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Contains spoilers for all aired episodes, plus the Origins comics. Also spoilers for Princess Bride, I guess? And Maybe Season 2 Heroes.
NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED SUPERNATURAL EPISODES. But there is a little bit of speculation.
Massively Wordy Reaction and Random Meta for Supernatural 3.15 - "Time Is On My Side"
Spoiler Timeline: (Caution: Contains Origins-related ranting)
-*...spoiler that I'm guessing might not be happening after all carried forward anyway*
-May 3rd Woah! O.O picture of... possibly Dean with head strapped down to a table a la 'Princess Bride', you know, with that life-sucking machine??? Eek! And seriously, what the hell? And then the theories start exploding. OMG, Hunters after Sam catch Dean on a 'last few days fling' thing and use him as bait to catch Sammy? EEEEEEEK! *flail* Maybe. Or he's in hell. Or it's some other guy because I accidentally clicked the link, caught a glimpse and then shut the window immediately so I didn't study it or anything. Or someone wants to trap a Hell Hound and is using Dean as bait. Or Sam stuck him there to keep him inside a hellhound proof circle so he can't be dragged to hell and will keep him safe there forever and ever.... Or... Eek! Or it's not Dean. I think the person's hair may have been longer than Dean's, and seriously, Dean probably only has a few weeks to go, and I doubt they'd skip over the whole Deal resolution so Dean's hair won't have had a chance to grow that much. *wibble* Or the April 26th (?) on the calendar in the background last week was wrong and this guy's going to have Dean trapped for weeks... Anyway, all that aside, it looks like they may have finally gotten that consultant on effective restraints I've been suggesting...
-May 5 Title: "Time is on My Side." Ah. Hm. Possibly some magical time compression jiggery-pokery? Or maybe it is the Princess Bride "Pit of Despair" life-sucking machine, and Dean's been kidnapped by an albino and a six-fingered man. Sure, if the muffins in the writer's bullpen have been laced with 100% pure crack. Which I'm not ruling out. Either way, title might imply potential for messing with time/age/hair growth, maybe. So maybe it is actually Dean on the table then, and something with a bondage kink some capacity for time-bending has him. And it's probably not Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood.
-MAY 7 FREAKING SPOILER INSANITY. (And here's where the ranting starts. Those who like and accept the Origins comics may wish to skip this bit.) Bad guy's name is Doc Benton. As in Doc Benton the stupid lame-ass spleen-eater guy from the thrice-damned Origins comics? The one John supposedly hacked in half with a frigging chainsaw in issue 4 (six months before Sam was even born according to the date in the comics, mind you) That Doc Benton??? I swear I'm having a frigging heart attack here; chest pains, vision going sparkly, shooting pain up the left arm, the whole nine yards. Okay A) he's dead according to the comic B) he's from Origins which I deny the canonicity of completely, so me and this frigging episode are gonna have some issues *cracks knuckles* C) even if he did exist, he's not just dead, John hacked him apart with a chainsaw, and unless this Benton freak is part troll, or regenerates like a damned starfish, or glorps his sundered bits back together like a liquid metal Terminator, (or was somehow revealed to come back to life in issue 5 or 6 of Origins which I still haven't read yet because I have enough stress in my life right now) then just frigging NO and D) The creeping dread that I've had since before AVSC that Kripke is trying to force the comic canon into the series canon despite glaring irresolvable canon errors, continuity errors and John being a giant wuss and PASTOR JIM BEING A BORDERLINE PSYCHOTIC SELF-MUTILATING MEDIUM AND, AND-
*breathes*
Calm, calm. Twittering birds, frolicking kittens, happy place, calm... I've never been this distressed by a spoiler. Ever. But that's mainly me and my personal issues with the Origins series, so it probably won't even bother you sane people. Me though? *huddles into a warm dark corner, rocking back and forth and humming Metallica*
-May 8th - *facepalm* I should know better than to go anywhere near TWoP between hiatuses. Hiati? Intra-hiatatory periods? Whatever. 3.15 may involve a young Bela. It's the tragic backstory now, isn't it? Whee. I liked Bela, I did. But I'm having an allergic reaction toMary Sues tragic misunderstood pasts lately, and Bela having one is making me itch. It is however distracting me from the other spoiler about which I'm fighting desperately to regain some rationality.
-Also May 8th - Okay, I need to just unplug my internet until 10 p.m. Pacific, don't I? In some article talking about the cuts in the production budget: Bela will die or otherwise be removed from the show due to budget cuts. I'm surprised that I'm not even bothered that I encountered this one, and it involves the possible death of a recurring character. Must be spoiler burnout. Hm. Since she was in the show at the network's insistence though, I wonder about the order of that "budget/casting" sequence. Was it a case of-?
CW: "So sorry Supernatural, really we are, but we're cutting your budget. Yoink!"
Kripke et al: "Well fine! We don't have enough money to pay for the character that was your idea, now, do we? So there!"
Or more a case of -?
Kripke et al: "So sorry CW. We aren't keeping Bela for next season because the majority of the fans will lynch us."
CW: "Well fine! You won't need as big of a budget then, will you? Yoink!"
("Yoink!" being the technical accounting term that accompanies all annoying budget cuts, of course)
It bears serious pondering, it does. Regardless, I actually did like the basic concept of Bela, right up until she developed a tragic misunderstood and mysterious past. Well, and made the boys look stupid in the cause of making herself look better. Ehn. I don't think I'll miss her, but we'll see.
-And again May 8th - Being off the internet didn't help. Caught about two seconds of the commercial on the CW before flipping over to CityTV feed (No next week promo, no big green bars, and no dancing baloney at the bottom of the screen! Win!) It was enough to note that I should skip dinner. Maggots ahoy! :-P
Right then. Let's do this.
....Aaaand work delays me again. Six days a week sucks, but it's so much better than seven. Also, apologies if any of you have had major turmoil in your life, I haven't checked my f-list since before the episode aired. I don't even know what my skip count is at. :-/
Anyway, onward.
-I somehow get the feeling that tonight's show will be earning the 'graphic scenes' warning CityTV puts on every episode at every single commercial break.
-Erie, Pennsylvania! Hee. I may have been somewhere near there once!
-Creepy doctor. And I'm not talking about the one lurking in the shrubbery.
-Also completely blind doctor if he misses seeing Doc Benton lurking ten feet away in the aforementioned shrubbery.
-Ahahahahah! Guts everywhere! Sorry, don't know what came over me there.
-See, though, that's what I mean by subtle gore. No CGI innards, no complex latex wiggly stuff, just a bloody trenchcoat, an offscreen splat and an out-of-focus red stringy thing. And screams and gurgles and stuff. That right there, that's perfect subtle gore. The FX budget only had to cover about a quart of fake blood and some yarn or whatever, and the audiences' imagination can handily fill in the spurty pile of steaming, glistening intestines and suchlike on the hospital floor. Subtlety is good for the budget. Yay! \o/
-Incidentally, is it just me, or did that nurse do a very stupid thing there? Well, obviously in retrospect, of course, but seriously, if someone comes into a medical facility in obvious distress, bleeding copiously and possibly keeping pressure on a wound, treating him like a four-year-old with a skinned knee and pulling his hands away from said wound seems like a generally poor idea.
-Sam and Dean aren't above torturing a demon with holy water for info. Good to know. Also very pragmatic.
-What I'd like to know is why these "tie the possessed person to a chair and splash 'em with holy water" things seem to always have a fireplace in the background. I mean, Meg and Sam were at Bobby's, yeah, but this one isn't, and yet, fireplace. There was a fireplace at Madison's in 'Heart'.... Hey! And Sam tied her to a chair! And she was a werewolf, but not by choice, just like the people who are possessed didn't choose to be possessed. There's meta there, I can smell it. *nods sagely*
-"Who holds my contract?" Pst, guys. It's totally Lillith. Though I guess it's cheating to use the info that there are only two demons who've been given actual names who are still topside, and while Ruby holding Dean's contract would be wonderfully perverse(especially if it turns out she was Meg all along), she's not out nuking cop shops with her creepy white eyes and commanding a significant number of black-eyed flunky-demons. And has that whole 'power rising in the west' thing going on. Which, if it turns out she's based in Sacramento, I will laugh and laugh and laugh... Sorry, sidetracked.
-"Your Mother." God. Wouldn't that be a disturbing twist. Lillith is somehow Mary. *looks nervously in Kripke's direction*
-"Do what you want." Yeah, demon's got a point there. What can you do to interrogate an entity that lives in Hell?
-Ooohoo hoo. "We'll be waiting for you Dean..." Eeeek. Oh. Poor Dean. And very 'gang member to cop who's about to go to jail' ish, only soooo much worse.
-And oh, Dean again. "Send him some place he can't hurt anyone else." Oh, oh Dean. And that face! Oh.
-Beer. Nothing caps off an evening of demon torture in front of a roaring fire, followed by the sedate and quiet burial of the demon-abused body like a nice cold beer.
-CSI jibe! "My man Dave Caruso will be stoked to hear it." They picked an iteration of CSI to snark on that's not counter-programming on Thursdays, but cool. David Caruso needs to be snarked at more often, because he? Is an absolute poser. Or at least his character is. I'm sure Mr Caruso himself is a very nice man.
-"Hot zombie action." Heeee.
-They sure get a lot of use out of that hospital location, eh? Check out the window-grid. It's the same one Dean and Kat walked past in Asylum. Also seen in maaany other episodes.
-Hey! The coroner! It's that guy!! He looks a bit like Quincy... Who is that guy and where have I seen him before? Arg.
-"No, no, we're very smart." Not necessarily cops though. Very honest of Dean there.
-"Please go away." I love the morgue guy. I- *blink* OMG IT'S ELKINS!!! Oh wow! Freaking Elkins! Season 1! Eaten by vampires pre-credits, had the Colt originally, that Elkins!!! Hee! Awesome! So... what, the vampires didn't actually eat him, they just nibbled a bit then turned him into a vampire for kicks (and that whole tragic irony thing) but he escaped the nest before the Winchesters showed up and took it out? And now he's working in a hospital where he has plenty of access to live blood (would blood donations count as live blood? *ponders*) and also in the morgue where he's got access to dead man's blood by the frigging gallon! And Sam and Dean don't recognize him because they never actually saw him, justlooted his house investigated the scene of his 'death'! OMG it all fits!!! Undead vampire hunter/coroner Elkins! Woohoo! \o/
-Nice scene transition there. Cool.
