Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 7.15
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Spoiler and Theory Summary
Some demon they exorcised is back and they have to talk to the guy they exorcised it from to find something out about the demon plan. Considering this is right before a mini-hiatus, I expect Sam's head-Lucifer to return and make a revelation of some kind.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.15 - "Repo Man"
-Skipping the- Wait, four years ago? *scans around* ...Where is the NOW? Okay fine, they're being more literal and the THEN now includes new material not happening at the same time as the episode. Great. That's so much more clear.
-IMPALA!!! WITH THE SPOTLIGHTS!!! The rest of the episode could be them folding their socks, I would still be happy just from that. \o/
-"It's one thing to study them in books..." Oh dear, a fresh-faced bright-eyed academic is going to get a serious baptism in fire, isn't she?
-Wiccan? Can we hope for an non-adversarial wiccan character portrayal? *crosses fingers*
-"I'm gonna scoop you out like a pumpkin." Ah demons, I kind of miss their refreshing straight-forward bloody-mindedness.
-"Looking for Lilith in all the wrong places." Right. Four years ago, Season 3, pre-"Dream a Little Dream" because spotlights.
-"We're gonna send that demon back to Hell."/"Okay. ...Please don't hurt me." A bit late for that, also, at this state of the demon-extracting art, a bit like trying to do surgery with a Nerf scalpel, but maybe this one's enough of a wimp to be chased out with Latin?
-"Whatever you have to do, do it." Bit of a tactical backfire for the demon there. Didn't expect your host to back their play, did you, Chuckles?
-Yeah, season 3 was the year of desperate demon torture, Dean's deal and the seals and stopping the Apocalypse and all that. *winces*
-And a rare look at the aftermath, Sam clearing the crime scene, Dean driving the exorcisee to the hospital. nice to have a couple details.
-Oh the Impala's throaty purr.... *sighs*
-*covers guest-* Whoops. Hi Mark Pellegrino! Figured you'd be around.
-"No demon talk in the ER. You were mugged." Wise words.
-"Um. Thank you." *little wave* BWAHAHAHAHA.
-Couer d'Alene, Idaho, Present Day. This is the first NOW-less episode in a long while, isn't it? Bet they did it just to trip up us THEN-skippers.
-Hi Lucifer! Yay we get to find out how Sam's really doing! Maybe!
-Yay police band radio! Have they used that since Season 1?
-Sam and Dean wake up pretty, in case anyone was wondering.
-Synchronized badge flashing will be an event in the 2012 Olympics, I've heard. Extra points for dimples.
-Written by Ben Edlund. Oh dear. This could be... interesting. And quippy!
-Tie report. Synchronized directions, both non-simple striping, Dean has shades of blue, Sam has a base of red with clusters of narrow compound white and grey stripes. Unified goals and intents for now, complex and very un-unified things going on under the surface.
-"Flash our tin to a bunch of chompers pretending to be policemen." Excellent point. They're kind of running free aren't they? And what about that location that's a little bit off from those numbers from Bobby. And has anyone seen what colour Frank bleeds lately? I can do paranoid too.
-"It's the drummer boys!" Heeeeee! Nice to have made such an impression the last time you were in town. Also, hi Lucifer, hanging out in the background.
-Directed by Thomas J. Wright, first time directing Supernatural, but has directed a lot of other things.
-And the devil makes three.
-WAUGH!! That was unexpected. O.O
-"We didn't catch the critter last time, did we?" ...critter? I take it that's a euphemism.
-"Careful, it's still drying." Also a wise idea. And handily fits in with the preconceptions about what decor a wiccan store might have, and so would raise no extra eyebrows.
-"We've had some technical difficulties, phone issues."/"It's a monster problem, really." Sam: *bitchface* *snerk*
-"And that's what it's all about. Handling it." Ohhhh dear. Poor doomed bastard.
