#spn 12.03

[deansrainbow]

WHAT WAS THE REASONNNNNN 😭😩

[lower-the-volume]

12.03 The Foundry

[ardentpoop]

[arcanespillo]

12.03, The Foundry

[castiellesbian]

Ben Edlund:

2.05 Simon Said

2.12 Nightshifter

2.18 Hollywood Babylon

3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock

3.09 Malleus Maleficarum

3.13 Ghostfacers

4.05 Monster Movie

4.08 Wishful Thinking

4.16 On the Head of a Pin

5.04 The End

5.10 Abandon All Hope…

5.14 My Bloody Valentine

5.20 The Devil You Know

6.03 The Third Man

6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe…

6.15 The French Mistake

6.20 The Man Who Would Be King

7.02 Hello, Cruel World

7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

7.15 Repo Man

7.21 Reading Is Fundamental

8.05 Blood Brother

8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler

8.21 The Great Escapist

Robert Berens

9.06 Heaven Can't Wait

9.14 Captives

9.19 Alex Annie Alexis Ann

10.07 Girls, Girls, Girls

10.14 The Executioner's Song

10.19 The Werther Project

11.06 Our Little World

11.14 The Vessel

11.17 Red Meat (with Andrew Dabb)

11.22 We Happy Few

12.03 The Foundry

12.07 Rock Never Dies

12.14 The Raid

12.19 The Future (with Meredith Glynn)

12.22 Who We Are

13.03 Patience

13.09 The Bad Place

13.10 Wayward Sisters (with Andrew Dabb)

13.21 Beat the Devil

14.03 The Scar

14.09 The Spear

14.18 Absence

15.03 The Rupture

15.09 The Trap

15.12 Galaxy Brain

15.18 Despair

[foxthefanboi]

12x03 - The Foundry

[mittensmorgul]

Isn't Death more powerful than god, though? Back with the first Death, he said he's reap god one day... Billie > Chuck, no? I'm so excited for whatever her plan with Jack is!!!

I wouldn’t say Death was “more powerful” than Chuck, exactly. Death has a very specific function, but is also bound by cosmic rules. Billie can’t just... kill Chuck, any more than she could kill Mary back in s12, you know? Even if Mary being alive directly went against the natural order. She can’t just... change the rules, or make up new ones. All she can do is find all the loopholes she can to get the job done, you know? And she’s VERY good at seeing the loopholes.

Just because she’ll someday reap God doesn’t mean she’s more “powerful” than God. Just that reaping him is one of the clauses in her job description. Just like reaping everything else that dies is.

Remember she told Chuck she was about an hour from reaping him back in 11.23? But then everything changed, they found another way, and the universe spun on. I still think she’s at least mildly annoyed about that, considering how much trouble Chuck’s gotten up to in the intervening years. :’D

AND I’M TOTALLY WITH YOU ABOUT THE EXCITE!

Is it just me, or did Billie’s timing seem REALLY SPECIFICALLY PRECISE?!

We know the Empty is outside of Chuck’s purview. We know that he has no power there, and that’s why I was so excited when Jack landed there in 14.20, along with Billie and the Shadow, and Billie’s reaction was “We need to talk.”

Almost as if Billie and the Shadow both had been preparing the way for that moment for a good long while. Perhaps ever since Jack was born and began tearing holes in the cosmic fabric. But DEFINITELY at least since the Shadow attempted to take Jack from Heaven. I’m still convinced that the only reason the Shadow agreed to that deal with Cas was because Jack wasn’t in possession of his grace at the time, and the shadow was willing to wait for him to recover it. Jack wasn’t whole, and for their plans, they needed him whole. Or at least in possession of his power.

Okay, back to my original point. All season TFW has ALSO been trying to “plot” against Chuck, and yet... how do you plot against an omniscient being? They lampshaded this with Donatello in 15.08: (apologies for the rough nature of this transcript... this is the rough copy I’ve used for personal reference, and I haven’t gone back and edited it):

DEAN: Donny, you going crazy again?

DONATELLO/CHUCK: Oh, Donatello's not here any longer. Hey, guys. It's Chuck. Prophets speak the word of God, sometimes indirectly. Sometimes they're my bluetooth. So, here's the thing. Usually, I really love our little... process. I toss something at you guys, and you slam it right back. It's fun, like tennis. With monsters. But this... Let this one go.

DEAN: Or what?

CHUCK: Or I go all-powerful. Maybe not on you. Not right away. But, let's see, there's... Jody, Donna, Eileen. Pretty much everybody on your speed dial. So drop it. 'Kay?

Well, the bunker's warding is intact, but it clearly doesn't withstand God.

How much do you think he heard?

He heard enough.

So... do we... drop it?

DEAN: Donnie, I think it might be safer if you went on home.

DONATELLO: Really? I have to leave? Oh, that's too bad. I'll, uh... I'll just get my stuff.

DEAN: Okay. Like hell we're dropping this. Donna, Jody... They're not safe. They'll never be safe. As long as Chuck is out there, it's only a matter of time... Before he rounds them up and offs 'em. Just to watch us suffer. The only way to keep them safe... to keep everyone safe... is to take Chuck down. Which is exactly what we're gonna do.

***

So they literally waited until Donatello was out of the room, because Donatello was sock puppeted by Chuck, and from that point forward they knew it wasn’t safe to discuss any of their plans with him, because it was a good as broadcasting it directly to Chuck.

