Supernatural~ SPOILERS
Okay, I watched the second half of the episode last week when it aired, but I rewatched today and I figure I'll just continue posting my thoughts on Wednesdays as I have been. Cool? Cool.
Screencaps from [summerskin.flight-of-fancy.net]
After the last episode, I'm so glad to see this one - I mean, it's not just the whole time travelling thing, though that is usually a great way to get my immediate attention, but all the development with Dean and his relationships.... I think this did a lot for the general direction of where the boys were heading, and for where Dean was heading. It makes more sense now, the way that he reacted to hearing Castiel say he wouldn't make it to dawn. I didn't catch exactly what he said to Sam when Sam told Dean that he was Lucifer's vessel, but yes. His reaction to Sam going 'oh, the devil's after me for his vessel' is pretty much the same as 'I'll likely be dead in the morning'. Closure for me, on that front!
All that talk about what Dean and Sam have between them - "love, family, whatever" that must have made Wincesters so fucking happy. XD But at the same time, d'aw. Dean. You're talking about feelings.
"I'll just...wait here, then." ..... On the side of the road somewhere? Creepy, Cas. Creepy. I wonder what he thinks about when he's standing there for four hours. Does he pray? Make plans? Eavesdrop on the locals out of curiosity? I wouldn't just stand there, I'd fly around or something. Go people watching. I dunno. Oh Cas.
Okay. I have to say it. DEAN STOP HITTING YOURSELF. This episode and the way that he interacts with himself... I dunno. He's being so honest, I guess, but it sort of feels like a look inside his skull, yes? I like to think so.
"Don't trust yourself?"
"No, absolutely not."
....did past!Dean seriously expect him to? And how badass is he, prying nails out of the freaking floorboards? I don't even know what to think about the whole pink underwear thing. Dean's always seemed like the sort to try anything once? I don't know what else to say to that one. Not a big deal to me.
Chuck. How fucking awesome is Chuck? I mean, seriously. Clearly, he's lost all the prophety perks here, which is more of a sign that God is gone than anything else. He speaks the Word of God, right? So in the present, doesn't this mean that God is still somehow around and present? I highly doubt that the Word is coming from the angels. Highly doubt that one. I'm hoping that Cas continues his search for God, because until Chuck stops getting messages from the Lord, I'm going to keep being convinced that He is still alive and kicking around somewhere.
I also love how Chuck is totally sure and aware of where Dean's been and what he's been up to. Force of habit, Chuck, knowing what the Winchesters are doing? Or maybe you're just keeping tabs on everything. ....I should recc something. Hold on.
Title: Artistic License
Author: entangled_now
Rating/Warnings: R, spoilers for SPN up to 5.1
Summary: In which Chuck gets very drunk, gives destiny the finger, and everything seems like a good idea at the time.
Link to fic: HERE
This was a beautiful hot mess of fic, with a perfect Chuck voice and a really fucking awesome story. Go read it. This is by the same author that wrote that pie!fic that I recced a little while ago. She's officially one of my favourite fanfic writers for SPN ♥
AND
Title: Tally
Author:
luchia13
Rating/Warnings: PG, spoilers up to 5.4
Summary: Chuck kept track of how things went wrong.
Link to fic: HERE
This is from a Chuck POV, angsty and tragically pretty. I just...oh man.
Back to the episode.
"...Fragments of total perception. Just one compartment in the dragonfly eye of group mind. the key to this total shared perception is...surprisingly sexual." Somehow I wonder if this isn't true, but future!Cas has twisted it into decadence whilst human. ....I doubt it, but it's nice to wonder.
Let's talk about future!Cas, now. I love this episode because it shows what the fuck will happen should he be abandoned by the angels (oh god) and at the same time, I just hurt every time Cas smiles or laughs. It's so bitter and hurt and hopeless, and oh my god, Cas, no. He's so broken and his transition to human must have been taken so badly, and Dean, you were there for it and you didn't do anything? Couldn't do anything? I don't know.
"Dean, I'm not an angel anymore. I think it has something to do with the angels leaving." and "Except I used to belong to a much better club."
"Fearless leader." and "Our fearless leader is all too schooled in the art of getting to the truth."
Cas has learned to use dry sarcasm for evil. :( I think every time Cas laughed or smiled without looking at someone I just starting going 'oh god, no, stop cas, stopstopstop'. I'm pretty sure that's what runs through Dean's head. Pretty fairly sure. Here's two cas!shots that make me wanna cry:
Everyone loves the look up at Dean, but I really just can't handle it. To balance out, here's shots of Cas that made me smile:
Misha's thighs and Thinky!Cas are my two new favourite things. :3 Even Reesa is staring at Misha!thighs.
