Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 6.20
Contains profanity, capslock and speculation....
...AND EXCESSIVE QUOTING. Omigod.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
NOTHING. Nothing except the speculation springing from the spoilers for 6.19. There will be hurty shouting, and Castiel is probably going to Fall hard.
Can I get this watched before the finale? We shall see. Castiel's got some 'splainin' to do.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.20 - ??? "The Man Who Would Be King"
Slight delay as I seem to have surprise French subtitles. Cool, yet distracting. o.O
-Skipping the THEN. Like I don't know what's coming.
-AW. Castiel, you poor desperate idiot. Next to a very BC-looking tree. Half moss.
-Oh my god this montage is beyond words. Also, some high quality beheading special effects in there. *nods*
-"And a fallen angel" *blink* Oh really? Okay then. Still has his Grace though... Hm.
-HI ADAM!!! *waves like a loon* Hope Lucifer's cage is treating you... um... Well. Uh. Good to see you.
-*full-on kisses the location scouts* Oh, snow, spring flowers, trees, stream, ooo. *flappy hands*
-"Let me tell you my story. Let me tell you everything." ABOUT FREAKING TIME!!! Not that the Winchesters were too interested in listening before with all the Alpha/Crowley/Grandpa/Purgatory stuff, but DAMN. ANSWERS!! \o/
-Also HI STARING STRAIGHT AT THE AUDIENCE!!! Seriously, are we hitting the fourth wall again here? O.o
-Who would Castiel actually be talking to there... Chuck's buggered off, although he never knew who Chuck was supposed to be so he could be praying, I guess? Or... Hm. Or talking to that 'Heaven's gardener' guy? Hm. We'll find out, I guess.
-"The Man Who Would Be King." Oh dear. That really, REALLY doesn't bode well for Castiel.
-Ahh, that's why Sam's not in the car. Dean's giving Castiel landing space. Wonder how long he was driving around for.
-"Yeah, I'm fine, how are you?" Heheheheh. The look. Yeah. There will be shouting, if Castiel sticks around for it and doesn't flutter away. I guess they can get him into a ring of holy oil. Then they can shout at him all they want.
-"I'm... looking, believe me." *snerk* You totally and forever suck at lying, Castiel.
-"He's tracking a djinn in Omaha as we speak." Suuuuuuuuuure. It's a good thing Castiel is credulous as a five-year old and can't detect Sam because of the rib tattoos, so he can't tell Sam is actually... hm. Probably in a nearby handy warehouse or something, pouring oil all over the floor in loops and then hiding in a closet with a zippo. Possibly with Bobby, but Castiel would detect Bobby. I can't remember, did he get rib tattooed later on? He might have, my memory's going. But he can slap some Enochian graffiti and invisiblize the place to angels anyway. He's Bobby, he's awesome like that.
-"You'll call, right? If you get into real trouble?" Sure. Now that you doubt him you offer when before you were all 'stow that greater purpose crap' and... arg. Dean. Idjit.
-And a very non-answery head-bobble from Cas, and then he's gone. Honestly, boys.
-Crowley's monster dissection lab has Muzak. Aw. I guess he misses Hell.
-Gaaaah, the guy in the upright helicopter stretcher is still alive and wiggling. O.O
-"And yet..." EUUUAGHGHCH!!! MONSTER ROE, OMG. O.O Also... kind of Lovecraftian...
-"She keeps laying eggs." Okay, that's disturbing on so many levels I can't even brain, so here, have a cap of Crowley looking adorably confused. Oh and *adds Monster Roe to the Wall of Future Plot Devices along with Sam's Mental Hell Wall*
-And this poor bastard. Not only held captive and experimented on, but watching his mom's perpetual autopsy. And tortured some more. D-:
-"Apart from the obvious erotic value, you got me." Ah Crowley, being dead half the season hasn't changed you at all.
-"You said Eve could open the door to Purgatory."/"Correct. I did. And I'm confident that she could have, IF SHE WAS STILL ALIVE!" Hahahah. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. Or in this case, Dean Winchester.
-"The stench of that Impala's all over your overcoat, angel." Oh my. Yeah, I guess all the anti-demonic stuff lurking around in the Impala would leave riders a bit whiffy to a demon, even if they're angels already. XD
-Written and Directed by Ben Edlund. Oh my. We could be in for one hell of a ride here. I keep thinking of Edlund as the King of Crack, but he seems to also write the Castiel-centric stuff. Have we had him as a director before? Looks like his last Director credit was on Angel, on the episode "Smile Time" which was, well, crack. With puppets. Hm. Have we had the writer directing his own script before, aside from Kripke? This could be very interesting.
-"I think you might have a little conflict of interest here." True, from certain perspectives... actually, okay, from most perspectives. But it depends what his goals are. Maybe.
-"I still considered myself the Winchesters' guardian." All together now; AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! *flail*
-"HEY, ASS-BUTT!" *snerk* I know it's a clip. Just... HEE! XD
-WHOA! Okay, the matrix pause zoom in whaddayacallit thingy from the prior clip of Castiel's exploding bits IS SO GODDAMN COOL!!! And utterly uncappable. Oh wow. Are we gonna find out what happened to Cas between getting exploded and him turning up with a power boost after Sam and Adam went down the hole??? Ooooo! *flappy hands*
-OMG I thought that was a monster egg for a second. He fissioned, sort of... but not quite.... WHAT DOES THAT MEEEEEAN??? 8-O
-So there wasn't an awareness between getting exploded and getting leveled up, so he still doesn't know exactly why he was brought back. Interesting. *ponders*
-"Once again I went to harrow Hell, to free Sam from Lucifer's Cage." OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. WHAT??? So... he couldn't before... who raised Castiel how high in the chain of command to even have a chance at getting into Lucifer's cage?? Though I suppose he could have had the rings... NEEDS MORE BRAIN. Also I should probably just watch and wait for further info, right?
