Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 6.16
Contains serious profanity, moderate capslock and mild speculation.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
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...Actually, in retrospect, I knew nothing! \o/
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.16 - ??? "...And Then There Were None."
Live reaction time! Last one before the middle of April!
-Adjusting headphones should be left until after bypassing the "Then". Two seconds. Two seconds. Rufus Turner, eh? Awesome! Hope he's not gonna die.
-White nightgown-like apparel and bare feet at a gas station at night. Yeah. Run now, trucker dude.
-Trucker dude looks familiar. Not sure why, has he died on the show before?
-Eve. Oh, right. Big momma. Of the monsters? Well, okay then, I guess? Could be THE Eve, but it could be she's picked the name Eve (which until there's further input from Show is the direction I'm leaning) just to be perverse. I'll leave the theology up to those more inclined to elaborate.
-"You're very pretty but this is not what's right for you." I think I love you for not being a sleaze, trucker dude.
-Oh dear. Offering religious pamphlets to Big Mama of the monsters. This is going to be messy, isn't it?
-"Your Apocalypse came and went and you didn't even notice." Yeah, that it did. Intriguing little speech from Eve. (Suddenly trying very hard not to think of Eve from Wall-E. I DON'T KNOW EITHER. O.o)
-Ah! Are we ear-biting or brain-sucking tonight? Feels like a good night for brain-sucking, given the squishy slurpy noises. Bye trucker dude. Your nostrils are frightening.
-Oh, hey, there's more pre-title stuff! I'm actually surprised by that. I am easily surprised and distracted tonight. I blame work.
-Oh crap. He's not dead. D-:
-*shudders* O.O
-"...And Then There Were None." ...Oh. My. God. That's an Agatha Christie novel! It's also been published as "Ten Little Indians" which I read far too often in high school. And I'm not going to give away the plot of it here unless show does, but we'll see. Oh wow. *is excited*
-Big Mama's on a road trip, looks like.
-Okay, I know I've seen this guy on something before, and I'm pretty sure it was Supernatural. Dammit! I can see the guy and his mopey face. This is gonna bug me.
-HOLY CRAP BOBBY'S IN A COAT AND TIE AND HAS NO HAT OMG IT'S THE APOCALYPSE AGAIN ISN'T IT!!!? O.o
-BTW, BOBBY'S tie report (which has to be some kind of significant) is a complex pale blue and white stripe going down to the left on a burgundy-wine base. And he may be wearing a grey trenchcoat. If Bobby's wearing a goddamn trenchcoat I may be spending a lot more of this recap being less coherent than usual. Holy crap.
-Sam and Dean tie report... well look at that, everyone's stripes are going down and to the left. Sam's are really faint, but they're there. We're all on the same page tonight. And the time in the interrogation/interview room is about 12:42PM, just in case that turns out to be important.
-Wow. Bobby on a case with the boys. Wow. I suspect this means he'll be imperiled... aw crap. Bobby's going to get his brain sucked out through the ear (or whatever Eve's doing, telling them the truth about something? Implanting something like a Wrath of Khan earworm? I dunno. O.o) and get all possessed and murdery on them. Aw crap. I knew there was a reason I found Bobby's lack of hat disturbing. O.o
-Bobby's tie stripes are grey band with blue and white pin-striping along the edges... nope, not Sam's tie from 6.14. I would make seriously unnatural noises if Bobby was swapping ties with Sam and Dean. I'm guessing Bobby has his own hotel room, but the idea of them all sharing a room like John and the boys used to is giving me serious warm fuzzies. Bobby probably has an adorable snore.... What? Sorry, right, monster on the loose, people murdering each other, serious business. *makes SRS BZNZ face*
-Yes. Weird crap Bobby has not seen before is weird crap to be feared.
-BOBBY IS WEARING A TRENCHCOAT, OMG!!!! \o/
-SERIOUS BUSINESS DAMMIT. Ahem. Focus. It's just a coat. People in a cannery are being murdered. OMG coat squee *Bobbysmishing*
-Oh god. He's walking. In that coat. I'm going to be utterly useless tonight, gang.
-Written by Brett Matthews who I don't recognize off-hand because my head is full of Bobby-inna-trenchcoat.
-"FBI, Willis." CONTINUITY, I LOVE YOU!! Willis was the last name Bobby was using the last time we saw him answering the phone bank at the scrap yard. He's used other names, but that's the one he used most recently. Yay! \o/
-Directed by Mike Rohl, who is slightly more familiar, but still distracted. I don't need the mother of all monsters to suck my brain out my ear. Bobby in a trenchcoat will do it.
-OMG RUFUS TOO! IT'S DUELING BADASS GRUMPY OLD TRENCHCOATS FOR THE FREAKING WIN!!! \o/ (On the other hand, Rufus's tie appears to be stripeless, so... hm...)
