3x15: Reaction
This time around, I know nothing, really, about the finale. Last year, I'd given in and sought out the names of the episodes, and subsequently had a premature freak-out. Methinks I'll be happier with the Show as a spoilerphobe of the highest order.
TMI: There is, however, the weight of a strained week relationship-wise and the bloody hormonal turmoil that preceeds the bleeding...*grumpy*
Dear husband's been aware of the name for this episode for the last couple of weeks, and thus, he's been biting his lip to not spill it. Because he thinks it's a spoiler. I'm betting, at the moment, that it's "Mary's Little Lamb". :p
But let's start with the Supernatural Season Three Finale, part 1, finally.
Spoilers for 3x15 and potentially all episodes preceding it, none for anything further down the road.
I expect some combination of the following:
* Deal's dean Dean's deal
* Ruby and/or Bela
* Lilith
* Bobby!
* Impala
* Boys!
* Demons!
* something to make me happy
*skippity-skip 'Then'*
"And me."
Oh, boys.
This starts out well. Just caught the last half-second of 'Then' and already I'm sniffling. *breaks out the Kleenex and the punching bag*
But is it me, or did they do something to Sam's voice? It sounded ever so slightly different than a week ago... *glares at hormones*
I can't remember... did someone figure out what violet/purple signifies?
Whoah. Funny camera-tilt there...Oh, and the purple? Changed to Red. Red is fun.
Oh, shush... the fact it's tied to the open door is completely coincidental... :p
Funny, btw, how at the beginning of the last episode, Dean tosses Sam a can of soda the latter throws away, and at the end of it, the boys shared a drink... and this one begins with an offer for a drink, and a subsequent decline.
'Subsequent' is the funny word for today.
The Demon Bar in The Magnificent Seven (3x01) was also all about drinks. And Demon!Sam got outed when he accepted a beer from Bobby (Bobby!) back in Born Under A Bad Sign (2x14).
"Cristal Spa & Racquet Club (Members Only)" in Erie, Pennsylvania.
And in the background... a yellow sportscar, while one of the men carries a Red bag. And the Red lights again as the men part their ways.
*sits back to expect Demons*
"Staying young is a brutal business."
*GLEE* *sits back to expect Demons, again. Or Boys.*
Stalker! Who, judging by their feet, looks like he's Angel. From the Buffy and Angel-fame. :)
The kidnappee's car has Pennsylvania plates with M7Q 98S8.
Yay! Magnificent Seven allusion! \o/
Um... eww? There's some creep going around taking away internal organ(s)?
I have a thing about hospitals. I don't like 'em.
\o/
Demons! Bobby's Fireplace! Holy Water! BOBBY! *GLEE*
Dean's been getting a routine about this Possessed-in-front-of-a-fireplace thing... *splash of Holy Water* "Ready to talk?" *taunts and curses* *splash of Holy Water* *goes to hell in a hand basket*
Though Show... ease up on the people of colour, 'kay?
And again with the drinking.
Gods, but methinks I love the boys when they're being sarcastic and all.
That fireplace, though? Wasn't it in Hollywood Babylon (2x18)? Hell House (1x17)? Somewhere else? Because the stonework looks so familiar...
Obviously, drinking = Demons.
Which would mean that Sammy's a demon. \o/
The black eyes will never stop being so very fudging awesome. At least when they're accompanied by such an awesome grin.
"Your mother."
*stares*
Has anyone written it like that? tigriswolf? Because even if it is a joke... Oh, the lovely, lovely fucked-upness of the Winchesters. *smishes*
"Or what? Hm? You're gonna squirt your holy water in both ends?"
There's a reason why I love Demons.
Where are the credits, btb? Where's the title of the ep?
Btw, the name thing? Goes back as long as humanity. Adam naming things, the magic working with True Names... John Constantine (of the Hellblazer-fame) and the clusterfuck Newcastle became because he didn't summon the demon using its real name...
I love the little shared look between the boys, and Sam's voice as he recites the Latin. *grabby hands*
*has it bad*
*glares at the bloody Muse*
"TIME IS ON MY SIDE"?!!!!
That's it. I'm dead. Sweet FUCK.
You know, there's this little movie called the Fallen? It's sort of funny. And The Rolling Stones' Time Is On My Side? Is its fucking theme song. And there's a demon by the name of Azazel. Yeah. FUCK.
