Supernatural 5.13 Review
So, once upon a time there was a girl named Kelly. And she loved watching Supernatural. She was a Samgirl, but she loved Dean too no matter how much Andi might doubt that sometimes. One day, Supernatural had an episode called In the Beginning and then there was Mary and her love for every other character that had ever be on this show, and, indeed, most shows, were blown out of the water by her love for Mary.
And the Queen Sera Gamble said, “Kelly is the only one who ever actually likes my episodes. Also, she wants to have phone sex with me. I should reward her with an episode that is just everything Kelly likes. And add really weird allusions to fic Kelly has written." And she did. And that is this episode.
I like how Dean dreams about strippers because he’s clearly too busy being monogamous with his brother in real life that he only gets girls in his dreams. Also, notice that the stripper angel has curly blonde hair because even Dean’s DREAMS have mommy issues.
And then random Anna! Hi, Anna! I liked you a lot. Welcome back. :D
I’ve always loved the chemistry that Jensen and Julie have. Jensen has always had more chemistry with men (and Amy because Amy is perfection), but they have such a nice rapport in all of their scenes and I can feel their connection.
Anna, Castiel doesn’t tell anyone anything. There are times when I think Castiel forgets how to speak. It’s because he left his helmet back in Heaven. You know, Sera is one of the few writers that doesn’t…deify Castiel, no pun intended, and I like that she’s calling attention to his “war crimes” so to speak. I hope they’ll be addressed later too.
I like how Anna compares the prison in Heaven basically to hell because, really, why would it be all that different? Lucifer was an angel, so if he’s going around making hell, he’s probably going to write what he knows and all that. I think it’s an interesting dynamic between what Anna knows she has to do for the world-because Anna’s lived in the world, she likes it a lot, okay? There’s chocolate cake, which I am eating right now-and perhaps what they may have brainwashed her to do upstairs and if any of the psychological trauma she may have experienced is what really pushed her over the edge.
Castiel’s such a little douchebag. And an attention whore too, always has to make a huge entrance. He’s like one of those Jersey Shore people or something. “LOOK, I’M HERE. LOOK! LOOK AT ME!!”
You know, I totally ship Anna/Castiel as much as I can ship Castiel with anyone that’s not a fire to die in or Ruth the chicken. They just have so much history and I’m a little sad that that wasn’t explored more. Though I do wonder why Castiel would assume that Zack and them all would just let Anna out if she was going to KILL THEIR MICHAEL VESSEL. They’re smarter than you are, Castiel.
Also, Anna is particularly badass her. I like it.
Is it just me, or do the angel killing blades look different this time? I thought they were more…3-D last time? Not thin. There’s a word for it, but I can’t remember.
I think Anna just wants Sam to die because she didn’t get to break herself off a piece of that… Also, now she gets no more Dean and I’m sure that makes her a sad panda.
My friends and I all wanted something about the horsemen and their day jobs. It would be awesome.
Never find all of him? That’s…that’s dedication, Anna. Of course, there is a lot of Sam to find…
When Castiel said Sam was his friend, I was like, “NO HE ISN’T.” Of course, my friends reminded me that Castiel is an angel and doesn’t actually know what friendship is. And he probably thinks that the guy who sold him the cell phone is his friend just because he talked to him. Hell, he probably tries to have conversations with the voice who tells him he’s almost out of minutes.
Ah, Castiel and his empty threats. I’m pretty sure he couldn’t kill Bowser in the first level. With cheats.
GREASE! That’s one of my favorite movies. I’ve seen it like a billion times. <3 <3 <3
I kind of like that Sera is trying to ride a line between hard ass angel and the totally oblivious Castiel that everyone else writes by making him Dr. Brennan. Castiel is totally Bones in this episode. “I don’t know what that means.”
Awww, poor martyr Sammy willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. :( Like Dean would even allow that.
Whatever Castiel’s chanting was, it sounds like a cross between Egyptian and Spanish. Like he should be making me a pina colada or something.
Stubborn!Dean stubbornly wants to go see his stubborn parents. AND I AGREE WITH THIS WHOLEHEARTEDLY TAKE ME TO MARY. I love how Dean’s everything is all SAVE PARENTS. SAVE MOM. WHO FUCKING CARES ABOUT CASTIEL, I NEED MY PARENTS. Oh, Dean, this is my favorite you. <3
Oh, look, it even rains in Vancouver in 1978! Who knew?
BLEEDING!CASTIEL! DYING!CASTIEL! SEE, SERA DOES LOVE ME. THIS IS EVERYTHING KELLY LOVES!
Dean totally bought some dope, you guys. You know he did.
Sam’s little “OMG FOLKS!” face. YOU GUYS, SAM HAS NEVER REALLY SEEN MARY. HE’S NEVER SPENT ANY TIME WITH HER. I HAVE SPENT MORE TIME WITH MARY THAN SAM HAS.
I love that Sam is out of the car before Dean even has a chance to turn it off, just powering ahead to see his mommy. Oh, Sam. <3 He doesn’t even care what the reasons are, he just wants to see her. Which was basically my feelings about this episode as well.
MARY. YOU GUYS, IT’S MARY. IT’S MY FAVORITEST EVER AND GOD SHE IS SO PRETTY. DO YOU SEE HOW PRETTY SHE IS?! AND SHE’S A LITTLE WIFE SETTING THE TABLE AND BEING BOSSY AND JOHN LOVES IT AND I THINK I’M STARTING TO CRY ALREADY. THEY ARE SO CUTE TOGETHER, IT BREAKS MY HEART.
Amy is so amazingly good, you guys. You can just see that she stares at them and it’s like her world is falling apart just from them being there and oh, Mary. <3
OMG SAM’S “IT’S MY MOMMY!” FACE. OMG. OMG. HE’S JUST LOOKING AT HER LIKE HE’S NEVER SEEN SOMETHING SO AMAZING AND OMG. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME HE’S ACTUALLY BEEN AROUND HIS MOMMY WHEN SHE WASN’T A DREAM OR A GHOST.
I love how PROUD she is that she has a normal life, like it makes her better now. Because that is the Winchester self-loathing that we know and love.
Even Sam can’t believe that his dad used to be so fucking hot! And he’s happy and smiling and kind.
I kind of like how John doesn’t remember Dean because Dean may have sold him the Impala, but John doesn’t remember that because the Impala really didn’t ever mean anything that much to him. I mean, it’s a cool car and it does what it’s supposed to and it’s obviously held up well over the years, but to Dean that car is right after Sammy on the list of EVERYTHING HIS LIFE IS ABOUT. And I think it’s such a contrast between the two characters that Dean loves his baby and felt like it was something when John gave it to him, but to John it was just giving his son a car while he got a new one. Which is sad for Dean too because it wasn’t some sort of…introduction into manhood that he probably hoped it was.
Sammy’s daddy issues! Not as big as Dean’s mommy issues, but still relatively huge! I mean, this is a John that Sam never got to see, one that was married, and in love with a beautiful wife and not a douchebag.