-You know guys, a phone call would have been more thoughtful. What did you think a possessed guy was going to do with a dog anyway? ... uh. Do not answer that.
-"Make sure of what? That I peed my pants today?" Ha! Yep, Edlund.
-Love random!Lucifer, just hanging around, being an annoyance.
-When the former host of the recently returned demon knows who might be the next victim, it's a bit nervous making. "And put in a line. In an order." Why? To open a Seal? Bit too late for that, isn't it?
-"You're right. We just don't read anymore." Aw, Lucifer's a season 1 fan too.
-I wish they could do this all the time, have Lucifer just hanging around invisibly, being a dick to Sam. Not in the budget, I suspect.
-I still think he's more than a hallucination. Maybe. Just saying.
-"The doctor on duty said it looked like I got caught in the Spanish Inquisition." Probably not far off on some points there.
-"I started to talk about what happened." Yeeeeaaah. After the drinking and drugs, starting to talk about being possessed by a demon would not have gone over well. Not that it goes over well at the best of times.
-"I have to." Oh dear. A burning need to go rooting around in his old demon's nest. This guy is not going to survive the hour. And his little dog too.
-If you can't distract Sam with the weather stats for Hackberry Texas, distract him with an unexpected round of hallucinatory group head-desking.
-"Come on, Sam, pay attention to me, I'm bored!" Lucifer is five. And there's an open graphic novel on the desk in front of him too. Hee.
-And the Crap on Wheels of the week is a... Mustang? Naw.
-"No signal." It's a dead zone! GASP!
-He brought. His new dog. Who has recently had surgery and isn't even operating at full doggy capacity. To the demon nest. *EPIC FACEPALM*
-"Thing's not gonna pee in here, is it?"/"Um. I dunno." Meh. If it does, steal a different car. One advantage to driving the Crap of the week, no great loss if you need to ditch it.
-"Red door, down the hallway."/"Yeah, there is." Heeeey. If the demon wouldn't let him see, how'd he know the door was red...? *eyebrow*
-"This must be it." Either that or it's the local high school's party hangout.
-"Just stay here and don't move." Okay, at this point, I really hope you gave him one of those handy anti-possession necklaces or doodled one on him with a Sharpie, because leaving the formerly possessed guy unattended in the lair of his possessor seems to me to really be all kinds of dumb. Unless it's deliberate and you're trying to get the guy repossessed to get the demon to show up.
-And here we have the typical Hero Trap in action. Mimic or display a defenseless victim, get the hero to drop all weapons and defenses to run to the rescue, then attack when least expected. Right?
-Yep.
-OWWWWW. What the hell? Demon blood? Too reddish for Leviathan juice.
-...hey. Would a demon that got in via an injection bypass Dean's tattoo??? O.O
-"Leave your name, number and nightmare at the tone." Heee! Awesome.
-"Not a good sign." neither is agreeing with Lucifer, and yet here we are.
-Hm. Speed, and a whole panopoly of major painkillers and tranquilizers. Maybe the demon's trying to organleg and failing really really badly? Or it's a copycat?
-"Whatever's going on here, you know the demon's not coming back to kill anybody." It's mildly alarming when Lucifer provides pertinent case conjecture, hallucinatory or not.
-"Big brother's probably dead."/"Shut up." That's one sure-fire way to get a response out of Sam.
-"He said 'shut up' to me!" Aww! Heeee!
-Aha! Dead zone inna box. Clever. And waaaaaay more nuts than they figured.
-"Latin. Not suspicious at all." Can we have Lucifer narrate Sam's case-working unspoken monologs allll theeeeee tiiiiime? Please?
-"I've never seen this spell before."/"No, but you've seen its type." Sam out loud case-spitballing with his head-Lucifer however, is very worrisome.
-"I know this handwriting." Oh great. The wiccan character is evil again? Or is she just possessed? She was the one who told the boys to go find the prior possession victim... and she didn't step in the devil's trap because of 'wet paint'... hm. But why would Jeffery have the summoning spell? Vengeance on the demon? Hm.
