Reaction: Supernatural 6.11 and picspam
Contains profanity and speculation
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Spoiler and Spec Summary
[SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN THIS EPISODE]
On the day of airing I found out the title: "Appointment in Samarra" and thought 'Why does that sound familiar?' and Googled it like a complete moron. Aw crap. I shouldn't Google before the end credits roll. So, this episode is named after a story about a person attempting to avoid death but actually hastening it. Gee. Sounds like sunshine and puppies to me!
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.11 - Appointment in Samarra
*looks at VCR*
*looks at tape on shelf that was supposed to be in VCR*
*sighs* Why to I bother trying?
-Skipping the THEN, tra lala lala. When we last left off, Crowley got toasted, Meg got away and Sam left. Oh and the Alpha Shapeshifter is dead and an abandoned asylum in west whereverthehell got smote or something by poor overworked and under-appreciated Castiel. Aw. And that's all I need to know.
-I don't know what it is about this particular opening shot I love so much, but I love it. The composition is nifty.
-Yes Dean. You have no social stealth skills. But you're cute, so that's okay. *pats*
-OH CRAP IT'S ROBERT um, wossname. Nightmare on Elm Street guy, which sadly I only recognize because he recently had a cameo on Chuck as a weapons biologist with a perpetual nightmare serum, since I have never seen and never will see the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. I know my brain, and I know what my brain would do to me with that as dream-fodder. OH HEY ARE WE GONNA FINALLY GET A sorry I'll stop shouting. Are we finally going to get a recurrence of dreamroot? Sam must have shed all over the inside of the Impala and it's not hard to tell his hair from Dean's given the relative lengths. Oooo! But since Sam is soulless and doesn't sleep, he doesn't have dreams to invade, so maybe not. Damn. Still, this guy = likely mind-warp plotline afoot, YAY! \o/
-Disadvantages to being dragged around a network of contacts while growing up that you later re-encounter as an adult include strange doctors grabbing your face like you're four.
-So he's an unlicensed doctor for hunters. The way Dean approached the guy at the meat counter, he probably thinks you're there for an STD.
-"Eva." She looks like a mannequin. Her bangs are quite poised, ready to spring into attack formation. I find that level of battle-readiness disturbing in a hairstyle.
-Okay, I'm not an American, but that money looks weirdly black and white.
-"If something goes wrong could you mail this for me please?" All together now. "AWWWWWWWWWWWWW! *wibble*"
-"If I don't make it back, nothing I say is gonna mean a damn thing to him." ...Whoa. Hold the phone. 'Make it back?' Is Dean doing a Flatliners gig to get hold of a Reaper in order to find out if one of them can get Sam's soul back since they're psychopomps and do soul-related things? IS TESSA COMING BACK RIGHT NOW IN THIS EPISODE??? 8O
-...so, about 36 hours and a cat-crisis later, I think my brain's reformed enough to try continuing with this now...
-OMG DEAN'S HAD GHOST TRAINING ALREADY!
-Okay, maybe continuing now. *unpauses*
-Dead never looked better on Dean, I must say.
-WTF. SPELL-CASTING AS A GHOST??? *flaps randomly and HAS NO BRAIN LEFT and it's less than five minutes in, OMG* Casting summoning spells while dead is possible in SPN-verse. At least verbal ones. Ones with sigils might be tricky. Do ghosts bleed? The really pissed off ones leave ectoplasm, maybe they could do sigils with it. Hm. *makes note*
-HI TESSA!!!!! *FLAILS MORE* I'm going to sprain a wrist flailing, for serious here.
-DEEEEEEEATH!!! \o/ I just shouted that out loud. And did actual victory arms. And nearly tipped my chair over. And it's not that easy to tip over. I'm either way too excitable or THIS EPISODE FREAKING ROCKS!
-"Now that we've established you have hubris but no leverage, what is it you want?" I love Death. I so love Death. He's just so freaking perfectly... Death!
-"And our other brother is trapped in there to, Michael rode him in.." OH MY GOD DEAN REMEMBERED TO MENTION ADAM!!!! \o/ At this rate, just from the victory arms and flailing alone, I may dislocate something.
