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Reaction: Supernatural 6.02 and picspam
I'm in the middle of yet another $@^$*& multiple-day screaming headache, (just in time for the weekend, yay) so apologies for the shortness and muddledness of reaction post.
Contains profanity and speculation.
Spoiler Summary
I didn't duck in time to miss an unexpected promo. Monster babies. Or baby monsters. Which may or may not kick Dean's ass, depending on the camera angle and the way the commercial is cut. If they do, I may never ever stop laughing.
Also, a digital TV box is okay (even though it turned out I didn't need one after all, but hey, I get National Geographic and Teletoon Retro now so all is well), but this 'show you the title and entire TV guide summary while programming the recording' thing is horribly spoilerrific. Grandpa and the Cousins want to keep the baby monster/monster baby and raise it as a hunter. Somehow, I don't think that's gonna happen. And of course the title; "Two and a Half Men." ...seriously? That show gives me hives.
Onward.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.02 - Two and a Half Men *scratches and mutters*
Well! Isn't that interesting!
-Hi shifters randomly appearing in the recap! So, shifter babies. Or a shifter that makes itself look like a baby. Wild. Well, I guess it's a sort of progression. Pre-adolescent kids, little old ladies and now... Evil Babies: The new frontier. I guess?
-The whole pre-credit sequence is quite traumatizing, actually. Well done, show. *shivers*
-Home for rent? Is that a common sign to see in the US? You have to hunt down rentals with a crossbow and chloroform around here.
-Oh, they all moved. Very sane and logical choice, since the info on Monster Facebook will now be out of date until the next thing comes at you and updates it's status as 'getting ass kicked by Dean Winchester at 2345 Plum Tree Lane' or wherever it is.
-HI TRUNK!!! HI!!! *waves*
-New house, but it's the same house layout as her first house in Cicero, the one with the changelings. Staircase configuration is very familiar.
-Baby's gone. Well, the baby didn't pull the mom out from under the bed, so maybe it's a changeling kind of situation again, with shifters doing some kind of swap in for the actual baby? But in that case, the baby should be there, but be the swapped-in baby. Hm. [In retrospect: Ew.]
-Don't go missing in Lansing, Michigan. Their missing posters are incredibly ineffectual. Date of disappearance? Vital statistics? Phone number to call? Have they issued an Amber alert?
-[Ooo. Retrospectively telling bit. Sam revers to the missing baby as 'it' even with a gender-specific name on the poster. Ah hah hah. At some point in time when my head isn't exploding I might ponder that.]
-Written by Adam Glass, directed by John F. Showalter. Recognize Showalter, not recalling Glass.
-Hee! Samuel vs the laptop. Considering when he died computers were room-sized things or stuff from sci-fi, he should have a rather epic digital divide from the rest of the world.
-"Either way, it's baby stew. Which is bad." *snerk* [But Sam already called the baby 'it'... hm.]
-Ben and guns. Bound to happen. Surprised it didn't before now with the cannon Dean's keeping under the bed, and seriously, Dean, you didn't properly close the Impala's trunk?? [Or Ben stole the keys and unlocked it himself. Dean's concept of key-hiding is rather woeful.]
-"I can do what you do." Yep. Wee Hunter wannabe Ben. He's a kid, and he's wearing a military-themed t-shirt, and he knows monsters are real, and he knows you hunt them. If I was Ben and twelve I'd be crawling into the trunk and stowing away. Of coure I was a moron when I was 12.
-Sam's car has a spoiler. The vehicular kind. I find this greatly amusing.
-The babies are all 6 months old. Again with the six months. Must be something to that. I know from way back in the "what did yellow-eyes do to baby!Sammy?" days research, that 6 months is generally the age a baby starts to become aware that the world is not part of them. Or something like that.
-Dean's lying to Lisa. Badly. Still. Not sure why. Also, randomly, bubblegum pink stucco wall. Not sure why on that either. The front side of the house was nice and brown wood colours, but back 'round the garage, bubblegum pink stucco. It may be the headache talking, but there might be meta in that. On the surface presented to the public, traditional and respectable, but on the more hidden surfaces, weird-coloured and lumpy. Yeah, sounds like a typical metaphor for any family. *nods*
-I have "Sam sad muppet-face" in my notes and I cannot find it anywhere for capping. I suspect hallucinations.
