#also big shout out to b-15 absolutely wonderful character this season

[nebulousfishgills]

BROTHER YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME I'M IN DISTRESS

[almaasi]

reaction post typed while watching SPN 12x17 “The British Invasion”

the deadly duo writing anything:

06:08pm

yeah i downloaded this yesterday and i was just DREADING it so i put it off as long as it took for me to feel bad that my tumblr queue is empty. deadly duo? no thank you

even though i have next to no idea what this episode is about, i'm kinda smug that this was the least-watched episode of the season so far (via wikipedia), 1.57 million vs the 1.7m~ average this season, and will probably remain the least-watched episode given we’re nearing the end of the season

things i don’t care about that i’m expecting to happen: reversing/erasing mick’s character development with only the slightest hint to previous episodes, no cas, no characters of colour (or alternately, characters of colour who die or have something else horrible happen to them), lady characters with little to no personality and a weird inclination to rape or kill people, consent issues in general, logic fails, a wonky plotline that makes no sense and fucks up all the work better writers have done all season - and indeed, throughout the entire 12 seasons of the show

(in case you’re new here, i don’t like these writers one bit, and i’m forever bitter that they still write their garbage for an otherwise okay/good show, and, most importantly, never seem to attempt to improve. i give them the benefit of the doubt every episode and they always let me down. i, like many people, have stopped expecting things.)

aside from the occasional use of the b-word and a lack of characters of colour, this show is otherwise fine - and has at least improved with the misogyny and representation in recent years. but i’m pretty sure a majority of the really shitty racist rapey misogynist stuff in this show has the deadly duo’s names on it. they keep writing things that erase other people’s better ideas and change the course of the story, and alter the overall feel of it, and since their episodes irrevocably become part of the canon, their writing never stops affecting the show negatively.

someone give me a meme where they are forcibly removed from the planet

okay okay enough whining let’s just watch this thing

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06:23

oh god no the adorable deaf lady eileen is in the recap

IF SHE DIES

I WILL PERSONALLY EXHALE MY ACTUAL SOUL

AND HAVE IT FLOAT ACROSS THE OCEAN IN A HAZE OF FURY TO VISIT THESE WRITERS

AND I WILL ḊẼ̍̍S̈T̑R͑̌̃̊̊̆̄O͊ͧ̏Ý̊͂ ͂ͯ̉̈́͋T̡͇͔H̯̼E̗̹̹̜͞M̳͚̫

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06:26

mick looks so much like cas that if someone missed the previous episode, and then saw this recap, they’d probably just think cas got a haircut and didn’t shave for a couple days

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06;27

funny how “outside london, england” looks remarkably like vancouver

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06;28

eyyy the framing so the headmistress has horns

i’m a sucker for that kind of symbolism

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06;29

tbh this is giving me a doctor who vibe, maybe because of the british school kids and a creepy vibe

specifically the episode with anthony head as the headmaster and the screechy bat aliens

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06:33

but three episodes ago mick didn’t raise his hand when sam (or mary?) asked “who here has killed something”

inconsistency, or mick just lying by keeping quiet?

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06;39

EILEEN HI YOUR HAIR LOOKS GOOD

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sam: “so, after we talked, you went back to coeur d'alene, idaho?”

eileen: “right”

the exposure script........ guys........... i’m suffering

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06;42

“i did some digging, check your phone”

eileen talks the same way sam does, that’s cool

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DEAN LOOK AT THE GODDAMN ROAD

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06:44

“that’s the plan”

i wanna hug eileen so badly, she makes me happy

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06;45

eileen: “bye sam”

dean: “that’s cute”

sam: “c’mon”

yeah DEAN it IS really cute when two people are in a long-distance relationship and have a phone conversation and say “bye [insert name here]” at the end of the phone call

speaking of, WHERE’S CAS. WHEN DID YOU LAST TALK

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06:48

mick is basically crowley and cas mixed together and poured into one asshole with a pretty face and childhood trauma

man they need some new character archetypes

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06:51

dean: “it’s not kelly’s fault, she didn’t know lucifer was her boyfriend”

mick: “yeah, could happen to anyone”

SOMEONE LOOK ME IN THE FACE AND TELL ME THAT’S NOT ABOUT SEASON 11 POSSESSED!CAS DESTIEL, I DARE YOU

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06:53

mick: “you should’ve shot her between the eyes immediately”

i still see these kinds of comments on the spn people’s instagram, i guess a lot of people missed the point of the season where the boys are going for the Some Monsters Are Decent People approach

