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Reaction: Supernatural 5.03
Contains profanity.
Spoiler and Theorizing Timeline
-9/15 Comment. 5.03 is making people freak about casting. [Spec based on a spoiler which did not occur in this episode excised]
-9/20 Some reaction post. Side comment that next week's episode would be a blast from the past. So. Taking that with fan ambivalence and panic, [excised] maybe a returning character. I'm thinking, from the level and type of trepidation notice around fandom, it's gonna be Cassie. Or Missouri. Missouri at this stage would be a hell of a pile of awesome. Not panic inducing perhaps. Who else... hm. Not the Ghostfacers, they're still around. Sarah the art person wouldn't cause panic. Hm.
-9/22 Title, seen while checking the schedule for 'The Mentalist' (dammit!) "Free to be You and Me" ...Either that's a reference to the CW ad campaign or an old children's book about self-esteem. Not sure.
-9/24 AM Scanning through f-list, someone mentioned they might find 5.03 too sad. OMG please don't kill Bobby. Or Chuck. Or Castiel. Or the boys obviously. I suspect it's going to be the 'boys separated' level of sad, but my paranoia and defensiveness of certain characters needing to remain un-killed is high. Or it could be the start of the 'hunt Sam' club, with Rufus and Ellen taking point. *ponders*
Boatloads at the last minute but mainly because I poked my head out of the damn bunker. Arg.
Reaction, speculation, meta, and other things for Supernatural 5.03 - "Free To Be You and Me"
Now here's an odd thing. I appear to be locked into this position:
Makes it mighty difficult to type.
Seriously though, OMFG!!!! With the-! And the-! TOO MUCH SQUEE CANNOT TYPE OMFG YOU GUYS!!!
Okay, yeah, some quibbles, *handwaves* but I'm in real danger of waking the frigging neighbours here!
Also work has kindly informed me that it will be pre-harshing my squee tomorrow, (busiest time of month, boss away, another key person away, stacks of my own work languishing, working saturday blah blah myjobsucksasscakes) soreaction post will be short or late or both screw 'em I stayed up til nearly 4am typing this up and I'll be mainlining coffee like a mad thing tomorrow, but just- OMFG YOU GUYS!!!!
Holy crap I'm squeeing so hard it might count as aerobics!
Right! Coherence, transcribing reaction thing, HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS!!!
-Recap. Wow, JESS??? Really? Okay, former girlfriend, yes, Dean, no. Also a dead girlfriend unless they're actually going to pay off that "Sam seems Jess on the street-corner" glimpse from, what was it, Bloody Mary?
-Hi Sammy with the anxiety-bound insomnia. Yay tattoo continuity! Hey, Sam's not wearing a shirt. Doesn't Sam usually wear a shirt when he sleeps? What's that? No I haven't noticed the huge shoulders and the staggering muscles and the rippling whatevers, actually. I'm weird like that. *shrug*
-Although now I wonder if he's not wearing a shirt to bed because he's outgrown them all. Because he has been hitting the Wheaties damn hard. o.O
-HI JESS!!! Okay, either you're a demon, an angel, a hallucination or a vestige of the demon-blood DT's. Let's see what it turns out to be.
-"I miss you" Aw, Saaaaaaaaaaaaammy. God, Padalecki's doing so many awesome subtle and very real things with this bit here. It amazes me how much he's improved since season 1. Adrienne Palicki is also kicking ass, because she's doing the Jess/not-Jess thing and there's obviously something not right going on, but I can't quite tell if it's a good not-right or bad not-right. [Rewatch: Not only that, I totally didn't even remotely twig to what was happening until the reveal, even though we just saw the same damn thing in the season opener, so awesome job on the red-herring layers of possibility, Ms. Palicki! \o/]
-"Sooner or later the past is gonna catch up to you ... The people closest to you die." Kind of a 'no shit, Sherlock,' statement but also eep, because not everyone close to Sam is unkillable. *glances nervously at Bobby* O.o
-One week earlier. Okay? Ah. Establishing separate lives montage. OUCH, Show.
-Hee. What motel (in Garber, Oklahoma) still has 'COLOR TV' on its marquee as a big selling point in this day and age. That's adorable.
-Hi Dean (in Greeley, Pensylvania). Oooo! Hi shiny non-demonic knife/shortsword! Are you new? *paws a screen* What? It's a thing.
-Aw, Sam burning the fake IDs. Aw. All those hours at Kinko's gone up in smoke.
-Exsanguination. Vampires! \o/
-Sam as a busboy. Heeee!
