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1. It's mah birthday! I'm definitely bummed that there's no SPN today of all days. You better creatively make it up to me next year, Winchesters! But you guys are filling the gap with your birthday wishes! And wendy and keepaofthecheez with your lj gifts! And winter_baby with the paid time! You guys always make me feel loved.
ETA: jascott made me birthday picspam! Go forth and caps lock out!
2. Get ready to revoke my fandom membership, guys. Despite the many, many, MANY times I've heard Joss described as the creator of BtVS I still somehow thought that meant he created the television series, but not the character itself. How did I exist in fandom for so long and have that so wrong? I blame you guys for never talking about the movie. Is it not good, or do you all just drastically prefer the series? HEY, REMEMBER HOW JOSS IS COMING BACK TO TELEVISION NEXT YEAR?
3. Favourite part of this weeks One Tree Hill? POWER WALK. Lucas Scott in a suit is not getting old any time soon or later.
4. _jems_ made a 10 Favourite Kisses picspam. Not to be missed.
5. Go give and get some love at keepaofthecheez's testimonial meme!
6. Finally FINALLY I have this finished.
SPN 3x12 Jus in Bello:
Winchester's r in yur room, lookin through your underwear drawer. Loved how confused they were by the phone.
HIS FACE IS JUST RIDICULOUSLY ANGULAR SOMETIMES. JS:LKJAHJKLA Seriously, you could probably slice bread with that jaw line.
OH, SNAP. I'm more convinced than ever that it's going to turn out that Bela isn't as bad as we all think, and possibly even has a heart-wrenching reason for stealing the colt, BUT COME ON. I'm sorry, there is just no coming back from this, girl. ENEMY #1 IS YOU.
Sheriff: Look, Agent. This ain't my first rodeo.
Henriksen: You've never been to a rodeo like this before. You have any idea who we're about to bring in here?
Sheriff: Yeah, couple of fugitives.
Henriksen: The most dangerous fugitives you ever laid your eyeballs on. Think Hannibal Lecter and his half-whit little brother. Do you know what these guys do for kicks? Dig up graves and mutilate corpses, they're not just killers, sheriff, they're Satan worshiping nut bag killers.
Hey, hey, watch the merchandise!
Hee! DEAN.
It was completely ridiculous that they switched places, but who even cares when it results in boys angrily tripping all over each other while chained together? NOT I.
SO MANY BOOTS SHOTS. Oh man, even when this is all you can see I'm still marveling at the comparative size difference between the smallish one and the gargantuan one.
That jail cell = super duper pretty.
Dean: Yeah, well I wouldn't bust out the melted butter just yet. Couldn't catch us at the bank. Couldn't keep us in that jail.
Henriksen: You're right. I screwed up. I underestimated you. I didn't count on you being that smart. But now I'm ready. Ready like a court order to keep you in a super maximum prison in Nevada until trial. Ready like isolation in a sound-proof windowless cell so small that, between you and me, probably unconstitutional. How's that for ready? Take a good look at Sam. You two will never see each other again... Sorry, Dean. Truth is your daddy brainwashed you with all that devil talk and no doubt touched you in the bad place. That's all, that's reality. But guess what? Life sucks, get a helmet. Cause everybody's got a sob story, but not everybody becomes a killer.
I enjoyed how Sam sat up when Henriksen started talking about their dad. Instance #385 of Sam responded Dean-ishly to something.
OH MY GOD, WOULD PEOPLE PLEASE STOP SHOOTING DEAN!
Sorry, I gotta cut this short. It's gonna be a long night, fellas.
Okay, awesome theme of the entire season that was especially visible during this episode #1? Difficulty telling the good guys from the bad guys. Am I right?
Henriksen: We go out there we're asking to die too. Don't you get it? They're out there and they're coming in here. This is a siege. So this might be a good time for you to lock the doors, and the windows, take a breath, and maybe deal with this like trained professionals with some sense in their heads.
