So, well, I finally got around to watching the episode and then I finally finally got around to posting about it. I'd love to say I was compromised when I wrote this BUT I WAS SOBER AS A BIG FAT ROCK SORRY.
Oh god, I think I felt a strange pain running up my left arm when that extra delivered the line "I'm not even lying, I'm not even joking". Show: better extras.
Was that vampire fracas to the sound of I Believe in Miracles written specifically for me as an individual, Sera Gamble? //I think it was!!!//
Scenes Eve's in kind of remind me of the whole Woman-in-White thing in the pilot, except apparently every, every man is creepy about a clearly compromised bloodstained woman coming on to them in a really skeevy way, instead of just one. MAYBE IT IS COMMENTARY ON THE PATRIARCHY god let's pretend
BUT THEN SHE SITS IN THE CORNER HOLDING HER COCKTAIL LIKE SHE'S AT A MOTHERFUCKING GALA WATCHING BASTARDS DIE LEFT AND RIGHT AND I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT SO. I also liked the sincere pleasure and interest on Eve's face in that close-up. NICE.
Dean making the bullets is hot. I like it when Dean does little practical things like that.
"You don't know how hard it is not to give in. Everyone gives in." Was that, uh, demon blood subtext? I noticed Dean's little glance.
I love Dean's little 'that was wwwicked' remembering Sam decapitating Gordon. RIGHT AGAIN, DEAN, IT WAS SO BADASS.
"Hold on." Anddd Sam and Dean turn in absolutely perfect unison. Really, Sam and Dean do a lot of things in unison, to an almost disturbing degree of exactness. And then Lenore is like 'kill me' and you can see Dean in the background feeling the hit for Sam. EVERYTHING YOUR PENIS EVEN THINKS ABOUT TOUCHING, SAM. DEAD. ALWAYS.
WHOAH, WHOAH, CAS!! OH CHRIST
WE NEEDED TO MOVE THIS ALONG????????
THOSE WHIMPERS WILL HAUNT MY DREAMS. A+ DEATH SUPERNATURAL, THE WAY SHE JUST FALLS ON THE FLOOR, FACE SMOKING, ALL BECAUSE SHE HAD THE CHEEK TO OWN A CLITORIS AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER IN THE SHOW. IT ACTUALLY HURT ME. This isn't even sarcasm usually I find it hard to muster even slight distaste for the gore in Supernatural but I was totally all Lenooooorrreeeee at this
Hahahaha, Dean's little gesture before they get zapped. It's so eloquent, it's basically the gesture I was making in my head. WHY DID YOU WHAT CAS DEAD BODY ON FLOOR? JEEZ CAS is basically what it says to me
And Bobby you share my iPad hate, what is this delicious validation. The delivery of "buttons" was basically the best thing I have heard yet in my waking lifetime.
"Well now it just looks like you're pooping." So many 'poop's dropped by Dean this season. Also extremely emphatic 'crap's, I feel like Jensen Ackles is making the best of his channel's policy on swearing. So many 'bitch'es though! I would ideally like a few less bitches and a few more shits and fucks, cause I know that's how it works with pre-watershed swearing over here. Does the US have a watershed? Also Sam's face here is hilarious, even more so than it's default setting. I swear his face has been getting more stretchy.
OH GOD AND THEN SAM WHISPERS "I THINK YOU HURT HIS FEELINGS" OH GOD SAM I LOVE YOU AND CASTIEL JUST STARES OUT THE WINDOW MOURNFULLY
wowzers even I am noticing the Dean/Castiel in this episode
"I have an, uh, painful burning sensation." I CRIED. OH MAN, THE SHIFTY EYES. I LOVE HOW MUCH PLAY CASTIEL'S SHIFTY EYES ARE GETTING LATELY, THEY LITERALLY GO LEFT TO RIGHT TO LEFT LIKE HE'S A KIT-CAT CLOCK OR SOMETHING
To be honest I would have preferred any combination other that the pairs they have now split into. WHERE IS MY CASTIEL AND BOBBY, WHERE IS IT HM
And Bobby you have a skill for beautiful bullshitting that I admire immensely.
The background music is grating on me. What am I watching, CSI: Oregon?
Dean just knocking Castiel down this episode with a grumpy vigour even I didn't anticipate. Idk, I suppose it's a building up to a Castiel so underappreciated climax somewhere.
WHAT.
THE.
BALLLLLLLLSSSS
no, seriously, what the fuck why what
SO MANY DEAD BRIGHTS
did you like that pun
i bet you loved it
"Jefferson Starships." - Dean being childishly pleased with himself is something I have missed so much and love with both my body and my metaphysical self. YES INDEED. I LOVE IT. I feel like over the past few seasons he's become more serious in ways that aren't so great. Like, Season One Dean was warped, but present Dean, bits of him are all broken. On the mend, but broken. Also, I really miss Season One Dean allllll the time, he is my favourite Dean, so anything that harks back to that get my IMMEDIATE LOVING, I have loved how Dean has been since he got Sam's soul back. The Dean that was with Soulless Sam was really a Dean I didn't like. Like, I feel he didn't have much of anything checking him? So he checked himself in all the wrong ways because he's bad at it and he was all KILLING STUFF KILLING STUFF KILL SAM GRUMP GRUMP need control oh god I'm so evil and Sam you're so terrible how dare you Sam how dare you demon how dare you random Campbell ahhh I hate everything plus myself because things are so bad for me SAMMM. Or that's how I remember the first half of the season anyway. Not that his concerns weren't valid!
AND THEN SAM USES JEFFERSON STARSHIPS BECAUSE HE IS A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE BROTHER. I genuinely thought this was a joke that would be forgotten within a minute for something more sensible. THANK YOU SAM AND DEAN FOR ACTUALLY BEING SO RIDICULOUS HOW COULD I FORGET THAT ABOUT YOU????
