Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 8.16
Let's see if I remember how to do this. According to the dates on the screencaps, it has taken me two months to watch this one episode... So this could be a bit disjointed. O.o
Warning: Contains profanity.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Nothing known about this one, but this was aired just before the spring hiatus, so expecting some significant revelation, probably involving Castiel, because we haven't heard from him for a bit and there was all kinds of bad in his corner when we last saw him. (Aw, Samandiriel)
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 8.16 - "???" "Remember the Titans"
Due to work, my 'do anything but work' schedule is shot to crap, so I'm trying a different form of time management from now on. If it works, I'll be able to keep these caught up, if it doesn't, I'll be playing catchup, but real life has to take priority.
ETA: ...Aaaand 2 months later it's quite obvious that the time management plan didn't work at ALL. Sigh.
-36 seconds, might be the shortest THEN yet.
-Drinking and driving in the pre-credits sequence. Guy has a death wish on a few levels.
-Great Falls. Not a foreshadowingly-named location at all.
-He falls asleep behind the wheel, and then to wake himself up he has another drink of beer. How has this guy lived long enough to even make it into the pre-credits sequence?
-Bad night for walking along a dark road. On the technically up side, if the drunk driver runs you down, you have my permission to haunt the living crap out of him for eternity.
-And just when the drunk driver looked like he couldn't be more of a douche, without even checking to see if the guy he hit is alive, or calling for an ambulance, he drives off, making it a hit and run. Pedestrian dude's ghost, get him.
-EAAAAUAAUUUUAUAUAUUAUAUAUAUGAAGACH!!!! Well. I guess he's not going to turn out to be not dead. The police car turning its flashers on made me snerk, although I do realize they aren't doing it just to let the bird know it's messing with a crime scene.
-Darn, for a second there I was hoping it would be Sheriff Jodie. Aw.
-No matter how often we're shown the dead guy's face, I keep expecting a soundtrack ZING and his eyes to pop open.
-Heh. Not much of a ZING but bingo. Well, if you aren't a ghost, you're otherwise undead or something too damn tough to be killed by a drunk driver. So, go get 'im.
-The instant healing is also a helpful feature. *nods*
-Is it sad that I really want to see, like, a jack-o-lantern, or a Christmas wreath or things like that on the door to the boy's super-secret lair of awesomeness?
Also, title: "Remember the Titans" Hm. Have we had Titans before? My memory's gone fuzzy. It's that or an undead football team fighting racial segregation, which would beat all hell out of a racist truck.
-SAM. TALK TO YOUR BROTHER. OR A HOSPITAL. UNEXPLAINED BLEEDING IS NOT A THING TO IGNORE. Though really, it's not unexplained I suppose, it's just a side effect of questing to close the gates of Hell permanently and maybe some sign that you're mutating or becoming radioactive or something BUT MY POINT STANDS.
-I don't know why Dean in a bathrobe is so fascinating to me, maybe it's the similarity to a long-coat (Does this make Dean a Badass Bathrobe?) or the Arthur-Dent-ness, or just Dean Winchester strolling around in loungewear with a cup of coffee like he doesn't have any urgent evil to kill, but I find it fascinating.
-"What's up with you?"/"Nothing. Why?" Sam, this is why you should not lie, because you suck at it. Forever.
*eyes gas-masks nervously*
-I'm just gonna pause for a moment to drool over the set and props and things.
Okay, I'm good.
-AND IN THE SUPERNATURAL UNIVERSE, THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER STILL HAS A PRINT EDITION, AND THE BOYS STILL USE IT TO FIND CASES. I mean it makes sense, it's a higher mana world so it's bullshit to useful content ratio is much more sale-able. Anyway, HEE! \o/
-"Saw his insides spilled out all over the place." Slight exaggeration on the trooper's part there. Less 'all over the place' more 'inside a remarkably tidy scavenger bird.' Hm. What happens to zombie flesh eaten by an animal? Did it regenerate when the guy did, or did it stay dead meat because it wasn't connected to him anymore? There could be a very distressed bird out there.
-HI CAR!!! *waves* Shiny!
-"We don't track zombie activity because there's no such thing as zombies." Hehehehe.
-Written by Daniel Loflin, flying without his usual wingman tonight.
-Tie Report: Dean - Kind of a moss-green with white stripes going down to Dean's right. An unusually subtle color for Dean, hm. On the job, but distracted, probably by Sam's weirdness. Sam - Double white or pale blue stripes on a gradated shades-of-drying-blood tie, the gradations of which are so distinct as to be even more stripes, all going down to Sam's left. Sam is on more than one job, and has sub-levels of on-the-job-ness, and the color of the tie doesn't need further exposition. Currently the way the boys are standing, not only are the stripes going away from each other, they aren't even in the same frame. Both isolated, focused on their own issues and walls, and pulling apart. *headshake* TALK, DAMMIT.
-Directed by Steve Boyum, notorious spotlight thief. Thank you for the nice shiny shot of the Impala's nose at the start there, but I'm still watching you, Boyum. She better still be in good shape with all her current parts by the end. *side-eyes*
-This guy looks so familiar, except in my mind he had more face fuzz. Where's he from? Is it a Vancouver Actor thing or was he on another episode?
-Looks like it was only temporary zombification then.
-Love that the Sheriff is all gung ho to go after some zombies. "If things go all Dawn of the Dead on us, you'll be our first call." Hee!
-"Boys. Aim for the head." BWahahahahahahahah! XD
-So, while zombified, the guy got from Great Falls, Montana to Livingston, Montana, about 165 miles, and Google says about 55 hours of walking. Heck of a hike for a dead guy.
