#spn remember the titans

[shallowseeker]

Cas & the chair at the head of the table

==The chair breaks==

When Dean breaks a chair in 14x18 Absence, it's that three-part play on the word absence again: (a) Castiel's absence from the partnership both emotionally [Empty deal] and in terms of decision-making/trust, (b) Jack's absence of soul, and (c) Mary's absence in death.

The cabin they're standing in is dilapidated. Broken down. The breaking of the chair symbolizes the symbolic breaking of the marriage. It's the dissolution of the happy family as essential parts of it die and the rest splinters apart.

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==When Cas is absent, this chair position is featured==

This is a chair position that has been associated with Cas before, when he died in 12x23 All Along the Watchtower-13x01 Lost and Found.

It's the head of the table. Cas's head is literally pointed at the empty chair in death. Dean's hands tenderly brush it as he walks past it.

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==Mended bonds: Cas rejoins the table==

After season 14's Absence, although we see Cas in the library and at the war table, we do not see him fully rejoin the kitchen table until 15x09 The Trap. Here he retakes this adjacent, head-of-table "partner" position again:

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==The kitchen table in day-to-day bunker life==

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[NOTE: Yes, before you say it--all of TFW sits here sometimes. Usually, they sit across from one another when they're eating dinner. And Dean, for example, took the helm position when Jack died.

But the kitchen seating arrangement with respect to Cas is still conspicuous here in seasons 14-15 for the ordered sequence I've noted. There is a symbolic relation to the empty chair and its association with Cas's previous absences. There's a weight to when and where Cas rejoins the table with respect to Dean-Cas as a unit.]

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==After Cas dies, the kitchen table features very little==

After 15x18 Despair, Cas is gone. Interestingly, after Cas leaves, although the kitchen itself is shown, even to illustrate the daily rhythms of the finale, the kitchen table is not shown again. The war table and the library are favored.

In the finale, Sam is shown cooking, and Dean is shown grabbing toast, and Dean is even shown doing dishes. That's it. The table does not feature.

(Most of the denouements take place in Sam's domain: the library.)

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==Empty chairs, pizza boxes, missing pizza man==

So, what else is conspicuous about Cas & chairs? Well, the empty black chair of the dungeon in 15x18 is certainly conspicuous, but the 15x20 finale, despite having no Cas, has a peculiar abundance of empty chairs and pizza boxes.

Six months after Castiel's death, the empty spaces in Dean's room are filled by pizza boxes. ("The missing pizza man.")

On entering Dean's room, we see our first empty chair, the one by the couch.

And an empty pizza box.

This position calls to mind Dean's prayer scene from season 8's Remember the Titans. In that prayer scene, Dean sits on the "Cas" side of the bed as he prays towards the Cas-shaped lamp (you know--the tall one--reminiscent of the one he dances with in The Heroes' Journey). As the prayer ends, Dean glances over his shoulder towards the empty chair and laments Cas's absence.

It seems that this chair position in particular is a chair Cas would favor, and it especially represents the early days of their domesticity in the bunker.

Another conspicuous thing is those shirts draped over the green bench. The couch features a plaid shirt, plus a camo shirt (and tan rag?) that is decidedly not Dean’s style. It hearkens to army fatigues. Is this another ghost of the soldier (Cas?)

The only other thing this could be is a callback to Mary and Jack re: AU earth, but it seems more like a symbol of Dean and Cas.

That the army shirt & tan fabric are draped near an old phone seems another nod to Cas, the absent soldier. Since Lucifer’s cruel trick, Dean has been waiting for Cas to call.

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And the second pizza box is simply...on Cas's side of the bed. Like a bedside table. This pizza box is inexplicable. One's weird, but two's a pattern. This pizza box is also in the frame with another empty chair.

Cas's side of the bed features the fan of domesticity, a Cas motif, as well as the tall Cas lamp. And now, we have another Cas motif: the pizza man.

SAM: "If Cas were here--" DEAN: "He's not."

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[secretsoftheuniverse1987]

I see a lot of references to the scene in Goodbye Stranger where Dean, on his knees, begs Cas to come back to himself (and to Dean), and I see a lot of reference to Dean referring to praying as begging, but not a lot about how these scenes are literally in back to back episodes? Dean Winchester really said I don't pray because it feels like begging, but I'll pray to you, and then in the literal next episode said fuck it, let's drop the pretense, I am begging. I need you.

