Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 7.18
This reaction post is partially brought to you by my ISP's MASSIVE DOSE OF FAIL.
I had no internet, no cable, and no phone, so I decided to start watching 7.18 on a weeknight.
That was nearly two weeks ago. I'm just finishing this now. It is more scrambled than usual. :-P
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Bobby's back! As a ghost of course, knew that would be happening from the first disappearing beer, just didn't know when until now.
...and reserving further detailed spoiler/speculation that didn't happen this time for the episode where really hope it happens.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.18 - ??? "Party On, Garth"
-Skipping the THEN.
-Oh dear, campfire ghost stories are never a good idea on this show. Especially when told by pre-credit NPCs. I mean OCs. I mean Monster Chow. Also Jenny Greentree sounds familiar, but of course I can't google her because internet. Grr.
-There's one in every camping trip. This is starting to give me Friday the 13th vibes, and I only ever saw the Jared remake.
-"You don't hear that?" That deep sort of windy roar like an incoming blizzard from Hell? Naaaah.
-And a distant scream. You know, really, if this wasn't on Supernatural, this Trevor kid could be pulling the most awesome prank ever.
-Not exactly frozen to death there. Could still be the most awesome prank ever if Trevor is into stage makeup gore as a hobby. The 'gaping hole in the gut' could totally be, I dunno, newspaper soaked in fake blood and a hole in the puffy vest. Sure. But no.
-Please tell me the P.O.S. of the episode isn't a faux-wood-grain sided Ford cruck. D-:
-No wait, wrong music. PHEW. O.O
-OH HEY, HI WEEDY HUNTER GUY FROM THE WEDDING EPISODE! I WAS JUST SAYING LAST REACTION POST YOU COULD BE FRIEND MATERIAL FOR SAM AND DEAN! HOPE YOUR APPEARANCE HERE DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE GONNA DIE. \o/
-Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry. Just. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
-"Party On, Garth." *snerk* Gotta love a Wayne's World reference. Also, weedy hunter's name is Garth, thank you for the reminder, title.
-I'm surprised there isn't more simul-talking among the pre-credit-traumatized on this show.
-"You've been Garthed." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA oh god.
-Talk amongst yourselves for a bit, I have to stop choking.
-Hard liquor, a shotgun, a pickup truck and a need for revenge on something that might or might not be corporeal. A hunter is born. Also probably killed, but that's to be expected.
-Also, I've only seen the ads so I don't know, but does this kid not look quite similar to Taylor Lautner, the werewolf kid in those Twilight things?
-Written by Adam Glass, who is familiar but I couldn't say specifically what for (internet = memory, internet gone foom right now) and directed by Phil Sgriccia, an old hand.
-Ah! It's a ghost and a thing that lifts you up into trees and guts you. Arg. The boys and Bobby were hunting one just before Bobby died. Turducken Burger induced semi-Wendigo, sort of, wasn't it? Except this one leaves too many leftovers.
-GUANACO TRUCK! That's an actual Lower Mainland food truck thing, I think! Wonder if they're doing some of the craft services too? Either way, that's awesome!
-"No, I heart you more." Did Garth actually hook up with Becky? O.o
-"It's Garth!"/"W-w-w- who is this?" Hee. Aw. When first level adventurers call up epic level PCs. *pats Garth*
-TIE REPORT! Sam's tie is not overtly striped yet, but has a pattern of blob things forming stripe-like configurations. It is also a god-awful mustard brown that does NOT go with that blue suit. Sam is still not 100% okay, conflicted about 'passing along the crazy' to Castiel, but he's showing signs of improvement. Dean is solidly and very overtly striped, white (possibly with red edging) on navy. And the best sign, the stripes and pseudo-stripes are going down and toward each other. Pulling together. *glee*
-"Corporal James Brown" *snerk*
-"Losing two brothers so fast."/Garth: *facestall* This is why you do research before wading in as a family member.
-"I already scanned for EM-"/*squeaaah!*/"...F." Heheheheheh. Need better scanners there Garth. Try a busted Walkman.
-"Is this less evil spirit, more monster chow?" *flailing* FANDOM TERM, ISN'T IT? OFF TWOP MAINLY? I THINK? DAMMIT ISP, WHY DO YOU PICK NOW TO BE DOWN!?
-"I'll can the uniform, go fed, see you at the brewery in 40." *facepalm* How is he still alive?
-Thighslapper Premium Ale. New fake beer, entering the pantheon of Schlitz and, and... that one that's like Corona but not. Dean's dream girl from the Djinn!world was from the ad. Del Sol? El Sol? DAMN YOU, ISP! *fistshake*
-TIE REPORT: GUEST HUNTER EDITION. Plain navy. And pinstripes on the suit. Trying, but getting it backwards. *nods* Also, Garth should probably try a size smaller suit than what he's wearing. Maybe it's just the shot but he looks like he's swimming in that suit. Also, when he's not talking he's adorable and I want to bake him cookies. What?
-OH MY GOD, HI KNOWN VANCOUVER ACTOR! RANTY BOSS GUY IS PLAYED BY TERRY DAVID MULLIGAN! He used to host a kids' show when I was a kid, then went on to do a bunch of other stuff and was a sort of fixture in the Lower Mainland since forever. I thought he'd died, wow! If he turns out to be evil or something, I'll probably laugh my head off.
