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caffienekitty) wrote2010-11-17 12:08 am
caffienekitty) wrote2010-11-17 12:08 am
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Reaction: Supernatural 6.08 and picspam
Short and cursory, sorry.
Contains profanity and some speculation.
Spoiler and Spec Summary
*deletes spoiler that didn't happen this ep* *adds spoiler that did happen this time* Monster is pretending to be a family dog. Fairly direct, that spoiler.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.08 - All Dogs Go to Heaven
-THEN. Arg, werewolves. What? *blocks remainder of THEN*
-Ha. The guy's talking to his dog-sitter. Cute.
-Monster-cam!
-Was that a different smashy noise for the titlecard there?
-"All Dogs Go To Heaven." Oh, right. This is the one with the dog. *adds spoiler to summary, removes other*
-"Give him a kiss him from me." HEEEE! I love Crowley. In an 'I'd like to see him thwarted but not killed' sort of way.
-"No." Dude. Yay. Resistance may be futile, but at least it's resistance.
-Written by Adam Glass and directed by Phil Sgriccia. Isn't he the one that's inherited the 'problematic' episode mantle from Kim Manners?
-"Mouth-breathing dick monkeys." Hehehe. Tact and subtlety apparently requires a soul.
-Tie Report: Opposite direction stripes, Dean's a dark red shade, Sam's a dark blue. Pretty universally opposite, but both on the surface dark stripey ties.
-Sleepy Dean. Aw.
-Winchesterian tossing! Haven't seen that in a while.
-"If all you had was beer then how come you're sweating vodka?" Okay Sam is seriously pinging my Sherlock monitors. O.o
-Dog. Attacking. Yeah, I'm hiding now.
-Oooo, nice transition of visual accuity with the monster-cam. That was rather awesome in a massively geeky sort of way. [And completely uncappable in a coherent manner. Basically, the Monster-cam goes from doggy-vision to human-vision in a single shot, which is cool on a few different levels.]
-*ad break pondering* Werewolves didn't used to do full transform though, so either this guy's something different, or werewolves can do that now under the post-apoc who-gives-a-crap-about-the-moon rules, or he's the Alpha. And really slumming.
-Ah. He's not just a Monster of the Week, he's a perv. Good to know.
-TIE SHIFT! Mid episode tie shift! Stripes are now going the same direction, but Sam's tie is a a much brighter red and Dean's is a green-black, maybe. Almost opposite colour. Pretending to be on the same track as Dean on the surface but not actually? Which direction won? [Dean's. And considering what Sam says at the end of the episode, I do believe there is meta in those ties.]
-Uh oh? The dog just ripped the kid's toy in a weirdly deliberate manner right in front of him, and all you've got is 'Uh oh!' and laughing? Okay, maybe that's the balanced and emotionally stable positivity to adversity response, but at least a disappointed 'Lucky!' would have been less... freaky.
-"Can we do it later?"/"I'm afraid not." Her face to Sam is perfect.
-"Trust me." Yeah right. Sorry, Sam. Once a trust is broken it has to be earned back.
-Midnight playground lurking. Classy. Not skeevy at all.
-What meeting? On my local affiliate the guy disappeared off the side of the screen. *smacks local affiliate for not letterboxing* [Ah. That meeting.]
-Dude. Jumping Sam. Ooo.
-Ha! Sorry. Getting pranged by a car is a rather good strategy at this point for the dog-guy. Get picked up by People, taken to a shelter and hide in the crowd. *nods*
-Ah. Skinwalker. OMG HI JOHN'S JOURNAL!!!
-Bets. They've got the wrong dog. Except he's seeing in Monster-cam, so could be the right one. ...aaand it is. Hunh. Maybe that's a missing scene? Or maybe they picked the German Shepard that wasn't happy to see them.
-Bad cop Sam is rather hilarious.
-Thirty recruited (in, where, Buffalo?), into sleeper cells. HOW MUCH LOVE DO I HAVE THAT THE MONSTERS AND ADVERSARY CHARACTERS ALL SEEM TO HAVE DEVELOPED SOME STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL THINKING??? A WHOLE LOT!!! \o/
-While you do need a soul to be tactful, you apparently don't need a soul to be a smartass.
-Ooo. Nice gun. Haven't seen that since, what, Simon Said? Hope it gets better results than that outing.
-"Stop pretending, and do us both a favor." Ow.
-Nice drummy music on the soundtrack here, for the 'walking together while farther apart than they've ever been' shot. Did I say Ow? Well, ow.
-"I'd double-cross us." Um. Not helping, Sam.
-Heh. Ooops. Allies and dependents. Always guard the damned allies and dependents.