-Missing kidney! I'm utterly shocked there wasn't an outright referencing of 'Charlie the Unicorn' there.
-Nice yellow jaundicey tone on the makeup on missing kidney guy. Or maybe that's just my TV...
-Bathtub of ice! Organlegger urban legend is now complete, yay!
-Hey, kidney-less guy, you should maybe be less bitchy. The de-livered plastic surgeon got to walk into emergency half-naked and holding his guts in with his hands. You got a considerate tub of ice in a hotel, and you're still alive jaundice-boy, so suck it up!
-I am still shocked that there was no overt reference to 'Charlie the Unicorn' or Candy Mountain, or anything. Seriously. Well, maybe the guy was named Charlie and it got left on the cutting room floor. I can live with that. I wanted Candy Mountain, though, darn it! Or even a Leopleurodon. Didn't even have to be a magical Leopleurodon. *pouts*
-Ooo. "Medical Procedures of the 19th Century" I wish that was a real website...
-Hey, wow! Sam's laptop wallpaper is the same as it used to be on the original laptop! Arg. Where's a decent screencap? I swear, it's the same one! With a skateboard leaning up against some stuff. So, Sam went and found that wallpaper again after the Impala crash/laptop squishing, and put it on the new laptop deliberately. So the wallpaper and the stickers weren't just a leftover from a used laptop they picked up at a pawn shop. Is this plus the fact that the central blue and black sticker on the old laptop was from a skateboard shop... might this be a sign that... as a kid or teen... Sammy was a... sk8rboi??? *boggles* Not that this hasn't probably been mentioned a billion times since season 1, but anyway. Regardless of what's on it, having the same wallpaper is another sign that inside, Sam craves stability, order and control when in a state of emotional turmoil and forces it on his world in any small way he can, at the most extreme, leading to that freakishly ordered psycho-Sammy from the months after Wednesday in "Mystery Spot". A lot to read into a re-used wallpaper of a skateboard, but hyper-analyzing background detail is part of the fun of fandom, yes? *nods*
-Mr. Giggles? Seriously? It went by a bit fast and not really emphasized enough to be a nickname Sam picked.... So... I dunno, maybe that's his actual name then? Poor guy. Charlie Giggles. No wonder he's so grumpy. It's like there's this person whose mail gets put in the "doesn't live here" box all the time in my building, named "Frank Earnest" I always wonder if as a reaction to growing up with a name that is synonymous with "honest and intensely serious" he's actually a flippant compulsive liar. Wherever he is.
-Wow, there's, like, an entire shrub of some kind hanging from the ceiling of the hotel room. I'm gonna assume that's part of some kind of anti-demonic incursion protection hoodoo the boys have got set up and not part of the room decor. Though with this show and its hotel rooms? Who knows.
-I like the detail on the old medical practices. Silk sutures and I even knew about that maggots vs wound rot thing. That's cool.
-Hee. Sam with the talking about gross things while Dean is eating, what? A burger. Callback to Malleus Maleficarum, maybe? Just a teeny bit? I know if I was eating a hamburger and someone started talking about maggots, I'd have a callback. Of sorts. :-P
-Of course this sounds familiar, Dean, don't you remember that dream you had about the comic where John hunted Doc Benton down six months before Sam was born and cut the guy apart with a chainsaw? No? No, of course not. Never mind. *twitch*
-"Because you heard about it before. When you were a kid. From Dad." Calm. Playful puppies. Doc Benton. Journal. *twitch* Calm. Oh, that glowing pink thing in the comic was a heart. Hacked in pieces, actually. In 1982. With a chainsaw. Grr. Incompatible canons. Continuity error overload. Arg. Calm. Ocean waves on a sandy beach. Happy place. Moving on.
-Nice to see the 'using Daytimer pages' continuity though. *clings* And the page contains the date Sunday March 11, which happened in 1979, 1984, 1990, and 2001. None of which supports the (absolutely impossible anyway) comic timeline. *glares at comic*
-Ya know, if I hadn't read the comics, this whole 'Dad killed him before' and looking things up in the journal thing would be pretty damn kickass, so I think I'll go with that. This kicks ass.
-Side note. My VCR seems to love making Sam look like an absolute moron. It stops on the weirdest facial expressions. Right now, Sam's got one eye half-closed, his head tilted to the side and an open-mouthed smirky thing going on.
-Hee! Sammy with the "little brother trying to gross out the big brother" thing: Denied! (Or Dean-ied. Hee.)
-Really, though, Sam? Have you met your brother? He sticks his bare fingers in ectoplasm and tastes random spell components. Talking about maggots and offal while he's eating are not going to put him off his feed. At least not for long.
-Hey, is that burger just lettuce on a bun? If it is, yay for budget savings! Also hee, coz now I wonder if even though Dean wasn't grossed out, Jensen was and couldn't even pretend to eat a real burger. Aw. *passes him some ginger-ale, just in case*
-Oh, look! A jogger with nice healthy parts for the good doctor to harvest! Jogging alone at night! Don't harvest his brain, Doc. It might be doubtful.
-Damn. Not Dean strapped to the table. Aaaaand the section of fandom hoping to get Dean half-naked and strapped to a table goes "Aww."Aww. *koff* Heh. Oh well. I guess medical torture before possibly going to Hell would be too cruel. Nice fakeout, promo department! The pic I saw, I was almost certain it was Jensen Ackles.
-Jar o' maggots! Whee! So glad I skipped dinner. Seriously, though, does this show have a dedicated maggot wrangler or what?
-Hee. Love that he's still wearing the heart-monitor watch. That's a nice touch. Also yay that it starts going a bit faster when the guy wakes up strapped to a table next to a jar of maggots.
-The make-up and prosthetic work on Benton is awesome.
-Benton is also the fastest and strongest surgeon ever. One slice and he's through all the skin, muscle and sinew of the chest muscles, a few snips and the cartilage connecting ribs to ribcage are cut, spread the ribcage and voila! Heart. Kind of huge heart, I think maybe. Although maybe he took the pericardial sac thing with it. Looks nice and squashy. And poor jogger-guy, awake and aware through it all. This is why you don't want to have an awesome constitution, dude. Passing out from the pain early on would probably have been vastly preferable. *nods*
-And flatline on the watch! Awesome. Poor guy. Put all that effort into keeping his heart healthy, jogging in the middle of the night and all, only to have some undead organ-thief take it from him.
-Hey! I have potholders the same exact colour and pattern as those bedspreads! I loathe them.
-Also, I kind of love that they're leaning on the bed looking over maps and stuff like they're going through their hockey card collections, instead of sitting at the table. That's kind of neat, and makes them seem more boyish and brotherly.
-Wow, that shrubbery hanging from the center of the ceiling is awfully low. Must be a pain for the boys to have to keep ducking around that. Not so much of a pain as having demons invade the hotel room though, so it'd be a tolerable annoyance.
-Hi Bobby! It's Bobby in a junk yard, I don't think it's his junk yard though because there's too much stuff and I really don't think Bobby has any employees *waves at red plaid guy in background* but it'd be kinda cool if he did.
-Oh! I know! It's crusher day! Around here, there's a mobile car-crusher that goes around to all the junk yards every so often to squash and collect their crush pile of dead and useless cars.
-I admit, I had a brief flash with Bobby standing in front of the crushed cars saying "I found Bela" that she'd been squashed into a crushed car. It was a neutral flash though. I didn't go 'Yay' or 'Oh noes!' Actually I went, "Now how the hell are they gonna get the Colt out of a squished car?" Sigh.
-Cleveland Steamer? What's that? Something to do with baseball? Or do I not want to know... I get the distinct feeling I don't want to know. I'm going to pretend it has something to do with baseball, nod my head and move along. *nods and moves along*
-Rufus Turner. New hunter? Cool... Oh! He's a hermit! Hermits FTW!! \o/
-Heh. If the Johnny Walker Blue was a product placement, I really hope they got some decent money for it. At this point I'm all for product placement if it helps the budget. *cheers the possibility of budgetary aid*
-...Sam's lost his mind. He wants Dean to be like this Benton guy? Sam has lost his freaking mind. Oh Sam. Oh. Wow. And he looks so totally rational and calm while he's at it. That's freaking creepy. Wanting Dean to hook up to the immortal organlegger camp? He's insane.
-When exactly was it said that Dean not dying will nullify the Deal? How does that work exactly? Dean does the immortal thingy, the Hellhounds come after him and... what? Gnaw on his head like a tennis ball for a while then give up? *scratches head*
-Oh. Sammy looks so bright and hopeful about turning his brother into a monster. He looks about nine and like he's figured out a way to get free ice cream. Oh Sam.
-Also, Sam needs to give up trying to lie. *facepalm*
-"We have no idea who holds the ticket." Pst. Sam. Clue phone. It's totally Lilith. Like duh.
-"Shoot the hellhounds" Yeah! That's Dean! Go out guns blazing! Well, gun. Is it too late to start mass-production on demon-killing Colts, or maybe convert it so it can operate like a machine gun, or at least take a 300 round magazine? Heh, probably too late.
-I have this teeny meta-theory about the Colt in Season 3... but I doubt I'll get a chance to type it up and post it before the finale. Probably nothing other people haven't already suggested anyways.
-"How you gonna stop me?" That little head-shake and succession of stunned blinks from Dean, like he was expecting his little brother to back down and follow the rational route... Aw.
-Though seriously, I can think of a couple ways to stop Sam or at least slow him down. Most involve pain and some involve vast quantities of rope, but only one involves serious injury... Meh. Knock him out, tie him up and stuff him in the back seat of the Impala. You'll be across 3 county lines before he wakes up.