-HA! Eat it, Twilight! And, as usual, Dean's response to his entire world being upset and destabilized is to go aggro on the nearest baddie.
-Dean washing the car!
-Hey, there's music again! [Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Kind of Man?] I was so overtaken by the montage I hadn't noticed. There's like fifty billion missing scenes in this montage alone, guys!
-Aw. Dean glancing over at the complete lack of Sam in the shotgun seat. Aw.
-Dean's scrubbing out bloodstains on his jacket in the hotel bathroom sink! I can't even explain why that fills me with glee!
-Personal space! About time someone explained that to Castiel.
-Chuck's archangel is Raphael. Best ninja turtle ever. *nods* IIRC, he was the angsty one, at least in the original comics that weren't intended for kids.
-Hunh... seems like Castiel's going a wee bit darkside, with the interrogation thing. A bit of an edge of desperation there already. Interesting. Also interesting is Dean's bit of snark about Thelma and Louise to get Castiel to realize he's getting a little wild, but it doesn't do a thing because Castiel doesn't get pop culture references. *facepalm* Crap, these two are a born comedy duo aren't they?
-Written by Jeremy Carver and Directed by... somebody Tobin. Will catch on rewatch. [Rewatch: J. Miller Tobin]
-"You are the only one who'll help me." Aw Castieeeeeeel.
-Dean didn't poop for a week... Constipation is a really bizarre side effect for an angelic teleport though. Maybe the teleport displaces all the waste products and toxins to somewhere else so you don't need to poop for a week? Because, you know, purity and all that jazz. Sure. Or Dean's just saying that so they don't leave the Impala sitting around outside a hotel in Pennsylvania. And Castiel doesn't appreciate plumbing like Uriel did and so doesn't question it. Yup. *handwaves*
-Hee! How much do I love that she's interested in Sam because he's a mysterious brainiac and not because he's attractive, muscular and likes soaping down bartops while wearing a light colored t-shirt? What? I believe her!
-OMGYAY WEATHER!!! Weather effects! And unfortunately while they were filming this, I think the weather in BC was being uncooperatively gorgeous. XD
-Yep. World's still ending, Sammy. Sad to say, you leaving hunting doesn't make everything go back to normal. :-/
-Maine now. Three states in one episode. Record?
-"We will tell them (crazy things about angels and the apocalypse that no one sane and unenlightened would ever believe) and they will tell us what we want to know." CASTIEL FTW! \o/ Please never ever change. (Except if you keep hanging around Dean, you totally will.)
-And something I was gonna post that never made it past the dialog stage just got so directly Kripke'd it'd take a miracle to salvage it. Damn!
-Castiel's disgruntlement at having his tie straightened. HEEEEEEE!
-"He's new." BWAH.
-That fish in the Sheriff's office is very familiar. Why is that fish familiar? *misses dialog while pondering the fish*
-"Demons." Heeeeeee! Castiel on a case! So much hee! Dean has got to be so frigging out of his mind flying solo to bring Castiel along on that interview.
-Castiel's hair is weird since the archangel fight. It's making him remind me of a Scottish Fold kitten for some reason. It's a bit disturbing,
-Donny Finneman, Raphael's meat suit. Catatonic. And "Michael's far worse." Gee. Thanks Cas. Way to bolster Dean's resolve to not give consent though.
-Aw, Sam calling Bobby. Call Dean you dork! [Rewatch: I don't know whether I'm more disturbed that Sam has someone called 'Butcher' on his contacts list, or that Butcher has the exact same phone number as Dean's. He's not that bad, Sam, he just gets carried away sometimes. Heh. Kind of a sad thought, that the boys might list each other in their contacts lists multiple times under different names, just so it seems like they know more people than they do. Aw.]
-Smartass Bobby! \o/ The bitter is fading, knew it would once he got out of the hospital and somewhere where he's got stuff to work on. Sort of. Just you watch, he'll be out of the chair and hobbling around on a shillelagh soon- ack! *ducks rotten fruit*
-Hee! Castiel's tie is still straight. He is not self-rumpling.
-"Do we have any chance of surviving this?"/"You do." Ow. Castiel. Last night on earth. Oh lord. Dean's really grasping at straws for distraction here.