I love love love that this John is such a kind person. In ITB, he totally makes sure Dean is okay and looks out for him, and now he’s concerned about Sam just because Sam is kind of staring at them like he’s never been happy before a day in his life. He’s so caring. And it’s just…like, there was probably more open concern for the boys here than he ever had when they were growing up.
And John is so excited for Mary’s family! In the John’s journal companion, Mary has an uncle named Jacob who is a hunter (and who I have gladly accepted into my Mary canon), but he probably has never met any of her other family, if she HAS other family. Also, it seems like John really doesn’t have any family, so he’s just…excited about the prospect of having relatives around, people that you share things with. John. <3
Sam staring at Mary. Oh, it breaks my heart. The first time I watched the ep, I was crying too hard that I didn’t hear him say that she is so beautiful. BUT SHE IS. SHE IS AND SAM KNOWS IT AND GOD I WANT TO WRITE PORN. I LOVE HOW MUCH HE’S OPENLY LOVING HER AND IT BREAKS MY HEART THE WAY SHE’S LOOKING AT HIM BECAUSE IT MUST BE BREAKING HIS HEART.
I like how quick Dean is like NON-WEIRD WHOLESOME FAMILY WAY. NOT LIKE SLEEPING WITH YOUR BROTHER AT ALL. OR DATING WOMEN THAT LOOK JUST LIKE MY MOM, NO SIR. Oh, Dean.
I kind of feel like John really likes an excuse to talk about Mary’s family because she probably never does. And he doesn’t want to bring it up like, “Honey, I’m really sad that your father died right in front of us, do you wanna talk about it?” because who does that? But he probably feels pretty useless that he can’t help her or be there for her and now he gets that chance.
And Mary just stares at Dean like it’s his fault, which it isn’t of course, but I’m sure she can’t help but associate it with him. Oh, darling Mary.
Scrap metal plumbing! It’s the new big thing. :D
John is just so eager to feel connected to Mary’s family, which I’m assuming he sees as just another way to be connected to Mary. They’ve probably known each other for a while (at least high school, I’d wager), but he doesn’t really KNOW anything about her past or her childhood or where she comes from and that must be really hard for him, especially with all of her family dead, like that’s part of her life that he’ll never get to be part of.
Mary is totally looking at the boys like they were just playing ball in the house and broke a window. She’s so their mommy. <3
But then she softens as soon as she thinks John might be in danger. *happy sigh*
I love Sam is just like IT’S AN ANGEL and Dean’s like SAM. But Sam’s totally focused on TALKING TO HIS MOMMY. WHO IS THERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. AND WHO MIGHT BE KILLED. I WAS THE ONE WHO KILLED HER, NOW I HAVE TO SAVE HER.
Originally I was like, “Mary doesn’t know about angels? THIS BREAKS ALL OF MY CANON.” But then they fixed it in the end and now it makes sense because, ya know, hunter. And apparently, most hunters don’t believe in angels.
And Mary TRUSTS HIM. I just…I want to think that she sees something in him that makes her feel safe when she’s with him, and knows that he’ll protect her because that’s all Dean ever wants to do is protect the people he cares about. And maybe she doesn’t know that he’s her son but she knows something.
It feels…odd that John would just leave? Like, I imagine that he was really worried about losing his job and he might even waved goodbye on his way out, but it’s a little…weird.
Though I think it’s interesting in like…five years, John will be at a place where he owns his own garage, or at least co-owns it. I wonder if that has anything to do with his boss, like, being dead and stuff. Plus, it continues the theory that John has no family because if he’s a mechanic from a family of mechanics, you’d think he’d have better job security.
ANNA, PLEASE DON’T HURT PRETTY JOHN. I think it’s interesting that she clearly doesn’t want to kill them because as sick as she’s feeling, she could have just ended them right away. It feels like she’s giving them a chance to get away.
Unf, badass hot John. UNF.
GOD, MARY. JUST. GOD. DID YOU SEE HER. DID YOU SEE HOW BADASS SHE IS? NO. HERE, LOOK.
THAT IS THE BADDASSIEST BADASS TO EVER BADASS. OMG.
I love the way this episode was shot. I just…I don’t really talk about those things because I have no idea what I’m saying, but I do. And I feel like there’s more Mary here than last time, which is a good thing, even if she didn’t come in until 10 minutes in.
Also, I’m not sure if they’re just using different filters or lighting, but Amy looks a lot paler this time. I don’t know anything about that stuff, but I know a lot about HER. Her skin is whiter and so is her hair and I’m wondering if they did that on purpose.
ANNA, I LOVE YOU, BUT WE DO NOT THROW THE WIFE INTO WINDSHEILDS. THIS IS NOT ALLOWED.
SHE WOULD TOTALLY STAB HER WITH A CROWBAR AND THEN STAND AROUND LOOKING PERFECT. MAAARY. LOOK AT HER HAIIIR.
Julie must have loved filming this. She says she loves playing badass and that’s basically what Anna was in this entire episode. A++.
I love the added tough of the blood sigil and how it burned into the door. Like, I don’t remember it ever doing that before and I don’t know if the director just threw that in because he could or if that’s supposed to mean something.
Oh, John. :( Staring at Mary like he’s never seen her before, like he doesn’t know WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO HIS LIFE. And Mary looks like her world just ended. :( :( :(
Hee, Mary’s freaking out and Sam’s just like, “Yep, we fight monsters. Now, moving on…”
Her saying that she’s been doing it all her life is really interesting though because I think it’s evidence to the fact that…the Campbells didn’t just fall into this lifestyle, but that they’ve been doing it possibly for generations, which must have made it that much harder for Mary to leave it all behind, that she was just ending her family legacy.
Daddy!John! Oh, John! <3 I kind of really wanted the boys to say, “yes, sir.”
MOAR AWKWARD FAMILY ROAD TRIPS, SHOW. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
For the record? The Campbells knew about the devil’s traps for years back in the 70s. THE BOYS DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THEM UNTIL THE END OF SEASON ONE. John, you are A LOUSY HUNTER.
Gosh, Amy is so much shorter than Jared. IT IS ADORABLE.
Hee, “beam her right off the starship”! Sera always says that she basically made Dean a trekkie because she always puts those kind of jokes in, but in ITB John made a Star Trek joke too. Like father like son.
Sam is all “I’M SHOWING MY MOMMY HOW THINGS WORK. AND KISSING HER OFF CAMERA.” No, seriously, that totally happened.
I love how John just wants to protect his wife. He’s such a…step up to the plate kind of guy here and I love him for it. I think that as much as Dean knows that one day this will be his father, he still sees him as…naïve civilian. And John probably wasn’t in Vietnam very long, but he was in a war before this war and I’m not sure if Dean really understood that.
