Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 6.21
Contains profanity, capslock and speculation...
...and more about H.P. Lovecraft than you ever wanted to know.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
NOOOOOOOTHING. The only thing I have heard is that this is in fact a stand-alone episode, rather than the first half of a two-parter. Darn, but I guess they didn't get word of the schedule switch up until well after everything was written etc.
Thanks you everyone for being conscientious about hiding spoilery stuff! \o/
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.21 - ??? Let It Bleed.
Here we go!
-Had to check the THEN in case of montage. HI LISA! HI BEN! Do you have any idea how doomed you two probably are? *skips the remainder*
-March 15, 1937. Providence, Rhode Island. Typewriter. ... ....... no... no way. *googles to confirm* That's the date of- Really??? O.O
-...He does look a bit like... no way. Seriously?
-Well, whoever this guy is he's rivaling Chuck for drinking and... oh CRAP. If this guy is who I think he is and he's a PROPHET? THE WORLD IS TOTALLY FUCKED. But it can't be him, can it? If this guy is the person I think he is, how the hell did Supernatural get the estate's lawyers to agree??
-Also armed. Don't know how good his aim will be with the current level of inebriation, though.
-Gaah, shadowy whispery guy breaking through the window and- *squints really hard at the title page*
HOLY SHIT IT IS! IT'S H. P. LOVECRAFT!!! ASADFLKSJL! I DO NOT HAVE A STUNNED ENOUGH EMOTICON FOR THIS!!! I'M SO STUNNED I JUST NOW SPENT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME GAWPING LIKE A FISH AND WAVING MY HANDS RANDOMLY IN THE AIR OVER THE KEYBOARD NOT TYPING ANYTHING! LOVECRAFT! The implications, oh wow, if he IS a prophet, yeah, world is SO HOOPED.
-*leaves the episode on pause and gets a glass of water* Well. I think that might be the fastest the show has ever completely blown my mind. Two minutes in and I'm incoherent. And half of those two minutes was "THEN". Holy crap.
-SERIOUSLY, THE LAST THING THE WINCHESTERS NEED RIGHT NOW IS CTHULHU AND THE ELDER GODS!!! Lovecraft. I was totally destined to watch this show. Holy crap. Lovecraft. You guys. OMG. I guess I better see what they're going to do to him. Nothing good, since March 15, 1937 is the date of his death (from something perfectly normal and not getting his face sucked off by a dark shadowy something.)
-On second thought, since I have plans that require me to be not chained to my desk with my brain dribbling out my ears on Saturday, I'm leaving this on pause for 24 hours. Also need processing time. Two minutes into the episode.
-That was a very enjoyable day. Okay, now, where was I? Oh yes. Getting my brain melted.
-While re-cuing the episode, I noticed something about the dark shadowy something. In the soundtrack when it appears, there are angel whispers. It could be an angel. If Show is having Lovecraft be a prophet? Maybe this is his archangel. Because what do you do with a prophet who just wrote "The End"? Or he's just Lovecraft. Either way, dark shadowy thing is an angel. ...I wonder if they're implying that the angels have been Chthonic entities all along, or whether Lovecraft and bunch opened the gate and let Cthulhu et al in in 1937?
-Oh and ciaranbochna, while I'm thinking of it, there's a good chance your yet unwritten but extensively noted auction story could get Kripked here... O.o
-Also while re-cuing, "We didn't know." SO, in SPN 'verse, Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth need to duck and cover, PDQ.
-Seriously, I am getting back to the episode, but from the Wiki page on Lovecraft: "Much of Lovecraft's work was directly inspired by his night terrors". Rather like Chuck and his dreams. At this point if Show hasn't made Lovecraft a prophet I'll be shocked. History and biographical data is supplying backstory already.
-I am so glad this is a long weekend for me.
-"Haunter of the Dark" was indeed one of Lovecraft's last published stories, a five page short story published in Weird Tales in 1935 (the date's off, but oh well, he's probably behind a couple years due to SAN loss *handwaves*) and *SPOILERS FOR THE LOVECRAFT STORY* kills off the author-insert character (although it's the author-insert for Robert Bloch that was killed of in this one This bunch used to write each other into stories in retribution for another author writing them into stories and driving their insert characters crazy or evil or whatnot, etc. I really wish there were conventions back then, because this bunch of writers as guests would have gotten up to SO MUCH TROUBLE at a con.) *SPOILER END* SERIOUSLY, IF LOVECRAFT ISN'T A PROPHET HERE, SHOW WILL HAVE MISSED A HUGE BUILT-IN OPPORTUNITY. O.O
(Incidentally, nice job on the blood, effects department!)
-And now we have the title screen. Brain, what brain?
-Title: Let it Bleed. Oh my.
-Castiel stole a book from Bobby's library? There's a sign of someone going dark side if there ever was one. Though if the angel-proofing wasn't working, any angel could've bounced in and snagged it.
-"Hi, glad to meet ya. Bobby Singer, paranoid bastard." *grins all over everything*
-"Went to talk to Howard Phillips about the events of March 10th." Hehehe. Howard Phillips. H. P. God I'm going to be an annoying Cthulhugeek tonight, and I'm not as up on the lore as I should be.
-"At the Mountains of Madness? The Call of Cthulhu?" *flails around giggling* I used to play Call of Cthulhu twice a month not too many years ago. Psycho death cults and plants with tentacles and things called Jeremy that lived in abandoned wells.... good times.
-"Naw, I was too busy having sex with women." *headshake* Dean. Silly. You can do that and read books too. Though not at the same time, since most women would be a little annoyed.
-Heeeeeeeee!
-Oh crap. Ben and Lisa showing up this close to the end does not bode well for them. At all.
-Written by Sera Gamble. Ohhhhh, lordy. Duck and cover!
-Ah! This must be the guy Lisa was going on a date with several episodes back. I've forgotten everything about him except that he had some kind of 'respectable' job. Him showing up this close to the finale doesn't bode well for his lifespan or sanity. Unless he's secretly evil and keeping an eye on Dean's alternate weak spot, which is also a possibility at this stage of things.