-"Dale's wife is suing us."/"Why?"/"She's angry and grieving and this is America?" Hee.
-Right, let me see if I have the set up. The dead brothers' dad had a partner named Dale, who committed suicide. TDM!partner stepped in, this happened before the boys' deaths. Dale's wife is suing, the company is being sold, and TDM!partner was a close family friend and godfather to the kids. I think I got it. I wasn't expecting this much in the way of real world plot facets to track, to be honest, but it's rather cool. Wondering if Dick Roman is the one buying the brewery. Beer to pacify the masses, like the turducken burgers?
-Kid seems really unsurprised to get a mouthful of screwdriver instead of OJ. Ow. ...Heeeeeyyyyyyy..... is that the girl who played Lillith??? Something about the combination of colouring and nose/eyeshape makes her look very familiar... O.o
-Aaaaaaand it's past midnight on a work night now, so I'll have to do the rest of this episode later. If the internet's back on later, I may retroactively Google, not sure yet.
-...And of course the internet came back on right then and I wound up spending another hour responding to mail and getting my fix, so the whole "knock off at 12:30 to get sleep" thing, pft.
-...And then I spent the next several evenings up to my eyebrows rolling in the internet. Then my good friends lurkingwombat, ciaranbochna, J and T came to town and we went to see the Avengers and blew my frigging mind.
-And then I wrote Cabin Pressure fic. *headdesk*
-SO. ANYWAY. WHERE WAS I??? O.O
-Right. Child who looks vaguely like wee!Lillith (to me) accidentally drinking mom's screwdriver.
-"My world." Looks a bit like a graphic version of a game of Mornington Crescent to me, but I don't know why.
-HI BLURRY INVISIBLE THING I CAN'T CAP! There's certainly enough room for Dale to be a ghost, and there's hints of ghostiness rather than monsteriness, made more likely by this being in a house and not in the woods.
-And of course the kid's the one to see it. She's looking less like Lillith know, so probably not the same actress.
-HEY! IT'S THAT CHICK FROM THE RING! COOL! Uh, I mean 'Eeek', obviously. So, not Dale's ghost then, some other kind of family-hunting monster or spirit that doesn't restrict itself to the woods?
-And she sees that you see her. Well, that's always nice.
-Okay, not just a 'kid can see the evil thing' then if Mom can see it too. Cousin/uncle/whatever can't see Ring girl, but the kid and the mom can, and if it was only visible to imminent victims, it'd be really weird for it to slaughter up the mom and kid and leave *scrolls back* Dale's brother untouched. Maybe it's only visible to females? It seems like it wouldn't be going after women and girls in that case, though. Don't know. Maybe it's the alcohol, which would explain the random 'kid drinks mom's screwdriver' moment, but given Dale's brother's recent losses and general demeanor, I'd be shocked if he didn't have a few on board himself. Hmm.
-Owwwwwww. Ow ow ow. Chiropractor ain't gonna fix that.
-Aw, he's trying to build his own EMF. Or fix the one he bought somewhere that crapped out on him. Awww.
-Dead Dale was also brewmaster, hmmm... chances a beer recipe and a summon evil spine-ripping creature recipe got mixed up, non-negligible...
-Uhhh, okay. You might want to say something about that EMF spike, Garth. Probably only Bobby, but still, it seems to me that no matter what you do to an EMF detector, it probably won't detect EMF that isn't there.
-"Wow, that's actually awesome." And now Dean's going to be trying microbrews in every single place they go. *nods*
-Oh dear. Given Garth's mass, they may be peeling him off the floor in a minute, unless he has an unusually alcohol tolerant metabolism.
-"I don't even usually drink beer, it messes with my depth perception, especially when I skinny dip." Oh dear. Floor time. (Capping because he is too damn cute! *ruffles his hair*)
-"Dude I just drank a whole beer, of course I'm drunk." Yep. No magic metabolism for Garth. So this random development makes me think the ghost seen after alcohol idea may have merit, and Dale's brother just hadn't been drinking.
-Dale left the company before he died, more plot, omg yay! TERRY DAVID MULLIGAN IS AN EVIL RING-GHOST SUMMONING EVIL GUY WHO WANTS THE BREWERY FOR HIMSELF! Woo! \o/
-"Uhhh you two go, I'm gonna visit the (something that sounded like whale)." HEE. Poor Dean. Sam's little smug faaaaace!
-"I'm gonna take a run at her." UM NO. NO TRAUMATIZING THE TRAUMATIZED CHILD FURTHER. O.O
-"Or maybe you'll talk to Mr. Fizzles! I'm your friend! Yaaaaaaay!" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Okay, fine. Sock puppet. HAHAHA. Not re-traumatize so much as annoy then. *facepalm*
-"Mr Fizzles can tell when you're a... Liiiiiiiarrrrrr." Okay, Mr Fizzles just got creepy. O.o
-Aha. Booze-vision confirmed.
-"Don't let them arrest me, Mr. Fizzles!" Awwwwww.
-Ah, not whale, widow. Sam needs to enunciate sometimes.
