Throwback Thursday: Dean H/C Highlights from 5x20 "The Devil You Know"
Hey everyone: Welcome to Episode 1 of Throwback Thursday at hoodie_time, giving you the greatest in Dean H/C since… late September 2013! Here at Throwback Thursdays, we post a few clips of Dean H/C from a random episode, with commentary, in the hopes of re-living all of Dean H/C greatest hits*, stimulating discussion, the posting of related gifs, moans of ecstasy, really anything else this inspires for you.
Our first throwback is to 5x20 "The Devil You Know," written by Ben Edlund and directed by Robert Singer. If you can remember what this episode was about at all (I didn't), Dean H/C probably isn't the first thing to come to mind. It's not exactly "On the Head of a Pin."
Oh, but how wrong you are!
Please, join me in a clip show of good old fashioned demon vs. Dean beatdowns, Hellhound panic, post-demonic beatdown chair sitting, and a bonus clip of Dean trapped in a seriously suspect bathroom, because why not.
* Not in the "wow, this is such a classic Dean H/C moment" but in the "ouch, that must have hurt" sense of 'hit.' Uhhh yeah. XD
01. What I want is retribution. And I'm gonna rip it RIGHT OUT OF YOUR ASS.
This is extremely straightforward hurt!Dean. Highlights include: great preemptive facial expressions, Dean on the floor, abdominal bruising, blood/head wounds, Dean propping himself up against elevator doors, and shakily getting up off the floor.
I feel like standard procedure for "escaping murder in the penthouse" would be the same as "escaping fire in the penthouse," i.e. use the stairs, so the whole elevator deal is intriguing to me. The elevator is faster and easier, and probably closer, but if Silence of the Lambs taught me anything, they are also a Bad Idea. Of course, being thrown down several flights of stairs by demon!Brady probably isn't much healthier than being trapped in an elevator with him, so maybe "In case of emergency, use stairs" doesn't apply.
Cinematically, Dean stumbling around a dark, enclosed space with reflective walls was pretty cool, though.
02. Okay, remember when I made brief mention of the chair scene I liked so much? This is that scene. It's totally innocuous, don't get me wrong, but that's just the way I like it. Dean's just chillin' in this random chair, but his posture is so remarkably un-chill. Like, what part of that looks comfortable at all? When you take into account what Brady just did, you can imagine that now that the adrenaline's worn off and his body's cooled down, that must hurt like a bitch. Also, I just like the way his eyes snap up to Crowley; he was definitely lost in thought, but what about? Not that there's a dearth of likely suspects at this point. :P
03. Gross bathroom. Dean splashing water on his face. It's one of those things that Dean does randomly often (relative to anyone else in the show), and I'm particularly endeared to it. Awww, sleep deprived!stressed!Dean. <3
04. So Dean's only been back from Hell for two years, and these things dragged him under. And the last time they came around, Jo died. I love the hound!POV cinematography, and the general destruction of the set here, but Dean's terror comes through really well here, too. I mean, LOOK at those expressions.
And to find out that the prospective king of hell has a leash on the things that killed him--the intense vulnerability of that, that power dynamic--there's power in that. Not to mention the emotional manipulation of not, you know, letting Dean know this beforehand. Because without that key bit of knowledge, being trapped in a house with a hellhound only ends one way.
Also, If you're not feeling the Dean H/C, the clip where Dean vs. Hellhounds clip begins with an extremely bad-but-nonetheless-hilarious zoom in to a box of salt. And questionable camerawork is always fun. XD
Nostalgia? Ecstasy? LOLs? Inspiration? Tell the world! Go wild.
* For future Throwback Thursdays, I am currently taking moment/episode requests, because my selection of 5x20 was completely arbitrary. What throwback do YOU want to see on hoodie_time? Feel free to PM me at kalliel or e-mail me at ryuusenka @ gmail.com.
Our first throwback is to 5x20 "The Devil You Know," written by Ben Edlund and directed by Robert Singer. If you can remember what this episode was about at all (I didn't), Dean H/C probably isn't the first thing to come to mind. It's not exactly "On the Head of a Pin."
Oh, but how wrong you are!
Please, join me in a clip show of good old fashioned demon vs. Dean beatdowns, Hellhound panic, post-demonic beatdown chair sitting, and a bonus clip of Dean trapped in a seriously suspect bathroom, because why not.
* Not in the "wow, this is such a classic Dean H/C moment" but in the "ouch, that must have hurt" sense of 'hit.' Uhhh yeah. XD
01. What I want is retribution. And I'm gonna rip it RIGHT OUT OF YOUR ASS.
Click to viewThis is extremely straightforward hurt!Dean. Highlights include: great preemptive facial expressions, Dean on the floor, abdominal bruising, blood/head wounds, Dean propping himself up against elevator doors, and shakily getting up off the floor.
I feel like standard procedure for "escaping murder in the penthouse" would be the same as "escaping fire in the penthouse," i.e. use the stairs, so the whole elevator deal is intriguing to me. The elevator is faster and easier, and probably closer, but if Silence of the Lambs taught me anything, they are also a Bad Idea. Of course, being thrown down several flights of stairs by demon!Brady probably isn't much healthier than being trapped in an elevator with him, so maybe "In case of emergency, use stairs" doesn't apply.
Cinematically, Dean stumbling around a dark, enclosed space with reflective walls was pretty cool, though.
02. Okay, remember when I made brief mention of the chair scene I liked so much? This is that scene. It's totally innocuous, don't get me wrong, but that's just the way I like it. Dean's just chillin' in this random chair, but his posture is so remarkably un-chill. Like, what part of that looks comfortable at all? When you take into account what Brady just did, you can imagine that now that the adrenaline's worn off and his body's cooled down, that must hurt like a bitch. Also, I just like the way his eyes snap up to Crowley; he was definitely lost in thought, but what about? Not that there's a dearth of likely suspects at this point. :P
03. Gross bathroom. Dean splashing water on his face. It's one of those things that Dean does randomly often (relative to anyone else in the show), and I'm particularly endeared to it. Awww, sleep deprived!stressed!Dean. <3
04. So Dean's only been back from Hell for two years, and these things dragged him under. And the last time they came around, Jo died. I love the hound!POV cinematography, and the general destruction of the set here, but Dean's terror comes through really well here, too. I mean, LOOK at those expressions.
And to find out that the prospective king of hell has a leash on the things that killed him--the intense vulnerability of that, that power dynamic--there's power in that. Not to mention the emotional manipulation of not, you know, letting Dean know this beforehand. Because without that key bit of knowledge, being trapped in a house with a hellhound only ends one way.
Also, If you're not feeling the Dean H/C, the clip where Dean vs. Hellhounds clip begins with an extremely bad-but-nonetheless-hilarious zoom in to a box of salt. And questionable camerawork is always fun. XD
Nostalgia? Ecstasy? LOLs? Inspiration? Tell the world! Go wild.
* For future Throwback Thursdays, I am currently taking moment/episode requests, because my selection of 5x20 was completely arbitrary. What throwback do YOU want to see on hoodie_time? Feel free to PM me at kalliel or e-mail me at ryuusenka @ gmail.com.