-"Come on man, it's not rocket surgery." *rofl*
-"Just like old times."/"As long as I get to drive."/*giggles* "Hell no." ...I, I, I, no words. I want epic hunting-buddy backstory for Rufus and Bobby and I want it now. Especially considering if they're both here and Big Mama's handing out brain worms, Rufus is likely gonna die tonight. And Bobby might be the one who kills him. AUGH! D-:
-GLAAAGGHAHGAHGAGHAGH!!! :-P Gyah! Ear, ichor, ew! Tonight's episode is brought to you by Q-tips. Are you sure you don't have a monster in your ear?
-Seriously, I love Sam and Dean and Castiel to bits, but I would happily watch the Bobby and Rufus show any day.
-Aw, all the boys together (except Castiel, but he's likely busy elsewhere). Also rather nerve-wracking.
-I get nervous when they smile and are happy too much. It gives me an even bigger sense of foreboding and doom. Gaaaaah.
-Oh, hey, it's a Campbell cousin! And the potential death and murderation pool grows even bigger. What was Gwen doing when we last saw her? having a crisis of conscience regarding finding out who Grandpa Samuel was really working for if I recall correctly.
-...which she's apparently dealt with, because there's Grandpa. Oh dear. How many semi-regular characters are gonna get done in tonight, anyway? O.o
-"Welcome to next time." Ooooohohohohoh. I forgot about that.
-Dean is pissed. I don't blame him. What exactly was it? Turning them over to Crowley for his own gain, even though that gain would have been Mary? Trying to feed Dean to critters? Can't look it up till after I finish watching because, well, spoilers.
-Dean, what are you doing? Don't go off alone! Nothing good ever happens that way!
-"You're Samuel"/"You must be the guy pretending to be their father." OW. Right, if no one else shoots Samuel, I might.
-"Somebody ought to." Yeah, Bobby! In your face, creepy secretly-working-for-the-King-of-Hell Grandpa!
-Words cannot express how much I love that in amongst all this family and surrogate family drama, Rufus is in the background, sneaking a quick belt of booze. Rufus, you are awesome. XD
-"You don't remember." Aw crap. What's Grandpa gonna get Sam into. DON'T SCRATCH THE WALL, SAM!!!
-I also love Rufus for sauntering in with his flask in hand and cutting through the distracting bullshit to get the hunt back on track.
-Seriously, if I was to go out hunting evil things, my hair would not look like that. It would be in a pony tail at the very least. Not that it isn't always in a pony tail, but that hair is not combat practical. One swift head-turn and she's blinded for a split second. Unless she's using industrial grade hair product. Heh. Hunter-grade hair product, maybe even blessed. Holy Mousse. Yeah, sure, her hair offers a +1 defense versus unholy creatures and entities. Sure. *nods*
-"You don't know half the things that I know, kid." *snerk* Poor Bobby.
-"You what?" Oh dear, someone didn't get the whole story. I sense another crisis of morality or something for Gwen.
-Incidentally, in the meantime, while all these bozos are sitting around in a well lit room yacking and being excellent targets, and Dean's off wandering alone who knows where and being an excellent target, where the heck is Eve?
-Yeah, that's what you get when you let a party member wander off alone in evil thingie territory. You get a possessed party member. Crap. DEAN!!!
-One down. Last of the Campbell cousins. Her Holy Mousse is no good versus an Eve-brain-hoovered Dean. Oof. When Dean gets over this there is going to be some serious angst blowback, though really, getting possessed (or de-souled) is a legitimate and well-established pass for murder on this show.
-Oh my god, they actually attempted (really really badly) CPR and first aid sort of things. Has that ever happened on this show before? O.o
-"We're gonna find him alive, Samuel, or I'm gonna put a bullet in your head." Hehehe. Good boy Sam. You might not remember much, about your time in Samuel's camp (and the only confirmed actual memory you have is of him being disappointed at you for using a guy as unwitting bait for a spider-monster), but you know what the priority is.
-Really? Two minutes with a paperclip and Dean's through that padlock. Or even one second with a bullet or prybar. I don't think Dean's going to be attempting to leave the facility anyway, but still.
-Dean is a scary bastard at the best of times. Dean under the influence of Eve is rather freaky, especially considering that although three out of four people in the building will likely be trying hard not to kill him, Dean won't have that stricture in his current frame of mind.
-Did Grandpa and Rufus just effectively split up? I think they did. They're doomed. I suspect Rufus is slightly more doomed, since Grandpa has a connection to the plot arc that might have some resolution coming yet.
-Sam has Dean's number as just 'D'. Aw. And if Dean didn't already think of his cell phone ring being used to reveal his location even in his brain-fudged state, I'll be a tad disappointed.
-"Dean, put that damn thing down." Yeah, just a hunch, but I don't think that's gonna work, Rufus. Been nice knowing you. :-/
-...or not! Hey, Grandpa to the rescue! I guess. Gah. *twitches*
-"I just had a twelve inch (harpy?) crawl out of my ear." ...Harpy?? In any case, yay for Dean getting depossessed.