-"Pick one." Gah. Still, not much choice there. Poor Adam. Again.
-"Is there any way you could hack the Hell part off?" Oh Dean.
-"What do you think the soul is, some pie you can slice?" Hee. Pie. Death knows Dean alright.
-Put it behind a wall. Oh this is so not going to go well. Gaaaah. *bounces in anticipation*
-Also, OMG you guys. WALLS. I've been going on about Winchester Walls for ages now, and now there might actually be one as a future plot device.
-Written by Sera Gamble and Robert Singer. Big guns on-line tonight. Directed by Mike Rohl, veteran director back to "The Usual Suspects."
-"Do it." Oh Dean.
-"If you win the wager." Oh crap, yes. We haven't had dicing with Death yet have we? HOW IS THIS EPISODE ONLY GETTING EXPONENTIALLY MORE AWESOME??? Eight minutes in. EIGHT, and most of one of those was the THEN and the title smash.
-"Now when you fetch my ring-" DOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! THEY DID A PRATCHETT DEATH VOICE THING!!!! DEATH GOT REVERB!!! \o/
-"-put it on." ... *is dead* *no seriously* *there was even gasping* *I really mean it. Dead like month old broccoli dead* HOLY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!! I DO NOT KNOW AN EMOTICON STUNNED ENOUGH TO EXPRESS *FLAILS* EVERYTHING!!! :-O
-Must breathe. Holy crap.
-"I want you to be me, for one day." I'm glad, SO VERY GLAD I have a pause button for the first watch. I am literally gasping and flailing too hard to TYPE!!! Dean as Death for a day. Oh my god. *is not going to recount that dream I had years and years back where I was Death, not at all* Oh Dean.
-"Because-"/"*gaaaaasp*" Bwahahaha! Bastards. Really though, Dean was talking to Death, and if Death chose, he could've hung on long enough to pass that last bit of conversation. So Death is a bastard. I reiterate: Bwahahahaah!
-Seven minutes... isn't that getting into brain damage territory? What am I saying, Dean's been dead before, brain damage is for newbs. Bet Castiel's freaking a little though. I think he'd get a red flag or a ping or something if Dean died, but he still wouldn't be able to locate him due to the Enochian sigils. So up on the front lines of Heaven's civil war, Castiel is trying not to have a panic attack about Dean being dead. Have I said lately that I LOVE THIS DAMN SHOW???
-Hey! Hi Sam! Doesn't look like he walked away for long. Must've decided he needed a ride more than he needed to walk away. The pragmatism of soullessness strikes again?
-Oh boys. Been a while since a good solid brothery discussion about trusting Dean each other to do the stupidest most self-destructive thing possible what needs to be done to save each other. And stuff.
-"Watch him." Yeah, Bobby needed a babysitting job. Bobby's looking a little intense...
-Hey! Overhead light! Callback to 'Faith' there, a little?
-Also, Dean, before you put the ring on, set a stopwatch or something so you know when to stop. Not that you'll actually last a whole 24 hours. OMG Dean's going to be Death, OMG!! So how does that work with the Horseman thing? The Horsemen were what they were without the rings, just not powered? or... I NEED TO JUST WATCH THE EPISODE AND LET MY BRAIN EXPLODE LATER.
-*snerk* That's the 'engagement' finger, isn't it? *is twelve*
-Oh my god, Sam's using Redbird matches!! \o/ They're Canadian only, I think, but it makes absolute sense hunters would acquire them because they're wooden 'strike anywhere' matches and therefore useful in loads more situations because all the chemicals are in the match head. They're rare because they can be struck against anything, including each other, and there are rare instances of boxes of matches bursting into flames when dropped with sufficient force (or when a bunch of match heads are cut off and stuffed inside a ping-pong ball which is a very bad idea and should never actually be done for any reason). I have a box of those matches! I'm having a geeksplosion! \o/ Oh, and Sam seems to be doing something inadvisable like summoning something, which is as unsurprising as a potato-flavored potato.
-OH HI BALTHAZAR!!! Okay, maybe as surprising as a potato made of turnip.
