It's my weekend! I love my weekend. All night I've been in a good mood because I knew at the end of it I could finally geek out on the internet a little. I don't even turn the computer on from Saturday to Monday any more, which would have been unheard of not too long ago.
Anyway, I has picspam!
SPN 4x13: AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL
THE PRETTY
Loving newbie director. Over-head shots, mmmm. And the way they filmed both the exorcisms was SO FUN. Way to keep it fresh in year four, show!
Guys, they're pulled over at the side of some road AND DEAN IS NOT CRYING. Progress. Also, extreme prettiness for a run-of-the-mill moment of exposition.
DEAN WINCHESTER IS SUCH A BADASS HOTASS PUNK SOMETIMES. Look at his face in that bottom left cap. FUCK. OFF.
BROTHERY GOODNESS
Up to no good faces! I wish they'd played this up even more, actually. That Sam's attempt to embarrass Dean via short shorts failed miserably. Dean's such a pleasantly adaptable dude. Pleased as pie to play all these different roles for a short time. As long as he doesn't have to be himself long enough to remember that he'd also kind of like his own lawn to mow, and that his own little Winchester wouldn't be so bad, and that an ending which isn't inevitably sad and bloody would be okay too. That's how it is in my head anyway. WHATEVER. TANGENT.
Sam: Nice shorts.
Dean: FYI, Three of the cheerleaders are legal. Guess which ones.
AHAHA, DEAN WILL NEVER STOP BEING SHOCKED AND OFFENDED AT SAM'S REFUSAL TO BE HIS WING MAN. YOU GUYS, I WANT SOME WINCHESTER WING MAN ACTION SO BAD. THERE IS NO WAY SAM HASN'T GIVEN IN TO THAT AT LEAST ONCE.
Dean: Yo. Sammy.
Barry: He's cool.
Sam: Yeah. He thinks so.
I don't know, it's such a small thing, that Dean isn't too cool to acknowledge his geek brother in public. His love and pride for his little bro really is so freaking transparent sometimes.
Sam: A little help here.
DEAN HAS KNEES!
YEAH.
THIS GUY. The whistle makes him their god. WALK IT OFF. But why are those kids so tall? Is Dean shrinking?!?
OH, BIG!SAM
THIS GUY. IN WHITE. NNNNGGGHH. Anyway, the "Oh, Sam" part comes from insane asylum girl questioning his sanity. You know you're fucked when...
Dean: Trust me, this'll help.
OH, SAM'S NADS. THE EXASPERATED GROAN AND THE LITTLE SHIMMY AS HE CLENCHES THE BOTTLE IN PLACE.
Ah, fuck it, this whole episode was one gigantic "OH, SAM".
Sam: They picked on HIM?
Dirk Senior: They called him poor and dirty. And stupid. They even had a nickname for him. They called him Dirk The Jerk.
Sam: I didn't know about his mom.
Dean: You all right?
Sam: Barry was my friend.
Mr. Wyatt: Are you happy, Sam?
OH, MID-SIZED DEANO
There was highschool Dean Winchester HET. And I didn't like it. MY DUMBFOUNDED FACE, LET ME SHOW YOU IT. And it wasn't what they did with the character, I loved how they wrote young Dean. Like, how he genuinely thought his set-up at the Pines was sweet, and was kinda baffled by the girl who, like, appreciated her curfew. It was JUST the actor. I recognized the mimicking of Dean traits, but couldn't for the life of me see the kid as Dean.
OTHER QUOTES
Sam: How's the non-violence assembly going?
Dean: Apparently shoving a kids arm in to a Cuisinart is not a healthy display of anger.
Dean: You mind telling us where Dirk is buried?
Dirk Senior: Oh, he wasn't. I had him cremated.
Dean: [pause] All of him?
Teacher: Aren't you the PE teacher?
Dean: Not really. I'm like 21 Jump Street. The bus driver sells pot. YEAH.
OH, LITTLE!SAM
Mr. Wyatt: Is there anything you want to tell us about yourself?
Sam: Not really.
ONCE UPON A TIME SAM WAS A SAD LITTLE BOY WHO WAS ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY TINY.
Ugh, we need an episode with young Sam where we get to see him HAPPY. Even just a little! Actually, we need one of those for big Sam too.
Sam: I said leave him alone.
Bully: You want to take his place? Midget?
Sam: Yeah. Sure.
HE ACTUALLY IS JARED PADALECKI SOMEHOW, I SWEAR TO GOD.
That little look in the bottom left cap! THAT IS SO SAM. HOW IS COLIN FORD SO PERFECT?!
Sam: I'm not gonna fight you, Dirk.
I loved that he was ANGRY there. I know that boy. "Lotta anger in that boy".
SO PRETTY.
Sam: Just shut up, okay? I don't need you're help.
Dean: That's right, you don't. You could have torn him apart so why didn't you?
Sam: Because I don't want to be the freak for once, Dean! I want to be normal.
Sam: Look, if this is about the fight, I didn't start it.
OH MY GOD HIS LITTLE FACE WHEN HE THINKS HE'S IN TROUBLE. I WANT TO BAKE HIM A PIE AND LET HIM STAY UP PAST HIS BED TIME WATCHING SCARY MOVIES.
Mr. Wyatt: You know this assignment was non-fiction, right?
Sam: Yes, Mr. Wyatt.
Mr. Wyatt: So you and your family killed a werewolf last summer, huh? Why would you write this, Sam?
Sam: It doesn't matter. As soon as my dad gets back we're leaving, so, you can flunk me if you want to.
Mr. Wyatt: I'm not flunking you. I'm giving you an A.
Mr. Wyatt: Anyway, it's good, Sam. It's really good. Have you ever thought about pursuing writing?
Sam: I can't. I have to go in to the family business.
Mr. Wyatt: Do you want to go in to the family business, Sam?
Sam: No ones ever asked me that before.
Mr. Wyatt: Well?
Sam: More than anything, no.
Mr. Wyatt: The point is, there may be three or four choices that shape someone's entire life.
And you need to be the one that makes them.
OH. OUR SAM. He needs that advice now just as much as he did then. Ugh, I want... I don't know. I want MORE SAM. I want him to stop listening to Dean and Ruby and Castiel and CHOOSE FOR HIMSELF. I want to see the confidence and ruthlessness of SAM MOTHERFUCKING WINCHESTER and I want him to save the world with his brother at his side and get EVERYTHING HE'S EVER WANTED WITH NO MORE SADNESS.
Show is killing me.
THAT.
Sweet little kid who is also so tough and confident.
He was so methodical and ruthless. That was such a confusing mix of awesomeness and tragedy. Knowing how things turn out for the other boy. Knowing how things turn out for Sam. It's not what either of them wanted.
I don't know, I don't know, this was such a conflicting moment. All these people congratulating him for HURTING SOMEONE. It's like, they're all wrong in that moment and it's so screwed up, but for Sam to be welcomed and accepted is also such a wonderful and well-deserved thing.
OUR THREE BOYS
Dean: Tell ya' the truth, I'm glad we got out of that town. I hated that school.
Sam: It wasn't all bad.