” The same old bartender said, coming up to Dean. He always called him son.

“Just a beer Sal.” Dean said, smiling up at him. “The cheapest is fine.” Sal nodded and grabbed him a bottle out of the cool under the bar and pushed it over to him. Dean took it and took a sip, turned around on the stool to look out over the almost empty bar. Some pop song was playing on the jukebox in the corner, and the news was on. He could hear the old men down the bar from him talking about how the end of the world was near and they had been warning people for years. Dean rolled his eyes some.

“Well, if it isn’t the big bad hero.” A voice said off to Dean’s left and he cringed. He turned to see a woman standing there in the tightest jeans he had ever seen and a loose Johnny Cash t-shirt hanging off of her.

“Lisa Braeden…” Dean said. She walked over and took the seat next to him. Sal came up to her and she ordered her own beer. “Isn’t it a little early for you to be drinking?” Dean asked. She rolled her eyes.

“You’re drinking.” She pointed out. “Plus, this is night for me. Just got off a shift at the hospital.”

“Fair enough.” Dean said, drinking his beer. There was silence resting between the two of them for a good amount of time before Lisa spoke up. Dean had been expecting this.

“You know, if you didn’t want to call me, you didn’t have to run all the way to Iraq.” Lisa said. Dean sighed.

“I didn’t run…” He defended. “I was going anyway.”

“Well, between me sucking your cock and you fucking me, you could’ve added in a ‘by the way, I’m heading off to basic training’.” Lisa said. Dean groaned and closed his eyes. Dean was a womanizer, he knew it, she knew it. Hell, even Sal knew it. He had a bad reputation around Interstate 25, going all the way to Colorado Springs and such. She should’ve known it when she fell into bed with Dean Winchester, but he was just so damn hot.

“Look Lisa, I meant to call, I really did. I just don’t exactly have good reception over in Baghdad.” Dean joked. Lisa rolled her eyes.

“Do you know I had to find out from your little brother that you were off at war?” She asked. “He’s a really nice kid. All stuttery and such. Like I asked him who stole the last cookie or something.” Dean turned to look at her.

“You’ve been talking to my brother?” Dean asked. She shrugged.

“He’s dating my cousin. What do you expect?” She asked. Dean nodded slowly, taking it all in. He looked up at Sal.

“Yeah, Sal, stow the beer. I’m gonna need some whiskey.” Dean said. Sal nodded and grabbed a glass and pour Dean a double. He slid it over Dean, who accepted it happily and took a swig of it, loving the burn in his chest.

“Dean, I’m not asking for some big, romantic display of affection or declaration of love.” Lisa said, staring the soldier down. “All I want is for you to apologize to me.” Dean groaned. He had secretly hoped when he left for basic that Lisa was some out of town girl visiting a grandma or someone, but he knew that wasn’t true. They had went to high school together, he just hadn’t noticed her at the time. She wasn’t always a curvy body in tight jeans and a fuck me smile.

“Look, Lisa…” Dean sighed, trying to find the best words to not make him sound like a douchebag. He looked around the bar, praying for something to save him. He eyed different pictures on the walls, posters for bands that had played in the past, the jukebox in the corner now sputtering out a damn good song, the old wooden floors. But nothing offered him an easy way out of this.

“Damn it Dean, how hard is to just say “I’m sorry”?” Lisa growled. Dean was about to say something sarcastic to her when the lights, TV, and jukebox in the bar all shut off at once. Dean looked over at Sal.

“I paid the damn bill.” Sal grumbled. Dean made his way over to the front door and opened it. He looked across the street at the family diner and the gas station. Both were as dark as the bar was.

“Sal, unless they didn’t pay their bill to, I say the whole block is out.” Dean explained. Sal grumbled something under his breath. Dean turned to look at Lisa.

“Can we finish this later?” He asked. “I need to get home.”

“Yeah.” Lisa sighed. Dean tossed some money on the bar for their beers and his whiskey before head out towards his Impala. He saw other people looking around on the street. He saw his dad walking out of the garage he worked at.

“Dad!” Dean called out. John turned his attention to his oldest son. He walked over to him. “What the hell is going on? Transformer out?”

“I dunno.” John said with a shrug. “Boss asked me to stay around and hold down the fort. Might go check on some of the neighbors as soon as he gets back. Mrs. Mosley isn’t a spring chicken you know. I don’t want her to fall.”

“Yeah. I’m gonna head back home and wait on Sammy to get home. Call me if you need anything.” Dean told his dad. John nodded and patted his shoulder before heading back to the garage. Dean turned back to his car and got in, heading back home.

****

Sam walked into his history class with his book under his arm. He groaned at being tired, but he had a very good reason. And that reason was currently sitting on his desk with her feet on the attached chair. Her blond hair was up in a ponytail. She smiled at Sam as he came through the classroom door.

“Hi there Sam.” She said, watching as Sam’s cheeks reddened. He desposited his book on his chair before leaning up to kiss her.

