Just a puppet on a broken string
Hahaha. This post is SO not dial-up friendly.
1. Two questions for Stargate Atlantis fans: Is Rodney actually Canadian in the show? I keep seeing Canadian flags associated with him AND IT MAKES ME HAPPY. Also, has Jewel Staite started yet? I want to watch a few of her episodes.
2. Gossip Girl 1x08:
I have no comments. Other than, IS GOOD. I LIKE. I just couldn't help picspam a few bits, and figure I might as well add it to the post.
3. JAREDANDJENSENJACKETSJACKETSJACKETS
MAN JACKETS ARE SO HOT. See also the direction of Jared's collar.
4. So, that scary show. Anybody up for a belated HELL YEAH?
SPN 3x07 - Fresh Blood:
HELL YEAH. FUCK YES. CAPS LOCK ON. PAYOFF FEELS GOOOOOD.
I don't think this show hits all it's marks, but god damn does it ever get it right when it really counts.
Sooo, yeah, welcome to another round of EVERY FRAME OF THE ENTIRE EPISODE. Because, damn our show is pretty! DAMN OUR BOYS ARE PRETTY.
Anybody else completely LOSE IT during this scene? GORDON IS SO BAD ASS TERRIFYING. And how crazy awesome would it have been if he'd killed Bela? I mean, she has a whole back story we still don't know about, so obviously that wasn't going to happen, but I almost WANTED it to happen just on account of how balls out it would have been. That said, I haven't liked Bela this much since her first scene (wherein I liked her lots and lots). She knew she was fucked, so she went in all or nothing and ended up dominating the situation. KICK ASS, GIRL. And how much do we want to bet the mojo bag comes up again at a future date? I sure hope it does. That'd be wicked little bit of forward-thinking.
A BOY AND HIS JOB:
SMELL THAT? That's right. Come and get it. I smell goood, don't I? I taste even better.
LOOKIT HIS FACE, PEOPLE. THAT SMILE? CUTTING IT THAT CLOSE? JESUS CHRIST AHAKGLAPAIHJKA, DEAN.
Mercedes was SO GOOD. SOOO GOOOD. And not at all Harmony-like. I had secretly wanted her to guest star on the show long before it was announced and I wasn't disappointed AT ALL. You watch a scene like that and understand why people say a show is only as good as it's guest stars. SHE SOLD IT. Also her insanely gorgeous blond hair was full on mesmerizing. IF ONLY THEY HAD CAST MERCEDES AS RUBY.
Watch Mercedes' scenes.
Interrogator Dean!
See, he's still our good ole' Sammy. He's not putting on an act. He better not be. That would be so much worse than even evil retcon Cordelia.
Puppy Sammy!
!!!!!!!AWWWEEESSSOOOMMMEEE!!!!!!!1 AND GORDON WITH THAT STRUT WALK OF HIS. FILE UNDER PEOPLE YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO RUN IN TO IN A DARK ALLEY.
Dean: All right, run. I'll draw them off.
Sam: What? You're crazy!
YES. YES, HE IS.
THERE you are. Nice move you pulled there, Dean, running right at the weapons.
Awwww, SAMMY. And his "Uh, yeah, I guess so."! SO FUNNY. NO SHIT, DEAN, REALLY? But even more importantly, HIS SHIRT, PEOPLE. PURPLE PLAID. WE HAVE PURPLE PLAID. SAM IS WEARING PURPLE PLAID. It better be purple, and not another navy plaid. I purpled it up a bit in these caps, but I swear it is anyway!
Dean: Bela, we make it out of this alive the first thing I'm gonna do is kill you.
Bela: You're not serious.
Dean: Listen to my voice and tell me if I'm serious.
Bela just admits it. Oh, yeah, I sold your ass up the river, sorry about that. SO FUNNY. I do genuinely buy that she didn't mean for them to get killed, though it'd have been nice if she'd WARNED THEM A LITTLE SOONER. I don't know, they're REALLY not making her likable. But, in the fun to not like way? I'm still not in love with her.
HOLY CRAP, THAT TRANSITION. From Gordon's scream to the screech of Dean's blade. SO GREAT.
Sam: Yeah, I know. We gotta kill him.
Dean: Really? Just like that? I'd thought you'd have been like, "No we can't, he's human, it's wrong.
Sam: No I'm done. I mean, Gordon's not going to stop until we're dead. Or till he is.
GORDON. They may have screwed themselves here. They may never have a badder bad ass than vampire!Gordon. AND GORDON'S MUSIC! SO TERMINATOR. They just really couldn't have done this better, could they?
