On November 19th, I finally finished S10, having started it in early 2020. Today, I begin S11! I love this show more than any other show in the entire world. 11x01 was bananas. Sam having the world's quietest but most deafening existential crisis smack in the middle of a "rabid" apocalypse will forever be my favorite thing about this episode ( Read more... )

Last night I resumed my rewatch (yes, the same one, the rewatch I started the summer in between S9 and S10). The last time I made any earnest headway on this rewatch was winter 2019/20, the last time I was on the academic job market. And here I am, one ongoing pandemic later, back on the academic job market ( Read more... )

OhHHHhHHhhHHHH mYYYYYYY GoDAAFAHFAJFHAHHHHHHh Tonight I picked my rewatch back up (you know, the rewatch I started in literally summer 2014 and still haven't finished) and I LOVE. THIS SHOW. SO MUCH. SO MUCH!!!!!!!I left off with 10x17 "Inside Man," which I watched in a hotel room in Seattle the night before (or maybe after?) a job interview that ( Read more... )

1. In 9x06 "Heaven Can't Wait," Dean shows up at Castiel's Gas n' Sip and says he wants to buy beef jerky and menthols. I JUST FIND THIS SO ENDEARING because what in the world spurred that request? I mean, I don't think Dean thought about it at all; he just says things sometimes. But what unconscious chain of association led him to menthols?? It's ( Read more... )

I finished S9! Meaning that I have now officially completed the rewatch I began in 2014, in honor of the 200th episode. The problem being, of course, that in the years that have elapsed since that fateful summer, we now have 120 more episodes, and that's not even counting the one we'll get on January 16th (where did the hiatus even go????? I HAVEN' ( Read more... )

I keep thinking to myself, man, I need to practice writing things out clearly, with the intention that they be comprehensible to other human beings. Just because like, if I don't practice that, I won't be able to do it when I need to. Like when writing my dissertation, for instance.

BUT THIS POST IS NOT THAT PRACTICE.

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Episode reviews in miniature:

8x15: This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.
8x16: This is also the worst thing that has ever happened to me.
8x17: THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME.
8x18: NO, THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME ( Read more... )

Oh man. I hadn't watched 8x15 since it aired, and I knew my omission was on purpose, but ahahahahaha. It is so bad. The other night I was watching it and I just like, good lord, just let me go to sleep and end this nightmare. Good thing we have 937 other episodes to choose from ( Read more... )

...that only did Kansas put an actual Cold War bunker up for sale once, some random dude actually turned it into a mansion: So uh, that's a real thing Kansas doesAlso, in 8x13, Dean refers to the bunker's "shower room." I don't actually know what word Dean typically uses to refer to bathrooms, but I don't think it's that. And like, the bunker and I ( Read more... )

Man, someone remind me not to watch SPN while sitting in airport terminals. Once I was watching 6x10 for the first time and treated the little old lady next to me to a whole ton of tortureporn ( Read more... )