-"Angel advice."/"Well then go ask your boyfriend." Heh. Balthazar's a Sassy shipper. At least I think that's the terminology. *facepalm*
-"I need to know if there's a spell or a weapon, anything, that can keep a soul out forever." Oh Sam. Soullessness may have made you better tactically and more observant and analytical and generally kick-ass, but... oh Sam.
-...heeeey. What did Sam do to Bobby? Or did Bobby let him get out and do this? It looks like they could still be in the wrecking yard. *ponders worriedly*
-"Patricide." Erm. Kind of missed the boat on that one by a few seasons Balthazar... unless... No. No. Bobby!? No. He wouldn't. Oh my god, Sera's writing this. BALTHAZAR'S GOING TO ASK SAM TO KILL BOBBY AND DEAN'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE DEATH AND, AND OMG. O.O *hopes she's right wrong and hits play*
-"You need the blood of your father, but your father needn't be blood." GODDAMN SONOFABITCH BALTHAZAAAAAAAR! Okay, this is officially the most intense episode of the season. By light-years. O.O
-"He's in agonizing pain, right?" Hee. Dean getting vengeance on people who threaten innocents one way or another.
-"Enjoy the ride down, pal. Trust me, sauna gets hot." *snerk* Of course the guy's probably only stealing to support a family or something and Dean's going to feel horrible in a minute, but right now it's pretty cool.
-There's gotta be more than one Death, though, if he has to lay hands on everyone personally. That or some kind of Santa Claus-like temporal exclusion factor. OR Death's just having Dean do this to prove some point, the in-person service isn't the normal modus operandi for Death at all, and this is a very specifically targeted object lesson. It definitely bears pondering. *ponders*
-"It was good though."/"Was that a local place?" *wheezing from laughter* Yes. Get pizza place recommendations from the dead guy. Never ever change, Dean. XD
-"Tell me what it all means?" *pauses* Oh this should be good. I'm thinking maybe a song lyric or movie quote is coming up here, if it's in the budget.
-*unpauses* "Everything is dust in the wind." HAHAHAHAAHAH. Called it! XD
-"That's it? A Kansas song?"/"Sorry, he's new." This show is trying to kill me with laughter isn't it?
-Yep. There had to be a kid.
-"It just is. It's destiny." Yeeeahhh I don't think that's going to be an effective argument on Dean after the last five and a half seasons.
-*conversation that I would quote all of about destiny and the effectiveness of fighting it goes here* Oh Dean. This isn't going to go well.
-Sam... Do not even go there Sam. *fidgets*
-YAAAAAAAAAAAH! GO BOBBY!!! \o/
-Oh crap. Where'd Sam go?
-That closet seems to be Bobby's favorite hiding place. This is, what the third time he's hidden there? Betting Sam's in it. Nope, he's rattling the doorknob. Or something is. Really, Bobby, head for the panic room. Sam might not be a ghost or demon but iron walls keep out soulless idiots too. *does not think about that top vent and the tactical vulnerabilities of the panic room* O.O
-"You shouldn't've cornered yourself."/"I didn't." Oh reeeeally? This should be awesome!
-YAY TRAP DOOR!!! \o/ Must be new, although it wouldn't have been much use against the massed zombie attack anyway.
-"Reinforced steel core, titanium kick-plates. You wanna tell me what this is about?" Just thought I'd point out for those unaware, Bobby is awesome. FYI.
-He is however a bit of an idiot if he's got Sam trapped downstairs and opening the door to go find him. Although there is a huge load of supplies, tools, weapons, explosives, spell components etc down there... A bit like imprisoning someone in the armory. Hm.
-"Ain't nobody killin' me in my house but me." *blink* Did he just say... Wow. Oh Bobby. D-:
-I KNEW THAT VENT IN THE PANIC ROOM WAS A TACTICAL WEAK POINT!!! \o/ I just always figured it'd be someone pouring nasty things in, rather than someone escaping through it.
-Um. Hang on. Also uh oh. Also, er, duck? Or when Balthazar said 'the blood of the father' did he just mean blood? I really doubt it. Or is Sam bleeding? Or does Sam want Bobby to think he's bleeding. Gaaaah.