Futuredean is so worse of a hardass, but what's good to see is that he's still got a sliver of kindness to him - kindness that he has to be even more steely and stealthy about showing. Giving the infected guy a beer before shooting him was a sort of kindness. Pouring two glasses, one for pastdean - that's a sort of kindness. Telling pastdean that Sam was killed in Detroit, even that was something of a kindness at the time, I like to think. It might have been cowardice, or it might have been Part of a Plan, but I think ultimately, it was a sort of kindness.
That whole futuredean begging pastdean to be different was fucking intense. Especially when he says that things aren't going to change anyway, because that's not who they are. When I watched this the first time, I almost fell for the 'Dean's learned Zach's lesson'. I think I was capslocking something along the lines of 'Dean, no. Dean. no no no no Dean don't do it" even though it would be interesting to see Michael come into play... "But I was wrong, Dean. I was wrong."
"You weren't with him?" and "We never tried to find him?"
So what - Dean thought that they'd still be able to call each other when it really counted? Or maybe Sammy just got that good at keeping away from him... :| I am so not even going to start thinking about what those five years must have been like for Sam. Sam in 5.4 nearly killed me and that was one scene in a hotel room, with the devil present. Wah, Sammy. .____.
"You mean you're going to feed your friends into a meat grinder? Cas too? Oh man, something is broken in you." and later, "It's one of the main reasons we're in this mess, actually."
Wait, what? Did he mean this about Sam? Or about Cas, who they were talking about moments before? ...probably about Sam. :/
Randomly:
I look at this and make the face futuredean is making. Cas, why the hell are you...perching? That doesn't seem an acceptable ready position....
Things that were interesting for fandom purposes:
- "I wish I could just strap on my wings, but, uh, no dice." Fighter pilot!Cas? I'd read it. Maybe I'll write it... Someone should have gotten that boy a helicopter for this apocalypse.
- The missionaries acting as spooks - neat! Nice improvising by the angels, I must say. Cas is thwarted again!
- CHUCK I FUCKING LOVE YOU. It needs to be said more.
- "I like you Dean. I get what the other angels see in you."
- "Oh man, something is broken in you."
The scene with Lucy and Dean was pretty...pretty wow. SINGLE. MANLY. TEAR. Oh Jensen. Seriously, whoever's writing Lucifer's dialogue is a fucking genius. (Why does spellchecker not accept 'dialogue' as a word? Weird.) "Look what six million have done to this [earth], and how many of you blame me for it?" I want to quote pretty much everything that he said. It was pretty wonderful. The scene with Zachariah was pretty amazing too, at the end there. "You're the only one who can prove the devil wrong." AHAHA, yes, we already knew that, thank you. Dean Winchester can prove the devil wrong. That has to be a crackfic somewhere...
"Give yourself to Michael. Say yes and we can strike. Before lucifer gets to Sam. Before bilions die." Oh Jensen, the beautiful faces you make. Right here, I was so fucking worried he was going to say yes to Zach. Then he took that breath and said, 'Nah'. Dean. Oh Dean.
Smug!Cas was so fucking smug. Love it. AND I TOTALLY CALLED THE 'DONT EVER CHANGE'. Well, I didn't really call it, persay, but I expressed much of the same desire after the previous episode, if you've forgotten. ;p
Sam and Dean should have hugged. But they didn't and I'm wondering if it's because Dean just saw the devil wearing Sam to prom. Or because they might have collectively Manly Teared. Or if it's because Sam thought Dean might knife him if he tried. I don't know. But it needs to happen soon.
"I just know we're all we got. More than that, we keep each other human."
"Thank you. Really. Thank you. I won't let you down."
I can't believe Sam said that. T___T Or that Dean thinks what he became in 2014 was less than human. Oh boys. You're not quite SamnDean and you probably won't be again, but at least you're Sam-and-Dean(-and-Cas) now. For the first time in a long time, they felt really big-brother-little-brother and I think it's mostly the 'I won't let you down' that did it for me.
Random things to top off:
+ Jackson county sanitarium- have the boys gone there for a haunt before? Sounds familiar.
+ Lucifer loved too much. That will never get old for me.
+ Cas's expression when Dean tells them they're going in the front. God. He knew they were diversions.
+ Cas loading that handgun was fucking sexy for absolutely no reason. And proof that he's not completely shit at everything (as he like to think).
+ I prefer Mark as Lucifer. :/ Sorry, Jared.
+ Totally called Sammy in White AND "Don't ever change." HA.
+ "We will always end up...here." - SIGNIFICANT? It smells like foreshadowing.
+ Why was there no preview this week? D:
"Woa, strange. You are not you, not now you anyway."
"No."
"What year are you from?"
"2009."
"Woa, interesting."