-His head-Lucifer may be annoying Castiel in another state, but Sam's sideburns are still evil.
-A bottle of Sake with writing on the box. Oh dear, I think Dale might be the monster-summoner. Maybe even by accident.
-DEAN, GARTH WAS WASTED ON A BOTTLE OF BEER, WHY IS HE DRIVING??? Though given the difference in lighting some significant time has passed, and they are in Garth's car. Hm.
-"Certain mutants see infrared."*snerk*
-This kid is too damned adorable for his own good, seriously.
-Ahahahahah. And Dean starts fight prep early.
-OH. CRAP. I CANNOT BELIEVE I MISSED DEAN PUTTING THE FLASK DOWN JUST WHEN THE EMF WENT OFF. BOBBYYYYY!!! \o/
-Garth makes logical sense about ghosts. I am impressed. He needs to do more thinking and less posturing, and he'll do just fine.
-Ooo, yay, ghosts on camera soon!
-Ohhhh, it's the first kid. Okay. I am really slow on the uptake here.
-"Can you even get drunk anymore? It's kind of like drinking a vitamin for you, right?" *snerk*
-Bring on the drunken fighting.
-Or drunken case-working.
-"So he let that thing out of the box and it must have just followed him to the place with all the thingies!"/"Yes. Yes. That's smart!" Pfffft. More things should require Sam and Dean to be drunk.
-"Me likey!" Dean, Dean, Dean. Hee!
-Ooops. Yeah, this isn't going to help. 'This is an official FBI booze up, sir, nothing to be concerned about, move along...'
-Or a random tasering and hope like hell the guy didn't have a heart condition or a pacemaker. Saved by Garth! *facepalm*
-Uhhhh, someone better say 'oops, I meant 411' to that 911 operator or they might be sending someone anyway.
-So, drunk Sam and Dean walk into a sushi joint with a weird box looking for anyone who can speak Japanese. There's a fun little missing scene.
-"You're not superstitious are you? *BOX SHOVE*" Not really, but someone sure is!
-A Shōjo. A girl? Well, yeah, but, she's a bit more than just a standard girl. She's a really pissed off dead girl. Yeah.
-"An alcohol spirit." Well, okay, in SPN!Verse Japan, with the higher base weird crap level, shojo is also a booze demon. Which looks like a young girl. *nods*
-"Japanese booze monster." This show has been waiting for a booze monster, really. If not a clurichaun, why not this?
-Oh hey, wait, they mean this Shōjō it has a hat over both the o's instead of one, and also means orangutan. Should also be a red-head, but hey, not too bad on the use of real world mythology, so I'mma let the hair color slide.
-And there's the graphic and text from Wikipedia! Huzzah! (Along with a slight graphic fail of the English page still having the Japanese flag highlighted, oops)
-Killable, but only with a samurai sword consecrated with a Shinto blessing. Hang on, I might know someone with one you can borrow.
-I was just thinking there was way too much episode left for this case to be finished yet. Hi invisible lurking ghost Bobby!
-Unfortunately, it's past midnight on a work night, AGAIN, and so I have to set this aside, again, buuut this seems as good a place as any to do so. :-P
-And several days, and work and car drama and LJ migrating my scrapbook and some random fic-like thing later... *headdesk* I'M NOT DOING ANOTHER EPISODE THIS PIECEMEAL WAY, IT'S MADDENING.
-"I've already tried contacting Bobby." Oooo! Did we see this? My memory is shot today. Is the plastic Ouija board from In My Time Of Dying still being packed around?
-"And if he was there, I'd've told you." Aw, puppy. That's because when you tried to get hold of him, the flask was with Dean. *pats*
-Oh Dean.
-Nothing like waking up handcuffed to a strange hot tub and being told it's for your own good.
-Aaaand even more plot as the janitor is actually the illegitimate son of TDM!guy, and I don't even know who's doing what to who anymore, but YAY GARTH WITH THE GOOGLE-FU!
-Arsenal from the mini-bar. Yes.
-Garth had a slight moment of badass there, didn't he? Cool.
-Saw that coming a mile away, but AHHHHHahahahahahaha and he can't see her because he's not wasted. *glee*
-This is the most awesome one-off character ever, and he is having the weirdest night of his life. "Hi! Can you read Japanese? Can you tell us what this cursed box says?" "Hi, can you be like, sort of a Shinto priest and bless this sword with this ritual we got off Google?" BUT HE'S STILL GOING ALONG WITH IT! For money, but still. Awesome. And the best bit is since he's not wrapped up in the brewery drama, he might even survive the episode! \o/
-Dude. Dry off the blade. Maybe? Or, I guess it's not going to be in the scabbard long. Still. *cringe*
-"I'm tryin' to save lives here!" Garth is just too adorable for words, even if he's uncappable in the dark here.
-In the meantime efficiency expert Sam is multitasking by staking out what's his name's widow and getting good and liquored up to fight the booze monster. Why have we not had a booze monster before now? Seriously?
-I do not know what it is about Garth that's so adorable, as long as he's not trying to show off or act cool, or brag about how fantastic he is. He's like a mascot.
-"COME WITH ME IF YOU WANNA LIVE!" AHAHAHAH. You are not the Terminator Garth, but nice try.