-Worm thing. OMG DEAN HAD THE BRAIN WORMS!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA... ha ha... ha... It's an Invader Zim thing. *handwaves*
-"Like a Khan worm on steroids." OMG, I TOTALLY SAID THE SAME THING WAY UP THERE!!! Trekkie!Dean FTW!! \o/
-HEEEEE! There has to be some kind of common sense rule about not sticking your finger in the ear of armed and agitated people. Could be the last wet willy you ever administer, there Rufus. Also, CONTINUITY OMG. From when Rufus was introduced. "You ever do her ear?"/"Sounds uncomfortable." Well, now Dean knows. XD
-"Give up your guns." YAY BOBBY WITH THE LOGIC OF THE EVENING. Everyone turn in your guns (not like you all can't kill each other in many other creative ways) and minimize the opportunities for quick death, at least.
-It occurs to me that I have not in recent recaps said how much I love the set design people. Obliquely, yes, but not directly. Therefore...
I LOVE to polka THE SET DESIGN PEOPLE.
-"Like Omaha?" I also love the scriptwriters for seeding Bobby and Rufus backstory fic seeds around randomly.
-"What I did pales in comparison to what you did." Nononononono. No scratching the wall. This is very much not a good time for Sam to have a seizure. CRAP!
-"The minute we kill this thing, you're next." Really, I do not blame Dean. Grandpa betrayed them to Crowley and tried to feed him to ghouls and doesn't regret it. It's not like he missed sending a birthday present.
-AH CRAP! RUN!!! OR PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE!!
-"A monster would definitely not give up all his weapons." True, but really, neither would a hunter. Tell me you don't have a boot knife or something tucked away. Dean probably still clanks.
-Ooo, Samuel's booby-trapping the place. Now the fun really begins.
-OW. Nails and gas. OW.
-*snicker* Look up. Waaaay up.
-And now the divide and conquer begins. Any bets on whether when Sam runs into Samuel, He'll be finding out more missing memories? Didn't think so.
-"You're still named after me."/"I said don't move!" Ooo. A) low tactics from Samuel, possessed or not, and B) Sam needs to bark more orders. Like a lot.
-"You're dying to know, hunh?" Yep. Like that was ever not going to happen when Sam and Samuel got within range of each other.
-HOLY CRAP, SAM SHOT SAMUEL!!! IN THE HEAD. AND IT WON'T CAP WORTH BEANS. OMG. So much for scratching the wall, and I guess that's all the plot arc resolution Samuel's gonna get. Well then, if Sam's got the earworm, that's one thing, if he hasn't, shooting Samuel in the head is about their best chance of killing the damn thing. But of course he's got the earworm. Right?
-I kind of love how they made it uncertain what's really going on right up to the commercial break. Maybe Sam shot him and the earworm is dead now. Maybe Sam's possessed and he just killed Grandpa. Maybe neither of them are possessed and now Sam thinks it's dead and... yeah. Nice ambivalence. Even though I can see how much episode is left and know that things are no where near over yet. *is also trying not to think of certain plot elements of the book referred to by the episode title...* Also, really, under that hair, who could tell if Sam's been earwormed or not.
-"Did you see anything come out of him, after he dropped?" Owwww. And now the pain starts.
-"Bobby, you got a cranial saw in the car?"/"Of course." I LOVE RUFUS AND BOBBY. But, but it's too early yet and the earworm is still out there and someone else is- Oh god this could be bad. O.O
-"If anything crawls outta anybody, somebody step on it." *draws hearts around Rufus* I hope you don't die Rufus, but right now of the people still walking, you've got the lowest likelihood of survival.
-Oh and BTW, hooray to the show's bondage department for the use of freaking zip ties! Excellent and effective method of restraint used by law enforcement even (and I don't doubt Rufus has the right kind of zip tie with the metal wire core). Good to see the token three strands of ineffectual rope getting the night off.
-And now the angst. Oh Sam.
-"What would Mom say?" Oh god. And yeah, now leaning towards Sam being possessed. Maybe. ARG! I have no idea (except for a clue based on the title source) and I LOVE THIS EPISODE! IT'S MAKING ME THINK!!! \o/
-"Just 'cause you're blood doesn't make you family." Yes. A hundred times over. And I'd like to think if Mary knew what Samuel had done to try getting her resurrected, and tried to kill her kids, I'd like to think she'd be in favor of Sam rather than Samuel, possessed or not.
-Uh oh. Sam's hair is looking a trifle too organized and his ears are exposed. He must have the earworm. Maybe there's more than one...
-*flails all over at Bobby and Rufus and the Omaha conversation* Oh my goooooood.
-YES!!! \o/ THIS GODDAMN EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILER FOR AGATHA FREAKING CHRISTIE!!!
-I've had mornings like this. Wake up and feel like you've been shot in the head, you have worms in your brain and someone's been trying to saw your skull open. Far too many mornings. I don't think tea and Tylenol's gonna help this one.