Oh, gosh, John getting angry at his future self without even knowing it. THIS IS AMAZING. And it makes SO MUCH SENSE for this John who is clearly very much about family and safety and a nice life with his wife and future children. It feels like John to get angry about that on behalf of Sam. And I love that he thinks it’s being an irresponsible bastard BECAUSE I HAVE SAID THOSE WORDS A LOT. And it just…this is how he reacts to this idea, this is how he sees it at this point in his life. It says so much about how losing Mary just ENDED HIM. ENDED EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM. And how without her he just became a completely different person who didn’t care about being an irresponsible bastard and putting his kids in a position like that because it was all about Mary. Oh, young!John. *hugs him forever* Never grow up.
And that extra line about how their dad was supposed to protect them. *sigh* I just…I feel like that’s something John would have told himself he was doing and maybe to a certain extent he was, but it was a selfish life.
If there’s anything I wasn’t really feeling about this episode, it’s this speech from Sam. Maybe it’s because I can’t forgive John (or that I’ve been writing so much girl!Sam and she’ll never forgive John), but I can’t…see Sam really coming to this place? Not yet, not while…so much shit is going on. Except I guess I could reason that this is how Sam does dying?
I mean, one of the key differences between the boys is that Sam embraces anger while Dean buries it most of the time, and when Dean was dying back in season three, his breaking point was about him embracing his anger at his dad and his life. And I think that Sam pretty much knows at this point that he has to die, he’s ready to die or at least getting ready and feels like he can’t hold on to anger that will never be resolved so he’s trying to just…accept things. And the acceptance I can understand, it’s the extra steps of forgiving that doesn’t sit with me as well. Though Sam has always…identified with John at lot, at least since the end of season one and I wonder if he’s trying to attribute his own personal feelings about the shit that’s going on with him to John so that he can feel better about how John raised him, kind of like people who excuse their abusers for their own personal mental health (not that John abused them, at least not physically).
I do like that Sam just keeps saying how beautiful and amazing his mom is. Cuz it’s totally rue.
I also feel like Sam is rationalizing a lot because he’s seeing John and John’s being SO DAMN NICE to him that he feels like he needs to apologize for always…being the way he was with his dad? Like, he can see what his dad will become and he’s sorry because he feels like that’s his fault too and he wants to excuse John’s behavior and tell him that he understands while he still can.
Also, Jared Padalecki is fucking knocking it out of the park in this episode.
Now, I never liked Uriel (sorry, Heather!), but I liked him in this episode. I thought he was kind of…good looking too, which is surprising to me. And I don’t know if this is supposed to be young!vessel Uriel or if Uriel just has a type or if the vessel is in the same family, but I like the actor.
Speaking of which, considering vessels do run in the family, I would love a story about a family that KNOWS that their family is made to be the vessels for angels and that’s how they live their life. Like, just knowing that one day, one or more of them will be chosen and stuff like that. I think that could be amazing.
Anna is kind of a little psychopath in this scene and I LOVE it. I think this character progression is so interesting and I’m just wondering what they possibly did to her in Heaven to bring her to this point. So fabulous. All this episode needed was my BFF Zack.
Hee, Mary wants an explanation. “Dean, why are you failing English?” I LOVE HER SO MUCH.
Plus, I like that in this scene, they’ve…settled down so much? They just have an amazing connection, both the actors and Mary and Dean and I think she’s remember how he was a friend and he’s not there to hurt her and he did try to save her all those years ago and she just…she’s like her boys, she wants to know what’s going on.
I feel like as a mom, she would have been like this too. Open, but demanding in a way, letting her boys know that she wants to listen and she wouldn’t judge when they came out of the closet. when they needed to tell her something or even when she made them tell her something. But, you know, relatively short temper. Winchester and all that.
And gosh, she just…listens when he says that he’s her son. She just does. Like, most people would be all “LOL WHATEV” but she’s not even that skeptical. Like, she knows she has this connection to this man and god, it probably feels so right to her. Oh, Mary. Oh, Dean. And like, as soon as he says their names, she just YOU CAN SEE IT ON HER FACE, SHE KNOWS.
God, it doesn’t even matter what he’s saying because her FACE. Her face when she just understands that he’s being honest and that this is her SON and this man before her is the baby growing inside of her right now. There are no words for her face. And even when she says that she doesn’t believe it, it’s clear that she does.
She’s so devastated by the idea that she raised her sons to be hunters. You can just see that she feels like it’s the worst thing in the entire world, worse than an angel trying to kill her and John, worse than anything and I think this is just the perfect moment of self-hatred like she can’t even believe like she could be that person. Which is why I think that if she could meet future!John, she would never forgive him. She would hit him so hard Michael would feel it.
The fact that she takes being dead in stride, so much easier than she took her kids being hunters just says so much about her and her life and her family. Like, oh, being dead, yeah, I saw that coming, but not my kids being hunters. She probably sees every dream she ever had dying in front of her eyes and it only makes sense that she would be dead too. And hearing that John became a hunter and raised her children that way…it’s probably the worst thing she could ever imagine. And god, she must be hurting so much and I just want to hug her and make her safe.
I know that some people were upset at Dean for telling Mary not to go into Sam’s nursery back in ITB but like…IT’S HIS MOTHER. HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SAVE HER. And I love that continuance here, just…do whatever, fuck us, save yourself because I love you so much and I needed you and I hate that you were never there but I know it’s not your fault, but please be safe and happy.
When Sam walks in and Mary looks at him and looks away right away…gosh, this must be the most overwhelming thing. IT’S HER BABY. IT’S HER BABY ALL GROWN UP AND A HUNDRED MILLION FEET TALL. THE BABY THAT SHE HAS TO SAVE.
And Sam is just so…dejected. I feel so bad for him because he clearly feels like his life is just…going to end up in a fiery blaze and that he probably should have been left dead a long time ago and just…I think he just wants things to be DONE now. And the defeatist attitude, telling Mary to leave John…ouch.
Her face when he said that was amazing. Like she couldn’t even FATHOM the idea of living without John, and that totally makes sense because John is literally all that she has left in the world and she would give anything to have him back. I honestly think that she would have considered giving the YED her soul if he had asked for it back in ITB.
Dean seems so excited about never being born! Like, “YES! THERE WOULD BE NO SAM, BUT THERE WOULD BE NO ME EITHER AND I’M OKAY WITH THAT LIFE. AND THEN THERE’S MOMMY!” And Dean has always been okay with the boys dying together (or if not okay, then more okay than one of them being alone) so I feel like this works really well.
Sam is clearly speaking from experience when he says that she’ll want a normal life and she can never have it which I think is the most tragic thing about hunting life. You never escape, it’s not like retiring or quitting a job, it’s always out there and it always pulls them back in.
One of the most amazing things about this scene where she keeps insisting that she won’t leave John is that she puts her left hand over her heart and you can just see the wedding rings there and it’s beautiful.
And she’s pregnant! And Dean is like “wut” and Sam is like “OMG THERE’S A LITTLER DEAN IN THERE!”
I can’t imagine either Anna or Uriel is strong enough for that so…Michael? I mean, Dean telling Mary that she’s their mom is kind of one of those things that you’d imagine an archangel has to step in for.
Though it’s clearly Anna or Uriel “talking” because if it was Michael, they’d all be able to hear him. THOUGH I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW THE TALKING MAKES GLASS SHATTER, SHOW, BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE WOULD NOTICE THAT SHIT.