-"National security!" HEEEEEEE! And yay for taking a cab.
-"But I like to drive safe, y'know." Oh dear. XD
-Person in Peril: *resists rescuing*/Garth: *YOU HAVE FORCED ME TO MAKE A MIGHTY EXPOSITION DUMP* Exposit like the wind, Garth!
-This face. THIS FACE. OH MY GOD. It's Garth's 'Hi monster, please don't eat me' face. XD
-Yes, if the exposition doesn't convince the imminent victim, getting thrown across the room by an invisible force will.
-And once again, Garth gets himself taken out early in the combat. Oh Garth.
-YAY! YAYAYAYAYAY! IT'S MY FAVORITE SPECIAL EFFECT!!! They used it in Hookman, it's so simple to do, you put fishing line on the wall and then plaster over it, let it dry and then pull the fishing line away and it does this. Even though her fingers must be doing really weird things to be that far apart from each other, still, CHEAP PRACTICAL SPECIAL FX FOR THE WIN! \o/
-Charging up to the guy being chased by an invisible (to him) monster isn't polite, Sam. Probably scared the crap out of him. And made him stop running which is likely not a great idea right now.
-"Fire Exit, on three."/*slam* This is why it is a tactically poor idea to announce your escape route in front of the thing you are trying to escape from.
-Damn, she's really efficient at the knocking people out. Sam sucks at hand to hand, yeah, but that was fast! O.o
-Just had this talk with Sam, Dean. It's not nice to startle the monster chow.
-Dean has a sword. All arguments are irrelevant, because Dean has a sword. He's swinging it like a baseball bat, but, again. Irrelevant. DEAN WINCHESTER HAS A FREAKING SWORD.
-Had a sword. Crap.
-HELLO! EITHER THE BOOZE MONSTER LIKES FAIR PLAY, DEAN'S BECOME A JEDI, OR THAT WAS AN ASSIST FROM GHOST!BOBBY!!! WOO! \o/
-Taking a minute to laugh here. Sam shouting directions and Dean flailing around blindly with a sword needs to happen more. *nods*
-There we go! Got her. And in this cap we can also note that the brewery does two other beer varieties besides Thighslapper it seems. Hair Raiser and Hard... something. Head. Just noting in case there is future beer continuity.
-Yes, Dean's putting some hints together there. Is it enough to overpower the denial? This is Dean, after all. *looks at amount of time left* I do think it might be.
Also, Headspinner beer.
-Garth's early knockout vs climactic battle record while hunting with the Winchesters is 2 or 2 so far.
-"This moved." Oh god he's gonna talk to ghost!Bobby, oh god. O.O
-"Bobby? Are you here?" *FLAIL* LITTLE BREAKS IN THE VOICE, OH GOD.
-Ohhhhhhh.... *flail* *flail more* Gaaaah.
-Garth: HUG TIEM NAO! Awwwww. Sam and Dean need more hugs, even if they're from Garth instead of, oh, each other? HUG YOUR BROTHER ONCE IN A WHILE, DAMMIT. BOTH OF YOU.
-He doesn't hug Sam though. Hm. Odd. Unless he really is dating Becky, because that might be awkward, hugging your girlfriend's ex-creepy-stalker-obssession-non-con-marriage-target.
-Or not. Yay, Garth hugs for everyone! \o/
-Garth's really starting to grow on me. I hope he survives the rest of the season, and maybe shows up in future.
-"Nice ride." Um Nooooooo. Just no. No. *shudder* No.... hey. Hang on... That's not the same kind of station wagon they had John having in the comic before they fixed it, is it? *side-eyes*
-"What happened in the brewery, Dean?" Yep. Here we go. Sam's brow is on max furrow.
-"*lists all the ghost!Bobby incidents* Nothing, I'm sure." HE'S ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT IT! YAY COMMUNICATION! \o/
-"I think that regular people, they see ones they lost everywhere too."/"Yeah! Friggin' ghosts!" The Winchester perspective is such a wonderful thing.
-And. Of course Sam is going to be staunchly on the side of "It's not real" given he's spent over half this season saying the same thing to himself overandoverandover regarding his head-Lucifer.
-"They see a face in the crowd, we see a book falling off the table." Oooo, excellent point, Sam. They see the signs they expect to see, knowing what they do. Ooo. Except they totally aren't seeing what they expect, because Bobby is a ghost, and probably hollering at you two idjits every day. Or every five minutes.
-"What Jedi'd that sword into my hand?" *draws hearts around Star Wars fanboy!Dean*
-And this is why I wish I'd gotten to this sooner, and not been spoiled. Because right now, I would be shrieking and flailing so hard I would sprain something.
-Oh god, and the Family theme is playing, you bastards!
-"There you are." Oh god. But he's not talking about Bobby, is he?
-Of course.
-"I'm right here, ya idjit!" HAHA *applause* YES.
BOBBYYYYYY!!!!! \o/
And I think I know exactly what will be going on next episode. But we'll see. In the meantime, I must torture the new version of Scrapbook into doing my bidding... bwahaha. Ha. *sigh*
(PLEASE, NO REFERENCES TO EPISODES PAST 7.18 IN COMMENTS! I'm catching up slowly.)