-This whole scene though, pings off that thing in 3.14, with the phone conversation the Crocotta thought Sam thought he'd hear from Dean. That conversation, the fake Dean has no qualms about letting Sam go off after a soul-sucking monster alone, because Sam figures Dean is ready to let him handle stuff on his own. Now though, we have real Dean, not exactly ready to blithely split up and let Sammy deal with the psycho doctor on his own. Dean's not ready to let Sam go, doesn't think he's ready to handle things on his own, and is taken aback by a confident defiant Sam. Dean's not ready to go. Dean's not ready to let Sammy go into danger on his own. But he has to, because in three weeks he won't be there. It's... Heh. I'm reading too much into things again probably.
-"We're after the same thing." Becoming dubiously immortal at the expense of innocents is the same as trying to get the only weapon that can kill the demon that holds Dean's deal? Ooookay. You go with that Sam. Pragmatism gone insane. This? Is totally a Mystery Spot effect. Reaching the goal regardless of collateral damage. Oh Sam.
-And Dean leaves. After 3 years of Sam doing the leaving, Dean leaves. Yeah. I knew there would be a scene of Dean leaving Sam that as a kind of callback to Scarecrow sometime before the resolution of the deal. This is where I really wish they could have done this episode as two episodes. It feels like there's a lot of unavoidable elision going on in the post-strike episodes, and much of it is at the expense of detailing out the character development arcs. But it's still awesome.
-Thank god for Jensen Ackles' facial expressions. They get across more story than pages of dialog sometimes. Frequently. Like here.
-Hm. Here in my notes I have written in very large letters: "SAM YOU GIANT MORONIC DUMBASS!!!" and I'm not sure why...
-Rufus the hermit on the intercom. Paranoia is fun! I like him. He's totally gonna die or turn evil now that I've said that, just you watch.
-Hey! It's another 'him'! Where's he from? ... Did he have a recurring role in X-Files? I'm getting a creepy conspiracy connotation from him, although it might just be the character. That or a cop. *scratches head* I'd try looking him up, but I'm not going anywhere near IMDB until after the finale. I do occasionally learn that fire is hot after sticking my head in the conflagration enough times. :-P
-Woohoo! Johnny Walker better pay up for this damn product placement, because it's awesome, and even plot-related. And not at all on ten tons of crack like some shows which could be mentioned. *refuses to look in Smallville's direction*
-OMG Bowling trophies!!! On the mantel, as the camera pans around to them at the table. BWAH! I have no idea why I find it so funny that this hunter guy would have a ton of bowling trophies, but... wow! Wonder if back in the day, he was a bowling shark? Hee.
-That dinette set they're sitting at is totally my mom's old dinette set. Well, not actually the same one that sat in mom's house, though that would be totally cool, wouldn't it? Seeing a table you used to finger-paint at on the show? Anyway, exactly the same style and the same fugly vinyl chairs.
-"Skinny stuck-up English girl." Hee. I wonder if that line got edited by the CW... *ponders*
-I like Rufus! Bitter old fatalistic hunter. I really really like him. Can we please keep him? Please? Even if he goes adversarial?
-"Bucket of sunshine" Hee, Dean. Dean likes things in buckets. "Buckets of crazy" anyone? :-)
-What the serious hell is Sam driving? Is that one of those SUV's deer can't hear?
-*collapses laughing* HA!!! Sam with the remote! Again! It's like his control and security issues are all wrapped up in one little button he can push! Though seriously, Sam? If you are sneaking up on a psycho in his lair in the middle of the bush, a loud automotive "KWEEP!" is not your friend. Just sayin'. *facepalm*
-Burned off her fingerprints. Hm. They do grow back as far as I know. If the boys keep it up with the no glove nonsense after all this end of the world/demon war stuff is done with *waves hand* they should probably consider doing that. If they don't already...
-"You do her ear?"/"...that sounds uncomfortable." BWAH! Hahahahahahahah! *snerk* That was far too amusing.
-I knew that thing about earprints... I forget where from. Probably CSI of some variety.
-The backstory for Bela coming from a secondary source is probably the best of a dubious situation. I was really dreading a teary tale of woe, followed by an "Oh. Wow. We have been misjudging you, Bela. Come, let us clasp you to our bosom," type speech.
-That is totally the shack from "Roadkill" Awesome. Do they get a discount rate on reusing locations? *hopes*
-It's the same director as "Roadkill" as well. And "Playthings" He's doing a pretty good this time out, I think. Although it's a good thing he wasn't the one who removed the spotlights from the Impala, because with just those two episodes behind him? The lynching option might have been a weensy bit less resistible...
-Hee! Sam all squished down to get down the staircase into the basement of the creepy cabin. Also, going alone into the basement of the creepy cabin which in all likelihood smells like an abattoir... Sammy, you desperate dumbass.
-Yep. See Sam, the guy kills people and steals their organs. Or actually more correctly, steals people's organs which most of the time kills them. Still want to make your brother an immortal just like this guy? Do you think Dean would want to be immortal like that? Hmm? Oh, sorry, forgot. You're insane. Never mind.
-Dude! Fingerprints on the corpse! Which is something you know the police are checking because that's how you found this guy in the first place! Unless of course the boys have burned theirs off... hm.
-Okay! Maggots! Again, glad I skipped dinner. Am regretting having fried rice yesterday and am very glad there are no leftovers lurking in the fridge to skeeve me out. Bleah!
-Another white nightgown? Those damn things should be outlawed. They have a statistically high percentage of links to people either being evil, dead, or victims of horrible depravity.
-Girl with maggots... What major organs are in the wrist? Oh! Oh, hey! Doc Benton's done so many surgeries and had to crank his hands around into unusual positions to do the installation surgeries on himself, he's given himself carpal tunnel! Makes perfect sense now! Better hope the girl's not a medical transcriptionist or administrative professional there Doc or you'll be needing another one sooner than you expected...
-Eeeeyeah, Sammy. Wrap those maggots right on carpal-tunnel girl's arm before you pack her off. Ew.
-Holy crap, Sam has enormous hands! He just engulfed her entire head! Yike!
-Oooo, Benton's on his way! Is it gonna be Sam on the table? We'll get a Winchester strapped down and tortured yet.
-Car starting noises before the commercial break there? Sam must have gotten an awesome parking spot next to the Doc's lair.
-Aw. Benton looks so depressed that Sam stole his carpal-tunnel girl. Aw, woobie psycho organlegger.
-Whups! No, wait, Sam isn't at the car yet. Yay for the remote door opener thing being useful! Just the thing for packing off damsels in distress.
-I actually like carpal-tunnel girl too. For someone with no lines, she's really getting into the whole 'Victim of the Week' shtick with the ineffectual flopping around being in agony and only half-aware of what's going on around her. Those maggots are still munching on her arm too. Wonder if that tickles. Sorry, sorry, sidetracked. Hee.
-Statement of the Blindingly Obvious Alert! Sam is huge! He's making that SUV look like a normal-sized car, and carpal-tunnel girl look about twelve. (This has been a Statement of the Blindingly Obvious. You may step down from alert status now.)
-Hi Doc! Totally not surprised to see you! Though if you keep smashing windows like that, you're gonna need a new elbow, not that you can't just steal yourself a new one, but I imagine those would be a cast-iron bitch to install in yourself. But I'm no surgical expert or anything.
-Aaaand Sam runs him over. Hee.
-Aww, Sam, you made the monster cry blood. You took away his carpal-tunnel girl. You big meanie.
-Hi Bela! Did Escher design that wallpaper or is my TV screen funky?
-My, what ineffectual flailing from Bela as she's 'trying to escape' Dean when he frisks her. She must be covering lifting something from his pocket. *nods*
-Heh. Shooting a hole in a hotel room door without a silencer, Dean? Kind of draws unwanted attention... usually.
-Oh she totally didn't sell the Colt. But it still isn't going to be in the room.
-"You're not the cold-blooded type." ... no. No he's not. *smishes Dean*
-Bela backstory. Yeah, as expected. It's a typical backstory pick and I dislike when it's used as a throwaway like this. Anyways, I'm sure there will be extended rants about it elsewhere, so that's all I'll say about it. I am curious though; who won the TWoP Bela Backstory thread and how close did they get?
-I do like that there was no attempt from Bela to explain or rationalize her actions.
-What was that above the door? Barbed wire? No, wait, it's a bundle of something herb-like.
-Anyone else thinking, "Oh god, please don't kiss" at the intense face to face "You make me sick"/"Likewise" thing? That would have been so very horribly cliched.
-I love that Dean sees the bundle of stuff above the door and knows what it is! And knows enough about it to get that thinky-face. *glee*
-The Erie Hotel needs to center the header row on its till tape. Also, for a couple guys trying not to leave a trail, they're awfully receipt-retentive. Wonder if they keep, like, a ledger of expenditures, so they know which credit cards are about to die. I mean it's not like checking their balance online is a particularly wise idea, and whipping out another card with a completely different name when the first one gets rejected just would not do.
-Details, just 'coz my VCR has paused with exceptional clarity: The Erie, 267 West Huron Boulevard, Erie, Pennsylvania, 555-0120. The date on the tape is waaaaaay out of whack, because it's either November 6th 2008 or June 11th, 2008. Time is 16:39 (4:39PM) on the tape. Series of numbers 893480 with 0132 underneath. Room rate looks like $45 per night. first several numbers of the card Dean used are: 78925009034 and the first name used was John. Don't see 'Room 15 on there anywhere, but maybe it was at the bottom.
-And Bela calls... heh. Yeah, she's totally working for Lilith.
-Wow. Sam's cellphone ring is annoying.
-Aw. Dean.
-Sam sitting in front of a wide open window. There's a brilliant idea with a creepy immortal organ thief after you for stealing his carpal-tunnel girl. Some days, fresh air is not worth trading for easy accessibility to creepy psychos. *nods*
-Immortality explanation. It's SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically* *looks around for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
longhairedlady and her assorted 'Science!' Icons* Hee! Weird science! Well, alchemy is a kind of proto-science sort of. I think. *scratches head and shrugs* SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically* Yay! \o/
-Still confused as to exactly how being immortal keeps the deal from working, but oh well.
