Rewatch S6: Frontierland (6.18)

[hells_half_acre]

Frontierland! I've probably watched this episode the most out of S6. It's so much fun...plus, Jensen looks REALLY good as a cowboy...

The clothes will be VERY interesting in this...actually, I got so distracted capping the clothes, that I forgot to think critically about the episode from time to time...

Anyway, let's jump in and see how I did!

Comments

[dairygirl]

I have to ask: Is it just another inconsistency in the show that in Season 1, John says Samuel Colt made the gun for a Hunter and by the time we reach Season 6, Sam Colt is the Hunter?

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Dun dun dun!

Yes, I'd say it's probably an inconsistency - but that being said, I bet someone could write a fic where the original hunter dies, and Samuel Colt kills whatever killed him in vengeance and then becomes a hunter himself.

[onechairleft]

Or in an even funner (shut up, it's a word) twist, we could imagine that the story got out that he made the gun for a Hunter... and that Hunter used it to kill a Phoenix in 1861.

That's my head!canon, anyway. :D

[hells_half_acre]

Ooo, I like that even better! :)

[claudiapriscus]

>>Package! I love the Back to the Future reference. They've now done three time travel episodes, and in the spirit of Back to the Future, their third was a Western. I thought it was a really cool tribute to include an almost exact remake of the parcel scene.

Yes! That was the best thing absolutely about it, and it was a great episode. Hehe. I've been saying since "the End" that the next time travel episode they had to do was to go to the old west, since they'd already done, "go back and meet my parents" and "see my sucky future life".

I mean, they broke it a bit with that other bout of time travel, but STILL.

[hells_half_acre]

Oh yeah, I forgot that they technically went back to the parents twice - Ah well, not exactly a perfect match to Back to the Future then. (Though, wasn't there one point where Marty was in the past twice? I vaguely remember him watching himself play the guitar at the dance.)

[claudiapriscus]

Hmm...if we pretend the song remains the same as part II of the end, it works! Sort of. Yes.

[liliaeth]

well they also did the AU because someone altered the past in a seperate episode as well so...

[khek]

Dean did look good as a cowboy. :)

I love Blazing Saddles. It was the first movie I was kicked out of! (I went with friends, and it was rated R. Most of them were 17, but I wasn't. Me and another friend had to call parents to come get us because they wouldn't let us into the theatre.)

[hells_half_acre]

Oh my goodness, that's hilarious that you were kicked out of Blazing Saddles - especially since I think my dad showed it to me when I was around 14 :P

[galwithglasses]

Some of this episode was just beautiful. The whole gunfight sequence, the boys in the foggy graveyard, Dean in his hat. I love how even if he's off at the beginning, Dean adapts to his surroundings and makes it work. Kind of like Folsom Prison Blues. This episode had a couple of really cool extra characters. Finch was an interesting MOtW. I thought he was at least as sympathetic as Amy, probably more. Samuel Colt rocked. Dropping Elkins in the story was a nice way to tie up the Colt's history going from hand to hand. The whole bit with Sam and the horse cracks me up, especially because the soundtrack has this drumroll like you hear in execution scenes. I don't know if they stuck it in when they hung Finch. Bobby's question to Cas about running or fighting pretty much echoes Sam's question in the French Mistake when they come through the window. I just loved this episode.

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Bobby's question to Cas about running or fighting pretty much echoes Sam's question in the French Mistake when they come through the window.

Oh man, I didn't even catch that. Awesome. It's like "I only have two settings! Which one is it!?"

Some of this episode was just beautiful. The whole gunfight sequence, the boys in the foggy graveyard, Dean in his hat.

I agree. Gorgeous.

I love how even if he's off at the beginning, Dean adapts to his surroundings and makes it work. Kind of like Folsom Prison Blues.

Dean has always been remarkably good at that. I really like that about his character. He's a bit of a chameleon, yet he always stays fundamentally Dean.

Basically, I loved everything you loved about it too. The tie in with Elkins, Sam and the horse...it's all brilliant.

[percysowner]

-Maybe Rachel thinks the definition of friendship means helping Castiel with the war more - but again, not Sam and Dean's fault...they have offered to help, and Castiel has refused. He's been keeping them at bay and not telling them very much, so what else are they supposed to do? They are just two humans and this is an angelic war.

Well, during this time Castiel was also off conspiring with Crowley. It is never stated, so this is my fanwank, but telling his angel followers that he is leaving because Sam and Dean called for help AGAIN would make a nice excuse to cover any meetings with Crowley or any undercover operations he was doing with Balthazar. It's just a handwave, but it would explain why Rachel is so pissed, she thinks Sam and Dean are calling for Cas far more than they actually did.

[galwithglasses]

That whole last bit makes the whole Rachel piece make so much more sense.

[hells_half_acre]

. It is never stated, so this is my fanwank, but telling his angel followers that he is leaving because Sam and Dean called for help AGAIN would make a nice excuse to cover any meetings with Crowley or any undercover operations he was doing with Balthazar.

Wow. You are brilliant. That makes a LOT of sense. No wonder Rachel was so pissed. It's a handwave, but it's a brilliant one. I like it. New head!canon for me!