-"Liver was eaten, best guess, a bird got at it." Ohhhh! I feel like some mythology is trying to smack me in the face here, hang on.... Prometheus! As punishment for giving fire to humans, Prometheus was chained to a big rock on a mountain and an eagle would be sent by Zeus each day to peck out his liver, which would grow back to be eaten again, etcetera. I thought that bird looked eagle-ish, but the only ones we have around here are bald eagles so the coloring threw me. So here we have the Titans then, yes?
-"Damn straight I wanted to shoot some zombies!" Aww. *pats Dean*
-...although this camera angle makes me pretty sure he's not done with the regenerating liver trick yet.
-Yep.
-"Woodchipper beats everything." While you are making a very valid point, Dean, you're missing the corpse running away.
-Very rarely do you get a chance to interrogate potential zombies. Dean's not doing to bad a job of it.
-"Just promise me you'll finish the job 'cause I can't take this anymore." Yeah, getting your liver pecked out every single day would suck pretty hard, but that's why it was assigned as a punishment. Zeus holds a grudge like a hot damn.
-Prometheus cleans up well. Just saying.
-"You mean like a real life Kenny?" *cackles* Dean's so intense about it too.
-Shane, not Prometheus. Probably had it changed when he hit the 20th century. *nods*
-"It was given to me because people had to call me something." Or that.
-And a curse is a reasonable assumption given these guys' knowledge base doesn't often include the actual reality of portions of the Greek pantheon. Yet. (Although... *quickly checks the guest roster for "Hammer of the Gods"* Nope. A Roman one that probably had Greek precursors, but no Greek ones pop out.) Don't know if leaving 'Shane' alone in his own room is tactically wise, but I suppose it'll explain why, when the eagle comes for big P's liver, the boys don't find a way to stop it. (Though that could be funny as heck to watch, Sam and Dean chasing an eagle around a hotel room.) *handwave*
-Cavity searches. Dean. *headshake*
-AAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAA WHO IS THAT? HAVE THEY COME FOR HIS LIVER? O.O
-*jumps a foot in the air when he grabs her hand* Damn, he's speedy!
-"You don't remember? Never mind." *hauls out big shiny knife* bit of an over-reaction that. It's not like you're the only thing he forgot!
-Combat! And Sam, lacking a wall behind him to be thrown into takes a delightfully picturesque tumble out the door and down the stairs, (which is nonetheless difficult to cap clearly)
-Prometheus, I mean Shane here is pretty darn good at hand-to-hand combat! Kind of wonder how he managed to get killed every night with reflexes like that one he was no longer chained to a rock, but if Zeus wants your liver to be catnip for Eagles, I guess there's not much you can do to stop it.
-"Now? I'm your worst enemy." And she can dissipate into smoke, that's just great. The now implies she wasn't his worst enemy before, so... Hm. Heh. And while looking through the Wikipedia entry for Prometheus, there's a note that he gets freed by Hercules, a Greek hero notorious for having to complete a bunch of Trials. I think I know what Kevin's rock might say Sam has to do next. Though I still don't know who the vanishing woman might be.
-Falling down, short of breath, clutching left arm. He's a bit young for a heart attack, but maybe that burst of activity threw a clot. Or something is inside him eating his tasty tasty liver.
-"Do we call 911?"/"And tell 'em what, that the dead guy we stole from the morgue is alive and having a coronary?" Dean sometimes makes excellent points.
-(Several insane weeks pass... Well now. Let's see if any progress can be made here.)
-Must be weird for the boys to be sitting around a corpse of a relative stranger and not setting it on fire or something.
-"What do we know that has Jason Bourne fighting skills, dies a lot, and has a history with violent women?"/"I dunno, you?" HA! No Dean, not Sam. Sam sucks at hand to hand and the women he's been with were generally more innocent or manipulative than violent, that or dead. Sam dying a lot I will grant you.
-Always be suspicious of random people arriving when you're sitting next to a fresh corpse waiting for it to wake up. Particularly if they are possibly the woman who the dead guy went ninja on before croaking *squinting, can't tell*, accompanied by a random rosy-cheeked kid. *eyeballs*
-"I'm looking for a corpse that went missing today." Sure. Always bring along a wide-eyed child when searching for missing corpses. It worked well enough for Sam and Dean's formative years.
-"I'm the mother of his son." Or the human personification of the eagle that's trying to get to him to peck out his liver so he can repop, accompanied by a convenient kid as a cover story. Or she's for real. What kind of crap is the kid of Prometheus going to have to deal with?
-Um. OOPS. *FACEPALM*
-"I just knew there was something off about him, the way he would-"/"Die everyday?" *snerk* Subtle Dean, with the subtle eyebrows.
-"And I know I couldn't have made it down the mountain if it weren't for him." *sudden vivid image of her surfing the guy's temporary corpse down through the snowy hills like a sled* No. Nonono. Bad brain, stop that. Hee.
-Ah, so Prometheus doesn't know he's got a kid. Not that running away when you find out the guy you just did the nasty with who kind of died on you is some kind of messed-up zombie isn't perfectly reasonable, but this is why you use condoms, silly! Not that having your liver pecked out by deity-sent eagles is an STD or anything, but still. Unprotected sex with some random amnesiac you found in an avalanche is not a good life choice.
-"What made you look again?"/"The worst thing." Oh, do not tell me that getting your liver pecked out by deity-sent eagles is hereditary. The kid never even got close to stealing knowledge of fire from the gods! He shouldn't need to worry about getting punished for crap his dad did at the dawn of time or whenever.