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06;55

lucifer and diagon’s telepathic conversation kinda reminds me of season 4/5 for some reason. makes me a lil nostalgic

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07:01

dean’s all squirmy and sleepy and wants to cuddle his own arm

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07:02

doctor to daigon: “you’re her... partner?”

diagon: “no.”

doctor: “birth coach?”

diagon: “sure”

cute character thing or lowkey homophobia, who knows

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07:05

lucifer’s hair looks fluffy

also i feel dull inside and kinda melancholy

this episode makes me feel like i’ve forgotten something and it’s cold outside and there’s no heater inside, and as though i’ve got five hours left to wait until dinner

just generally unenthused, really

and very distinctly, it’s reminding me of 2007/2008 when every day felt like that, at the peak of my doctor who obsession, when i started watching spn. idk i don’t feel good right now, i want this to be over

feels like i’m wasting time

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07:10

lucifer licking the floor

nnnnnnnnnnnn

this is so unnecessary 

GUYS I WANNA STOP I’M SO OVER WATCHING THIS SAME TROPE AGAIN AND AGAIN

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07:11

i figured it out!! it’s like a background episode. something you put on while you do something else, and don’t really bother to watch

that’s what they were going for right

because that’s what they got

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07:15

ketch: “mrs winchester, i believe you’re drawn to danger”

*cough* dangerous john winchester *cough*

also as cute as the murder pair are together, i’m not digging the mary/ketch thing personally

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07:16

legit thought this was cas for 2 seconds and i got excited

same fucking nose and everything

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19:19

!1!! wow!!! a nameless, personality-free murderous black man who attacks an innocent white man unprovoked for no obvious reason!!!!!!!! how fucking realistic and topical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/sarcasm

WHaT THE ACTUAL FUCK

ARE THEY

FUCKING

DOING

my exhaled soul is puking right now

it’s okay soul, they’re just mean nasty racists who don’t know any better and keep doing the same problematic things over and over without a moment of self-reflection!!!

f̡̼̮̼��u͉̲͎͇̰ck̫̦̣̠̀i̘̘̯̖̙̹ͅn҉̼̙̰̰̞͉g͚̻̝̯̳̗̠ ḊẼ̍̍S̈T̑R͑̌̃̊̊̆̄O͊ͧ̏Ý̊͂ ͂ͯ̉̈́͋T̡͇͔H̯̼E̗̹̹̜͞M̳͚̫ 

look, nobody can ever, ever tell me that the writers don’t have a say in what kind of actor is cast for a role. they absolutely do. and you can tell, because the ones who are the worst in every other possible way are ALSO the ones who cast their rare characters of colour only into the Bad Guy/Dead Guy/Doormat roles. and it’s always the same. it’s one ~innocent coincidence~ after another and IT ALL ADDS UP TO nOT a FUCKiNG cOINCIDENCE

some writers have the capacity to offer diversity and positive representation, or are at least aware of what they might improve in the future. but these guys? all they offer are mere caricatures of good things that are actually poison, based on cliches and stereotypes. and i can’t stand it (┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻ 

TWELVE YEARS

TWELVE YEARS WE’VE PUT UP WITH THESE FUCKHOLES

WHY ARE THEY STILL WRITING THE SAME SHIT

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07:48

cas: “this is a voicemail. make yourrr... voice... a mail.”

sounds like chandler bing trying to make a jingle for “voicemail” (”pants! they’re like shorts, but looonger”)

also how often does cas change his phone/voicemail? i swear he had a different voicemail a few weeks back. if the brothers taught cas to change phones often, imagine all the “new phone it’s me” messages they must send.

also if you’ve ever set up a new phone you know it’s way more time-consuming than you’d think. at least for me. i think i’ve only set up voicemail once in my life and i never did it again on a new phone. right now i don’t even have a sim card or phone number, i just use my phone with the home wifi and it only has space for 5 apps and no photos or anything. you people with your fancy phones that do everything, i don’t know what that’s like. cas must be so tech-savvy by now. i wonder if he just keeps getting the same make and model of phone over and over. also that must cost hELLA CASH like where are they getting that money?? are they still running credit card scams? (how many credit card companies ARE there to scam?? do they scam the same people multiple times? if they’re at the bunker all the time wouldn’t companies realise their cards are going to the same place and are potentially being used in the same stores?) is cas being financially supported by dean and sam? I WANT ANSWERS