-Directed by John F. Showalter. Getting to be a familiar name.
-Aaaand here comes the imminent doom, right on time.
-Crunch. Well. He didn't even last as long as I thought he might. Unless something re-animates him later. O.o
-At this point, Ben's pretty much got to either become a hunter, or get a whole lot of therapy.
-Ben calls Dean. Of course. (What's 911 gonna do?) And Dean's several states away and can't do a damned thing. Of course. Yeah, that's a pretty hard situation, given you're on the outs with your only source of instantaneous transport.
-BTW, Emergency monster analysis over the phone is much yay! \o/ If the monsters get to be a wide-spread known problem, they could set up like a poison control center for monster attacks, with volunteers and flow-charts. "Is it corporeal or non corporeal? ...it means solid. Solid. Okay, looks human, doesn't look human? ...Looks human. What colour are its eyes?" et cetera.
-Yeaaaah. Hi Crowley. Crowley uses tactics and strategy. Of course he's going to snag the non-combatants to get the heroes' attention. Particularly since his dumbass angelic partner in crime has very specifically declared the Winchesters off-limits, but not their associates, and Lisa and Ben are a hell of a lot less defended than Bobby.
-This is Dean's 'I'mma kill you' face.
-"Your chocolate's been in my peanut butter for far too long." BWAH. Crowley, for all your double and triple entendre needs. Also product placement.
-"Got it? Splendid. Kisses!" I LOVE CROWLEY! He's so much fun as an adversary character, AND he uses logical tactics. And he makes Dean give death glares like this:
Followed by pain:
I'm glad he's not dead. Can we keep him? Please??
-BOBBYMOBIIIIIIIIILE!!! \o/
-...hey, wait, Bobby's going to investigate Lovecraft solo, and he's not on Castiel's no-harm list... OH CRAP YOU GUYS, BOBBY'S GONNA DIE!!! O.O
-Did- *looks again* No, no, they didn't draw the summoning stuff and set the brazier on the hood of the Impala. Phew! I was gonna hafta kick somebody's ass! O.o
-I doubt after last episode they're calling Castiel without a circle of flaming oil handy, so... Balthazar? Which is not going to help much at all, is it. Really, if they summoned Castiel and told him Crowley took Lisa and Ben, that would solve just about all their problems, since Castiel would go up one side of Crowley and down the other, break everything off and work on resetting things. But that would be far too easy.
-Yep. Hi Balthazar. Balthazar and Crowley need to stay. Just don't put them together in the same room or they will snark each other to death. *nods*
-"Well yes, yes of course he did!" Hehe, yeah. Not so much. Considering what the last 'trusted Lieutenant' tried to do, I'm not surprised he'd keep Balthazar out of the loop. Balthazar's doing well at providing a united front in front of the morals, though. Hm.
-Heeeee, Sam's 'oh he did, did he?' face. XD
-"We're not calling Cas!" Seriously, Winchester communication skills and practices are half of what is screwing them over. TALK TO EACH OTHER!!! *headdesk*
-FANBOY TO THE RESCUE!!! Hee! I want his lamp. And half the stuff on his walls. What, no plush Cthulhu? Aw.
-"I'm in a long-term online relationship, so..." Heheheh. I think he wants you to flirt a little harder, Bobby.
-"Looks like Columbo, talks like Rainman?" Ah, so Castiel did steal the book from Bobby's. Yep. Collaborate with the king of Hell and next thing you know you're stealing books from Bobby Singer's library. Slippery slope. *headshake*
-This is a visually interesting shot that I'm not sure what to make of at this point, but I'm capping anyway.
-"If by friends you mean co-worshippers in a black magic cult." Bwah! Yeah, in SPN-Verse where magic is active and somewhat plentiful, Lovecraft and the rest would have been playing with fire.
-"To see what's out there! Maybe its friendly-"/"It's never friendly!" Heeeee! Seriously, the stuff Lovecraft wrote in no way jives with 'maybe it's friendly', more like, 'maybe it'll eat us really fast and it'll be painless'. (For cartoonified examples, see here at Unspeakable Vault.)
-"...and they were..." Castiel, you kleptomaniac. You could have at least just taken them to a copy place and then poofed them right back.
-Hey! It's the tiger from Andy's van! And also a motivator I'd really like to see more clearly.
-Bobby called Lovecraft an idjit. Heeheeheee! And well he should. Never open a dimensional gate bigger than your head. Also everyone dead or disappeared inside a year. Doesn't bode well for Bloch, Smith and Derleth, that.
-"Same place he's been since the big night. Locked in a mental ward." Yeah, at nine you don't have a whole lot of Sanity points to lose.
-Bobbymobiiiile! Sorry, I'm strangely obsessed. She looks so shiny in the rain. *pats*
-Oh, hey, I just had a random thought. Trenchcoat and weird speech pattern could also be Virgil, maybe? Raphael's assassin guy? Though he's less of a 'talk to the fanboy and steal his stuff' operative and more of a 'steal all the stuff and to hell with the fanboy' operative. He could be a sort of dark and grim Columbo? Maybe? No? Sigh.
-Hi. I'm Dean Winchester. I trained for 30 subjective years under the head torturer in Hell. Your boss has my ex-girlfriend and her kid. Prepare to experience pain.
-"Lisa and Ben, wherever they are, that's a hundred percent on me." Oh Dean. True, I guess, but they wouldn't be alive at all if not for you and Sam, so... yeah. Oh Dean.
-Also, given the finale countdown clock has got to be ticking down on Sam's mental hell wall, I'd keep him as far away from demons as possible. 'Cause they'll poke it.
-"Castiel, it's Sam." *chokes on drink* DUDE! HOLY CRAP! VOLUNTARY COMMUNICATION ATTEMPT! OMG. If this doesn't work, Sam, Dean will fry you! O.O
-"I am begging you. Do you understand?" Oh Saaaaam!
-Oh my god. I may never get used to Castiel having a stealth mode. Still, communication has been achieved, even if it's one way.
