Those Tiny Trifles: 2x04, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
The award for the longest name of the Second Season goes, without a doubt, to this episode.
Not a picspam.
2x04: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
M&Ms verify their canon presence in the series by Neil offering them to Angela at the beginning.
Angela Mason's car has plates with Q6U 0687.
Angela Mason dies, according to the information on her cellphone screen, on the night of Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006.
According to Dean, Mary's uncle erected her headstone. The boys haven't apparently met that man.
Mary Winchester's red granite headstone has roses engraved to its lower corners, gives the time of her life as 1954-1983 and has the phrase "In Loving Memory".
John's dog tags give his last name, his first name, his social security number (306-00-3894), his blood type (AB) and states that he was non-religious.
The headstone Dean's staring at belongs to a "Donald" who was born on Sept 3 1955 and died on Jan 18 1996. There's also "Loving Father" and "At Rest" inscribed on his tombstone.
The temporary grave marker on Angela Mason's grave says:
Cemetery name: Greenville Cemetary
Registration no: 5754-011
Supervising staff: E. Hugonet
Plot no. B117-Y244
Date completed: 12/08/07
Monument completed: 19/09/07
The flowers on Angela's grave contain at least red roses and tiger lilies. And that's how far my horticultural knowledge goes. ("You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.")
This is the first episode where Dean's new bracelet is visible: it's appears to be made of wooden beads, black tubular and skull-beads (brown smaller and whitish larger).
Angela Mason's "funeral was 3 days ago" the day the boys get to the cemetery.
Dean mentions "a farm outside Cedar Rapids". Cedar Rapids is in Iowa.
The boys head to Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Greek Studies.
Angela's father is Dr. W. Mason, Professor of Greek Studies (according to the door of his office) at the local college.
I wonder if the props folk were going for somethin including the word 'enigma' with the book Dean's so interested in...?
Angela's nickname was (her father and Neil use it, at least) 'Angie'. She was "just a mile from home" when she crashed, according to her father.
According to Sam, Dean "wouldn't step within 100 yards" of Mary's grave.
Matt Harrison has a wall hanging that reads "Support the Hawks". Matt's wearing a Illinois Carlyle College-shirt, with a predator on it.
The MasterCard Dean uses to let himself into the house Angela lived in has the numbers 0629 8707 3456 visible. (Sound familiar? Dean used the same MasterCard in Something Wicked, 1x18, to pay for the boys' room in 2400 Court Motel. :) )
There's a book visible in the book self with "genes VII" on its spine.
Dean gives us the best view of Impala's keys in the show's history. And besides the bullet, there are 3 keys. (How many keys does a car need?)
Sam was about to watch apparently a porn flick by the name of Casa Erotica 4 on the Skin Channel.
The house Neil lives in has the same decorative oval window as the house Missouri Moseley inhabited in Home (1x09).
The day after the boys arrive to town (the day following Matt's death), Sam says that Angela "died last week".
Dean's not wearing his skull-bracelet while they're digging up Angela's grave. His watch and ring are where they belong, though.
While staring at the empty coffin, Dean says Angela was buried 4 days ago.
The beautiful flowers Sam points out to Dean at Dr. Mason's are orchids.
The boys are staying at The Pink Pearl, in a non-smoking room.
Also? Sam pulls the Shirt of Doom on between Dr. Mason's and the zombie-research scenes.
Neil's Professor Mason's Teaching Assistant.
Dean shoots Angela 7 times total (3 with Lindsey, 4 at the cemetery), using silver bullets in his beloved Colt 1911.
Thoughts and Shtuff
306 = Indiana. But it's all been said before.
What piques my curiosity is where the dog tags have been until this?
During S1, he displayed (very prominantly occasionally) two thin, black pieces of string (elephant hair bracelets, protective accessories). During S2, when we see him sporting that kind of jewelry again he wears but one bracelet, dark in colour, beaded, with skullbeads.
It might not be intentional, but...
During the first season, Dean has two living relatives that he really cares about, Sam and John. And despite John being out of the picture most of the time, he's at least alive>.
During the second season, the only living relative Dean has left is Sam.
Sam, who he may have to kill one day. Dean doesn't have all the cards, doesn't even know if the game's cards or dice, but he's supposed to keep 'Sam safe', whatever the hell that means. So the way he may see it, whatever they do, they're screwed.
Fatalism (skulls and the colour black) isn't really such a surprising reaction.
And that, You Honour, right there?
That melted me.
Even if Dean's not talking to Sam, Sam knows him well enough to see. Not necessarily the whole damn picture, but a whole hell of a lot. Or at least enough to think he does.
He knows how his brother works.
Has seen that words aren't Dean's forte, aren't the way to deal with this.
And is willing to take whatever Dean's ready to dish out. Even blows.
That sounds awfully submissive at first, but when one thinks about it, it isn't, not really.
Sam's as trained as Dean, we've seen enough occasions that reveal he isn't a lousy fighter. He can defend himself. Even against Dean, if Skin (1x06) is anything to go by.
One can practically hear the 'snap' those words elicit in Dean.
They are a blow as much as the one he threw at Sam in Bloodlust (2x03). They sober him up enough to realize that if he doesn't go out, leave Sam, he might very well do just that. And, I think, he fears he wouldn't be able to stop it, once he starts.
He still harbours doubts about Sam's ability to survive if Dean snaps.
Memory of the shapeshifter throttling Sam doesn't probably help, either.
Oh, boys.
Now off to spam people's email boxes... *hums*