-Why would he bring a silver knife. Well, a lot of things respond that way to silver, I guess. [Or they knew they were after a shifter. Just maybe.]
-Arg, sound de-synched on the broadcast, driving me nuts. However, Dean still has an awesome WTF face.
-Did Sam say, "Welcome to the party, Gutenberg"? What does any of this have to do with the invention of the printing press? [After googling, I still can't make the reference make sense, unless it's some kind of reference to "Three Men and a Baby" in which case they're a man short.]
-How to protect your home and family from monsters: The Dean Winchester crash course. Of course she's got to know about the symbol painting and salting doors and windows since she's watched Dean doing all this crazy crap to her house over the past year, and the permanent symbol stuff probably all got painted or etched before the moving truck got to the new place. Hopefully Lisa immediately goes out for target practice after he leaves and possibly some gun safety lessons. And has some nice long chats with Bobby. Sometime after she gets dressed.
-"If you don't walk out that door, I'm gonna shoot you." GO LISA!!! \o/
-Oh that baby is totally evil. Seriously, look at that face.
-Baby care and Dean. Grocery shopping for baby stuff. I'm just gonna say 'bwahahaha' and keep going. [And screencaps.]
[Is it just me or does it look like Sam (or more likely Jared) is trying not to bust out laughing in that last cap?]
-Bobby John. Everyone together now? AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! (who picked which?) [Dean picked Bobby, Sam picked John. Awwwwww.]
-Pft. Hi! I'm a random stranger who wants to not only touch your child but change its diapers. Hell no, lady, and I don't care if you're a monster or not. No way in hell.
-To misquote a million lolcats: Oh crap, it's a mandroid. GET IN THE CAR!!!! [And now noting the baby is not facing the camera there. Handy that.]
-Super Valu might also be an American chan, but that's a Canadian sign configuration for them. At least it wasn't an Overwaitea. That would have been a big 'you aren't filming in the US' signpost right there.
-Hm. Given the uniform shirt the shifter is wearing is clean, poor dead police officer here can't have been wearing it when his throat was cut. That's... oddly disturbing.
-Ha! Dean with the booze onna finger trick. Usually for teething and I suppose not exactly approved of these days, but it's very Deanish.
-And Sam gets confirmation of shifter babies. Also ew.
-Baby's first shifter!splode! HAHAHAH! I wonder how long certain people involved in the show *koffKripkekoff* have been trying to find some legitimate justifiable way within the plot to have a baby explode on a national network? This also explains the 6 months thing. Shifter babies don't teethe, they moult. Explosively. But what about the ones we've seen that were probably raised by humans? Surely an exploding shape-shifting baby would alert the parents that something was weird. Unless... ooo, very cool monster design. See, it's like an innate chameleon thing! The baby just shifted to more closely match the appearance of the last shifter that touched it. It must be an automatic thing that they grow out of in time. Shifter kids that haven't been collected like the one in Skin and shifter!Drac and are raised among bog-standard humans don't have this problem because they don't come in contact with other shifters, and therefore they don't start shifting autonomously until puberty or something. Yeah. Makes sense. *nods*
-Baby's bigger too, I think. [...Or maybe the baby mimicked the one on the package of diapers? ...Random googling says kids don't usually match pictures to objects until about 18 months, but who knows how fast a shifter!baby's cognitive development goes? I still like my theory better. Even though I think the baby is the same baby as the one on the diaper box, I say chameleon tendencies, because mimicking kids off diaper packs would tip off normal human parents. Or it's another post-apocalypse monster rule change, and that's why the shifters are gathering up the cuckoo kids. *handwaves*]
-Hey, it's that wall! Someone was tracking when that setpiece was used. I forget who. (I haven't noticed the spiky clock yet,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eilonwy, have you?)
-[Yah know, offhand thought, I think the silver knives they've been swinging around are actually switchblades, or at least folding blades. That's a hell of a niche market. There's an official silver Swiss Army knife, though... although I think the ones the boys are using are a simpler blade-only design. It would be possible to take the steel blade out and pop in a silver one, I suppose. Still, as I said, niche market. Someone's making some cash among hunters selling those. *nods*]
-"I'm a freaking headcase!" Ah, Dean. Know thyself. *pats*
-Crap, Samuel and the cousins have a compound? That's alarming. Wondering where they keep the live captures now. Eek.
