#spn 15x05

[2sw]

Sweet, brave, selfless Sam. There's nothing he can't do.

#samweek2024 Day Seven 🎂 Happy Birthday Sam! 🎉

[uh-ohspaghettio]

I love how in season 15 Chuck gives Dean a freshly out of college aged girl and it’s like 😏😏😏 and Dean is like tf am I supposed to do with this???

[eversw]

SUPERNATURAL l S15E05 Proverbs 17:3

[wishbonedean]

If I saw these messages on my brother's phone and saw how much he's worrying all by himself, I too would playfully mock him about his hubris and reaction to ghost pepper jerky, just to give him something else to think about.

[shallowseeker]

Dean dreams of Mary facing Lucifer in 13x01...and Mary burns.

Sam dreams of Dean facing Lucifer in 15x05...and Dean burns.

[bloodydeanwinchester]

🩸Bloody Dean Every Episode🩸- 15x05 Proverbs 17:3

[fallenangelblade]

thinking many thoughts about how chuck was banking on the certainty that dean could be easily seduced by a woman 15 years younger than him, and dean didn’t look at her sideways even once. in fact, he behaves almost fatherly towards her, offering reassurance and the same kind of gentleness and care he’d extend to claire, his surrogate daughter.

meanwhile, dean spends the first half of the episode trying to tell sam that nothing has changed since we first met him in season one - he’s still the same guy he’s always been. AS we’re being shown that chuck’s characterization of his own favorite character is outdated and one-dimensional. neither of them can acknowledge the growth that dean has experienced.

[deansraspberrypie]

Bowlegs baby 🥹😍❤🥰

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[lavenderleahy]

Lmao the idea that Lilith could seduce Dean is sooooo. It's so unserious not even dean gives it a second thought

[ohsc]

no actually more thoughts on 15x05 this fucking SUCKS that once again sam had to go through thinking that he’s having freaky nightmares about his loved ones dying and then realising that they’re actually prophecies and once again he and his brother have roles to play after he thought he was out of it all for good i feel sick

[tsukiyo-7]

• S15 E05 Proverbs 17:3

The absolutely inhuman sound that escaped my throat as soon as Jared Padalecki's glorious back clad in a fucking white tux entered the frane GOD HELP ME- (or maybe not)

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

Good GOD! Imagine waking up next to this face every day.

And pressing close to that body every night!! 🥵🥵

N°358 in the series “wild spam of random caps” - SN: 15x05

[shallowseeker]

I think it is being right so often that devastates Dean the most, if you think about it.

It makes being wrong hurt so, so, so much more. (No one's going to be right all the time, after all!)

Like Cas's being brought back by God provided fuel for Cas's sense of hubris, Dean's consistent ability to read people, identify their motivations, and make judgment calls is what grounds him.

It's when he makes a wrong move that triggers every one of his downward spirals. In season 9, he says, on making decisions that "He's so sick of making the wrong one."

DEAN: Hell, maybe I still don't. But, uh... I know I took a piece of you in the process, and for that...[DEAN struggles to say the right thing. He finally just vents] Somebody changed the playbook, man, you know? It's like what -- what -- what's right is wrong and what's wrong is more wrong, and... I just know that when... When we rode together... [He pauses, looking for the right words.]

(9x12)

Dean's life has rendered making wrong decisions incredibly painful. Almost intolerable. (Especially since so many of his decisions have been so high-stakes!)

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Then in later seasons... it gets worse.

First, there was "choking in the fight against AU Michael" in s14

(14x09)

And then s14-15 hits even harder. It's a painful, emotionally devastating setup that results in Dean trusting Chuck and going whole-hog on the whole "God says so" thing.

It's the opposite of everything Dean's ever stood for:

(14x20)

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Then he spins straight into denial, oscillating between that and anger.

(15x01)

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And when Belphegor arrives, he pitches into bargaining, too, experiences multiple phases of grief simultaneously. (It's in the script only, but a close reading shows that the next few episodes underline that THIS is the deal with keeping Bel around.)

(15x01)

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This gives Dean perhaps his heaviest dose of Nihilism yet, effectively rendering him as s4 Cas, "I don't know if you passed or failed here," with Dean saying, "He doesn't know what's God, what isn't."