-Yeah, see Sam? The open window comes back to bite you in the ass. Only not literally; that would be weird. Weird, and not SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically*
-Dean, all these years of hunting and doing dangerous crazy crap and you can't tell when a person on the other end of a phone conversation is being drugged and dragged off for organ harvesting? Okay, maybe it doesn't come up that often, and it's not like Sam had a chance to say "Funky Town" or whatever the Winchester code phrase for 'being attacked by creepy psycho' is. And who knows, maybe Sam is prone to breaking into muffled grunting mid-conversation. In which case I seriously do not want to know. O.O
-Oh, god, not the eyes! I had a corneal abrasion once and had to sit perfectly still and fully conscious and keep my eyes wide open and looking straight forward while the doctor slo-o-o-owly came at my eye point first with a scalpel and then slo-o-o-o-o-owly scraped the abrasion scar tissue off. I've had a thing about eyes being mistreated ever since then. Actually, before then too, so really I didn't need to tell you all about that. Sorry! ^.^
-"Nothin' you got to worry about." Oh of course. Don't worry at all. You'll survive. You won't have any eyeballs, but you'll get used to it. Sure. Thanks Doc.
-Okay, I know that thing Doc Benton is heating over the Bunsen burner (SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically*) is some kind of old specialized medical instrument, but it looks like a frigging melon baller. And what kind of sick company makes specialized tools for pulling people's eyes out? How often do people medically need to have an eye removed anyway?
-Hee. Benton very kindly moved Sam's watch further up his arm so it wouldn't get damaged by the restraint cuff. What a thoughtful immortal psycho.
-"...when your father cut out my heart..." In 1982! And also hacked you to pieces with a chainsaw you freaking- gnh! Calm. Breathe. Sunshine on meadows. Twittering birds. Happy place. Sam strapped to a table. Focus.
-Get your stolen hands off John's journal you psycho freak!
-THE EYEBALL SCOOPER-THING HAS A SERRATED EDGE!!! Or spikes or something! What the hell is that for? Cutting the ocular muscles? Severing the optic nerve? I repeat, what sadistic, sick, medical company makes this crap?? O.O
-Eye socket! Eek! Ow! Ow! Ow! Eye! Ow! Stop it! Owwww!!!! Gyaaaaaaah! That seriously makes my optic nerves ache. Yikes!
-Oh yay, gunfire! It must be Dean! Oh thank you! *wants a stiff drink and some good, solid eye armour*
-Hee. The first shot from Dean as he's got Benton coming at him looked like it went off before he started pulling the trigger.
-It must be Thursday! Dean's getting thrown into... ow, glassware. Eek, sharps! *wince*
-Wiggle menacingly Sammy! Hee!
-Yay knife! Yay for smart Dean! I'm going to completely ignore that there's no way that big knife could be dipped into that little bottle. Also, if I recall correctly, chloroform is a liquid that tends to evaporate and so forth... so I'mma pretend it's some kind of really ancient, potent chloroform syrup, with the consistency of tar, m'kay? *nods sagely*
-(Hee, I ran out of paper in my squee book, so the rest of the notes for this are written on the back cover. This notebook only lasted three episodes, and the finale is getting a 32 page squee book all of its own. *is daunted* Next season, I need to squee in smaller letters, or get bigger squee books, I think.)
-Love the makeup job on Doc Benton, have I said? The stitching is particularly awesome.
-"Forever young." Yeah right. Doc Benton has some serious body dimorphism going on there.
-3 weeks. Mentioned earlier, but still good to know. One thing the Deal has been good for is some freaking concrete timeline in this show, thank you Kripke.
-"A pancreas in 50 years?" Dude, the way Dean eats he'll be chewing his way through a new pancreas in 15 to 20 years. And livers. Well, not chewing through I guess since Doc Benton's doing surgery...
-Hey. Hey! Waitaminute! Stitching!! This Doc Benton has stitching! He's doing surgery on himself, and installs new parts that way... somehow! And getting carpal tunnel from it! The Doc Benton in the comic 'ingested' the stolen organs, and I believe had entirely different reasons for doing so. Lemmee check here. Oh! The one in the comic not only ingested the organs, he 'ripped open the chest of an innocent, and ingested the stolen, still-throbbing heart to thwart his own entry into the afterlife' which is hardly a 'scientific' method of immortality based on years of alchemical research(unless Sam's so whacked out that he's lying about the scientific thing and just planning to cram an 'innocent heart' smoothie down Dean's throat at the last minute under the guise of a 'scientific method') Oh, shut up small voice! *stomps on it* Therefore, therefore, this isn't a merging of comic-canon with show-canon. This is a negation of comic-canon, and show taking a creepy monster and doing justice to it, unlike the throwaway version in the comic. My god, I was so aggravated by the comic connection I almost totally missed that! Kripke is over-writing the comic canon with show canon, not merging it! Damn! I want to kiss Kripke on the top of his sweet fuzzy little head! Yay! \o/ *denial shields at max capacity and holding...*
-Summary of above: *writes on chalkboard a bazillion times: "I will not over-react to the implications of spoilers, and I will never doubt Kripke. Much."*
-Anyway, where were we? Right. Dean's pancreas.
-Sam is freaking me out... It's not just that after everything, he still thinks Benton's scientific (SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically*) immortality gig is a good idea, it's that he's so damn calm about it. Like not a single qualm. *shivers*
-Dean. Still no grey. Is or isn't, good or evil. Of course he'd turn down immortality at the cost of other people's lives. Oh Dean.
-Hm. They left Benton some matches? Okaaaay? *scratches head*
-Oh hey! Burying the immortal alive! Hey, Benton, while you're down there, say hi to... Who the hell was it, the immortal guy buried on TV recently... Adam! From Heroes! Actually, that's not really recent... *scratches head*
-Yeah, the way that fridge lid's wiggling, and the fact Sam and Dean don't have one of those big earth packing down machines, he'll be out again in a few weeks. Just has to pulverize his large bones sufficiently and worm out of the fridge and up through the dirt. And then find some poor sap and steal his or her skeleton. Now, that's gonna be a challenging surgery.
-Also with the book on top like that, and Sam knowing where it is? And Sam currently being crazier than an outhouse rat? I would not put it past him to go back later, dig up Benton's immortality book, and surreptitiously try to make Dean immortal. With SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically* (Okay, I'll stop that now.)
-Sam and Dean silently burying a screaming guy? Most disturbing thing in the episode. Well except for the eyeball thing because that was just wrong.
-It's that hallway again! Mystery Spot and Dream a Little Dream! Wow. They must go through paint like water for that thing.
-Oh! Hai Bela! How's that tragic backstory workin' for ya? See, she's got a silencer. That's what you use when firing guns in hotels. *nods*
-Wow. She's stupid or totally blind if she thinks those miniscule lumps in the bed are big enough to be Sam and Dean. Oh, wait. It's probably the covers. They've struck her temporarily blind. I get the same effect from my pot holders; I look at them and my eyes shut off in self-preservation. *nods*
-... Blow-up dolls. Now that's disturbing.
-Devil's Shoestring keeps Hell Hounds at bay. Good to know, and explains why Dean recognized it. Stuff to keep away Hellhounds has probably been a major source of googling for the Winchesters over the last year. Wonder how it works exactly, though? Is it something like: "Must collect soul. Must collect soul. Must collect so- OOO! String! Gotta get the striiiing! *playplayplay*" Probably not. They're Hell Hounds, not Hell Kittens. I guess "Devil's Squeaky Toy" or "Devil's Rawhide Bone" just doesn't have the same ring. :-P
-HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh hi creepy little pre-adolescent girl! With a British accent! In a school uniform! That's the triumvirate of "Hi! I'm Evil!" in horror shows, isn't it? Oh and she's also a red-eyed Crossroads Demon, wandering around a playground unsummoned nowhere near a crossroads (unless someone was playing in the sandbox with cars and made one), making freelance deals with the kiddies. Eeeeeeek.
-So... Lilith's a major demon, right? Or at least not one of the standard black-eyed flunkies, who can nuke whole buildings with a thought, and she's using Bela to assassinate Sam? Yikes. That loss of acolytes at the police station in "Jus-in-Bello" must have given her some serious staffing issues... Ooo! Or she's getting Bela to do it because wards versus demons and evil and stuff like that won't have any effect on her, and she won't be affected by the shrubbery still hanging from the ceiling. Aha! Makes sense now. *nods*
-Yep. Lilith holds the deal. Like duh. Lilith holds all deals, though? That's interesting... So the red-eyed demon would be Lilith's 'Salesperson', wandering around ten years ago in Britain and in the US (Crossroad Blues) to collect souls for Lilith, with the deals tocome due at around this point in time... Double Eeek.
-And Bela gave her the Colt. Eeep. The finale just got even more interesting methinks.
-Dean refusing to help Bela. It was too late, and by not coming to them and trying to work through Lillith instead, she picked her side. Also, she took the foot from Sam, which she knew would kill him, she shot Sam, she interfered with the Impala, she lied to them, she tricked them into helping her steal the hand thing, she betrayed them to Gordon who she knew wanted to kill Sam, she stole the Colt, she set them up to be captured by Henricksen (and given this latest news that she was involved with Lilith, I suspect she may have also had a hand in setting them up for the demons to find too), and she would have killed Sam and Dean if they had been stupid enough to stay in that hotel room. And she gave the Colt to Lilith. Even with all that, I'm betting if she had come clean and asked the Winchesters for help earlier, they really would have tried to help her. So Dean refusing at that point? The only option. She asked for help with three minutes to go in her deal. It's like she was asking for help after she'd already fallen off a cliff, and Sam and Dean can't fly. The only way to help her at that point, in theory, would have been for Sam and Dean to stop the car and kill Sam, because that was the latest task Lilith had set her as a 'do this and I'll release you' deal. Even so, I bet Lilith would have let the Hell Hounds have her anyway. So Dean couldn't have helped Bela. Even if he had wanted to.
-Ooo. Nice end for Bela. No gore, but gore wasn't the focus at that point and would have been gratuitous. Barking and fade to black. Kind of chilling.
-Also! Ooo! 42 actual minutes of show! \o/ If the Johnny Walker product placement got us the extra 3-5 minutes, I'm going to go out and buy a bottle first thing tomorrow, even though I loathe scotch and think it all tastes like paint thinner. *nods*
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So! Last episode of the season coming up, and y'all probably won't even notice, but I'm going into, heh. Supernatural Lockdown. Selectively, mind, I'll still be around, I just won't be poking my head too far out of my happy hermit shell.
