Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 7.11
(I'm a bit sick and quite under-slept, so this one might be rather short and shallow.)
Contains profanity, capslock, meta and speculation.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Something about Sam and Dean having to look after the kid of a missing hunter. Title, Adventures in Babysitting.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.11 - "Adventures in Babysitting"
I'm going to try to go back to the old way of doing these, where I watch the whole thing through, then go back and react.
Yeah, right.
-Hey a montage? Cool! "Riding the Storm Out" by... heh. Reo Speedwagon. "He sings it from the hair."
-"Idjits." *wibble* Ah yes. We had Bobby's side of that, but not Sam and Dean's. So we'll be starting with some fearsome ow, right?
-After the pre-credits fodder is killed off, that is. Hey, this guy looks familiar, but I'm not sure where from. [He was apparently a regular on DaVinci's Inquest, and its later spin-off, which played for years in Canada, I never actually watched, but had commercials on every ten minutes, just about.]
-Ah. Knife. Guess this is our hunter about to go missing.
-Interesting overhead shot. Makes me think the shadows are going to start acting up.
-Marlene the waitress. Why not?
-"I slipped a little special sauce into your coffee while you were watching the skirt." The skirt. Is she from the 50's?
-Another kitsune? No, they had purple eyes.
-"That's for the crappy tip." Always tip your waitstaff well, in case they turn out to be monsters who will eat you.
-"Week One" Ohhh crap. I have a bad feeling this is going to be a lot more painful than anticipated. Oh boooooooys. :-(
-"Week Two" That is a big-ass glass of booze.
-And they're still missing the final number.
-"Week Three" Wall of weird. Frank's working on the numbers. Sam wants to know if they should be telling people about Bobby. Dean is a MASSIVE WALL OF DENIAL. So. Y'know. Same old.
-"Is Bobby Singer there?" Yeah, letting people know would have prevented that. Though all things considered, the frequency most hunters and associates trawl the obituaries as a matter of routine, you'd think word would have already spread.
-"He's... not here." Hm. They aren't saying dead. Maybe he still is in that coma. Although the total brain death ending of the last episode would seem to make that a not-better possibility.
-Written by Adam Glass, directed by Jeannot Szwarc... pretty sure that's a new name in the director's chair.
-"You probably drank it without noticing." Not a good sign. Or you have a clurichaun. Or Bobby's hanging out as a ghost and drinking your beer. Yeah, it's Bobby. [Going back after, Dean picks up the full bottle, yaks at Sam, then holds up the empty. No chance at all to drink any of it. It's totally Bobby's ghost. *nods*]
-"He's passed away." Yeah, it's hard to say out loud for the first while.
-"If your dad said you can trust Bobby, then you can trust me too." Ignore any rumours your dad might have passed along about the Winchesters, particularly that stuff about the Apocalypse and going to Hell. And that bit about Sam being a ruthless killer for a while when he had no soul. No worries.
-Salesman. Heh.
-That's not the Impala is it. Still? I guess it's practical, except for the driving around in other noticeable classic cars makes benching the Impala kind of moot. *growls*
-Looks like Frank's vapor. Or the Grinch. 'On the walls he left nothing but hooks, and some wire.' Heh.
-Frank says hello with guns, have you noticed? Most sensible thing to do when the world is inundated with creatures that could be literally anyone. Aim first, apologize later.
-Oh crap, my screen colour must be off for a second there that looked black. *headdesk*
-All right, it's not the Impala, it's not the Challenger. The head lights look Chevy. There's a word on the back side panel that starts with s and that angled trim thing looked deliberate rather than falling-off, so... no idea.
-"You think it's easy to see this deep into what's real and also be bipolar with delusional ideation? There is no pill for my situation, sweetie-pop." Aw, Frank. Yeah, that totally sucks. :-/
-"Days, weeks, quit bustin my chops." Frank is kind of awesome. Of course this means he's going to die.
-"This is not a friendship, Frank! I'm paying you!" A whole hell of a lot, too. Many people don't make that much in a year.