-Incidentally? THIS IS HOW YOU DO A CLIP SHOW. Most shows have them, a show half full of flashbacks or memories from previous shows, saves budget, etc. THIS. Doing the clips from prior episodes and then CHANGING THEM OR ADDING A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE TO THEM. That's how you do it. DAMN! \o/
-Okay, okay, I'll stop frothing, promise.
-"Just kill the Winchesters."/"No." *flails silently*
-"Like Lucifer didn't worry? Or Michael, or Lilith, or Alastair, or Azazel didn't worry?!" *grins aaaaall over* Though really, Lilith got them exactly where she wanted them, then sacrificed herself for the good of the Apocalypse.
-Denim-wrapped nightmares. Heeeeee! \o/
-"LET 'EM GET TO ME! I'LL TEAR THEIR FRIGGIN' HEARTS OUT!" Heeehehehehehehe.
-Good shot of the sign at Bobby's place. If oddly ominous.
-Bobby's looking awfully cute for being in the middle of interrogating a demon-turned-hunter. Speaking of which, that must have made for an interesting life. Like a person with a nut allergy making peanut butter.
-Good to see they're hanging on to the magic items. I mean Ruby's dagger. Who am I kidding? Magic item.
-"So he burned the wrong bones, so Crowley tricked him." Ohhhh, god, Dean's still... oh wow. This is going to freaking HUUUUUURT. D-:
-The who? Bulky Bartakamoose? *googles* Oh crap. He's a character off the show Perfect Strangers, a sitcom from the 80's. From Wikipedia: "...he looks at the world like a four-year-old" and "sees the world as benevolent". Ohhhhh crap. This is really, really gonna hurt. Dean hasn't had faith in much beyond family, and now Castiel is family, at least insofar as gaining Dean's trust, if not his appreciation, but now... I can feel the impact of the future OW from here.
-The tip of the iceberg of EPIC MAN PAIN. Right there. Oh Dean. *curls into a ball and rocks back and forth*
-Eeeek. O.O
-"This makes you Lois Lane." But he looked right past... Can Dean not see Castiel? Ooo. HAS CASTIEL ACTUALLY GOT A STEALTH MODE??? 8-O
-"And the worst part was Dean, trying so hard to be loyal with every instinct telling him otherwise." *flails everywhere* Gaaaaah!!!
-"'cause we can twist again, all the way to next summer." ...a Chubby Checker lyric quote, sort of. Hm. I suspect that's not often used in torturing demons.
-"The dispatcher. A demon named Ellsworth." Wait, what? Ellsworth? Hehe. Shoutout to Jim Beaver's Deadwood character. XD
-"If there was a demon counterpart to Bobby Singer, Ellsworth would be it." Aahhhhahahahahahaha! Oh come on, he wasn't nearly as bad as Cy Tolliver. XD
-*chokes on everything ever* Ah, yes. THERE's the Edlund crack. Trucker hat, beard, multiple-line blood-phones, omg *flails weakly* I may laugh myself to death here. XD
-Oooo, Hi Cas! In BAMF mode, woo! \o/
-That's a new trick... O.o
-"I did it to protect the boys. Or to protect myself. I don't know anymore." Awww. Angst and self-doubt all over the place. Caaaaas! *flails*
-Yay, door-kicking and gun pointing! Hah. The set layout's even like Bobby's place. Couch by the window, desk and fireplace... hehe. Going past too fast to be clearly cappable. Very cute.
-Dean: *hand-signal* Sam: "Yeah." Me: *facepalm* Okay. Hand-signals are for situations where talking out loud is inadvisable. But you've already been talking out loud. And if the situation then changes, acknowledging a hand-signal verbally is- AAAARG. *cuffs the back of everybody's heads* Idjits!
-"I favor the eternal Tuesday afternoon of an autistic man who drowned in a bathtub in 1953." That's almost poetic. Maybe a teeny bit creepy, but only a teeny bit. Now I'm wondering if Castiel's not telling all this to the soul of the autistic guy.
-Dude. Castiel has minions. O.o
-"We're all free to make our own choices, to choose our own fates." While former-future turncoat lieutenant woman reacts like he's said, "We're all free to shove our thumbs up our noses and put scorpions in our underpants." Because angels are agents of fate didn't get to use free will. Angels using free will weren't angels anymore. That whole thing is fascinating to me, but I'm sure there's a pile of meta on it out there.
-"God wants you to have freedom."/"...but what does he want us to do with it?" And that pretty much sums that up right there. XD
-"Freedom is a length of rope, God wants you to hang yourself with it." Ha! And that.
-HI ORIGINAL!RAPHAEL!! You're looking decidedly unsalty!
-I don't even know what this means, but I laughed.
-"We'll start by freeing Lucifer and Michael from their cage, and then we'll get our show back on the road." Yep. All along, whatever Castiel's been doing, it's all to stop the re-instatement of the Apocalypse. *nods*
-"It's God's will."/"How can you say that?"/"Because it's what I want." Heh Heh Heh. And, since he's not admitting that he has free will, that means if he wants something, he must want it because God wants him to want it. Heh heh heh. Yeah. There's a word for that kind of logic, but it's escaping me at the moment.
-"Really? You?" Ya know, standing up to the Archangel who's already exploded you "like a water balloon of Chunky soup" once takes some serious... something. Memory loss? Yeah, that might be it.
-Hey, at least he didn't explode you this time. Was that because he was being nice, or because you're too high a level now? Hmmm...
-"No, you talked. I listened." His faaaace.