In Golden Times, Dean is described as "fatalistic."

(15x05)

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(15x06)

Yeah. I'm always thinking of s15 Dean being so untethered that he reads very as a parallel with early seasons Cas!

I can't find the line in the scripts, but I know one of them in s15 references Dean feeling like his "life work is a hoax."

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Dean and Cas have spent large parts of their respective lives being either Right or Righteous(TM), especially considering Castiel's incredibly long military history.

Yet in season 10, Cas says this:

CASTIEL: Yes, well, um… Before, I was very self-assured. I was convinced I was on this righteous path. Now I realize that there is no righteous path. It’s just people trying to do their best in a world where it’s far too easy to do your worst.

(10x04)

It's about trying to reconcile your own righteousness with the world, with where you are going to centralize the locus of your morality (i.e. family) in a world whose food chain spirals down so hard that following it will drive you mad if you're not careful!

The theme of righteousness becomes a poughkeepsie word as early as 4x07:

SAM: I just… I mean, I thought they’d be righteous. DEAN: Well, they are righteous, I mean, that’s kinda the problem. Of course there’s nothing more dangerous than some a-hole who thinks he’s on a holy mission.

That is where Dean fins himself in s15, I think. Grappling with what he will choose.

We see how he's grappling with it in s15, but he by no means really recovers in s15 (this is why we need ONE more season):

DEAN: Trust me, uh, bigger doesn't always equal better. Besides, who's gonna look out after the little guy? God certainly isn't.

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LEE: You don't, Dean? I am you. I'm just you that woke up and saw that the world was broken. DEAN: Then you fix it. You don't walk away. You fight for it.

The funny thing is that Lee echoes a of "I am you's" that AU Michael does. Like characters before him Cain ("you're like me, Dean") and (Crowley "see what what I see, feel what I feel") and Chuck ("the ultimate killer"), Lee is trying to pigeon-hole Dean into being who he thinks he is, something nihilistic and inhumane.

LEE: Ohh. All right. I'll be damned. Why do you care so much, Dean? DEAN: Because someone has to.

(15x07)

Dean fights back against these roles. He fights for his own heart, for his sense of CARING about the little guy.

Maybe it's not about being righteous but letting go of the idea of righteousness.

[mlobsters]

supernatural s15e5 proverbs 17:3 (w. steve yockey)

the ghost pepper jerky thing was pretty cute, minus the gagging. reminds me of this local jalapeño jerky i bought at some i don't even know what thing in a giant corporate building when i was working as a temp doing the most tedious data entry job over the summer one year in phoenix in the late 90s. it was luscious. always chasing that jerky dream

padalecki getting to flex all sorts of different characters. demon blood!sam, lucifer!sam. so, we going with this is just nightmares? not visions? reminds me of when he was so certain the visions he was getting were from god and never considered they were coming from lucifer in whatever season that was. 11? just with all his history, would think visions might be up there in the list of considerations whenever some weird ass shit is going on in his head. but who knows, maybe he has had vivid nightmares like that before so he brushes it off. if i wanna fill in the gaps for them

DEAN Look at you. You look like a baby. SAM Me? Look at you. DEAN What? I look exactly the same.

cute cute. what is that picture of sam lol. wiki says that's s1 sam hair but his hair never looked like that in the show :p

via the wiki

Sam and Dean go undercover as U.S. Wildlife Service agents, with Sam taking the alias "Agent Mark Hamill" and Dean using "Agent Dean Ford". Sam and Dean last used these identities in 1.03 Dead in the Water. "Deep cut", originally a music term, generally means an obscure reference that only people with an intimate knowledge of a topic will get. Additionally, when Eric Kripke was pitching Supernatural, he used the phrase "Star Wars in truck stop America", and described the characters of Sam and Dean Winchester (then Harrison) thus: “If Sam’s the good kid, Dean’s the troublemaker. If Sam’s Luke Skywalker, Dean’s Han Solo.”

very kind of... cheeky shots. the slightly goofy outfits, the taxidermy, her being so low down and looking way up. i see this is another speight jr directed episode

we're pushing hard on this dean will protect the girl who was attacked thing, which seems like setting up for failure

this getup is very cute on sam, not gonna lie

ANDY I didn’t want to hunt people in the first place. Dad would never have – JOSH Dad is dead! JOSH Look, hey. If you don’t want to hunt people… we’ll stop.