-"Hey, maybe I'm missing a number." YAY FRANK! \o/
-COORDINATES! I think most of us called that one, eh? But... hey. He's got the last number wrong. It was a five! According to Google Maps, that's about a 10 mile difference. That's going to turn into something interesting later.
-"A field, in Wisconsin." Poor Dean. He's truly going to lose his mind, isn't he?
-"Or if we're stupid, we go there and set up surveillance." I'm guessing that's a token 'if' and a non-self-inclusive 'we'.
-"Or a vampire." Heh heh heh. Sam's face.
-"That usually gets at least a chuckle." Wrong audience, dude, but there's no way you'd know that. XD
-"Relax. It's a field, not the Death Star." Wait for it.
-"Since when do you read?" Don't be a dick, Sam. Also, hey, solo tie report at the moment, that lovely complex one with the red-shading-to-black big bars and the white-edged pale blue narrow bars down to Sam's left. He's worn this one a few times before. I'm thinking complex social thingy tie, because I think one of the last times was in the interview scenes during that episode with the mannequins and all the social nastiness behind that. If I recall correctly. And he's just found the girl's dad dead by monster, and is going to have to go deal with her in some way because she's had way too many lines, sets and character establishment to be shuffled off to social services off-screen now.
-"Three missing truckers and one blood-free body." Wait, was that her dad or wasn't it? I'm confused. I'm blaming the cold medication.
-"Come and get your costume on and we can scoot." Dean, so thrilled by costumes.
-"What the hell's so special about this place?" It's super-saturated compared to the rest of the show for one, which is never a good sign. Also, I'm getting a crop-circle feeling, even though there's not really a crop. What are the fairies up to these days anyway?
-"Now get up in that cherry-picker and act like you're fixing something." Heee. Coveralls work.
-"I dunno how to drive that thing!"/"You think I do?" Ha! When picking a cover story, make sure you pick one where you do not require specialized knowledge to fake it. Actually, unless they've changed a lot in the past 20 years, the control are pretty much a joystick and an up-down button.
-Hee!
-Awww, sleepy Dean. Practical though. "I'll take the first shift."/*instant sleep* It's like a post-hypnotic suggestion.
-Vitala. Sounds like specialty shampoo from a hair salon. I don't think these truckers are being killed by an eco-friendly dairy either.
-Oh a vEtala. Hang on. Vetala are ghosts/evil spirits from Hindu mythology that take possession of corpses. No mention of silver knives getting stuck anywhere, just holy mantras... ooo... "Being unaffected by the laws of space and time, they have an uncanny knowledge about the past, present, and future and a deep insight into human nature." Wouldn't it be fun if the show decided to play with that aspect of the mythology.
-And, yeah, there she is. Watch out Sam!
-Oh well there's two of them! They hunt in teams, like velociraptors! \o/
-Oh dear. *facepalm* well, if there's anything odd in his blood left from the demon blood thing or the monster blood thing from the top of the season, maybe they'll detect it. Also, Lucifer's been damn quiet, at least as far as we've seen of him. With all the stress and loss running around, Sam's due for a big outbreak of something.
-Dean slept 36 hours. Wow. Although, Frank's sense of time is a little... special, so you might want to check your watch. And your bladder. And your neck, because if you've slept sitting up in that position for that long, you're going to have a considerable amount of ouch coming to you.
-Building something. So this would be a long-range project.
-"Go out and kill something or whatever you kids do to blow off steam." Dean can pull off a lovely bitchface when sufficiently motivated.
-"What I did when I came home to find my wife and two kids gutted on the floor." Ahh. More than just a wacky nutbag is Frank. And this level of sharing from someone with his level of paranoia is quite notable, I think.
-"Decide to be fine until the end of the week. Make yourself smile, because you're alive and that's your job. And do it again the next week." Yeah. Sucks don't it?