-"Aren't you the best disguise a monster ever wore?" Cousin... uh... I'm sorry I've forgotten her name. Anyway, she is really really creepy.
-Nooooo. No letting scary grandpa/cousin people touch the baby.
-Raise him. Yep. *ticks spoiler off* Considering how matter-of-fact Samuel is about all this, I'd say this isn't the first time for it. *looks suspiciously at the Cousins again*
-"Your mind goes right to torture, Dean. Don't assume that for everyone." Ooo. Burn. Not surprising he knows considering hunters had known and spending four months dead and coming back tends to make people curious... but the torturing thing... Sam, I do believe you have some explaining to do?
-"Congrats. It's a boy. Sometimes." Giving a baby of any kind to the creepiest cousin? Oh this is all SO wrong.
-I gotta say, I love the little baby actor. Look at the facial expression!
-Hi parent!shifter! And looking like Samuel already? How do shifters take templates, don't they need contact, or to have met the target, and keep them alive? Or is this part of the Post-apocalypse New World Order "monster rules break all to smash" thing?
-Aw, the cool quiet cousin got his neck broken. Dammit! He was the only one I really liked. Although if he's maybe a former monster-baby too, maybe a broken neck is totally dealable. Maybe he'll repop. Maybe.
-Darts and silver nets. Live capture again. Grandpa, what are you up to?
-Ejecting the darts. Okay... I guess it makes sense a shifter could do that, but I'm guessing it's a parent!shifter thing.
-"I'm going up, stay with the baby." Sam. Dude. Are you an idiot? There is a shape-shifter and you want to leave the safe room alone? Sam, you utter mor- whups, never mind, parent!shifter's here.
-New thing! No splat shift! And a shift including clothing, since I hadn't clued into that before. And an excuse to have Jensen play evil, which he really should do more often. Just sayin'.
-Why did it leave Dean alive? (aside from the obvious 'script says so') Hm. Interesting.
-Alpha monster! King shifter! Yay! Myth! Tons of lore we haven't heard before! Whee! \o/
-...although the implications that maybe they're gonna retcon everything and have God be Alpha of angels and Lucifer be pushing to be Alpha demon and death as Alpha reaper and... um. Hrm lots of implications. Also, since I'm reeeeeally medicated right now and between spikes of headache... since their ancestors were decapitating vampires on the Mayflower, is there an Alpha hunter? Orion? Cernunnos? Diana? Loads of them out there. Just a thought. Blaming the meds.
-Newsflash! Sam still sucks at lying.
-"It killed three of my people." Wait. Three people? He only lost one of the three cousins though? Ohhhhh right, the two on the gate. Just like poor cousin Leonard last episode, we hardly knew yah. At all. ...Hunh. It killed the gate guards with no noise, and yet did not kill the barking dog we never saw that tipped off the gang there was something inbound. Hunh. Weirdness abounds. Maybe the dog was a recording? Yeah. *handwaves*
-Oh, hey, who's Grandpa on the phone with? Has he got a Sponsor? One who wants Alphas? One who probably resurrected a few people by nefarious means? Ooo.
-And then I lost all my other notes except for GAAAH GIANT SPIDER CRAWLING UP THE WALL BEHIND THE TV! for a while...
-"You're not a construction worker." Go away but come back sometime. Yep. I like Lisa. I expect she'll be back during a future crisis.
-OH HELL YEAH CAR!!!!!!!! AND SMOKE ON THE WATER!! YEAH!! HELL WITH EVERYTHING, THE IMPALA IS OUT FROM UNDER COVER!!! WOOOO!!! [This calls for some celebratory caps.]
[Oh and Ms. Sera Gamble? I'd like to draw your attention to the continuing lack of spotlights on the Impala. Expect a poster soon.]
(PLEASE, NO SPOILERS OR REFERENCES TO SPOILERY MATERIAL IN COMMENTS! Any and all promo material for unaired episodes is considered to be a spoiler in this journal. The further definition of what constitutes a spoiler for this journal is located in left hand sidebar. Theory and speculation based on aired episodes only.)
