#spn 4x04

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// "lose it" - atreyu

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SPNWEEK2024 by @aborddelimpala

Day 1 : Iconic Supernatural line(s)/quote(s)

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S4E04, “Metamorphosis”

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Ruby in Metamorphosis (4x04): Best of SPN Ladies [416/?]

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🩸Bloody Dean Every Episode🩸 ↳ 4x04 || Metamorphosis

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Sam Winchester Extreme Close-Up Shots

Supernatural 2.22 | 4.04 | 4.22

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Dean Winchester every day -- 64/326

Supernatural 4x04//Metamorphosis

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haven’t been able to experience feeling hungry normally ever since watching s4 ep 4 of supernatural

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Season 4, Episode 4: Metamorphosis (December 24th)

Sam and Dean must hunt a cannibalistic creature who has not yet hurt human beings or done anything wrong. -Super-wiki

Originally aired on: October 9th, 2008

Written by Cathryn Humphris, directed by Kim Manners.

Fun fact: This is the first episode where Sam can use his abilities to exorcize demons. It's also the first time "Castiel" is shortened to "Cas."

Enjoy watching and tag any posts with #spn20rewatch!

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his moles are so special to me. they are like my best friends

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i really wanted to add these to the “it has never been like that, ever?” video, but…

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4x04, Metamorphosis

Critical theory: What makes a monster. What you are vs. what you do. 

Discussion point/question(s): Once again we see the moment Dean shuts down when he realises Sam knew about the demon blood for a year and never told him. Sam pushes Dean to talk about emotions, and once again shuts Dean down when he does. 

Key quotes: Travis, “You ever been really hungry? I mean, haven’t-eaten-in-days hungry?” Dean, “Ha, yeah.”; Dean, “Manburger Helper” [this is silly and goofy]; Sam, “It doesn’t matter what you are, it only matters what you do.”

Discussion: 

Feel for Sam a bit, because Dean was quite harsh with him. And it’s not even that he means to be harsh, it’s just his way of talking (macho mask), and it’s coming from a place of concern. He can’t accept that he has very little authority over what happened while he was dead. Exploring the psychic stuff is a neutral choice, and Sam is saving people, we can’t really fault him for that. But Sam gets very argumentative with Dean, and doesn’t seem to realise that Dean isn’t John—he’s not trying to control or order Sam around, but protect him. Sam didn’t like growing up as a little soldier, and maybe he didn’t have it as bad as Dean, but he ran away from it. So when Dean brings things up in that harsh way, Sam gets very defensive—his dad is controlling his life. 

[Controversially I think this is too kind on Dean. I think he is trying to control Sam. However, I also think it’s too harsh on him too. I think he didn’t just “have it worse” than Sam, he was indoctrinated. He is like John in this way because he has to be. He was raised to be like John, to idolise him. Of course he can be controlling.] Dean trying to control Sam is Dean trying to protect Sam. That’s how he was raised, it’s all he knows. 

Iga, Sam seems to be the one killing the almost-monsters now.

And Jack was fucking baited. Sucks for Sam to see that—from Sam’s perspective, Jack just snapped. But the truth is it was in self-defence, and in defence of his pregnant wife. How can we blame him for that? 

This episode really shows us just how harsh hunters are. Comes back to what Dean said at the beginning of the episode, about hunting Sam. Hunters would hunt Sam. We saw a bit of this in S2, but it’s so much worse now. The angels are probably being a bit too hasty, because Sam’s powers seem kinda useful. Angels in a lot of myths are stoic and harsh. Black and white. An army. [Angels are warriors of God.] They’re not gonna fuck around, they’re just gonna see that Sam is crossing the line and stop him. [They're there to fight a war.] There’s probably less angels than demons, so they kinda have to be a bit harsh/hasty. 

Feel really bad for Jack. Lots of people have that battle with something, an addiction. And he was pushed. He was trying his best, but he was pushed. 

It hasn’t been expressed what the demon blood is doing to him. Is he having evil urges, does he want to hurt people? [In season 2, we see it expressed as anger, like uncontrollable anger. But that’s pretty much the extent of what we’ve seen I think.] But that could just be childhood trauma, there’s got to be something deeper there. Iga, also, if the demon blood makes you stronger, is it just Azazel’s blood? Just when you’re exactly six months old? Why are we not drinking demon blood? Like a strength potion?

Notes: Visiting student Julio. First use of ‘Cas’ we think. 

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Nice to see you again, Dean.

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