-Does Dean's phone just continue to buzz intermittently when he has saved voicemail, or did he just get a new message on top of Sam's old one? If so, from who. Or right. The kid.
-"Sam told me to call if I didn't hear anything back from him." Yeah, that would be Dean's 'oh crap' face.
-"I was out there looking for you." And such a great job you've done! now you just need to escape! Wheee...
-"So how do we get out of here?" Dude. You're the rescue party. If buddy had a way of escaping he would have by now.
-"Your dad may not want you to know every single thing about him." Aw Dean.
-Yep. And telling a teenager to do anything when you are no kind of authority figure they accept will get you nothing but grief. Hey, she's already wearing plaid, maybe she'll be cool with it.
-Ooo, wall o' weird is missing, Sam must have packed it up and taken it with him, and left the map for Dean. Smart Sam! \o/
-Or kid took it down and knew all along. Okey dokey.
-"I'm coming with you." Oh this will go well.
-*smacks the gun out of her hand* Hahahaha, yeah, her stance was too extended. XD
-"One thing doesn't make sense though. My dad's a pretty good hunter, and your brother's the size of a car-" *pauses to hack up a lung and wheeze a lot* XD
-"Sam quit, went to college." Oh the contemplative look on her face is kind of heartbreaking.
-"Be a hunter-slash-paediatrician." Awww. *grins*
-Of course Sam deflects the feeding on to himself.
-"I've been prepping for this my entire life." Honey, you have no idea.
-"What century is this?" Fist bumps! Heeeee!
-AHAHAHAHHAHH. Handcuffs. I get the feeling that might backfire hugely, but yeah. I wonder if he ever pulled that on wee!Sam? Not that wee!Sam was itching to charge into hunting. XD
-"I watched my mom get torn to shreds." That... might be an argument that will work on Dean. Or not.
-And now she's in a pretty perfect position to slide over, hotwire the car and start ramming things isn't she. Just sayin'
-That was not the sound of a silver knife hitting the ground.
-Dean's being thrown into a wall! And choked! What day is it? \o/
-"Dad, hold on I got you!" *headdesk* You idiot!
-Hell of a holdout skill to hide a knife that big in a sleeve that small without tearing.
-"Bad actress, hunh?" She is... really dangerously skating into Mary-Sue territory, isn't she? Just a wee bit. Considering she's just in essence rescued everyone while Dean stood there kind of helpless, along with all that's happened so far and her backstory, it could be argued to be more of a triple lutz into Mary-Sue territory. Hmm. ...Also, not to rain paranoia on anyone's parade, but has anyone checked her for being a Leviathan? *side-eyes*
-"Quit." *nods* Interesting how Dean's viewpoint has changed over the years.
-"You ever know anyone who left the life?" ...Let's see. Rufus tried, was a paranoid recluse. Frank arguably, also paranoid recluse. That guy in the insane asylum, 'nough said. Sam, Stanford, yeah. Hmm. Low on examples. Doesn't mean it can't work. Someone has to be first.
-"No. They all get killed first." Hello Dean's family theme, what are you doing here?
-"Thanks for saying 'bye, asshat." She is cute, I will grant her that.
-"Bobby pin." Well hidden if so. It would be a 'what century is this?' type thing, but they are useful, so yeah.
-"Maybe I'll go to Stanford like Sam." And the fistbump. Aw. Even if she's totally lying or secretly evil, nice to let Dean have this possibility that he's helped a kid get back to a normal life.
-"How about you, you alright?"/"No, I'm definitely not." Oh yay, here we go!
-Sam: *waffles* "I just wanna work." Buuuuuuuullllshiiiiiiiiiiit. Sam. Your brother wants you to talk about your feelings. DOOOO IIIIIT!
-"We are the professionals." So full of crap. Arg. So they're keeping on with the not talking and revenge questing and generally being the Winchesteriest Winchesters they can be. Until things explode. And they will. Sigh.
-That smiling in pain thing from Dean at the end doesn't translate well into screencaps. But it's another wall going up to try and keep things under control, pushed down and festering. Owwww.
