3x10: Reaction
Please be a nice person and don't be using spoilerious icons/mention things from the episodes to be aired, 'kay? :)
The times when I long to live in America are (comparatively) rare, but with Supernatural...I wish I were there. Gods, how I wish I were there. Because now I have to find alternate means of getting my fix and this means slight stress. Because the people I highly appreciate for enabling my habit have taken up the idea of putting the bloody episode name in the download link. And a blurb about the episode in the summary. Do not want.
Yes, I realize I might be taking the spoilerphobia a little bit too far. Yes, I realize it's "just a TV show".
But as one of life's pleasures, I'd love to enjoy it in the fullest. This translates to, roughly, as remaining as free of knowledge of future as possible. Knowing anything about what's coming makes me just wait for that detail, that event, that line, miss the thrill of trying to figure it all out on my own.
Surprisingly, though, I'm still in the dark about the name.
*steps off the soapbox*
Discussing with alchemise led me to a realization concerning S3:
Faith, having it and/or lacking it, possessing it or losing it, seems to be shaping up as one of the themes of Season Three, from the preliminary canon of Sam's belief in a higher power and Dean's doubt to Casey in 3x04 waxing poetic about believing, having faith in a deity and being in love with an entity wearing a priest, and Tammi and Ruby in 3x09. There have been questions of faith throughout the seasons, wondering how much human thoughts influence things, how you can take religion, what you can do with it. Hide behind the Word of God, say you're doing His bidding, working out His will, acting in His name. Praying to Him, and cursing Him, and sneering when "maybe it works in the minor leagues."
God's Eye seeing, killing with a single slash, for whoever gazes upon God shall be struck dead.
"Men can't become angels", but they can become demons.
Hunters are angels, according to one interview with Kripke. Avenging angels wielding silver blades and consecrated bullets and holy water, the sacred fire that purifies, the Latin a language to do the bidding both of the exorcists and the possessees.
It's one of those days again, so let's skip the 'Then'-part. Nothing but heartbreak in it, anyway. :)
"There's no way to saving me from the Pit, is there?"
"No."
*wibble* See? Heartbreak.
That wallpaper... that fireplace... BOBBY!!! \o/
No, wait. Wait. Bad. People in teasers die! Save for Bela in 3x07...But Gordon did. This is bad. Bobby's not allowed to die.
And I hate flashlights now.
I hate Bobby walking around with a flashlight in his own bloody place! Which looks...off.
*anticipates*
Red apples! And a whole heck of a lot of green.
*screams with the banshee*
Bad woman! No stabbity Bobby!
Uhm...huh? Bobby? In a motel room? WTF?
Though I have to say that he has a better taste in colours concerning the room than the boys... Green and blue are so much better than red and yellow. *nods sagely*
Hey... that was a dream, right? Bobby's a psykid?
*has been possessed all day by the Everly Brothers' song All I Have To Do Is Dream*
*does not like that song anymore*
Bobby can't be "dreaming (his) life away"!
Okay, greens and blues and birds. Birds, that the Egyptians (and others, methinks) chose to symbolize the human soul. And more birds in the divider. Not to mention that painting above Bobby that at least doesn't depict a tunnel or a cave. Oh, fudge.
*screams again* BOBBYYY!!!
[random] Bobby apparently doesn't have any qualms about letting in maids. Unlike the boys, like Sam revealed in Tall Tales (2x15). "We never let any maids in..."[/random]
I have unreasonably warm feelings for the redhead in the cougar-shirt.
I know that song! But Supernatural's supposed to have rock- Hey, Sam? In a bar? Alone?
*bad flashbacks*
Stupid boys! Not apart! Not supposed to be apart! You make Bobby die sad!
"Dream A Little Dream of Me"?
*glares at brain*
And I'll be saying that that's a shoutout to Sandman. Because that's the name of the tale where Lord Morpheus gets back his pouch of sand, with the help of a certain chain-smoking Englishman by the name of John Constantine and... fuck. In that story, a dreamer died in their sleep. *starts nibbling her nails*
"It is never 'only a dream', John Constantine..."
Oh, shush about the song... ;)
Show of hands: who thought/hoped/was afraid that this was Roadhouse reborn, btw? 'Cause I sure did. And now feel sad when it isn't. :(
Ah... Dean's here. All's good. Now pour some Holy Water on your brother, y/y? Or better yet, drop him into a pool and then help him get rid of those awful wet clothes... Happy thoughts. Yes. Happy thoughts are needed. Badly.
"I drink whiskey all the time."