-Sam's picked more locks in this episode than he has in years. It's awesome.
-"Ay caramba, mi cabeza!" He may be helping you out with the case, but your head-Lucifer is still a raging dick, Sam.
-Okay, not possessed. Or faking really well.
-"Get this stupid cow to focus, will you?" Just in case we forgot he's Lucifer.
-"I am two inches away from you, and I can make you talk, do you understand me." STOP LISTENING TO YOUR HEAD-LUCIFER, SAM. The being a dick thing is rubbing off. Or pushing you slowly dark side again.... Hmmmm... I wonder if that's the plan...
-Yup. Jeffrey's checked out. I KNEW him saying the door was red was a sign something was up. Also, I don't think we want to know what he's feeding the dog. O.o
-"I loved the power, the connection, and I loved him." That was unexpected. A little retroactive Stockholm syndrome there? O.o
-"You're a serial killer." *blink* Ohhhhh. Okay. Jeffrey was a serial killer first, or would have been one with enough of a stressor, then got possessed and went on a rampage with his demon, then started again once he got back out in proximity to society. And the list is a load of distracting crap, and he's kidnapped her son to get a summoning ritual to get his slaying partner back and holy crap this episode is needing a lot more brain to figure out than I have right now.
-"There's a sound that comes from their brains. Only I can hear it. Like an evil little steam whistle." Or some untreated schizophrenia-related condition got a demonic possession instead of proper treatment, and tipped Jeffrey into serial killing. Poor Jeffrey. :-/
-"He's the one who saved me, and you sent him to Hell." Buuuut, you signed off on it...? Seller's remorse?
-"And then he sent me this." It's an ear, isn't it.
-Yup. "He cut it off because the ritual didn't work." Yeek.
-"I found a summoning spell that would work, for sure." Oh crap. You know who else is in big-time lockdown except for maybe a little loose thread that followed Sam up to daylight, maybe? Lucifer. Who, if he's more than a hallucination is sitting in the room listening. And if this spell works on the demon that gave up intel to get him out... Eeeek.
-"Blood of the exorcist?" Which would be Dean. Oh dear. Sam's about to go ballistic on the wiccan lady. O.o
-"You're giving me the chills." Not something you want to hear from any variation on Lucifer.
-"Or I should say, it's killed you, shouldn't I?" I don't know whether that's a threat or an assessment of Dean's current mental state, but it works surprisingly well for both.
-"A life well-lived comes from the structured pursuit of meaningful happiness." ...yikes. O.o
-"I'll be right back." I'm guessing this is where the dog becomes a spell component, right? Eek. :-/
-He does Latinate well. And has the one-off spell memorized, which it took Dean 'til season three to do for the exorcism, so that's impressive. Sign of obsession.
-Yeah, minimizing the number of potential possession targets would have been a wise idea.
-I don't think he was expecting a hug. Or a dance. Probably not.
-"You captured a Winchester." Hehe. Riiiight. And they're off-limits right now per Crowley, aren't they? Jeffrey's toast.
-*facepalm* Aaaarg. Seriously. Rope-tying consultant. They need one.
-An old one, but a good one. Demons are DUMB.
-"I'll be back you know. Back in black." What?! "Go to Hell." Yes. Do that. No demon quotes the Impala montage song, especially while the boys aren't driving around in her.
-*smirks at the same exorcism or close enough as they used in season one* Can't beat the classics.
-"You goin' to sleep?"/"Damn straight. Screw consciousness, that's what I say." Heeee.
-And the other danger of working a case with your head-Lucifer. He gets a better grip, because interacting with him makes him more real to you, or strengthens the connection to the Cage or whatever.
-"Got my finger wiggling around in your brain pan." Yes, that.
-Oh dear. That's definitely not good.
Well, the back half of the season's looking mighty interesting for Sam.