HENRIKSEN. Let's be honest, buddy was an asshat a lot of the time. He belittled people in order to get his way, he was dismissive of anyone who didn't serve his agenda, and although we have no proof that he was like that outside of the job it'd be my guess that he was. And yet, still, man, he was so calculated and driven and KICK ASS. And it was all because he was desperately trying to accomplish something substantial, and to restore his faith in a way of life that hadn't turned out all that meaningful. That may just be an excuse, but it's a damn relateable one, and I have it in mind that he would have redeemed himself were his story not cut so short.
Mmm. Pretty.
Sam: Don't be such a wuss.
Oh, okay, FINE. If this is what happens you can keep shooting Dean. Just, not fatally any more, okay?
Sam: How's the shoulder?
Dean: It's awesome.
For a second there I thought Sam had been possessed and had gone psycho. HOLLY CRAP, SAM. That painfully sincere pleading face and that low calm voice are SO not to be trusted. AND THEN DEAN SMACKING HIM WITH HIS GIMPY ARM. AHAHA. BOYS.
Dean: It's kinda wild, right? I mean it's like they're coming right for us. Never done that before. It's like we got a contract on us. You think it's cause we're so awesome? I think it's cause it's we're so awesome.
!!!!! STILL SO AWESOME, OH MAN.
HOLY TEAMWORK, BOYS. AND DEAN WITH THE GUN. AND SAM WITH THE LATIN. AND THEN CONTINUING TO USE HIS MAN VOICE. I NEED A CIGARETTE AFTER THAT. And then Sam all, "Welcome to the club, bitch". And Dean all, "I owe you the biggest 'I told you so' ever". YES, BOYS.
Henriksen: I uh, I shot the sheriff.
Dean: *Thinks for a minute* But you didn't shoot the deputy.
Sam: *IS NOT AMUSED*
Dean: *Nobody gets me*
Henriksen: Alright. So how do we survive.
You gotta fucking love Henriksen here, that he could take a deep breath and reorient himself like that. Because denial and confusion in the middle of battle aren't even an option for him. Also, awesome theme of the season #2? Shifts in power. Who has it. Who wants it. Who only appears to have it until someone with bigger kahonas walks in to the room. And who's willing to hand it over when it serves a greater cause. Loved the whole hierarchy of Henriksen above the sheriff, but below his own boss. And the boys starting out having to scramble to survive after their freedom has been taken away only to be handed control of the situation later on.
Oh, hai there well established kink #4983. LOOKIT HOW MUCH LARGER HE IS THAN NANCY IN THAT SECOND ONE. SO MUCH JSKL;AKHGSJ;A IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY. I enjoy staring at this set while making up my own harlequin romance style dialogue for it.
HE'S GOTTA GET SOMETHING OUT OF HIS TRUNK. Oh man, I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I FALL FOR THE MACHISMO EVERY TIME.
This whole barricading themselves in thing was really awesome and scary. In some ways this one felt like the western we'll never get. What with jail in a small town scenario, and the pared down having to make do and survive, and then the big guns blazin' show down at the end. NOT THAT I DON'T STILL SOMEHOW WANT A GENUINE WESTERN. Oh man, the trickster could totally make that happen. COME ON, WRITERS. WORK IT OUT.
Also, well done finally making the demons scary as hell, show!
Sam: Everybody okay?
Henriksen: Define okay.
Henriksen: Smart. How long you had those?
Sam: Not long enough.
Aww. No more possessed Winchesters. DAMMIT. Also, big time unpopular fandom opinion: I'm not in love with the tattoos. Maybe just the look of them? Or the placement? I'm not kidding at all when I say I need to see them with their shirts fully off before I can make up my mind. And I reserve all rights to change my mind at any point. Also that location is gonna be continuity hell. Maybe not so much with Dean, but with Sam it's totally in a spot it peaks out all the time. You can see it in some of the earlier scenes before they reveal them. So either they're gonna have to fake tattoo Jared for every scene (not complaining about that visual, actually) or the thing's gonna magically disappear and re-appear as needed. YES, I CONCERN MYSELF WITH THESE THING. WHAT OF IT?