I love that when the fight starts to happen, Sam and Dean try to get in front of Mary and she tries to get in front of John, like, she still feels the need to protect him even though, like, he can fight and SHE’S PREGNANT.
And awesome!John going for the knife! I love you, this John. <3
And Sam is like NOOOOO DON’T HURT MY MOMMY!
Had no fucking clue what that light around John was. BUT IT WAS AN AMAZING SURPRISE.
I honestly could not believe that they were going to kill Sam. I was like WUT. WUT. NO THIS DID NOT JUST HAPPEN. WHAT. And Dean shouting after him. Oh, Dean. <3 He’s not like “fuck, getting the crap kicked out of me!” He’s just screaming after his brother because poor, poor Dean has to watch Sam die again. :( By a chick he let in the Impala.
And I can’t even imagine being Mary in this moment, like, one of her sons (the one she’s pregnant with!!!) is getting beat up by an angel. Her husband just got killed, as far as he knows. And then she had to watch the man who was and will once be her baby die. That’s…that’s just too much for one person to handle while trying to fight for their own life.
So…I guess Anna wasn’t going to kill Mary? I mean, she succeeded in killing Sam and even Uriel paused beating on Dean after Sam died. And she did seem sorry…
MICHAEL. MICHAEL. LIKE…I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA. I HAD NO CLUE. AND THEN MATT SHOWS UP AND LOOKS EXTRA HOT LIKE HOW DID HE DO THAT? HOW DID BEING MICHAEL MAKE HIS HOTNESS EXTRA HOT? HOW WAS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE HOLY CRAP.
I know people were pissed that they brought Anna back just to kill her, but I loved her in this episode. I’m in the minority that I’d rather people come back to die than to never hear from them again. At least then they get a proper send off and that death was FUCKING AWESOME.
I love Mary just looking at John like all that amazingness. And Michael just sending Uriel away. UNF. UNF UNF UNF. And that little “shhhh”? MY PANTIES WILL NOT SHHH.
Hee, the first thing that Dean says to Michael (THE MICHAEL!) is “fix him.” THAT IS HOW DEAN’S BRAIN WORKS. EVERYTHING LEADS BACK TO SAMMY.
DARLING LITTLE SAMMY. DARLING LITTLE SAMMY. MICHAEL KNOWS THE TRUTH. MICHAEL SHIPS IT LIKE CRAZY. HOLY FUCK. LITERALLY.
I figured that either Mary or John could also be a vessel, but I actually figured it would run more in Mary’s family just…because I like Mary better? But if John is the Michael line, does that mean that Mary is the Lucifer line? Or are they both the same line and that means that Lucifer could take John and Dean as much as Sam and vice versa?
Though, you know, if we’re going with the bloodline thing, I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more vessels out there. It’s not like Cain and Abel have like a straight shot family tree or anything like that. That’d be a fuckton of incest, even for this show, which is basically about the true love of brothers and their mother.
This is…a really morbid conversation to have over Sam’s dead body. Luckily, Michael!Matt is pretty and distracting.
Matt is really amazing in this scene too. He says everything with so much righteousness and conviction that I feel like Michael believes this with everything he is. And I think it was back in ITB that Castiel said they were agents of fate or what not and I think that it’s interesting that everything that Sam and Dean have done have lead them exactly to this place and exactly where the YED needed them to be for everything to happen, but it was Anna who possibly messed up everything. And Michael had to come in and clean it up and I think Michael feels that cleaning up what Anna did is destiny, that he is an agent of fate and everything he does is for God and for his Father and for the overall plan. And Michael probably feels like it’s his job to stop any free will that gets in the way of what he thinks is the plan.
But I do think that telling Dean that free will is an illusion is just going to make Dean not want to say it more. When people’s beliefs are questioned, they just hold on to them tighter and fight for them more and it’s not like Dean is the least stubborn person to begin with.
I mean, I think that saying that Michael is powerful enough (or benevolent enough?) to leave John good as new after he’s done with him is just another hint that one day Jensen will be playing Michael because it’s not like they can destroy Dean’s body (especially for a sixth season and all-the adventures of Sam and The Drooling Mess of Dean).
He looks so damn sad at the idea that Mary is still going to die no matter what. Oh, Dean. :(
Hee, him saying “you can’t fight city hall” TOTALLY REMINDED ME OF THAT ROCKO’S MODERN LIFE EPISODE. “You can’t fight city hall! You can’t fight America! They are big and we are small! You can’t fight city hall!”
Oh, Castiel beaten up, disappeared, and then beaten up again. That is my favorite kind of Castiel. LOL CASTIEL’S ON THE BED DYING. LET’S DRINK TO THAT!
Awww, Dean trying to make the best of the situation! By drinking and joking and later having sex with his brother. But his constant saying that they won’t say yes and they’ll fight it… It reminds me of season one. “As long as I’m around, nothing bad is going to happen to you.” He tries so hard.
And I love that they make it so clear that Dean would say yes to save their mother. Like, Dean is basically all fuck this shit forever, but HE WOULD SAY YES TO SAVE MARY. That is a huge thing. And Sam is clearly more important than Mary, so if he would save their mother, why wouldn’t he save Sam?
This last scene with John and Mary is the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. Just the way he holds her and runs his knuckles against her stomach like he’s so happy and he can’t believe it’s real. It’s just…it’s so amazing and it brings tears to my eyes every single time.
I think it’s so interesting that Michael left the impression of angels on Mary so that she felt they were benevolent so that Mary could pass that on to Dean, which is one of the things that made him so anti-Christianity and anti-angels in the first place, because it reminded him of their mother. Just…one of those incredible full circle things.
I’ve always felt like “angels were watching over you” was one of those super important lines in this show just because it’s always felt that way and they made it mean something so important and it’s wonderful. And I totally wrote that fic and Sera loves me the mostest. <3 <3 <3 <3
BEST. EPISODE. EVER.
Quotes!
Dean: So what are you, like, a Delorean without enough plutonium?
Sam: Is he alright?
Dean: What do I look like, Dr. Angel, Medicine Woman?
Sam to Mary: You are SO BEAUTIFUL.
John: Shut up, all of you! Look, not another word or so help me I will turn this car around!
John: How long have you known about this hunting stuff?
Sam: Pretty much forever. My dad raised me in it.
John: Are you serious? Who the hell does that to a kid?
Mary: Why does an angel want me dead?
Dean: Because they’re dicks.
Dean: Our names are Dean and Sam Winchester. When I would get sick, you would make me tomato rice soup because that’s what your mom made you. And instead of a lullaby, you would sing “Hey, Jude” because that’s your favorite Beatles song.
Mary: I raised my children to be hunters?
Dean: No, no. No, you didn’t.
Mary: How could I do that to you?
Dean: Fix him.
Michael: First we talk. Then I fix your darling little Sammy.
Dean: Awesome. Six degrees of Heaven Bacon.