-"Women?" Okay. My personal take on angels is that they are genderless beings of energy. So, to me angel sex is translating as some kind of 'mingling of personal energies' and blending of boundaries or something and that Castiel's never had a chance to get that close to anyone, which is indeed a sad thing. But my brain is an odd place that doesn't notice a half-naked Sam except to go 'yay tattoo continuity' so there you go. Take that with whatever grains of salt you may wish. :-)
-Keith. *snerk* So! More hunters! Who have no concept of OpSec and call Sam by his real name. Obviously they are new, or idiots, and therefore will die. Or will start the 'hunt Sam' club (which I've been expecting to show up any time since the start of season 3). And therefore will die. *nods*
-Dean takes Castiel to a.... oh Dean. *facepalm* This is Dean. His walls are made of interlaced snark and horn-dog, and in order to keep people from getting behind his personal walls, Dean attacks them with snark, or horn-dog, or both. See Castiel? He's probably the most confused and uncomfortable he's ever been right now, and so off-balanced by this that he doesn't see the walls Dean's constructing around himself, and doesn't have any hope of asking any questions about Dean's mental or emotional state before Dean gets his walls constructed. Not that Cas is likely big on exploring feelings or whatever, but Dean's used to deflecting Sam's emotional prods so habit is habit. *nods*
-Although I was half-expecting Castiel to blow the windows out when he drank the beer. And there should have been Cheetos. *nods again*
-And then the "here Ms. Prostitute, let me tell you your life story" thing works because the whole sharing energies angel sex thing, or something, so reading thoughts is... whatever. *handwaves* Also even though no one was even close to having sex in it, that fic I was writing is so damn Kripke'd it's scary.
-In short, re: Dean and Cas in a brothel: *facepalm* *headdesk* and Oh Dean, you are so not fooling anyone. *moves on*
-See! See! That face-falling moment for Dean by the car? That's Dean getting ambushed by a Sam memory. And walling it over, pushing it down and reinterpreting it so he can tell himself it doesn't mean he is worried about Sam. Nope, not one bit. Just watch. He'll blow it off as a realization that he really doesn't miss Sam at all later. You just watch.
-Um, Sam, the last girl you gave the 'brother issues' speech to turned out to be Meg. Maybe try splashing some Holy Water on girls before you go spilling your familial angst on them, hm?
-Keith. *snerk*
-"No one has ever done anything so bad it can't be forgiven." Heh. Yeah. Forgiveness. Not a theme at all this season.
-... The things Castiel whispered in the guy's ear... Did it contain the word "Nokia?" I swear I heard 'Nokia'. If so, that's the best semi-subliminal product placement freaking ever. \o/
-Um. Fire. Hospital. Fire alarms? Staff? There is a very interesting missing scene there, perhaps. Maybe Castiel has it in Angel lockdown, although it would be much more entertaining if he didn't.
-Ooo... Lightning wings? Nifty.
-Hey, it's that guy! He looks really familiar. Where have I seen him before? [Rewatch: Demore Barnes, who I recognize from freaking Street Cents (Canadian kids' educational show about media awareness and consumer issues) of all things! O.o Kind of interesting because products that they tested as not worth spending money on were consigned to a fiery pit. The crack just keeps on coming. XD]
-You know, for an archangel, Raphael has a crappy reaction time. I mean I could have jumped out of that circle before it fully lit. Unless he wanted to be trapped. Hm. *ponders*
-Hey, if this guy's Chuck's archangel, and they've got him trapped, who the hell is watching Chuck??? o.O Unless there's like an archangel pool, and whoever's on call goes down and whacks the crap out of anything threatening the prophet. Yeah, sounds reasonable. Archangels need time off too. *nods*
-"God's dead." Well, that's a load of crap. This is Supernatural. Even if we see a corpse that's no guarantee someone/something's dead. So stuff it, Raph.
-Hunting seems to attract guys named Ritchie. Wasn't Dean's succubus-hunting buddy in Sin City named Ritchie too? Steve's toast. Still haven't caught ringleader's name.
-I must say, Sam's hair is rockin'. If a little clenched, but that's understandable under the circumstances.
-'or we kill te girl.' Well hello there 'hunt Sam' club! \o/ And so it begins!
-Ahhh. Raphael doesn't have a clue. So of course you insist God's dead, you faithless dork. Turn in your arcy-sparky wings and get back in rank with the cherubim. Or whatever's lowest. The guys who serve the cream cheese. *waves hand dismissively*
-Absent fathers. Also totally not a theme of this series. At all. Ever. *nods*
-"What the demon said, it's all true." Oh Sam, dude, your guilt is gonna get you and everyone who can be used to get at you hunted down like chupacabras. *facepalm*
-Lucifer raised Castiel because he disobeyed. Oh, Castiel. Ow. Don't listen to Raphael, he knows less than you do. [Rewatch: Also, seriously, why would Lucifer remove Sam from the room he wanted Sam to be in, AND rescue Deanexcept to use Dean as leverage to get Sam to consent oh shut up brain.]