-Nothing like waking up from the dead to discover you have a seven-year-old (maybe?) son. At least let the poor undead bastard have a coffee first.
-(Another several insane weeks later, though I have to say, I'm quite impressed that I still haven't seen anything about this episode mentioned anywhere, so thank you for using cuts and whatnot, that's wonderful. Let's try progress again.)
-I like the framing of this shot. Also, the hotel looks familiar, but I'm drawing a blank on it.
-"Best I can tell? Prometheus." *fist-pump* Thought so!
-"He Ocean's Eleven'd Mount Olympus and stole the flames of Olympia." *snerk* I don't know whether it's cute, touching or disturbing that Sam just verbed a movie title (which seems a more Deanish thing to do), but it makes me go Aww. As does his face. Aw.
-Artemis? Cooooooool. Goddess of the hunt and other nifty things, twin sister of Apollo (the one that wasn't a Viper pilot). More known for bow and arrow than for blade weapons, at least in mythology. In SPN 'verse, who knows what Artemis' lore might or might not include. For a start, notorious blade usage, which handily puts a potential immortal-killing blade on the magic item radar in the Supernatural 'verse. Just in time for the second task of the "disconnect Hell forever" quest the boys are on, hmm?
-What, three depictions of Prometheus getting his liver pecked out, and none of him stealing the fire for humanity? This website does not provide an unbiased report on events, for shame.
-"He fell." Aw crap. The kid's immortal too, isn't he? Only without the liver-pecking. I hope. o.O
-"He's dying, isn't he?"/"I was going to tell you, I just wanted you to have a chance to adjust." Hi! Here's your seven year old son you never knew existed, by the way, he's sort of undead or immortal or something the same way you are. Yeah, that'll need more than a cup of coffee to cope with. Why would the kid even have the same thing his Dad does? Like I mentioned earlier, he didn't steal fire from Zeus. Unless it's a kind of bloodline curse thing, which, Zeus can be a real dick sometimes, so it's feasible, and Prometheus might not have had a kid before now... or has, and there's a bunch of half-titan frequently dying immortal undead people wandering the Earth... hmmm. *eyes Winchester bloodline*
-(...Aaaand another several very long weeks later, onward. Yeesh.)
-Yay! House-guests at the Bat-Cave! Sleepover at the super-secret impenetrable lair! BYOB!
-"Age seven marks one of the first Greek rites of manhood." Sam, busting out the Wiki of Weird, or at least the Wiki of Plot-related Cultural Minutiae.
-She's handling the whole "cursed by Zeus, hunting monsters" stuff rather well, although the impressive lair is probably helping sell it. Or not. There's only so much selling a lair can do, even if it's an awesome one.
-"So the usual way we handle this is we summon the bastard and we work him over until he undoes whatever it is he did." ...Zeus? Um. That might be a little above your challenge rating, guys.
-"And if he doesn't want to undo it?"/"Then we take him out." Sam's little eyebrow wiggle of 'oh yes we can' is somehow not terribly reassuring.
-"Sam and I are gonna go after Zeus." Why is that so funny? Why?
-Research and rotgut. Might not be the most sensible combo, but what the hell, if you're going after the Father of the overwhelming majority of the Greek pantheon, alcohol is not going to stand much of a chance of increasing the already incredibly high levels of inadvisable stupidity involved in this project.
-"Whatcha got?"/"Dragon penis." Bwahahah. I'm sure several of Dean's one night romantic conquests down through the years would be happy to vouch for that. Seriously though, given dragons in this show are generally humanoid, that's going to be a bit awkward to collect. But who knows, maybe the Bat-Cave has a store room full of spell components. It really should. Probably like Bilbo's larder for mystical hoohah in there.
-Oh Drakopoulus. Not dragon penis. Ancient Greek hunter with a journal translated by the Men of Letters. Cool cool cool.
-Dean: "*spills about the secret society* We're Legacies! *smirky eyebrow waggle*" And then Sam with his face. For a guy raised under the 'We do what we do and we shut up about it' Winchester law, Dean's quite chatty about the secret society business.
-"Wood from a tree struck by lightning." I suppose they already used the sand-struck-by-lightning, aka Fulgurite from when they were binding Death back at the start of Season 7. No reason why a spell component couldn't be used for more than one spell though.
-Bone from a worshipper. Hopefully one that's already deceased or recently had something amputated...
-Incidentally, where's Artemis got to while all this is going on?
-Sam and Prometheus are going to go dig up a grave? Heh. This is gonna end up with Sam standing in a partly dug grave next to 'dead-on-cue' Prometheus, trying to explain things to a security guard, isn't it? Along with another Artemis attack. Also, I don't know about taking extreme newbie Hayley out on a break and enter. Where's her son going to be? Waiting in the SUV? Or will they wait until he's managed to die again and leave him on his own in the lair? Which seems kind of wrong on a few levels.
-There's something very heart-warming (if uncappable) about Dean tossing the Impala keys to Sam.
-"The book calls for fulgurite." Um. Wait a minute. *reviews Wiki entry* "natural hollow glass tubes formed in quartzose sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes" so, earth and sand, not trees. Unless the tree is made of sand, and yeah SPN-verse has some different stuff than regular Earth, trees made of sand aren't likely. Unless the SPN-verse linguistic *handwave* meanings and stuff doesn't have the same restriction on meanings and trees count. Or it's a lightning strike on a petrified tree. Or something. *handwave*
-"You do know that fulgurite is available from crystal shops all over, right?" HA! Okay, the points for the retcon of the 'OMG finding fulgurite is so harrrrrrrd!' from Season 7 kind of balances out saying that a tree turns into crystal when hit by lightning. Go Hayley! XD
-"We need a bone, so I dig." Hee. Just like a puppy.