Favourite part ♥ I love fast dialogue exchanges like this. And Cas knowing, and Cas giving Dean a once over like he could see how he was from the past. Oh man. There was more dialogue, but it was too quick for me to type out.
Screencaps from [summerskin.flight-of-fancy.net]
After the last episode, I'm so glad to see this one - I mean, it's not just the whole time travelling thing, though that is usually a great way to get my immediate attention, but all the development with Dean and his relationships.... I think this did a lot for the general direction of where the boys were heading, and for where Dean was heading. It makes more sense now, the way that he reacted to hearing Castiel say he wouldn't make it to dawn. I didn't catch exactly what he said to Sam when Sam told Dean that he was Lucifer's vessel, but yes. His reaction to Sam going 'oh, the devil's after me for his vessel' is pretty much the same as 'I'll likely be dead in the morning'. Closure for me, on that front!
All that talk about what Dean and Sam have between them - "love, family, whatever" that must have made Wincesters so fucking happy. XD But at the same time, d'aw. Dean. You're talking about feelings.
"I'll just...wait here, then." ..... On the side of the road somewhere? Creepy, Cas. Creepy. I wonder what he thinks about when he's standing there for four hours. Does he pray? Make plans? Eavesdrop on the locals out of curiosity? I wouldn't just stand there, I'd fly around or something. Go people watching. I dunno. Oh Cas.
Okay. I have to say it. DEAN STOP HITTING YOURSELF. This episode and the way that he interacts with himself... I dunno. He's being so honest, I guess, but it sort of feels like a look inside his skull, yes? I like to think so.
"Don't trust yourself?"
"No, absolutely not."
....did past!Dean seriously expect him to? And how badass is he, prying nails out of the freaking floorboards? I don't even know what to think about the whole pink underwear thing. Dean's always seemed like the sort to try anything once? I don't know what else to say to that one. Not a big deal to me.
Chuck. How fucking awesome is Chuck? I mean, seriously. Clearly, he's lost all the prophety perks here, which is more of a sign that God is gone than anything else. He speaks the Word of God, right? So in the present, doesn't this mean that God is still somehow around and present? I highly doubt that the Word is coming from the angels. Highly doubt that one. I'm hoping that Cas continues his search for God, because until Chuck stops getting messages from the Lord, I'm going to keep being convinced that He is still alive and kicking around somewhere.
I also love how Chuck is totally sure and aware of where Dean's been and what he's been up to. Force of habit, Chuck, knowing what the Winchesters are doing? Or maybe you're just keeping tabs on everything. ....I should recc something. Hold on.
Title: Artistic License
Author: entangled_now
Rating/Warnings: R, spoilers for SPN up to 5.1
Summary: In which Chuck gets very drunk, gives destiny the finger, and everything seems like a good idea at the time.
Link to fic: HERE
This was a beautiful hot mess of fic, with a perfect Chuck voice and a really fucking awesome story. Go read it. This is by the same author that wrote that pie!fic that I recced a little while ago. She's officially one of my favourite fanfic writers for SPN ♥
AND
Title: Tally
Author:
luchia13
Rating/Warnings: PG, spoilers up to 5.4
Summary: Chuck kept track of how things went wrong.
Link to fic: HERE
This is from a Chuck POV, angsty and tragically pretty. I just...oh man.
Back to the episode.
"...Fragments of total perception. Just one compartment in the dragonfly eye of group mind. the key to this total shared perception is...surprisingly sexual." Somehow I wonder if this isn't true, but future!Cas has twisted it into decadence whilst human. ....I doubt it, but it's nice to wonder.
Let's talk about future!Cas, now. I love this episode because it shows what the fuck will happen should he be abandoned by the angels (oh god) and at the same time, I just hurt every time Cas smiles or laughs. It's so bitter and hurt and hopeless, and oh my god, Cas, no. He's so broken and his transition to human must have been taken so badly, and Dean, you were there for it and you didn't do anything? Couldn't do anything? I don't know.
"Dean, I'm not an angel anymore. I think it has something to do with the angels leaving." and "Except I used to belong to a much better club."
"Fearless leader." and "Our fearless leader is all too schooled in the art of getting to the truth."
Cas has learned to use dry sarcasm for evil. :( I think every time Cas laughed or smiled without looking at someone I just starting going 'oh god, no, stop cas, stopstopstop'. I'm pretty sure that's what runs through Dean's head. Pretty fairly sure. Here's two cas!shots that make me wanna cry:
Everyone loves the look up at Dean, but I really just can't handle it. To balance out, here's shots of Cas that made me smile:
Misha's thighs and Thinky!Cas are my two new favourite things. :3 Even Reesa is staring at Misha!thighs.