-"Don't we owe him the benefit of the doubt, at least?" *flails* faaaaace... he's killing me with his face again....
-"DEAN!" GAH! *jumps a foot out of the chair* Oh great, Castiel missed some, and their gonna tell them what happened. If they don't beat everyone stupid. Craaap.
-Castiel's got all the BAMF going on tonight! ...that statement made no sense. Here. have a screencap.
-"I firmly believe Crowley is alive." Yeah. Ya think?
-"You thought what?" Hehe. Almost. A little too much eyebrow on the head wiggle. Gotta work on that fake incredulity if you're going to keep trying this double-agent biz Castiel.
-"You could have just asked me."/"We should have. We never should have doubted you. Just hope you can forgive us." Oh god, this is going to end in SO MUCH PAIN. Because there is no way the truth won't come out. D-:
-"It is a little absurd though. 'Superman going to the dark side.'" OH SHIT. You, uh, weren't officially there during that conversation, Castiel. You are so not cut out for clandestine double agent type crap, you need to keep track of whether you were actually there or not and NOT META-GAME. And know when to STOP TALKING. *facepalming forever*
-You can actually see Dean's heart fall. And now the pain starts.
-Yeah. Pain.
-"They're my friends." Don't mind me, I'mma just curl up in a ball of anticipatory wibble here.
-Crowley has just got such a way of putting things. I'm so glad he's not dead anymore.
-"If you touch a hair on their heads, I will tear it all down. Our arrangement, everything." Oh god, Cas. The most heartbreaking thing about all this is that Castiel is still staunchly on the Winchester's side, and still convinced he's doing the right thing, or the best out of a field of bad options. But he's blown their trust, and being on the outs with Heaven, he has no friends there, and Crowley's nothing other than a means to an end, so, when he lost their trust... he's really lost everything. He just doesn't know it yet. Oh Caaaaas. *rocks back and forth*
-"This is not how synergy works!" Crowley's getting all the good lines tonight.
-And yeah, he went to Crowley because he couldn't go to Dean and that just makes EVERYTHING SO MUCH WORSE.
-"Ah, Castiel. Angel of Thursday." AAAAAAAAAAHAAHAAAH!!!! YES!! About time someone mentioned that! \o/
-"You want to make a Deal? With me?" Castiel's eyebrows, now entering orbit.
-"I'm an angel, you ass!" HEEEEEEEEEEEE! XD
-Whoops, cut him off too soon. "-I don't have a soul to sell." Awwwwww. :-(
-"Five minutes, no obligations. I promise." Yeah, sure. He used to be head of the Crossroad Demons, Cas, don't listen to him.
-Oh god, the shot framings' gonna kill me now, with Castiel facing forward toward Crowley, but looking back over his shoulder at Dean, and Crowley being this big black smiling blodge taking up half the screen, like the mouth of a tunnel Castiel's about to head down with no light at the end and just GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! The imminent soul-rending PAIN!!! *rocks back and forth some more*
-"But I was smarter than him. Stronger." *facepalm* *headshake* Your tone of voice says you don't even believe your own line of crap, Cas. At least in retrospect.
-"And in all likelihood, I was a fool." NO, REALLY??? *headdesk*
-Oh, hey. Is this Hell? With the Blue Danube playing? "Hades, new and improved. I did it myself." Well the endless queue is a tremendous start on crushing souls, I must say.
-"A lot of 'thank you sir, could I have another hot spike up the jacksie?'" Ha! Crowley. We need to keep Crowley. We need more snarky evil.
-"You're asking me to be the next Lucifer." YES. EXACTLY. BINGO. AND OTHER SUCH THINGS. Glad to see that Castiel's not a complete idiot, although this means he saw the implications and did it anyway... which... Sigh. Castiel, you dumbass. *headshake*
-"So you could be the new Sheriff upstairs." Hm. That's exactly what Dean said... before this... Is Crowley stalking him?
-So. The plan is work together to get Purgatory, get half the souls each. Castiel's in the position of mounting a civil war in Heaven to keep the Apocalypse defunct... what's Crowley planning with his half?
-"My position isn't all that stable, duckie." Stable enough to... oh I dunno... RECONFIGURE HELL. Hunh. Seems pretty stable.
-Fifty thousand souls to take up to Heaven... Souls that were supposed to be in Hell... In a Heaven where each person's memories make up their own personal Heaven, what would that do to Heaven's architecture... Hm. Probably not much. Fifty thousand versus all the souls that have gone to Heaven since the start... still. Takeover by osmosis? Sneak a few incipient demons in there, since demons are corrupted human souls in this 'verse... And that's me being paranoid again. Silly.
-"God chose you to save us." Heh heh heh. Yeah. Crowley knows where Castiel keeps his buttons.
-That's a rather foreshadowy focus on Castiel's hand. Like his sword's gonna slide out of his sleeve any second...
-...Or he's gonna start casting fireball. Better for group targets. *nods*
-Or for nuking the leader. Yay for unambiguous messages of rebellion?
-"And so went the long road of good intentions." Yes. And we all know where that one ends. *headshake* Stupid, noble, desperate dumbass.
-"It's you." Yeah, knew Castiel was going to end up in a circle of fire. Now the hurty yelling starts.
-Aw. Sammy is disappoint.
-Yeah, hurty yelling coming online any second now. I need a blanket. *fetches*
-"You gotta look at me, man. You gotta level with me and tell me what's going on." Ow, the face. Ow.
-"Look me in the eye and tell me you're not working with Crowley." And then...
Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. *clutches blanket*
-Most heartbroken 'sonofabitch' ever, yeah?
-"You and Crowley have been going after Purgatory together?" And now the yelling starts. Castiel's not going to get a chance to explain, not that the explanation would make things much better at this point, and Dean's iceberg of man pain is gonna fly.