-"I'm merely exploiting the obvious loophole." Of course, because he used to be head Crossroads demon and screwing people with semantics is what he does. Castiel, you dumbass.
-"You are not to harm them, do you understand me?" Castiel needs to snarl more commands. Yeah. *nods*
-Oh crap, incoming message from the big giant head angel radio. It's been a while. O.O
-"Are you in flagrante with the King of Hades?" *snerk* Technically no. But by the source meaning of 'actively committing an offense' well, yeah.
-*sigh* I love living in BC. Not all the parks feature bickering angels, but they're pretty anyway.
-"And I can only assume that you'd be the vessel, correct?" Waaaait, what? Vessel for what? God? God's got Chuck. What?
-"Suck up all the souls into yourself, suck up all that power." ...ooo. Kind of gross when you think about him horking half back up to give to Crowley, like a momma bird barfing up dinner for the baby birds, but ooo. That's... ooo.
-"In which case, you explode, taking a substantial chunk of the planet along with you." WELL! Um. Yeah. Yipe? O.O
-"In for a penny, in for a pound." You know, I don't believe him at all. A liiiiittle too smirky there. Also the music is all horns of impending doom.
-I don't know why, but I love that Bobby addresses the old guy as 'sir'. Make me see him as a little boy in the fifties, brought up to be respectful and stuff before everything went to hell. Aw, Bobby.
-"Do you you believe in monsters?" Ehehehehehe. Dude. You have no idea who you're asking.
-I love the moment here, between Bobby and the old guy. Bobby being the first one to actually listen and express condolences at the mother the boy lost. This guy's had a hard, nasty life, in a mental institution, and no one's ever told him, even when he was a kid, that they were sorry he lost his mom. OW SHOW. It's not enough to kill me with the main cast, you have to kill me with the random witnesses too?
-...Crap. Okay. So, his mom got possessed, she could still be kicking around. How many 'old enough to be a mom to a nine-year-old female characters that Bobby would recognize in a 75 year old photo do we have lurking around? Um. Lisa? And Doctor Visyak. And Sheriff Jodie Mills. Hm. If it's Lisa, the possession must be dormant or something, but it would explain her resiliency in the face of weird crap. Sheriff Mills, maybe, but not likely. We know the least about Dr. Visyak... hehe. If my Mary Sue ...hell with it. If my Mary Sue turns out to be infested with some kind of Mythos critter... that would be astoundingly apt, actually. XD
-Yep. Torturer!Dean is back in the saddle again.
-Crap. Bound to happen, wandering in and out of the trap like that. But crap.
-Dean's getting thrown across rooms into walls vans and getting choked! What day is it?
-YAAAAAAH!!!!! NOTHING SAYS "I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT YOU BY WORKING WITH THE KING OF HELL" LIKE SHOWING UP UNANNOUNCED AND BURNING OUT A DEMON. And that is how Winchesters communicate! \o/
-"I don't believe a word that's coming out of your mouth." Or at least try to communicate. *headdesk*
-"I thought you said that we were like family. Well I think that too." Oh, god, it's 'give me heartfelt declarations of brotherly schmoop and then use them to beat my heart to death' time again, isn't it?
-"I always come when you call." Oh god, the voice breaking just a little gaaaaah.
-"Has anyone but your closest kin ever done more for you?" GAAAAH. JUST TELL HIM WHY YOU THOUGHT WORKING WITH CROWLEY WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA! THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO PREVENT RAPHAEL FROM REBOOTING THE APOCALYPSE! YOU DIPSTICK! I want to shake some sense into an angel right now. Just grab him by the lapels and shake. ARG. *facepalm*
-Very bad sudden thought. Very very bad. Vessel. Castiel needs a really strong vessel he can haul all the Purgatory souls in. And Dean was made to be Michael's vessel. Ohhhhh crap. No. No no no. Castiel's not that much of... an idiot... oh god. Never mind. CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP. O.O
-"Stand behind me." GAAAAAH. I don't even know anymore. He might be desperate enough to be that stupid, but... arg. It's just a thought. It's not actually happening. Yet. Stop thinking about it. ARG. O.O Here. Woobie!angel. Innocent, hurt, moronic, woobie!angel. I WANT TO TRUST HIM!!! I WANT DEAN TO TRUST HIM!!! BUT... ARG!!!
-'That's what Crowley said.' *headdesk* TALK TO EACH OTHER!!! Crap.
-Hey, it's the Dead in the Water cabin, isn't it? (Also the Devour cabin, the cabin that showed up a few times on X-Files, possibly Samuel Colt's cabin... the one near Buntzen Lake.)
-Yep. Dr. Eleanor Visyak, of the 'possessed by something non-Euclidian in 1937' Eleanors, and who nearly had me fooled into thinking she was someone unfamiliar by having a different hairstyle and a lack of pronounced cleavage. Tricky tricky.
-"I know what you are, Ellie." Some people think their exes are soul-sucking creatures of evil, but in this case... I don't know that she might not be... not-evil though. Maybe.
-"Just slightly... 900 years." Hee! She's the same age as the current Doctor. There's a crossover waiting to happen. She could be the Rani. Or Romana. And Purgatory could be the Time War. And no, I have to many things to write already. No. Arg.
-"You're from freaking Purgatory, you never thought to mention that the whole time you slept with me?" Hmmm... *blink* Sorry. Drifted a little No idea what came over me there... <.<
-Really, if she'd had any plans to do anything evil, she would have done it by now.
-"Why do you think I gave Dean the sword?" EXACTLY! *high-fives Dr. Visyak*
-"At least let me take you somewhere, protect you." Hmmm... sorry, sorry, I keep zoning out, no idea why... >.>
-I will say, I am pleased with my choice of surrogate Mary-Sue. *beams*
-"I'm officially on your team... you bastards." Oh dear. Okay... So... is he going against Castiel by doing this or is he here because Cas wants him to be? Where are the sides???
-"He seems awfully sure of himself for a man who wants to swallow a million nuclear reactors." Yes, well, he's a bit of an idiot at the moment. He'll get over it. Or die. Arg.