Contains profanity and speculation.
Spoiler Summary
I didn't duck in time to miss an unexpected promo. Monster babies. Or baby monsters. Which may or may not kick Dean's ass, depending on the camera angle and the way the commercial is cut. If they do, I may never ever stop laughing.
Also, a digital TV box is okay (even though it turned out I didn't need one after all, but hey, I get National Geographic and Teletoon Retro now so all is well), but this 'show you the title and entire TV guide summary while programming the recording' thing is horribly spoilerrific. Grandpa and the Cousins want to keep the baby monster/monster baby and raise it as a hunter. Somehow, I don't think that's gonna happen. And of course the title; "Two and a Half Men." ...seriously? That show gives me hives.
Onward.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.02 - Two and a Half Men *scratches and mutters*
Well! Isn't that interesting!
-Hi shifters randomly appearing in the recap! So, shifter babies. Or a shifter that makes itself look like a baby. Wild. Well, I guess it's a sort of progression. Pre-adolescent kids, little old ladies and now... Evil Babies: The new frontier. I guess?
-The whole pre-credit sequence is quite traumatizing, actually. Well done, show. *shivers*
-Home for rent? Is that a common sign to see in the US? You have to hunt down rentals with a crossbow and chloroform around here.
-Oh, they all moved. Very sane and logical choice, since the info on Monster Facebook will now be out of date until the next thing comes at you and updates it's status as 'getting ass kicked by Dean Winchester at 2345 Plum Tree Lane' or wherever it is.
-HI TRUNK!!! HI!!! *waves*
-New house, but it's the same house layout as her first house in Cicero, the one with the changelings. Staircase configuration is very familiar.
-Baby's gone. Well, the baby didn't pull the mom out from under the bed, so maybe it's a changeling kind of situation again, with shifters doing some kind of swap in for the actual baby? But in that case, the baby should be there, but be the swapped-in baby. Hm. [In retrospect: Ew.]
-Don't go missing in Lansing, Michigan. Their missing posters are incredibly ineffectual. Date of disappearance? Vital statistics? Phone number to call? Have they issued an Amber alert?
-[Ooo. Retrospectively telling bit. Sam revers to the missing baby as 'it' even with a gender-specific name on the poster. Ah hah hah. At some point in time when my head isn't exploding I might ponder that.]
-Written by Adam Glass, directed by John F. Showalter. Recognize Showalter, not recalling Glass.
-Hee! Samuel vs the laptop. Considering when he died computers were room-sized things or stuff from sci-fi, he should have a rather epic digital divide from the rest of the world.
-"Either way, it's baby stew. Which is bad." *snerk* [But Sam already called the baby 'it'... hm.]
-Ben and guns. Bound to happen. Surprised it didn't before now with the cannon Dean's keeping under the bed, and seriously, Dean, you didn't properly close the Impala's trunk?? [Or Ben stole the keys and unlocked it himself. Dean's concept of key-hiding is rather woeful.]
-"I can do what you do." Yep. Wee Hunter wannabe Ben. He's a kid, and he's wearing a military-themed t-shirt, and he knows monsters are real, and he knows you hunt them. If I was Ben and twelve I'd be crawling into the trunk and stowing away. Of coure I was a moron when I was 12.
-Sam's car has a spoiler. The vehicular kind. I find this greatly amusing.
-The babies are all 6 months old. Again with the six months. Must be something to that. I know from way back in the "what did yellow-eyes do to baby!Sammy?" days research, that 6 months is generally the age a baby starts to become aware that the world is not part of them. Or something like that.
-Dean's lying to Lisa. Badly. Still. Not sure why. Also, randomly, bubblegum pink stucco wall. Not sure why on that either. The front side of the house was nice and brown wood colours, but back 'round the garage, bubblegum pink stucco. It may be the headache talking, but there might be meta in that. On the surface presented to the public, traditional and respectable, but on the more hidden surfaces, weird-coloured and lumpy. Yeah, sounds like a typical metaphor for any family. *nods*
-I have "Sam sad muppet-face" in my notes and I cannot find it anywhere for capping. I suspect hallucinations.