-*pauses to admire the framing and stuff*
-I'd just like to make a note here about the ironic appropriateness the method of summoning Zeus to lift Prometheus' curse involving a human setting something on fire. Because, you know, fire.
-Though really, that bowl thing should probably be inside the painted wards, shouldn't it? And again, what about Artemis?
-Of course Zeus is going to arrive with lightning. ... hey. Didn't Raphael have wings of lightning...? It'd be kind of weird, but what if Zeus is an Archangel? I mean look what the Show did with making Gabriel be Loki after all... Hmm...
-Tie Report - Greek Deity Edition: Solid grey. On a charcoal grey shirt. With a grey suit (with very subtle crosshatching). Not much of a job to be on anymore given the number of followers Zeus still has, but he is on what job he has, which is nice, but otherwise dark and opaque. Hope they don't end up killing him. Not sure how they would, that immortal-killing blade Artemis has, she still has... hm... I wonder how the Greek Pantheon is for upward mobility these days, and whether Artemis might be out trying to give herself a promotion.... Hope she shows up soon if that's the case, since Zeus just took a look at the painted wards and his face is now going "LOL, seriously?"
-"Break the trap dear man, and I'll break the curse." Hahahahaha. How about no.
-Ah crap. Yeah, she's gonna break the circle. Does she not understand the concept of bluffing? Or that they can leave him there and come back tomorrow and try again? Arg. *facepalm*
-Okay, that was kind of cool.
-OH HAI ARTEMIS. Was wondering when you'd show up, guess you're on guard duty.
-"Balls!" Aw, Dean using Bobby's favourite cuss word. Aw.
-Happy accidents. "Did he hurt?" Yeah, Zeus isn't the happy fluffy agreeable sort of deity. Discovering another avenue to get vengeance on the guy he's been getting vengeance on since the dawn of time or whenever is a bonus, not something to undo.
-"It's our god, the goddess of Hunters." And Sam attempts to fast talk Artemis into being on their side? This should be interesting.
-"She's who we pray to for courage when we're hunting the Gorgon, or the Minotaur." I'm just going to choke to death laughing for a while, while Dean's "...whut?" faces speak volumes.
-Yeah, there was only one direction that conversation was going. Into a wall.
-"Why did it take you seven years to track down Prometheus?" Pst, Sam. Seven years nine months. Ish.
-"He was hiding?" Really, Artemis? He's an amnesiac, and liver-pecking eagles didn't seem to have much difficulty homing in on his liver. Hm. This conversation might bear more fruit than a face full of wall for the Winchester boys after all.
-"He's in love with you, he told us." Dean's face is getting the best lines in this segment, I think.
-Ah, Sammy's working some deductive reasoning there, Artemis and Prometheus had a 'thing' and this explains the whole being forgotten business before.
-"Have you spilled it to anyone? Homer, Hesiod, Herodotous?" And once again, Dean's face gets the best lines.
-"It's sleepytime my dear boy." Oh crap.
-"This has to stop, Father." There's the frigging bow! That's more like it. Although from what little I know of archery, her stance is rather crap.
-Well crap. That didn't go so well.
-"Your boy is going on the mountain." *shudders* Eeeeeeeeek. O.o
-Whoooaaaaah! And a few extra badass points for Prometheus.
-Ah. Now I see the resemblance. Seems Prometheus had a thing for long-haired brunettes.
-Oh hahahahaha, clever set design. Sign in the background behind Dean, warning of an electrical danger, in the room they summoned Zeus to. Ha ha ha.
-You know, given his penchant for surviving death, I've give him a good 48 hours before you light his corpse up. And not just because having Prometheus owe you a colossal favour would be handy. He was kind of cool. Although, again, cremating Prometheus's corpse is quite ironic too.
-Aw, Sam and the kid. Aw.
-HI CAR! HI!!! I know I already said Hi this episode, but that was months ago! Damn, look at that suspension bounce! (Uncappably, dammit.)
-And it's time for night time 90 mph car chatting with the Winchester boys!
-Sam, honey, if you've been thinking you'll be fine at the end of the Trials, or that there won't be some major sacrifice of yourself or someone close to you at the end, you are definitely being naive. The random bleeding you've been doing should be a huge tip-off for one, not to mention the general pattern of your entire family's lives to date. Also, TELL YOUR BROTHER YOU'RE RANDOMLY BLEEDING.
-"If you die, it'll be because of something normal." Oh Dean. *headshake*
-"Heart attack?"/"Exactly. Yeah, eat your burger." *sneeeeerrrk*
-Can I just mention again some more how cool it is that the boys have a non-mobile base of operations? And their own rooms full of their own crap? Because it is.
-"Cas, you got your ears on?" Oh. Castiel was in a very bad way last we saw him. Also, I'm not sure if the Bat-Cave might not be a bit like a Faraday cage for direct celestial communications and teleports. Depends how deep the men of letters got into the whole mess up in Heaven over the centuries, I suppose. Still, we're due for further developments in the Castiel area, so.
-*Dean is Dean all over everything flailflailflail* "Keep an eye out for my little brother, okay?" and then the Family theme comes in on the soundtrack and just GAAAAAAAAH. *flail*
-"Where the hell are you, man?" YES. EXACTLY. BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO CASTIEL. UPDATE PLEASE.