-Rufus, dude, you're being attacked by an earworm zombie and you don't hang on to the cranial saw for use in combat? Silly boy.
-NOW THAT'S SOME DOOR-KICKING!!! That doesn't want to cap, but that was some Winchester door-kicking right there. And there is still far too much time left in this episode. Eek...
-Did Bobby just get electrocuted?!? D-:
-TANDEM DOOR-KICKING! The worm is loose, Bobby's down and possibly electrocuted, and bam! No freaking table leg is gonna keep the Winchesters out of that room.
-Oh yay, everyone's up. Now where is the freaking worm??
-"Define a hundred." Hee. Dean. *headshake*
-"Check for goo." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. This episode has definitely been sponsored by Q-tips. *falls out of chair*
-Um. Sam? While I normally appreciate your planning capabilities, this apparent plan to have everyone electrocute themselves when you don't know whether the level of zapping required is survivable by the living or not is, to use the technical term, FUCKING NUTS. Especially considering there's a relatively fresh corpse down the hall a ways and you know this thing doesn't seem to mind animating the dead. Unless of course you are actually earworm!possessed!Sam and are doing this as a way to kill of everyone else, in which case it's quite clever indeed.
-Dean's first, of course. It's been over five years since he was nearly killed by electrocution. Although I don't know how well his watch might function after that.
-Oh crap. Yeah. Bobby had his hands behind his back for a while there. Oh crap....
-FUCK. RUFUS! O.O
-I'm quite glad I didn't watch this without access to a pause button he first time watching it through. Because this commercial break would have killed me dead. Bye, Rufus. I'm really sorry the only time I wrote you in fic, I made you a bit of an asshole. Oh boys. Oh, god, Bobby. D-:
-Punching works on it too, hooray!
-Duct tape!!! And zip ties to the chair arms. Show is learning a little about effective restraint methods! \o/ Oh Bobby. This is gonna hurt everyone. *is twitching anxiously*
-"Why do you keep talking about herpes?"/"I don't. Shut up." *snort*
-"It's nice in here." Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez! It's not much different than his usual voice, but it's enough to give me serious shivers. O.O
-"I've been waiting for you to ask." I have no words for this screencap. This and the voice, gaaaaah! O.O Also, plot-bomb inbound, yes?
-"You're all gonna die." ...Well, that was nicely informative, thanks Eve. Next time, just send an email, m'kay?
-Oh god. They- What? They can't. They... Oh god. Taped over his ears so it can't get out, oh my god, Bobby better survive this or HAUNT THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF YOU TWO MORONS FOREVER!!! D-:
-Feeling about like Sam does, watching this happen to Bobby, Sam turning away. Oh god it's a pre-hiatus episode, they could fucking hang us with Bobby being dead, and Dean having killed him, oh my god. Also, duct tape melts, guys, and Bobby's not a young guy, and and and ohgod
-STEP ON IT!!! SQUASH THAT THING!!! (also nicely similar shot to the one of the earworm in Wrath of Khan *nods*)
-"He's not breathing!" OMG NOOOOOOOO and now we have hiatus and everything will be fine and dandy sometime in April, even though Rufus and Bobby were the only ones who actually tried CPR, and Sam and Dean tend to be more the shake and shout type, and will they call Castiel? Will Castiel be able to help? OMG. Bobby will be totally fine and... Hey... Wait... there's still a lot of that progress bar to go on this. Maybe he's okay... Or maybe it's just a Soon...
-OH HELL NO. No, no, wait, Rufus died too, and Samuel and Gwen, this could be just a VERY MEAN FAKE-OUT, right? Right!?
-Also they'd be burning Bobby and not burying him. But the same goes for Rufus. Hang on, isn't Rufus Jewish? That would explain the burial, but- GAHHHHH.... I don't want to hit play. I wasn't ready for Bobby to die tonight! O.O
-SERA GAMBLE, I AM GOING TO PUNCH YOU IN THE GODDAMN FACE, YOU BIG MEAN FAKING-OUTING PERSON YOU!!! NO, I'M NOT BLAMING THE SCRIPTWRITER FOR THAT, I SQUARELY BLAME YOU, YOU DISINGENUOUS COW! I love you really, but holy CRAP! *headdesk* Oh good. Oh yay. Bobby's alive. FUCK. Now I really need a drink.
-Aw, Rufus. Ohhhh. Bobby and Rufus backstory. Ohhh. Oh, Bobby.
-And defining family, and apologies, and forgiveness, and ohhhh.
-And goddamn Johnny Walker Blue Label. OHHHHHHH. *wibbles*
-AND A MODIFIED DEAN'S FRIGGING FAMILY THEME ON THE SOUNDTRACK. DAMN IT SOUND PEOPLE, MY KLEENEX IS IN THE OTHER ROOM!
Well, that's me through the wringer. On that note, the birdies tell me the next new episode is April 15th, so bunker up and bring on the Rufus and Bobby fic!