-Okay. Call me paranoid, but if the angel who just showed up saying "Hi! I'm your buddy now! I know where your friends are! I can take you there, but I can't help you myself, so I'll be abandoning you there!" offers a free teleport anywhere? Hell no. We're driving, and he's drawing a tactical map. But yeah. Everyone's got their moment of shining idiot tonight, it seems.
-And... are they splitting up to look around the fortified abandoned trap warehouse? Seriously? After taking out only one guard? Idiots.
-Yup. Idiots.
-Hi Ben and Lisa, looking relatively unharmed at the moment. Now if I were Crowley, and I'm not, I'd have one or both of them possessed by a minion demon, just as a backup. And to force Dean to try to remember his latin.
-Stealth. Dean does not have it.
-He does however have a few extra levels in badass, which is even better.
-HAHAHA! And hi there possessed!Lisa! Apparently either I think like Crowley or Crowley thinks like me. I'm not sure which is more disturbing.
-Cindy Sampson does do evil very well. *nods*
-"I was just gonna tell him that your his real Daddy." Hahahahaahah! Oh my god. Conversations you should have had with people before you got possessed by a demon. BWAH!
-"Just kidding." HA!!! I do believe the writers just trolled the audience there. XD
-"Says the C-minus lay with ten miles of daddy issues. Whatever gets you through the night, Tiny Tim." Can we keep her demon? I miss snarky demons. Speaking of which, where the heck is Meg? ...Is this Meg? Ooo.
-Yay, Holy Water! Never leave home the hotel room the wrecking yard without it!
-LATINATION!!! \o/
-Oh, crap!
-"Exorcise me now." Well. It's a survivable wound, if you can get her to a hospital right away, or, I dunno, if Balthazar can be talked into a bit of healing. Evil does suit her though...
-And of course he'll finish the exorcism. With a glance at Ben. Because SERA GAMBLE WROTE THIS EPISODE AND LIKES TO TEAR PEOPLE'S HEARTS OUT. Oh Dean. Oh everybody.
-"Put pressure on that." HOLY CRAP WAS THAT ACTUAL FIRST AID FROM A WINCHESTER? O.o
-Yes. Sam. You know. Sam. With the wall in his head keeping Hell out. Who you brought. To a pretty obvious trap. Full of DEMONS. And is currently looking far too undisturbed and calm for my paranoia.
-'Get the salt gun and shoot anything coming at us, and get the knife too.' Sadly, being gentle and sensitive isn't really an option in the situation. Also, not likely anything Dean's had much experience with. That smack will have some repercussions, though. If everyone survives. Lisa's probably a goner, and Ben's fifty-fifty at this point. There's at least ten minutes left in the episode, Crowley is probably going to show up, or Sam's going to have been severely tampered with and go off all over everything.
-Dude! Awesome for a first shot. Salt's not gonna keep him down for long though, so running would be good.
-Sam's hollering, that's a good sign... maybe... Why would they take him and lock him alone in a room... did they mess with his hell wall? Or... oh, hey. Monster eggs. I... I don't really want to think too loud about that. O.O
-Well, whatever happened to Sam, it seriously improved his capacity to steal situationally-appropriate vehicles. Four door, lots of room, could even lay Lisa flat in the back of it if need be. Might he be soulless again? *worries*
-Oh Dean. And Ben. And everybody. There's still a lot of progress bar left. Someone's screwed.
-You know, getting someone in a hospital is not always a good thing on this show.
-"Ben I'm sorry." And Ben leaves. Yeah. The bloom is off your rose there, Dean. (Hush, paranoia, Ben isn't possessed. Maybe.)
-Hi Cas! Good time for a visit, somewhere where Dean can't yell too loud or he'll get kicked out of the hospital.
-"She'll be dead by midnight." Well crap. Too bad you don't have an ANGEL IN THE ROOM WHO REALLY WANTS TO BE FRIENDS OR SOMETHING. Gahhh.
-Yeah. Like that. Jeez, Dean, it's a good thing I like you or I'd be really vexed at you for being a bit of a total moron.
-"Thank you. I wish this changed anything." *headdesk* God damn it. Dean, get your head out of your ass. Castiel, tell him why you hooked up with Crowley. Both of you go find out what's happened to Sam and then EVERYBODY HUG BEFORE I START KICKING BUTTS AROUND HERE! Gaaaaah!
-"There's one more thing you could do for me." Oh. Really.
-"We were in a car crash." Did he have Castiel mind-wipe them? Like, not just of the night, but all their memories of him and monsters and whatnot? Because, um... that won't keep them from being targets. It's Dean's feelings for them that make them vulnerable, not their memories and feeling for him. Also, that's a heck of a lot to wipe from a memory. There's going to be an entire year of swiss cheese for one. O.o
-Yep, he did. Wow. There are going to be some really awkward and confusing conversations when they get home.... starting I guess with "Ma'am, where have you been and why is your boyfriend dead of a broken neck in the middle of your living room?"
-"You take care of your mom." Oh Dean. And another altered Family theme on the soundtrack, I think, goddamnit!!
-"Well?"/"Well nothin'." Okay, this should suffice as a test to see if Sam is soulless.
-"You ever mention Lisa or Ben to me again I will break your nose." Well there we are then.
-Well. Crap. Yeah. Leave the house with the angel-proofing, the angel's gonna find you. Oh this could really hurt.
...in the next episode. WHICH I DON'T HAVE TIME TO WATCH YET, ARG!!! Hoping to get to it sometime over the next week, but I won't be checking comments on this until after I've seen it, because with the two episodes airing back to back, it's inevitable some plot points are going to get swapped around in people's memories. Comment away, try to avoid talking about 6.22, and I'll get back to you all when I'm on the other side of the finale!
Now I have to see if LJ is going to talk to my uploader, or if I'm gonna hafta upload all 133 of these things individually.
Yay, it worked! \o/
(PLEASE, NO SPOILERS OR REFERENCES TO SPOILERY MATERIAL IN COMMENTS! Any and all promo material for unaired episodes is considered to be a spoiler in this journal. The further definition of what constitutes a spoiler for this journal is located in left hand sidebar. Theory and speculation based on aired episodes only.)