-I love this whole domino effect/consequences thing. Love it. Destiny, free will, butterfly effect, love it all.
-Oh Dean. Dean, Dean, Dean.
-Dude! Dean just teleported! Nifty! \o/
-From the sounds of it, there are a lot of trains running past Bobby's place tonight. Odd.
-No! Bad Sam! No cookie!
-CRAP! NO, DEAN! Dammit, you just blew it! *headdesk*
-Ooooo. Shiny FX. Not that it's going to fool Death, but worth a shot? Since you're screwed either way. Oh Dean.
-Oh ow.
-"There's sort of a natural order to things" Ha. Says the poster boy of the unnatural order.
-OH NO! Nonono! Can I just leave it paused and... oh god. For a very long time I've been expecting Bobby to be killed. I kind of relaxed off the idea, but... he's Obi wan Kenobi. His death seems awfully close on the horizon suddenly and, just... Bobbeeeee... Gaaaaah. I have to hit play, don't I? Eek.
-OH HOORAY FOR A DEAN EX MACHINA. *collapses a little*
-Panic room time again. Make sure you took the ladder out.
-That's an unnerving amount of eye-contact going on there. *swallows* ...Oh. OH. Dean's deal to save Sam was against the natural order. Oh. Oh oh oh! As was John's Deal to save Dean. And Mary's Deal to save John. Oh wow. Cannot brain. Literally cannot brain right now. Oh my god. Dominoes. Is that what this is really about? Does this really tie all the way back in to the beginning? O.O
-HI DEATH! You've been to a New York Fries outlet I think?
-"Wrecking the natural order's not quite such fun when you have to mop up the mess, is it?" Oh son of a bitch. That whole object lesson/poster boy of the unnatural order/deals to keep people alive thing? And the whole restoration of the natural order and destiny and free will and... Yeah. That would be my head exploding. Aaaaaaaaall over the place. Dude.
-By the way, since I'm paused, can we keep Death? Seriously? He could just randomly pop up eating junk food and kicking Dean in the metaphysical goolies anytime he wants as far as I'm concerned. Or kicking anyone else for that matter. Although he seems to be most chummy with Dean. ...Dean's not... some kind of Apprentice Death now, is he? Not that that wouldn't be freaking awesome. Hm.
-"I think that you knew I wouldn't last a day." Dean, honey, we all knew that. Microbes at the bottom of the Marianas Trench knew that. *pats*
-"But now, I'm going to go to Hell to get your brother's soul." LITERAL EXTENDED GASP! Holy crap, will he? Impending hiatus... O.O
-"You're an affront to the balance of the Universe and you cause disruption on a global scale." THAT'S OUR WINCHESTER BOYS! \o/ Wait. He said he's not doing it for Dean. So who is he doing it for?
-"Right now you're digging at something, intrepid detective. I want you to keep digging Dean." OH MY GOD WHAT???
-"It's about the souls. You'll understand when you need to." Hellooooo plot arc for the back half of the season. WHEE!!!! EPIC-LEVEL QUEST STARTS NOW!! \o/
-Death didn't bus his tray. He's left trash all over Bobby's table. What a rude anthropomorphic personification he is.
-Yay continuity! Human souls are bright! HI SAM'S SOUL! You're looking... actually quite a bit less bright than that one Famine's goon collected for him that they freed. Still find it really rather awesome that a human soul is so bright, and demons who were once human souls are clouds of black sputch.
-"You might feel a little... itchy." Heeeeeeeehehehehehe. XD Seriously, Death, buddy, come back anytime. I'll make nachos. XD
-"Do me a favor. Don't. Scratch. The wall." And just like that, from giggles to shivers. Wow. O.O
-Oh Dean.
-OH CRAP. That's it? Crap. CRAP. Uh. I've done this reaction under the assumption that a specific spoiler was happening tonight. I need to go redact it all now. CRAP!!!