Having Gordon not lose his original self completely was, in my opinion, the single greatest thing they did with this episode. It was not glamorous. It was not simple, or easy. It was frightening, and it was fucked up, and it was sad. He was at the same time lifeless (no pun intended) and near physically unstoppable. Like his body and the look behind his eyes were at complete odds. Apologies for waxing philosophical, but I was just so blown away by both the writing and Sterling's performance.
And there was something else there with Gordon that I loved, but am having trouble articulating. Something about accepting what you are, but in the sense that you use that acceptance as an excuse to not counter your own nature. Lenore showed us that vampires aren't inherently evil. The evil of vampire Gordon still came from within human Gordon. That being said, I do still believe he would have killed himself after killing Sam.
Vamp: You don't understand.
Dean: I don't want to understand you son of a...
Dean: I was DESPERATE. You ever felt desperate? I've lost everyone I've ever loved. I'm staring down eternity alone. Can you think of a worse hell?
Dean: Well, there's hell.
Vamp: I wasn't thinking. I just... I didn't care any more. Do you know what that's like? When you just don't give a damn? It's like being dead already.
SO GROSS. AND THEN SAMMY GOES AND STANDS RIGHT NEXT TO THE GORE. YEESH. I was going to do a section of the gross stuff in this episode but in the end I really didn't want to look at it any more. Ug.
Loved that thread of people having lost everything. For all of those incredibly different characters to stand on that common ground was super cool.
I just thought they were purdy here.
Sam: So you're the guy with nothing to lose now, huh? Oh, wait, let me guess. It's because you're already dead. Right?
Dean: If the shoe fits.
Sam: You know what, man. I'm sick and tired of your stupid komakozi trip.
Dean: Whoa, whoa, whoa, komakizi? I'm more like a ninja.
Sam: That's not funny.
Dean: It's a little funny.
Sam: No, it's NOT.
Dean: What do you want me to do, Sam? Sit around all day writing poems about how I'm gonna die?
Dean: You know, I got one. What rhythms with "shut up, Sam".
Sam: Dude, drop the attitude, Dean. Quit turning everything in to a punch line. And you know what else? Stop trying to act like you're not afraid.
Dean: I'm NOT.
Sam: You're lying. And you may as well drop the act because I can see right through you.
Dean: You got no idea what you're talking about.
Sam: Yeah, I do. You're scared, Dean. You're scared because you're year is running out, and you're still going to hell, and you're FREAKED.
Dean: And how do you know that?
Sam: BECAUSE I KNOW YOU.
Dean: Really?
Sam: So YEAH I know you. Better than anyone else in the entire world. And THIS? Is exactly how you act when you're terrified.
Sam: And, I mean, I can't blame you. It's just...
Sam: It's just, I wish you would drop the show and be my brother again.
And Dean resigns in that wordless way of his. Oh god, you guys, THE MUSIC HERE. BOYS. And you just know that was a theme we were meant to hear again and again. And, just, FINALLY, RIGHT? FINALLY THE WORDS WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO HEAR FROM DAY ONE. FINALLY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND REALLY SEE EACH OTHER. Finally Sam stops yelling and says what's in his heart. And finally Dean stops fighting back. WORTH THE WAIT. WORTH EVERY MINUTE. Everything's going to be different now. Everything's going to be AMAZING now.
Please tell me I wasn't the only one sobbing during this part for possibly no good reason. Winchesters backed in the corner, hunkering down, waiting out the time together in the dark, WITH REALLY PRETTY MUSIC PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND. Either they are so good, or I am so easy, or both.
zimshan, is this the first time we've heard that music? Come on, dude, this is your area of expertise!
Sammy covering the girls head! Saving people Winchesters!
SAVING PEOPLE DEAN!
SAM! DEAN! Har har, I forgot to colour this one.
I JUST LIKE HIM A LOT, OKAY? DEAN!
Gordon: You have no idea what I faced to get here. I lost EVERYTHING. My life. But it's worth it. Cause I'm finally gonna kill the most dangerous thing I ever hunted.
Gordon: Two last good deeds. Killing you, and killing myself.
The moral of this story? DON'T MESS WITH SAM'S DEAN.
OH MY GOD. DISGUSTING, DISGUSTING, DISGUSTING. AND THE SPURTING BLOOD? AND IT GOING ON FOREVER? AND THE THUD OF HIS HEAD HITTING THE FLOOR. Disgusting. And so disturbing. Gordon finally managed to push Sam in to being exactly what he believed him to be all along. Aww, Sam. Poor Sam. Sam doesn't want to be that guy. It's all about having a choice. Who you are when you have options and who you are when you don't.