Henriksen: You know what my job is? My job is boring. It's frustrating. You work three years for one break. And then maybe you can save a few people. Maybe. That's the payoff. I been bustin' my ass for fifteen years to nail a handful of guys. And all this while there was something off in the corner so big. So yeah, sign me up for that big frosty mug of wasting my damn life.
Dean: You didn't know.
Henriksen: Well now I do.
Dude, BUDDY. You should know you don't get to live after a speech like that, right?
Dean: Honestly, I think the world's gonna end bloody. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight. We do have choices. I choose to go down swinging.
Henriksen: Plus you got nothin' to go home to but your brother.
Dean: Yeah. What about you? You rockin' the white picket fence?
Henriksen: Nah. Empty apartment. String of angry x-wives. I'm right where you are.
Dean: Imagine that.
OH. OH, THOSE TWO. WITH THE SMILING AND THE BONDING. And then all the turning to each other, and working off each other. Dean making comical glances at Henriksen, and Henriksen always looking to Dean to asses the situation. I tend to be a canon shipper, and a HET shipper, but I was having genuine surprise-the-hell-out-of-me pangs for those two. DAMMIT!!!
Ruby: Does anyone have a breath mint? Some blood splattered in my mouth when I was killing my way in here.
Dean: You knew about this?
Sam: *Glares*
Dean: Well, gee, Sam, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I SHOULD KNOW?
Fiercely pissed off at each other brothers for the win! I guess Ruby wasn't trying to play them off each other if she was expecting them to share every secret.
Lost the colt faces!
I'm super curious how Sam fans felt about him in this episode. He was so extra quiet. And not even responding to Ruby's super condescending remarks about him losing the colt? I know Ruby is the resident tough chick amongst the men, and that she feels the needs to overly assert herself in every situation, but DAMN that was harsh. I was offended on Sam's behalf. And the look he shares with Dean when she says that? Hahah. OH, SHE'S JUST BEING RUBY.
Random Sam being pretty.
Dean: I got virtue.
Aww, bb. It's the thought that counts.
Also, Ruby can be willing to sacrifice herself to save the boys and I still don't trust her. Amazing. *g*
Dean: No. No way. You're kidding me, right? You're...
Nancy: What? It's a choice.
Dean: Wait, so you... you've never... not even once? Wow.
Right, Dean. She's a virgin except for that one time. THIS'D BE WHEN BOBBY'D BE SMACKING YOU UPSIDE THE HEAD IF HE WERE THERE. Okay, I might be completely fanwanking this, but I swear I see awe in that last face of his. I LOVE IT SO MUCH I CANNOT EVEN.
Henriksen: We don't sacrifice people. We do that we're no better than them.
Dean: Stop! STOP! Nobody kill any virgins!
Dean: Please tell me you're not actually considering this. We're talking about holding down a girl and cutting out her heart.
Sam: We're also talking about thirty people out there, Dean. Innocent people. Who are all gonna die along with everyone in here.
Dean: That doesn't mean we throw away the rule book and stop acting like humans! I'm not gonna let that demon kill some nice sweet innocent girl who hasn't even been laid! I mean, look, if that's how you win wars then I don't want to win.
AWESOME THEME OF THE SEASON #3.
You know, this actually totally worked. They convinced me that Ruby would be willing to sacrifice herself one minute, and wouldn't even stick around to fight the next. That shouldn't have worked, but it did. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. Also, hi there, girls physically getting in between the boys kink. I WONDER WHERE THAT ONE COMES FROM?
That fight sequence was so full on kick ass. HERE IS ALL OF IT:
Haha. I have zero self-restraint.
Post-apocalypse Winchesters! Plus, you know, all that grunting as they got up from the wall. WHAT? IT'S NOT A BAD THING TO BE EASILY PLEASED.