(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.)
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Some demon they exorcised is back and they have to talk to the guy they exorcised it from to find something out about the demon plan. Considering this is right before a mini-hiatus, I expect Sam's head-Lucifer to return and make a revelation of some kind.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.15 - "Repo Man"
-Skipping the- Wait, four years ago? *scans around* ...Where is the NOW? Okay fine, they're being more literal and the THEN now includes new material not happening at the same time as the episode. Great. That's so much more clear.
-IMPALA!!! WITH THE SPOTLIGHTS!!! The rest of the episode could be them folding their socks, I would still be happy just from that. \o/
-"It's one thing to study them in books..." Oh dear, a fresh-faced bright-eyed academic is going to get a serious baptism in fire, isn't she?
-Wiccan? Can we hope for an non-adversarial wiccan character portrayal? *crosses fingers*
-"I'm gonna scoop you out like a pumpkin." Ah demons, I kind of miss their refreshing straight-forward bloody-mindedness.
-"Looking for Lilith in all the wrong places." Right. Four years ago, Season 3, pre-"Dream a Little Dream" because spotlights.
-"We're gonna send that demon back to Hell."/"Okay. ...Please don't hurt me." A bit late for that, also, at this state of the demon-extracting art, a bit like trying to do surgery with a Nerf scalpel, but maybe this one's enough of a wimp to be chased out with Latin?
-"Whatever you have to do, do it." Bit of a tactical backfire for the demon there. Didn't expect your host to back their play, did you, Chuckles?
-Yeah, season 3 was the year of desperate demon torture, Dean's deal and the seals and stopping the Apocalypse and all that. *winces*
-And a rare look at the aftermath, Sam clearing the crime scene, Dean driving the exorcisee to the hospital. nice to have a couple details.
-Oh the Impala's throaty purr.... *sighs*
-*covers guest-* Whoops. Hi Mark Pellegrino! Figured you'd be around.
-"No demon talk in the ER. You were mugged." Wise words.
-"Um. Thank you." *little wave* BWAHAHAHAHA.
-Couer d'Alene, Idaho, Present Day. This is the first NOW-less episode in a long while, isn't it? Bet they did it just to trip up us THEN-skippers.
-Hi Lucifer! Yay we get to find out how Sam's really doing! Maybe!
-Yay police band radio! Have they used that since Season 1?
-Sam and Dean wake up pretty, in case anyone was wondering.
-Synchronized badge flashing will be an event in the 2012 Olympics, I've heard. Extra points for dimples.
-Written by Ben Edlund. Oh dear. This could be... interesting. And quippy!
-Tie report. Synchronized directions, both non-simple striping, Dean has shades of blue, Sam has a base of red with clusters of narrow compound white and grey stripes. Unified goals and intents for now, complex and very un-unified things going on under the surface.
-"Flash our tin to a bunch of chompers pretending to be policemen." Excellent point. They're kind of running free aren't they? And what about that location that's a little bit off from those numbers from Bobby. And has anyone seen what colour Frank bleeds lately? I can do paranoid too.
-"It's the drummer boys!" Heeeeee! Nice to have made such an impression the last time you were in town. Also, hi Lucifer, hanging out in the background.
-Directed by Thomas J. Wright, first time directing Supernatural, but has directed a lot of other things.
-And the devil makes three.
-WAUGH!! That was unexpected. O.O
-"We didn't catch the critter last time, did we?" ...critter? I take it that's a euphemism.
-"Careful, it's still drying." Also a wise idea. And handily fits in with the preconceptions about what decor a wiccan store might have, and so would raise no extra eyebrows.
-"We've had some technical difficulties, phone issues."/"It's a monster problem, really." Sam: *bitchface* *snerk*
-"And that's what it's all about. Handling it." Ohhhh dear. Poor doomed bastard.
-You know guys, a phone call would have been more thoughtful. What did you think a possessed guy was going to do with a dog anyway? ... uh. Do not answer that.