-"Plan B"/"We've got one?" Didn't they have the same exchange a couple weeks ago?
-[...ARE YOU KIDDING??? Okay. This was not part of the show, but one of the screen-bottom pop-ups said; "WANTED - EXORCIST. CHURCH NEEDS DEMON FIGHTERS" Could there be a more apt show for that pop-up? I suspect it's the affiliates news program having a slow day and deciding to cover the Vatican's massive increase in exorcist training that was announced sometime last summer. Must be a slow news day. Regardless HA! Glad I got it on tape, even though I can't cap it.]
-Sniper!Dean! OMG. Um. Hell yeah.
-Whoa there, Sammy McShootypants! How many clips of silver bullets do you have?
-Uh oh. Doberman. Okay. Wolf. Big dogs being aggressive- Um. Fuck it. THIS IS NOT A GOOD EP FOR A PERSON WITH CANI- LUPO- DOG-PHOBIA!!! *hides behind things* [Cynophobia. Whatever. Still hiding.]
-"...Lucky!?" Hee! Someone's seriously failing a boggle check right there.
-Dude. Don't bring a dog to a gun fight. Idiot.
-The dog actor is quite good.
-"Get away from this house, you psycho." Awww, poor puppy.
-HAHAHAH!
I'm sorry, I truly am, and I'm betting I'm not the first to make this association, but I am Canadian and therefore at this point culturally obligated to embed this clip.
So, topic of discussion then iiiiis; "Is the Littlest Hobo the Alpha of the Skinwalkers?" *ponders deeply*
-Continuity of fake chain restaurants is contiguous. *waves at Beef Barn bag*
-They seem calm considering they've just found out there are potentially thousands of people with a Skinwalker as a pet in major city centres all over the country, possibly the world, just waiting for the signal to turn their humans into more Skinwalkers. Although there's not a lot Sam and Dean can do without triggering the operation. Could... uh.... hm. Short of getting everyone with a random fairly intelligent stray dog to get their dogs a silver choke chain, there's nothing they can do, really. That's the thing with sleeper cells.
-"I don't care." We could tell. And we know it'll get fixed one way or another. But ow.
-"It was kinda harder." Yeah, but I think that's sort of the point.
-OH FUCK. There's an altered Dean's Family theme running in the soundtrack under this scene played on, like an oboe or some other ducky woodwind. Just a very broken-sounding note progression but it's there. DAMMIT SHOW, MUST YOU?
-"I'MMA GIT MA BRUTHER BACK." HELL YEAH! \o/ Are we back on track? Cards on the table and not in denial and all that jazz? Maybe? I think we might be. HUZZAH!!
[...you know, all things considered, Crowley should have had a bit more research into the whole 'Alpha' hunt mission... Wonder if he sent the boys there to find out about the sleeper cells so they can spread the word or something and defuse them, since they're recruiting for a war, and if it's a war against Hell... hm. Bears pondering. *ponders*]
(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 some speculation.
Spoiler and Spec Summary
*deletes spoiler that didn't happen this ep* *adds spoiler that did happen this time* Monster is pretending to be a family dog. Fairly direct, that spoiler.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.08 - All Dogs Go to Heaven
-THEN. Arg, werewolves. What? *blocks remainder of THEN*
-Ha. The guy's talking to his dog-sitter. Cute.
-Monster-cam!
-Was that a different smashy noise for the titlecard there?
-"All Dogs Go To Heaven." Oh, right. This is the one with the dog. *adds spoiler to summary, removes other*
-"Give him a kiss him from me." HEEEE! I love Crowley. In an 'I'd like to see him thwarted but not killed' sort of way.
-"No." Dude. Yay. Resistance may be futile, but at least it's resistance.
-Written by Adam Glass and directed by Phil Sgriccia. Isn't he the one that's inherited the 'problematic' episode mantle from Kim Manners?
-"Mouth-breathing dick monkeys." Hehehe. Tact and subtlety apparently requires a soul.
-Tie Report: Opposite direction stripes, Dean's a dark red shade, Sam's a dark blue. Pretty universally opposite, but both on the surface dark stripey ties.
-Sleepy Dean. Aw.
-Winchesterian tossing! Haven't seen that in a while.
-"If all you had was beer then how come you're sweating vodka?" Okay Sam is seriously pinging my Sherlock monitors. O.o
-Dog. Attacking. Yeah, I'm hiding now.
-Oooo, nice transition of visual accuity with the monster-cam. That was rather awesome in a massively geeky sort of way. [And completely uncappable in a coherent manner. Basically, the Monster-cam goes from doggy-vision to human-vision in a single shot, which is cool on a few different levels.]