At this point, I haven't seen (or have effectively blocked from memory) any plot-related spoilers for the finale. The only non-plot related spoiler I have been carrying forward sincethe dawn of time January may have been killed by the budget and the writers' strike, darn it. Have not even seen an ad or promo for the finale yet and intend to keep it that way.
However, I am betting, betting I can outline exactly what's gonna go down in the finale, just on personal spec and cues that have happened during the season. Which I may outline in another post, or I might not. *is mercurial*
In related "crossing my fingers and knocking wood here" good news, I've booked the 16th off work. WooHoo! Because regardless of what happens in the finale, I guarantee I'm gonna be totally useless friday morning. So go ahead and do your worst, Kripke! Bwahahah! (Only, y'know, not because that would entail things too horrible to contemplate)
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NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED SUPERNATURAL EPISODES. But there is a little bit of speculation.
Massively Wordy Reaction and Random Meta for Supernatural 3.15 - "Time Is On My Side"
Spoiler Timeline: (Caution: Contains Origins-related ranting)
-*...spoiler that I'm guessing might not be happening after all carried forward anyway*
-May 3rd Woah! O.O picture of... possibly Dean with head strapped down to a table a la 'Princess Bride', you know, with that life-sucking machine??? Eek! And seriously, what the hell? And then the theories start exploding. OMG, Hunters after Sam catch Dean on a 'last few days fling' thing and use him as bait to catch Sammy? EEEEEEEK! *flail* Maybe. Or he's in hell. Or it's some other guy because I accidentally clicked the link, caught a glimpse and then shut the window immediately so I didn't study it or anything. Or someone wants to trap a Hell Hound and is using Dean as bait. Or Sam stuck him there to keep him inside a hellhound proof circle so he can't be dragged to hell and will keep him safe there forever and ever.... Or... Eek! Or it's not Dean. I think the person's hair may have been longer than Dean's, and seriously, Dean probably only has a few weeks to go, and I doubt they'd skip over the whole Deal resolution so Dean's hair won't have had a chance to grow that much. *wibble* Or the April 26th (?) on the calendar in the background last week was wrong and this guy's going to have Dean trapped for weeks... Anyway, all that aside, it looks like they may have finally gotten that consultant on effective restraints I've been suggesting...
-May 5 Title: "Time is on My Side." Ah. Hm. Possibly some magical time compression jiggery-pokery? Or maybe it is the Princess Bride "Pit of Despair" life-sucking machine, and Dean's been kidnapped by an albino and a six-fingered man. Sure, if the muffins in the writer's bullpen have been laced with 100% pure crack. Which I'm not ruling out. Either way, title might imply potential for messing with time/age/hair growth, maybe. So maybe it is actually Dean on the table then, and something with a bondage kink some capacity for time-bending has him. And it's probably not Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood.
-MAY 7 FREAKING SPOILER INSANITY. (And here's where the ranting starts. Those who like and accept the Origins comics may wish to skip this bit.) Bad guy's name is Doc Benton. As in Doc Benton the stupid lame-ass spleen-eater guy from the thrice-damned Origins comics? The one John supposedly hacked in half with a frigging chainsaw in issue 4 (six months before Sam was even born according to the date in the comics, mind you) That Doc Benton??? I swear I'm having a frigging heart attack here; chest pains, vision going sparkly, shooting pain up the left arm, the whole nine yards. Okay A) he's dead according to the comic B) he's from Origins which I deny the canonicity of completely, so me and this frigging episode are gonna have some issues *cracks knuckles* C) even if he did exist, he's not just dead, John hacked him apart with a chainsaw, and unless this Benton freak is part troll, or regenerates like a damned starfish, or glorps his sundered bits back together like a liquid metal Terminator, (or was somehow revealed to come back to life in issue 5 or 6 of Origins which I still haven't read yet because I have enough stress in my life right now) then just frigging NO and D) The creeping dread that I've had since before AVSC that Kripke is trying to force the comic canon into the series canon despite glaring irresolvable canon errors, continuity errors and John being a giant wuss and PASTOR JIM BEING A BORDERLINE PSYCHOTIC SELF-MUTILATING MEDIUM AND, AND-
*breathes*
Calm, calm. Twittering birds, frolicking kittens, happy place, calm... I've never been this distressed by a spoiler. Ever. But that's mainly me and my personal issues with the Origins series, so it probably won't even bother you sane people. Me though? *huddles into a warm dark corner, rocking back and forth and humming Metallica*
-May 8th - *facepalm* I should know better than to go anywhere near TWoP between hiatuses. Hiati? Intra-hiatatory periods? Whatever. 3.15 may involve a young Bela. It's the tragic backstory now, isn't it? Whee. I liked Bela, I did. But I'm having an allergic reaction to
-Also May 8th - Okay, I need to just unplug my internet until 10 p.m. Pacific, don't I? In some article talking about the cuts in the production budget: Bela will die or otherwise be removed from the show due to budget cuts. I'm surprised that I'm not even bothered that I encountered this one, and it involves the possible death of a recurring character. Must be spoiler burnout. Hm. Since she was in the show at the network's insistence though, I wonder about the order of that "budget/casting" sequence. Was it a case of-?
CW: "So sorry Supernatural, really we are, but we're cutting your budget. Yoink!"
Kripke et al: "Well fine! We don't have enough money to pay for the character that was your idea, now, do we? So there!"
Or more a case of -?
Kripke et al: "So sorry CW. We aren't keeping Bela for next season because the majority of the fans will lynch us."
CW: "Well fine! You won't need as big of a budget then, will you? Yoink!"
("Yoink!" being the technical accounting term that accompanies all annoying budget cuts, of course)
It bears serious pondering, it does. Regardless, I actually did like the basic concept of Bela, right up until she developed a tragic misunderstood and mysterious past. Well, and made the boys look stupid in the cause of making herself look better. Ehn. I don't think I'll miss her, but we'll see.
-And again May 8th - Being off the internet didn't help. Caught about two seconds of the commercial on the CW before flipping over to CityTV feed (No next week promo, no big green bars, and no dancing baloney at the bottom of the screen! Win!) It was enough to note that I should skip dinner. Maggots ahoy! :-P
Right then. Let's do this.
....Aaaand work delays me again. Six days a week sucks, but it's so much better than seven. Also, apologies if any of you have had major turmoil in your life, I haven't checked my f-list since before the episode aired. I don't even know what my skip count is at. :-/
Anyway, onward.
-I somehow get the feeling that tonight's show will be earning the 'graphic scenes' warning CityTV puts on every episode at every single commercial break.
-Erie, Pennsylvania! Hee. I may have been somewhere near there once!
-Creepy doctor. And I'm not talking about the one lurking in the shrubbery.
-Also completely blind doctor if he misses seeing Doc Benton lurking ten feet away in the aforementioned shrubbery.
-Ahahahahah! Guts everywhere! Sorry, don't know what came over me there.
-See, though, that's what I mean by subtle gore. No CGI innards, no complex latex wiggly stuff, just a bloody trenchcoat, an offscreen splat and an out-of-focus red stringy thing. And screams and gurgles and stuff. That right there, that's perfect subtle gore. The FX budget only had to cover about a quart of fake blood and some yarn or whatever, and the audiences' imagination can handily fill in the spurty pile of steaming, glistening intestines and suchlike on the hospital floor. Subtlety is good for the budget. Yay! \o/
-Incidentally, is it just me, or did that nurse do a very stupid thing there? Well, obviously in retrospect, of course, but seriously, if someone comes into a medical facility in obvious distress, bleeding copiously and possibly keeping pressure on a wound, treating him like a four-year-old with a skinned knee and pulling his hands away from said wound seems like a generally poor idea.
-Sam and Dean aren't above torturing a demon with holy water for info. Good to know. Also very pragmatic.
-What I'd like to know is why these "tie the possessed person to a chair and splash 'em with holy water" things seem to always have a fireplace in the background. I mean, Meg and Sam were at Bobby's, yeah, but this one isn't, and yet, fireplace. There was a fireplace at Madison's in 'Heart'.... Hey! And Sam tied her to a chair! And she was a werewolf, but not by choice, just like the people who are possessed didn't choose to be possessed. There's meta there, I can smell it. *nods sagely*
-"Who holds my contract?" Pst, guys. It's totally Lillith. Though I guess it's cheating to use the info that there are only two demons who've been given actual names who are still topside, and while Ruby holding Dean's contract would be wonderfully perverse
-"Your Mother." God. Wouldn't that be a disturbing twist. Lillith is somehow Mary. *looks nervously in Kripke's direction*
-"Do what you want." Yeah, demon's got a point there. What can you do to interrogate an entity that lives in Hell?
-Ooohoo hoo. "We'll be waiting for you Dean..." Eeeek. Oh. Poor Dean. And very 'gang member to cop who's about to go to jail' ish, only soooo much worse.
-And oh, Dean again. "Send him some place he can't hurt anyone else." Oh, oh Dean. And that face! Oh.
-Beer. Nothing caps off an evening of demon torture in front of a roaring fire, followed by the sedate and quiet burial of the demon-abused body like a nice cold beer.
-CSI jibe! "My man Dave Caruso will be stoked to hear it." They picked an iteration of CSI to snark on that's not counter-programming on Thursdays, but cool. David Caruso needs to be snarked at more often, because he? Is an absolute poser. Or at least his character is. I'm sure Mr Caruso himself is a very nice man.
-"Hot zombie action." Heeee.
-They sure get a lot of use out of that hospital location, eh? Check out the window-grid. It's the same one Dean and Kat walked past in Asylum. Also seen in maaany other episodes.
-Hey! The coroner! It's that guy!! He looks a bit like Quincy... Who is that guy and where have I seen him before? Arg.
-"No, no, we're very smart." Not necessarily cops though. Very honest of Dean there.