Whiskey is a malt liquour.
"You're drinking malt liquor?"
-Dean to Sam in Born Under A Bad Sign (2x14) with the suggestion that it's not a taste Sam's been known to enjoy.
I am not freaking out. And neither is Dean, I see. This show makes it bloody hard to hold onto happy thoughts, you know. *watches them fall farther and farther into nightmare*
Jared's eyes look exceptionally good in this ep, btw.
And Sam's a maudlin drunk. Continued from Playthings (2x11), and a similar situation, too.
*hugs Sam*
Because back then, he was aware of having a 'destiny', and feeling like he was failing to save people. And now, he knows he's got more connections to demons than he's told anyone, including Dean, who he cannot save. Who doesn't encourage trying to find a loophole in the deal.
The weight of all that's happening (going to happen) is dragging him down into desperation. I'd be drinking, too, and I hate the taste of alcohol...
I love Dean's little guilty glance away when Sam mutters "I'm starting to think maybe even Ruby can't stop it."
Please also note Dean's green-ish shirt. And lovely eyes. *stares*
Am I remembering wrong, thinking that Sam's the third person to ask Dean "what's wrong with you"? Bobby (Bobby!!!) in All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two (2x22)...and my mind claims there's been someone else, too.
Probably not, though, and I'm just mixing it with Shapeshifter!Dean yelling "What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you?" to Rebecca Warren in Skin (1x06)...
Which, of course, was sort of replicated in the last quarter (or so) of this episode. Demon!Dean didn't just use those words.
Let's not forget about What Is And What Should Never Be (2x20), eiher. Practically everyone in the wish!world greeted Dean with a variation of "What's wrong with you?"
Dean gets saved by the bell, I see. *supports the "Get Out of Hell for Free"-card idea*
And the boys are once more at the bedside of a close male 'relative', the doctors unable to help the man on the bed. Hello, bad, bad flashbacks!
Oh, look. Cranes. *thinks*
*stops* Holy fuck. Cranes. Associated with wisdom, age, spring and rebirth, destroying evil... long age. Good father-son relations. "Entering the Life of Bobby Singer"?
Of course it's number nine, too...
Pittsburgh? Have the boys ever been there before?
So... echoes of Hunted (2x10), anyone? What with the closet hiding the methods to madness... for a moment there, yeah, I expected to see yellow-eyes. Or was that just Sam?
So Bobby's been eating mushrooms? *clasps the Bobby as a Disillusioned Hippie-idea to her not-so-heaving bosom*
"But still... Going to sleep, peaceful. It's what you wish for, right?" (or whatever)
And that line doomed that girl in my head. Because the grad-girl as the baddie would fit in with the "Females Are Ee-fil" that seems to be the case with the Show relatively often.
The badge Dean shoves into Jeremy's face... is for a Detective Robert Plant. Just like back in Bedtime Stories (3x05). It seems to have the dates 07.12.06 and 09.01.09.
Let's not mention Jensen's simply lickable fingers holding that, 'kay? ;)
*stares*
*rewinds*
Dean's ring has a function! \o/
I knew that boy has nothing just for the Prettyh!
Is it just the way this episodes lit, the honey I've been practically inhaling (to help with the cold) or does everyone in this episode happen to have greenier eyes than usual? *stares some more*
No one does Intense Thinking like Jensen Ackles. *loves* There be fic with what he's thinking beside the bed of another father figure?
Anyone feel the desire to cap and compare this scene of Dean by Bobby's bed with John by Dean's bed in In My Time of Dying (2x01) and/or with Dean by John's grave in What Is And What Should Never Be (2x20)?
I think it's curious that Dean's quiet when there's a chance the person he's talking to might hear him, but that when it's highly unlikely for his 'partner' to answer him, he airs his feelings with abandon.
"-You can turn bad dreams good, you can turn good dreams bad."
Gee, that would've been pretty frickin' sweet couple of years back...right, Sammy?
Damn this episode's green...or then it's just my eyes.
Bela. Of course. And Dean feels dirty even thinking about her. Because he is faithful to Sam.
A green blob lamp in the background!
But where's Dean? Scoring?
But may I say that she looks like she's barely wearing anything under that trench coat.
*shuts up before she says something she'll regret*
*stares*
But why would Bela want to sleep with Sam...? There's gotta be some other reason beyond hello, 6'5" of nicely built male muscle. Right? :D
Did Dean hook her up? Is she going after Sam's brains? Upstairs brains, I meant.
Peacocks! Peacocks in the background! *smishes the Show*
That's... Oh, it was a dream.
