3x08: Long, Rambly Reaction
New episode, if only one before the year changes, and I'm blessedly ignorant. This is the best sort of break from baking and cleaning. Who needs sleep when we've got show?
*smishes the show*
Warning: This was reduced to rather random key smashing relatively quickly. I blame long week. And the stupid PWP that refuses to remain a PWP. *glares*
And I'm still a bad blabbermouth (-fingers?). A very easily distracted blabbermouth.
Christmas Special?
You know, this can either be cracktastic as hell, or angst and woe and creepiness beyond everything... They could pull off both, too, you know...
*smishes the show*
That perfect dream of a standard Christmas is just begging for something Terrible and Monumental to happen. Probably also gory, because Kripke and co. have a quota to fill... ;)
Please note the boy's red, red shirt and the bowl of yellow fruits.
And that the door the boy (Stevie?) opens? We've seen it before, in What Is And What Should Never Be (2x20). Though in that episode, it was opened by Mary in her soft, rosy robe.
One Year Ago...
We met Ava? For Houses of the Holy (2x13) took place a good while after Christmas...
More red and gold, and bowtrunckle? You were right. Santa is the evil personified.
Boy in his red PJs with the yellowish reindeer heads.
Curious how it's just the grampa and the boy... where the heck are his parents? Whose clichéd dream is this? Who's been touched by the Djinn this time?
That boy is downright creepy when he says hisses "Santa"... But, hey, at least he's not a girl! If he were, I'd be pretty damn certain she's gonna whip out the fangs/claws/shears/whatever and have herself a little snickety-snack party...
Oh, damn. That's just ugly. But at least that's an effective way to snap out of childish beliefs. Doesn't make it less ugly, though. Thank You, Kripke and co., for using the blood like it's meant! *cheers*
*SQUEE*
They've gone and changed the title screen! With gold and red and Blue!
And with the Giddy-Up font, too! *adores*
This has to be meta'ed to Death!
'Ypsilanti'?
*adores*
They find the most delightful places ever. But the girl in the window is disturbingly reminiscent of the shots in The Kids Are Alright (3x02)...*shudders*
Dean in a suit again... *approves*
Hey, where's Sam?
Playing with Santa?
Wearing a glaringly red-blue-white tie. And adjusting his collar. Damn it. There goes my coherency. And Dean would like to tear that thing off Sam's delightfully sculpted neck, too...
Sweet Lord.
Believe me that I'd forgotten how thrillingly tall dear Mr Padalecki is?
There's a ripped piece of paper with "Rogue Brother?" on it near the pic of the horned, long-tongued devil with the basket of apples and the disturbed boy in a sailor suit.
Sam on the laptop! Oh, I've missed you! *smishes the laptop*
Oh, boys...!
I adore the continuity so fricking much...! Dean knows movies, shows...And Sam was the one with the 'kid stuff'. Fairy tales. Musicals. Cartoons.
Boys!
*smishes them*
But that wallpaper's rather distracting. I had to pause and go back again to really be able to understand what the boys were saying... *blames long day week*
Come on, Sam! You've got a window open on your laptop about a Second Disappearance! *waves her finger disapprovingly*
Gee, that room is green...
But that scenery behind Dean? You wouldn't get me to sleep in that room. Have way too many Lovecrafts under my belt. Though maybe I could swap stories with the boys and we could keep an eye out for those evil geese and trees and that highly suspicious barn/house-thingie...
Oh, right. Back to the plot.
"What could you possibly say that sounds crazy to me?"
*smishes like a smishing thing*
Boys!
bowtrunckle! You were right! "Evil Santa" is Canon! Whee!
"Yeah, that's crazy."
Oh, Dean! Oh, dear Jensen Ackles! Perfect!
*smishes some more*
"Yeah, I know. You're the one who told me that in the first place, remember?"
I can has fic? I'm asking for a wee!chester-fic? Concerning Christmas? *headdesk*
*heartache*
Poor, poor defeated Sam...He's been wrong before, he's got preciously few clues to getting Dean out of his deal... and there's a certain Houses of the Holy-vibe here. The repeat of Sam believing and Dean doubting.