-"Please go away." I love the morgue guy. I- *blink* OMG IT'S ELKINS!!! Oh wow! Freaking Elkins! Season 1! Eaten by vampires pre-credits, had the Colt originally, that Elkins!!! Hee! Awesome! So... what, the vampires didn't actually eat him, they just nibbled a bit then turned him into a vampire for kicks (and that whole tragic irony thing) but he escaped the nest before the Winchesters showed up and took it out? And now he's working in a hospital where he has plenty of access to live blood (would blood donations count as live blood? *ponders*) and also in the morgue where he's got access to dead man's blood by the frigging gallon! And Sam and Dean don't recognize him because they never actually saw him, just
-Nice scene transition there. Cool.
-Missing kidney! I'm utterly shocked there wasn't an outright referencing of 'Charlie the Unicorn' there.
-Nice yellow jaundicey tone on the makeup on missing kidney guy. Or maybe that's just my TV...
-Bathtub of ice! Organlegger urban legend is now complete, yay!
-Hey, kidney-less guy, you should maybe be less bitchy. The de-livered plastic surgeon got to walk into emergency half-naked and holding his guts in with his hands. You got a considerate tub of ice in a hotel, and you're still alive jaundice-boy, so suck it up!
-I am still shocked that there was no overt reference to 'Charlie the Unicorn' or Candy Mountain, or anything. Seriously. Well, maybe the guy was named Charlie and it got left on the cutting room floor. I can live with that. I wanted Candy Mountain, though, darn it! Or even a Leopleurodon. Didn't even have to be a magical Leopleurodon. *pouts*
-Ooo. "Medical Procedures of the 19th Century" I wish that was a real website...
-Hey, wow! Sam's laptop wallpaper is the same as it used to be on the original laptop! Arg. Where's a decent screencap? I swear, it's the same one! With a skateboard leaning up against some stuff. So, Sam went and found that wallpaper again after the Impala crash/laptop squishing, and put it on the new laptop deliberately. So the wallpaper and the stickers weren't just a leftover from a used laptop they picked up at a pawn shop. Is this plus the fact that the central blue and black sticker on the old laptop was from a skateboard shop... might this be a sign that... as a kid or teen... Sammy was a... sk8rboi??? *boggles* Not that this hasn't probably been mentioned a billion times since season 1, but anyway. Regardless of what's on it, having the same wallpaper is another sign that inside, Sam craves stability, order and control when in a state of emotional turmoil and forces it on his world in any small way he can, at the most extreme, leading to that freakishly ordered psycho-Sammy from the months after Wednesday in "Mystery Spot". A lot to read into a re-used wallpaper of a skateboard, but hyper-analyzing background detail is part of the fun of fandom, yes? *nods*
-Mr. Giggles? Seriously? It went by a bit fast and not really emphasized enough to be a nickname Sam picked.... So... I dunno, maybe that's his actual name then? Poor guy. Charlie Giggles. No wonder he's so grumpy. It's like there's this person whose mail gets put in the "doesn't live here" box all the time in my building, named "Frank Earnest" I always wonder if as a reaction to growing up with a name that is synonymous with "honest and intensely serious" he's actually a flippant compulsive liar. Wherever he is.
-Wow, there's, like, an entire shrub of some kind hanging from the ceiling of the hotel room. I'm gonna assume that's part of some kind of anti-demonic incursion protection hoodoo the boys have got set up and not part of the room decor. Though with this show and its hotel rooms? Who knows.
-I like the detail on the old medical practices. Silk sutures and I even knew about that maggots vs wound rot thing. That's cool.
-Hee. Sam with the talking about gross things while Dean is eating, what? A burger. Callback to Malleus Maleficarum, maybe? Just a teeny bit? I know if I was eating a hamburger and someone started talking about maggots, I'd have a callback. Of sorts. :-P
-Of course this sounds familiar, Dean, don't you remember that dream you had about the comic where John hunted Doc Benton down six months before Sam was born and cut the guy apart with a chainsaw? No? No, of course not. Never mind. *twitch*
-"Because you heard about it before. When you were a kid. From Dad." Calm. Playful puppies. Doc Benton. Journal. *twitch* Calm. Oh, that glowing pink thing in the comic was a heart. Hacked in pieces, actually. In 1982. With a chainsaw. Grr. Incompatible canons. Continuity error overload. Arg. Calm. Ocean waves on a sandy beach. Happy place. Moving on.
-Nice to see the 'using Daytimer pages' continuity though. *clings* And the page contains the date Sunday March 11, which happened in 1979, 1984, 1990, and 2001. None of which supports the (absolutely impossible anyway) comic timeline. *glares at comic*
-Ya know, if I hadn't read the comics, this whole 'Dad killed him before' and looking things up in the journal thing would be pretty damn kickass, so I think I'll go with that. This kicks ass.
-Side note. My VCR seems to love making Sam look like an absolute moron. It stops on the weirdest facial expressions. Right now, Sam's got one eye half-closed, his head tilted to the side and an open-mouthed smirky thing going on.
-Hee! Sammy with the "little brother trying to gross out the big brother" thing: Denied! (Or Dean-ied. Hee.)
-Really, though, Sam? Have you met your brother? He sticks his bare fingers in ectoplasm and tastes random spell components. Talking about maggots and offal while he's eating are not going to put him off his feed. At least not for long.
-Hey, is that burger just lettuce on a bun? If it is, yay for budget savings! Also hee, coz now I wonder if even though Dean wasn't grossed out, Jensen was and couldn't even pretend to eat a real burger. Aw. *passes him some ginger-ale, just in case*
-Oh, look! A jogger with nice healthy parts for the good doctor to harvest! Jogging alone at night! Don't harvest his brain, Doc. It might be doubtful.
-Damn. Not Dean strapped to the table. Aaaaand the section of fandom hoping to get Dean half-naked and strapped to a table goes "Aww."
-Jar o' maggots! Whee! So glad I skipped dinner. Seriously, though, does this show have a dedicated maggot wrangler or what?
-Hee. Love that he's still wearing the heart-monitor watch. That's a nice touch. Also yay that it starts going a bit faster when the guy wakes up strapped to a table next to a jar of maggots.
-The make-up and prosthetic work on Benton is awesome.
-Benton is also the fastest and strongest surgeon ever. One slice and he's through all the skin, muscle and sinew of the chest muscles, a few snips and the cartilage connecting ribs to ribcage are cut, spread the ribcage and voila! Heart. Kind of huge heart, I think maybe. Although maybe he took the pericardial sac thing with it. Looks nice and squashy. And poor jogger-guy, awake and aware through it all. This is why you don't want to have an awesome constitution, dude. Passing out from the pain early on would probably have been vastly preferable. *nods*
-And flatline on the watch! Awesome. Poor guy. Put all that effort into keeping his heart healthy, jogging in the middle of the night and all, only to have some undead organ-thief take it from him.
-Hey! I have potholders the same exact colour and pattern as those bedspreads! I loathe them.
-Also, I kind of love that they're leaning on the bed looking over maps and stuff like they're going through their hockey card collections, instead of sitting at the table. That's kind of neat, and makes them seem more boyish and brotherly.
-Wow, that shrubbery hanging from the center of the ceiling is awfully low. Must be a pain for the boys to have to keep ducking around that. Not so much of a pain as having demons invade the hotel room though, so it'd be a tolerable annoyance.
-Hi Bobby! It's Bobby in a junk yard, I don't think it's his junk yard though because there's too much stuff and I really don't think Bobby has any employees *waves at red plaid guy in background* but it'd be kinda cool if he did.
-Oh! I know! It's crusher day! Around here, there's a mobile car-crusher that goes around to all the junk yards every so often to squash and collect their crush pile of dead and useless cars.
-I admit, I had a brief flash with Bobby standing in front of the crushed cars saying "I found Bela" that she'd been squashed into a crushed car. It was a neutral flash though. I didn't go 'Yay' or 'Oh noes!' Actually I went, "Now how the hell are they gonna get the Colt out of a squished car?" Sigh.
-Cleveland Steamer? What's that? Something to do with baseball? Or do I not want to know... I get the distinct feeling I don't want to know. I'm going to pretend it has something to do with baseball, nod my head and move along. *nods and moves along*
-Rufus Turner. New hunter? Cool... Oh! He's a hermit! Hermits FTW!! \o/
-Heh. If the Johnny Walker Blue was a product placement, I really hope they got some decent money for it. At this point I'm all for product placement if it helps the budget. *cheers the possibility of budgetary aid*
-...Sam's lost his mind. He wants Dean to be like this Benton guy? Sam has lost his freaking mind. Oh Sam. Oh. Wow. And he looks so totally rational and calm while he's at it. That's freaking creepy. Wanting Dean to hook up to the immortal organlegger camp? He's insane.
-When exactly was it said that Dean not dying will nullify the Deal? How does that work exactly? Dean does the immortal thingy, the Hellhounds come after him and... what? Gnaw on his head like a tennis ball for a while then give up? *scratches head*
-Oh. Sammy looks so bright and hopeful about turning his brother into a monster. He looks about nine and like he's figured out a way to get free ice cream. Oh Sam.
-Also, Sam needs to give up trying to lie. *facepalm*
-"We have no idea who holds the ticket." Pst. Sam. Clue phone. It's totally Lilith. Like duh.
-"Shoot the hellhounds" Yeah! That's Dean! Go out guns blazing! Well, gun. Is it too late to start mass-production on demon-killing Colts, or maybe convert it so it can operate like a machine gun, or at least take a 300 round magazine? Heh, probably too late.
-I have this teeny meta-theory about the Colt in Season 3... but I doubt I'll get a chance to type it up and post it before the finale. Probably nothing other people haven't already suggested anyways.
-"How you gonna stop me?" That little head-shake and succession of stunned blinks from Dean, like he was expecting his little brother to back down and follow the rational route... Aw.
-Though seriously, I can think of a couple ways to stop Sam or at least slow him down. Most involve pain and some involve vast quantities of rope, but only one involves serious injury... Meh. Knock him out, tie him up and stuff him in the back seat of the Impala. You'll be across 3 county lines before he wakes up.
-This whole scene though, pings off that thing in 3.14, with the phone conversation the Crocotta thought Sam thought he'd hear from Dean. That conversation, the fake Dean has no qualms about letting Sam go off after a soul-sucking monster alone, because Sam figures Dean is ready to let him handle stuff on his own. Now though, we have real Dean, not exactly ready to blithely split up and let Sammy deal with the psycho doctor on his own. Dean's not ready to let Sam go, doesn't think he's ready to handle things on his own, and is taken aback by a confident defiant Sam. Dean's not ready to go. Dean's not ready to let Sammy go into danger on his own. But he has to, because in three weeks he won't be there. It's... Heh. I'm reading too much into things again probably.