-Wow. Castiel's been hanging around Dean way too long. o.O
-Is that... lipstick??? No, no, no. Mascara. Wait, what? No, it's a vial of demon blood. Ohhhhohohoho... There's an unexpected turn. Yet logical. Also, well-prepared hunters to be carrying around stoppered glass test tubes, but whatever, maybe they had bandoliers of them full of holy water to use grenade-style and re-purposed one. Yeah, sure. *handwaves*
-Sam spits demon blood in their faces and kicks their butts. And now that he refused to use his demon powers to avenge Steve, Nameless and Ritchie the Second have a vested personal interest in hunting Sam and spreading the word that Sam Winchester drinks demon blood and started the Apocalypse. Suddenly "Sam Winchester wears women's underwear" doesn't seem so bad a taunt anymore, hm?
-Plus, I gotta say it, Sam must have ingested some blood because he beat these guys in hand-to-hand and his track record's usually about as good as Castiel's used to be. Or he's fighting as though Dean isn't around to back him up or rescue his ass, which... oh Sammy.
-"Don't think I won't be here." HI BADASS SAMMY!!! More please! Although smarter plans would be to get as far away from there and anyone who they might think knows you as possible. (Oh crap. Bobby. Dammit!) Just drop off the map, Sam. Or bunker up in the bar and draft Lindsay and the old bartender guy who looks like he has some potential for awesome in him, and possibly a sawed-off persuader under the counter. But disappearing is your most sensible option at this point. *nods*
-[*snerk* This commercial played during this commercial break on JoyTV. I wonder if they actually do know what they are doing sometimes.]
-Castiel and Dean in the car. Father issues. Hee. Ninja Turtle. *floats happily*
-"I'm good." Dean. Dude. You are so not fooling anyone. Not even yourself, which is why you're still talking. Protesting too much, trying to convince himself, I mean seriously, he's back to season one denial levels here, and is so obviously full of shit.
-Also see? What did I say about re-interpreting the Sam memory? He hasn't laughed like that in years (Since, what, Hell House)? Well really, you and Sam don't laugh like that very often because your lives suck ass and the entire universe is fated to make you miserable. Nothing to do with being around Sam. You know it and we know you know it. So there.
-"Now that I'm alone, I'm happy." HAH. Pull the other one, Dean, it's got bells on. And now he's talking to an empty seat because Castiel has fluttered off. Oh Dean. Alone is your opposite of happy.
-Now Sam's wearing a shirt to bed. Hm. I guess if possibly hallucinatory dead girlfriends start dropping in on you, you don't want to be totally exposed.
-Sam, dude, um, I'm not sure what Jess is at this point, but if your dead girlfriend starts hanging out with you, you may want to investigate a little deeper before going for a nuzzle and a smooch.
-Jess is watching him... so... is she an angel and was she all along?
-OH CRAP IT'S LUCIFER!!! (Cool special effect swapping between the two faces with a hint of smoke and some nasty burn scars! \o/) Oh my god I cannot believe I didn't catch on that that was Lucifer. Hallucinatory dead lovers in white, even. Gah. *headdesk*
-See what I mean though Sam? You kissed Lucifer. Happy now?
-OMG so much random love for the edge of Sam's tattoo peeking out from under the collar of the t-shirt. Yeah, I know they probably get a temp tatt that lasts the duration of shooting when it's called for but regardless TATT CONTINUITY FTW!!! \o/
-"Nick was plan B" OMG YOU GUYS, WE CALLED IT! \o/ Sam's Lucifer's Vessel! And Dean's Michael's and we are so very totally in for a world of frigging hurt before it all works out in the end. Which it will. *is zen*
-"I will never lie to you. I will never trick you." Kripke is bound and determined to make us do a close reading analysis of everything Big L says, isn't he?
-Also, that stuff above Re: going off the grid to avoid the hunters? Take it and triple it, Sam. No contacting anyone you ever knew or they will be used against you. Which means there won't be an exchange of info about Lucifer wanting Sam in the room and therefore Lucifer not being the one to pop the boys up onto the plane, or the one to reconstitute Castiel, and Castiel's last hope is going to fray out from under him. And it will also look like the hunters confronted Sam and he disappeared, and the hunters can spread any story they want about the circumstances. Crap, crap, crap, oh man I love the potential in all this!!! \o/
-"It always had to be you." I am getting such strong echoes of this drabble I wrote way back when. If that turns out to be why? If that's actually why it's Sam (and of course vice versa with Sam being unable to kill Dean, all of which will be the way the Winchesters win in the end, through strength of family, I betcha)?