[shirtlesssammy]

Dean Winchester every day -- 165/326

Supernatural 8x16//Remember the Titans

[thicc-mothman]

hey guys guess what

edit: the shitty gaming controller used to pilot the damn thing survived

[thebeautyofspn]

8x16 Remember The Titans

[railroad-spike]

SUPERNATURAL - 8x16|Remember The Titans

[monstermoviedean]

season 8 dean was just saying anything huh

[scripted-downfall]

(Okay, I apologize in advance, but it’s Destiel Day so there’s only so painless Tumblr can be right now anyway.  @typicalopposite, my queue seems to suggest that I’m living up to that title you’ve given me: Angst Queen is in the house)

Anyway, I was writing a post — available here — about the fight amongst Dean, Cas, and Alastair and, in the process, I thought of “On the Head of a Pin” (as you do).  In particular, I thought of the scene where Dean’s in the hospital bed and Cas is sitting behind him.  This one:

And that was fine and normal and all until I thought about it a bit more because this is not a one time thing.  This is a very, very regular thing.

You’ve got s04e03 “In the Beginning” when Dean wakes up to find Cas sitting next to him.

You’ve got s08e07 “Torn and Frayed”, where Cas is watching over Dean (and, judging by his “Damn it, Cas! How many times I got to tell you – it's just creepy!”, this is not a one-time thing):

You’ve got s08e08 “Hunteri Heroici” with the famous:

And, for some honorable mentions: Cas actually going into Dean’s dream in s04e20 “The Rapture”; Cas watching over Dean long-distance enough to pull him away from Zachariah in s05e04 “The End”; and Cas watching as Dean rakes leaves in s06e20 “The Man Who Would Be King”.

This would all be really sweet if it weren’t for the fact that my brain then reminded me of the episode s08e16 when Dean prays to Cas and very pointedly looks towards the chair by his bed to see if Cas showed up and is disappointed to see he hasn’t.

Cas spends so much time there --- in that chair specifically --- that Dean expected him to be there. If Cas was going to be anywhere in that room, it was in that chair, and he wasn’t there.

Please help.

[transgender-anakin-skywalker]

so i was going through my google drive from secondary school and trying to recover everything before they nuke the fuck out of it and i managed to dig up an old slideshow that my friends and i made when we were 13ish and it truly has some of The Content Ever (derogatory)

[evilista]

I've seen so many of these angry takes "they got Artemis WRONG! She's out there sleeping with a man!!!!" But seriously, do you guys jump into Supernatural with this ep?

Because they established in season 1, ALL gods are people-eating monsters. That should be a bigger concern. Your god is eating people. Like, the Supernatural universe is not ours, and the gods are not like in myths in our universe. If I was that attached to gods I'd be more upset that being in Supernatural means she's eating people, than being upset she's getting laid

[shallowseeker]

Very very VERY Random thoughts from watching Remember the Titans 8x16:

Prometheus is a great big fun mashup of the "GOOD, REBELLIOUS SON," "SACRIFICIAL SON," "FIRE/AMBER/ENDURANCE," and "RIVAL SON-GOD," "HELPER OF HUMANITY" motif.

See: Sam, Cas, Mary, Lucifer, Cas, Benny, etc (even Chuck, with his little divinity-human hair/looks/hoodie). But it's Cas who has arguably acted on behalf of humanity the most at this point.

Aside// Prometheus is also like Gabriel, who laments his "constant running" and boldly proclaims in AU Earth/Apocalypse Earth , "I'm not going to run anymore," then dies.

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But at the end of the episode when Prometheus's burning. Oh, when he's burning. There's so much that minds me of Castiel's funeral in 13x01 Lost and Found.

Dean comforts the mother at the fire:

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And we also get the parallel sons heart-to-heart mashup:

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BONUS stuff:

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Later in 8x16, when Prometheus's son speaks, he's robotic, almost otherworldly. Very Jack-like in addition to a mute/child Dean motif.

The boy is like Jack. He's also like Dean, rendered temporarily mute by the trauma of his destiny. He becomes "the one who stays."

// SAM: "Bobby, Rufus, now Prometheus. You think any of them chose death? No. The life chose for them."

Dean is like Hayley, wants the one he's caretaker of (Sam) to BE NORMAL, to be free. To die of something "normal," not "on the mountain," as Zeus gleefully crows, in the cycle inherited by the fathers.

He wants Sam to NOT inherit from the father figures Sam invoked above (Bobby, Rufus, Prometheus.)

Aside//I find it interesting that Bobby nor Dean could kill Sam directly. So, narratively, the Cause takes on the role of "son sacrifice," enticing Sam to sacrifice himself (notably in season 5's Swan Song) and also in this season 8 with the Hell Trials.

I think it's interesting that Jack's journey mirrors this in season 15. His surrogate father does not kill him, so the Cause tells him he must become a bomb for the good of the world.

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8x16: At the end of the episode, Dean prays to Cas, the idealized "Zeus" figure, the one he trusts. It's a source of support he's always looking for:

I also wanna capture some linguistic similarities to Zeus and The Shadow, but I ran out of images!

[billiewena]

THREE YEARS SINCE NOV 5TH, 2020 as summed up by Supernatural (sequel to this and this)

image ID & context below:

[image ID: screenshots of Supernatural paired with screenshots of various tweets, news headlines and Tumblr posts.