-Redaction complete. Nothing to see here, move along. >.>
It's going to be a while before the next new episode, so have a great holiday season, watch out for spoilers and I'll squee at you in the new year! \o/
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Spoiler and Spec Summary
[SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN THIS EPISODE]
On the day of airing I found out the title: "Appointment in Samarra" and thought 'Why does that sound familiar?' and Googled it like a complete moron. Aw crap. I shouldn't Google before the end credits roll. So, this episode is named after a story about a person attempting to avoid death but actually hastening it. Gee. Sounds like sunshine and puppies to me!
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.11 - Appointment in Samarra
*looks at VCR*
*looks at tape on shelf that was supposed to be in VCR*
*sighs* Why to I bother trying?
-Skipping the THEN, tra lala lala. When we last left off, Crowley got toasted, Meg got away and Sam left. Oh and the Alpha Shapeshifter is dead and an abandoned asylum in west whereverthehell got smote or something by poor overworked and under-appreciated Castiel. Aw. And that's all I need to know.
-I don't know what it is about this particular opening shot I love so much, but I love it. The composition is nifty.
-Yes Dean. You have no social stealth skills. But you're cute, so that's okay. *pats*
-OH CRAP IT'S ROBERT um, wossname. Nightmare on Elm Street guy, which sadly I only recognize because he recently had a cameo on Chuck as a weapons biologist with a perpetual nightmare serum, since I have never seen and never will see the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. I know my brain, and I know what my brain would do to me with that as dream-fodder. OH HEY ARE WE GONNA FINALLY GET A sorry I'll stop shouting. Are we finally going to get a recurrence of dreamroot? Sam must have shed all over the inside of the Impala and it's not hard to tell his hair from Dean's given the relative lengths. Oooo! But since Sam is soulless and doesn't sleep, he doesn't have dreams to invade, so maybe not. Damn. Still, this guy = likely mind-warp plotline afoot, YAY! \o/
-Disadvantages to being dragged around a network of contacts while growing up that you later re-encounter as an adult include strange doctors grabbing your face like you're four.
-So he's an unlicensed doctor for hunters. The way Dean approached the guy at the meat counter, he probably thinks you're there for an STD.
-"Eva." She looks like a mannequin. Her bangs are quite poised, ready to spring into attack formation. I find that level of battle-readiness disturbing in a hairstyle.
-Okay, I'm not an American, but that money looks weirdly black and white.
-"If something goes wrong could you mail this for me please?" All together now. "AWWWWWWWWWWWWW! *wibble*"
-"If I don't make it back, nothing I say is gonna mean a damn thing to him." ...Whoa. Hold the phone. 'Make it back?' Is Dean doing a Flatliners gig to get hold of a Reaper in order to find out if one of them can get Sam's soul back since they're psychopomps and do soul-related things? IS TESSA COMING BACK RIGHT NOW IN THIS EPISODE??? 8O
-...so, about 36 hours and a cat-crisis later, I think my brain's reformed enough to try continuing with this now...
-OMG DEAN'S HAD GHOST TRAINING ALREADY!
-Okay, maybe continuing now. *unpauses*
-Dead never looked better on Dean, I must say.
-WTF. SPELL-CASTING AS A GHOST??? *flaps randomly and HAS NO BRAIN LEFT and it's less than five minutes in, OMG* Casting summoning spells while dead is possible in SPN-verse. At least verbal ones. Ones with sigils might be tricky. Do ghosts bleed? The really pissed off ones leave ectoplasm, maybe they could do sigils with it. Hm. *makes note*
-HI TESSA!!!!! *FLAILS MORE* I'm going to sprain a wrist flailing, for serious here.
-DEEEEEEEATH!!! \o/ I just shouted that out loud. And did actual victory arms. And nearly tipped my chair over. And it's not that easy to tip over. I'm either way too excitable or THIS EPISODE FREAKING ROCKS!
-"Now that we've established you have hubris but no leverage, what is it you want?" I love Death. I so love Death. He's just so freaking perfectly... Death!
-"And our other brother is trapped in there to, Michael rode him in.." OH MY GOD DEAN REMEMBERED TO MENTION ADAM!!!! \o/ At this rate, just from the victory arms and flailing alone, I may dislocate something.