-So much ow. Can't type. Only screencap.
-"I'm still me. I'm still your friend." And then Sam's face breaks everything ever.
-"Sam, I am the one who raised you from Perdition." Oh, well, hi. That's not going to go over too well, considering you didn't get his soul in the process and there was a year and a half of cage torture, and now a wall keeping his brain from melting. Damn, I want to go back through the season and look at everything Castiel did keeping this alliance with Crowley and assorted activities in mind.
-"Well, no offense but you did a pretty piss poor job of it." Yeah, a valid criticism. *nods*
-"Wait. Did you bring me back soulless on purpose? Oh crap. And with that on the table and them not trusting him anymore... Ohhhhh crap.
-"No, you had a choice. You made the wrong one." *curls up in blanket and rocks some more* Owwww.
-"You don't understand. It's complicated." Yeah, soul economics and desperation strategic alliances with the de facto King of Hell are a bit complex to explain to mortals from inside a ring of fire in less than ten minutes. You could start with"It's to keep the Apocalypse from rebooting" though, since I doubt the mortals in the room have clued into that fully.
-"No actually, it's not and you know that. Why else would you keep this whole thing a secret hunh? Unless you knew that it was wrong." *clutches blanket and whimpers* Fire pretty.
-"What we don't do is go out and make another deal with the devil." Oh come on, Dean! It's practically a Winchester family rite of passage! Adopted or otherwise! Mary did it, John did it, you did it, Sam tried to do it (at least twice) and then fell in cahoots with Ruby, Bobby did it, it's Cas's turn! He says he doesn't have a soul to sell, so he's made a really dumb alliance and is going to Fall hard. All for the sake of family. Just because he's the newest member of the clan, doesn't mean he can't be just as bone-stupid as the rest of you.
-"Sounds so simple when you say it like that. Where were you when I needed to hear it?" OW. OW. OW. FRIGGING HELL, CAS!
-"I was there. Where were you?" *clutching blanket and rocking again some more*
-"Shoulda come to us for help, Cas." Bullshit. Anytime you've called it's been because you want something. Castiel mentions he's fighting a war and a little busy, you go 'That's nice, do this for us.' Dean Winchester, I oughta smack you. Communication is a two-way street, and while Castiel wasn't contacting you and going 'OMG help' directly, he was dropping enough hints that one of you boys should have asked what was going on.
-"It's too late now." Oh crap. Masses of demons inbound. They've gotta be bored, you know. If Hell's now just one endless queue, there's no hands-on torturing going on any more. Give 'em an excuse to get rowdy topside, they're gonna be nasty.
-"Dammit, Cas, we can fix this!" HOW??? Did you even ward he building you're in?
-"Dean, it's not broken!" Ooo. Ohohoho. Hoho. Crap. *hides under blanket*
-"Run!" O.O
-Oh god. This unspoken exchange. The changes in the looks exchanged as resolves shift into place. Owwwwwwwwwwwww...
-"You know what I see here? The new God and the new Devil, working together." WHOA. Yeah. Aim high Crowley. Or should that be low. Holy crap, Castiel's gonna tear his head off now, isn't he?
-"Stop talking. And get out of my sight." *shivers* Oooo.
-"You know the difference between you and me? I know what I am. What are you, Castiel? And what exactly are you willing to do?" Gaaaaahhhh. Yeah. That's gonna be in a few future 'THEN's
-Aw. Anti-angel graffiti on Bobby's place. Aw. *sadface*
-And yet he still gets in. Or does he... Hm. You know, call me paranoid, but if I was Crowley, I'd pop in and play some mind-games in Castiel's form to make sure the Winchesters never listened to Castiel again. Although Bobby's place has got to be seriously warded against demons too. Hm. Oh, hey, that dreamwalking thing. Maybe?
-"You got a few things wrong." Or that. The spray can just slipped. Occam's freaking Razor gets me again. *fistshake* Occam!
-"I'm doing this because of you." Yeah, that's not going to go over well either.
-"You're a frigging child, you know that?" Why oh why is that so funny coming from Dean?
-"Look, next to Sam, you and Bobby are the closest things I have to family, but you are like a brother to me-" Oh gawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwd! WHY DOES THIS SHOW GIVE THE BEST THINGS EVER ONLY SO IT CAN RIP THEM AWAY AND STOMP ON THEM AND HURT MEEEE??? Oh, right. Because THAT'S WHAT SUPERNATURAL DOES and I love it for it. *hides in blanket again*
-Oh god, and then the 'Or what?' and the 'I'll do everything I can to stop you' and it's JUST LIKE SAM, OMG. *flappy hands, keyboarding impaired*
-"I'm sorry, Dean." *whimpers under blanket*
-Seriously though, WHY DON'T THESE PEOPLE EVER LISTEN TO EACH OTHER OR JUST TALK AND EXPLAIN THINGS FULLY??? Oh right. They're Winchesters. And BOYS. *huffs*
-Yeah. He's praying. (And seriously, location people? DAYUM. O.O)
-"Am I on the right path? You have to tell me, you have to give me a sign." And now is the downside of having and using free will. Having doubt. Making bad choices. And meanwhile, since Chuck's buggered off and decided to let them play with free will for a while... Castiel's not gonna get any straightforward, clear-cut answers. Just like everyone else with free will. The path is the one you are already walking, and your decisions are your own. You get to choose your own path, but you also get the responsibility for the consequences of that choice. Sucks, don't it.
-"Because if you don't, I'm gonna do whatever I- Whatever I must." Ow. Oh crap. So yeah. That would be what it sounds like. Did you know you were watching a modern adaptation of Paradise Lost when you started watching?