Futuredean is so worse of a hardass, but what's good to see is that he's still got a sliver of kindness to him - kindness that he has to be even more steely and stealthy about showing. Giving the infected guy a beer before shooting him was a sort of kindness. Pouring two glasses, one for pastdean - that's a sort of kindness. Telling pastdean that Sam was killed in Detroit, even that was something of a kindness at the time, I like to think. It might have been cowardice, or it might have been Part of a Plan, but I think ultimately, it was a sort of kindness.
That whole futuredean begging pastdean to be different was fucking intense. Especially when he says that things aren't going to change anyway, because that's not who they are. When I watched this the first time, I almost fell for the 'Dean's learned Zach's lesson'. I think I was capslocking something along the lines of 'Dean, no. Dean. no no no no Dean don't do it" even though it would be interesting to see Michael come into play... "But I was wrong, Dean. I was wrong."
"You weren't with him?" and "We never tried to find him?"
So what - Dean thought that they'd still be able to call each other when it really counted? Or maybe Sammy just got that good at keeping away from him... :| I am so not even going to start thinking about what those five years must have been like for Sam. Sam in 5.4 nearly killed me and that was one scene in a hotel room, with the devil present. Wah, Sammy. .____.
"You mean you're going to feed your friends into a meat grinder? Cas too? Oh man, something is broken in you." and later, "It's one of the main reasons we're in this mess, actually."
Wait, what? Did he mean this about Sam? Or about Cas, who they were talking about moments before? ...probably about Sam. :/
Randomly:
I look at this and make the face futuredean is making. Cas, why the hell are you...perching? That doesn't seem an acceptable ready position....
Things that were interesting for fandom purposes:
- "I wish I could just strap on my wings, but, uh, no dice." Fighter pilot!Cas? I'd read it. Maybe I'll write it... Someone should have gotten that boy a helicopter for this apocalypse.
- The missionaries acting as spooks - neat! Nice improvising by the angels, I must say. Cas is thwarted again!
- CHUCK I FUCKING LOVE YOU. It needs to be said more.
- "I like you Dean. I get what the other angels see in you."
- "Oh man, something is broken in you."
The scene with Lucy and Dean was pretty...pretty wow. SINGLE. MANLY. TEAR. Oh Jensen. Seriously, whoever's writing Lucifer's dialogue is a fucking genius. (Why does spellchecker not accept 'dialogue' as a word? Weird.) "Look what six million have done to this [earth], and how many of you blame me for it?" I want to quote pretty much everything that he said. It was pretty wonderful. The scene with Zachariah was pretty amazing too, at the end there. "You're the only one who can prove the devil wrong." AHAHA, yes, we already knew that, thank you. Dean Winchester can prove the devil wrong. That has to be a crackfic somewhere...
"Give yourself to Michael. Say yes and we can strike. Before lucifer gets to Sam. Before bilions die." Oh Jensen, the beautiful faces you make. Right here, I was so fucking worried he was going to say yes to Zach. Then he took that breath and said, 'Nah'. Dean. Oh Dean.
Smug!Cas was so fucking smug. Love it. AND I TOTALLY CALLED THE 'DONT EVER CHANGE'. Well, I didn't really call it, persay, but I expressed much of the same desire after the previous episode, if you've forgotten. ;p
Sam and Dean should have hugged. But they didn't and I'm wondering if it's because Dean just saw the devil wearing Sam to prom. Or because they might have collectively Manly Teared. Or if it's because Sam thought Dean might knife him if he tried. I don't know. But it needs to happen soon.
"I just know we're all we got. More than that, we keep each other human."
"Thank you. Really. Thank you. I won't let you down."
I can't believe Sam said that. T___T Or that Dean thinks what he became in 2014 was less than human. Oh boys. You're not quite SamnDean and you probably won't be again, but at least you're Sam-and-Dean(-and-Cas) now. For the first time in a long time, they felt really big-brother-little-brother and I think it's mostly the 'I won't let you down' that did it for me.
Random things to top off:
+ Jackson county sanitarium- have the boys gone there for a haunt before? Sounds familiar.
+ Lucifer loved too much. That will never get old for me.
+ Cas's expression when Dean tells them they're going in the front. God. He knew they were diversions.
+ Cas loading that handgun was fucking sexy for absolutely no reason. And proof that he's not completely shit at everything (as he like to think).
+ I prefer Mark as Lucifer. :/ Sorry, Jared.
+ Totally called Sammy in White AND "Don't ever change." HA.
+ "We will always end up...here." - SIGNIFICANT? It smells like foreshadowing.
+ Why was there no preview this week? D:
"Woa, strange. You are not you, not now you anyway."
"No."
"What year are you from?"
"2009."
"Woa, interesting."
Favourite part ♥ I love fast dialogue exchanges like this. And Cas knowing, and Cas giving Dean a once over like he could see how he was from the past. Oh man. There was more dialogue, but it was too quick for me to type out.