Well that took far longer than expected. Hopefully catching up the rest won't take as long as this did, or I'll still be catching up on Season 8 in July 2014. :-P
(PLEASE, NO REFERENCES TO EPISODES PAST 8.16 IN COMMENTS! I'll be catching up as fast as I can, but that's not likely to be very fast. :-/)
Warning: Contains profanity.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Nothing known about this one, but this was aired just before the spring hiatus, so expecting some significant revelation, probably involving Castiel, because we haven't heard from him for a bit and there was all kinds of bad in his corner when we last saw him. (Aw, Samandiriel)
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 8.16 - "???" "Remember the Titans"
Due to work, my 'do anything but work' schedule is shot to crap, so I'm trying a different form of time management from now on. If it works, I'll be able to keep these caught up, if it doesn't, I'll be playing catchup, but real life has to take priority.
ETA: ...Aaaand 2 months later it's quite obvious that the time management plan didn't work at ALL. Sigh.
-36 seconds, might be the shortest THEN yet.
-Drinking and driving in the pre-credits sequence. Guy has a death wish on a few levels.
-Great Falls. Not a foreshadowingly-named location at all.
-He falls asleep behind the wheel, and then to wake himself up he has another drink of beer. How has this guy lived long enough to even make it into the pre-credits sequence?
-Bad night for walking along a dark road. On the technically up side, if the drunk driver runs you down, you have my permission to haunt the living crap out of him for eternity.
-And just when the drunk driver looked like he couldn't be more of a douche, without even checking to see if the guy he hit is alive, or calling for an ambulance, he drives off, making it a hit and run. Pedestrian dude's ghost, get him.
-EAAAAUAAUUUUAUAUAUUAUAUAUAUGAAGACH!!!! Well. I guess he's not going to turn out to be not dead. The police car turning its flashers on made me snerk, although I do realize they aren't doing it just to let the bird know it's messing with a crime scene.
-Darn, for a second there I was hoping it would be Sheriff Jodie. Aw.
-No matter how often we're shown the dead guy's face, I keep expecting a soundtrack ZING and his eyes to pop open.
-Heh. Not much of a ZING but bingo. Well, if you aren't a ghost, you're otherwise undead or something too damn tough to be killed by a drunk driver. So, go get 'im.
-The instant healing is also a helpful feature. *nods*
-Is it sad that I really want to see, like, a jack-o-lantern, or a Christmas wreath or things like that on the door to the boy's super-secret lair of awesomeness?
Also, title: "Remember the Titans" Hm. Have we had Titans before? My memory's gone fuzzy. It's that or an undead football team fighting racial segregation, which would beat all hell out of a racist truck.
-SAM. TALK TO YOUR BROTHER. OR A HOSPITAL. UNEXPLAINED BLEEDING IS NOT A THING TO IGNORE. Though really, it's not unexplained I suppose, it's just a side effect of questing to close the gates of Hell permanently and maybe some sign that you're mutating or becoming radioactive or something BUT MY POINT STANDS.
-I don't know why Dean in a bathrobe is so fascinating to me, maybe it's the similarity to a long-coat (Does this make Dean a Badass Bathrobe?) or the Arthur-Dent-ness, or just Dean Winchester strolling around in loungewear with a cup of coffee like he doesn't have any urgent evil to kill, but I find it fascinating.
-"What's up with you?"/"Nothing. Why?" Sam, this is why you should not lie, because you suck at it. Forever.
*eyes gas-masks nervously*
-I'm just gonna pause for a moment to drool over the set and props and things.
Okay, I'm good.
-AND IN THE SUPERNATURAL UNIVERSE, THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER STILL HAS A PRINT EDITION, AND THE BOYS STILL USE IT TO FIND CASES. I mean it makes sense, it's a higher mana world so it's bullshit to useful content ratio is much more sale-able. Anyway, HEE! \o/
-"Saw his insides spilled out all over the place." Slight exaggeration on the trooper's part there. Less 'all over the place' more 'inside a remarkably tidy scavenger bird.' Hm. What happens to zombie flesh eaten by an animal? Did it regenerate when the guy did, or did it stay dead meat because it wasn't connected to him anymore? There could be a very distressed bird out there.
-HI CAR!!! *waves* Shiny!
-"We don't track zombie activity because there's no such thing as zombies." Hehehehe.
-Written by Daniel Loflin, flying without his usual wingman tonight.
-Tie Report: Dean - Kind of a moss-green with white stripes going down to Dean's right. An unusually subtle color for Dean, hm. On the job, but distracted, probably by Sam's weirdness. Sam - Double white or pale blue stripes on a gradated shades-of-drying-blood tie, the gradations of which are so distinct as to be even more stripes, all going down to Sam's left. Sam is on more than one job, and has sub-levels of on-the-job-ness, and the color of the tie doesn't need further exposition. Currently the way the boys are standing, not only are the stripes going away from each other, they aren't even in the same frame. Both isolated, focused on their own issues and walls, and pulling apart. *headshake* TALK, DAMMIT.
-Directed by Steve Boyum, notorious spotlight thief. Thank you for the nice shiny shot of the Impala's nose at the start there, but I'm still watching you, Boyum. She better still be in good shape with all her current parts by the end. *side-eyes*
-This guy looks so familiar, except in my mind he had more face fuzz. Where's he from? Is it a Vancouver Actor thing or was he on another episode?
-Looks like it was only temporary zombification then.
-Love that the Sheriff is all gung ho to go after some zombies. "If things go all Dawn of the Dead on us, you'll be our first call." Hee!
-"Boys. Aim for the head." BWahahahahahahahah! XD
-So, while zombified, the guy got from Great Falls, Montana to Livingston, Montana, about 165 miles, and Google says about 55 hours of walking. Heck of a hike for a dead guy.