Yeaaaaah. Finale, here we come. Keep your blankets handy. O.O
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...AND EXCESSIVE QUOTING. Omigod.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
NOTHING. Nothing except the speculation springing from the spoilers for 6.19. There will be hurty shouting, and Castiel is probably going to Fall hard.
Can I get this watched before the finale? We shall see. Castiel's got some 'splainin' to do.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.20 - ??? "The Man Who Would Be King"
Slight delay as I seem to have surprise French subtitles. Cool, yet distracting. o.O
-Skipping the THEN. Like I don't know what's coming.
-AW. Castiel, you poor desperate idiot. Next to a very BC-looking tree. Half moss.
-Oh my god this montage is beyond words. Also, some high quality beheading special effects in there. *nods*
-"And a fallen angel" *blink* Oh really? Okay then. Still has his Grace though... Hm.
-HI ADAM!!! *waves like a loon* Hope Lucifer's cage is treating you... um... Well. Uh. Good to see you.
-*full-on kisses the location scouts* Oh, snow, spring flowers, trees, stream, ooo. *flappy hands*
-"Let me tell you my story. Let me tell you everything." ABOUT FREAKING TIME!!! Not that the Winchesters were too interested in listening before with all the Alpha/Crowley/Grandpa/Purgatory stuff, but DAMN. ANSWERS!! \o/
-Also HI STARING STRAIGHT AT THE AUDIENCE!!! Seriously, are we hitting the fourth wall again here? O.o
-Who would Castiel actually be talking to there... Chuck's buggered off, although he never knew who Chuck was supposed to be so he could be praying, I guess? Or... Hm. Or talking to that 'Heaven's gardener' guy? Hm. We'll find out, I guess.
-"The Man Who Would Be King." Oh dear. That really, REALLY doesn't bode well for Castiel.
-Ahh, that's why Sam's not in the car. Dean's giving Castiel landing space. Wonder how long he was driving around for.
-"Yeah, I'm fine, how are you?" Heheheheh. The look. Yeah. There will be shouting, if Castiel sticks around for it and doesn't flutter away. I guess they can get him into a ring of holy oil. Then they can shout at him all they want.
-"I'm... looking, believe me." *snerk* You totally and forever suck at lying, Castiel.
-"He's tracking a djinn in Omaha as we speak." Suuuuuuuuuure. It's a good thing Castiel is credulous as a five-year old and can't detect Sam because of the rib tattoos, so he can't tell Sam is actually... hm. Probably in a nearby handy warehouse or something, pouring oil all over the floor in loops and then hiding in a closet with a zippo. Possibly with Bobby, but Castiel would detect Bobby. I can't remember, did he get rib tattooed later on? He might have, my memory's going. But he can slap some Enochian graffiti and invisiblize the place to angels anyway. He's Bobby, he's awesome like that.
-"You'll call, right? If you get into real trouble?" Sure. Now that you doubt him you offer when before you were all 'stow that greater purpose crap' and... arg. Dean. Idjit.
-And a very non-answery head-bobble from Cas, and then he's gone. Honestly, boys.
-Crowley's monster dissection lab has Muzak. Aw. I guess he misses Hell.
-Gaaaah, the guy in the upright helicopter stretcher is still alive and wiggling. O.O
-"And yet..." EUUUAGHGHCH!!! MONSTER ROE, OMG. O.O Also... kind of Lovecraftian...
-"She keeps laying eggs." Okay, that's disturbing on so many levels I can't even brain, so here, have a cap of Crowley looking adorably confused. Oh and *adds Monster Roe to the Wall of Future Plot Devices along with Sam's Mental Hell Wall*
-And this poor bastard. Not only held captive and experimented on, but watching his mom's perpetual autopsy. And tortured some more. D-:
-"Apart from the obvious erotic value, you got me." Ah Crowley, being dead half the season hasn't changed you at all.
-"You said Eve could open the door to Purgatory."/"Correct. I did. And I'm confident that she could have, IF SHE WAS STILL ALIVE!" Hahahah. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. Or in this case, Dean Winchester.
-"The stench of that Impala's all over your overcoat, angel." Oh my. Yeah, I guess all the anti-demonic stuff lurking around in the Impala would leave riders a bit whiffy to a demon, even if they're angels already. XD
-Written and Directed by Ben Edlund. Oh my. We could be in for one hell of a ride here. I keep thinking of Edlund as the King of Crack, but he seems to also write the Castiel-centric stuff. Have we had him as a director before? Looks like his last Director credit was on Angel, on the episode "Smile Time" which was, well, crack. With puppets. Hm. Have we had the writer directing his own script before, aside from Kripke? This could be very interesting.
-"I think you might have a little conflict of interest here." True, from certain perspectives... actually, okay, from most perspectives. But it depends what his goals are. Maybe.
-"I still considered myself the Winchesters' guardian." All together now; AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! *flail*
-"HEY, ASS-BUTT!" *snerk* I know it's a clip. Just... HEE! XD
-WHOA! Okay, the matrix pause zoom in whaddayacallit thingy from the prior clip of Castiel's exploding bits IS SO GODDAMN COOL!!! And utterly uncappable. Oh wow. Are we gonna find out what happened to Cas between getting exploded and him turning up with a power boost after Sam and Adam went down the hole??? Ooooo! *flappy hands*
-OMG I thought that was a monster egg for a second. He fissioned, sort of... but not quite.... WHAT DOES THAT MEEEEEAN??? 8-O
-So there wasn't an awareness between getting exploded and getting leveled up, so he still doesn't know exactly why he was brought back. Interesting. *ponders*
-"Once again I went to harrow Hell, to free Sam from Lucifer's Cage." OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. WHAT??? So... he couldn't before... who raised Castiel how high in the chain of command to even have a chance at getting into Lucifer's cage?? Though I suppose he could have had the rings... NEEDS MORE BRAIN. Also I should probably just watch and wait for further info, right?