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Contains profanity, capslock, meta and speculation.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Something about Sam and Dean having to look after the kid of a missing hunter. Title, Adventures in Babysitting.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.11 - "Adventures in Babysitting"
I'm going to try to go back to the old way of doing these, where I watch the whole thing through, then go back and react.
Yeah, right.
-Hey a montage? Cool! "Riding the Storm Out" by... heh. Reo Speedwagon. "He sings it from the hair."
-"Idjits." *wibble* Ah yes. We had Bobby's side of that, but not Sam and Dean's. So we'll be starting with some fearsome ow, right?
-After the pre-credits fodder is killed off, that is. Hey, this guy looks familiar, but I'm not sure where from. [He was apparently a regular on DaVinci's Inquest, and its later spin-off, which played for years in Canada, I never actually watched, but had commercials on every ten minutes, just about.]
-Ah. Knife. Guess this is our hunter about to go missing.
-Interesting overhead shot. Makes me think the shadows are going to start acting up.
-Marlene the waitress. Why not?
-"I slipped a little special sauce into your coffee while you were watching the skirt." The skirt. Is she from the 50's?
-Another kitsune? No, they had purple eyes.
-"That's for the crappy tip." Always tip your waitstaff well, in case they turn out to be monsters who will eat you.
-"Week One" Ohhh crap. I have a bad feeling this is going to be a lot more painful than anticipated. Oh boooooooys. :-(
-"Week Two" That is a big-ass glass of booze.
-And they're still missing the final number.
-"Week Three" Wall of weird. Frank's working on the numbers. Sam wants to know if they should be telling people about Bobby. Dean is a MASSIVE WALL OF DENIAL. So. Y'know. Same old.
-"Is Bobby Singer there?" Yeah, letting people know would have prevented that. Though all things considered, the frequency most hunters and associates trawl the obituaries as a matter of routine, you'd think word would have already spread.
-"He's... not here." Hm. They aren't saying dead. Maybe he still is in that coma. Although the total brain death ending of the last episode would seem to make that a not-better possibility.
-Written by Adam Glass, directed by Jeannot Szwarc... pretty sure that's a new name in the director's chair.
-"You probably drank it without noticing." Not a good sign. Or you have a clurichaun. Or Bobby's hanging out as a ghost and drinking your beer. Yeah, it's Bobby. [Going back after, Dean picks up the full bottle, yaks at Sam, then holds up the empty. No chance at all to drink any of it. It's totally Bobby's ghost. *nods*]
-"He's passed away." Yeah, it's hard to say out loud for the first while.
-"If your dad said you can trust Bobby, then you can trust me too." Ignore any rumours your dad might have passed along about the Winchesters, particularly that stuff about the Apocalypse and going to Hell. And that bit about Sam being a ruthless killer for a while when he had no soul. No worries.
-Salesman. Heh.
-That's not the Impala is it. Still? I guess it's practical, except for the driving around in other noticeable classic cars makes benching the Impala kind of moot. *growls*
-Looks like Frank's vapor. Or the Grinch. 'On the walls he left nothing but hooks, and some wire.' Heh.
-Frank says hello with guns, have you noticed? Most sensible thing to do when the world is inundated with creatures that could be literally anyone. Aim first, apologize later.
-Oh crap, my screen colour must be off for a second there that looked black. *headdesk*
-All right, it's not the Impala, it's not the Challenger. The head lights look Chevy. There's a word on the back side panel that starts with s and that angled trim thing looked deliberate rather than falling-off, so... no idea.
-"You think it's easy to see this deep into what's real and also be bipolar with delusional ideation? There is no pill for my situation, sweetie-pop." Aw, Frank. Yeah, that totally sucks. :-/
-"Days, weeks, quit bustin my chops." Frank is kind of awesome. Of course this means he's going to die.
-"This is not a friendship, Frank! I'm paying you!" A whole hell of a lot, too. Many people don't make that much in a year.