Mary: Oooh. Quite a kick there. Troublemaker already? It’s okay, baby. It’s all okay. Angels are watching over you.
Also, if anyone knows where to get icons from this episode, Kelly would greatly like to know.
And the Queen Sera Gamble said, “Kelly is the only one who ever actually likes my episodes. Also, she wants to have phone sex with me. I should reward her with an episode that is just everything Kelly likes. And add really weird allusions to fic Kelly has written." And she did. And that is this episode.
I like how Dean dreams about strippers because he’s clearly too busy being monogamous with his brother in real life that he only gets girls in his dreams. Also, notice that the stripper angel has curly blonde hair because even Dean’s DREAMS have mommy issues.
And then random Anna! Hi, Anna! I liked you a lot. Welcome back. :D
I’ve always loved the chemistry that Jensen and Julie have. Jensen has always had more chemistry with men (and Amy because Amy is perfection), but they have such a nice rapport in all of their scenes and I can feel their connection.
Anna, Castiel doesn’t tell anyone anything. There are times when I think Castiel forgets how to speak. It’s because he left his helmet back in Heaven. You know, Sera is one of the few writers that doesn’t…deify Castiel, no pun intended, and I like that she’s calling attention to his “war crimes” so to speak. I hope they’ll be addressed later too.
I like how Anna compares the prison in Heaven basically to hell because, really, why would it be all that different? Lucifer was an angel, so if he’s going around making hell, he’s probably going to write what he knows and all that. I think it’s an interesting dynamic between what Anna knows she has to do for the world-because Anna’s lived in the world, she likes it a lot, okay? There’s chocolate cake, which I am eating right now-and perhaps what they may have brainwashed her to do upstairs and if any of the psychological trauma she may have experienced is what really pushed her over the edge.
Castiel’s such a little douchebag. And an attention whore too, always has to make a huge entrance. He’s like one of those Jersey Shore people or something. “LOOK, I’M HERE. LOOK! LOOK AT ME!!”
You know, I totally ship Anna/Castiel as much as I can ship Castiel with anyone that’s not a fire to die in or Ruth the chicken. They just have so much history and I’m a little sad that that wasn’t explored more. Though I do wonder why Castiel would assume that Zack and them all would just let Anna out if she was going to KILL THEIR MICHAEL VESSEL. They’re smarter than you are, Castiel.
Also, Anna is particularly badass her. I like it.
Is it just me, or do the angel killing blades look different this time? I thought they were more…3-D last time? Not thin. There’s a word for it, but I can’t remember.
I think Anna just wants Sam to die because she didn’t get to break herself off a piece of that… Also, now she gets no more Dean and I’m sure that makes her a sad panda.
My friends and I all wanted something about the horsemen and their day jobs. It would be awesome.
Never find all of him? That’s…that’s dedication, Anna. Of course, there is a lot of Sam to find…
When Castiel said Sam was his friend, I was like, “NO HE ISN’T.” Of course, my friends reminded me that Castiel is an angel and doesn’t actually know what friendship is. And he probably thinks that the guy who sold him the cell phone is his friend just because he talked to him. Hell, he probably tries to have conversations with the voice who tells him he’s almost out of minutes.
Ah, Castiel and his empty threats. I’m pretty sure he couldn’t kill Bowser in the first level. With cheats.
GREASE! That’s one of my favorite movies. I’ve seen it like a billion times. <3 <3 <3
I kind of like that Sera is trying to ride a line between hard ass angel and the totally oblivious Castiel that everyone else writes by making him Dr. Brennan. Castiel is totally Bones in this episode. “I don’t know what that means.”
Awww, poor martyr Sammy willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. :( Like Dean would even allow that.
Whatever Castiel’s chanting was, it sounds like a cross between Egyptian and Spanish. Like he should be making me a pina colada or something.
Stubborn!Dean stubbornly wants to go see his stubborn parents. AND I AGREE WITH THIS WHOLEHEARTEDLY TAKE ME TO MARY. I love how Dean’s everything is all SAVE PARENTS. SAVE MOM. WHO FUCKING CARES ABOUT CASTIEL, I NEED MY PARENTS. Oh, Dean, this is my favorite you. <3
Oh, look, it even rains in Vancouver in 1978! Who knew?
BLEEDING!CASTIEL! DYING!CASTIEL! SEE, SERA DOES LOVE ME. THIS IS EVERYTHING KELLY LOVES!
Dean totally bought some dope, you guys. You know he did.
Sam’s little “OMG FOLKS!” face. YOU GUYS, SAM HAS NEVER REALLY SEEN MARY. HE’S NEVER SPENT ANY TIME WITH HER. I HAVE SPENT MORE TIME WITH MARY THAN SAM HAS.
I love that Sam is out of the car before Dean even has a chance to turn it off, just powering ahead to see his mommy. Oh, Sam. <3 He doesn’t even care what the reasons are, he just wants to see her. Which was basically my feelings about this episode as well.
MARY. YOU GUYS, IT’S MARY. IT’S MY FAVORITEST EVER AND GOD SHE IS SO PRETTY. DO YOU SEE HOW PRETTY SHE IS?! AND SHE’S A LITTLE WIFE SETTING THE TABLE AND BEING BOSSY AND JOHN LOVES IT AND I THINK I’M STARTING TO CRY ALREADY. THEY ARE SO CUTE TOGETHER, IT BREAKS MY HEART.
Amy is so amazingly good, you guys. You can just see that she stares at them and it’s like her world is falling apart just from them being there and oh, Mary. <3
OMG SAM’S “IT’S MY MOMMY!” FACE. OMG. OMG. HE’S JUST LOOKING AT HER LIKE HE’S NEVER SEEN SOMETHING SO AMAZING AND OMG. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME HE’S ACTUALLY BEEN AROUND HIS MOMMY WHEN SHE WASN’T A DREAM OR A GHOST.
I love how PROUD she is that she has a normal life, like it makes her better now. Because that is the Winchester self-loathing that we know and love.
Even Sam can’t believe that his dad used to be so fucking hot! And he’s happy and smiling and kind.
I kind of like how John doesn’t remember Dean because Dean may have sold him the Impala, but John doesn’t remember that because the Impala really didn’t ever mean anything that much to him. I mean, it’s a cool car and it does what it’s supposed to and it’s obviously held up well over the years, but to Dean that car is right after Sammy on the list of EVERYTHING HIS LIFE IS ABOUT. And I think it’s such a contrast between the two characters that Dean loves his baby and felt like it was something when John gave it to him, but to John it was just giving his son a car while he got a new one. Which is sad for Dean too because it wasn’t some sort of…introduction into manhood that he probably hoped it was.
Sammy’s daddy issues! Not as big as Dean’s mommy issues, but still relatively huge! I mean, this is a John that Sam never got to see, one that was married, and in love with a beautiful wife and not a douchebag.
I love love love that this John is such a kind person. In ITB, he totally makes sure Dean is okay and looks out for him, and now he’s concerned about Sam just because Sam is kind of staring at them like he’s never been happy before a day in his life. He’s so caring. And it’s just…like, there was probably more open concern for the boys here than he ever had when they were growing up.