THE LOOKS THEY GIVE EACH OTHER. SO MUCH LOVE. ME = WRECKED. And for a second there I thought maybe Henriksen would be safe after all. Safe to go training with Bobby and become the wickedest under cover hunter of all time. Safe to go on a couple of hunts with the guys. Safe to share a few beers with the boys and maybe a few frantic boy/boy touching they'd all pretend didn't happen in the morning. *SIGH*
FREAKY DEMON CHILDREN FOR THE WIN.
I don't know though, what WAS the message in the end? That is isn't worth it to try to save everyone? I guess I'm just adamantly on Dean's side here, and don't agree with Ruby's little tirade. People were going to die either way. Her way was not inherently better. The way things turned out was cruel, and unjust, and there was no happy ending, but that wasn't the fault of Sam and Dean. That was all LILITH. I think it was a huge mistake to let Ruby have the last word CAUSE SHE'S WRONG (IMO, of course). I actually think ending on the white light would have been far more poignant for what they were going for, but they probably needed the episode to end more succinctly so that the boys could have moved on by the time we caught up with them again.
Here's how it should have gone: Henriksen leaves. Lilith comes and kills all the nice folks at and around the police station, not because she's hoping to find Sam and Dean still there, but to punish them for getting away and to assert her power by undoing everything the boys had just fought for. Then Henriksen is the one to call the boys when he hears what's happened (of course he has Dean's cell in case of emergencies. Duh.) and tells them to turn on the news. Boys watch news and are devastated. Still emotionally resonant. Henriksen lives. END SCENE. I'm definitely of the mind that killing Henriksen was the biggest mistake, most wasteful thing they've done yet. I was sad when Gordon died, but his story was over. Henriksen's wasn't. And I get that that was part of the point, but I still think it was a huge mistake.
NOT TO END ON A DOWNER OR ANYTHING. HEE!
In conclusion, this guy:
Man, those two pictures don't even look like the same guy. Chameleon Dean!
Caps made and coloured by me. I'd prefer if they weren't used for graphics and whatnot. The originals will be here once I stop being lazy and upload 'em.
ETA: jascott made me birthday picspam! Go forth and caps lock out!
2. Get ready to revoke my fandom membership, guys. Despite the many, many, MANY times I've heard Joss described as the creator of BtVS I still somehow thought that meant he created the television series, but not the character itself. How did I exist in fandom for so long and have that so wrong? I blame you guys for never talking about the movie. Is it not good, or do you all just drastically prefer the series? HEY, REMEMBER HOW JOSS IS COMING BACK TO TELEVISION NEXT YEAR?
3. Favourite part of this weeks One Tree Hill? POWER WALK. Lucas Scott in a suit is not getting old any time soon or later.
4. _jems_ made a 10 Favourite Kisses picspam. Not to be missed.
5. Go give and get some love at keepaofthecheez's testimonial meme!
6. Finally FINALLY I have this finished.
SPN 3x12 Jus in Bello:
Winchester's r in yur room, lookin through your underwear drawer. Loved how confused they were by the phone.
HIS FACE IS JUST RIDICULOUSLY ANGULAR SOMETIMES. JS:LKJAHJKLA Seriously, you could probably slice bread with that jaw line.
OH, SNAP. I'm more convinced than ever that it's going to turn out that Bela isn't as bad as we all think, and possibly even has a heart-wrenching reason for stealing the colt, BUT COME ON. I'm sorry, there is just no coming back from this, girl. ENEMY #1 IS YOU.
Sheriff: Look, Agent. This ain't my first rodeo.
Henriksen: You've never been to a rodeo like this before. You have any idea who we're about to bring in here?
Sheriff: Yeah, couple of fugitives.
Henriksen: The most dangerous fugitives you ever laid your eyeballs on. Think Hannibal Lecter and his half-whit little brother. Do you know what these guys do for kicks? Dig up graves and mutilate corpses, they're not just killers, sheriff, they're Satan worshiping nut bag killers.