Just cause I can't resist! NOBODY DOES INJURED LIKE JENSEN. *g*
AND NOW EVERY FRAME FOR SERIOUS. EVEN THOUGH THE BEST ONES GET LOST IN THE SHUFFLE IT CANNOT BE HELPED.
THANK YOU FOR THIS SHOT, MANNERS. Jeans, jeans, jeans. Denim that goes forever.
SAM WINCHESTER. KILLING ME WITH THE RED POLO WITH THE BLACK LONG SPEEVED SHIRT UNDERNEATH. AND THE BOTTLE CAP FLICKING. AND THAT HAIR. AND THAT EVER PARTED MOUTH WITH THAT BOTTOM LIP ASHAJKLHA;JA.
Dean: Sam.
Sam: Wrong one?
Dean: No, no, no. Come here for a sec.
Dean: This rattle could be a couple of things. I'm thinkin' it's an out of tune carb.
Sam: Okay.
Dean: Alright, see this thing? This is your valve cover. Inside are all the parts that are on the head. Hand me that socket wrench.
SAM'S REACTIONS OF BEWILDERMENT. AHAHA.
Dean: Alright, you with me so far?
Dean: Carborator. Very good.
OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS, BIG BROTHER DEAN!!ASIHKQWYPAQAHUJAPO;S;O HE'S SO PATIENT AND ENCOURAGING. PLS MORE OF THIS, PLS. *LOSES IT*
Sam: What's with the auto shop? What? You don't mean... you want...
Dean: Yeah. I do. You fix it.
Sam: Dean, you barely let me drive this thing.
Dean: No, it's time. You should know how to fix her.
Dean: You're gonna need to know these things for the future.
Dean: besides, that's my job, right? Show my little brother the ropes?
AND THEN DEAN TAKES A BREAK. A BREAK! AND LET'S SAM FIX THE PROBLEM! AND THE CAR METAPHOR CONTINUES. Oh boys, oh boys, oh boys.
*STANDING OVATION*
AND, AND, AND! I already couldn't feasibly BE more excited for the next episode. And according to fans who spoke with SPN writers at the picket line, along with this episode there's now a string of REALLY GREAT ONES, and they were sad to have to put down their pencils while on such a roll. Sad in the big picture, but exciting when it comes to our last five episodes.
Caps made and coloured by me. Please don't use for batches of shareable graphics and such. Creation Con pictures from shannonb.
1. Two questions for Stargate Atlantis fans: Is Rodney actually Canadian in the show? I keep seeing Canadian flags associated with him AND IT MAKES ME HAPPY. Also, has Jewel Staite started yet? I want to watch a few of her episodes.
2. Gossip Girl 1x08:
I have no comments. Other than, IS GOOD. I LIKE. I just couldn't help picspam a few bits, and figure I might as well add it to the post.
3. JAREDANDJENSENJACKETSJACKETSJACKETS
Click to viewMAN JACKETS ARE SO HOT. See also the direction of Jared's collar.
4. So, that scary show. Anybody up for a belated HELL YEAH?
SPN 3x07 - Fresh Blood:
HELL YEAH. FUCK YES. CAPS LOCK ON. PAYOFF FEELS GOOOOOD.
I don't think this show hits all it's marks, but god damn does it ever get it right when it really counts.
Sooo, yeah, welcome to another round of EVERY FRAME OF THE ENTIRE EPISODE. Because, damn our show is pretty! DAMN OUR BOYS ARE PRETTY.
Anybody else completely LOSE IT during this scene? GORDON IS SO BAD ASS TERRIFYING. And how crazy awesome would it have been if he'd killed Bela? I mean, she has a whole back story we still don't know about, so obviously that wasn't going to happen, but I almost WANTED it to happen just on account of how balls out it would have been. That said, I haven't liked Bela this much since her first scene (wherein I liked her lots and lots). She knew she was fucked, so she went in all or nothing and ended up dominating the situation. KICK ASS, GIRL. And how much do we want to bet the mojo bag comes up again at a future date? I sure hope it does. That'd be wicked little bit of forward-thinking.
A BOY AND HIS JOB:
SMELL THAT? That's right. Come and get it. I smell goood, don't I? I taste even better.
LOOKIT HIS FACE, PEOPLE. THAT SMILE? CUTTING IT THAT CLOSE? JESUS CHRIST AHAKGLAPAIHJKA, DEAN.
Mercedes was SO GOOD. SOOO GOOOD. And not at all Harmony-like. I had secretly wanted her to guest star on the show long before it was announced and I wasn't disappointed AT ALL. You watch a scene like that and understand why people say a show is only as good as it's guest stars. SHE SOLD IT. Also her insanely gorgeous blond hair was full on mesmerizing. IF ONLY THEY HAD CAST MERCEDES AS RUBY.