I had no internet, no cable, and no phone, so I decided to start watching 7.18 on a weeknight.
That was nearly two weeks ago. I'm just finishing this now. It is more scrambled than usual. :-P
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Bobby's back! As a ghost of course, knew that would be happening from the first disappearing beer, just didn't know when until now.
...and reserving further detailed spoiler/speculation that didn't happen this time for the episode where really hope it happens.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.18 - ??? "Party On, Garth"
-Skipping the THEN.
-Oh dear, campfire ghost stories are never a good idea on this show. Especially when told by pre-credit NPCs. I mean OCs. I mean Monster Chow. Also Jenny Greentree sounds familiar, but of course I can't google her because internet. Grr.
-There's one in every camping trip. This is starting to give me Friday the 13th vibes, and I only ever saw the Jared remake.
-"You don't hear that?" That deep sort of windy roar like an incoming blizzard from Hell? Naaaah.
-And a distant scream. You know, really, if this wasn't on Supernatural, this Trevor kid could be pulling the most awesome prank ever.
-Not exactly frozen to death there. Could still be the most awesome prank ever if Trevor is into stage makeup gore as a hobby. The 'gaping hole in the gut' could totally be, I dunno, newspaper soaked in fake blood and a hole in the puffy vest. Sure. But no.
-Please tell me the P.O.S. of the episode isn't a faux-wood-grain sided Ford cruck. D-:
-No wait, wrong music. PHEW. O.O
-OH HEY, HI WEEDY HUNTER GUY FROM THE WEDDING EPISODE! I WAS JUST SAYING LAST REACTION POST YOU COULD BE FRIEND MATERIAL FOR SAM AND DEAN! HOPE YOUR APPEARANCE HERE DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE GONNA DIE. \o/
-Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry. Just. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
-"Party On, Garth." *snerk* Gotta love a Wayne's World reference. Also, weedy hunter's name is Garth, thank you for the reminder, title.
-I'm surprised there isn't more simul-talking among the pre-credit-traumatized on this show.
-"You've been Garthed." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA oh god.
-Talk amongst yourselves for a bit, I have to stop choking.
-Hard liquor, a shotgun, a pickup truck and a need for revenge on something that might or might not be corporeal. A hunter is born. Also probably killed, but that's to be expected.
-Also, I've only seen the ads so I don't know, but does this kid not look quite similar to Taylor Lautner, the werewolf kid in those Twilight things?
-Written by Adam Glass, who is familiar but I couldn't say specifically what for (internet = memory, internet gone foom right now) and directed by Phil Sgriccia, an old hand.
-Ah! It's a ghost and a thing that lifts you up into trees and guts you. Arg. The boys and Bobby were hunting one just before Bobby died. Turducken Burger induced semi-Wendigo, sort of, wasn't it? Except this one leaves too many leftovers.
-GUANACO TRUCK! That's an actual Lower Mainland food truck thing, I think! Wonder if they're doing some of the craft services too? Either way, that's awesome!
-"No, I heart you more." Did Garth actually hook up with Becky? O.o
-"It's Garth!"/"W-w-w- who is this?" Hee. Aw. When first level adventurers call up epic level PCs. *pats Garth*
-TIE REPORT! Sam's tie is not overtly striped yet, but has a pattern of blob things forming stripe-like configurations. It is also a god-awful mustard brown that does NOT go with that blue suit. Sam is still not 100% okay, conflicted about 'passing along the crazy' to Castiel, but he's showing signs of improvement. Dean is solidly and very overtly striped, white (possibly with red edging) on navy. And the best sign, the stripes and pseudo-stripes are going down and toward each other. Pulling together. *glee*
-"Corporal James Brown" *snerk*
-"Losing two brothers so fast."/Garth: *facestall* This is why you do research before wading in as a family member.
-"I already scanned for EM-"/*squeaaah!*/"...F." Heheheheheh. Need better scanners there Garth. Try a busted Walkman.
-"Is this less evil spirit, more monster chow?" *flailing* FANDOM TERM, ISN'T IT? OFF TWOP MAINLY? I THINK? DAMMIT ISP, WHY DO YOU PICK NOW TO BE DOWN!?
-"I'll can the uniform, go fed, see you at the brewery in 40." *facepalm* How is he still alive?
-Thighslapper Premium Ale. New fake beer, entering the pantheon of Schlitz and, and... that one that's like Corona but not. Dean's dream girl from the Djinn!world was from the ad. Del Sol? El Sol? DAMN YOU, ISP! *fistshake*
-TIE REPORT: GUEST HUNTER EDITION. Plain navy. And pinstripes on the suit. Trying, but getting it backwards. *nods* Also, Garth should probably try a size smaller suit than what he's wearing. Maybe it's just the shot but he looks like he's swimming in that suit. Also, when he's not talking he's adorable and I want to bake him cookies. What?
-OH MY GOD, HI KNOWN VANCOUVER ACTOR! RANTY BOSS GUY IS PLAYED BY TERRY DAVID MULLIGAN! He used to host a kids' show when I was a kid, then went on to do a bunch of other stuff and was a sort of fixture in the Lower Mainland since forever. I thought he'd died, wow! If he turns out to be evil or something, I'll probably laugh my head off.