That is all.
*is frigging floating from so much Zen of Kripke*
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-9/15 Comment. 5.03 is making people freak about casting. [Spec based on a spoiler which did not occur in this episode excised]
-9/20 Some reaction post. Side comment that next week's episode would be a blast from the past. So. Taking that with fan ambivalence and panic, [excised] maybe a returning character. I'm thinking, from the level and type of trepidation notice around fandom, it's gonna be Cassie. Or Missouri. Missouri at this stage would be a hell of a pile of awesome. Not panic inducing perhaps. Who else... hm. Not the Ghostfacers, they're still around. Sarah the art person wouldn't cause panic. Hm.
-9/22 Title, seen while checking the schedule for 'The Mentalist' (dammit!) "Free to be You and Me" ...Either that's a reference to the CW ad campaign or an old children's book about self-esteem. Not sure.
-9/24 AM Scanning through f-list, someone mentioned they might find 5.03 too sad. OMG please don't kill Bobby. Or Chuck. Or Castiel. Or the boys obviously. I suspect it's going to be the 'boys separated' level of sad, but my paranoia and defensiveness of certain characters needing to remain un-killed is high. Or it could be the start of the 'hunt Sam' club, with Rufus and Ellen taking point. *ponders*
Boatloads at the last minute but mainly because I poked my head out of the damn bunker. Arg.
Reaction, speculation, meta, and other things for Supernatural 5.03 - "Free To Be You and Me"
Now here's an odd thing. I appear to be locked into this position:
\o/
Makes it mighty difficult to type.
Seriously though, OMFG!!!! With the-! And the-! TOO MUCH SQUEE CANNOT TYPE OMFG YOU GUYS!!!
Okay, yeah, some quibbles, *handwaves* but I'm in real danger of waking the frigging neighbours here!
Also work has kindly informed me that it will be pre-harshing my squee tomorrow, (busiest time of month, boss away, another key person away, stacks of my own work languishing, working saturday blah blah myjobsucksasscakes) so
Holy crap I'm squeeing so hard it might count as aerobics!
Right! Coherence, transcribing reaction thing, HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS!!!
-Recap. Wow, JESS??? Really? Okay, former girlfriend, yes, Dean, no. Also a dead girlfriend unless they're actually going to pay off that "Sam seems Jess on the street-corner" glimpse from, what was it, Bloody Mary?
-Hi Sammy with the anxiety-bound insomnia. Yay tattoo continuity! Hey, Sam's not wearing a shirt. Doesn't Sam usually wear a shirt when he sleeps? What's that? No I haven't noticed the huge shoulders and the staggering muscles and the rippling whatevers, actually. I'm weird like that. *shrug*
-Although now I wonder if he's not wearing a shirt to bed because he's outgrown them all. Because he has been hitting the Wheaties damn hard. o.O
-HI JESS!!! Okay, either you're a demon, an angel, a hallucination or a vestige of the demon-blood DT's. Let's see what it turns out to be.
-"I miss you" Aw, Saaaaaaaaaaaaammy. God, Padalecki's doing so many awesome subtle and very real things with this bit here. It amazes me how much he's improved since season 1. Adrienne Palicki is also kicking ass, because she's doing the Jess/not-Jess thing and there's obviously something not right going on, but I can't quite tell if it's a good not-right or bad not-right. [Rewatch: Not only that, I totally didn't even remotely twig to what was happening until the reveal, even though we just saw the same damn thing in the season opener, so awesome job on the red-herring layers of possibility, Ms. Palicki! \o/]
-"Sooner or later the past is gonna catch up to you ... The people closest to you die." Kind of a 'no shit, Sherlock,' statement but also eep, because not everyone close to Sam is unkillable. *glances nervously at Bobby* O.o
-One week earlier. Okay? Ah. Establishing separate lives montage. OUCH, Show.
-Hee. What motel (in Garber, Oklahoma) still has 'COLOR TV' on its marquee as a big selling point in this day and age. That's adorable.
-Hi Dean (in Greeley, Pensylvania). Oooo! Hi shiny non-demonic knife/shortsword! Are you new? *paws a screen* What? It's a thing.
-Aw, Sam burning the fake IDs. Aw. All those hours at Kinko's gone up in smoke.
-Exsanguination. Vampires! \o/
-Sam as a busboy. Heeee!
-HA! Eat it, Twilight! And, as usual, Dean's response to his entire world being upset and destabilized is to go aggro on the nearest baddie.
-Dean washing the car!