Oh, Show... methinks I really, really love you. Because succubi rule. And awkward/frustrated Sam is a delicious morsel. Poor boy just needs some loving.
*Smishes DEAN*
You're the awesomest big brother that ever awesomed!
*SMISH*
Oh, Sam...I love you, too. I love your expressions. I love it when you're just a tiny little bit out of it. *SMISH*
"Yeah...yeah, just give me a second."
*GLEE*
Seriously, I think I shouldn't be laughing right now, but the fangirl-part of me that loves Sam-in-trouble is too ecstatic to listen to the rational parts of the anatomy right now. And sex is fun.
This makes me wonder, though...
Every time Sam's connected with sex, it's either signal to danger (How are you, Madison? And Meg?) or then something played for laughs. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (2x04) and porn and "Awkward"...and now this.
However, when it's Dean... not so much. It's not as terrible and monumental. It's fun, but not for fun. Sex with Dean is more casual.
And that's a happy thought. :)
Bela!
You're really a succubus, y/n? I think I love you right now, too. :) But your attire's barely any better than the first time you walked through that door.
But I'm not sure how I feel about the repetitive quality of this scene...
Oh, Sam... *sings "Come, Let Us Adore Him"*
I see Sam having a nice little chat with Mrs. Palm and her five daughters in the near future. At least in fic. Oh, poor, poor boy.
Dean's distrust of Bela is endearing. And there's awful lot of green in this episode, indeed...right down to Bela's shirt, too.
First it was 2 p.m. and now it's 2 a.m. And Bobby's gearing up to be the second victim... not to mention the cranes and the peacocks that came in pairs. Boys. Any other doubles/pairs/seconds?
ETA: Deans. Fathers and their sons. Second Dean-lookalike dead.
Casa Erotica pay-per-view. *GLEE* Remember Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (2x04)? "Next on the Skin Channel, Casa Erotica Four. A tale of two Latin beauties..."
I sort of really, really like how the motel room's all bright colours, greens and blues, and Bobby's house is this muted, like they'd drawn the colour saturation to very low. Not to mention that it's clean and uncluttered.
Yellow flowers.
How appropriate that the boys' dreamselves are acting out horror flicks... Going outside, alone, "don't do anything stupid". Boys, separated = blood and guts and gore and general mayhem. Goddamnit.
Sam steps out into sunshine-bathed lushness...with red and yellow flowers, blue ones below them. Not to mention the statuette-thingie in its red dress, holding a yellow flower. And the skyblue walls.
But what does purple and lilac stand for? Penitence?
Bobby's dream!house is number 2194. 2+1+9+4 = 16 => 1+6 = 7.
Hey, it's the car Bobby drove in The Magnificent Seven (3x01)! *smishes* It's pretty.
That shot of Dean opening the double doors... *stares*
He looks awesome. *happy*
But why's the house like this?
This episode's green. Seriously. Probably the greenest episode in the whole history of the Show. Did they mean this with the "Free to be Green"-campaign?
Hello, (dead) Woman In a White (Lacy) Dress! Haven't seen you or your sisters in a while!
Also? Creeeepy...
Bobby's wife? Oh. But why didn't he call her by name?
I never thought flowers could be so damn unnerving... The Show has trained me well. *sigh*
I like how Bobby refers to his wife having been 'rabid'. Makes me think that maybe he used to raise dogs before becoming a hunter, or something. And damn... Just how many hunters got into the job because of demons?
Hurt!Sam! \o/
So Jeremy wants to have a psychic hand-to-hand? *supports the idea*
Even Bobby's hat is green.
*wibble*
Dean! Dean, I... *wibble*
Bobby's not allowed to die. Not yet.
\o/
And talk about perfect timing...
*stares* Does Bobby have a golden chain around his neck? Why the heck didn't the hospital personnel take that away?
*gets whisked away by the manly heart-to-heart*
So Jeremy Frost the local nutjob... with a baseball bat. Issues, anyone?
Henry David Thoreau Frost was born, according to that print-out of Bobby's, on December 16th, 1968. That license-thingie was issued on the first of February 1990 and expired on first of February 1994. He died before Jeremy turned ten.
Poor, poor boys...though frustrated Dean's kinda fun. Dangerous, too, though.
It's the peacocks again! *loves those weirdling birds*
And Bela's playing with Tarot cards. *adores*
Flagstaff? What happened in Flagstaff?
I like that song, yeah, but it's also creepy as hell in a setting like dark woods, you know.