“Jessica.” He said, trying to lower his voice as low as Dean’s, but it didn’t work. It never did. But Jessica always seemed to enjoy watching him try. “Sorry I fell asleep last night. Soccer is kicking my ass.”

“And a very nice one it is.” A voice said. Suddenly, someone was slapping Sam’s butt, making Jessica laugh loudly.

“Nice to see you too Crowley.” Sam growled. “Detention didn’t stick?”

“What can I say? I’m king of this hellhole. They’re not going to keep me locked away.” He laughed. Fergus Crowley was one of Sam’s best friends, and by best friend, the two really had a love hate relationship. Crowley just loved to get Sam riled up, and Jessica loved to watch. Jessica, Sam, Jessica’s friend Jo, Crowley, Cas Novak, Bobby Singer, Rufus Turner, Jimmy Murphy, and Caleb Padalecki were all as thick as thieves. They stuck together, got in trouble together, and hung out together all the time.

“Guys, you should probably sit down.” Caleb said, coming into the room and taking his seat. “Lucifer is on his way in.”

“Come on guys, he’s not that bad.” Jessica laughed. “I think he’s charming.”

“You would.” Crowley said, rolling his eyes. “The same way that Cas finds church enjoyable.”

“A lot of people do Fergus.” Jimmy said, taking his seat behind Caleb. “Just because you burn if you even look at a church doesn’t mean other people have the same problem.” Crowley rolled his eyes and was about to make a smart ass comment when their teacher walked through the door.

“Mr. Crowley, please take your seat.” Mr. Pellegrino said, heading to his desk. Crowley looked over at Sam as Jessica slid down into her seat and Sam took his. He held up a finger on each side of his head, showing devil horns, and mouthed “Satan” as he headed to his seat. Jessica giggled a little.

Mr. Pellegrino pulled down one of the maps above the chalkboard. It was the 21st century and they were still using pulldown maps, chalk boards, and those giant dinosaur TVs on a cart with a VCR/DVD combo plugged into it. Sam was amazed that they even had computers to do attendance on. Mr. Pellegrino adjusted his glasses and started on his speech. Sam saw Crowley falling asleep in the seat in front of Jimmy.

“Wake him up.” Sam mumbled to his friend.

“Nah. Think it’s time he faces his wrath.” Jimmy mumbled back.

“Mr. Winchester. Mr. Murphy. Is there something you want to share with the class?” Mr. Pellegrino asked.

“No sir.” Sam and Jimmy said together. Mr. Pellegrino nodded.

“Good. And Mr. Crowley, do wake up before I send you back to detention.” Mr. Pellegrino said. Crowley set up, half asleep.

“’M awake.” He said, rubbing his eyes, making Caleb laugh a little loudly. Mr. Pellegrino turned his attention back to his lecture when all the lights in the classroom shut out. Jessica turned around to look at Sam.

“What the hell?” Jimmy asked.

“Am I dreaming?” Crowley asked, rubbing his eyes. Mr. Pellegrino stuck his head out in the hallway and saw other teachers doing the same. A couple moments later, the vice principal came in and announced classes were cancelled for the rest of the day, as were any other after school activities. Including the soccer game.

“Damn.” Sam groaned. “Guess I get to spend the night with my brother.”

“Or you could come spend it with me.” Jessica giggled. Sam rolled his eyes.

“It’s Dean’s first night back in town. He’d kill me if I don’t stick around.” She laced her fingers with Sam’s and led him out of the school. Cas ran to catch up with them.

“Guys, I just got a news alert on my phone. Looks like power is out all over Colorado. Weird right?” He asked.

“Yeah, a little.” Sam said. Crowley came up then and got Cas in a headlock, ruffling his hair.

“Cassie! I missed you!” Crowley laughed. Cas groaned and pushed his friend away. “Come on guys. We should go have a barbecue or something.”

“Can’t.” Sam explained.

“Sammy boy has a date with his brother.” Jessica laughed, making Sam’s cheeks turn red.

“It’s not a date…” Sam whispered. Jessica smiled and led her boyfriend to her car, their friends following behind them.

“Want me to give you a ride home?” She asked. “Or do you want to catch the bus with these losers?”

“Car.” Sam said, pointing over at her Mustang. She smiled.

“Don’t we get to go?” Caleb asked.

“Go ask Rufus.” Jessica said. “He’s got a car too.” Her and Sam got into her car.

“Yeah! A Pinto!” Jimmy called out to her. She smiled and waved at the boys as she drove off, leaving them to find their own way home.

“That was just mean.” Sam laughed. “God I love you.” Jessica smiled over at Sam.

“I love you too.” She told him as she headed towards his home. The McDonald’s with the messed up M was completely dark, the marquee on the theater wasn’t lit up, but the mountains were still there. It was all a little surreal. Sure, there had been power outages before, especially in the winter time, but not in the summer like this. But Jessica was at his side and the sun was shining, so things couldn’t be going that bad.

Right?

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