#spn zachariah

[acecroft]

SUPERNATURAL 5.18

[shallowseeker]

Don't you love that when Zachariah throws classist, fetishistic bullshit at Adam, it spectacularly backfires?

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Zach almost LOSES Adam with this line. Why?

ZACHARIAH: So you know you can’t trust them, right? You know Sam and Dean Winchester are psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent on each other, right? ADAM (looks suddenly steely, staring through Zachariah): I don’t know. They said a few things about you. ZACHARIAH (becomes visibly angry): Really?

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Zach has misread Adam's sense of class. That nice home that Adam and his mom have together came at a huge sacrifice: their time together.

Adam is, at his core, the son of a single mom. His whole childhood is colored by it, and he's well-acquainted with the inevitably rude/incestuous "mama's boy" taunts it comes with.

This was telegraphed and set up earlier in the episode:

ADAM: You see, it was me and it was my mom. That's it. She worked the graveyard shift at the hospital. I cooked my own dinners. I put myself to bed.

Yeah, Adam "read" Zachariah's taunt for the filth it was.

[silver-stake-through-the-heart]

In It's a terrible life, the backstory Zachariah gave the Winchesters is funny. Like, Dean has a dad, a mom and a little sister, he has friends.

While Sam… well Sam used to have a girlfriend.

[starlite-png]

If Zachariah had a drop of intelligence, he would've asked Dean to be Michael's vessel during the stanford era when John had already left. Because honestly? He probably would've gotten a yes.

[tastetheblame]

i know zachariah is awful and i hate him but he’s also kinda funny sometimes

[spn2006]

the fact that eric kripke isn't even christian really adds something to the way christianity is depicted on supernatural. because its really not about being christian at all, but about living in america, a country dominated by christianity, and having to decide for yourself how to handle that. faith is huge in supernatural, and the mythology of the show is very bible-centric, but notably, christ is never there. even sam, who starts out revering the angels, who once said he prays every night, doesn't actually call himself a christian or imply that he believes in jesus--the show is steeped in christianity and biblical lore and yet neither sam nor dean are christians. in fact, over and over again the church itself is depicted as a haunted house that sam and dean will only ever enter as strangers, as outsiders. priests, preachers, faith healers, chapels, crypts, etc. are all just iconography that create an intense sense of unease that sam and dean respond to instantly. as a jew, its very relatable. an essential part of living in america when you're not christian is that exact sense of unease, of knowing that the culture of your country has ensured that you'll get knocked over by christianity no matter where you go, that you'll see hundreds of people truly believing they're good people while doing awful things in the name of their god, and you have no choice but to confront that. kripke gets it

[420technoblazeit]

isnt it so fucked up that hte worst angel had the cuntiest death wings

[seasononesam]

3x10 // 5x01

Your own father didn't care whether you lived or died. Why should you? It's you, chucklehead. You're the Michael sword.

[xofemeraldstars]

SUPERNATURAL 4x17 ❝ it's a terrible life ❞ / 5x18 ❝ point of no return ❞

[sirlancenotalot]

[captainchilly]

"Try a burger. They're your favorite." ↳ 4.22 - LUCIFER RISING

[shallowseeker]

Zachariah had to die, because he had more Ao3 followers than Chuck and Becky combined.

[silver-stake-through-the-heart]

Bold of Zachariah to tell Dean

You're a hunter. Not because your dad made you, not because God called you back from hell, but because it is what you are. And you love it. You'll find your way to it in the dark every single time and you're miserable without it.

after using the Sandover world because, at the end of the episode, he had to basically kick Dean out of Sandover by writing out a terrible path career ("Don't get me wrong, you'll have to work for it. Seven days a week, lunch at your desk, but in eight to ten short years, that could be you.") and Sam had to drag him kicking and screaming into hunting for more than half the episode XD

[asbeel]

Adam: Yeah... your siblings are dicks.

Michael: We are soldiers of the Lord. We are anything but derogatory.

Adam: Is that why Zachariah called me a "clammy scrap of bait"?

Michael: He said what

Adam: Michael?

Michael:

Adam: Michael— where did that knife come from?

Adam: Michael— where are you going?!

Adam: MICHAEL