-"Pick one." Gah. Still, not much choice there. Poor Adam. Again.
-"Is there any way you could hack the Hell part off?" Oh Dean.
-"What do you think the soul is, some pie you can slice?" Hee. Pie. Death knows Dean alright.
-Put it behind a wall. Oh this is so not going to go well. Gaaaah. *bounces in anticipation*
-Also, OMG you guys. WALLS. I've been going on about Winchester Walls for ages now, and now there might actually be one as a future plot device.
-Written by Sera Gamble and Robert Singer. Big guns on-line tonight. Directed by Mike Rohl, veteran director back to "The Usual Suspects."
-"Do it." Oh Dean.
-"If you win the wager." Oh crap, yes. We haven't had dicing with Death yet have we? HOW IS THIS EPISODE ONLY GETTING EXPONENTIALLY MORE AWESOME??? Eight minutes in. EIGHT, and most of one of those was the THEN and the title smash.
-"Now when you fetch my ring-" DOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! THEY DID A PRATCHETT DEATH VOICE THING!!!! DEATH GOT REVERB!!! \o/
-"-put it on." ... *is dead* *no seriously* *there was even gasping* *I really mean it. Dead like month old broccoli dead* HOLY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!! I DO NOT KNOW AN EMOTICON STUNNED ENOUGH TO EXPRESS *FLAILS* EVERYTHING!!! :-O
-Must breathe. Holy crap.
-"I want you to be me, for one day." I'm glad, SO VERY GLAD I have a pause button for the first watch. I am literally gasping and flailing too hard to TYPE!!! Dean as Death for a day. Oh my god. *is not going to recount that dream I had years and years back where I was Death, not at all* Oh Dean.
-"Because-"/"*gaaaaasp*" Bwahahaha! Bastards. Really though, Dean was talking to Death, and if Death chose, he could've hung on long enough to pass that last bit of conversation. So Death is a bastard. I reiterate: Bwahahahaah!
-Seven minutes... isn't that getting into brain damage territory? What am I saying, Dean's been dead before, brain damage is for newbs. Bet Castiel's freaking a little though. I think he'd get a red flag or a ping or something if Dean died, but he still wouldn't be able to locate him due to the Enochian sigils. So up on the front lines of Heaven's civil war, Castiel is trying not to have a panic attack about Dean being dead. Have I said lately that I LOVE THIS DAMN SHOW???
-Hey! Hi Sam! Doesn't look like he walked away for long. Must've decided he needed a ride more than he needed to walk away. The pragmatism of soullessness strikes again?
-Oh boys. Been a while since a good solid brothery discussion about trusting Dean each other to do the stupidest most self-destructive thing possible what needs to be done to save each other. And stuff.
-"Watch him." Yeah, Bobby needed a babysitting job. Bobby's looking a little intense...
-Hey! Overhead light! Callback to 'Faith' there, a little?
-Also, Dean, before you put the ring on, set a stopwatch or something so you know when to stop. Not that you'll actually last a whole 24 hours. OMG Dean's going to be Death, OMG!! So how does that work with the Horseman thing? The Horsemen were what they were without the rings, just not powered? or... I NEED TO JUST WATCH THE EPISODE AND LET MY BRAIN EXPLODE LATER.
-*snerk* That's the 'engagement' finger, isn't it? *is twelve*
-Oh my god, Sam's using Redbird matches!! \o/ They're Canadian only, I think, but it makes absolute sense hunters would acquire them because they're wooden 'strike anywhere' matches and therefore useful in loads more situations because all the chemicals are in the match head. They're rare because they can be struck against anything, including each other, and there are rare instances of boxes of matches bursting into flames when dropped with sufficient force (or when a bunch of match heads are cut off and stuffed inside a ping-pong ball which is a very bad idea and should never actually be done for any reason). I have a box of those matches! I'm having a geeksplosion! \o/ Oh, and Sam seems to be doing something inadvisable like summoning something, which is as unsurprising as a potato-flavored potato.
-OH HI BALTHAZAR!!! Okay, maybe as surprising as a potato made of turnip.