-"Liver was eaten, best guess, a bird got at it." Ohhhh! I feel like some mythology is trying to smack me in the face here, hang on.... Prometheus! As punishment for giving fire to humans, Prometheus was chained to a big rock on a mountain and an eagle would be sent by Zeus each day to peck out his liver, which would grow back to be eaten again, etcetera. I thought that bird looked eagle-ish, but the only ones we have around here are bald eagles so the coloring threw me. So here we have the Titans then, yes?
-"Damn straight I wanted to shoot some zombies!" Aww. *pats Dean*
-...although this camera angle makes me pretty sure he's not done with the regenerating liver trick yet.
-Yep.
-"Woodchipper beats everything." While you are making a very valid point, Dean, you're missing the corpse running away.
-Very rarely do you get a chance to interrogate potential zombies. Dean's not doing to bad a job of it.
-"Just promise me you'll finish the job 'cause I can't take this anymore." Yeah, getting your liver pecked out every single day would suck pretty hard, but that's why it was assigned as a punishment. Zeus holds a grudge like a hot damn.
-Prometheus cleans up well. Just saying.
-"You mean like a real life Kenny?" *cackles* Dean's so intense about it too.
-Shane, not Prometheus. Probably had it changed when he hit the 20th century. *nods*
-"It was given to me because people had to call me something." Or that.
-And a curse is a reasonable assumption given these guys' knowledge base doesn't often include the actual reality of portions of the Greek pantheon. Yet. (Although... *quickly checks the guest roster for "Hammer of the Gods"* Nope. A Roman one that probably had Greek precursors, but no Greek ones pop out.) Don't know if leaving 'Shane' alone in his own room is tactically wise, but I suppose it'll explain why, when the eagle comes for big P's liver, the boys don't find a way to stop it. (Though that could be funny as heck to watch, Sam and Dean chasing an eagle around a hotel room.) *handwave*
-Cavity searches. Dean. *headshake*
-AAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAA WHO IS THAT? HAVE THEY COME FOR HIS LIVER? O.O
-*jumps a foot in the air when he grabs her hand* Damn, he's speedy!
-"You don't remember? Never mind." *hauls out big shiny knife* bit of an over-reaction that. It's not like you're the only thing he forgot!
-Combat! And Sam, lacking a wall behind him to be thrown into takes a delightfully picturesque tumble out the door and down the stairs, (which is nonetheless difficult to cap clearly)
-Prometheus, I mean Shane here is pretty darn good at hand-to-hand combat! Kind of wonder how he managed to get killed every night with reflexes like that one he was no longer chained to a rock, but if Zeus wants your liver to be catnip for Eagles, I guess there's not much you can do to stop it.
-"Now? I'm your worst enemy." And she can dissipate into smoke, that's just great. The now implies she wasn't his worst enemy before, so... Hm. Heh. And while looking through the Wikipedia entry for Prometheus, there's a note that he gets freed by Hercules, a Greek hero notorious for having to complete a bunch of Trials. I think I know what Kevin's rock might say Sam has to do next. Though I still don't know who the vanishing woman might be.
-Falling down, short of breath, clutching left arm. He's a bit young for a heart attack, but maybe that burst of activity threw a clot. Or something is inside him eating his tasty tasty liver.
-"Do we call 911?"/"And tell 'em what, that the dead guy we stole from the morgue is alive and having a coronary?" Dean sometimes makes excellent points.
-(Several insane weeks pass... Well now. Let's see if any progress can be made here.)
-Must be weird for the boys to be sitting around a corpse of a relative stranger and not setting it on fire or something.
-"What do we know that has Jason Bourne fighting skills, dies a lot, and has a history with violent women?"/"I dunno, you?" HA! No Dean, not Sam. Sam sucks at hand to hand and the women he's been with were generally more innocent or manipulative than violent, that or dead. Sam dying a lot I will grant you.
-Always be suspicious of random people arriving when you're sitting next to a fresh corpse waiting for it to wake up. Particularly if they are possibly the woman who the dead guy went ninja on before croaking *squinting, can't tell*, accompanied by a random rosy-cheeked kid. *eyeballs*
-"I'm looking for a corpse that went missing today." Sure. Always bring along a wide-eyed child when searching for missing corpses. It worked well enough for Sam and Dean's formative years.
-"I'm the mother of his son." Or the human personification of the eagle that's trying to get to him to peck out his liver so he can repop, accompanied by a convenient kid as a cover story. Or she's for real. What kind of crap is the kid of Prometheus going to have to deal with?
-Um. OOPS. *FACEPALM*
-"I just knew there was something off about him, the way he would-"/"Die everyday?" *snerk* Subtle Dean, with the subtle eyebrows.
-"And I know I couldn't have made it down the mountain if it weren't for him." *sudden vivid image of her surfing the guy's temporary corpse down through the snowy hills like a sled* No. Nonono. Bad brain, stop that. Hee.
-Ah, so Prometheus doesn't know he's got a kid. Not that running away when you find out the guy you just did the nasty with who kind of died on you is some kind of messed-up zombie isn't perfectly reasonable, but this is why you use condoms, silly! Not that having your liver pecked out by deity-sent eagles is an STD or anything, but still. Unprotected sex with some random amnesiac you found in an avalanche is not a good life choice.
-"What made you look again?"/"The worst thing." Oh, do not tell me that getting your liver pecked out by deity-sent eagles is hereditary. The kid never even got close to stealing knowledge of fire from the gods! He shouldn't need to worry about getting punished for crap his dad did at the dawn of time or whenever.
-Nothing like waking up from the dead to discover you have a seven-year-old (maybe?) son. At least let the poor undead bastard have a coffee first.