AND PLEASE AVOID REFERENCES TO 6.22 IN COMMENTS!! I HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET!!! D-:
...and more about H.P. Lovecraft than you ever wanted to know.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
NOOOOOOOTHING. The only thing I have heard is that this is in fact a stand-alone episode, rather than the first half of a two-parter. Darn, but I guess they didn't get word of the schedule switch up until well after everything was written etc.
Thanks you everyone for being conscientious about hiding spoilery stuff! \o/
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 6.21 - ??? Let It Bleed.
Here we go!
-Had to check the THEN in case of montage. HI LISA! HI BEN! Do you have any idea how doomed you two probably are? *skips the remainder*
-March 15, 1937. Providence, Rhode Island. Typewriter. ... ....... no... no way. *googles to confirm* That's the date of- Really??? O.O
-...He does look a bit like... no way. Seriously?
-Well, whoever this guy is he's rivaling Chuck for drinking and... oh CRAP. If this guy is who I think he is and he's a PROPHET? THE WORLD IS TOTALLY FUCKED. But it can't be him, can it? If this guy is the person I think he is, how the hell did Supernatural get the estate's lawyers to agree??
-Also armed. Don't know how good his aim will be with the current level of inebriation, though.
-Gaah, shadowy whispery guy breaking through the window and- *squints really hard at the title page*
HOLY SHIT IT IS! IT'S H. P. LOVECRAFT!!! ASADFLKSJL! I DO NOT HAVE A STUNNED ENOUGH EMOTICON FOR THIS!!! I'M SO STUNNED I JUST NOW SPENT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME GAWPING LIKE A FISH AND WAVING MY HANDS RANDOMLY IN THE AIR OVER THE KEYBOARD NOT TYPING ANYTHING! LOVECRAFT! The implications, oh wow, if he IS a prophet, yeah, world is SO HOOPED.
-*leaves the episode on pause and gets a glass of water* Well. I think that might be the fastest the show has ever completely blown my mind. Two minutes in and I'm incoherent. And half of those two minutes was "THEN". Holy crap.
-SERIOUSLY, THE LAST THING THE WINCHESTERS NEED RIGHT NOW IS CTHULHU AND THE ELDER GODS!!! Lovecraft. I was totally destined to watch this show. Holy crap. Lovecraft. You guys. OMG. I guess I better see what they're going to do to him. Nothing good, since March 15, 1937 is the date of his death (from something perfectly normal and not getting his face sucked off by a dark shadowy something.)
-On second thought, since I have plans that require me to be not chained to my desk with my brain dribbling out my ears on Saturday, I'm leaving this on pause for 24 hours. Also need processing time. Two minutes into the episode.
-That was a very enjoyable day. Okay, now, where was I? Oh yes. Getting my brain melted.
-While re-cuing the episode, I noticed something about the dark shadowy something. In the soundtrack when it appears, there are angel whispers. It could be an angel. If Show is having Lovecraft be a prophet? Maybe this is his archangel. Because what do you do with a prophet who just wrote "The End"? Or he's just Lovecraft. Either way, dark shadowy thing is an angel. ...I wonder if they're implying that the angels have been Chthonic entities all along, or whether Lovecraft and bunch opened the gate and let Cthulhu et al in in 1937?
-Oh and ciaranbochna, while I'm thinking of it, there's a good chance your yet unwritten but extensively noted auction story could get Kripked here... O.o
-Also while re-cuing, "We didn't know." SO, in SPN 'verse, Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth need to duck and cover, PDQ.
-Seriously, I am getting back to the episode, but from the Wiki page on Lovecraft: "Much of Lovecraft's work was directly inspired by his night terrors". Rather like Chuck and his dreams. At this point if Show hasn't made Lovecraft a prophet I'll be shocked. History and biographical data is supplying backstory already.
-I am so glad this is a long weekend for me.
-"Haunter of the Dark" was indeed one of Lovecraft's last published stories, a five page short story published in Weird Tales in 1935 (the date's off, but oh well, he's probably behind a couple years due to SAN loss *handwaves*) and *SPOILERS FOR THE LOVECRAFT STORY* kills off the author-insert character (although it's the author-insert for Robert Bloch that was killed of in this one This bunch used to write each other into stories in retribution for another author writing them into stories and driving their insert characters crazy or evil or whatnot, etc. I really wish there were conventions back then, because this bunch of writers as guests would have gotten up to SO MUCH TROUBLE at a con.) *SPOILER END* SERIOUSLY, IF LOVECRAFT ISN'T A PROPHET HERE, SHOW WILL HAVE MISSED A HUGE BUILT-IN OPPORTUNITY. O.O
(Incidentally, nice job on the blood, effects department!)
-And now we have the title screen. Brain, what brain?
-Title: Let it Bleed. Oh my.
-Castiel stole a book from Bobby's library? There's a sign of someone going dark side if there ever was one. Though if the angel-proofing wasn't working, any angel could've bounced in and snagged it.
-"Hi, glad to meet ya. Bobby Singer, paranoid bastard." *grins all over everything*
-"Went to talk to Howard Phillips about the events of March 10th." Hehehe. Howard Phillips. H. P. God I'm going to be an annoying Cthulhugeek tonight, and I'm not as up on the lore as I should be.
-"At the Mountains of Madness? The Call of Cthulhu?" *flails around giggling* I used to play Call of Cthulhu twice a month not too many years ago. Psycho death cults and plants with tentacles and things called Jeremy that lived in abandoned wells.... good times.
-"Naw, I was too busy having sex with women." *headshake* Dean. Silly. You can do that and read books too. Though not at the same time, since most women would be a little annoyed.
-Heeeeeeeee!
-Oh crap. Ben and Lisa showing up this close to the end does not bode well for them. At all.
-Written by Sera Gamble. Ohhhhh, lordy. Duck and cover!