-"Dale's wife is suing us."/"Why?"/"She's angry and grieving and this is America?" Hee.
-Right, let me see if I have the set up. The dead brothers' dad had a partner named Dale, who committed suicide. TDM!partner stepped in, this happened before the boys' deaths. Dale's wife is suing, the company is being sold, and TDM!partner was a close family friend and godfather to the kids. I think I got it. I wasn't expecting this much in the way of real world plot facets to track, to be honest, but it's rather cool. Wondering if Dick Roman is the one buying the brewery. Beer to pacify the masses, like the turducken burgers?
-Kid seems really unsurprised to get a mouthful of screwdriver instead of OJ. Ow. ...Heeeeeyyyyyyy..... is that the girl who played Lillith??? Something about the combination of colouring and nose/eyeshape makes her look very familiar... O.o
-Aaaaaaand it's past midnight on a work night now, so I'll have to do the rest of this episode later. If the internet's back on later, I may retroactively Google, not sure yet.
-...And of course the internet came back on right then and I wound up spending another hour responding to mail and getting my fix, so the whole "knock off at 12:30 to get sleep" thing, pft.
-...And then I spent the next several evenings up to my eyebrows rolling in the internet. Then my good friends lurkingwombat, ciaranbochna, J and T came to town and we went to see the Avengers and blew my frigging mind.
-And then I wrote Cabin Pressure fic. *headdesk*
-SO. ANYWAY. WHERE WAS I??? O.O
-Right. Child who looks vaguely like wee!Lillith (to me) accidentally drinking mom's screwdriver.
-"My world." Looks a bit like a graphic version of a game of Mornington Crescent to me, but I don't know why.
-HI BLURRY INVISIBLE THING I CAN'T CAP! There's certainly enough room for Dale to be a ghost, and there's hints of ghostiness rather than monsteriness, made more likely by this being in a house and not in the woods.
-And of course the kid's the one to see it. She's looking less like Lillith know, so probably not the same actress.
-HEY! IT'S THAT CHICK FROM THE RING! COOL! Uh, I mean 'Eeek', obviously. So, not Dale's ghost then, some other kind of family-hunting monster or spirit that doesn't restrict itself to the woods?
-And she sees that you see her. Well, that's always nice.
-Okay, not just a 'kid can see the evil thing' then if Mom can see it too. Cousin/uncle/whatever can't see Ring girl, but the kid and the mom can, and if it was only visible to imminent victims, it'd be really weird for it to slaughter up the mom and kid and leave *scrolls back* Dale's brother untouched. Maybe it's only visible to females? It seems like it wouldn't be going after women and girls in that case, though. Don't know. Maybe it's the alcohol, which would explain the random 'kid drinks mom's screwdriver' moment, but given Dale's brother's recent losses and general demeanor, I'd be shocked if he didn't have a few on board himself. Hmm.
-Owwwwwww. Ow ow ow. Chiropractor ain't gonna fix that.
-Aw, he's trying to build his own EMF. Or fix the one he bought somewhere that crapped out on him. Awww.
-Dead Dale was also brewmaster, hmmm... chances a beer recipe and a summon evil spine-ripping creature recipe got mixed up, non-negligible...
-Uhhh, okay. You might want to say something about that EMF spike, Garth. Probably only Bobby, but still, it seems to me that no matter what you do to an EMF detector, it probably won't detect EMF that isn't there.
-"Wow, that's actually awesome." And now Dean's going to be trying microbrews in every single place they go. *nods*
-Oh dear. Given Garth's mass, they may be peeling him off the floor in a minute, unless he has an unusually alcohol tolerant metabolism.
-"I don't even usually drink beer, it messes with my depth perception, especially when I skinny dip." Oh dear. Floor time. (Capping because he is too damn cute! *ruffles his hair*)
-"Dude I just drank a whole beer, of course I'm drunk." Yep. No magic metabolism for Garth. So this random development makes me think the ghost seen after alcohol idea may have merit, and Dale's brother just hadn't been drinking.
-Dale left the company before he died, more plot, omg yay! TERRY DAVID MULLIGAN IS AN EVIL RING-GHOST SUMMONING EVIL GUY WHO WANTS THE BREWERY FOR HIMSELF! Woo! \o/
-"Uhhh you two go, I'm gonna visit the (something that sounded like whale)." HEE. Poor Dean. Sam's little smug faaaaace!
-"I'm gonna take a run at her." UM NO. NO TRAUMATIZING THE TRAUMATIZED CHILD FURTHER. O.O
-"Or maybe you'll talk to Mr. Fizzles! I'm your friend! Yaaaaaaay!" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Okay, fine. Sock puppet. HAHAHA. Not re-traumatize so much as annoy then. *facepalm*
-"Mr Fizzles can tell when you're a... Liiiiiiiarrrrrr." Okay, Mr Fizzles just got creepy. O.o
-Aha. Booze-vision confirmed.
-"Don't let them arrest me, Mr. Fizzles!" Awwwwww.
-Ah, not whale, widow. Sam needs to enunciate sometimes.
-His head-Lucifer may be annoying Castiel in another state, but Sam's sideburns are still evil.