-Hey, there's music again! [Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Kind of Man?] I was so overtaken by the montage I hadn't noticed. There's like fifty billion missing scenes in this montage alone, guys!
-Aw. Dean glancing over at the complete lack of Sam in the shotgun seat. Aw.
-Dean's scrubbing out bloodstains on his jacket in the hotel bathroom sink! I can't even explain why that fills me with glee!
-Personal space! About time someone explained that to Castiel.
-Chuck's archangel is Raphael. Best ninja turtle ever. *nods* IIRC, he was the angsty one, at least in the original comics that weren't intended for kids.
-Hunh... seems like Castiel's going a wee bit darkside, with the interrogation thing. A bit of an edge of desperation there already. Interesting. Also interesting is Dean's bit of snark about Thelma and Louise to get Castiel to realize he's getting a little wild, but it doesn't do a thing because Castiel doesn't get pop culture references. *facepalm* Crap, these two are a born comedy duo aren't they?
-Written by Jeremy Carver and Directed by... somebody Tobin. Will catch on rewatch. [Rewatch: J. Miller Tobin]
-"You are the only one who'll help me." Aw Castieeeeeeel.
-Dean didn't poop for a week... Constipation is a really bizarre side effect for an angelic teleport though. Maybe the teleport displaces all the waste products and toxins to somewhere else so you don't need to poop for a week? Because, you know, purity and all that jazz. Sure. Or Dean's just saying that so they don't leave the Impala sitting around outside a hotel in Pennsylvania. And Castiel doesn't appreciate plumbing like Uriel did and so doesn't question it. Yup. *handwaves*
-Hee! How much do I love that she's interested in Sam because he's a mysterious brainiac and not because he's attractive, muscular and likes soaping down bartops while wearing a light colored t-shirt? What? I believe her!
-OMGYAY WEATHER!!! Weather effects! And unfortunately while they were filming this, I think the weather in BC was being uncooperatively gorgeous. XD
-Yep. World's still ending, Sammy. Sad to say, you leaving hunting doesn't make everything go back to normal. :-/
-Maine now. Three states in one episode. Record?
-"We will tell them (crazy things about angels and the apocalypse that no one sane and unenlightened would ever believe) and they will tell us what we want to know." CASTIEL FTW! \o/ Please never ever change. (Except if you keep hanging around Dean, you totally will.)
-And something I was gonna post that never made it past the dialog stage just got so directly Kripke'd it'd take a miracle to salvage it. Damn!
-Castiel's disgruntlement at having his tie straightened. HEEEEEEE!
-"He's new." BWAH.
-That fish in the Sheriff's office is very familiar. Why is that fish familiar? *misses dialog while pondering the fish*
-"Demons." Heeeeeee! Castiel on a case! So much hee! Dean has got to be so frigging out of his mind flying solo to bring Castiel along on that interview.
-Castiel's hair is weird since the archangel fight. It's making him remind me of a Scottish Fold kitten for some reason. It's a bit disturbing,
-Donny Finneman, Raphael's meat suit. Catatonic. And "Michael's far worse." Gee. Thanks Cas. Way to bolster Dean's resolve to not give consent though.
-Aw, Sam calling Bobby. Call Dean you dork! [Rewatch: I don't know whether I'm more disturbed that Sam has someone called 'Butcher' on his contacts list, or that Butcher has the exact same phone number as Dean's. He's not that bad, Sam, he just gets carried away sometimes. Heh. Kind of a sad thought, that the boys might list each other in their contacts lists multiple times under different names, just so it seems like they know more people than they do. Aw.]
-Smartass Bobby! \o/ The bitter is fading, knew it would once he got out of the hospital and somewhere where he's got stuff to work on. Sort of. Just you watch, he'll be out of the chair and hobbling around on a shillelagh soon- ack! *ducks rotten fruit*
-Hee! Castiel's tie is still straight. He is not self-rumpling.
-"Do we have any chance of surviving this?"/"You do." Ow. Castiel. Last night on earth. Oh lord. Dean's really grasping at straws for distraction here.
