#changing channels

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Castiel every day so often -- 18/139

Supernatural 5x08//Changing Channels

[heller-meta-of-the-day]

January 5th

Changing Channels (5.08)

HELLERS: Dean has a crush on Dr. Sexy. Gay!!!!!

Wellllllllll, if Dean is "gay" for Dr. Sexy, who does Dr. Sexy look like? 🤔

Viva el wincest, bitches. 😉

[staplejeans]

[winchesterworld]

SUPERNATURAL 5x08 (2009)

"Why do you think I've always taken such an interest in you? Because from the moment Dad flipped on the lights around here, we knew it was all gonna end with you. Always."

[follows-the-bees]

Changing Channels analysis (cause this episode is so good!)

Let's first talk about Dean and how he relates to TV — and how that also relates to his sexuality!

Near the beginning we see Dean, mouth open, straight on staring at a dramatic medical show. From a character analysis, we see a couple things. Television has shaped so much of Dean's life and how he relates to it and uses it to relate to other people.

Dean uses these tv references to relate to others. But sometimes he tries to hide his viewing habits. During this scene, Dean tries to play off watching the show as a fluke, but even before the facade is lifted later on, he mentions: "I think it's based on a book," this tells us that Dean knows more about this show than he's letting on.

Later on, when Dr. Sexy makes his appearance, Dean is starstruck: blushing, first afraid to look him in the eye. He doesn't seem as fixated on the female doctor, the one notably in the elevator in the first scene. In fact, that character is obsessed with Sam.

It is Dr. Sexy Dean is obsessed with, the one where Dean can't put up the facade, who looks down blushing and sees that his shoes are not his usual sexy cowboy boots. For many people, this is one of the loudest Dean being bi episodes.

Moving on to a slightly related note: Cas

This episode is only a few after Free To Be You and Me and The End. If we take into account Dean and Cas' friendship by the time CC aired, Dean and Cas have become better friends. They worked a case together spending a lot of time together. Then Dean saw Cas in another world follow him to the end — a su*cide mission. And he realizes not only what Cas would do for him but his feelings about Cas may be deeper than he originally thought.

Throughout this entire episode he worries about Cas. He brings up Cas many times, worried about where he is. (At least 3 times it's brought up) And near the end, when they figure out who the trickster really is, one of the first things Dean does is threaten Gabriel to bring Cas back.

Dean was worried about losing Cas. He had to experience it in The End and I don't think he was ready to lose him again.

During the Japanese game show, the host also calls Cas "pretty boy angel" leading to a series of facial expressions on Dean's face. These expressions can be read as Dean realizing that Cas is pretty. Another example of both Dean's bisexuality and his feelings about Cas. Cas is also part of the reason Dean figures out who the trickster really is.

When Cas comes back for the second time and the trickster shows up, the trickster shows his cards. Cas says "if it is the trickster," then Gabe recognizing Castiel, and being so adamant about the apocalypse, Dean figures it out. I love this moment because sometimes SPN capitalizes on making Dean dumb for laughs, but this is a moment of Dean's brilliance. Also notable is that Gabriel is aware of who Castiel is. Castiel was not a worker bee angel, he led a garrison, he was tasked with getting the righteous man out of Hell. Gabriel and Cas are one of the few angels to fall and choose humanity over angels.

Cinematography

I wouldn't be me if I didn't mention the amazing cinematography that SPN can have. Angel fire shots are always so pretty and can cast a sinister light on the subject. This episode goes from a light-hearted sitcom to once of the biggest reveals of the season.

The light wallpaper and bright lights turn into a dark and dreary wet pipe factory matching the tones of the reveal. Sam and Dean were not aware of their roles in the apocalypse fully until this episode. They knew that Dean started the seals and Sam releasing Lucifer, but not about being vessels. Out of a sense of guilt and duty, the boys are trying to stop the apocalypse in their own way. But now they have this heavy weight on them, not only are they vessels but their fate is for one of them to kill the other. Even with this knowledge, Dean says no, they won't kill each other. Their siblingship is strong here even after the short break up of a few episodes here.

While CC starts off as a fun romp, when we look deeper, it is full of great character analysis of the TFW. I love it.

Original post here

[a-vibing-potato]

Watched Season 5, episode 8 "Changing Channels" last night but was SO. FUCKING. TIRED. (I swear end of the school year is going to kill me all the way dead there is STILL a month and a half left) that I didn't make a post about it.