-Why would he bring a silver knife. Well, a lot of things respond that way to silver, I guess. [Or they knew they were after a shifter. Just maybe.]
-Arg, sound de-synched on the broadcast, driving me nuts. However, Dean still has an awesome WTF face.
-Did Sam say, "Welcome to the party, Gutenberg"? What does any of this have to do with the invention of the printing press? [After googling, I still can't make the reference make sense, unless it's some kind of reference to "Three Men and a Baby" in which case they're a man short.]
-How to protect your home and family from monsters: The Dean Winchester crash course. Of course she's got to know about the symbol painting and salting doors and windows since she's watched Dean doing all this crazy crap to her house over the past year, and the permanent symbol stuff probably all got painted or etched before the moving truck got to the new place. Hopefully Lisa immediately goes out for target practice after he leaves and possibly some gun safety lessons. And has some nice long chats with Bobby. Sometime after she gets dressed.
-"If you don't walk out that door, I'm gonna shoot you." GO LISA!!! \o/
-Oh that baby is totally evil. Seriously, look at that face.
-Baby care and Dean. Grocery shopping for baby stuff. I'm just gonna say 'bwahahaha' and keep going. [And screencaps.]
[Is it just me or does it look like Sam (or more likely Jared) is trying not to bust out laughing in that last cap?]
-Bobby John. Everyone together now? AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! (who picked which?) [Dean picked Bobby, Sam picked John. Awwwwww.]
-Pft. Hi! I'm a random stranger who wants to not only touch your child but change its diapers. Hell no, lady, and I don't care if you're a monster or not. No way in hell.
-To misquote a million lolcats: Oh crap, it's a mandroid. GET IN THE CAR!!!! [And now noting the baby is not facing the camera there. Handy that.]
-Super Valu might also be an American chan, but that's a Canadian sign configuration for them. At least it wasn't an Overwaitea. That would have been a big 'you aren't filming in the US' signpost right there.
-Hm. Given the uniform shirt the shifter is wearing is clean, poor dead police officer here can't have been wearing it when his throat was cut. That's... oddly disturbing.
-Ha! Dean with the booze onna finger trick. Usually for teething and I suppose not exactly approved of these days, but it's very Deanish.
-And Sam gets confirmation of shifter babies. Also ew.
-Baby's first shifter!splode! HAHAHAH! I wonder how long certain people involved in the show *koffKripkekoff* have been trying to find some legitimate justifiable way within the plot to have a baby explode on a national network? This also explains the 6 months thing. Shifter babies don't teethe, they moult. Explosively. But what about the ones we've seen that were probably raised by humans? Surely an exploding shape-shifting baby would alert the parents that something was weird. Unless... ooo, very cool monster design. See, it's like an innate chameleon thing! The baby just shifted to more closely match the appearance of the last shifter that touched it. It must be an automatic thing that they grow out of in time. Shifter kids that haven't been collected like the one in Skin and shifter!Drac and are raised among bog-standard humans don't have this problem because they don't come in contact with other shifters, and therefore they don't start shifting autonomously until puberty or something. Yeah. Makes sense. *nods*
-Baby's bigger too, I think. [...Or maybe the baby mimicked the one on the package of diapers? ...Random googling says kids don't usually match pictures to objects until about 18 months, but who knows how fast a shifter!baby's cognitive development goes? I still like my theory better. Even though I think the baby is the same baby as the one on the diaper box, I say chameleon tendencies, because mimicking kids off diaper packs would tip off normal human parents. Or it's another post-apocalypse monster rule change, and that's why the shifters are gathering up the cuckoo kids. *handwaves*]
-Hey, it's that wall! Someone was tracking when that setpiece was used. I forget who. (I haven't noticed the spiky clock yet,
eilonwy, have you?) 
-[Yah know, offhand thought, I think the silver knives they've been swinging around are actually switchblades, or at least folding blades. That's a hell of a niche market. There's an official silver Swiss Army knife, though... although I think the ones the boys are using are a simpler blade-only design. It would be possible to take the steel blade out and pop in a silver one, I suppose. Still, as I said, niche market. Someone's making some cash among hunters selling those. *nods*]
-"I'm a freaking headcase!" Ah, Dean. Know thyself. *pats*
-Crap, Samuel and the cousins have a compound? That's alarming. Wondering where they keep the live captures now. Eek.