-"Women?" Okay. My personal take on angels is that they are genderless beings of energy. So, to me angel sex is translating as some kind of 'mingling of personal energies' and blending of boundaries or something and that Castiel's never had a chance to get that close to anyone, which is indeed a sad thing. But my brain is an odd place that doesn't notice a half-naked Sam except to go 'yay tattoo continuity' so there you go. Take that with whatever grains of salt you may wish. :-)
-Keith. *snerk* So! More hunters! Who have no concept of OpSec and call Sam by his real name. Obviously they are new, or idiots, and therefore will die. Or will start the 'hunt Sam' club (which I've been expecting to show up any time since the start of season 3). And therefore will die. *nods*
-Dean takes Castiel to a.... oh Dean. *facepalm* This is Dean. His walls are made of interlaced snark and horn-dog, and in order to keep people from getting behind his personal walls, Dean attacks them with snark, or horn-dog, or both. See Castiel? He's probably the most confused and uncomfortable he's ever been right now, and so off-balanced by this that he doesn't see the walls Dean's constructing around himself, and doesn't have any hope of asking any questions about Dean's mental or emotional state before Dean gets his walls constructed. Not that Cas is likely big on exploring feelings or whatever, but Dean's used to deflecting Sam's emotional prods so habit is habit. *nods*
-Although I was half-expecting Castiel to blow the windows out when he drank the beer. And there should have been Cheetos. *nods again*
-And then the "here Ms. Prostitute, let me tell you your life story" thing works because the whole sharing energies angel sex thing, or something, so reading thoughts is... whatever. *handwaves* Also even though no one was even close to having sex in it, that fic I was writing is so damn Kripke'd it's scary.
-In short, re: Dean and Cas in a brothel: *facepalm* *headdesk* and Oh Dean, you are so not fooling anyone. *moves on*
-See! See! That face-falling moment for Dean by the car? That's Dean getting ambushed by a Sam memory. And walling it over, pushing it down and reinterpreting it so he can tell himself it doesn't mean he is worried about Sam. Nope, not one bit. Just watch. He'll blow it off as a realization that he really doesn't miss Sam at all later. You just watch.
-Um, Sam, the last girl you gave the 'brother issues' speech to turned out to be Meg. Maybe try splashing some Holy Water on girls before you go spilling your familial angst on them, hm?
-Keith. *snerk*
-"No one has ever done anything so bad it can't be forgiven." Heh. Yeah. Forgiveness. Not a theme at all this season.
-... The things Castiel whispered in the guy's ear... Did it contain the word "Nokia?" I swear I heard 'Nokia'. If so, that's the best semi-subliminal product placement freaking ever. \o/
-Um. Fire. Hospital. Fire alarms? Staff? There is a very interesting missing scene there, perhaps. Maybe Castiel has it in Angel lockdown, although it would be much more entertaining if he didn't.
-Ooo... Lightning wings? Nifty.
-Hey, it's that guy! He looks really familiar. Where have I seen him before? [Rewatch: Demore Barnes, who I recognize from freaking Street Cents (Canadian kids' educational show about media awareness and consumer issues) of all things! O.o Kind of interesting because products that they tested as not worth spending money on were consigned to a fiery pit. The crack just keeps on coming. XD]
-You know, for an archangel, Raphael has a crappy reaction time. I mean I could have jumped out of that circle before it fully lit. Unless he wanted to be trapped. Hm. *ponders*
-Hey, if this guy's Chuck's archangel, and they've got him trapped, who the hell is watching Chuck??? o.O Unless there's like an archangel pool, and whoever's on call goes down and whacks the crap out of anything threatening the prophet. Yeah, sounds reasonable. Archangels need time off too. *nods*
-"God's dead." Well, that's a load of crap. This is Supernatural. Even if we see a corpse that's no guarantee someone/something's dead. So stuff it, Raph.
-Hunting seems to attract guys named Ritchie. Wasn't Dean's succubus-hunting buddy in Sin City named Ritchie too? Steve's toast. Still haven't caught ringleader's name.
-I must say, Sam's hair is rockin'. If a little clenched, but that's understandable under the circumstances.
-'or we kill te girl.' Well hello there 'hunt Sam' club! \o/ And so it begins!
-Ahhh. Raphael doesn't have a clue. So of course you insist God's dead, you faithless dork. Turn in your arcy-sparky wings and get back in rank with the cherubim. Or whatever's lowest. The guys who serve the cream cheese. *waves hand dismissively*
-Absent fathers. Also totally not a theme of this series. At all. Ever. *nods*
-"What the demon said, it's all true." Oh Sam, dude, your guilt is gonna get you and everyone who can be used to get at you hunted down like chupacabras. *facepalm*
-Lucifer raised Castiel because he disobeyed. Oh, Castiel. Ow. Don't listen to Raphael, he knows less than you do. [Rewatch: Also, seriously, why would Lucifer remove Sam from the room he wanted Sam to be in, AND rescue Dean
-Wow. Castiel's been hanging around Dean way too long. o.O
-Is that... lipstick??? No, no, no. Mascara. Wait, what? No, it's a vial of demon blood. Ohhhhohohoho... There's an unexpected turn. Yet logical. Also, well-prepared hunters to be carrying around stoppered glass test tubes, but whatever, maybe they had bandoliers of them full of holy water to use grenade-style and re-purposed one. Yeah, sure. *handwaves*
-Sam spits demon blood in their faces and kicks their butts. And now that he refused to use his demon powers to avenge Steve, Nameless and Ritchie the Second have a vested personal interest in hunting Sam and spreading the word that Sam Winchester drinks demon blood and started the Apocalypse. Suddenly "Sam Winchester wears women's underwear" doesn't seem so bad a taunt anymore, hm?