But... *hugs Dean*
You're an awesome big brother. You know how to pick up Sam's spirits without entering the emotional danger zone. You're awesome. Please to be staying that way.
*adores*
The boys' exchange about their childhood Christmases...It's the same "Dean was born a hunter, Sam was a whiny bitch who disagreed about everything" that we've seen before (Bugs, 1x08, for example). But... It's not the same, you know. There's something more to Sam's quiet "No."
For the heck of it, someone should go and compare those two scenes. Sam's fallen off his high horse, seeing things in a different light now...
Wee!chesters!!!
Holy, Sweet Lord, yes!
*makes a note that they spent the Christmas of 1991 in Broken Bow, Nebraska*
*Dean almost 13, Sam 8 and a half*
*roughly about a year/two years after the sthriga in Fort Douglas, Wisconsin (Something Wicked, 1x18)*
Dean's the same boy as in Something Wicked! *SQUEE*
They were staying in Cicero Pines Motel, apparently.
"Uncle Bobby"!!!
How much do I love Dean reading "Hot Rod"?
Continuity: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two (2x22), Dean says how Sam was always asking about things, and that the only answer he ever really gave was to tell his brother to stop asking.
Continuity: Dean's a slob. At least concerning what he does with his food stuff like wrappers and cups.
Why does "You don't wanna know the truth" sound like a quote from somewhere... a movie, perhaps?
*heart breaks*
Is it wrong that it's way too easy for me to imagine wee!Sam hiding under the bed until Dean returned...?
*sniff*
Okay, I've always been sort of creeped by that custom of a guy dressed as a Santa getting kids to sit on his lap... This episode? Not helping!
Though methinks they went a little bit too far with the anvil with the 'special gift' and the dirty, dirty chortle...
And oh, Dean... You do realize Santas are just a tiny step away from clowns, Sam's chosen nemeses (nemesii? nemesises? nemesia?), don't you? ;)
"We only came here to watch."
Sam, you know that we've practically established that you're a Peeping Tom, yes?
*Glee*
And look! The Elf's a fangirl, too!
Oh, Sam...
Last episode you begged Dean to "be (your) brother again". And now you're shooting down his every attempt at having a little fun, just the two of you... *waves her finger disapprovingly*
That Santa? What do you wanna bet he's just watching a flick?
Oh, boys. *GLEE*
I wonder if Kripke and co. are aware of sammessiah and the delightful carols we've enjoyed there...? ;)
Oh, look! The cute kid's got penguins on his PJs!
Why does a blood-drenched Santa sound so familiar...? Hogfather? Something else?
Continuity: Sam's the geek with the details. *adores*
And Dean teasing him about shoes and bags... "Sam wears women's underwear." (Skin, 1x06)
Why is unheard, unseen Bobby calling the boys morons so endearing?
*hugs the boys...just 'cause*
Again with the Nordic myths!
And look! They explained why there's no snow when it would be appropriate!
Can't wait to see how they'll explain its presence in later episodes, like 3x12...;)
The shop the boys visit has "The Cozy Crafts" emblazoned on its door.
Shades of Playthings (2x11), anyone? Dean implying Sam's less than manly fancies? And he wonders why people think they're gay... *sighs*
"Well, aren't you the fussy one."
And the look on Sam's face...!
Synchronized boys!
"I just can't."
*heart breaks*
Random: Is it just me, or is Sam using the word 'just' more than in earlier seasons?
Okay, so wee!Sam didn't go hide under the bed... I'm a little conflicted now.
Whoever cast these boys... Mad kudos to them. I can see these two growing up to be the boys 16 years later... shades of them already present. Shades of this history in the boys we know. Oh, boys. *hugs them all close*
And look how shiny and new and thin John's journal looks!
I can has fic canon! Yay!
*heart breaks*
Hurtiest scene of this episode? Right here. Without Jensen and/or Jared. Just Sam and Dean. *sniff*
So... When Sam was 6/7, there was the shtriga. When he was 8, he found out about the Winchester Secret. Half a year, more, later John gave him a .45 when Sam told his father he was afraid of the dark. When he was 12, he got the soccer trophy...