What they DIDN’T know was that... Eileen was also Chuck’s plant, Chuck’s “eyes” on everything they were plotting against him.

(and they really didn’t know the full extent of Sam’s connection to Chuck via the wound, even after the events of 15.07, where Sam’s succumbing to the wound via Sergei’s manipulation-- that was a callback to what Rowena did to accelerate Lucifer’s decay in 12.03-- Sam was able to “reverse the polarity” of his connection and see directly into Chuck rather than passively receive the visions (be they memories of other worlds or just alternate stories Chuck likes to plot about) Chuck broadcast to him before that)

Heck that’s a wild sentence. >.>

And isn’t that kind of EXACTLY what Billie’s been doing in the empty all this time? Waiting for Chuck to “leave the room,” i.e. for Sam to break the tether between him and Chuck inflicted by the Equalizer, and then for Chuck’s last remaining plant in the bunker (Eileen) to leave, clearing the way for their plan to move forward? Because that’s what it felt like to me...

BUT WHAT ARE THEY PLANNING?!

[bowleggedean]

Okay, so I rewatched 12.03 "The Foundry" last night, and I noticed that Sam and Mary were both holding identical EMF meters.

When we first saw an EMF meter in the show, it was in 1.04 "Phantom Traveler", and Sam didn't know what Dean was holding in his hands. And we learned that Dean made his EMF meter himself, out of a busted-up Walkman.

So either Dean did a second EMF meter when he did the one he owns in 1.04 or some time after. Or he showed Sam how to make one out of a busted-up Walkman.

Maybe Dean did a second EMF meter for John since he was hunting solo/ without Dean at some point.

Maybe Dean did a second one after John abandoned him, before going to California to see Sam and ask him to find Dad with him, in case he comes back with him, into the family business.

Bonus: Dean being proud of himself because his EMF meter is homemade and he IS the one who made it.

[thebratfarrar]

The Foundry - Robert Singer

[capturingdeanwinchester]

Dean Winchester + 12.03 “The Foundry”

[lillysilverus]

I originally wrote this right after the episode aired the first time.  It’s on TNT today and I thought I’d post it again in honor of that. 

[deansrainbow]

can we talk about deans left crusts on his plate as he was having breakfast??? He HATES the crusts & we see how he asks mary to take 'em off in 5.16 and here is no different. I love the details 🥹

[lower-the-volume]

12.03 The Foundry

[ardentpoop]

very telling

[thayerkerbasy]

Always Stuck In Second Gear by @thayerkerbasy [beta reading by @grey2510, illustrated by @dmsilvisart]

Rating: T Archive Warning: No archive warnings apply Category: Gen Relationship: Castiel & Crowley

Characters: Castiel, Crowley, Dean Winchester, Juliet

Additional Tags: Episode: s12e03 The Foundry, Episode: s12e07 Rock Never Dies, Canon Compliant, Road Trips, Frenemies, Past Crowley/Dean Winchester, POV Crowley

Word count: 29025

Summary:  After Wendy Vincente spilled the location of her brother's secret cabin, Agents Beyoncé and Jay-Z had a lead to follow. Tracking Lucifer while confined to a pickup truck wasn't exactly Crowley's preferred modus operandi, but at least he was in good company.

A story covering the time while Crowley and Castiel were on the road hunting down Lucifer, from s12e03 (The Foundry) to s12e07 (Rock Never Dies).  The buddy cop comedy we were promised, filling that missing time.

A story for the @spncanonbigbang

Read it on AO3 * Art Masterpost * Teasers 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

[castiellesbian]

Robert Berens:

9.06 Heaven Can't Wait

9.14 Captives

9.19 Alex Annie Alexis Ann

10.07 Girls, Girls, Girls

10.14 The Executioner's Song

10.19 The Werther Project

11.06 Our Little World

11.14 The Vessel

11.17 Red Meat (with Andrew Dabb)

11.22 We Happy Few

12.03 The Foundry

12.07 Rock Never Dies

12.14 The Raid

12.19 The Future (with Meredith Glynn)

12.22 Who We Are

13.03 Patience

13.09 The Bad Place

13.10 Wayward Sisters (with Andrew Dabb)

13.21 Beat the Devil

14.03 The Scar

14.09 The Spear

14.18 Absence

15.03 The Rupture

15.09 The Trap

15.12 Galaxy Brain

15.18 Despair

Sera Gamble:

1.03 Dead in the Water (with Raelle Tucker)

1.12 Faith (with Raelle Tucker)

1.14 Nightmare (with Raelle Tucker)

1.21 Salvation (with Raelle Tucker)

2.03 Bloodlust

2.08 Crossroad Blues

2.13 Houses of the Holy

2.17 Heart

2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One

3.02 The Kids Are Alright

3.07 Fresh Blood

3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me

3.12 Jus in Bello

3.15 Time Is on My Side

4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester

4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer

4.17 It's a Terrible Life

4.21 When the Levee Breaks

5.02 Good God, Y'All

5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester

5.13 The Song Remains the Same (with Nancy Weiner)

5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight

6.01 Exile on Main St.

6.11 Appointment in Samarra

6.21 Let It Bleed

7.01 Meet the New Boss

7.10 Death's Door

7.17 The Born-Again Identity

7.23 Survival of the Fittest