And John is so excited for Mary’s family! In the John’s journal companion, Mary has an uncle named Jacob who is a hunter (and who I have gladly accepted into my Mary canon), but he probably has never met any of her other family, if she HAS other family. Also, it seems like John really doesn’t have any family, so he’s just…excited about the prospect of having relatives around, people that you share things with. John. <3
Sam staring at Mary. Oh, it breaks my heart. The first time I watched the ep, I was crying too hard that I didn’t hear him say that she is so beautiful. BUT SHE IS. SHE IS AND SAM KNOWS IT AND GOD I WANT TO WRITE PORN. I LOVE HOW MUCH HE’S OPENLY LOVING HER AND IT BREAKS MY HEART THE WAY SHE’S LOOKING AT HIM BECAUSE IT MUST BE BREAKING HIS HEART.
I like how quick Dean is like NON-WEIRD WHOLESOME FAMILY WAY. NOT LIKE SLEEPING WITH YOUR BROTHER AT ALL. OR DATING WOMEN THAT LOOK JUST LIKE MY MOM, NO SIR. Oh, Dean.
I kind of feel like John really likes an excuse to talk about Mary’s family because she probably never does. And he doesn’t want to bring it up like, “Honey, I’m really sad that your father died right in front of us, do you wanna talk about it?” because who does that? But he probably feels pretty useless that he can’t help her or be there for her and now he gets that chance.
And Mary just stares at Dean like it’s his fault, which it isn’t of course, but I’m sure she can’t help but associate it with him. Oh, darling Mary.
Scrap metal plumbing! It’s the new big thing. :D
John is just so eager to feel connected to Mary’s family, which I’m assuming he sees as just another way to be connected to Mary. They’ve probably known each other for a while (at least high school, I’d wager), but he doesn’t really KNOW anything about her past or her childhood or where she comes from and that must be really hard for him, especially with all of her family dead, like that’s part of her life that he’ll never get to be part of.
Mary is totally looking at the boys like they were just playing ball in the house and broke a window. She’s so their mommy. <3
But then she softens as soon as she thinks John might be in danger. *happy sigh*
I love Sam is just like IT’S AN ANGEL and Dean’s like SAM. But Sam’s totally focused on TALKING TO HIS MOMMY. WHO IS THERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. AND WHO MIGHT BE KILLED. I WAS THE ONE WHO KILLED HER, NOW I HAVE TO SAVE HER.
Originally I was like, “Mary doesn’t know about angels? THIS BREAKS ALL OF MY CANON.” But then they fixed it in the end and now it makes sense because, ya know, hunter. And apparently, most hunters don’t believe in angels.
And Mary TRUSTS HIM. I just…I want to think that she sees something in him that makes her feel safe when she’s with him, and knows that he’ll protect her because that’s all Dean ever wants to do is protect the people he cares about. And maybe she doesn’t know that he’s her son but she knows something.
It feels…odd that John would just leave? Like, I imagine that he was really worried about losing his job and he might even waved goodbye on his way out, but it’s a little…weird.
Though I think it’s interesting in like…five years, John will be at a place where he owns his own garage, or at least co-owns it. I wonder if that has anything to do with his boss, like, being dead and stuff. Plus, it continues the theory that John has no family because if he’s a mechanic from a family of mechanics, you’d think he’d have better job security.
ANNA, PLEASE DON’T HURT PRETTY JOHN. I think it’s interesting that she clearly doesn’t want to kill them because as sick as she’s feeling, she could have just ended them right away. It feels like she’s giving them a chance to get away.
Unf, badass hot John. UNF.
GOD, MARY. JUST. GOD. DID YOU SEE HER. DID YOU SEE HOW BADASS SHE IS? NO. HERE, LOOK.
THAT IS THE BADDASSIEST BADASS TO EVER BADASS. OMG.
I love the way this episode was shot. I just…I don’t really talk about those things because I have no idea what I’m saying, but I do. And I feel like there’s more Mary here than last time, which is a good thing, even if she didn’t come in until 10 minutes in.
Also, I’m not sure if they’re just using different filters or lighting, but Amy looks a lot paler this time. I don’t know anything about that stuff, but I know a lot about HER. Her skin is whiter and so is her hair and I’m wondering if they did that on purpose.
ANNA, I LOVE YOU, BUT WE DO NOT THROW THE WIFE INTO WINDSHEILDS. THIS IS NOT ALLOWED.
SHE WOULD TOTALLY STAB HER WITH A CROWBAR AND THEN STAND AROUND LOOKING PERFECT. MAAARY. LOOK AT HER HAIIIR.
Julie must have loved filming this. She says she loves playing badass and that’s basically what Anna was in this entire episode. A++.
I love the added tough of the blood sigil and how it burned into the door. Like, I don’t remember it ever doing that before and I don’t know if the director just threw that in because he could or if that’s supposed to mean something.
Oh, John. :( Staring at Mary like he’s never seen her before, like he doesn’t know WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO HIS LIFE. And Mary looks like her world just ended. :( :( :(
Hee, Mary’s freaking out and Sam’s just like, “Yep, we fight monsters. Now, moving on…”
Her saying that she’s been doing it all her life is really interesting though because I think it’s evidence to the fact that…the Campbells didn’t just fall into this lifestyle, but that they’ve been doing it possibly for generations, which must have made it that much harder for Mary to leave it all behind, that she was just ending her family legacy.
Daddy!John! Oh, John! <3 I kind of really wanted the boys to say, “yes, sir.”
MOAR AWKWARD FAMILY ROAD TRIPS, SHOW. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
For the record? The Campbells knew about the devil’s traps for years back in the 70s. THE BOYS DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THEM UNTIL THE END OF SEASON ONE. John, you are A LOUSY HUNTER.
Gosh, Amy is so much shorter than Jared. IT IS ADORABLE.
Hee, “beam her right off the starship”! Sera always says that she basically made Dean a trekkie because she always puts those kind of jokes in, but in ITB John made a Star Trek joke too. Like father like son.
Sam is all “I’M SHOWING MY MOMMY HOW THINGS WORK. AND KISSING HER OFF CAMERA.” No, seriously, that totally happened.
I love how John just wants to protect his wife. He’s such a…step up to the plate kind of guy here and I love him for it. I think that as much as Dean knows that one day this will be his father, he still sees him as…naïve civilian. And John probably wasn’t in Vietnam very long, but he was in a war before this war and I’m not sure if Dean really understood that.
Oh, gosh, John getting angry at his future self without even knowing it. THIS IS AMAZING. And it makes SO MUCH SENSE for this John who is clearly very much about family and safety and a nice life with his wife and future children. It feels like John to get angry about that on behalf of Sam. And I love that he thinks it’s being an irresponsible bastard BECAUSE I HAVE SAID THOSE WORDS A LOT. And it just…this is how he reacts to this idea, this is how he sees it at this point in his life. It says so much about how losing Mary just ENDED HIM. ENDED EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM. And how without her he just became a completely different person who didn’t care about being an irresponsible bastard and putting his kids in a position like that because it was all about Mary. Oh, young!John. *hugs him forever* Never grow up.
