#i watched this as a kid so i thought id rewatch it and wow nothing makes sense

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SPN 01X01: “Pilot”

I’‘“cI personally believe (and know) that I have a bit of an issue with not knowing how much to share about myself, but I figured I’d tell y’all a bit about my history with the SPN Rewatch experience.

I actually participated in last year’s SPN Rewatch and had a lot of fun with it! I had originally wanted to liveblog it on here but chickened out at the last moment and ended up liveblogging it (so to speak) in my journals. When Hurricane Harvey hit, the Rewatch was the thing that kept me going and gave me a sense of stability.

I’m more than happy and excited to be doing this all over again, with the added bonus of liveblogging here on my blog! I’ve got a good chunk of time on my hands and I figured it would be good character development for me to do this publicly, so without further ado, here is my liveblogging of S1EP1 “Pilot”.

Lawrence, Kansas. 22 years ago. 

“Come on, let’s say good night to your brother.” Mary’s first words on the show.

“’Night, Sam.” Dean’s first words.

“Hey Dean.” John’s first words.

They seemed like such a normal, happy, loving family. *cries*

I think the show does a great job of setting up Mary as a regular housewife and the Winchesters as an ordinary family; it made me believe at very first viewing that what happened to them next was just an unfortunate stroke of luck, as opposed to something that was in the works and destined for them for years, hell, decades.

(I’m noticing old, vintage wedding photos. Are they the wedding photos of John and Mary’s parents?)

“Sammy? Sammy!” Mary’s last words.

And there’s the scream of horror.

Oh, jesus christ. Nothing prepared me for that death and even now my stomach turns seeing Mary on the ceiling like that. RIP Mary Winchester.

“Take your brother outside as fast as you can and don’t look back! Now Dean, go!”

(Little baby Sammy was so cute.)

Our first (silent) title card!

Enter Jess. “Sam! get a move on! We were supposed to be there like 15 minutes ago. Are you coming or what?”

I don’t know the exact details of the night Sam left for Stanford (besides the blow out fight between Sam and John) but at some point Sam packed the photo of his parents and he has it out on display in his apartment. That’s incredibly sweet.

THERE’S OUR SAMMY! 

Proud girlfriend Jess leads a toast to Sam and his LSAT score. (174!)

There’s a notable concern in Jess’ eyes when Sam tells them that his family doesn’t know about his stunning achievement. Did she ever ask about Sam’s family or did she ever plan to ask about them?? She seems like the type to let things go if someone asked her to, but eventually it had to be worrying her...like here.

“I’m proud of you. And you’re gonna knock ‘em dead on Monday and you’re gonna get that full ride. I know it.”

“What would I do without you?”

“Crash and burn.”

*screams in foreshadowing*

Jess was such a good and supportive girlfriend. Sensing that Sam didn’t have a good upbringing/home life, she really goes the extra mile to show her support for him, which I’m sure Sam deeply appreciated.

And there's my beloved Dean!

AWWW THOSE BABY VOICES.

Ah so, Jess knew Sam had a brother.

LMAO @ Sam for pulling the “Whatever you have to say to me, you can say it in front of her” card.

THEN he tries to fucking be a smartass when Dean tries to put it delicately. (”Dad hasn’t been home in a couple of days.”)

And finally, there’s the backfiring on Sam’s part when Dean says the now famous (and later paralleled) line:

I can see the Lucifer/Michael parallels as early as right here: Sam, rebellious and angry at the absent father vs Dean, dutiful and loyal to the absent father.

“You think mom would have wanted this for us?”

No, Sammy, she did not.

“I can’t do this alone.”

“Yeah, you can.”

“Yeah...well i don’t want to.”

Still true to this day.

The Impala’s arsenal! Still so awesome.

“Dad let you go on a hunting trip by yourself?”

On first viewing, I immediately thought, “Dude, he looks old enough to be on his own” just as Dean said:

“I’m 26, dude.”

and that’s the exact moment I claimed him as my favorite.

Wow, 3 weeks? No wonder Dean was worried.

WHOA how did Sam have THAT KIND OF BLADE WITH HIM??

“Hey, everything’s gonna be ok. I promise.” Sam’s last words to Jess. Oh jesus, why.

I got fucking jumpscared by the show, goddamn it.

Welp, RIP Troy. I’d feel worse for him if he hadn’t tried to cheat on his girlfriend.

Real rich of Sam ragging on Dean about the credit card scams, when about 9 years later (S10) he offers to teach Claire about the very same thing. That’s A+ character development coming up.

“Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.”  

(I think this is Dean’s first “Sammy” of the show, no?)

agH Netflix still hasn’t got the right music for this season. No AC/DC for me here. :(

I love seeing Sam’s ~shocked~ face at all the fake ids. What an innocent baby.