-Incidentally? THIS IS HOW YOU DO A CLIP SHOW. Most shows have them, a show half full of flashbacks or memories from previous shows, saves budget, etc. THIS. Doing the clips from prior episodes and then CHANGING THEM OR ADDING A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE TO THEM. That's how you do it. DAMN! \o/
-Okay, okay, I'll stop frothing, promise.
-"Just kill the Winchesters."/"No." *flails silently*
-"Like Lucifer didn't worry? Or Michael, or Lilith, or Alastair, or Azazel didn't worry?!" *grins aaaaall over* Though really, Lilith got them exactly where she wanted them, then sacrificed herself for the good of the Apocalypse.
-Denim-wrapped nightmares. Heeeeee! \o/
-"LET 'EM GET TO ME! I'LL TEAR THEIR FRIGGIN' HEARTS OUT!" Heeehehehehehehe.
-Good shot of the sign at Bobby's place. If oddly ominous.
-Bobby's looking awfully cute for being in the middle of interrogating a demon-turned-hunter. Speaking of which, that must have made for an interesting life. Like a person with a nut allergy making peanut butter.
-Good to see they're hanging on to the magic items. I mean Ruby's dagger. Who am I kidding? Magic item.
-"So he burned the wrong bones, so Crowley tricked him." Ohhhh, god, Dean's still... oh wow. This is going to freaking HUUUUUURT. D-:
-The who? Bulky Bartakamoose? *googles* Oh crap. He's a character off the show Perfect Strangers, a sitcom from the 80's. From Wikipedia: "...he looks at the world like a four-year-old" and "sees the world as benevolent". Ohhhhh crap. This is really, really gonna hurt. Dean hasn't had faith in much beyond family, and now Castiel is family, at least insofar as gaining Dean's trust, if not his appreciation, but now... I can feel the impact of the future OW from here.
-The tip of the iceberg of EPIC MAN PAIN. Right there. Oh Dean. *curls into a ball and rocks back and forth*
-Eeeek. O.O
-"This makes you Lois Lane." But he looked right past... Can Dean not see Castiel? Ooo. HAS CASTIEL ACTUALLY GOT A STEALTH MODE??? 8-O
-"And the worst part was Dean, trying so hard to be loyal with every instinct telling him otherwise." *flails everywhere* Gaaaaah!!!
-"'cause we can twist again, all the way to next summer." ...a Chubby Checker lyric quote, sort of. Hm. I suspect that's not often used in torturing demons.
-"The dispatcher. A demon named Ellsworth." Wait, what? Ellsworth? Hehe. Shoutout to Jim Beaver's Deadwood character. XD
-"If there was a demon counterpart to Bobby Singer, Ellsworth would be it." Aahhhhahahahahahaha! Oh come on, he wasn't nearly as bad as Cy Tolliver. XD
-*chokes on everything ever* Ah, yes. THERE's the Edlund crack. Trucker hat, beard, multiple-line blood-phones, omg *flails weakly* I may laugh myself to death here. XD
-Oooo, Hi Cas! In BAMF mode, woo! \o/
-That's a new trick... O.o
-"I did it to protect the boys. Or to protect myself. I don't know anymore." Awww. Angst and self-doubt all over the place. Caaaaas! *flails*
-Yay, door-kicking and gun pointing! Hah. The set layout's even like Bobby's place. Couch by the window, desk and fireplace... hehe. Going past too fast to be clearly cappable. Very cute.
-Dean: *hand-signal* Sam: "Yeah." Me: *facepalm* Okay. Hand-signals are for situations where talking out loud is inadvisable. But you've already been talking out loud. And if the situation then changes, acknowledging a hand-signal verbally is- AAAARG. *cuffs the back of everybody's heads* Idjits!
-"I favor the eternal Tuesday afternoon of an autistic man who drowned in a bathtub in 1953." That's almost poetic. Maybe a teeny bit creepy, but only a teeny bit. Now I'm wondering if Castiel's not telling all this to the soul of the autistic guy.
-Dude. Castiel has minions. O.o
-"We're all free to make our own choices, to choose our own fates." While former-future turncoat lieutenant woman reacts like he's said, "We're all free to shove our thumbs up our noses and put scorpions in our underpants." Because angels are agents of fate didn't get to use free will. Angels using free will weren't angels anymore. That whole thing is fascinating to me, but I'm sure there's a pile of meta on it out there.
-"God wants you to have freedom."/"...but what does he want us to do with it?" And that pretty much sums that up right there. XD
-"Freedom is a length of rope, God wants you to hang yourself with it." Ha! And that.
-HI ORIGINAL!RAPHAEL!! You're looking decidedly unsalty!
-I don't even know what this means, but I laughed.
-"We'll start by freeing Lucifer and Michael from their cage, and then we'll get our show back on the road." Yep. All along, whatever Castiel's been doing, it's all to stop the re-instatement of the Apocalypse. *nods*
-"It's God's will."/"How can you say that?"/"Because it's what I want." Heh Heh Heh. And, since he's not admitting that he has free will, that means if he wants something, he must want it because God wants him to want it. Heh heh heh. Yeah. There's a word for that kind of logic, but it's escaping me at the moment.
-"Really? You?" Ya know, standing up to the Archangel who's already exploded you "like a water balloon of Chunky soup" once takes some serious... something. Memory loss? Yeah, that might be it.
-Hey, at least he didn't explode you this time. Was that because he was being nice, or because you're too high a level now? Hmmm...
-"No, you talked. I listened." His faaaace.
-"Don't we owe him the benefit of the doubt, at least?" *flails* faaaaace... he's killing me with his face again....