-*ad break pondering* Werewolves didn't used to do full transform though, so either this guy's something different, or werewolves can do that now under the post-apoc who-gives-a-crap-about-the-moon rules, or he's the Alpha. And really slumming.
-Ah. He's not just a Monster of the Week, he's a perv. Good to know.
-TIE SHIFT! Mid episode tie shift! Stripes are now going the same direction, but Sam's tie is a a much brighter red and Dean's is a green-black, maybe. Almost opposite colour. Pretending to be on the same track as Dean on the surface but not actually? Which direction won? [Dean's. And considering what Sam says at the end of the episode, I do believe there is meta in those ties.]
-Uh oh? The dog just ripped the kid's toy in a weirdly deliberate manner right in front of him, and all you've got is 'Uh oh!' and laughing? Okay, maybe that's the balanced and emotionally stable positivity to adversity response, but at least a disappointed 'Lucky!' would have been less... freaky.
-"Can we do it later?"/"I'm afraid not." Her face to Sam is perfect.
-"Trust me." Yeah right. Sorry, Sam. Once a trust is broken it has to be earned back.
-Midnight playground lurking. Classy. Not skeevy at all.
-What meeting? On my local affiliate the guy disappeared off the side of the screen. *smacks local affiliate for not letterboxing* [Ah. That meeting.]
-Dude. Jumping Sam. Ooo.
-Ha! Sorry. Getting pranged by a car is a rather good strategy at this point for the dog-guy. Get picked up by People, taken to a shelter and hide in the crowd. *nods*
-Ah. Skinwalker. OMG HI JOHN'S JOURNAL!!!
-Bets. They've got the wrong dog. Except he's seeing in Monster-cam, so could be the right one. ...aaand it is. Hunh. Maybe that's a missing scene? Or maybe they picked the German Shepard that wasn't happy to see them.
-Bad cop Sam is rather hilarious.
-Thirty recruited (in, where, Buffalo?), into sleeper cells. HOW MUCH LOVE DO I HAVE THAT THE MONSTERS AND ADVERSARY CHARACTERS ALL SEEM TO HAVE DEVELOPED SOME STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL THINKING??? A WHOLE LOT!!! \o/
-While you do need a soul to be tactful, you apparently don't need a soul to be a smartass.
-Ooo. Nice gun. Haven't seen that since, what, Simon Said? Hope it gets better results than that outing.
-"Stop pretending, and do us both a favor." Ow.
-Nice drummy music on the soundtrack here, for the 'walking together while farther apart than they've ever been' shot. Did I say Ow? Well, ow.
-"I'd double-cross us." Um. Not helping, Sam.
-Heh. Ooops. Allies and dependents. Always guard the damned allies and dependents.
-"Plan B"/"We've got one?" Didn't they have the same exchange a couple weeks ago?
-[...ARE YOU KIDDING??? Okay. This was not part of the show, but one of the screen-bottom pop-ups said; "WANTED - EXORCIST. CHURCH NEEDS DEMON FIGHTERS" Could there be a more apt show for that pop-up? I suspect it's the affiliates news program having a slow day and deciding to cover the Vatican's massive increase in exorcist training that was announced sometime last summer. Must be a slow news day. Regardless HA! Glad I got it on tape, even though I can't cap it.]
-Sniper!Dean! OMG. Um. Hell yeah.
-Whoa there, Sammy McShootypants! How many clips of silver bullets do you have?
-Uh oh. Doberman. Okay. Wolf. Big dogs being aggressive- Um. Fuck it. THIS IS NOT A GOOD EP FOR A PERSON WITH CANI- LUPO- DOG-PHOBIA!!! *hides behind things* [Cynophobia. Whatever. Still hiding.]
-"...Lucky!?" Hee! Someone's seriously failing a boggle check right there.
-Dude. Don't bring a dog to a gun fight. Idiot.
-The dog actor is quite good.
-"Get away from this house, you psycho." Awww, poor puppy.
-HAHAHAH!
I'm sorry, I truly am, and I'm betting I'm not the first to make this association, but I am Canadian and therefore at this point culturally obligated to embed this clip.
So, topic of discussion then iiiiis; "Is the Littlest Hobo the Alpha of the Skinwalkers?" *ponders deeply*
-Continuity of fake chain restaurants is contiguous. *waves at Beef Barn bag*
-They seem calm considering they've just found out there are potentially thousands of people with a Skinwalker as a pet in major city centres all over the country, possibly the world, just waiting for the signal to turn their humans into more Skinwalkers. Although there's not a lot Sam and Dean can do without triggering the operation. Could... uh.... hm. Short of getting everyone with a random fairly intelligent stray dog to get their dogs a silver choke chain, there's nothing they can do, really. That's the thing with sleeper cells.