-"We're after the same thing." Becoming dubiously immortal at the expense of innocents is the same as trying to get the only weapon that can kill the demon that holds Dean's deal? Ooookay. You go with that Sam. Pragmatism gone insane. This? Is totally a Mystery Spot effect. Reaching the goal regardless of collateral damage. Oh Sam.
-And Dean leaves. After 3 years of Sam doing the leaving, Dean leaves. Yeah. I knew there would be a scene of Dean leaving Sam that as a kind of callback to Scarecrow sometime before the resolution of the deal. This is where I really wish they could have done this episode as two episodes. It feels like there's a lot of unavoidable elision going on in the post-strike episodes, and much of it is at the expense of detailing out the character development arcs. But it's still awesome.
-Thank god for Jensen Ackles' facial expressions. They get across more story than pages of dialog sometimes. Frequently. Like here.
-Hm. Here in my notes I have written in very large letters: "SAM YOU GIANT MORONIC DUMBASS!!!" and I'm not sure why...
-Rufus the hermit on the intercom. Paranoia is fun! I like him. He's totally gonna die or turn evil now that I've said that, just you watch.
-Hey! It's another 'him'! Where's he from? ... Did he have a recurring role in X-Files? I'm getting a creepy conspiracy connotation from him, although it might just be the character. That or a cop. *scratches head* I'd try looking him up, but I'm not going anywhere near IMDB until after the finale. I do occasionally learn that fire is hot after sticking my head in the conflagration enough times. :-P
-Woohoo! Johnny Walker better pay up for this damn product placement, because it's awesome, and even plot-related. And not at all on ten tons of crack like some shows which could be mentioned. *refuses to look in Smallville's direction*
-OMG Bowling trophies!!! On the mantel, as the camera pans around to them at the table. BWAH! I have no idea why I find it so funny that this hunter guy would have a ton of bowling trophies, but... wow! Wonder if back in the day, he was a bowling shark? Hee.
-That dinette set they're sitting at is totally my mom's old dinette set. Well, not actually the same one that sat in mom's house, though that would be totally cool, wouldn't it? Seeing a table you used to finger-paint at on the show? Anyway, exactly the same style and the same fugly vinyl chairs.
-"Skinny stuck-up English girl." Hee. I wonder if that line got edited by the CW... *ponders*
-I like Rufus! Bitter old fatalistic hunter. I really really like him. Can we please keep him? Please? Even if he goes adversarial?
-"Bucket of sunshine" Hee, Dean. Dean likes things in buckets. "Buckets of crazy" anyone? :-)
-What the serious hell is Sam driving? Is that one of those SUV's deer can't hear?
-*collapses laughing* HA!!! Sam with the remote! Again! It's like his control and security issues are all wrapped up in one little button he can push! Though seriously, Sam? If you are sneaking up on a psycho in his lair in the middle of the bush, a loud automotive "KWEEP!" is not your friend. Just sayin'. *facepalm*
-Burned off her fingerprints. Hm. They do grow back as far as I know. If the boys keep it up with the no glove nonsense after all this end of the world/demon war stuff is done with *waves hand* they should probably consider doing that. If they don't already...
-"You do her ear?"/"...that sounds uncomfortable." BWAH! Hahahahahahahah! *snerk* That was far too amusing.
-I knew that thing about earprints... I forget where from. Probably CSI of some variety.
-The backstory for Bela coming from a secondary source is probably the best of a dubious situation. I was really dreading a teary tale of woe, followed by an "Oh. Wow. We have been misjudging you, Bela. Come, let us clasp you to our bosom," type speech.
-That is totally the shack from "Roadkill" Awesome. Do they get a discount rate on reusing locations? *hopes*
-It's the same director as "Roadkill" as well. And "Playthings" He's doing a pretty good this time out, I think. Although it's a good thing he wasn't the one who removed the spotlights from the Impala, because with just those two episodes behind him? The lynching option might have been a weensy bit less resistible...
-Hee! Sam all squished down to get down the staircase into the basement of the creepy cabin. Also, going alone into the basement of the creepy cabin which in all likelihood smells like an abattoir... Sammy, you desperate dumbass.
-Yep. See Sam, the guy kills people and steals their organs. Or actually more correctly, steals people's organs which most of the time kills them. Still want to make your brother an immortal just like this guy? Do you think Dean would want to be immortal like that? Hmm? Oh, sorry, forgot. You're insane. Never mind.
-Dude! Fingerprints on the corpse! Which is something you know the police are checking because that's how you found this guy in the first place! Unless of course the boys have burned theirs off... hm.
-Okay! Maggots! Again, glad I skipped dinner. Am regretting having fried rice yesterday and am very glad there are no leftovers lurking in the fridge to skeeve me out. Bleah!
-Another white nightgown? Those damn things should be outlawed. They have a statistically high percentage of links to people either being evil, dead, or victims of horrible depravity.
-Girl with maggots... What major organs are in the wrist? Oh! Oh, hey! Doc Benton's done so many surgeries and had to crank his hands around into unusual positions to do the installation surgeries on himself, he's given himself carpal tunnel! Makes perfect sense now! Better hope the girl's not a medical transcriptionist or administrative professional there Doc or you'll be needing another one sooner than you expected...
-Eeeeyeah, Sammy. Wrap those maggots right on carpal-tunnel girl's arm before you pack her off. Ew.
-Holy crap, Sam has enormous hands! He just engulfed her entire head! Yike!
-Oooo, Benton's on his way! Is it gonna be Sam on the table? We'll get a Winchester strapped down and tortured yet.
-Car starting noises before the commercial break there? Sam must have gotten an awesome parking spot next to the Doc's lair.
-Aw. Benton looks so depressed that Sam stole his carpal-tunnel girl. Aw, woobie psycho organlegger.
-Whups! No, wait, Sam isn't at the car yet. Yay for the remote door opener thing being useful! Just the thing for packing off damsels in distress.
-I actually like carpal-tunnel girl too. For someone with no lines, she's really getting into the whole 'Victim of the Week' shtick with the ineffectual flopping around being in agony and only half-aware of what's going on around her. Those maggots are still munching on her arm too. Wonder if that tickles. Sorry, sorry, sidetracked. Hee.
-Statement of the Blindingly Obvious Alert! Sam is huge! He's making that SUV look like a normal-sized car, and carpal-tunnel girl look about twelve. (This has been a Statement of the Blindingly Obvious. You may step down from alert status now.)
-Hi Doc! Totally not surprised to see you! Though if you keep smashing windows like that, you're gonna need a new elbow, not that you can't just steal yourself a new one, but I imagine those would be a cast-iron bitch to install in yourself. But I'm no surgical expert or anything.
-Aaaand Sam runs him over. Hee.
-Aww, Sam, you made the monster cry blood. You took away his carpal-tunnel girl. You big meanie.
-Hi Bela! Did Escher design that wallpaper or is my TV screen funky?
-My, what ineffectual flailing from Bela as she's 'trying to escape' Dean when he frisks her. She must be covering lifting something from his pocket. *nods*
-Heh. Shooting a hole in a hotel room door without a silencer, Dean? Kind of draws unwanted attention... usually.
-Oh she totally didn't sell the Colt. But it still isn't going to be in the room.
-"You're not the cold-blooded type." ... no. No he's not. *smishes Dean*
-Bela backstory. Yeah, as expected. It's a typical backstory pick and I dislike when it's used as a throwaway like this. Anyways, I'm sure there will be extended rants about it elsewhere, so that's all I'll say about it. I am curious though; who won the TWoP Bela Backstory thread and how close did they get?
-I do like that there was no attempt from Bela to explain or rationalize her actions.
-What was that above the door? Barbed wire? No, wait, it's a bundle of something herb-like.
-Anyone else thinking, "Oh god, please don't kiss" at the intense face to face "You make me sick"/"Likewise" thing? That would have been so very horribly cliched.
-I love that Dean sees the bundle of stuff above the door and knows what it is! And knows enough about it to get that thinky-face. *glee*
-The Erie Hotel needs to center the header row on its till tape. Also, for a couple guys trying not to leave a trail, they're awfully receipt-retentive. Wonder if they keep, like, a ledger of expenditures, so they know which credit cards are about to die. I mean it's not like checking their balance online is a particularly wise idea, and whipping out another card with a completely different name when the first one gets rejected just would not do.
-Details, just 'coz my VCR has paused with exceptional clarity: The Erie, 267 West Huron Boulevard, Erie, Pennsylvania, 555-0120. The date on the tape is waaaaaay out of whack, because it's either November 6th 2008 or June 11th, 2008. Time is 16:39 (4:39PM) on the tape. Series of numbers 893480 with 0132 underneath. Room rate looks like $45 per night. first several numbers of the card Dean used are: 78925009034 and the first name used was John. Don't see 'Room 15 on there anywhere, but maybe it was at the bottom.
-And Bela calls... heh. Yeah, she's totally working for Lilith.
-Wow. Sam's cellphone ring is annoying.
-Aw. Dean.
-Sam sitting in front of a wide open window. There's a brilliant idea with a creepy immortal organ thief after you for stealing his carpal-tunnel girl. Some days, fresh air is not worth trading for easy accessibility to creepy psychos. *nods*
-Immortality explanation. It's SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically* *looks around for
longhairedlady and her assorted 'Science!' Icons* Hee! Weird science! Well, alchemy is a kind of proto-science sort of. I think. *scratches head and shrugs* SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically* Yay! \o/-Still confused as to exactly how being immortal keeps the deal from working, but oh well.