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Spoiler and Theory Summary
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...Actually, in retrospect, I knew nothing! \o/
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.16 - ??? "...And Then There Were None."
Live reaction time! Last one before the middle of April!
-Adjusting headphones should be left until after bypassing the "Then". Two seconds. Two seconds. Rufus Turner, eh? Awesome! Hope he's not gonna die.
-White nightgown-like apparel and bare feet at a gas station at night. Yeah. Run now, trucker dude.
-Trucker dude looks familiar. Not sure why, has he died on the show before?
-Eve. Oh, right. Big momma. Of the monsters? Well, okay then, I guess? Could be THE Eve, but it could be she's picked the name Eve (which until there's further input from Show is the direction I'm leaning) just to be perverse. I'll leave the theology up to those more inclined to elaborate.
-"You're very pretty but this is not what's right for you." I think I love you for not being a sleaze, trucker dude.
-Oh dear. Offering religious pamphlets to Big Mama of the monsters. This is going to be messy, isn't it?
-"Your Apocalypse came and went and you didn't even notice." Yeah, that it did. Intriguing little speech from Eve. (Suddenly trying very hard not to think of Eve from Wall-E. I DON'T KNOW EITHER. O.o)
-Ah! Are we ear-biting or brain-sucking tonight? Feels like a good night for brain-sucking, given the squishy slurpy noises. Bye trucker dude. Your nostrils are frightening.
-Oh, hey, there's more pre-title stuff! I'm actually surprised by that. I am easily surprised and distracted tonight. I blame work.
-Oh crap. He's not dead. D-:
-*shudders* O.O
-"...And Then There Were None." ...Oh. My. God. That's an Agatha Christie novel! It's also been published as "Ten Little Indians" which I read far too often in high school. And I'm not going to give away the plot of it here unless show does, but we'll see. Oh wow. *is excited*
-Big Mama's on a road trip, looks like.
-Okay, I know I've seen this guy on something before, and I'm pretty sure it was Supernatural. Dammit! I can see the guy and his mopey face. This is gonna bug me.
-HOLY CRAP BOBBY'S IN A COAT AND TIE AND HAS NO HAT OMG IT'S THE APOCALYPSE AGAIN ISN'T IT!!!? O.o
-BTW, BOBBY'S tie report (which has to be some kind of significant) is a complex pale blue and white stripe going down to the left on a burgundy-wine base. And he may be wearing a grey trenchcoat. If Bobby's wearing a goddamn trenchcoat I may be spending a lot more of this recap being less coherent than usual. Holy crap.
-Sam and Dean tie report... well look at that, everyone's stripes are going down and to the left. Sam's are really faint, but they're there. We're all on the same page tonight. And the time in the interrogation/interview room is about 12:42PM, just in case that turns out to be important.
-Wow. Bobby on a case with the boys. Wow. I suspect this means he'll be imperiled... aw crap. Bobby's going to get his brain sucked out through the ear (or whatever Eve's doing, telling them the truth about something? Implanting something like a Wrath of Khan earworm? I dunno. O.o) and get all possessed and murdery on them. Aw crap. I knew there was a reason I found Bobby's lack of hat disturbing. O.o
-Bobby's tie stripes are grey band with blue and white pin-striping along the edges... nope, not Sam's tie from 6.14. I would make seriously unnatural noises if Bobby was swapping ties with Sam and Dean. I'm guessing Bobby has his own hotel room, but the idea of them all sharing a room like John and the boys used to is giving me serious warm fuzzies. Bobby probably has an adorable snore.... What? Sorry, right, monster on the loose, people murdering each other, serious business. *makes SRS BZNZ face*
-Yes. Weird crap Bobby has not seen before is weird crap to be feared.
-BOBBY IS WEARING A TRENCHCOAT, OMG!!!! \o/
-SERIOUS BUSINESS DAMMIT. Ahem. Focus. It's just a coat. People in a cannery are being murdered. OMG coat squee *Bobbysmishing*
-Oh god. He's walking. In that coat. I'm going to be utterly useless tonight, gang.
-Written by Brett Matthews who I don't recognize off-hand because my head is full of Bobby-inna-trenchcoat.
-"FBI, Willis." CONTINUITY, I LOVE YOU!! Willis was the last name Bobby was using the last time we saw him answering the phone bank at the scrap yard. He's used other names, but that's the one he used most recently. Yay! \o/
-Directed by Mike Rohl, who is slightly more familiar, but still distracted. I don't need the mother of all monsters to suck my brain out my ear. Bobby in a trenchcoat will do it.
-OMG RUFUS TOO! IT'S DUELING BADASS GRUMPY OLD TRENCHCOATS FOR THE FREAKING WIN!!! \o/ (On the other hand, Rufus's tie appears to be stripeless, so... hm...)