Watch Mercedes' scenes.
Interrogator Dean!
See, he's still our good ole' Sammy. He's not putting on an act. He better not be. That would be so much worse than even evil retcon Cordelia.
Puppy Sammy!
!!!!!!!AWWWEEESSSOOOMMMEEE!!!!!!!1 AND GORDON WITH THAT STRUT WALK OF HIS. FILE UNDER PEOPLE YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO RUN IN TO IN A DARK ALLEY.
Dean: All right, run. I'll draw them off.
Sam: What? You're crazy!
YES. YES, HE IS.
THERE you are. Nice move you pulled there, Dean, running right at the weapons.
Awwww, SAMMY. And his "Uh, yeah, I guess so."! SO FUNNY. NO SHIT, DEAN, REALLY? But even more importantly, HIS SHIRT, PEOPLE. PURPLE PLAID. WE HAVE PURPLE PLAID. SAM IS WEARING PURPLE PLAID. It better be purple, and not another navy plaid. I purpled it up a bit in these caps, but I swear it is anyway!
Dean: Bela, we make it out of this alive the first thing I'm gonna do is kill you.
Bela: You're not serious.
Dean: Listen to my voice and tell me if I'm serious.
Bela just admits it. Oh, yeah, I sold your ass up the river, sorry about that. SO FUNNY. I do genuinely buy that she didn't mean for them to get killed, though it'd have been nice if she'd WARNED THEM A LITTLE SOONER. I don't know, they're REALLY not making her likable. But, in the fun to not like way? I'm still not in love with her.
HOLY CRAP, THAT TRANSITION. From Gordon's scream to the screech of Dean's blade. SO GREAT.
Sam: Yeah, I know. We gotta kill him.
Dean: Really? Just like that? I'd thought you'd have been like, "No we can't, he's human, it's wrong.
Sam: No I'm done. I mean, Gordon's not going to stop until we're dead. Or till he is.
GORDON. They may have screwed themselves here. They may never have a badder bad ass than vampire!Gordon. AND GORDON'S MUSIC! SO TERMINATOR. They just really couldn't have done this better, could they?
Having Gordon not lose his original self completely was, in my opinion, the single greatest thing they did with this episode. It was not glamorous. It was not simple, or easy. It was frightening, and it was fucked up, and it was sad. He was at the same time lifeless (no pun intended) and near physically unstoppable. Like his body and the look behind his eyes were at complete odds. Apologies for waxing philosophical, but I was just so blown away by both the writing and Sterling's performance.
And there was something else there with Gordon that I loved, but am having trouble articulating. Something about accepting what you are, but in the sense that you use that acceptance as an excuse to not counter your own nature. Lenore showed us that vampires aren't inherently evil. The evil of vampire Gordon still came from within human Gordon. That being said, I do still believe he would have killed himself after killing Sam.
Vamp: You don't understand.
Dean: I don't want to understand you son of a...
Dean: I was DESPERATE. You ever felt desperate? I've lost everyone I've ever loved. I'm staring down eternity alone. Can you think of a worse hell?
Dean: Well, there's hell.
Vamp: I wasn't thinking. I just... I didn't care any more. Do you know what that's like? When you just don't give a damn? It's like being dead already.
SO GROSS. AND THEN SAMMY GOES AND STANDS RIGHT NEXT TO THE GORE. YEESH. I was going to do a section of the gross stuff in this episode but in the end I really didn't want to look at it any more. Ug.
Loved that thread of people having lost everything. For all of those incredibly different characters to stand on that common ground was super cool.
I just thought they were purdy here.
Sam: So you're the guy with nothing to lose now, huh? Oh, wait, let me guess. It's because you're already dead. Right?
Dean: If the shoe fits.
Sam: You know what, man. I'm sick and tired of your stupid komakozi trip.
Dean: Whoa, whoa, whoa, komakizi? I'm more like a ninja.
Sam: That's not funny.
Dean: It's a little funny.
Sam: No, it's NOT.
Dean: What do you want me to do, Sam? Sit around all day writing poems about how I'm gonna die?
Dean: You know, I got one. What rhythms with "shut up, Sam".
Sam: Dude, drop the attitude, Dean. Quit turning everything in to a punch line. And you know what else? Stop trying to act like you're not afraid.
Dean: I'm NOT.
Sam: You're lying. And you may as well drop the act because I can see right through you.
Dean: You got no idea what you're talking about.
Sam: Yeah, I do. You're scared, Dean. You're scared because you're year is running out, and you're still going to hell, and you're FREAKED.