-"Make sure of what? That I peed my pants today?" Ha! Yep, Edlund.
-Love random!Lucifer, just hanging around, being an annoyance.
-When the former host of the recently returned demon knows who might be the next victim, it's a bit nervous making. "And put in a line. In an order." Why? To open a Seal? Bit too late for that, isn't it?
-"You're right. We just don't read anymore." Aw, Lucifer's a season 1 fan too.
-I wish they could do this all the time, have Lucifer just hanging around invisibly, being a dick to Sam. Not in the budget, I suspect.
-I still think he's more than a hallucination. Maybe. Just saying.
-"The doctor on duty said it looked like I got caught in the Spanish Inquisition." Probably not far off on some points there.
-"I started to talk about what happened." Yeeeeaaah. After the drinking and drugs, starting to talk about being possessed by a demon would not have gone over well. Not that it goes over well at the best of times.
-"I have to." Oh dear. A burning need to go rooting around in his old demon's nest. This guy is not going to survive the hour. And his little dog too.
-If you can't distract Sam with the weather stats for Hackberry Texas, distract him with an unexpected round of hallucinatory group head-desking.
-"Come on, Sam, pay attention to me, I'm bored!" Lucifer is five. And there's an open graphic novel on the desk in front of him too. Hee.
-And the Crap on Wheels of the week is a... Mustang? Naw.
-"No signal." It's a dead zone! GASP!
-He brought. His new dog. Who has recently had surgery and isn't even operating at full doggy capacity. To the demon nest. *EPIC FACEPALM*
-"Thing's not gonna pee in here, is it?"/"Um. I dunno." Meh. If it does, steal a different car. One advantage to driving the Crap of the week, no great loss if you need to ditch it.
-"Red door, down the hallway."/"Yeah, there is." Heeeey. If the demon wouldn't let him see, how'd he know the door was red...? *eyebrow*
-"This must be it." Either that or it's the local high school's party hangout.
-"Just stay here and don't move." Okay, at this point, I really hope you gave him one of those handy anti-possession necklaces or doodled one on him with a Sharpie, because leaving the formerly possessed guy unattended in the lair of his possessor seems to me to really be all kinds of dumb. Unless it's deliberate and you're trying to get the guy repossessed to get the demon to show up.
-And here we have the typical Hero Trap in action. Mimic or display a defenseless victim, get the hero to drop all weapons and defenses to run to the rescue, then attack when least expected. Right?
-Yep.
-OWWWWW. What the hell? Demon blood? Too reddish for Leviathan juice.
-...hey. Would a demon that got in via an injection bypass Dean's tattoo??? O.O
-"Leave your name, number and nightmare at the tone." Heee! Awesome.
-"Not a good sign." neither is agreeing with Lucifer, and yet here we are.
-Hm. Speed, and a whole panopoly of major painkillers and tranquilizers. Maybe the demon's trying to organleg and failing really really badly? Or it's a copycat?
-"Whatever's going on here, you know the demon's not coming back to kill anybody." It's mildly alarming when Lucifer provides pertinent case conjecture, hallucinatory or not.
-"Big brother's probably dead."/"Shut up." That's one sure-fire way to get a response out of Sam.
-"He said 'shut up' to me!" Aww! Heeee!
-Aha! Dead zone inna box. Clever. And waaaaaay more nuts than they figured.
-"Latin. Not suspicious at all." Can we have Lucifer narrate Sam's case-working unspoken monologs allll theeeeee tiiiiime? Please?
-"I've never seen this spell before."/"No, but you've seen its type." Sam out loud case-spitballing with his head-Lucifer however, is very worrisome.
-"I know this handwriting." Oh great. The wiccan character is evil again? Or is she just possessed? She was the one who told the boys to go find the prior possession victim... and she didn't step in the devil's trap because of 'wet paint'... hm. But why would Jeffery have the summoning spell? Vengeance on the demon? Hm.