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07:50

so the winchesters never say ‘bye’ at the end of phone calls

and if the script hadn’t let jared know that dean’s phone call was over, then sam is talking REALLY LOUDLY even though dean could theoretically still be on the phone to cas

also since eileen is deaf sam doesn’t need to fucking shout????????//

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07:52

so the black dude with a knife is a) evil, b) dead

thanks that’s so great yay just what i always wanted  ಠ_ಠ

i get that eileen is A Capable Deaf Woman but ffs have these people ever heard of not throwing other oppressed people under the steamroller to elevate a disabled white woman

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08:01

sam where the hell did you pick up that accent

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08;11

okay the whole thing about daigon vanishing and eileen shooting the slimy british guy and then mick not shooting eileen was pretty cool

consistent character development!!! and daigon still lives!!!

but also why was it sam bargaining for eileen’s life..... romance probably

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08:14

NNNNNNNNNN

KETCH AND MARY

/SQUIRMY UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING

this offically counts as a notp now

if the deadly duo thinks it’s a good idea then it’s a big ol nope from me

urhghgh flashbacks to 9x03 and how i actually told myself it was cute for 2 minutes before i burst into tears, and i didn’t know why i was so upset until tumblr explained me a thing

(i still have that reaction post somewhere. it wasn’t on tumblr, it was just to my friends)

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08:17

also if we humour these dickwads and think about this mary/ketch pairing for a second, if we ever needed confirmation that john winchester was abusive, can we take it from the fact mary has a type ?

ugh god the heteronormativity of it all, too

it’s different to me suggesting ketch/dean had potential, because the point is dean HATES ketch and doesn’t trust him a bit, they could fuck and they both know there’s no safety and wouldn’t let their guards down for a second. wheras mary seems to trust ketch and values his approval and therein lies the danger of an abusive relationship.

and YES, anyone who’s thinking “elmie you complain about everything”, i’m complaining because everything IS a problem

deadly duo ep? more like ✧･ﾟ:*✧･ﾟ: U N N E C E S S A R Y  B U L L S H I T *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

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08:23

all that said, ketch is still a cute fumbling bean tbh

if he wasn’t the kinda guy who would beat someone to death when he’s angry, this might work fine

THE CUTENESS IS A RUSE. HE’S SEDUCING US ALL

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08:27

lucifer likes making the cute demon all flustered, pass it on

10/10 bisexual devil

(also: observe the pick-n-mix of deadly duo characters of colour-- fig b; cute black demon = Bad Guy + Doormat)

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08:35

lady: “hunters are dogs”

ketch’s smirk was definitely about mary and again i’m ehhhhhhh on the subject

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08;37

:c

mick

nooo

fuck you ketch

:c

i has a sad

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08;38

dean’s humid sigh because he doesn’t know if cas is okay. he also has a sad

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08:40

for the first time ever, my video file has next week’s preview tacked on the end

next week’s looks hella better than this week’s

fuck yeah give me a basement goat deity

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08:41

*sighhhh*

okay well 

i get it, i get why this episode was the way it was, with mick and ketch and whatever

but

i dunno. there’s always these episodes that make me think “elmie, why are you watching this show again? there’s nothing in its contents that makes you happy or furthers your education or even interests you slightly”

but then i remember how much i like the other episodes by other writers

the problem is that when these people write something it brings everyone else down, and brings the whole show down

when i don’t enjoy an episode’s plot points, it’s solely because it wasn’t written well enough. it’s possible to watch a character you’re emotionally attached to die and say “ooh that was good watching” (i.e. “death’s door” with bobby)

yeah, some stuff happened that i didn’t like, but it’s the context of These Writers Being The Ones Who Wrote It that makes it dissatisfying. like, sure, important plot points. but it could’ve been so much better.

4/10, didn’t give a crap about anything except mick, eileen and kelly, and then mick was dead, eileen was written as a plot device for the men (i like that she was soft and emotional though, i never see myself in always-badass women), and kelly just got tossed around and told she’s gonna die because of her decision to keep the baby, and therefore her ability to choose her own fate was erased henceforth

bechdel test pass though. that was nice.

*dean voice* “dude, don’t compliment the bad guys”