-(Another several insane weeks later, though I have to say, I'm quite impressed that I still haven't seen anything about this episode mentioned anywhere, so thank you for using cuts and whatnot, that's wonderful. Let's try progress again.)
-I like the framing of this shot. Also, the hotel looks familiar, but I'm drawing a blank on it.
-"Best I can tell? Prometheus." *fist-pump* Thought so!
-"He Ocean's Eleven'd Mount Olympus and stole the flames of Olympia." *snerk* I don't know whether it's cute, touching or disturbing that Sam just verbed a movie title (which seems a more Deanish thing to do), but it makes me go Aww. As does his face. Aw.
-Artemis? Cooooooool. Goddess of the hunt and other nifty things, twin sister of Apollo (the one that wasn't a Viper pilot). More known for bow and arrow than for blade weapons, at least in mythology. In SPN 'verse, who knows what Artemis' lore might or might not include. For a start, notorious blade usage, which handily puts a potential immortal-killing blade on the magic item radar in the Supernatural 'verse. Just in time for the second task of the "disconnect Hell forever" quest the boys are on, hmm?
-What, three depictions of Prometheus getting his liver pecked out, and none of him stealing the fire for humanity? This website does not provide an unbiased report on events, for shame.
-"He fell." Aw crap. The kid's immortal too, isn't he? Only without the liver-pecking. I hope. o.O
-"He's dying, isn't he?"/"I was going to tell you, I just wanted you to have a chance to adjust." Hi! Here's your seven year old son you never knew existed, by the way, he's sort of undead or immortal or something the same way you are. Yeah, that'll need more than a cup of coffee to cope with. Why would the kid even have the same thing his Dad does? Like I mentioned earlier, he didn't steal fire from Zeus. Unless it's a kind of bloodline curse thing, which, Zeus can be a real dick sometimes, so it's feasible, and Prometheus might not have had a kid before now... or has, and there's a bunch of half-titan frequently dying immortal undead people wandering the Earth... hmmm. *eyes Winchester bloodline*
-(...Aaaand another several very long weeks later, onward. Yeesh.)
-Yay! House-guests at the Bat-Cave! Sleepover at the super-secret impenetrable lair! BYOB!
-"Age seven marks one of the first Greek rites of manhood." Sam, busting out the Wiki of Weird, or at least the Wiki of Plot-related Cultural Minutiae.
-She's handling the whole "cursed by Zeus, hunting monsters" stuff rather well, although the impressive lair is probably helping sell it. Or not. There's only so much selling a lair can do, even if it's an awesome one.
-"So the usual way we handle this is we summon the bastard and we work him over until he undoes whatever it is he did." ...Zeus? Um. That might be a little above your challenge rating, guys.
-"And if he doesn't want to undo it?"/"Then we take him out." Sam's little eyebrow wiggle of 'oh yes we can' is somehow not terribly reassuring.
-"Sam and I are gonna go after Zeus." Why is that so funny? Why?
-Research and rotgut. Might not be the most sensible combo, but what the hell, if you're going after the Father of the overwhelming majority of the Greek pantheon, alcohol is not going to stand much of a chance of increasing the already incredibly high levels of inadvisable stupidity involved in this project.
-"Whatcha got?"/"Dragon penis." Bwahahah. I'm sure several of Dean's one night romantic conquests down through the years would be happy to vouch for that. Seriously though, given dragons in this show are generally humanoid, that's going to be a bit awkward to collect. But who knows, maybe the Bat-Cave has a store room full of spell components. It really should. Probably like Bilbo's larder for mystical hoohah in there.
-Oh Drakopoulus. Not dragon penis. Ancient Greek hunter with a journal translated by the Men of Letters. Cool cool cool.
-Dean: "*spills about the secret society* We're Legacies! *smirky eyebrow waggle*" And then Sam with his face. For a guy raised under the 'We do what we do and we shut up about it' Winchester law, Dean's quite chatty about the secret society business.
-"Wood from a tree struck by lightning." I suppose they already used the sand-struck-by-lightning, aka Fulgurite from when they were binding Death back at the start of Season 7. No reason why a spell component couldn't be used for more than one spell though.
-Bone from a worshipper. Hopefully one that's already deceased or recently had something amputated...
-Incidentally, where's Artemis got to while all this is going on?
-Sam and Prometheus are going to go dig up a grave? Heh. This is gonna end up with Sam standing in a partly dug grave next to 'dead-on-cue' Prometheus, trying to explain things to a security guard, isn't it? Along with another Artemis attack. Also, I don't know about taking extreme newbie Hayley out on a break and enter. Where's her son going to be? Waiting in the SUV? Or will they wait until he's managed to die again and leave him on his own in the lair? Which seems kind of wrong on a few levels.
-There's something very heart-warming (if uncappable) about Dean tossing the Impala keys to Sam.
-"The book calls for fulgurite." Um. Wait a minute. *reviews Wiki entry* "natural hollow glass tubes formed in quartzose sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes" so, earth and sand, not trees. Unless the tree is made of sand, and yeah SPN-verse has some different stuff than regular Earth, trees made of sand aren't likely. Unless the SPN-verse linguistic *handwave* meanings and stuff doesn't have the same restriction on meanings and trees count. Or it's a lightning strike on a petrified tree. Or something. *handwave*
-"You do know that fulgurite is available from crystal shops all over, right?" HA! Okay, the points for the retcon of the 'OMG finding fulgurite is so harrrrrrrd!' from Season 7 kind of balances out saying that a tree turns into crystal when hit by lightning. Go Hayley! XD
-"We need a bone, so I dig." Hee. Just like a puppy.