-Ah! This must be the guy Lisa was going on a date with several episodes back. I've forgotten everything about him except that he had some kind of 'respectable' job. Him showing up this close to the finale doesn't bode well for his lifespan or sanity. Unless he's secretly evil and keeping an eye on Dean's alternate weak spot, which is also a possibility at this stage of things.
-Directed by John F. Showalter. Getting to be a familiar name.
-Aaaand here comes the imminent doom, right on time.
-Crunch. Well. He didn't even last as long as I thought he might. Unless something re-animates him later. O.o
-At this point, Ben's pretty much got to either become a hunter, or get a whole lot of therapy.
-Ben calls Dean. Of course. (What's 911 gonna do?) And Dean's several states away and can't do a damned thing. Of course. Yeah, that's a pretty hard situation, given you're on the outs with your only source of instantaneous transport.
-BTW, Emergency monster analysis over the phone is much yay! \o/ If the monsters get to be a wide-spread known problem, they could set up like a poison control center for monster attacks, with volunteers and flow-charts. "Is it corporeal or non corporeal? ...it means solid. Solid. Okay, looks human, doesn't look human? ...Looks human. What colour are its eyes?" et cetera.
-Yeaaaah. Hi Crowley. Crowley uses tactics and strategy. Of course he's going to snag the non-combatants to get the heroes' attention. Particularly since his dumbass angelic partner in crime has very specifically declared the Winchesters off-limits, but not their associates, and Lisa and Ben are a hell of a lot less defended than Bobby.
-This is Dean's 'I'mma kill you' face.
-"Your chocolate's been in my peanut butter for far too long." BWAH. Crowley, for all your double and triple entendre needs. Also product placement.
-"Got it? Splendid. Kisses!" I LOVE CROWLEY! He's so much fun as an adversary character, AND he uses logical tactics. And he makes Dean give death glares like this:
Followed by pain:
I'm glad he's not dead. Can we keep him? Please??
-BOBBYMOBIIIIIIIIILE!!! \o/
-...hey, wait, Bobby's going to investigate Lovecraft solo, and he's not on Castiel's no-harm list... OH CRAP YOU GUYS, BOBBY'S GONNA DIE!!! O.O
-Did- *looks again* No, no, they didn't draw the summoning stuff and set the brazier on the hood of the Impala. Phew! I was gonna hafta kick somebody's ass! O.o
-I doubt after last episode they're calling Castiel without a circle of flaming oil handy, so... Balthazar? Which is not going to help much at all, is it. Really, if they summoned Castiel and told him Crowley took Lisa and Ben, that would solve just about all their problems, since Castiel would go up one side of Crowley and down the other, break everything off and work on resetting things. But that would be far too easy.
-Yep. Hi Balthazar. Balthazar and Crowley need to stay. Just don't put them together in the same room or they will snark each other to death. *nods*
-"Well yes, yes of course he did!" Hehe, yeah. Not so much. Considering what the last 'trusted Lieutenant' tried to do, I'm not surprised he'd keep Balthazar out of the loop. Balthazar's doing well at providing a united front in front of the morals, though. Hm.
-Heeeee, Sam's 'oh he did, did he?' face. XD
-"We're not calling Cas!" Seriously, Winchester communication skills and practices are half of what is screwing them over. TALK TO EACH OTHER!!! *headdesk*
-FANBOY TO THE RESCUE!!! Hee! I want his lamp. And half the stuff on his walls. What, no plush Cthulhu? Aw.
-"I'm in a long-term online relationship, so..." Heheheh. I think he wants you to flirt a little harder, Bobby.
-"Looks like Columbo, talks like Rainman?" Ah, so Castiel did steal the book from Bobby's. Yep. Collaborate with the king of Hell and next thing you know you're stealing books from Bobby Singer's library. Slippery slope. *headshake*
-This is a visually interesting shot that I'm not sure what to make of at this point, but I'm capping anyway.
-"If by friends you mean co-worshippers in a black magic cult." Bwah! Yeah, in SPN-Verse where magic is active and somewhat plentiful, Lovecraft and the rest would have been playing with fire.
-"To see what's out there! Maybe its friendly-"/"It's never friendly!" Heeeee! Seriously, the stuff Lovecraft wrote in no way jives with 'maybe it's friendly', more like, 'maybe it'll eat us really fast and it'll be painless'. (For cartoonified examples, see here at Unspeakable Vault.)
-"...and they were..." Castiel, you kleptomaniac. You could have at least just taken them to a copy place and then poofed them right back.
-Hey! It's the tiger from Andy's van! And also a motivator I'd really like to see more clearly.
-Bobby called Lovecraft an idjit. Heeheeheee! And well he should. Never open a dimensional gate bigger than your head. Also everyone dead or disappeared inside a year. Doesn't bode well for Bloch, Smith and Derleth, that.
-"Same place he's been since the big night. Locked in a mental ward." Yeah, at nine you don't have a whole lot of Sanity points to lose.
-Bobbymobiiiile! Sorry, I'm strangely obsessed. She looks so shiny in the rain. *pats*
-Oh, hey, I just had a random thought. Trenchcoat and weird speech pattern could also be Virgil, maybe? Raphael's assassin guy? Though he's less of a 'talk to the fanboy and steal his stuff' operative and more of a 'steal all the stuff and to hell with the fanboy' operative. He could be a sort of dark and grim Columbo? Maybe? No? Sigh.
-Hi. I'm Dean Winchester. I trained for 30 subjective years under the head torturer in Hell. Your boss has my ex-girlfriend and her kid. Prepare to experience pain.
-"Lisa and Ben, wherever they are, that's a hundred percent on me." Oh Dean. True, I guess, but they wouldn't be alive at all if not for you and Sam, so... yeah. Oh Dean.
-Also, given the finale countdown clock has got to be ticking down on Sam's mental hell wall, I'd keep him as far away from demons as possible. 'Cause they'll poke it.
-"Castiel, it's Sam." *chokes on drink* DUDE! HOLY CRAP! VOLUNTARY COMMUNICATION ATTEMPT! OMG. If this doesn't work, Sam, Dean will fry you! O.O
-"I am begging you. Do you understand?" Oh Saaaaam!