Please note Sam's shirt its reddish shades. :)
It can be "Sam Smash!" time nao?
Supernatural has apparently decided it needs to creep us out with little girls and chirpy Stepford (not-quite-)grannies.
Mission accomplished. *brr*
Dear Sam, never let me become such a proper lady...
Ah, my favourite scene...
Mommy's cooking dinner while Daddy's preparing to go out
The boys doing what they do best: Sam on the laptop and Dean... oh, Dean... *GLEE*
Dean with sharp things is good and Dean with a blade is even better. Though that's not the bowie knife he had under his pillow in Phantom Traveller (1x04) and offered Jo in No Exit (2x06). This one seems to have a bone handle, whereas that earlier? Beautiful, beautiful wood.
I wonder if we've seen it before... Maybe in John's trunk? He had at least two sheathed bowies in there in Dead Man's Blood (1x20) and Salvation (1x21)... Oh, shush. I just like blades. The prettier the better. *adores her own katana*
"So what about Bobby? He's sure stakes will kill this thing, right?"
Please, please tell me I wasn't the only one who fell off the chair. Not because of what Sam says, but because when he says it, the light hits him...turns his right eye perfectly golden yellow.
This is the second episode we've seen the boys use stakes, the first one being Tall Tales (2x15), even though at least one stake has been with them ever since Wendigo (1x02). At least.
Sam's getting choked!
Overcome by a girl. Again.
I'll just... No. Do not like anything that even distantly has anything to do with nails. Of the sort that's used in building nor with the things attached to fingers. *does not think*
Though I do wonder what would have happened if they'd gotten further with their little ritual. Would the possible curiosities about Sam's blood have affected the results?
Dean going all Bloodlust (2x03) on the guy was nice, though.
Wee!Chesters! Dean trying to cover up for John! Chick presents!
The AMULET!
Bobby gave it to Sam to gave to John! What did he think about it, seeing it around Dean's neck? What is it?
The Emo Shirt of Doom on PresentDay!Sam!
...who's already been hitting the eggnog? :)
Random note: The boys' beds are made!
So... did Sam make them? Because according to Tall Tales (2x15), they don't let in the maids... ;)
Oh...
...boys...!
*sniff*
*is not thinking about them*
*really isn't*
*sniff*
In conclusion: They're certainly working the couple/pair/siblings/brothers thing this season, aren't they?
And you can do a Christmas episode without my stomach turning because of the slice of syrup. And it was creepy and cracktastic and lovely and angsty and hurty and achy and wonderful.
My life would be so much more boring without this show and its awesome fandom.
Thank You.
I still think that painting is evil incarnate.
ETA: The boys are staying in room 12. I wonder how intentional it was, what with the Twelve Days of Christmas.
I can't help but feel how fitting it is, since twelve is also the number for The Hanged Man in the Tarot. Considering its meanings in relation to what happens with the boys in this episode, where they are... *sniff*
*cuddles the boys*
I have no idea when we'll get 3x09, nor anything else concerning it, but I've been waiting for it since The Magnificent Seven (3x01). Because based on Home (1x09) and Croatoan (2x09)... we're in for a ride.
Might Mary's secret finally be revealed, or at least Sam comes out to Dean about all the things he's learned over the last ten episodes?
In other news, my masochism is well and alive.
Why else would I be listening to Tori Amos' Father Lucifer and Beatles' Imagine on repeat while I know I'm in the worst possible phase of the damn cycle? That even a single picture of the boys makes me all teary eyed?
Though Cradle of Filth's version of Hallowed Be Thy Name balances those two nicely. :)
*sigh*
But now off to see what's happened in the last two days or so. And then, hopefully, a little bit more than just six hours worth of sleep, at the most...and next week, we'll start making the gingerbread cookies.
If someone had told me seven years ago what my Love would bring along with him...I'd still be laughing. Mother of two waiting for the Christmas?
So not me. Not back then. But at least I still have issues with the chirpy carols. And the general hubbub of the time. Candles and darkness and quiet and being close to the people I really care about? Yes.