-Sam's picked more locks in this episode than he has in years. It's awesome.
-"Ay caramba, mi cabeza!" He may be helping you out with the case, but your head-Lucifer is still a raging dick, Sam.
-Okay, not possessed. Or faking really well.
-"Get this stupid cow to focus, will you?" Just in case we forgot he's Lucifer.
-"I am two inches away from you, and I can make you talk, do you understand me." STOP LISTENING TO YOUR HEAD-LUCIFER, SAM. The being a dick thing is rubbing off. Or pushing you slowly dark side again.... Hmmmm... I wonder if that's the plan...
-Yup. Jeffrey's checked out. I KNEW him saying the door was red was a sign something was up. Also, I don't think we want to know what he's feeding the dog. O.o
-"I loved the power, the connection, and I loved him." That was unexpected. A little retroactive Stockholm syndrome there? O.o
-"You're a serial killer." *blink* Ohhhhh. Okay. Jeffrey was a serial killer first, or would have been one with enough of a stressor, then got possessed and went on a rampage with his demon, then started again once he got back out in proximity to society. And the list is a load of distracting crap, and he's kidnapped her son to get a summoning ritual to get his slaying partner back and holy crap this episode is needing a lot more brain to figure out than I have right now.
-"There's a sound that comes from their brains. Only I can hear it. Like an evil little steam whistle." Or some untreated schizophrenia-related condition got a demonic possession instead of proper treatment, and tipped Jeffrey into serial killing. Poor Jeffrey. :-/
-"He's the one who saved me, and you sent him to Hell." Buuuut, you signed off on it...? Seller's remorse?
-"And then he sent me this." It's an ear, isn't it.
-Yup. "He cut it off because the ritual didn't work." Yeek.
-"I found a summoning spell that would work, for sure." Oh crap. You know who else is in big-time lockdown except for maybe a little loose thread that followed Sam up to daylight, maybe? Lucifer. Who, if he's more than a hallucination is sitting in the room listening. And if this spell works on the demon that gave up intel to get him out... Eeeek.
-"Blood of the exorcist?" Which would be Dean. Oh dear. Sam's about to go ballistic on the wiccan lady. O.o
-"You're giving me the chills." Not something you want to hear from any variation on Lucifer.
-"Or I should say, it's killed you, shouldn't I?" I don't know whether that's a threat or an assessment of Dean's current mental state, but it works surprisingly well for both.
-"A life well-lived comes from the structured pursuit of meaningful happiness." ...yikes. O.o
-"I'll be right back." I'm guessing this is where the dog becomes a spell component, right? Eek. :-/
-He does Latinate well. And has the one-off spell memorized, which it took Dean 'til season three to do for the exorcism, so that's impressive. Sign of obsession.
-Yeah, minimizing the number of potential possession targets would have been a wise idea.
-I don't think he was expecting a hug. Or a dance. Probably not.
-"You captured a Winchester." Hehe. Riiiight. And they're off-limits right now per Crowley, aren't they? Jeffrey's toast.
-*facepalm* Aaaarg. Seriously. Rope-tying consultant. They need one.
-An old one, but a good one. Demons are DUMB.
-"I'll be back you know. Back in black." What?! "Go to Hell." Yes. Do that. No demon quotes the Impala montage song, especially while the boys aren't driving around in her.
-*smirks at the same exorcism or close enough as they used in season one* Can't beat the classics.
-"You goin' to sleep?"/"Damn straight. Screw consciousness, that's what I say." Heeee.
-And the other danger of working a case with your head-Lucifer. He gets a better grip, because interacting with him makes him more real to you, or strengthens the connection to the Cage or whatever.
-"Got my finger wiggling around in your brain pan." Yes, that.
-Oh dear. That's definitely not good.
Well, the back half of the season's looking mighty interesting for Sam.
(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.)