Posing as federal Marshals.

“You two are a little young for marshals, aren’t you?”

“Thanks, that’s awfully kind of you.”

LMAOO. I wish I can brush shit off like that. #goals.

That accurate display of sibling culture: 

Now posing as Troy’s uncles. (Really? Uncles?)

Sam and Dean: “What do they talk about?” (That synch up!!!)

The first scene Jensen and Jared filmed together: the library research scene. :’)

1981. Constance Welch, 24 y.o, jumps off a bridge. An hour before the suicide she called 911 to report that her kids were dead in the bathtub. “Our babies were gone, and Constance just couldn't bear it," said husband Joseph Welch.”

At the crime scene. A bro fight is a-brewin’.

“Even if we do find the thing that killed her, Mom's gone. And she isn't coming back.”

Them’s fightin’ words!

Wait about 11 years on that, Sam.

Dean is loyal to both absent parents.

And Sam didn’t even apologize for that! Dude, wth. (Tho Dean didn’t apologize for slamming him into the bridge, so I guess its even.)

There’s Constance.

“Who’s driving your car?”

*Dean holds up car keys*

lmao.

How fucking athletic of Sam to hold onto the side of the bridge, hot damn.

Then there’s poor Dean covered in mud.

“That Constance chick, what a BITCH.”

“You smell like a toilet.”

Sam picking his first lock on the show.

Just noticed that John had an area on the wall dedicated to “Deals and Demons”. ohohoho, hoo boy.

Monster of the Episode: Woman in white (Constance Welch.)

Oh there we go, Sam’s apologizing for what he said on the bridge.

“Hey, no chick flick moments.”

“All right, jerk.”

“Bitch.”

John had a photo of him and the boys. :’)

Oh, Sam’s listening to a voicemail left by Jess.

Welp, cops. 

“So come home soon, okay? I love you.” Jess’ last words to Sam.

“So. Fake US Marshal. Fake credit cards. You got anything that's real?”

“My boobs.”

I fucking love S1!Dean. What a babe.

Dean, er, “Ted Nugent” is in “real trouble” here.

John’s journal. Unceremoniously dumped on the table in front of Dean.

“DEAN 35-111″

Joseph Welch.

Sam, now posing as a reporter.

Sam taking a plunge and telling Joseph about the Woman in White. 

Welp, he got kicked out but he got the info he needed.

Out goes Dean, courtesy of Sam’s fake 911 call as a distraction.

“I’m taking you home.” OOOHHHH THAT ONE LINER THOO

Aaand he drives the Impala into the house. 

Creepy ghost children. 

Oh good lord. RIP Constance Welch, again and permanently.

They are the absolute cutest :)

Blackwater Ridge, Colorado.

Aww Dean. He got so used to having Sam around. :(

“I’ll take you home.”  Makes me sad that S1!Sam’s “home” was a place without Dean and Dean knew it.

“You know, we made a hell of a team back there.”

Dean’s goodbye, because actually saying “goodbye” would hurt too much. (Or maybe he was trying to plant the seed of “come hunting with me” in Sam’s mind...)

Sam enters his apartment...goes into his bedroom (eating something too, maybe the cookies Jess was baking?)

And there it is. RIP Jessica Moore, died the exact same day and way that Mary died.

Ugh god, that instance when Dean looks up and sees Jess on the ceiling. That one tiny moment of shock, horror, and realization that that’s how his mother died too. Jesus, Jensen’s a good actor.

And then it’s straight to saving Sam.

One brother pulling the other brother away from his lover to save his life, at the cost of leaving the brother’s loved one behind. Totally won’t be repeated later on in the series...

Dean doesn’t even know what to say to Sam. I don’t blame him.

OOHHHH!!!!!!

And that’s the Pilot. One of my favorite Pilots of any of the tv shows that I watch, and a pretty good episode for Supernatural. I love revisiting the baby faces and voices of the brothers, and I love pointing out all the things that are gonna change for the brothers in upcoming seasons (from Sam’s disdain of credit card scams to Mary “not coming back”).  Overall, an A+ episode for me.

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MOST of What is Wrong with Sailor Moon R: Promise of the Rose (DIC)

http://kissanime.ru/Anime/Sailor-Moon-R-The-Movie-The-Promise-of-the-Rose-Dub/SMC?id=67034 

After seeing Viz’s new dub of Sailor Moon in theaters, I decided I wanted to rewatch the Dic dub for comparison. (I wanted to do it while it was fresh in my mind, but I had to wait a couple days. And now it’s been a few weeks since I typed this out, and I still feel the need to share it for some reason.) Think of this as a low budget Cinema Sins, that’s less nit-picky. A LOT LESS NIT-PICKY. I can’t stand Cinema Sins anymore.  