-"DEAN!" GAH! *jumps a foot out of the chair* Oh great, Castiel missed some, and their gonna tell them what happened. If they don't beat everyone stupid. Craaap.
-Castiel's got all the BAMF going on tonight! ...that statement made no sense. Here. have a screencap.
-"I firmly believe Crowley is alive." Yeah. Ya think?
-"You thought what?" Hehe. Almost. A little too much eyebrow on the head wiggle. Gotta work on that fake incredulity if you're going to keep trying this double-agent biz Castiel.
-"You could have just asked me."/"We should have. We never should have doubted you. Just hope you can forgive us." Oh god, this is going to end in SO MUCH PAIN. Because there is no way the truth won't come out. D-:
-"It is a little absurd though. 'Superman going to the dark side.'" OH SHIT. You, uh, weren't officially there during that conversation, Castiel. You are so not cut out for clandestine double agent type crap, you need to keep track of whether you were actually there or not and NOT META-GAME. And know when to STOP TALKING. *facepalming forever*
-You can actually see Dean's heart fall. And now the pain starts.
-Yeah. Pain.
-"They're my friends." Don't mind me, I'mma just curl up in a ball of anticipatory wibble here.
-Crowley has just got such a way of putting things. I'm so glad he's not dead anymore.
-"If you touch a hair on their heads, I will tear it all down. Our arrangement, everything." Oh god, Cas. The most heartbreaking thing about all this is that Castiel is still staunchly on the Winchester's side, and still convinced he's doing the right thing, or the best out of a field of bad options. But he's blown their trust, and being on the outs with Heaven, he has no friends there, and Crowley's nothing other than a means to an end, so, when he lost their trust... he's really lost everything. He just doesn't know it yet. Oh Caaaaas. *rocks back and forth*
-"This is not how synergy works!" Crowley's getting all the good lines tonight.
-And yeah, he went to Crowley because he couldn't go to Dean and that just makes EVERYTHING SO MUCH WORSE.
-"Ah, Castiel. Angel of Thursday." AAAAAAAAAAHAAHAAAH!!!! YES!! About time someone mentioned that! \o/
-"You want to make a Deal? With me?" Castiel's eyebrows, now entering orbit.
-"I'm an angel, you ass!" HEEEEEEEEEEEE! XD
-Whoops, cut him off too soon. "-I don't have a soul to sell." Awwwwww. :-(
-"Five minutes, no obligations. I promise." Yeah, sure. He used to be head of the Crossroad Demons, Cas, don't listen to him.
-Oh god, the shot framings' gonna kill me now, with Castiel facing forward toward Crowley, but looking back over his shoulder at Dean, and Crowley being this big black smiling blodge taking up half the screen, like the mouth of a tunnel Castiel's about to head down with no light at the end and just GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! The imminent soul-rending PAIN!!! *rocks back and forth some more*
-"But I was smarter than him. Stronger." *facepalm* *headshake* Your tone of voice says you don't even believe your own line of crap, Cas. At least in retrospect.
-"And in all likelihood, I was a fool." NO, REALLY??? *headdesk*
-Oh, hey. Is this Hell? With the Blue Danube playing? "Hades, new and improved. I did it myself." Well the endless queue is a tremendous start on crushing souls, I must say.
-"A lot of 'thank you sir, could I have another hot spike up the jacksie?'" Ha! Crowley. We need to keep Crowley. We need more snarky evil.
-"You're asking me to be the next Lucifer." YES. EXACTLY. BINGO. AND OTHER SUCH THINGS. Glad to see that Castiel's not a complete idiot, although this means he saw the implications and did it anyway... which... Sigh. Castiel, you dumbass. *headshake*
-"So you could be the new Sheriff upstairs." Hm. That's exactly what Dean said... before this... Is Crowley stalking him?
-So. The plan is work together to get Purgatory, get half the souls each. Castiel's in the position of mounting a civil war in Heaven to keep the Apocalypse defunct... what's Crowley planning with his half?
-"My position isn't all that stable, duckie." Stable enough to... oh I dunno... RECONFIGURE HELL. Hunh. Seems pretty stable.
-Fifty thousand souls to take up to Heaven... Souls that were supposed to be in Hell... In a Heaven where each person's memories make up their own personal Heaven, what would that do to Heaven's architecture... Hm. Probably not much. Fifty thousand versus all the souls that have gone to Heaven since the start... still. Takeover by osmosis? Sneak a few incipient demons in there, since demons are corrupted human souls in this 'verse... And that's me being paranoid again. Silly.
-"God chose you to save us." Heh heh heh. Yeah. Crowley knows where Castiel keeps his buttons.
-That's a rather foreshadowy focus on Castiel's hand. Like his sword's gonna slide out of his sleeve any second...
-...Or he's gonna start casting fireball. Better for group targets. *nods*
-Or for nuking the leader. Yay for unambiguous messages of rebellion?
-"And so went the long road of good intentions." Yes. And we all know where that one ends. *headshake* Stupid, noble, desperate dumbass.
-"It's you." Yeah, knew Castiel was going to end up in a circle of fire. Now the hurty yelling starts.
-Aw. Sammy is disappoint.
-Yeah, hurty yelling coming online any second now. I need a blanket. *fetches*
-"You gotta look at me, man. You gotta level with me and tell me what's going on." Ow, the face. Ow.
-"Look me in the eye and tell me you're not working with Crowley." And then...
Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. *clutches blanket*
-Most heartbroken 'sonofabitch' ever, yeah?
-"You and Crowley have been going after Purgatory together?" And now the yelling starts. Castiel's not going to get a chance to explain, not that the explanation would make things much better at this point, and Dean's iceberg of man pain is gonna fly.