Hey, hey, watch the merchandise!
Hee! DEAN.
It was completely ridiculous that they switched places, but who even cares when it results in boys angrily tripping all over each other while chained together? NOT I.
SO MANY BOOTS SHOTS. Oh man, even when this is all you can see I'm still marveling at the comparative size difference between the smallish one and the gargantuan one.
That jail cell = super duper pretty.
Dean: Yeah, well I wouldn't bust out the melted butter just yet. Couldn't catch us at the bank. Couldn't keep us in that jail.
Henriksen: You're right. I screwed up. I underestimated you. I didn't count on you being that smart. But now I'm ready. Ready like a court order to keep you in a super maximum prison in Nevada until trial. Ready like isolation in a sound-proof windowless cell so small that, between you and me, probably unconstitutional. How's that for ready? Take a good look at Sam. You two will never see each other again... Sorry, Dean. Truth is your daddy brainwashed you with all that devil talk and no doubt touched you in the bad place. That's all, that's reality. But guess what? Life sucks, get a helmet. Cause everybody's got a sob story, but not everybody becomes a killer.
I enjoyed how Sam sat up when Henriksen started talking about their dad. Instance #385 of Sam responded Dean-ishly to something.
OH MY GOD, WOULD PEOPLE PLEASE STOP SHOOTING DEAN!
Sorry, I gotta cut this short. It's gonna be a long night, fellas.
Okay, awesome theme of the entire season that was especially visible during this episode #1? Difficulty telling the good guys from the bad guys. Am I right?
Henriksen: We go out there we're asking to die too. Don't you get it? They're out there and they're coming in here. This is a siege. So this might be a good time for you to lock the doors, and the windows, take a breath, and maybe deal with this like trained professionals with some sense in their heads.
HENRIKSEN. Let's be honest, buddy was an asshat a lot of the time. He belittled people in order to get his way, he was dismissive of anyone who didn't serve his agenda, and although we have no proof that he was like that outside of the job it'd be my guess that he was. And yet, still, man, he was so calculated and driven and KICK ASS. And it was all because he was desperately trying to accomplish something substantial, and to restore his faith in a way of life that hadn't turned out all that meaningful. That may just be an excuse, but it's a damn relateable one, and I have it in mind that he would have redeemed himself were his story not cut so short.
Mmm. Pretty.
Sam: Don't be such a wuss.
Oh, okay, FINE. If this is what happens you can keep shooting Dean. Just, not fatally any more, okay?
Sam: How's the shoulder?
Dean: It's awesome.
For a second there I thought Sam had been possessed and had gone psycho. HOLLY CRAP, SAM. That painfully sincere pleading face and that low calm voice are SO not to be trusted. AND THEN DEAN SMACKING HIM WITH HIS GIMPY ARM. AHAHA. BOYS.
Dean: It's kinda wild, right? I mean it's like they're coming right for us. Never done that before. It's like we got a contract on us. You think it's cause we're so awesome? I think it's cause it's we're so awesome.
!!!!! STILL SO AWESOME, OH MAN.
HOLY TEAMWORK, BOYS. AND DEAN WITH THE GUN. AND SAM WITH THE LATIN. AND THEN CONTINUING TO USE HIS MAN VOICE. I NEED A CIGARETTE AFTER THAT. And then Sam all, "Welcome to the club, bitch". And Dean all, "I owe you the biggest 'I told you so' ever". YES, BOYS.
Henriksen: I uh, I shot the sheriff.
Dean: *Thinks for a minute* But you didn't shoot the deputy.
Sam: *IS NOT AMUSED*
Dean: *Nobody gets me*
Henriksen: Alright. So how do we survive.