But yeah. Absolutely loved it, I had high hopes since Gabriel was in it and he DEFINITELY DELIVERED. I don't know if I ship Sabriel completely, but there were definitely some moments where I could see parallels between Sam and Gabriel that I've seen with Dean and Cas (my sister said they should have a double date lol but I lowkey love that). Also just. What a fucking icon. He's literally built like a rat but he's a tiny bit hot. Also just a diva. We love. Also Cas was in it :) but he was beat up like the whole time and was just there as eye candy at the end but STILL. Eye candy :D Also the freaking twist (that I had heard before but I forgot that I knew!!) Gabriel and Cas are brothers????? Yes PLEASE. They're both definitely autistic though, the vibes are there. But I love them <333333 they both make me so sick.

[spn20rewatch]

Season 5, Episode 8: Changing Channels (January 19th)

When Sam and Dean get trapped in a series of TV shows, they suspect the work of the Trickster. -Super-wiki

Originally aired on: November 5th, 2009

Written by Jeremy Carver, directed by Charles Beeson.

Fun fact: Doctor Sexy is a parody of Grey's Anatomy, with the eponymous Doctor Sexy himself based on Patrick Dempsey's character "McDreamy." Dempsey and Jensen worked together in the 2001 movie "Blonde."

Enjoy the episode and post any thoughts in #spn20rewatch!!

[that-anxious-enby]

be gay, do crime? yes. but also be gay, do multiple re-watches of supernatural season 5 episode 8 Changing Channels to stare at Gabriel's gorgeous eyes when hes standing in the holy fire at the end.

[waihtie]

Supernatural is leaving Prime in 2 hours (less by the time I watch and post) so let's fit one more in, my friends. Let's hope this journey doesn't end here.

Season 5 Episode 8 - Changing Channels

Such a good one, too

○ I love the stereotypical sitcom opening

Great laugh track

○ The theme song 😂

○ Their hair colours are so different without a typical spn filter

○ Dean watching Dr. Sexy, MD with that particular facial expression

○ Oh there is a MotW case within this episode

Lady saw the Hulk. The TV show one.

"Hot-head being killed by tv's greatest hot-head"

○ Dean putting it all together that it's the Trickster pretty quickly

Sam doesn't want to kill him

"He's one of the most powerful creatures we've ever met. Maybe we can use him."

Sam is hoping since the Trickster loves a lot of the things that come with humanity, so maybe he'd want to help save it.

Also, so no MotW. Just him since it was TV related.

○ I love the clear Grey's Anatomy ripoff. Hilarious.

"Dr. Wang. Sexy but arrogant heart surgeon"

The ghost patient in the mind of the other doctor

○ Do I really need to comment on the "Dr. Sexy" scene?

I don't think I have a choice. I held off for as long as I could.

The facial expression. The stuttering. The blushing. The slamming against the wall. The noticing of the shoes (like his 2 kinks in one, but the second was missing. Of course he noticed). Him being a fan of Dr. Sexy in general.

"It's a guilty pleasure"

○ The Trickster completely built this world.

Also, I love him so much

(I've been calling him the Trickster, bc that's how we are supposed to know him at this point, but I've seen far enough to know who he really is)

He wants the to play "the game"

○ Sam's character's girlfriend being all dramatic with him lol

○ Dean got shot bc he wouldn't give a guy's wife a face transplant. This is so funny.

Sam has to be a real doctor for him 😂😂

"I need a pen knife, some dental floss, a sewing needle, and a fifth of whiskey" lmao

○ Now they're in a Japanese Game Show

Sam got straight clocked in a not-fun area

Cas here to find them 🩷

And he disappeared before he could save them

Sam figured out they have to play their roles in order to go to the next show

Let's hope for Dean's baby-maker's sake he answers the question he doesn't understand correctly

Okay, so now he speaks Japanese

The side-affects of the drug lmao

○ Ou back to the sitcom

○ Cas back again

And of course him and the Trickster know eachother

His face my god

○ The Trickster wants them to play their roles in real life. Aka be the vessels for Michael and Lucifer. Why?

"It can't be stopped. Let's get it over with"

He doesn't like either side

Either they do it, or they stay in "TV Land"

○ Now they're in a procedural cop show

Dean's not happy about it

Lmao the boys acting

They pretend to be FBI all the time. How do they suck so bad at acting everytime?

They killed him. In an absolutely brilliant way. How'd they know?

○ Dean's worried about where Cas is 💔

○ Okay Sam is the car

"I don't think we killed the Trickster"

They figured out he's not a Trickster. And that he's an angel.

○ Sam's turn with a snarky saying

○ Gabe's been hiding from the other angels under the guise of a Trickster

Couldn't handle the family drama. Hates that it's back.