Dean: And how do you know that?
Sam: BECAUSE I KNOW YOU.
Dean: Really?
Sam: So YEAH I know you. Better than anyone else in the entire world. And THIS? Is exactly how you act when you're terrified.
Sam: And, I mean, I can't blame you. It's just...
Sam: It's just, I wish you would drop the show and be my brother again.
And Dean resigns in that wordless way of his. Oh god, you guys, THE MUSIC HERE. BOYS. And you just know that was a theme we were meant to hear again and again. And, just, FINALLY, RIGHT? FINALLY THE WORDS WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO HEAR FROM DAY ONE. FINALLY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND REALLY SEE EACH OTHER. Finally Sam stops yelling and says what's in his heart. And finally Dean stops fighting back. WORTH THE WAIT. WORTH EVERY MINUTE. Everything's going to be different now. Everything's going to be AMAZING now.
Please tell me I wasn't the only one sobbing during this part for possibly no good reason. Winchesters backed in the corner, hunkering down, waiting out the time together in the dark, WITH REALLY PRETTY MUSIC PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND. Either they are so good, or I am so easy, or both.
zimshan, is this the first time we've heard that music? Come on, dude, this is your area of expertise!
Sammy covering the girls head! Saving people Winchesters!
SAVING PEOPLE DEAN!
SAM! DEAN! Har har, I forgot to colour this one.
I JUST LIKE HIM A LOT, OKAY? DEAN!
Gordon: You have no idea what I faced to get here. I lost EVERYTHING. My life. But it's worth it. Cause I'm finally gonna kill the most dangerous thing I ever hunted.
Gordon: Two last good deeds. Killing you, and killing myself.
The moral of this story? DON'T MESS WITH SAM'S DEAN.
OH MY GOD. DISGUSTING, DISGUSTING, DISGUSTING. AND THE SPURTING BLOOD? AND IT GOING ON FOREVER? AND THE THUD OF HIS HEAD HITTING THE FLOOR. Disgusting. And so disturbing. Gordon finally managed to push Sam in to being exactly what he believed him to be all along. Aww, Sam. Poor Sam. Sam doesn't want to be that guy. It's all about having a choice. Who you are when you have options and who you are when you don't.
Just cause I can't resist! NOBODY DOES INJURED LIKE JENSEN. *g*
AND NOW EVERY FRAME FOR SERIOUS. EVEN THOUGH THE BEST ONES GET LOST IN THE SHUFFLE IT CANNOT BE HELPED.
THANK YOU FOR THIS SHOT, MANNERS. Jeans, jeans, jeans. Denim that goes forever.
SAM WINCHESTER. KILLING ME WITH THE RED POLO WITH THE BLACK LONG SPEEVED SHIRT UNDERNEATH. AND THE BOTTLE CAP FLICKING. AND THAT HAIR. AND THAT EVER PARTED MOUTH WITH THAT BOTTOM LIP ASHAJKLHA;JA.
Dean: Sam.
Sam: Wrong one?
Dean: No, no, no. Come here for a sec.
Dean: This rattle could be a couple of things. I'm thinkin' it's an out of tune carb.
Sam: Okay.
Dean: Alright, see this thing? This is your valve cover. Inside are all the parts that are on the head. Hand me that socket wrench.
SAM'S REACTIONS OF BEWILDERMENT. AHAHA.
Dean: Alright, you with me so far?
Dean: Carborator. Very good.
OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS, BIG BROTHER DEAN!!ASIHKQWYPAQAHUJAPO;S;O HE'S SO PATIENT AND ENCOURAGING. PLS MORE OF THIS, PLS. *LOSES IT*
Sam: What's with the auto shop? What? You don't mean... you want...
Dean: Yeah. I do. You fix it.
Sam: Dean, you barely let me drive this thing.
Dean: No, it's time. You should know how to fix her.
Dean: You're gonna need to know these things for the future.
Dean: besides, that's my job, right? Show my little brother the ropes?
AND THEN DEAN TAKES A BREAK. A BREAK! AND LET'S SAM FIX THE PROBLEM! AND THE CAR METAPHOR CONTINUES. Oh boys, oh boys, oh boys.
*STANDING OVATION*
AND, AND, AND! I already couldn't feasibly BE more excited for the next episode. And according to fans who spoke with SPN writers at the picket line, along with this episode there's now a string of REALLY GREAT ONES, and they were sad to have to put down their pencils while on such a roll. Sad in the big picture, but exciting when it comes to our last five episodes.
Caps made and coloured by me. Please don't use for batches of shareable graphics and such. Creation Con pictures from shannonb.