-A bottle of Sake with writing on the box. Oh dear, I think Dale might be the monster-summoner. Maybe even by accident.
-DEAN, GARTH WAS WASTED ON A BOTTLE OF BEER, WHY IS HE DRIVING??? Though given the difference in lighting some significant time has passed, and they are in Garth's car. Hm.
-"Certain mutants see infrared."*snerk*
-This kid is too damned adorable for his own good, seriously.
-Ahahahahah. And Dean starts fight prep early.
-OH. CRAP. I CANNOT BELIEVE I MISSED DEAN PUTTING THE FLASK DOWN JUST WHEN THE EMF WENT OFF. BOBBYYYYY!!! \o/
-Garth makes logical sense about ghosts. I am impressed. He needs to do more thinking and less posturing, and he'll do just fine.
-Ooo, yay, ghosts on camera soon!
-Ohhhh, it's the first kid. Okay. I am really slow on the uptake here.
-"Can you even get drunk anymore? It's kind of like drinking a vitamin for you, right?" *snerk*
-Bring on the drunken fighting.
-Or drunken case-working.
-"So he let that thing out of the box and it must have just followed him to the place with all the thingies!"/"Yes. Yes. That's smart!" Pfffft. More things should require Sam and Dean to be drunk.
-"Me likey!" Dean, Dean, Dean. Hee!
-Ooops. Yeah, this isn't going to help. 'This is an official FBI booze up, sir, nothing to be concerned about, move along...'
-Or a random tasering and hope like hell the guy didn't have a heart condition or a pacemaker. Saved by Garth! *facepalm*
-Uhhhh, someone better say 'oops, I meant 411' to that 911 operator or they might be sending someone anyway.
-So, drunk Sam and Dean walk into a sushi joint with a weird box looking for anyone who can speak Japanese. There's a fun little missing scene.
-"You're not superstitious are you? *BOX SHOVE*" Not really, but someone sure is!
-A Shōjo. A girl? Well, yeah, but, she's a bit more than just a standard girl. She's a really pissed off dead girl. Yeah.
-"An alcohol spirit." Well, okay, in SPN!Verse Japan, with the higher base weird crap level, shojo is also a booze demon. Which looks like a young girl. *nods*
-"Japanese booze monster." This show has been waiting for a booze monster, really. If not a clurichaun, why not this?
-Oh hey, wait, they mean this Shōjō it has a hat over both the o's instead of one, and also means orangutan. Should also be a red-head, but hey, not too bad on the use of real world mythology, so I'mma let the hair color slide.
-And there's the graphic and text from Wikipedia! Huzzah! (Along with a slight graphic fail of the English page still having the Japanese flag highlighted, oops)
-Killable, but only with a samurai sword consecrated with a Shinto blessing. Hang on, I might know someone with one you can borrow.
-I was just thinking there was way too much episode left for this case to be finished yet. Hi invisible lurking ghost Bobby!
-Unfortunately, it's past midnight on a work night, AGAIN, and so I have to set this aside, again, buuut this seems as good a place as any to do so. :-P
-And several days, and work and car drama and LJ migrating my scrapbook and some random fic-like thing later... *headdesk* I'M NOT DOING ANOTHER EPISODE THIS PIECEMEAL WAY, IT'S MADDENING.
-"I've already tried contacting Bobby." Oooo! Did we see this? My memory is shot today. Is the plastic Ouija board from In My Time Of Dying still being packed around?
-"And if he was there, I'd've told you." Aw, puppy. That's because when you tried to get hold of him, the flask was with Dean. *pats*
-Oh Dean.
-Nothing like waking up handcuffed to a strange hot tub and being told it's for your own good.
-Aaaand even more plot as the janitor is actually the illegitimate son of TDM!guy, and I don't even know who's doing what to who anymore, but YAY GARTH WITH THE GOOGLE-FU!
-Arsenal from the mini-bar. Yes.
-Garth had a slight moment of badass there, didn't he? Cool.
-Saw that coming a mile away, but AHHHHHahahahahahaha and he can't see her because he's not wasted. *glee*
-This is the most awesome one-off character ever, and he is having the weirdest night of his life. "Hi! Can you read Japanese? Can you tell us what this cursed box says?" "Hi, can you be like, sort of a Shinto priest and bless this sword with this ritual we got off Google?" BUT HE'S STILL GOING ALONG WITH IT! For money, but still. Awesome. And the best bit is since he's not wrapped up in the brewery drama, he might even survive the episode! \o/
-Dude. Dry off the blade. Maybe? Or, I guess it's not going to be in the scabbard long. Still. *cringe*
-"I'm tryin' to save lives here!" Garth is just too adorable for words, even if he's uncappable in the dark here.
-In the meantime efficiency expert Sam is multitasking by staking out what's his name's widow and getting good and liquored up to fight the booze monster. Why have we not had a booze monster before now? Seriously?
-I do not know what it is about Garth that's so adorable, as long as he's not trying to show off or act cool, or brag about how fantastic he is. He's like a mascot.
-"COME WITH ME IF YOU WANNA LIVE!" AHAHAHAH. You are not the Terminator Garth, but nice try.