You gotta fucking love Henriksen here, that he could take a deep breath and reorient himself like that. Because denial and confusion in the middle of battle aren't even an option for him. Also, awesome theme of the season #2? Shifts in power. Who has it. Who wants it. Who only appears to have it until someone with bigger kahonas walks in to the room. And who's willing to hand it over when it serves a greater cause. Loved the whole hierarchy of Henriksen above the sheriff, but below his own boss. And the boys starting out having to scramble to survive after their freedom has been taken away only to be handed control of the situation later on.
Oh, hai there well established kink #4983. LOOKIT HOW MUCH LARGER HE IS THAN NANCY IN THAT SECOND ONE. SO MUCH JSKL;AKHGSJ;A IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY. I enjoy staring at this set while making up my own harlequin romance style dialogue for it.
HE'S GOTTA GET SOMETHING OUT OF HIS TRUNK. Oh man, I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I FALL FOR THE MACHISMO EVERY TIME.
This whole barricading themselves in thing was really awesome and scary. In some ways this one felt like the western we'll never get. What with jail in a small town scenario, and the pared down having to make do and survive, and then the big guns blazin' show down at the end. NOT THAT I DON'T STILL SOMEHOW WANT A GENUINE WESTERN. Oh man, the trickster could totally make that happen. COME ON, WRITERS. WORK IT OUT.
Also, well done finally making the demons scary as hell, show!
Sam: Everybody okay?
Henriksen: Define okay.
Henriksen: Smart. How long you had those?
Sam: Not long enough.
Aww. No more possessed Winchesters. DAMMIT. Also, big time unpopular fandom opinion: I'm not in love with the tattoos. Maybe just the look of them? Or the placement? I'm not kidding at all when I say I need to see them with their shirts fully off before I can make up my mind. And I reserve all rights to change my mind at any point. Also that location is gonna be continuity hell. Maybe not so much with Dean, but with Sam it's totally in a spot it peaks out all the time. You can see it in some of the earlier scenes before they reveal them. So either they're gonna have to fake tattoo Jared for every scene (not complaining about that visual, actually) or the thing's gonna magically disappear and re-appear as needed. YES, I CONCERN MYSELF WITH THESE THING. WHAT OF IT?
Henriksen: You know what my job is? My job is boring. It's frustrating. You work three years for one break. And then maybe you can save a few people. Maybe. That's the payoff. I been bustin' my ass for fifteen years to nail a handful of guys. And all this while there was something off in the corner so big. So yeah, sign me up for that big frosty mug of wasting my damn life.
Dean: You didn't know.
Henriksen: Well now I do.
Dude, BUDDY. You should know you don't get to live after a speech like that, right?
Dean: Honestly, I think the world's gonna end bloody. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight. We do have choices. I choose to go down swinging.
Henriksen: Plus you got nothin' to go home to but your brother.
Dean: Yeah. What about you? You rockin' the white picket fence?
Henriksen: Nah. Empty apartment. String of angry x-wives. I'm right where you are.
Dean: Imagine that.
OH. OH, THOSE TWO. WITH THE SMILING AND THE BONDING. And then all the turning to each other, and working off each other. Dean making comical glances at Henriksen, and Henriksen always looking to Dean to asses the situation. I tend to be a canon shipper, and a HET shipper, but I was having genuine surprise-the-hell-out-of-me pangs for those two. DAMMIT!!!
Ruby: Does anyone have a breath mint? Some blood splattered in my mouth when I was killing my way in here.
Dean: You knew about this?
Sam: *Glares*
Dean: Well, gee, Sam, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I SHOULD KNOW?
Fiercely pissed off at each other brothers for the win! I guess Ruby wasn't trying to play them off each other if she was expecting them to share every secret.
Lost the colt faces!
I'm super curious how Sam fans felt about him in this episode. He was so extra quiet. And not even responding to Ruby's super condescending remarks about him losing the colt? I know Ruby is the resident tough chick amongst the men, and that she feels the needs to overly assert herself in every situation, but DAMN that was harsh. I was offended on Sam's behalf. And the look he shares with Dean when she says that? Hahah. OH, SHE'S JUST BEING RUBY.