-So much ow. Can't type. Only screencap.
-"I'm still me. I'm still your friend." And then Sam's face breaks everything ever.
-"Sam, I am the one who raised you from Perdition." Oh, well, hi. That's not going to go over too well, considering you didn't get his soul in the process and there was a year and a half of cage torture, and now a wall keeping his brain from melting. Damn, I want to go back through the season and look at everything Castiel did keeping this alliance with Crowley and assorted activities in mind.
-"Well, no offense but you did a pretty piss poor job of it." Yeah, a valid criticism. *nods*
-"Wait. Did you bring me back soulless on purpose? Oh crap. And with that on the table and them not trusting him anymore... Ohhhhh crap.
-"No, you had a choice. You made the wrong one." *curls up in blanket and rocks some more* Owwww.
-"You don't understand. It's complicated." Yeah, soul economics and desperation strategic alliances with the de facto King of Hell are a bit complex to explain to mortals from inside a ring of fire in less than ten minutes. You could start with"It's to keep the Apocalypse from rebooting" though, since I doubt the mortals in the room have clued into that fully.
-"No actually, it's not and you know that. Why else would you keep this whole thing a secret hunh? Unless you knew that it was wrong." *clutches blanket and whimpers* Fire pretty.
-"What we don't do is go out and make another deal with the devil." Oh come on, Dean! It's practically a Winchester family rite of passage! Adopted or otherwise! Mary did it, John did it, you did it, Sam tried to do it (at least twice) and then fell in cahoots with Ruby, Bobby did it, it's Cas's turn! He says he doesn't have a soul to sell, so he's made a really dumb alliance and is going to Fall hard. All for the sake of family. Just because he's the newest member of the clan, doesn't mean he can't be just as bone-stupid as the rest of you.
-"Sounds so simple when you say it like that. Where were you when I needed to hear it?" OW. OW. OW. FRIGGING HELL, CAS!
-"I was there. Where were you?" *clutching blanket and rocking again some more*
-"Shoulda come to us for help, Cas." Bullshit. Anytime you've called it's been because you want something. Castiel mentions he's fighting a war and a little busy, you go 'That's nice, do this for us.' Dean Winchester, I oughta smack you. Communication is a two-way street, and while Castiel wasn't contacting you and going 'OMG help' directly, he was dropping enough hints that one of you boys should have asked what was going on.
-"It's too late now." Oh crap. Masses of demons inbound. They've gotta be bored, you know. If Hell's now just one endless queue, there's no hands-on torturing going on any more. Give 'em an excuse to get rowdy topside, they're gonna be nasty.
-"Dammit, Cas, we can fix this!" HOW??? Did you even ward he building you're in?
-"Dean, it's not broken!" Ooo. Ohohoho. Hoho. Crap. *hides under blanket*
-"Run!" O.O
-Oh god. This unspoken exchange. The changes in the looks exchanged as resolves shift into place. Owwwwwwwwwwwww...
-"You know what I see here? The new God and the new Devil, working together." WHOA. Yeah. Aim high Crowley. Or should that be low. Holy crap, Castiel's gonna tear his head off now, isn't he?
-"Stop talking. And get out of my sight." *shivers* Oooo.
-"You know the difference between you and me? I know what I am. What are you, Castiel? And what exactly are you willing to do?" Gaaaaahhhh. Yeah. That's gonna be in a few future 'THEN's
-Aw. Anti-angel graffiti on Bobby's place. Aw. *sadface*
-And yet he still gets in. Or does he... Hm. You know, call me paranoid, but if I was Crowley, I'd pop in and play some mind-games in Castiel's form to make sure the Winchesters never listened to Castiel again. Although Bobby's place has got to be seriously warded against demons too. Hm. Oh, hey, that dreamwalking thing. Maybe?
-"You got a few things wrong." Or that. The spray can just slipped. Occam's freaking Razor gets me again. *fistshake* Occam!
-"I'm doing this because of you." Yeah, that's not going to go over well either.
-"You're a frigging child, you know that?" Why oh why is that so funny coming from Dean?
-"Look, next to Sam, you and Bobby are the closest things I have to family, but you are like a brother to me-" Oh gawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwd! WHY DOES THIS SHOW GIVE THE BEST THINGS EVER ONLY SO IT CAN RIP THEM AWAY AND STOMP ON THEM AND HURT MEEEE??? Oh, right. Because THAT'S WHAT SUPERNATURAL DOES and I love it for it. *hides in blanket again*
-Oh god, and then the 'Or what?' and the 'I'll do everything I can to stop you' and it's JUST LIKE SAM, OMG. *flappy hands, keyboarding impaired*
-"I'm sorry, Dean." *whimpers under blanket*
-Seriously though, WHY DON'T THESE PEOPLE EVER LISTEN TO EACH OTHER OR JUST TALK AND EXPLAIN THINGS FULLY??? Oh right. They're Winchesters. And BOYS. *huffs*
-Yeah. He's praying. (And seriously, location people? DAYUM. O.O)
-"Am I on the right path? You have to tell me, you have to give me a sign." And now is the downside of having and using free will. Having doubt. Making bad choices. And meanwhile, since Chuck's buggered off and decided to let them play with free will for a while... Castiel's not gonna get any straightforward, clear-cut answers. Just like everyone else with free will. The path is the one you are already walking, and your decisions are your own. You get to choose your own path, but you also get the responsibility for the consequences of that choice. Sucks, don't it.
-"Because if you don't, I'm gonna do whatever I- Whatever I must." Ow. Oh crap. So yeah. That would be what it sounds like. Did you know you were watching a modern adaptation of Paradise Lost when you started watching?
Yeaaaaah. Finale, here we come. Keep your blankets handy. O.O
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