And that extra line about how their dad was supposed to protect them. *sigh* I just…I feel like that’s something John would have told himself he was doing and maybe to a certain extent he was, but it was a selfish life.
If there’s anything I wasn’t really feeling about this episode, it’s this speech from Sam. Maybe it’s because I can’t forgive John (or that I’ve been writing so much girl!Sam and she’ll never forgive John), but I can’t…see Sam really coming to this place? Not yet, not while…so much shit is going on. Except I guess I could reason that this is how Sam does dying?
I mean, one of the key differences between the boys is that Sam embraces anger while Dean buries it most of the time, and when Dean was dying back in season three, his breaking point was about him embracing his anger at his dad and his life. And I think that Sam pretty much knows at this point that he has to die, he’s ready to die or at least getting ready and feels like he can’t hold on to anger that will never be resolved so he’s trying to just…accept things. And the acceptance I can understand, it’s the extra steps of forgiving that doesn’t sit with me as well. Though Sam has always…identified with John at lot, at least since the end of season one and I wonder if he’s trying to attribute his own personal feelings about the shit that’s going on with him to John so that he can feel better about how John raised him, kind of like people who excuse their abusers for their own personal mental health (not that John abused them, at least not physically).
I do like that Sam just keeps saying how beautiful and amazing his mom is. Cuz it’s totally rue.
I also feel like Sam is rationalizing a lot because he’s seeing John and John’s being SO DAMN NICE to him that he feels like he needs to apologize for always…being the way he was with his dad? Like, he can see what his dad will become and he’s sorry because he feels like that’s his fault too and he wants to excuse John’s behavior and tell him that he understands while he still can.
Also, Jared Padalecki is fucking knocking it out of the park in this episode.
Now, I never liked Uriel (sorry, Heather!), but I liked him in this episode. I thought he was kind of…good looking too, which is surprising to me. And I don’t know if this is supposed to be young!vessel Uriel or if Uriel just has a type or if the vessel is in the same family, but I like the actor.
Speaking of which, considering vessels do run in the family, I would love a story about a family that KNOWS that their family is made to be the vessels for angels and that’s how they live their life. Like, just knowing that one day, one or more of them will be chosen and stuff like that. I think that could be amazing.
Anna is kind of a little psychopath in this scene and I LOVE it. I think this character progression is so interesting and I’m just wondering what they possibly did to her in Heaven to bring her to this point. So fabulous. All this episode needed was my BFF Zack.
Hee, Mary wants an explanation. “Dean, why are you failing English?” I LOVE HER SO MUCH.
Plus, I like that in this scene, they’ve…settled down so much? They just have an amazing connection, both the actors and Mary and Dean and I think she’s remember how he was a friend and he’s not there to hurt her and he did try to save her all those years ago and she just…she’s like her boys, she wants to know what’s going on.
I feel like as a mom, she would have been like this too. Open, but demanding in a way, letting her boys know that she wants to listen and she wouldn’t judge when they came out of the closet. when they needed to tell her something or even when she made them tell her something. But, you know, relatively short temper. Winchester and all that.
And gosh, she just…listens when he says that he’s her son. She just does. Like, most people would be all “LOL WHATEV” but she’s not even that skeptical. Like, she knows she has this connection to this man and god, it probably feels so right to her. Oh, Mary. Oh, Dean. And like, as soon as he says their names, she just YOU CAN SEE IT ON HER FACE, SHE KNOWS.
God, it doesn’t even matter what he’s saying because her FACE. Her face when she just understands that he’s being honest and that this is her SON and this man before her is the baby growing inside of her right now. There are no words for her face. And even when she says that she doesn’t believe it, it’s clear that she does.
She’s so devastated by the idea that she raised her sons to be hunters. You can just see that she feels like it’s the worst thing in the entire world, worse than an angel trying to kill her and John, worse than anything and I think this is just the perfect moment of self-hatred like she can’t even believe like she could be that person. Which is why I think that if she could meet future!John, she would never forgive him. She would hit him so hard Michael would feel it.
The fact that she takes being dead in stride, so much easier than she took her kids being hunters just says so much about her and her life and her family. Like, oh, being dead, yeah, I saw that coming, but not my kids being hunters. She probably sees every dream she ever had dying in front of her eyes and it only makes sense that she would be dead too. And hearing that John became a hunter and raised her children that way…it’s probably the worst thing she could ever imagine. And god, she must be hurting so much and I just want to hug her and make her safe.
I know that some people were upset at Dean for telling Mary not to go into Sam’s nursery back in ITB but like…IT’S HIS MOTHER. HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SAVE HER. And I love that continuance here, just…do whatever, fuck us, save yourself because I love you so much and I needed you and I hate that you were never there but I know it’s not your fault, but please be safe and happy.
When Sam walks in and Mary looks at him and looks away right away…gosh, this must be the most overwhelming thing. IT’S HER BABY. IT’S HER BABY ALL GROWN UP AND A HUNDRED MILLION FEET TALL. THE BABY THAT SHE HAS TO SAVE.
And Sam is just so…dejected. I feel so bad for him because he clearly feels like his life is just…going to end up in a fiery blaze and that he probably should have been left dead a long time ago and just…I think he just wants things to be DONE now. And the defeatist attitude, telling Mary to leave John…ouch.
Her face when he said that was amazing. Like she couldn’t even FATHOM the idea of living without John, and that totally makes sense because John is literally all that she has left in the world and she would give anything to have him back. I honestly think that she would have considered giving the YED her soul if he had asked for it back in ITB.
Dean seems so excited about never being born! Like, “YES! THERE WOULD BE NO SAM, BUT THERE WOULD BE NO ME EITHER AND I’M OKAY WITH THAT LIFE. AND THEN THERE’S MOMMY!” And Dean has always been okay with the boys dying together (or if not okay, then more okay than one of them being alone) so I feel like this works really well.
Sam is clearly speaking from experience when he says that she’ll want a normal life and she can never have it which I think is the most tragic thing about hunting life. You never escape, it’s not like retiring or quitting a job, it’s always out there and it always pulls them back in.
One of the most amazing things about this scene where she keeps insisting that she won’t leave John is that she puts her left hand over her heart and you can just see the wedding rings there and it’s beautiful.
And she’s pregnant! And Dean is like “wut” and Sam is like “OMG THERE’S A LITTLER DEAN IN THERE!”
I can’t imagine either Anna or Uriel is strong enough for that so…Michael? I mean, Dean telling Mary that she’s their mom is kind of one of those things that you’d imagine an archangel has to step in for.
Though it’s clearly Anna or Uriel “talking” because if it was Michael, they’d all be able to hear him. THOUGH I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW THE TALKING MAKES GLASS SHATTER, SHOW, BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE WOULD NOTICE THAT SHIT.