-Oh my god. I may never get used to Castiel having a stealth mode. Still, communication has been achieved, even if it's one way.
-"I'm merely exploiting the obvious loophole." Of course, because he used to be head Crossroads demon and screwing people with semantics is what he does. Castiel, you dumbass.
-"You are not to harm them, do you understand me?" Castiel needs to snarl more commands. Yeah. *nods*
-Oh crap, incoming message from the big giant head angel radio. It's been a while. O.O
-"Are you in flagrante with the King of Hades?" *snerk* Technically no. But by the source meaning of 'actively committing an offense' well, yeah.
-*sigh* I love living in BC. Not all the parks feature bickering angels, but they're pretty anyway.
-"And I can only assume that you'd be the vessel, correct?" Waaaait, what? Vessel for what? God? God's got Chuck. What?
-"Suck up all the souls into yourself, suck up all that power." ...ooo. Kind of gross when you think about him horking half back up to give to Crowley, like a momma bird barfing up dinner for the baby birds, but ooo. That's... ooo.
-"In which case, you explode, taking a substantial chunk of the planet along with you." WELL! Um. Yeah. Yipe? O.O
-"In for a penny, in for a pound." You know, I don't believe him at all. A liiiiittle too smirky there. Also the music is all horns of impending doom.
-I don't know why, but I love that Bobby addresses the old guy as 'sir'. Make me see him as a little boy in the fifties, brought up to be respectful and stuff before everything went to hell. Aw, Bobby.
-"Do you you believe in monsters?" Ehehehehehe. Dude. You have no idea who you're asking.
-I love the moment here, between Bobby and the old guy. Bobby being the first one to actually listen and express condolences at the mother the boy lost. This guy's had a hard, nasty life, in a mental institution, and no one's ever told him, even when he was a kid, that they were sorry he lost his mom. OW SHOW. It's not enough to kill me with the main cast, you have to kill me with the random witnesses too?
-...Crap. Okay. So, his mom got possessed, she could still be kicking around. How many 'old enough to be a mom to a nine-year-old female characters that Bobby would recognize in a 75 year old photo do we have lurking around? Um. Lisa? And Doctor Visyak. And Sheriff Jodie Mills. Hm. If it's Lisa, the possession must be dormant or something, but it would explain her resiliency in the face of weird crap. Sheriff Mills, maybe, but not likely. We know the least about Dr. Visyak... hehe. If my Mary Sue ...hell with it. If my Mary Sue turns out to be infested with some kind of Mythos critter... that would be astoundingly apt, actually. XD
-Yep. Torturer!Dean is back in the saddle again.
-Crap. Bound to happen, wandering in and out of the trap like that. But crap.
-Dean's getting thrown across rooms into walls vans and getting choked! What day is it?
-YAAAAAAH!!!!! NOTHING SAYS "I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT YOU BY WORKING WITH THE KING OF HELL" LIKE SHOWING UP UNANNOUNCED AND BURNING OUT A DEMON. And that is how Winchesters communicate! \o/
-"I don't believe a word that's coming out of your mouth." Or at least try to communicate. *headdesk*
-"I thought you said that we were like family. Well I think that too." Oh, god, it's 'give me heartfelt declarations of brotherly schmoop and then use them to beat my heart to death' time again, isn't it?
-"I always come when you call." Oh god, the voice breaking just a little gaaaaah.
-"Has anyone but your closest kin ever done more for you?" GAAAAH. JUST TELL HIM WHY YOU THOUGHT WORKING WITH CROWLEY WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA! THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO PREVENT RAPHAEL FROM REBOOTING THE APOCALYPSE! YOU DIPSTICK! I want to shake some sense into an angel right now. Just grab him by the lapels and shake. ARG. *facepalm*
-Very bad sudden thought. Very very bad. Vessel. Castiel needs a really strong vessel he can haul all the Purgatory souls in. And Dean was made to be Michael's vessel. Ohhhhh crap. No. No no no. Castiel's not that much of... an idiot... oh god. Never mind. CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP. O.O
-"Stand behind me." GAAAAAH. I don't even know anymore. He might be desperate enough to be that stupid, but... arg. It's just a thought. It's not actually happening. Yet. Stop thinking about it. ARG. O.O Here. Woobie!angel. Innocent, hurt, moronic, woobie!angel. I WANT TO TRUST HIM!!! I WANT DEAN TO TRUST HIM!!! BUT... ARG!!!
-'That's what Crowley said.' *headdesk* TALK TO EACH OTHER!!! Crap.
-Hey, it's the Dead in the Water cabin, isn't it? (Also the Devour cabin, the cabin that showed up a few times on X-Files, possibly Samuel Colt's cabin... the one near Buntzen Lake.)
-Yep. Dr. Eleanor Visyak, of the 'possessed by something non-Euclidian in 1937' Eleanors, and who nearly had me fooled into thinking she was someone unfamiliar by having a different hairstyle and a lack of pronounced cleavage. Tricky tricky.
-"I know what you are, Ellie." Some people think their exes are soul-sucking creatures of evil, but in this case... I don't know that she might not be... not-evil though. Maybe.
-"Just slightly... 900 years." Hee! She's the same age as the current Doctor. There's a crossover waiting to happen. She could be the Rani. Or Romana. And Purgatory could be the Time War. And no, I have to many things to write already. No. Arg.
-"You're from freaking Purgatory, you never thought to mention that the whole time you slept with me?" Hmmm... *blink* Sorry. Drifted a little No idea what came over me there... <.<
-Really, if she'd had any plans to do anything evil, she would have done it by now.
-"Why do you think I gave Dean the sword?" EXACTLY! *high-fives Dr. Visyak*
-"At least let me take you somewhere, protect you." Hmmm... sorry, sorry, I keep zoning out, no idea why... >.>
-I will say, I am pleased with my choice of surrogate Mary-Sue. *beams*
-"I'm officially on your team... you bastards." Oh dear. Okay... So... is he going against Castiel by doing this or is he here because Cas wants him to be? Where are the sides???