-"National security!" HEEEEEEE! And yay for taking a cab.
-"But I like to drive safe, y'know." Oh dear. XD
-Person in Peril: *resists rescuing*/Garth: *YOU HAVE FORCED ME TO MAKE A MIGHTY EXPOSITION DUMP* Exposit like the wind, Garth!
-This face. THIS FACE. OH MY GOD. It's Garth's 'Hi monster, please don't eat me' face. XD
-Yes, if the exposition doesn't convince the imminent victim, getting thrown across the room by an invisible force will.
-And once again, Garth gets himself taken out early in the combat. Oh Garth.
-YAY! YAYAYAYAYAY! IT'S MY FAVORITE SPECIAL EFFECT!!! They used it in Hookman, it's so simple to do, you put fishing line on the wall and then plaster over it, let it dry and then pull the fishing line away and it does this. Even though her fingers must be doing really weird things to be that far apart from each other, still, CHEAP PRACTICAL SPECIAL FX FOR THE WIN! \o/
-Charging up to the guy being chased by an invisible (to him) monster isn't polite, Sam. Probably scared the crap out of him. And made him stop running which is likely not a great idea right now.
-"Fire Exit, on three."/*slam* This is why it is a tactically poor idea to announce your escape route in front of the thing you are trying to escape from.
-Damn, she's really efficient at the knocking people out. Sam sucks at hand to hand, yeah, but that was fast! O.o
-Just had this talk with Sam, Dean. It's not nice to startle the monster chow.
-Dean has a sword. All arguments are irrelevant, because Dean has a sword. He's swinging it like a baseball bat, but, again. Irrelevant. DEAN WINCHESTER HAS A FREAKING SWORD.
-Had a sword. Crap.
-HELLO! EITHER THE BOOZE MONSTER LIKES FAIR PLAY, DEAN'S BECOME A JEDI, OR THAT WAS AN ASSIST FROM GHOST!BOBBY!!! WOO! \o/
-Taking a minute to laugh here. Sam shouting directions and Dean flailing around blindly with a sword needs to happen more. *nods*
-There we go! Got her. And in this cap we can also note that the brewery does two other beer varieties besides Thighslapper it seems. Hair Raiser and Hard... something. Head. Just noting in case there is future beer continuity.
-Yes, Dean's putting some hints together there. Is it enough to overpower the denial? This is Dean, after all. *looks at amount of time left* I do think it might be.
Also, Headspinner beer.
-Garth's early knockout vs climactic battle record while hunting with the Winchesters is 2 or 2 so far.
-"This moved." Oh god he's gonna talk to ghost!Bobby, oh god. O.O
-"Bobby? Are you here?" *FLAIL* LITTLE BREAKS IN THE VOICE, OH GOD.
-Ohhhhhhh.... *flail* *flail more* Gaaaah.
-Garth: HUG TIEM NAO! Awwwww. Sam and Dean need more hugs, even if they're from Garth instead of, oh, each other? HUG YOUR BROTHER ONCE IN A WHILE, DAMMIT. BOTH OF YOU.
-He doesn't hug Sam though. Hm. Odd. Unless he really is dating Becky, because that might be awkward, hugging your girlfriend's ex-creepy-stalker-obssession-non-con-marriage-target.
-Or not. Yay, Garth hugs for everyone! \o/
-Garth's really starting to grow on me. I hope he survives the rest of the season, and maybe shows up in future.
-"Nice ride." Um Nooooooo. Just no. No. *shudder* No.... hey. Hang on... That's not the same kind of station wagon they had John having in the comic before they fixed it, is it? *side-eyes*
-"What happened in the brewery, Dean?" Yep. Here we go. Sam's brow is on max furrow.
-"*lists all the ghost!Bobby incidents* Nothing, I'm sure." HE'S ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT IT! YAY COMMUNICATION! \o/
-"I think that regular people, they see ones they lost everywhere too."/"Yeah! Friggin' ghosts!" The Winchester perspective is such a wonderful thing.
-And. Of course Sam is going to be staunchly on the side of "It's not real" given he's spent over half this season saying the same thing to himself overandoverandover regarding his head-Lucifer.
-"They see a face in the crowd, we see a book falling off the table." Oooo, excellent point, Sam. They see the signs they expect to see, knowing what they do. Ooo. Except they totally aren't seeing what they expect, because Bobby is a ghost, and probably hollering at you two idjits every day. Or every five minutes.
-"What Jedi'd that sword into my hand?" *draws hearts around Star Wars fanboy!Dean*
-And this is why I wish I'd gotten to this sooner, and not been spoiled. Because right now, I would be shrieking and flailing so hard I would sprain something.
-Oh god, and the Family theme is playing, you bastards!
-"There you are." Oh god. But he's not talking about Bobby, is he?
-Of course.
-"I'm right here, ya idjit!" HAHA *applause* YES.
BOBBYYYYYY!!!!! \o/
And I think I know exactly what will be going on next episode. But we'll see. In the meantime, I must torture the new version of Scrapbook into doing my bidding... bwahaha. Ha. *sigh*
(PLEASE, NO REFERENCES TO EPISODES PAST 7.18 IN COMMENTS! I'm catching up slowly.)