Am I happy I threatened my husband with physical harm if he let slip the name of the episode? HELL, YES. And now I'm just thinking someone will pop up with golden eyes and say "Howdy."
And whole damn AHBL, Part 2 wasn't choreographed... Fuck. Don't expect any damn coherency from now on. Just... FUCK.
Rewatch: Methinks this title's worthy of a meta all its own. Sarcastic in regards to Bela and Dean; appropriate for Mr. Leatherface and Lilith.
However... "Time Is On My Side" also, methinks, sort of echoes In My Time of Dying (2x01)...
"-a guy who died in 1981."
Where does the idea of harvesting organs from the living in order to create a 'new' body/repair the body of a dead person come from? Frankenstein? Because it sounds damn familiar...
Also icky as hell, but familiar.
Sweet fuck, the episode's name... *whimper*
Since the boys are suggesting zombies, I'll be considering other options. Because the boys' first guesses seem to be off rather often... And they did a zombie-episode already, back in Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (2x04).
"Written By Sera Gamble"
*GLEE*
Sera's so very good to us...*smishes the woman*
That doctor, by the way, who shows the boys the corpse? Looks familiar. Weird.
*hugs the Kidney-patient*
You're sort of really, really endearing. I love you. And I completely empathize with your inability to jump the detectives. Especially the tall one.
*hugs Research!Sammy and Hungry!Dean*
You're awesome. That's all.
"Dude, I'm eating."
I hope that's not a cheeseburger, Dean, love. But it's still a burger, and methinks you're flashbacking to Malleus Maleficarum (3x09).
JOHN'S JOURNAL!!! \o/
Oh, Show! Oh, Sera... I love you. Seriously. LOVE.
And the symbol with 'Eternal Life' written around it. Alchemy, baby. See?
Even if the Show did play around with the symbol a bit. But the Sun, the Moon and the Queen are still there... within Water and outside the Crown of Thorns.
Which, you know, on the rewatch? Lilith the Queen has been associated with Water in the form of Sea(s), and Sun and Moon are there because they're everywhere, the heavenly ying/yang... And Crown of Thorns that holds wannabe-Arabic scrawling could be easily 'Adam's Son', Jesus.
I'm reaching for straws, aren't I?
Okay, Show?
Methinks I don't like how you've got Dean surrounded with Green when Sam? Sam's backdrop is ruled by fucking Red flowers on a Yellowish wall.
Hello, Victim number XXX!
Oh, Show... I know you've blown your budget for music on gore this season but this? Showing an operation scene? Just No. *feels sick*
Though I adore the use of the pulse-meter. And how it jumped from a little under hundred to well over hundred in no time when he realized he was about to get the nastiest surprise of his life.
Looks like Doc Benton won't be winning any beauty pageants... but he looks a tad familiar, too. Even with the mask. Gotta be the eyes... *ponders*
I think I love that pulse-meter. It was a good touch.
So what conclusions can we draw from the combination of Green and Red? Beware of Choices? Bad Choices Abound? :p
BOBBYY!!!! \o/
Bobby put a word out on Bela "months ago". Rufus Turner, hermit, an ex-hunter, sells shtuff. Bobby hasn't seen him in 15 years.
Bela used the name Mina Chandler.
*stares*
Boys... no breaking up... There's naught but tears that way...
Holy fuck.
Sam? Lies My Brother Told Me, part... aw, screw it. Too fucking many instances, anyway.
*stares*
FUCK.
And yet? This is where it's been going throughout S3...Sam hunting alone...and Dean walking down the Green hallway... Fuck. *whimpers*
Random: The boys Sam's staying in room 15, Erie Motel.
Let me just take a moment to chuckle myself silly about Dean going to Canaan... and hope like hell there won't be a wedding. ;) But wtf is up with combining Green and Red? Dangerous Choices? 'Tis a bad idea to get your Hopes up?
The security camera: Remember Steve Wandell?
I like this Rufus-guy. *hugs him silly*
Dean's got three weeks, which totally fucks up the dates glimpsed in the last episode. *waves a hand dismissively at chronological inconsistencies*
Bela burnt off her fingerprints? *lifts eyebrow appreciatively* She's got more sense than the Winchesters put together. Also... *ouch*
For the second episode in a row, Sam's driving a rental. And alone in the fucking woods. Not good. At all. *bites nails*
I think I really, really like this Rufus-guy. Which means, I'm afraid, that he's going to end up dying.