-"Angel advice."/"Well then go ask your boyfriend." Heh. Balthazar's a Sassy shipper. At least I think that's the terminology. *facepalm*
-"I need to know if there's a spell or a weapon, anything, that can keep a soul out forever." Oh Sam. Soullessness may have made you better tactically and more observant and analytical and generally kick-ass, but... oh Sam.
-...heeeey. What did Sam do to Bobby? Or did Bobby let him get out and do this? It looks like they could still be in the wrecking yard. *ponders worriedly*
-"Patricide." Erm. Kind of missed the boat on that one by a few seasons Balthazar... unless... No. No. Bobby!? No. He wouldn't. Oh my god, Sera's writing this. BALTHAZAR'S GOING TO ASK SAM TO KILL BOBBY AND DEAN'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE DEATH AND, AND OMG. O.O *hopes she's right wrong and hits play*
-"You need the blood of your father, but your father needn't be blood." GODDAMN SONOFABITCH BALTHAZAAAAAAAR! Okay, this is officially the most intense episode of the season. By light-years. O.O
-"He's in agonizing pain, right?" Hee. Dean getting vengeance on people who threaten innocents one way or another.
-"Enjoy the ride down, pal. Trust me, sauna gets hot." *snerk* Of course the guy's probably only stealing to support a family or something and Dean's going to feel horrible in a minute, but right now it's pretty cool.
-There's gotta be more than one Death, though, if he has to lay hands on everyone personally. That or some kind of Santa Claus-like temporal exclusion factor. OR Death's just having Dean do this to prove some point, the in-person service isn't the normal modus operandi for Death at all, and this is a very specifically targeted object lesson. It definitely bears pondering. *ponders*
-"It was good though."/"Was that a local place?" *wheezing from laughter* Yes. Get pizza place recommendations from the dead guy. Never ever change, Dean. XD
-"Tell me what it all means?" *pauses* Oh this should be good. I'm thinking maybe a song lyric or movie quote is coming up here, if it's in the budget.
-*unpauses* "Everything is dust in the wind." HAHAHAHAAHAH. Called it! XD
-"That's it? A Kansas song?"/"Sorry, he's new." This show is trying to kill me with laughter isn't it?
-Yep. There had to be a kid.
-"It just is. It's destiny." Yeeeahhh I don't think that's going to be an effective argument on Dean after the last five and a half seasons.
-*conversation that I would quote all of about destiny and the effectiveness of fighting it goes here* Oh Dean. This isn't going to go well.
-Sam... Do not even go there Sam. *fidgets*
-YAAAAAAAAAAAH! GO BOBBY!!! \o/
-Oh crap. Where'd Sam go?
-That closet seems to be Bobby's favorite hiding place. This is, what the third time he's hidden there? Betting Sam's in it. Nope, he's rattling the doorknob. Or something is. Really, Bobby, head for the panic room. Sam might not be a ghost or demon but iron walls keep out soulless idiots too. *does not think about that top vent and the tactical vulnerabilities of the panic room* O.O
-"You shouldn't've cornered yourself."/"I didn't." Oh reeeeally? This should be awesome!
-YAY TRAP DOOR!!! \o/ Must be new, although it wouldn't have been much use against the massed zombie attack anyway.
-"Reinforced steel core, titanium kick-plates. You wanna tell me what this is about?" Just thought I'd point out for those unaware, Bobby is awesome. FYI.
-He is however a bit of an idiot if he's got Sam trapped downstairs and opening the door to go find him. Although there is a huge load of supplies, tools, weapons, explosives, spell components etc down there... A bit like imprisoning someone in the armory. Hm.
-"Ain't nobody killin' me in my house but me." *blink* Did he just say... Wow. Oh Bobby. D-:
-I KNEW THAT VENT IN THE PANIC ROOM WAS A TACTICAL WEAK POINT!!! \o/ I just always figured it'd be someone pouring nasty things in, rather than someone escaping through it.
-Um. Hang on. Also uh oh. Also, er, duck? Or when Balthazar said 'the blood of the father' did he just mean blood? I really doubt it. Or is Sam bleeding? Or does Sam want Bobby to think he's bleeding. Gaaaah.