-"Hey, maybe I'm missing a number." YAY FRANK! \o/
-COORDINATES! I think most of us called that one, eh? But... hey. He's got the last number wrong. It was a five! According to Google Maps, that's about a 10 mile difference. That's going to turn into something interesting later.
-"A field, in Wisconsin." Poor Dean. He's truly going to lose his mind, isn't he?
-"Or if we're stupid, we go there and set up surveillance." I'm guessing that's a token 'if' and a non-self-inclusive 'we'.
-"Or a vampire." Heh heh heh. Sam's face.
-"That usually gets at least a chuckle." Wrong audience, dude, but there's no way you'd know that. XD
-"Relax. It's a field, not the Death Star." Wait for it.
-"Since when do you read?" Don't be a dick, Sam. Also, hey, solo tie report at the moment, that lovely complex one with the red-shading-to-black big bars and the white-edged pale blue narrow bars down to Sam's left. He's worn this one a few times before. I'm thinking complex social thingy tie, because I think one of the last times was in the interview scenes during that episode with the mannequins and all the social nastiness behind that. If I recall correctly. And he's just found the girl's dad dead by monster, and is going to have to go deal with her in some way because she's had way too many lines, sets and character establishment to be shuffled off to social services off-screen now.
-"Three missing truckers and one blood-free body." Wait, was that her dad or wasn't it? I'm confused. I'm blaming the cold medication.
-"Come and get your costume on and we can scoot." Dean, so thrilled by costumes.
-"What the hell's so special about this place?" It's super-saturated compared to the rest of the show for one, which is never a good sign. Also, I'm getting a crop-circle feeling, even though there's not really a crop. What are the fairies up to these days anyway?
-"Now get up in that cherry-picker and act like you're fixing something." Heee. Coveralls work.
-"I dunno how to drive that thing!"/"You think I do?" Ha! When picking a cover story, make sure you pick one where you do not require specialized knowledge to fake it. Actually, unless they've changed a lot in the past 20 years, the control are pretty much a joystick and an up-down button.
-Hee!
-Awww, sleepy Dean. Practical though. "I'll take the first shift."/*instant sleep* It's like a post-hypnotic suggestion.
-Vitala. Sounds like specialty shampoo from a hair salon. I don't think these truckers are being killed by an eco-friendly dairy either.
-Oh a vEtala. Hang on. Vetala are ghosts/evil spirits from Hindu mythology that take possession of corpses. No mention of silver knives getting stuck anywhere, just holy mantras... ooo... "Being unaffected by the laws of space and time, they have an uncanny knowledge about the past, present, and future and a deep insight into human nature." Wouldn't it be fun if the show decided to play with that aspect of the mythology.
-And, yeah, there she is. Watch out Sam!
-Oh well there's two of them! They hunt in teams, like velociraptors! \o/
-Oh dear. *facepalm* well, if there's anything odd in his blood left from the demon blood thing or the monster blood thing from the top of the season, maybe they'll detect it. Also, Lucifer's been damn quiet, at least as far as we've seen of him. With all the stress and loss running around, Sam's due for a big outbreak of something.
-Dean slept 36 hours. Wow. Although, Frank's sense of time is a little... special, so you might want to check your watch. And your bladder. And your neck, because if you've slept sitting up in that position for that long, you're going to have a considerable amount of ouch coming to you.
-Building something. So this would be a long-range project.
-"Go out and kill something or whatever you kids do to blow off steam." Dean can pull off a lovely bitchface when sufficiently motivated.
-"What I did when I came home to find my wife and two kids gutted on the floor." Ahh. More than just a wacky nutbag is Frank. And this level of sharing from someone with his level of paranoia is quite notable, I think.
-"Decide to be fine until the end of the week. Make yourself smile, because you're alive and that's your job. And do it again the next week." Yeah. Sucks don't it?
-Does Dean's phone just continue to buzz intermittently when he has saved voicemail, or did he just get a new message on top of Sam's old one? If so, from who. Or right. The kid.