-*pauses to admire the framing and stuff*
-I'd just like to make a note here about the ironic appropriateness the method of summoning Zeus to lift Prometheus' curse involving a human setting something on fire. Because, you know, fire.
-Though really, that bowl thing should probably be inside the painted wards, shouldn't it? And again, what about Artemis?
-Of course Zeus is going to arrive with lightning. ... hey. Didn't Raphael have wings of lightning...? It'd be kind of weird, but what if Zeus is an Archangel? I mean look what the Show did with making Gabriel be Loki after all... Hmm...
-Tie Report - Greek Deity Edition: Solid grey. On a charcoal grey shirt. With a grey suit (with very subtle crosshatching). Not much of a job to be on anymore given the number of followers Zeus still has, but he is on what job he has, which is nice, but otherwise dark and opaque. Hope they don't end up killing him. Not sure how they would, that immortal-killing blade Artemis has, she still has... hm... I wonder how the Greek Pantheon is for upward mobility these days, and whether Artemis might be out trying to give herself a promotion.... Hope she shows up soon if that's the case, since Zeus just took a look at the painted wards and his face is now going "LOL, seriously?"
-"Break the trap dear man, and I'll break the curse." Hahahahaha. How about no.
-Ah crap. Yeah, she's gonna break the circle. Does she not understand the concept of bluffing? Or that they can leave him there and come back tomorrow and try again? Arg. *facepalm*
-Okay, that was kind of cool.
-OH HAI ARTEMIS. Was wondering when you'd show up, guess you're on guard duty.
-"Balls!" Aw, Dean using Bobby's favourite cuss word. Aw.
-Happy accidents. "Did he hurt?" Yeah, Zeus isn't the happy fluffy agreeable sort of deity. Discovering another avenue to get vengeance on the guy he's been getting vengeance on since the dawn of time or whenever is a bonus, not something to undo.
-"It's our god, the goddess of Hunters." And Sam attempts to fast talk Artemis into being on their side? This should be interesting.
-"She's who we pray to for courage when we're hunting the Gorgon, or the Minotaur." I'm just going to choke to death laughing for a while, while Dean's "...whut?" faces speak volumes.
-Yeah, there was only one direction that conversation was going. Into a wall.
-"Why did it take you seven years to track down Prometheus?" Pst, Sam. Seven years nine months. Ish.
-"He was hiding?" Really, Artemis? He's an amnesiac, and liver-pecking eagles didn't seem to have much difficulty homing in on his liver. Hm. This conversation might bear more fruit than a face full of wall for the Winchester boys after all.
-"He's in love with you, he told us." Dean's face is getting the best lines in this segment, I think.
-Ah, Sammy's working some deductive reasoning there, Artemis and Prometheus had a 'thing' and this explains the whole being forgotten business before.
-"Have you spilled it to anyone? Homer, Hesiod, Herodotous?" And once again, Dean's face gets the best lines.
-"It's sleepytime my dear boy." Oh crap.
-"This has to stop, Father." There's the frigging bow! That's more like it. Although from what little I know of archery, her stance is rather crap.
-Well crap. That didn't go so well.
-"Your boy is going on the mountain." *shudders* Eeeeeeeeek. O.o
-Whoooaaaaah! And a few extra badass points for Prometheus.
-Ah. Now I see the resemblance. Seems Prometheus had a thing for long-haired brunettes.
-Oh hahahahaha, clever set design. Sign in the background behind Dean, warning of an electrical danger, in the room they summoned Zeus to. Ha ha ha.
-You know, given his penchant for surviving death, I've give him a good 48 hours before you light his corpse up. And not just because having Prometheus owe you a colossal favour would be handy. He was kind of cool. Although, again, cremating Prometheus's corpse is quite ironic too.
-Aw, Sam and the kid. Aw.
-HI CAR! HI!!! I know I already said Hi this episode, but that was months ago! Damn, look at that suspension bounce! (Uncappably, dammit.)
-And it's time for night time 90 mph car chatting with the Winchester boys!
-Sam, honey, if you've been thinking you'll be fine at the end of the Trials, or that there won't be some major sacrifice of yourself or someone close to you at the end, you are definitely being naive. The random bleeding you've been doing should be a huge tip-off for one, not to mention the general pattern of your entire family's lives to date. Also, TELL YOUR BROTHER YOU'RE RANDOMLY BLEEDING.
-"If you die, it'll be because of something normal." Oh Dean. *headshake*
-"Heart attack?"/"Exactly. Yeah, eat your burger." *sneeeeerrrk*
-Can I just mention again some more how cool it is that the boys have a non-mobile base of operations? And their own rooms full of their own crap? Because it is.
-"Cas, you got your ears on?" Oh. Castiel was in a very bad way last we saw him. Also, I'm not sure if the Bat-Cave might not be a bit like a Faraday cage for direct celestial communications and teleports. Depends how deep the men of letters got into the whole mess up in Heaven over the centuries, I suppose. Still, we're due for further developments in the Castiel area, so.
-*Dean is Dean all over everything flailflailflail* "Keep an eye out for my little brother, okay?" and then the Family theme comes in on the soundtrack and just GAAAAAAAAH. *flail*
-"Where the hell are you, man?" YES. EXACTLY. BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO CASTIEL. UPDATE PLEASE.
Well that took far longer than expected. Hopefully catching up the rest won't take as long as this did, or I'll still be catching up on Season 8 in July 2014. :-P
(PLEASE, NO REFERENCES TO EPISODES PAST 8.16 IN COMMENTS! I'll be catching up as fast as I can, but that's not likely to be very fast. :-/)