I love that when the fight starts to happen, Sam and Dean try to get in front of Mary and she tries to get in front of John, like, she still feels the need to protect him even though, like, he can fight and SHE’S PREGNANT.
And awesome!John going for the knife! I love you, this John. <3
And Sam is like NOOOOO DON’T HURT MY MOMMY!
Had no fucking clue what that light around John was. BUT IT WAS AN AMAZING SURPRISE.
I honestly could not believe that they were going to kill Sam. I was like WUT. WUT. NO THIS DID NOT JUST HAPPEN. WHAT. And Dean shouting after him. Oh, Dean. <3 He’s not like “fuck, getting the crap kicked out of me!” He’s just screaming after his brother because poor, poor Dean has to watch Sam die again. :( By a chick he let in the Impala.
And I can’t even imagine being Mary in this moment, like, one of her sons (the one she’s pregnant with!!!) is getting beat up by an angel. Her husband just got killed, as far as he knows. And then she had to watch the man who was and will once be her baby die. That’s…that’s just too much for one person to handle while trying to fight for their own life.
So…I guess Anna wasn’t going to kill Mary? I mean, she succeeded in killing Sam and even Uriel paused beating on Dean after Sam died. And she did seem sorry…
MICHAEL. MICHAEL. LIKE…I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA. I HAD NO CLUE. AND THEN MATT SHOWS UP AND LOOKS EXTRA HOT LIKE HOW DID HE DO THAT? HOW DID BEING MICHAEL MAKE HIS HOTNESS EXTRA HOT? HOW WAS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE HOLY CRAP.
I know people were pissed that they brought Anna back just to kill her, but I loved her in this episode. I’m in the minority that I’d rather people come back to die than to never hear from them again. At least then they get a proper send off and that death was FUCKING AWESOME.
I love Mary just looking at John like all that amazingness. And Michael just sending Uriel away. UNF. UNF UNF UNF. And that little “shhhh”? MY PANTIES WILL NOT SHHH.
Hee, the first thing that Dean says to Michael (THE MICHAEL!) is “fix him.” THAT IS HOW DEAN’S BRAIN WORKS. EVERYTHING LEADS BACK TO SAMMY.
DARLING LITTLE SAMMY. DARLING LITTLE SAMMY. MICHAEL KNOWS THE TRUTH. MICHAEL SHIPS IT LIKE CRAZY. HOLY FUCK. LITERALLY.
I figured that either Mary or John could also be a vessel, but I actually figured it would run more in Mary’s family just…because I like Mary better? But if John is the Michael line, does that mean that Mary is the Lucifer line? Or are they both the same line and that means that Lucifer could take John and Dean as much as Sam and vice versa?
Though, you know, if we’re going with the bloodline thing, I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more vessels out there. It’s not like Cain and Abel have like a straight shot family tree or anything like that. That’d be a fuckton of incest, even for this show, which is basically about the true love of brothers and their mother.
This is…a really morbid conversation to have over Sam’s dead body. Luckily, Michael!Matt is pretty and distracting.
Matt is really amazing in this scene too. He says everything with so much righteousness and conviction that I feel like Michael believes this with everything he is. And I think it was back in ITB that Castiel said they were agents of fate or what not and I think that it’s interesting that everything that Sam and Dean have done have lead them exactly to this place and exactly where the YED needed them to be for everything to happen, but it was Anna who possibly messed up everything. And Michael had to come in and clean it up and I think Michael feels that cleaning up what Anna did is destiny, that he is an agent of fate and everything he does is for God and for his Father and for the overall plan. And Michael probably feels like it’s his job to stop any free will that gets in the way of what he thinks is the plan.
But I do think that telling Dean that free will is an illusion is just going to make Dean not want to say it more. When people’s beliefs are questioned, they just hold on to them tighter and fight for them more and it’s not like Dean is the least stubborn person to begin with.
I mean, I think that saying that Michael is powerful enough (or benevolent enough?) to leave John good as new after he’s done with him is just another hint that one day Jensen will be playing Michael because it’s not like they can destroy Dean’s body (especially for a sixth season and all-the adventures of Sam and The Drooling Mess of Dean).
He looks so damn sad at the idea that Mary is still going to die no matter what. Oh, Dean. :(
Hee, him saying “you can’t fight city hall” TOTALLY REMINDED ME OF THAT ROCKO’S MODERN LIFE EPISODE. “You can’t fight city hall! You can’t fight America! They are big and we are small! You can’t fight city hall!”
Oh, Castiel beaten up, disappeared, and then beaten up again. That is my favorite kind of Castiel. LOL CASTIEL’S ON THE BED DYING. LET’S DRINK TO THAT!
Awww, Dean trying to make the best of the situation! By drinking and joking and later having sex with his brother. But his constant saying that they won’t say yes and they’ll fight it… It reminds me of season one. “As long as I’m around, nothing bad is going to happen to you.” He tries so hard.
And I love that they make it so clear that Dean would say yes to save their mother. Like, Dean is basically all fuck this shit forever, but HE WOULD SAY YES TO SAVE MARY. That is a huge thing. And Sam is clearly more important than Mary, so if he would save their mother, why wouldn’t he save Sam?
This last scene with John and Mary is the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. Just the way he holds her and runs his knuckles against her stomach like he’s so happy and he can’t believe it’s real. It’s just…it’s so amazing and it brings tears to my eyes every single time.
I think it’s so interesting that Michael left the impression of angels on Mary so that she felt they were benevolent so that Mary could pass that on to Dean, which is one of the things that made him so anti-Christianity and anti-angels in the first place, because it reminded him of their mother. Just…one of those incredible full circle things.
I’ve always felt like “angels were watching over you” was one of those super important lines in this show just because it’s always felt that way and they made it mean something so important and it’s wonderful. And I totally wrote that fic and Sera loves me the mostest. <3 <3 <3 <3
BEST. EPISODE. EVER.
Quotes!
Dean: So what are you, like, a Delorean without enough plutonium?
Sam: Is he alright?
Dean: What do I look like, Dr. Angel, Medicine Woman?
Sam to Mary: You are SO BEAUTIFUL.
John: Shut up, all of you! Look, not another word or so help me I will turn this car around!
John: How long have you known about this hunting stuff?
Sam: Pretty much forever. My dad raised me in it.
John: Are you serious? Who the hell does that to a kid?
Mary: Why does an angel want me dead?
Dean: Because they’re dicks.
Dean: Our names are Dean and Sam Winchester. When I would get sick, you would make me tomato rice soup because that’s what your mom made you. And instead of a lullaby, you would sing “Hey, Jude” because that’s your favorite Beatles song.
Mary: I raised my children to be hunters?
Dean: No, no. No, you didn’t.
Mary: How could I do that to you?
Dean: Fix him.
Michael: First we talk. Then I fix your darling little Sammy.
Dean: Awesome. Six degrees of Heaven Bacon.
Mary: Oooh. Quite a kick there. Troublemaker already? It’s okay, baby. It’s all okay. Angels are watching over you.
Also, if anyone knows where to get icons from this episode, Kelly would greatly like to know.