-"Sam told me to call if I didn't hear anything back from him." Yeah, that would be Dean's 'oh crap' face.
-"I was out there looking for you." And such a great job you've done! now you just need to escape! Wheee...
-"So how do we get out of here?" Dude. You're the rescue party. If buddy had a way of escaping he would have by now.
-"Your dad may not want you to know every single thing about him." Aw Dean.
-Yep. And telling a teenager to do anything when you are no kind of authority figure they accept will get you nothing but grief. Hey, she's already wearing plaid, maybe she'll be cool with it.
-Ooo, wall o' weird is missing, Sam must have packed it up and taken it with him, and left the map for Dean. Smart Sam! \o/
-Or kid took it down and knew all along. Okey dokey.
-"I'm coming with you." Oh this will go well.
-*smacks the gun out of her hand* Hahahaha, yeah, her stance was too extended. XD
-"One thing doesn't make sense though. My dad's a pretty good hunter, and your brother's the size of a car-" *pauses to hack up a lung and wheeze a lot* XD
-"Sam quit, went to college." Oh the contemplative look on her face is kind of heartbreaking.
-"Be a hunter-slash-paediatrician." Awww. *grins*
-Of course Sam deflects the feeding on to himself.
-"I've been prepping for this my entire life." Honey, you have no idea.
-"What century is this?" Fist bumps! Heeeee!
-AHAHAHAHHAHH. Handcuffs. I get the feeling that might backfire hugely, but yeah. I wonder if he ever pulled that on wee!Sam? Not that wee!Sam was itching to charge into hunting. XD
-"I watched my mom get torn to shreds." That... might be an argument that will work on Dean. Or not.
-And now she's in a pretty perfect position to slide over, hotwire the car and start ramming things isn't she. Just sayin'
-That was not the sound of a silver knife hitting the ground.
-Dean's being thrown into a wall! And choked! What day is it? \o/
-"Dad, hold on I got you!" *headdesk* You idiot!
-Hell of a holdout skill to hide a knife that big in a sleeve that small without tearing.
-"Bad actress, hunh?" She is... really dangerously skating into Mary-Sue territory, isn't she? Just a wee bit. Considering she's just in essence rescued everyone while Dean stood there kind of helpless, along with all that's happened so far and her backstory, it could be argued to be more of a triple lutz into Mary-Sue territory. Hmm. ...Also, not to rain paranoia on anyone's parade, but has anyone checked her for being a Leviathan? *side-eyes*
-"Quit." *nods* Interesting how Dean's viewpoint has changed over the years.
-"You ever know anyone who left the life?" ...Let's see. Rufus tried, was a paranoid recluse. Frank arguably, also paranoid recluse. That guy in the insane asylum, 'nough said. Sam, Stanford, yeah. Hmm. Low on examples. Doesn't mean it can't work. Someone has to be first.
-"No. They all get killed first." Hello Dean's family theme, what are you doing here?
-"Thanks for saying 'bye, asshat." She is cute, I will grant her that.
-"Bobby pin." Well hidden if so. It would be a 'what century is this?' type thing, but they are useful, so yeah.
-"Maybe I'll go to Stanford like Sam." And the fistbump. Aw. Even if she's totally lying or secretly evil, nice to let Dean have this possibility that he's helped a kid get back to a normal life.
-"How about you, you alright?"/"No, I'm definitely not." Oh yay, here we go!
-Sam: *waffles* "I just wanna work." Buuuuuuuullllshiiiiiiiiiiit. Sam. Your brother wants you to talk about your feelings. DOOOO IIIIIT!
-"We are the professionals." So full of crap. Arg. So they're keeping on with the not talking and revenge questing and generally being the Winchesteriest Winchesters they can be. Until things explode. And they will. Sigh.
-That smiling in pain thing from Dean at the end doesn't translate well into screencaps. But it's another wall going up to try and keep things under control, pushed down and festering. Owwww.
(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.)