-"Come on man, it's not rocket surgery." *rofl*
-"Just like old times."/"As long as I get to drive."/*giggles* "Hell no." ...I, I, I, no words. I want epic hunting-buddy backstory for Rufus and Bobby and I want it now. Especially considering if they're both here and Big Mama's handing out brain worms, Rufus is likely gonna die tonight. And Bobby might be the one who kills him. AUGH! D-:
-GLAAAGGHAHGAHGAGHAGH!!! :-P Gyah! Ear, ichor, ew! Tonight's episode is brought to you by Q-tips. Are you sure you don't have a monster in your ear?
-Seriously, I love Sam and Dean and Castiel to bits, but I would happily watch the Bobby and Rufus show any day.
-Aw, all the boys together (except Castiel, but he's likely busy elsewhere). Also rather nerve-wracking.
-I get nervous when they smile and are happy too much. It gives me an even bigger sense of foreboding and doom. Gaaaaah.
-Oh, hey, it's a Campbell cousin! And the potential death and murderation pool grows even bigger. What was Gwen doing when we last saw her? having a crisis of conscience regarding finding out who Grandpa Samuel was really working for if I recall correctly.
-...which she's apparently dealt with, because there's Grandpa. Oh dear. How many semi-regular characters are gonna get done in tonight, anyway? O.o
-"Welcome to next time." Ooooohohohohoh. I forgot about that.
-Dean is pissed. I don't blame him. What exactly was it? Turning them over to Crowley for his own gain, even though that gain would have been Mary? Trying to feed Dean to critters? Can't look it up till after I finish watching because, well, spoilers.
-Dean, what are you doing? Don't go off alone! Nothing good ever happens that way!
-"You're Samuel"/"You must be the guy pretending to be their father." OW. Right, if no one else shoots Samuel, I might.
-"Somebody ought to." Yeah, Bobby! In your face, creepy secretly-working-for-the-King-of-Hell Grandpa!
-Words cannot express how much I love that in amongst all this family and surrogate family drama, Rufus is in the background, sneaking a quick belt of booze. Rufus, you are awesome. XD
-"You don't remember." Aw crap. What's Grandpa gonna get Sam into. DON'T SCRATCH THE WALL, SAM!!!
-I also love Rufus for sauntering in with his flask in hand and cutting through the distracting bullshit to get the hunt back on track.
-Seriously, if I was to go out hunting evil things, my hair would not look like that. It would be in a pony tail at the very least. Not that it isn't always in a pony tail, but that hair is not combat practical. One swift head-turn and she's blinded for a split second. Unless she's using industrial grade hair product. Heh. Hunter-grade hair product, maybe even blessed. Holy Mousse. Yeah, sure, her hair offers a +1 defense versus unholy creatures and entities. Sure. *nods*
-"You don't know half the things that I know, kid." *snerk* Poor Bobby.
-"You what?" Oh dear, someone didn't get the whole story. I sense another crisis of morality or something for Gwen.
-Incidentally, in the meantime, while all these bozos are sitting around in a well lit room yacking and being excellent targets, and Dean's off wandering alone who knows where and being an excellent target, where the heck is Eve?
-Yeah, that's what you get when you let a party member wander off alone in evil thingie territory. You get a possessed party member. Crap. DEAN!!!
-One down. Last of the Campbell cousins. Her Holy Mousse is no good versus an Eve-brain-hoovered Dean. Oof. When Dean gets over this there is going to be some serious angst blowback, though really, getting possessed (or de-souled) is a legitimate and well-established pass for murder on this show.
-Oh my god, they actually attempted (really really badly) CPR and first aid sort of things. Has that ever happened on this show before? O.o
-"We're gonna find him alive, Samuel, or I'm gonna put a bullet in your head." Hehehe. Good boy Sam. You might not remember much, about your time in Samuel's camp (and the only confirmed actual memory you have is of him being disappointed at you for using a guy as unwitting bait for a spider-monster), but you know what the priority is.
-Really? Two minutes with a paperclip and Dean's through that padlock. Or even one second with a bullet or prybar. I don't think Dean's going to be attempting to leave the facility anyway, but still.
-Dean is a scary bastard at the best of times. Dean under the influence of Eve is rather freaky, especially considering that although three out of four people in the building will likely be trying hard not to kill him, Dean won't have that stricture in his current frame of mind.
-Did Grandpa and Rufus just effectively split up? I think they did. They're doomed. I suspect Rufus is slightly more doomed, since Grandpa has a connection to the plot arc that might have some resolution coming yet.
-Sam has Dean's number as just 'D'. Aw. And if Dean didn't already think of his cell phone ring being used to reveal his location even in his brain-fudged state, I'll be a tad disappointed.
-"Dean, put that damn thing down." Yeah, just a hunch, but I don't think that's gonna work, Rufus. Been nice knowing you. :-/
-...or not! Hey, Grandpa to the rescue! I guess. Gah. *twitches*
-"I just had a twelve inch (harpy?) crawl out of my ear." ...Harpy?? In any case, yay for Dean getting depossessed.