"Why do you think you two are the vessels?"

He's saying they are direct parallels to Michael and Lucifer

And that they always knew it would end with these 2

○ Dean threatening the Archangel Gabriel to get Cas back 🩷

○ "It's about you being too afraid to stand up to your family"

Dean could've left Gabriel there forever, but didn't 🩷

Sometimes, I just love Dean's heart

[acefusti138]

this show is on fucking crack

they literally make part of the episode a bit making fun of jeffery dean morgan leaving supernatural to go play a ghost on grey’s anatomy

[hexedwinchester]

Supernatural S05E08 Changing Channels

I've said it before but really Jensen is good at comedy. He should consider one of the comedy roles. Anyone remember Priestly? He played that well

I'd watch Dr. Sexy M.D. too if Dr. Sexy was Sam Winchester 😍😍

dr. Piccolo is a Sam girl

Sam asking important questions in Season 5: why does this show (Dr. Sexy M.D.) have ghosts? Did you kiss him?

i wonder how Sam felt when he saw Dean getting shot at the hospital. It must have brought back the trauma of seeing Dean die over and over again from Mystery Spot 😭😭

Poor Sam... 🥜🍘

Sam: I've got gential herpes 😂😂😂 so ironic the trickster made him play that role

i love Sam's Neo Anderson sunglasses 🕶️

so Dean hates procedural cop shows but anyone who is looking at Sam can tell he swallows them up like candy 🤣🤣🤣 he is too invested

Sam: should I honk? 🤣🤣🤣

Supernatural: it's about two brothers who loved each other and betrayed each other. Meanwhile, that one group of fans: it's about our ship

[astrylx]

Supernatural Liveblog - S.5 Ep.08 - Changing Channels

TRICKSTER EPISODE SPOTTED! I love the Trickster, I love him so much, he might be one of, if not my favorite character. This episode is going to be fun. I also may or may not be attracted to him, but I'm also gay with bad taste so...

SITCOMNATURAL!

The change in colours from this episode compared to the rest of the series is so jarring.

This dumb little theme song, I love it.

Hulk? Okay then.

Please ally with the Trickster I would love that. (it's not going to happen)

They're in Dean's 'Dr. Sexy' now, aren't they?

Oh Dean's a hardcore watcher now, is he?

For all the Trickster has put them through, they really don't believe the things he does much, do they?

WHY DOES DEAN SEEM SOMEWHAT INTO DR. SEXY?? gay?

DEAN IN THIS EPISODE IS KILLING ME-

is it bad if I say I want the Trickster so bad...

Not Dean dying AGAIN. A theme with these episodes.

Okay not dead, but nearly.

AHAHAHA WHAT AM I WATCHING

CAS!!!

Cas can't interfere here, the trickster is stronger than Cas.

what the fuck was that question oh my-

DEAN SAID YES- this hurts.

THEY'RE IN A HERPES AD? THE EPISODE AFTER SAM WAS GIVEN GONORRHEA??

I KNEW IT WAS SOMETHING MORE THAN A TRICKSTER!

I jokingly said the Gabriel was the trickster in a text to a friend AS A JOKE but now I don't think it's a joke I think it may be. This for sure isn't a demon, and it's nothing like the pagan gods we've seen. I think I may have been right.

Never mind I guess? I'm confused now.

More terrible effects and CGI... Also they killed an innocent guy.

Trickster better not be dead, I love him too much for that.

PHEW!

Wait Sam is the car? PF-

DUDE I WAS RIGHT?!!

I WAS FUCKING RIGHT!!! IM

IM SO THRILLED RIGHT NOW!!!

I’m starting to feel so bad for him. He left Heaven to escape his family fighting.

FUCK, HIM TURNING THE TABLES ON THEM-

Him describing the roles, holy shit.

Is that way Azazel picked Sam? He knew this? Or?

Richard Speight Jr has the most gorgeous eyes I can’t look away.

They’re just leaving him? Lol-

They let him free after everything.

That glare he gave Castiel, damn.

Is what Dean said to Sam just not going to be acknowledged? They never get to know? Because I know they don’t know Japanese, or what happened, but Dean literally blamed Sam for their parents being dead. That’s heavy.

ANYWAY! Gabriel, I love you, you’re beautiful.

[jamieroyjamieroy]

This episode is so stupid and I love every moment of it. No matter how many times I watch it I laugh at the absurdity.

[shirtlesssammy]

Dean Winchester every day -- 90/326

Supernatural 5x08//Changing Channels

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