MOST of What is Wrong With Sailor Moon R: Promise of the Rose, as dubbed by DIC:

Serena: “My friend Lita is the best cook, but she REALLY cooks when it comes to the martial arts.”

Serena: “They stand for true love in the language of FLOWEERS”

-Even “Darien” was laughing at this a bit.

Am I remembering incorrectly, or did they add dialogue in multiple parts of the movie where there previously wasn’t any? Because in the Viz there seemed to be more quite moments.

Serena: “Okay! You’re done! I need my pumpkin to myself now! Tata strangeoid!”

I believe they changed an asteroid to a “minor planet”…that a big difference.

Serena is baffled by the “some kind of“connection” between “Darien” and “Fiore”.

“Connection…”

Amy/AmI: “Everyone is in LOVE with him.” *blushes*

The conversation about whether Mamoru appealed to men and had been in a relationship with Fiore was changed to talk about how apparently all the girls like him so much. Even Ami. And you know, I always thought intellectually Ami and Mamoru were a good match but this just didn’t feel sincere in the Dic dub. Because it was a lie.

Luna is a lot harsher here. “Try babysitting a bunch of WANNA-BE scouts that do nothing but gossip.”

They have already saved the planet 2 or 3 times by this point. I think they’re doing okay, Luna. What have YOU done lately?

Artemis: Their energy has been stolen.

“Serena”: Are you sure?

No Serena, they all just felt like lying down for a nap in the middle of the street.

Then again, this is Japan.

Sometimes people do collapse form exhaustion on the subway. Or at work. Maybe the “negaverse” really is to blame for that!

Lita: TAKE THAT, PLANT BREATH!

Rini?: AHHHH THAT PLANT CAN MOOOVE”

Luna: “We need scout power!”

I know this is consistent throughout the dub anime, but I found changing “Venus Love Me Chain” to “Venus Love Chain in Circles” to be kind of stupid.

I was really surprised they kept in the scene where Rini suffocated Serena to wake her after crashing through the window. I don’t remember that from the VHS, but perhaps they put it back in subsequent releases? I think the version I found online differed slightly from the one I grew up with as a kid. But only slightly.

“You’re a pal, NOW DO YOUR THING MOON MAMA!” I think this is a line most of us remember without re watching the dub. Unfortunaetly.

Kisinian’s (sp?): voice is sexier in the new dub.

Kisinian’s: “You know what I always say, let’s put the pettle to the metal.”

Fiore “We’ve done the sailor scouts hash. Now let’s try the moon kabobs!”

Fiore: “This girl has you bamboozled Darien GARRRRRRRR!”

I think this is my favorite line of this version.

*as Fiore and Tuxedo Mask are…fencing?* Serena: Be careful, my masked man!

I was also surprised they showed the scene were Mamoru/Darien is impaled by Fiore’s claws.

I don’t know if my memory is bad, or if the version I found online has been updated since the original VHS release. I am really starting to think they put some of the violence back in when they released it on DVD.

I also recall a different opening, and different music. But I guess I won’t know for sure until I figure out how to hook up my VHS player and watch the tape again.

When Mamoru/Darien is in the glass enclosure in the Viz dub, Fiore explains that he’ll heal quicker in there. In the old dub, he only states “you need to rest”. So he basically just looks like a sadistic ass hole. In the Viz dub, there’s some implication he is trying to help him.

Artemis: “She has got them brain washed, rinsed, and dried.”

Rini: Why do you think it is we fight for you?

Serena: Mental void?

This could be canon.

Serena: Hey fern boy!

*when her friends are being held hostage and tortured* Serena: You’re so mean!

Voices in flashbacks about Minako’s loneliness:

“Well whatever she is, she looks like a total snore!”

“Look at her trying to be like Sailor V!” *Cackling*

Fiore: Adios, thief of hearts!

Serena: It’s cool! Why have the moon crystal if I’m not allowed to use it….now let’s get home safe and sound, kay?

(Something Usagi may genuinely say…are we sure this isn’t canon)

Fiore *grabs Serena’s chest and tries to steal the moon crystal*: Like candy from a baby!

Sailor moon’s near nudity was intact in this version. They definitely changed it for the DVD release.

This version was definitely different from the one I grew up with on VHS, and the one that I watched boot leg on YouTube last year, because Peachhips’ song “Moon Revenge” was used instead of “Power of Love.” I like both songs. While there’s a lot I HATE about the Dic and Cloverway dubs, the music they made for the Dic dub was fun.

*in a flash back sequence*

Serena: Hey book worm, today you’re going to do nothing but play!

Amy: Wow, I’ve never done that before.