LOL the brothers and the younger one doesn't want to hunt and dad is dead. except the hunting is eating people

JOSH I don’t lie to you. I look out for you. So, we’ll stop.

see, just regular brother stuff

DEAN Do I like it? I do. I mean, there’s bad, don’t get me wrong. A lot of bad. Still, feels good to help people. You know? ASHLEY Did you ever want to be anything else? DEAN Jimi Hendrix. DEAN No, not really. I’m where I’m supposed to be.

confirming he's still in on the job and life and all i guess. speaking of, what about sam's crushing grief and depression from last episode

jesus christ. we had one vampire kid offering himself up to be killed last episode, now we've got a werewolf brothers murder suicide

15x05 / hannibal s1e1

LOL what. is chuck just having a laugh or something.

lilith, really?? this reunion tour is so far beyond out of hand :p

LILITH Was dead. Yeah. In the Empty, sleeping the big sleep, until the boss brought me back. SAM The boss? Lucifer? LILITH God. I was supposed to get rescued and in a moment of sweet relief seduce Dean, blah blah blah, obviously that’s not happening now, so – oh, well.

should have gone for an older body if that was the case, i don't think dean's really down for 22 year olds anymore

really doing the greatest hits here. now sam gets a visit from demon!dean in his brain while he has yet another concussion

LILITH Word for word. God… he is not exactly Shakespeare. He’s more of a low-rent Dean Koontz. I had to listen to his whole, quote “writing philosophy”. And his very weird, very pervy obsession with you. Then it always ends the same. One brother killing the other. I mean, this world… he could’ve ended it in so many ways, and… he likes that one. You know, I guess that’s why you had to see the werewolf brothers die the way they did, ‘cause… foreshadowing.

like, the meta shade is getting to be a LOT. i'm not arguing being while i love sam and dean, i don't often like the plot. but if y'all agree, be better :p

i like the actress who is playing lilith though, she seems to be having fun with it

DEAN That Cas? SAM Yeah, straight to voicemail. Again. DEAN Yeah, well. We gave the heads up on Chuck and Lilith, so… what else are we supposed to do?

i thought the whole breakup with cas thing was a bit out of left field but whatever. dean was being an asshole so, good for him taking a break and staying incommunicado

DEAN So, what? We’re just stuck in his… in his maze, still? And now, Lilith is back. I mean, what’s he gonna do? Just throw our greatest hits at us?

mmhm.

SAM Dean, my dreams, or visions, or whatever… they all end the same way. With us killing each other. DEAN You’re just telling me this now? SAM I-I thought they must’ve been some form of messed up PTSD, but… but what if they’re not? What if I’m somehow seeing Chuck’s endings? You know, different ones.

see, that is one of the few bright spots of the late-late seasons. they actually talk about important things in a semi-timely manner

DEAN How would that be possible? SAM ‘Cause of this. When I shot Chuck, the bullet wasn’t a bullet, it was uh… a piece of me. Right? So, what if it created a – a link of sort, you know? I mean, what if – what if I don’t… what if somehow, I’m in his head?

okayy that's not the explanation i was expecting. the bullet was a piece of him? i thought it was just energy. guess i wasn't really paying attention to the technobabble explanation either

feels like it's been a while since dean's really broken down like this and gotten emotional. usually in the big emotion scenes with sam, dean's the one that's keeping pretty steady. but can really feel some of the despair coming through this time and like he's actually choked up

i think i've been a little confused/judgey about how it seemed like he was very emotional in the early seasons and it just locked up tight, like jackles wasn't going there because xyz reason that wasn't necessarily a show reason. which is silly, he's all-in on the show and character. so i'm sure it was a character choice. but i guess the shift felt unnatural to me? maybe it'll make more sense when (i'm saying when, not if) i rewatch it. or maybe it's not as stark as i'm remembering it

[garashir]

they’re brothers!???

[the-gray-ghosty]

You know it's going to be a good supernatural episode when Sam is wearing all white