-Worm thing. OMG DEAN HAD THE BRAIN WORMS!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA... ha ha... ha... It's an Invader Zim thing. *handwaves*
-"Like a Khan worm on steroids." OMG, I TOTALLY SAID THE SAME THING WAY UP THERE!!! Trekkie!Dean FTW!! \o/
-HEEEEE! There has to be some kind of common sense rule about not sticking your finger in the ear of armed and agitated people. Could be the last wet willy you ever administer, there Rufus. Also, CONTINUITY OMG. From when Rufus was introduced. "You ever do her ear?"/"Sounds uncomfortable." Well, now Dean knows. XD
-"Give up your guns." YAY BOBBY WITH THE LOGIC OF THE EVENING. Everyone turn in your guns (not like you all can't kill each other in many other creative ways) and minimize the opportunities for quick death, at least.
-It occurs to me that I have not in recent recaps said how much I love the set design people. Obliquely, yes, but not directly. Therefore...
I LOVE to polka THE SET DESIGN PEOPLE.
-"Like Omaha?" I also love the scriptwriters for seeding Bobby and Rufus backstory fic seeds around randomly.
-"What I did pales in comparison to what you did." Nononononono. No scratching the wall. This is very much not a good time for Sam to have a seizure. CRAP!
-"The minute we kill this thing, you're next." Really, I do not blame Dean. Grandpa betrayed them to Crowley and tried to feed him to ghouls and doesn't regret it. It's not like he missed sending a birthday present.
-AH CRAP! RUN!!! OR PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE!!
-"A monster would definitely not give up all his weapons." True, but really, neither would a hunter. Tell me you don't have a boot knife or something tucked away. Dean probably still clanks.
-Ooo, Samuel's booby-trapping the place. Now the fun really begins.
-OW. Nails and gas. OW.
-*snicker* Look up. Waaaay up.
-And now the divide and conquer begins. Any bets on whether when Sam runs into Samuel, He'll be finding out more missing memories? Didn't think so.
-"You're still named after me."/"I said don't move!" Ooo. A) low tactics from Samuel, possessed or not, and B) Sam needs to bark more orders. Like a lot.
-"You're dying to know, hunh?" Yep. Like that was ever not going to happen when Sam and Samuel got within range of each other.
-HOLY CRAP, SAM SHOT SAMUEL!!! IN THE HEAD. AND IT WON'T CAP WORTH BEANS. OMG. So much for scratching the wall, and I guess that's all the plot arc resolution Samuel's gonna get. Well then, if Sam's got the earworm, that's one thing, if he hasn't, shooting Samuel in the head is about their best chance of killing the damn thing. But of course he's got the earworm. Right?
-I kind of love how they made it uncertain what's really going on right up to the commercial break. Maybe Sam shot him and the earworm is dead now. Maybe Sam's possessed and he just killed Grandpa. Maybe neither of them are possessed and now Sam thinks it's dead and... yeah. Nice ambivalence. Even though I can see how much episode is left and know that things are no where near over yet. *is also trying not to think of certain plot elements of the book referred to by the episode title...* Also, really, under that hair, who could tell if Sam's been earwormed or not.
-"Did you see anything come out of him, after he dropped?" Owwww. And now the pain starts.
-"Bobby, you got a cranial saw in the car?"/"Of course." I LOVE RUFUS AND BOBBY. But, but it's too early yet and the earworm is still out there and someone else is- Oh god this could be bad. O.O
-"If anything crawls outta anybody, somebody step on it." *draws hearts around Rufus* I hope you don't die Rufus, but right now of the people still walking, you've got the lowest likelihood of survival.
-Oh and BTW, hooray to the show's bondage department for the use of freaking zip ties! Excellent and effective method of restraint used by law enforcement even (and I don't doubt Rufus has the right kind of zip tie with the metal wire core). Good to see the token three strands of ineffectual rope getting the night off.
-And now the angst. Oh Sam.
-"What would Mom say?" Oh god. And yeah, now leaning towards Sam being possessed. Maybe. ARG! I have no idea (except for a clue based on the title source) and I LOVE THIS EPISODE! IT'S MAKING ME THINK!!! \o/
-"Just 'cause you're blood doesn't make you family." Yes. A hundred times over. And I'd like to think if Mary knew what Samuel had done to try getting her resurrected, and tried to kill her kids, I'd like to think she'd be in favor of Sam rather than Samuel, possessed or not.
-Uh oh. Sam's hair is looking a trifle too organized and his ears are exposed. He must have the earworm. Maybe there's more than one...
-*flails all over at Bobby and Rufus and the Omaha conversation* Oh my goooooood.
-YES!!! \o/ THIS GODDAMN EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILER FOR AGATHA FREAKING CHRISTIE!!!
-I've had mornings like this. Wake up and feel like you've been shot in the head, you have worms in your brain and someone's been trying to saw your skull open. Far too many mornings. I don't think tea and Tylenol's gonna help this one.