-I love this whole domino effect/consequences thing. Love it. Destiny, free will, butterfly effect, love it all.
-Oh Dean. Dean, Dean, Dean.
-Dude! Dean just teleported! Nifty! \o/
-From the sounds of it, there are a lot of trains running past Bobby's place tonight. Odd.
-No! Bad Sam! No cookie!
-CRAP! NO, DEAN! Dammit, you just blew it! *headdesk*
-Ooooo. Shiny FX. Not that it's going to fool Death, but worth a shot? Since you're screwed either way. Oh Dean.
-Oh ow.
-"There's sort of a natural order to things" Ha. Says the poster boy of the unnatural order.
-OH NO! Nonono! Can I just leave it paused and... oh god. For a very long time I've been expecting Bobby to be killed. I kind of relaxed off the idea, but... he's Obi wan Kenobi. His death seems awfully close on the horizon suddenly and, just... Bobbeeeee... Gaaaaah. I have to hit play, don't I? Eek.
-OH HOORAY FOR A DEAN EX MACHINA. *collapses a little*
-Panic room time again. Make sure you took the ladder out.
-That's an unnerving amount of eye-contact going on there. *swallows* ...Oh. OH. Dean's deal to save Sam was against the natural order. Oh. Oh oh oh! As was John's Deal to save Dean. And Mary's Deal to save John. Oh wow. Cannot brain. Literally cannot brain right now. Oh my god. Dominoes. Is that what this is really about? Does this really tie all the way back in to the beginning? O.O
-HI DEATH! You've been to a New York Fries outlet I think?
-"Wrecking the natural order's not quite such fun when you have to mop up the mess, is it?" Oh son of a bitch. That whole object lesson/poster boy of the unnatural order/deals to keep people alive thing? And the whole restoration of the natural order and destiny and free will and... Yeah. That would be my head exploding. Aaaaaaaaall over the place. Dude.
-By the way, since I'm paused, can we keep Death? Seriously? He could just randomly pop up eating junk food and kicking Dean in the metaphysical goolies anytime he wants as far as I'm concerned. Or kicking anyone else for that matter. Although he seems to be most chummy with Dean. ...Dean's not... some kind of Apprentice Death now, is he? Not that that wouldn't be freaking awesome. Hm.
-"I think that you knew I wouldn't last a day." Dean, honey, we all knew that. Microbes at the bottom of the Marianas Trench knew that. *pats*
-"But now, I'm going to go to Hell to get your brother's soul." LITERAL EXTENDED GASP! Holy crap, will he? Impending hiatus... O.O
-"You're an affront to the balance of the Universe and you cause disruption on a global scale." THAT'S OUR WINCHESTER BOYS! \o/ Wait. He said he's not doing it for Dean. So who is he doing it for?
-"Right now you're digging at something, intrepid detective. I want you to keep digging Dean." OH MY GOD WHAT???
-"It's about the souls. You'll understand when you need to." Hellooooo plot arc for the back half of the season. WHEE!!!! EPIC-LEVEL QUEST STARTS NOW!! \o/
-Death didn't bus his tray. He's left trash all over Bobby's table. What a rude anthropomorphic personification he is.
-Yay continuity! Human souls are bright! HI SAM'S SOUL! You're looking... actually quite a bit less bright than that one Famine's goon collected for him that they freed. Still find it really rather awesome that a human soul is so bright, and demons who were once human souls are clouds of black sputch.
-"You might feel a little... itchy." Heeeeeeeehehehehehe. XD Seriously, Death, buddy, come back anytime. I'll make nachos. XD
-"Do me a favor. Don't. Scratch. The wall." And just like that, from giggles to shivers. Wow. O.O
-Oh Dean.
-OH CRAP. That's it? Crap. CRAP. Uh. I've done this reaction under the assumption that a specific spoiler was happening tonight. I need to go redact it all now. CRAP!!!
-Redaction complete. Nothing to see here, move along. >.>
It's going to be a while before the next new episode, so have a great holiday season, watch out for spoilers and I'll squee at you in the new year! \o/
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