-Plus, I gotta say it, Sam must have ingested some blood because he beat these guys in hand-to-hand and his track record's usually about as good as Castiel's used to be. Or he's fighting as though Dean isn't around to back him up or rescue his ass, which... oh Sammy.
-"Don't think I won't be here." HI BADASS SAMMY!!! More please! Although smarter plans would be to get as far away from there and anyone who they might think knows you as possible. (Oh crap. Bobby. Dammit!) Just drop off the map, Sam. Or bunker up in the bar and draft Lindsay and the old bartender guy who looks like he has some potential for awesome in him, and possibly a sawed-off persuader under the counter. But disappearing is your most sensible option at this point. *nods*
-[*snerk* This commercial played during this commercial break on JoyTV. I wonder if they actually do know what they are doing sometimes.]
-Castiel and Dean in the car. Father issues. Hee. Ninja Turtle. *floats happily*
-"I'm good." Dean. Dude. You are so not fooling anyone. Not even yourself, which is why you're still talking. Protesting too much, trying to convince himself, I mean seriously, he's back to season one denial levels here, and is so obviously full of shit.
-Also see? What did I say about re-interpreting the Sam memory? He hasn't laughed like that in years (Since, what, Hell House)? Well really, you and Sam don't laugh like that very often because your lives suck ass and the entire universe is fated to make you miserable. Nothing to do with being around Sam. You know it and we know you know it. So there.
-"Now that I'm alone, I'm happy." HAH. Pull the other one, Dean, it's got bells on. And now he's talking to an empty seat because Castiel has fluttered off. Oh Dean. Alone is your opposite of happy.
-Now Sam's wearing a shirt to bed. Hm. I guess if possibly hallucinatory dead girlfriends start dropping in on you, you don't want to be totally exposed.
-Sam, dude, um, I'm not sure what Jess is at this point, but if your dead girlfriend starts hanging out with you, you may want to investigate a little deeper before going for a nuzzle and a smooch.
-Jess is watching him... so... is she an angel and was she all along?
-OH CRAP IT'S LUCIFER!!! (Cool special effect swapping between the two faces with a hint of smoke and some nasty burn scars! \o/) Oh my god I cannot believe I didn't catch on that that was Lucifer. Hallucinatory dead lovers in white, even. Gah. *headdesk*
-See what I mean though Sam? You kissed Lucifer. Happy now?
-OMG so much random love for the edge of Sam's tattoo peeking out from under the collar of the t-shirt. Yeah, I know they probably get a temp tatt that lasts the duration of shooting when it's called for but regardless TATT CONTINUITY FTW!!! \o/
-"Nick was plan B" OMG YOU GUYS, WE CALLED IT! \o/ Sam's Lucifer's Vessel! And Dean's Michael's and we are so very totally in for a world of frigging hurt before it all works out in the end. Which it will. *is zen*
-"I will never lie to you. I will never trick you." Kripke is bound and determined to make us do a close reading analysis of everything Big L says, isn't he?
-Also, that stuff above Re: going off the grid to avoid the hunters? Take it and triple it, Sam. No contacting anyone you ever knew or they will be used against you. Which means there won't be an exchange of info about Lucifer wanting Sam in the room and therefore Lucifer not being the one to pop the boys up onto the plane, or the one to reconstitute Castiel, and Castiel's last hope is going to fray out from under him. And it will also look like the hunters confronted Sam and he disappeared, and the hunters can spread any story they want about the circumstances. Crap, crap, crap, oh man I love the potential in all this!!! \o/
-"It always had to be you." I am getting such strong echoes of this drabble I wrote way back when. If that turns out to be why? If that's actually why it's Sam (and of course vice versa with Sam being unable to kill Dean, all of which will be the way the Winchesters win in the end, through strength of family, I betcha)?
\o/
That is all.
*is frigging floating from so much Zen of Kripke*
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It bears pondering. *nods*