-"I don't care." We could tell. And we know it'll get fixed one way or another. But ow.
-"It was kinda harder." Yeah, but I think that's sort of the point.
-OH FUCK. There's an altered Dean's Family theme running in the soundtrack under this scene played on, like an oboe or some other ducky woodwind. Just a very broken-sounding note progression but it's there. DAMMIT SHOW, MUST YOU?
-"I'MMA GIT MA BRUTHER BACK." HELL YEAH! \o/ Are we back on track? Cards on the table and not in denial and all that jazz? Maybe? I think we might be. HUZZAH!!
[...you know, all things considered, Crowley should have had a bit more research into the whole 'Alpha' hunt mission... Wonder if he sent the boys there to find out about the sleeper cells so they can spread the word or something and defuse them, since they're recruiting for a war, and if it's a war against Hell... hm. Bears pondering. *ponders*]
(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.)
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Yeah, that doesn't really have anything to do with anything, but I felt the need to share it, so there.
(My cat feels your dog-fear pain -- she spent this episode hiding under the futon.)
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You need to write a tie-meta!
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Cas gave SamnDean those Enochian symbols on their ribs so no angel (himself included) will be able to track them down, prayer or no prayer.
So how come he can find them now? How come all Dean has to do is cuss him and growl and pretend to pray and here pops Cas?
*ponders*
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My theory would be that prayer opens a line of communication, which can be traced. Castiel couldn't trace them from cellphone calls before because A) he was under-powered and B) he's not AT&T. Wrong wavelength or something. After the end of last season, Castiel got levelled up, and I guess prayer is the line-in to Heaven, so tracking it doesn't present a problem for him.
Theory anyway.
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"Plan B"/"We've got one?" Didn't they have the same exchange a couple weeks ago?
Yes they did as I rewatched this one after last week's and noticed that too!!
I know it's very anti-fandom right now, but... I'm actually kinda liking Soulless!Snarky!Sam. And I would seriously love to see him trying to sell Dean for a soda.
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Wahey! I thought Littlest Hobo was a mainly Canadian thing! I'm rather happy it's known further afield! :-)
I would seriously love to see him trying to sell Dean for a soda.
I would be surprised if there wasn't already some variety of fic on this topic.
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All I really want to say is:
Okay Sam is seriously pinging my Sherlock monitors. O.o
Right!?!?
And - I love Sam as a smart-ass! Partly because I can't help thinking that Jared must be loving playing him after years of angst. But mainly 'cos I think he's hilarious.
But I will be glad when Dean saves his soul and gets his brother back.
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Sam certainly lacks the frontal lobe filter among other things at the moment. Brutal discussions over picnic tables--there ought to be a meta for that too..lol
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Seriously!! I nearly choked when he came out with that "sweating vodka" thing!
But I will be glad when Dean saves his soul and gets his brother back.
Me too, though I'm hoping it comes back with a memory reset, because Sam with a soul remembering things he's done and said without one might be incapacitated by guilt, especially given his predisposition toward a guilt complex. Realistically speaking, thinking about Sam as a person, that is. Storyline speaking, bring on the massive angst! :-)
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Most of the crew is Canadian, so it's entirely feasible. :-)
Brutal discussions over picnic tables--there ought to be a meta for that too..lol
There is I think. The director Sgriccia does quite a few, including the Sam goes off alone at the start of season 5 conversation.
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Not being Canadian, my reaction to that scene with Lucky was that I heard the sad notes of "The Lonely Man," the theme they always played at the end of every "The Incredible Hulk" episode. Bruce "Lucky" Banner, heading off alone down an endless highway. All that's missing is the duffle bag!
I do think the "war" comment, first heard from the vamp Alpha, is interesting. At this point, though, I'm not sure if the "monsters" are gearing up to fight each other for territory and food supply (that is, us), or if they see Crowley's efforts as Hell gearing up for war, and they're building armies to fight that.
I'm not sure I believe Sam was telling the truth at the end, about wanting his soul back. Why would he? It's easier this way, and it makes him stronger and tougher. It's not as if he's hurting because he doesn't have one, or if he *cares* about not having one.
However, I think embedded in his little speech was the motivation behind his comment: (1) he needs Dean right now (we don't know why, yet, because he certainly didn't need Dean the entire year he let Dean suffer thinking Sam was in the cage); and (2) Dean was getting ready to walk without some sort of sign that Sam *wants* to be Dean's brother again, wants to change, to get his soul back. So, he says what he knows Dean wants to hear--and I suspect that from here on, we'll see Sam carefully saying and doing all the things necessary to convince Dean he really, really, really means it this time--to keep Dean from leaving. Just MO. Miles vary, and all that.
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