A screenshot of Ed and Harry in SPN 3x13 Ghostfacers saying "You gotta be gay for that poor dead intern" with a screenshot of Misha Collins at the SPNNJ 2023 convention saying "I got a call from Warner Bros and they were like hey uh...is there any world you just let it go?" This is in reference to an incident in 2022 where Misha accidentally made headlines after a comment that seemed to be referring to his sexuality. His comments at this year's panel imply that the studio in fact did not want him to retract the comment and make the apology that he posted, but to instead just roll with it.

A screenshot of Bobby saying "Time travel?" and Dean saying "Yeah" in SPN 6x18 with a headline that says "Jensen Ackles' Explains The Winchester's Multiverse Twist & Supernatural Connection." This is about the series finale of Jensen's Supernatural spinoff "The Winchesters", in which it is revealed Dean and the Impala somehow traveled the multiverse to the alternate timeline the show takes place in.

A screenshot of Dean in SPN 15x08 saying "He's back, and he's out of control" with a screenshot of Misha Collin's first Tumblr post in seven years, a video with him and his brother being a public nuisance on public transportation. Also included are screenshots of various Tumblr users reacting with tags from various tumblr users. becauseofthebowties: "mishacollinsofficial tumblr account back from the dead???" myboobsarentsentientbeings: "this is the first thing he posts? after nearly 7 years???" casismybestfriend: "RED FUCKING ALERT MISHA IS BACK ON TUMBLR" cannabiscasgate: "who the fuck gave you back your password"

A screenshot of two news anchors in SPN 14x20, with one (named Jack) telling his co-host "I love you" and her replying "Jack?" with screenshots of the Destiel/Supernatural Confession meme trending multiple times this year with other current events topics like Russia, Titanic, etc. There is also a screenshot of a post by saintedcastiel that says "I cannot believe that since we started using the destiel meme as a breaking news alert that there hasn't been ONE destiel news anchor AU fic where they're co-anchors on the morning news. cas confessed on accident while they're on air and dean doesn't know how to respond so he just reads the next thing on the teleprompter."

A screenshot of Dean in SPN 5x14 as Cupid says "I-I was just following orders" with a screenshot of an anonymous Tumblr ask to user luxshine. The ask says "Hey! I was wondering if you have any updates on the LATAM dub situation and if you were/will able to contact the dub director". luxshine says "Hi! Well I could get the translator (you know, our dear rogue translator) and he told me that while he doesn't remember it completely (because he translates a lot of series) if Dean said "And I you" it's because the script he got said "And" I you" and the video he saw said "And I you" because he doesn't add stuff." This is in reference to a change in Spanish LATAM dub of Castiel's confession SPN 15x18, which added a line where Dean reciprocates, which was previously suspected to be a change added by the LATAM dubbing director or translator

A screenshot of a detective from SPN 8x08 saying, "[Chuckles] Whatever you say Scully" with a screenshot of the tumble blr blog ao3topshipsbracket's poll "AO3 Top Relationships Bracket - Round 2 Side 1" with Fox Mulder/Dana Scully (The X-Files) vs. Castiel/Dean Winchester (Supernatural.) In the final results from 51,514 votes, Mulder/Scully won by 53% and Castiel/Dean won by 47%. In early 2023, Tumblr added a polls feature which has led to numerous content, debates, and bracket polls similar to this.

A screenshot from SPN 11x15 where Dean says "No money, no glory" with a headline that says "Supernatural creator Eric Kripke gets 'zero' residuals from Netflix"

A screenshot of Dean rising from his grave in SPN 4x01 with a screenshot of a post from the official CW Supernatural Instagram with a clip from the pilot episode and the caption "And the story continues..." and a comment from a user that says "THE STORY CONTINUES?? WTF ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL US?? I HAVE ANXIETY YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME." For context, no one is sure if the post was supposed to reference new content from Supernatural or not but it has led to speculation.

A screenshot of SPN 8x01, with the onscreen lyric "Another year has passed me by."

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

"The ultimate message about morality made by fairy tales and horror films is the same: the individual holds the power to avoid death by behaving in certain ways. Any disobedience invites death into your life"

David Carter, 'And the moral of the story is...: Horror Cinema as Modern Day Fairy Tale' | Umberto Eco, 'Ur-Fascism' | SPN 8.16, 'Remember The Titans' | SPN 8.21, 'The Great Escapist' | Dogtooth (2009) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

@panicroomsammy tagging you as my companion in spn fascism studies

[thebeautyofspn]

8x16 Remember The Titans

[lampgate]

8.16 remember the titans is soooo funny. spn was like "hey by the way all the greek gods are real and probably still alive" and then they never really talk about any of them ever again. girl WHAT!!!!! there could've been so much POTENTIAL with a full blown season against them and instead we got this random white guy of the week saying he's Thee Prometheus cursed by THEE Zeus and then that's it. ok

[monstermoviedean]

look how the sleeve covers his hand 😭