"They're Jefferson Starships!" and then he nuts the officer. KEEP BEING AWESOME SAM HAHAHA
Also the Jefferson Starship's only weakness appears to be its having the head of a overripe cantaloupe. That was a really half-hearted machete swing, Castiel. Thom Yorke could muster up more pizazz.
I can't believe Sam and Dean keep on using 'Jefferson Starship'. I NOTICE CAS AND BOBBY DON'T, BUT DEAN IS SO PLEASED WITH HIMSELF THAT SAM JUST GOES THE WHOLE HOG AND STARTS USING IT SINCERELY AS WELL. I'm also probably pleased because I'm having my hate of Jefferson Starship validated. So many hates validated this episode!
Why do I have the feeling these gagged childen are going to MAIM SAM?
Oh and they're not even creepy children great my paranoia devalidated, self-esteem all over the place. The older brother is Kid John in my head and nothing will replace it.
Awwwwwww what was that scene in the car where the little kid buried into John and Sam and Dean were like awwwwwwwwwwww I mean I already knew that the big brother was meant to be Dean and the little brother was Sam as soon as I saw them exist because SPN is like that about its parallels but what even the twinkly music I awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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Haha Castiel sounds so wrecked and bitter here, looking out to camera through the dramatic window slats, the reddened eyes like a torn-up ex hahahahahaha and then contrasted with Sam and Dean all pink and loving in the impala oh god it's like: DEAN HAS HIS OTHER GIRLFRIEND NOW hahahahahahahahhahaHAHAHA oh god I had to actually pause it at this point just to laugh
IT'S SO RIDICULOUS I just find this so funny THE WAY HIS VOICE CRACKS I choked and wheezed surely I'm not the only one
THIS WHOLE SCENE IS RIDICULOUS
I LOVE IT
WHY IS EVERY SCENE WITH CASTIEL AND BOBBY SO WONDERFUL EVERY TIME
WHY DO THEY HAVE SUCH INCREDIBLE SEXUAL TENSION
WHY
I DON'T WANT IT BUT IT SENDS SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE, IT'S REALLY CHARGED IN THAT ROOM GUYS
Bobby just leaning against the desk drinking and listening to that guy scream as Cas tortures him gives me such an urge for a gritty noir spin-off starring Cas and Bobby as partners I can't even say. For some reason I imagine a Frank Pembleton/Tim Bayliss-esque vibe.
Sorry I didn't listen to any of this next bit I was too busy watching Sam's shotgun shift against his neck.
"Well the plan is we'll go in the diner and you wait outside the diner for a little bit!" - paraphrased
Dean sometimes you are so stupid it's like you are soaring above common sense on the wings of an eagle.
"Crap. Crap. Crap." As the Starships turn one after another. Exactly, Sam. That is the crux of the feeling of the situation. I don't know why they expected anything else than Jeffersons all over the place.
Who's idea was the 'evil diner'? Eat the Special Sam!!! Or you die!!!!!!!! It doesn't feel somehow as threatening as this scenario could be.
well things don't seem to be going well i wonder how that could be DEAN WINCHESTER PLAN MAKING EXTROADINAIRE
I don't like it in my gut when Dean uses the word freak so viciously, I'm not sure why. Hopefully the problem lies with the characters and not with any deep-seated psychological issues of my own
Sam's oh shit expression when Eve leans forward is so completely good
Also oh shit Sam and Dean contributed to this with the torturing of the alphas NICE MOVE SUPERNATURAL I LIKE IT WHEN YOU'RE CLEVERER THAN ME.
Quite a few plot strings pulled together neatly here!
HA!
YES
RYAN IS A STARSHIP
I'VE ACTUALLY GOT PRECOGNITION OR SOMETHING BOW TO ME BOW TO ME
Also, Mary makes such a cool Eve. I hope she stays like this. I've never heard such suave delivery of a brick of plot exposition, she's like about ten times better at it than Crowley. Plus delicious mummy issues.
What was that weird CUT TO DEAN'S EYES / CUT TO CHOKING, DRIBBLING EVE / CUT TO DEAN'S STEELY GAZE / CUT TO CHOKING, DRIBBLING EVE / CUT TO DEAN'S IMPLACABLE MANLY SCRUTINY/ CUT TO CHOKING, DRIBBLING EVE decision. It probably has a name, but I think for now I will call it a CHEESY MCCHEESE SHOT.
Cool, have we got an explicit three-sided Heaven/Hell/Monsters war now? Coooool. Oh, also hunters. Cool! Maybe she isn't dead. It seemed too easy. If the Mother is dead, is it now possible to wipe out monsters altogether? I mean, if you went after the Alphas, maybe... Or is it more like an 'at least we now no longer have a giant, evil Zombie Queen actively preventing us from hunting zombies to extinction!' As in dude, there's still like so many zombies. ALSO OH MY GOD I JUST HAD A THOUGHT I BET SOULESS SAM KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT ALL THIS, I BET HE WAS TOTALLY INVOLVED BUT THEN SOULED SAM WOULDN'T KNOW KNOW BECAUSE THOSE MEMORIES ARE BEHIND THE WALL AND MAYBE SAM TRIES TOO HARD TO REMEMBER AND THE WALL COMES DOWN???? just a theory
THAT LAST BIIIIIIIIT
AMAZING ON A MULTITUDE OF LEVELS INCLUDING VISUALLY, MUSICALLY, COOLNESS FACTOR AND PLOTWISE
CROWLEY ISN'T DEAD FISTPUMP HIGH KICK YEAAHHHHHHH
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