-"He seems awfully sure of himself for a man who wants to swallow a million nuclear reactors." Yes, well, he's a bit of an idiot at the moment. He'll get over it. Or die. Arg.
-Okay. Call me paranoid, but if the angel who just showed up saying "Hi! I'm your buddy now! I know where your friends are! I can take you there, but I can't help you myself, so I'll be abandoning you there!" offers a free teleport anywhere? Hell no. We're driving, and he's drawing a tactical map. But yeah. Everyone's got their moment of shining idiot tonight, it seems.
-And... are they splitting up to look around the fortified abandoned trap warehouse? Seriously? After taking out only one guard? Idiots.
-Yup. Idiots.
-Hi Ben and Lisa, looking relatively unharmed at the moment. Now if I were Crowley, and I'm not, I'd have one or both of them possessed by a minion demon, just as a backup. And to force Dean to try to remember his latin.
-Stealth. Dean does not have it.
-He does however have a few extra levels in badass, which is even better.
-HAHAHA! And hi there possessed!Lisa! Apparently either I think like Crowley or Crowley thinks like me. I'm not sure which is more disturbing.
-Cindy Sampson does do evil very well. *nods*
-"I was just gonna tell him that your his real Daddy." Hahahahaahah! Oh my god. Conversations you should have had with people before you got possessed by a demon. BWAH!
-"Just kidding." HA!!! I do believe the writers just trolled the audience there. XD
-"Says the C-minus lay with ten miles of daddy issues. Whatever gets you through the night, Tiny Tim." Can we keep her demon? I miss snarky demons. Speaking of which, where the heck is Meg? ...Is this Meg? Ooo.
-Yay, Holy Water! Never leave home the hotel room the wrecking yard without it!
-LATINATION!!! \o/
-Oh, crap!
-"Exorcise me now." Well. It's a survivable wound, if you can get her to a hospital right away, or, I dunno, if Balthazar can be talked into a bit of healing. Evil does suit her though...
-And of course he'll finish the exorcism. With a glance at Ben. Because SERA GAMBLE WROTE THIS EPISODE AND LIKES TO TEAR PEOPLE'S HEARTS OUT. Oh Dean. Oh everybody.
-"Put pressure on that." HOLY CRAP WAS THAT ACTUAL FIRST AID FROM A WINCHESTER? O.o
-Yes. Sam. You know. Sam. With the wall in his head keeping Hell out. Who you brought. To a pretty obvious trap. Full of DEMONS. And is currently looking far too undisturbed and calm for my paranoia.
-'Get the salt gun and shoot anything coming at us, and get the knife too.' Sadly, being gentle and sensitive isn't really an option in the situation. Also, not likely anything Dean's had much experience with. That smack will have some repercussions, though. If everyone survives. Lisa's probably a goner, and Ben's fifty-fifty at this point. There's at least ten minutes left in the episode, Crowley is probably going to show up, or Sam's going to have been severely tampered with and go off all over everything.
-Dude! Awesome for a first shot. Salt's not gonna keep him down for long though, so running would be good.
-Sam's hollering, that's a good sign... maybe... Why would they take him and lock him alone in a room... did they mess with his hell wall? Or... oh, hey. Monster eggs. I... I don't really want to think too loud about that. O.O
-Well, whatever happened to Sam, it seriously improved his capacity to steal situationally-appropriate vehicles. Four door, lots of room, could even lay Lisa flat in the back of it if need be. Might he be soulless again? *worries*
-Oh Dean. And Ben. And everybody. There's still a lot of progress bar left. Someone's screwed.
-You know, getting someone in a hospital is not always a good thing on this show.
-"Ben I'm sorry." And Ben leaves. Yeah. The bloom is off your rose there, Dean. (Hush, paranoia, Ben isn't possessed. Maybe.)
-Hi Cas! Good time for a visit, somewhere where Dean can't yell too loud or he'll get kicked out of the hospital.
-"She'll be dead by midnight." Well crap. Too bad you don't have an ANGEL IN THE ROOM WHO REALLY WANTS TO BE FRIENDS OR SOMETHING. Gahhh.
-Yeah. Like that. Jeez, Dean, it's a good thing I like you or I'd be really vexed at you for being a bit of a total moron.
-"Thank you. I wish this changed anything." *headdesk* God damn it. Dean, get your head out of your ass. Castiel, tell him why you hooked up with Crowley. Both of you go find out what's happened to Sam and then EVERYBODY HUG BEFORE I START KICKING BUTTS AROUND HERE! Gaaaaah!
-"There's one more thing you could do for me." Oh. Really.
-"We were in a car crash." Did he have Castiel mind-wipe them? Like, not just of the night, but all their memories of him and monsters and whatnot? Because, um... that won't keep them from being targets. It's Dean's feelings for them that make them vulnerable, not their memories and feeling for him. Also, that's a heck of a lot to wipe from a memory. There's going to be an entire year of swiss cheese for one. O.o
-Yep, he did. Wow. There are going to be some really awkward and confusing conversations when they get home.... starting I guess with "Ma'am, where have you been and why is your boyfriend dead of a broken neck in the middle of your living room?"
-"You take care of your mom." Oh Dean. And another altered Family theme on the soundtrack, I think, goddamnit!!
-"Well?"/"Well nothin'." Okay, this should suffice as a test to see if Sam is soulless.
-"You ever mention Lisa or Ben to me again I will break your nose." Well there we are then.
-Well. Crap. Yeah. Leave the house with the angel-proofing, the angel's gonna find you. Oh this could really hurt.
...in the next episode. WHICH I DON'T HAVE TIME TO WATCH YET, ARG!!! Hoping to get to it sometime over the next week, but I won't be checking comments on this until after I've seen it, because with the two episodes airing back to back, it's inevitable some plot points are going to get swapped around in people's memories. Comment away, try to avoid talking about 6.22, and I'll get back to you all when I'm on the other side of the finale!
Now I have to see if LJ is going to talk to my uploader, or if I'm gonna hafta upload all 133 of these things individually.
Yay, it worked! \o/
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