Not to mention how much Lisa looks like an All American Dream Girl come true. Complete with the gingham dress and the picnic. And Ben's off in baseball. Of course. She'll be serving apple pie next?
Now that's a twist. Awesomely made shift from woods to a corridor and exactly what's happened to me, too. I love it.
On the other hand, Dean's 'locked inside' again. And Sam's running loose.
If the corridor's supposed to reflect Dean's head... Curious how some of those doors have light coming from the window's above them and others are dark. But I wonder... Dean's locked in this life? Sam's the one who's wanted 'out', so in these dreams of hunters, he's leaving the (questionable) shelter of the houses?
Red light! Red light! Danger!
*meep*
Holy Fudge.
Ackles does horror good. Because I practically fell off my chair when the dream!Dean turned his head.
*stares*
Of course dream!Dean has his favourite gun with him...because that's the sawed off he's wielded time and again. Though I don't like doors that move by themselves... *shiver*
Sam! \o/ Now get back and -
Oh, fudge.
Last episode, Sammy gets pinned to a wall and slightly crushed. This episode, he gets crucified to the ground...next episode he'll float in the air in that pose, and then it's time for fire to get the whole elemental full house?
We really did need that 'Sammy crucified' imagery... Especially since his legs are bent and those look like heavy duty nails... Not to mention that I hear they used to bind the legs and arms to the crosses to help hold the body.
When will we be getting the crown of thorns, then? Or the whipping and everything else? *ponders*
The leather jacket was John's? I was right? *stares*
You know... a good deal about what the dream!Dean says... it's not true. Especially when it claims that John "didn't care whether (Dean) lived or died". What the heck was IMToD (2x01), then?
And that's the last drop.
*stares*
That shotgun...that shotgun's always been loaded with rocksalt before... *huuuurts*
*huuuuuuuuurts*
Though they're really driving the point home about the crucifixion-thing, aren't they? Breaking the convicts' legs to quicken the death?
Wake up, Dean! Save Sam, save the world!
*screams*
BED!Dean is CREEPY! Do not want!
*not listening to that one part of brains*
Avenging Sam is Awesome.
*wantsessss*
I wonder how much Jeremy's father was modelled after some of John's less than 'nice' characteristics...and Sam just gave him another face, replaced 'Sam' with 'Jeremy'. Because the clothing looks similar to what John wore. And, I believe, so did the voice, the words.
I wonder if Dean realized what happened. That the reason the 'dream' ended was because Sam got Jeremy, and Jeremy's dead...
Peacocks!!! \o/
Bobby, I honestly don't know whether I love you or want to yell at you. That boy has enough luggage already...and planting that seed of doubt in Sam's head? The idea that the psychic crap could help them out? *bites fingernails*
Flagstaff = amulet? I'm not sure... But Bobby certainly seems to be dabbling with a lot of those. Dean's amulet, John's boxes...Bela's 'good deal'.
But Bela apparently really has an amulet her own that lowers male IQ. Though I'm sort of glad they got rid of the Colt.
"I don't wanna die. I don't wanna go to Hell."
*SMISH*
*snap*
Perfect. Thank You.
Random comments, after:
Remember those peacocks? That bird is associated, on top of transmutation and rebirth, rejuvenation, also with protection and safety, to the point that, once upon a time, people believed its blood was able to ward off demons.
The funniest part, though, is that the two in that painting are both male. One is the 'normal' variation, and the other's an albino. Any ideas on how the two peacocks stand for the brothers?
I think I'd love to really dig into my copy of Hans Biedermann's book...
Talking of the paintings, let's recap:
- A view of a river's bend with mountains in the background, on the wall beside the door, above a couch.
- A lush forest road curving around a corner, above Bobby/Sam's bed.
- Another lush forest road above Dean's bed, with a decidedly 'darker' palette.
- Crane-couple on a green-ish background on the other side of the divider
- Peacocks, one white, one normal. First in the room, then in the corridor.
- A scenery with a river's bend in Bobby's dream!house's hallway.
And the Escher-like dove-divider.
I've commented a couple of times that Kripke and co. have a budget that gets split between music and gore. This episode, imo, is a good example of that.
At the moment, though, I think the song "Dream A Little Dream of Me" was meant to 'fit' Bobby. It sounds sweet, I'll give you that. And if I were a better person, I could probably tell you whether or not there's a sycamore tree among the flora outside the house in Bobby's head.
Weirdly enough, reading the lyrics to that song reminded me of Depeche Mode's song But Not Tonight.
Methinks this was one of the best episodes of S3.
Now to see what you all have been up to. :)