-Yeah, see Sam? The open window comes back to bite you in the ass. Only not literally; that would be weird. Weird, and not SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically*
-Dean, all these years of hunting and doing dangerous crazy crap and you can't tell when a person on the other end of a phone conversation is being drugged and dragged off for organ harvesting? Okay, maybe it doesn't come up that often, and it's not like Sam had a chance to say "Funky Town" or whatever the Winchester code phrase for 'being attacked by creepy psycho' is. And who knows, maybe Sam is prone to breaking into muffled grunting mid-conversation. In which case I seriously do not want to know. O.O
-Oh, god, not the eyes! I had a corneal abrasion once and had to sit perfectly still and fully conscious and keep my eyes wide open and looking straight forward while the doctor slo-o-o-owly came at my eye point first with a scalpel and then slo-o-o-o-o-owly scraped the abrasion scar tissue off. I've had a thing about eyes being mistreated ever since then. Actually, before then too, so really I didn't need to tell you all about that. Sorry! ^.^
-"Nothin' you got to worry about." Oh of course. Don't worry at all. You'll survive. You won't have any eyeballs, but you'll get used to it. Sure. Thanks Doc.
-Okay, I know that thing Doc Benton is heating over the Bunsen burner (SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically*) is some kind of old specialized medical instrument, but it looks like a frigging melon baller. And what kind of sick company makes specialized tools for pulling people's eyes out? How often do people medically need to have an eye removed anyway?
-Hee. Benton very kindly moved Sam's watch further up his arm so it wouldn't get damaged by the restraint cuff. What a thoughtful immortal psycho.
-"...when your father cut out my heart..." In 1982! And also hacked you to pieces with a chainsaw you freaking- gnh! Calm. Breathe. Sunshine on meadows. Twittering birds. Happy place. Sam strapped to a table. Focus.
-Get your stolen hands off John's journal you psycho freak!
-THE EYEBALL SCOOPER-THING HAS A SERRATED EDGE!!! Or spikes or something! What the hell is that for? Cutting the ocular muscles? Severing the optic nerve? I repeat, what sadistic, sick, medical company makes this crap?? O.O
-Eye socket! Eek! Ow! Ow! Ow! Eye! Ow! Stop it! Owwww!!!! Gyaaaaaaah! That seriously makes my optic nerves ache. Yikes!
-Oh yay, gunfire! It must be Dean! Oh thank you! *wants a stiff drink and some good, solid eye armour*
-Hee. The first shot from Dean as he's got Benton coming at him looked like it went off before he started pulling the trigger.
-It must be Thursday! Dean's getting thrown into... ow, glassware. Eek, sharps! *wince*
-Wiggle menacingly Sammy! Hee!
-Yay knife! Yay for smart Dean! I'm going to completely ignore that there's no way that big knife could be dipped into that little bottle. Also, if I recall correctly, chloroform is a liquid that tends to evaporate and so forth... so I'mma pretend it's some kind of really ancient, potent chloroform syrup, with the consistency of tar, m'kay? *nods sagely*
-(Hee, I ran out of paper in my squee book, so the rest of the notes for this are written on the back cover. This notebook only lasted three episodes, and the finale is getting a 32 page squee book all of its own. *is daunted* Next season, I need to squee in smaller letters, or get bigger squee books, I think.)
-Love the makeup job on Doc Benton, have I said? The stitching is particularly awesome.
-"Forever young." Yeah right. Doc Benton has some serious body dimorphism going on there.
-3 weeks. Mentioned earlier, but still good to know. One thing the Deal has been good for is some freaking concrete timeline in this show, thank you Kripke.
-"A pancreas in 50 years?" Dude, the way Dean eats he'll be chewing his way through a new pancreas in 15 to 20 years. And livers. Well, not chewing through I guess since Doc Benton's doing surgery...
-Hey. Hey! Waitaminute! Stitching!! This Doc Benton has stitching! He's doing surgery on himself, and installs new parts that way... somehow! And getting carpal tunnel from it! The Doc Benton in the comic 'ingested' the stolen organs, and I believe had entirely different reasons for doing so. Lemmee check here. Oh! The one in the comic not only ingested the organs, he 'ripped open the chest of an innocent, and ingested the stolen, still-throbbing heart to thwart his own entry into the afterlife' which is hardly a 'scientific' method of immortality based on years of alchemical research
-Summary of above: *writes on chalkboard a bazillion times: "I will not over-react to the implications of spoilers, and I will never doubt Kripke. Much."*
-Anyway, where were we? Right. Dean's pancreas.
-Sam is freaking me out... It's not just that after everything, he still thinks Benton's scientific (SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically*) immortality gig is a good idea, it's that he's so damn calm about it. Like not a single qualm. *shivers*
-Dean. Still no grey. Is or isn't, good or evil. Of course he'd turn down immortality at the cost of other people's lives. Oh Dean.
-Hm. They left Benton some matches? Okaaaay? *scratches head*
-Oh hey! Burying the immortal alive! Hey, Benton, while you're down there, say hi to... Who the hell was it, the immortal guy buried on TV recently... Adam! From Heroes! Actually, that's not really recent... *scratches head*
-Yeah, the way that fridge lid's wiggling, and the fact Sam and Dean don't have one of those big earth packing down machines, he'll be out again in a few weeks. Just has to pulverize his large bones sufficiently and worm out of the fridge and up through the dirt. And then find some poor sap and steal his or her skeleton. Now, that's gonna be a challenging surgery.
-Also with the book on top like that, and Sam knowing where it is? And Sam currently being crazier than an outhouse rat? I would not put it past him to go back later, dig up Benton's immortality book, and surreptitiously try to make Dean immortal. With SCIENCE! *points skyward dramatically* (Okay, I'll stop that now.)
-Sam and Dean silently burying a screaming guy? Most disturbing thing in the episode. Well except for the eyeball thing because that was just wrong.
-It's that hallway again! Mystery Spot and Dream a Little Dream! Wow. They must go through paint like water for that thing.
-Oh! Hai Bela! How's that tragic backstory workin' for ya? See, she's got a silencer. That's what you use when firing guns in hotels. *nods*
-Wow. She's stupid or totally blind if she thinks those miniscule lumps in the bed are big enough to be Sam and Dean. Oh, wait. It's probably the covers. They've struck her temporarily blind. I get the same effect from my pot holders; I look at them and my eyes shut off in self-preservation. *nods*
-... Blow-up dolls. Now that's disturbing.
-Devil's Shoestring keeps Hell Hounds at bay. Good to know, and explains why Dean recognized it. Stuff to keep away Hellhounds has probably been a major source of googling for the Winchesters over the last year. Wonder how it works exactly, though? Is it something like: "Must collect soul. Must collect soul. Must collect so- OOO! String! Gotta get the striiiing! *playplayplay*" Probably not. They're Hell Hounds, not Hell Kittens. I guess "Devil's Squeaky Toy" or "Devil's Rawhide Bone" just doesn't have the same ring. :-P
-HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh hi creepy little pre-adolescent girl! With a British accent! In a school uniform! That's the triumvirate of "Hi! I'm Evil!" in horror shows, isn't it? Oh and she's also a red-eyed Crossroads Demon, wandering around a playground unsummoned nowhere near a crossroads (unless someone was playing in the sandbox with cars and made one), making freelance deals with the kiddies. Eeeeeeek.
-So... Lilith's a major demon, right? Or at least not one of the standard black-eyed flunkies, who can nuke whole buildings with a thought, and she's using Bela to assassinate Sam? Yikes. That loss of acolytes at the police station in "Jus-in-Bello" must have given her some serious staffing issues... Ooo! Or she's getting Bela to do it because wards versus demons and evil and stuff like that won't have any effect on her, and she won't be affected by the shrubbery still hanging from the ceiling. Aha! Makes sense now. *nods*
-Yep. Lilith holds the deal. Like duh. Lilith holds all deals, though? That's interesting... So the red-eyed demon would be Lilith's 'Salesperson', wandering around ten years ago in Britain and in the US (Crossroad Blues) to collect souls for Lilith, with the deals tocome due at around this point in time... Double Eeek.
-And Bela gave her the Colt. Eeep. The finale just got even more interesting methinks.
-Dean refusing to help Bela. It was too late, and by not coming to them and trying to work through Lillith instead, she picked her side. Also, she took the foot from Sam, which she knew would kill him, she shot Sam, she interfered with the Impala, she lied to them, she tricked them into helping her steal the hand thing, she betrayed them to Gordon who she knew wanted to kill Sam, she stole the Colt, she set them up to be captured by Henricksen (and given this latest news that she was involved with Lilith, I suspect she may have also had a hand in setting them up for the demons to find too), and she would have killed Sam and Dean if they had been stupid enough to stay in that hotel room. And she gave the Colt to Lilith. Even with all that, I'm betting if she had come clean and asked the Winchesters for help earlier, they really would have tried to help her. So Dean refusing at that point? The only option. She asked for help with three minutes to go in her deal. It's like she was asking for help after she'd already fallen off a cliff, and Sam and Dean can't fly. The only way to help her at that point, in theory, would have been for Sam and Dean to stop the car and kill Sam, because that was the latest task Lilith had set her as a 'do this and I'll release you' deal. Even so, I bet Lilith would have let the Hell Hounds have her anyway. So Dean couldn't have helped Bela. Even if he had wanted to.
-Ooo. Nice end for Bela. No gore, but gore wasn't the focus at that point and would have been gratuitous. Barking and fade to black. Kind of chilling.
-Also! Ooo! 42 actual minutes of show! \o/ If the Johnny Walker product placement got us the extra 3-5 minutes, I'm going to go out and buy a bottle first thing tomorrow, even though I loathe scotch and think it all tastes like paint thinner. *nods*
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So! Last episode of the season coming up, and y'all probably won't even notice, but I'm going into, heh. Supernatural Lockdown. Selectively, mind, I'll still be around, I just won't be poking my head too far out of my happy hermit shell.
At this point, I haven't seen (or have effectively blocked from memory) any plot-related spoilers for the finale. The only non-plot related spoiler I have been carrying forward since
However, I am betting, betting I can outline exactly what's gonna go down in the finale, just on personal spec and cues that have happened during the season. Which I may outline in another post, or I might not. *is mercurial*
In related "crossing my fingers and knocking wood here" good news, I've booked the 16th off work. WooHoo! Because regardless of what happens in the finale, I guarantee I'm gonna be totally useless friday morning. So go ahead and do your worst, Kripke! Bwahahah! (Only, y'know, not because that would entail things too horrible to contemplate)
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