Random Sam being pretty.
Dean: I got virtue.
Aww, bb. It's the thought that counts.
Also, Ruby can be willing to sacrifice herself to save the boys and I still don't trust her. Amazing. *g*
Dean: No. No way. You're kidding me, right? You're...
Nancy: What? It's a choice.
Dean: Wait, so you... you've never... not even once? Wow.
Right, Dean. She's a virgin except for that one time. THIS'D BE WHEN BOBBY'D BE SMACKING YOU UPSIDE THE HEAD IF HE WERE THERE. Okay, I might be completely fanwanking this, but I swear I see awe in that last face of his. I LOVE IT SO MUCH I CANNOT EVEN.
Henriksen: We don't sacrifice people. We do that we're no better than them.
Dean: Stop! STOP! Nobody kill any virgins!
Dean: Please tell me you're not actually considering this. We're talking about holding down a girl and cutting out her heart.
Sam: We're also talking about thirty people out there, Dean. Innocent people. Who are all gonna die along with everyone in here.
Dean: That doesn't mean we throw away the rule book and stop acting like humans! I'm not gonna let that demon kill some nice sweet innocent girl who hasn't even been laid! I mean, look, if that's how you win wars then I don't want to win.
AWESOME THEME OF THE SEASON #3.
You know, this actually totally worked. They convinced me that Ruby would be willing to sacrifice herself one minute, and wouldn't even stick around to fight the next. That shouldn't have worked, but it did. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. Also, hi there, girls physically getting in between the boys kink. I WONDER WHERE THAT ONE COMES FROM?
That fight sequence was so full on kick ass. HERE IS ALL OF IT:
Haha. I have zero self-restraint.
Post-apocalypse Winchesters! Plus, you know, all that grunting as they got up from the wall. WHAT? IT'S NOT A BAD THING TO BE EASILY PLEASED.
THE LOOKS THEY GIVE EACH OTHER. SO MUCH LOVE. ME = WRECKED. And for a second there I thought maybe Henriksen would be safe after all. Safe to go training with Bobby and become the wickedest under cover hunter of all time. Safe to go on a couple of hunts with the guys. Safe to share a few beers with the boys and maybe a few frantic boy/boy touching they'd all pretend didn't happen in the morning. *SIGH*
FREAKY DEMON CHILDREN FOR THE WIN.
I don't know though, what WAS the message in the end? That is isn't worth it to try to save everyone? I guess I'm just adamantly on Dean's side here, and don't agree with Ruby's little tirade. People were going to die either way. Her way was not inherently better. The way things turned out was cruel, and unjust, and there was no happy ending, but that wasn't the fault of Sam and Dean. That was all LILITH. I think it was a huge mistake to let Ruby have the last word CAUSE SHE'S WRONG (IMO, of course). I actually think ending on the white light would have been far more poignant for what they were going for, but they probably needed the episode to end more succinctly so that the boys could have moved on by the time we caught up with them again.
Here's how it should have gone: Henriksen leaves. Lilith comes and kills all the nice folks at and around the police station, not because she's hoping to find Sam and Dean still there, but to punish them for getting away and to assert her power by undoing everything the boys had just fought for. Then Henriksen is the one to call the boys when he hears what's happened (of course he has Dean's cell in case of emergencies. Duh.) and tells them to turn on the news. Boys watch news and are devastated. Still emotionally resonant. Henriksen lives. END SCENE. I'm definitely of the mind that killing Henriksen was the biggest mistake, most wasteful thing they've done yet. I was sad when Gordon died, but his story was over. Henriksen's wasn't. And I get that that was part of the point, but I still think it was a huge mistake.
NOT TO END ON A DOWNER OR ANYTHING. HEE!
In conclusion, this guy:
Man, those two pictures don't even look like the same guy. Chameleon Dean!
Caps made and coloured by me. I'd prefer if they weren't used for graphics and whatnot. The originals will be here once I stop being lazy and upload 'em.