-"Aren't you the best disguise a monster ever wore?" Cousin... uh... I'm sorry I've forgotten her name. Anyway, she is really really creepy.
-Nooooo. No letting scary grandpa/cousin people touch the baby.
-Raise him. Yep. *ticks spoiler off* Considering how matter-of-fact Samuel is about all this, I'd say this isn't the first time for it. *looks suspiciously at the Cousins again*
-"Your mind goes right to torture, Dean. Don't assume that for everyone." Ooo. Burn. Not surprising he knows considering hunters had known and spending four months dead and coming back tends to make people curious... but the torturing thing... Sam, I do believe you have some explaining to do?
-"Congrats. It's a boy. Sometimes." Giving a baby of any kind to the creepiest cousin? Oh this is all SO wrong.
-I gotta say, I love the little baby actor. Look at the facial expression!
-Hi parent!shifter! And looking like Samuel already? How do shifters take templates, don't they need contact, or to have met the target, and keep them alive? Or is this part of the Post-apocalypse New World Order "monster rules break all to smash" thing?
-Aw, the cool quiet cousin got his neck broken. Dammit! He was the only one I really liked. Although if he's maybe a former monster-baby too, maybe a broken neck is totally dealable. Maybe he'll repop. Maybe.
-Darts and silver nets. Live capture again. Grandpa, what are you up to?
-Ejecting the darts. Okay... I guess it makes sense a shifter could do that, but I'm guessing it's a parent!shifter thing.
-"I'm going up, stay with the baby." Sam. Dude. Are you an idiot? There is a shape-shifter and you want to leave the safe room alone? Sam, you utter mor- whups, never mind, parent!shifter's here.
-New thing! No splat shift! And a shift including clothing, since I hadn't clued into that before. And an excuse to have Jensen play evil, which he really should do more often. Just sayin'.
-Why did it leave Dean alive? (aside from the obvious 'script says so') Hm. Interesting.
-Alpha monster! King shifter! Yay! Myth! Tons of lore we haven't heard before! Whee! \o/
-...although the implications that maybe they're gonna retcon everything and have God be Alpha of angels and Lucifer be pushing to be Alpha demon and death as Alpha reaper and... um. Hrm lots of implications. Also, since I'm reeeeeally medicated right now and between spikes of headache... since their ancestors were decapitating vampires on the Mayflower, is there an Alpha hunter? Orion? Cernunnos? Diana? Loads of them out there. Just a thought. Blaming the meds.
-Newsflash! Sam still sucks at lying.
-"It killed three of my people." Wait. Three people? He only lost one of the three cousins though? Ohhhhh right, the two on the gate. Just like poor cousin Leonard last episode, we hardly knew yah. At all. ...Hunh. It killed the gate guards with no noise, and yet did not kill the barking dog we never saw that tipped off the gang there was something inbound. Hunh. Weirdness abounds. Maybe the dog was a recording? Yeah. *handwaves*
-Oh, hey, who's Grandpa on the phone with? Has he got a Sponsor? One who wants Alphas? One who probably resurrected a few people by nefarious means? Ooo.
-And then I lost all my other notes except for GAAAH GIANT SPIDER CRAWLING UP THE WALL BEHIND THE TV! for a while...
-"You're not a construction worker." Go away but come back sometime. Yep. I like Lisa. I expect she'll be back during a future crisis.
-OH HELL YEAH CAR!!!!!!!! AND SMOKE ON THE WATER!! YEAH!! HELL WITH EVERYTHING, THE IMPALA IS OUT FROM UNDER COVER!!! WOOOO!!! [This calls for some celebratory caps.]
[Oh and Ms. Sera Gamble? I'd like to draw your attention to the continuing lack of spotlights on the Impala. Expect a poster soon.]
(PLEASE, NO SPOILERS OR REFERENCES TO SPOILERY MATERIAL IN COMMENTS! Any and all promo material for unaired episodes is considered to be a spoiler in this journal. The further definition of what constitutes a spoiler for this journal is located in left hand sidebar. Theory and speculation based on aired episodes only.)