-Rufus, dude, you're being attacked by an earworm zombie and you don't hang on to the cranial saw for use in combat? Silly boy.
-NOW THAT'S SOME DOOR-KICKING!!! That doesn't want to cap, but that was some Winchester door-kicking right there. And there is still far too much time left in this episode. Eek...
-Did Bobby just get electrocuted?!? D-:
-TANDEM DOOR-KICKING! The worm is loose, Bobby's down and possibly electrocuted, and bam! No freaking table leg is gonna keep the Winchesters out of that room.
-Oh yay, everyone's up. Now where is the freaking worm??
-"Define a hundred." Hee. Dean. *headshake*
-"Check for goo." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. This episode has definitely been sponsored by Q-tips. *falls out of chair*
-Um. Sam? While I normally appreciate your planning capabilities, this apparent plan to have everyone electrocute themselves when you don't know whether the level of zapping required is survivable by the living or not is, to use the technical term, FUCKING NUTS. Especially considering there's a relatively fresh corpse down the hall a ways and you know this thing doesn't seem to mind animating the dead. Unless of course you are actually earworm!possessed!Sam and are doing this as a way to kill of everyone else, in which case it's quite clever indeed.
-Dean's first, of course. It's been over five years since he was nearly killed by electrocution. Although I don't know how well his watch might function after that.
-Oh crap. Yeah. Bobby had his hands behind his back for a while there. Oh crap....
-FUCK. RUFUS! O.O
-I'm quite glad I didn't watch this without access to a pause button he first time watching it through. Because this commercial break would have killed me dead. Bye, Rufus. I'm really sorry the only time I wrote you in fic, I made you a bit of an asshole. Oh boys. Oh, god, Bobby. D-:
-Punching works on it too, hooray!
-Duct tape!!! And zip ties to the chair arms. Show is learning a little about effective restraint methods! \o/ Oh Bobby. This is gonna hurt everyone. *is twitching anxiously*
-"Why do you keep talking about herpes?"/"I don't. Shut up." *snort*
-"It's nice in here." Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez! It's not much different than his usual voice, but it's enough to give me serious shivers. O.O
-"I've been waiting for you to ask." I have no words for this screencap. This and the voice, gaaaaah! O.O Also, plot-bomb inbound, yes?
-"You're all gonna die." ...Well, that was nicely informative, thanks Eve. Next time, just send an email, m'kay?
-Oh god. They- What? They can't. They... Oh god. Taped over his ears so it can't get out, oh my god, Bobby better survive this or HAUNT THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF YOU TWO MORONS FOREVER!!! D-:
-Feeling about like Sam does, watching this happen to Bobby, Sam turning away. Oh god it's a pre-hiatus episode, they could fucking hang us with Bobby being dead, and Dean having killed him, oh my god. Also, duct tape melts, guys, and Bobby's not a young guy, and and and ohgod
-STEP ON IT!!! SQUASH THAT THING!!! (also nicely similar shot to the one of the earworm in Wrath of Khan *nods*)
-"He's not breathing!" OMG NOOOOOOOO and now we have hiatus and everything will be fine and dandy sometime in April, even though Rufus and Bobby were the only ones who actually tried CPR, and Sam and Dean tend to be more the shake and shout type, and will they call Castiel? Will Castiel be able to help? OMG. Bobby will be totally fine and... Hey... Wait... there's still a lot of that progress bar to go on this. Maybe he's okay... Or maybe it's just a Soon...
-OH HELL NO. No, no, wait, Rufus died too, and Samuel and Gwen, this could be just a VERY MEAN FAKE-OUT, right? Right!?
-Also they'd be burning Bobby and not burying him. But the same goes for Rufus. Hang on, isn't Rufus Jewish? That would explain the burial, but- GAHHHHH.... I don't want to hit play. I wasn't ready for Bobby to die tonight! O.O
-SERA GAMBLE, I AM GOING TO PUNCH YOU IN THE GODDAMN FACE, YOU BIG MEAN FAKING-OUTING PERSON YOU!!! NO, I'M NOT BLAMING THE SCRIPTWRITER FOR THAT, I SQUARELY BLAME YOU, YOU DISINGENUOUS COW! I love you really, but holy CRAP! *headdesk* Oh good. Oh yay. Bobby's alive. FUCK. Now I really need a drink.
-Aw, Rufus. Ohhhh. Bobby and Rufus backstory. Ohhh. Oh, Bobby.
-And defining family, and apologies, and forgiveness, and ohhhh.
-And goddamn Johnny Walker Blue Label. OHHHHHHH. *wibbles*
-AND A MODIFIED DEAN'S FRIGGING FAMILY THEME ON THE SOUNDTRACK. DAMN IT SOUND PEOPLE, MY KLEENEX IS IN THE OTHER ROOM!
Well, that's me through the wringer. On that note, the birdies tell me the next new episode is April 15th, so bunker up and bring on the Rufus and Bobby fic!
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