Oh, gods... I'd forgotten my worry for Bobby. I'd forgotten how pessimistic I was concerning his continued survival...
"Hey, man, I'll try anything once-"
Oh, Dean. *happy*
"The so-called 'Bela Talbot'..."
*shiver*
What? What? Show me, Show!
Bela's the illegitimate daughter of John and Bobby, born during this curious thing that happened with a time warp-spell, including Bobby ending up in the body of a certain Johanna Constantine, yes?
She's the 007 and Ian Fleming just got it wrong? Or she went and splurged on a combined sex-change/plastic surgery? (Hey, it's an episode about living longer/staying 'young'. It'd fit!)
She's Knights Templar, seeking the Holy Grail who happens to be Sam?
Her real name's Morgana and the family blood she spilled was King Arthur's?
Inquisitive minds demand to know! Otherwise we'll come up with Bigger and Better versions of it all! :p
Sam, alone in the woods. Alone in a bloody hunting cabin. Yeah. I'm cool. See how the ice isn't melting at all?
Sam alone in the woods. In the cabin. In the cellar.
Or, you know, with a corpse. And probably one animated. Fuck.
Dead doctors have a perverse fascination with want to get their hands on Sammy... Just think about Asylum (1x10).
Sam, love? A man's got a bloody chest, he's as pale as the sheet over him and you check for a pulse?
Colour me fucking unimpressed.
Colour me also sick. Maggots on a skinned forearm... No touching pretty hands! *ewww* *reaches for the brain bleach *
And Doc Benton's profile looks bloody familiar. *wracks brain for an answer*
Gods be damned... who is that guy and why do I keep thinking I should recognize him? *glares at brain*
The car Sam's driving, btw, has plates with XJV 31M2.
Christ Jesus Victorious...but there's no Bible verse that could be shortened as M 2:31... or M 31:2... But M 1:2, M 3:2, M 2:1 and M 2:3? Those can be found. ;)
Doc Benton is delightfully creepy. *cheers awesome MotW on*
I love me some competent!Dean. I love me some pissed-off!Dean, too. And Bela... those two just work on-screen.
Though methinks shooting in a hotel without a silencer? *is worried*
Oh. Ouch. But somehow, Bela killing her parents because of incest? *approves*
Especially since they did the revelation tactfully, imo.
I'm still partial to the idea that the family member she killed was her baby, but... For that, we've got fanfic. And AUs. :)
But what's that twisted, bound together 'thing' above Bela's door? Devil's shoestring?
Who's she working for?
Answer me, Show! Thank You.
Btw, that receipt for the Erie Motel room? Makes so very fucking little sense. Oh, Show... why must you keep on screwing with the internal chronology?
For those interested, the receipt says 06-11-08. If they're three weeks from May 2nd, this episode takes place around April 11th, or 04-11-08. *sigh*
Weirdly enough, I was reminded of the phone conversation the boys shared back in Scarecrow (1x11).
Oh, Fuck.
And how appropriate that Sam gets nabbed while he's sitting on a carpet ruled by reds and yellows...
Eye? No. No liking. Doesn't happen like that. Won't. I don't care if the Batgirl Ruby rushes in, or future!Sam drops in for some quick deus ex machina action, or what, but NO TOUCHING SAMMY'S EYES!
*meep*
I hate it when the Show doesn't obey me. *pouts*
*GLEE*
I don't care how Dean could get there fast enough, or find the right cabin, but... \o/ Action!Dean to the rescue!
"Shoot all you want."
I love this guy. Even if he wants to TOUCH SAMMY'S EYES!
Poor Dean. Poor Sam. Oh, my boys.
*hugs them close*
But I fully expected them to burn the man and his notes. He wouldn't be able to build himself up from ashes, right?
I also expected this episode to end with the boys burying the doc.
See? That's a gun with a silencer.
But why the hell is Bela waving that cannon around, anyway? Because this will not be another AHBL1...
First RealDoll in Ghostfacers (3x11), now blow-up barbaras? Not to mention anything about how they've been 'dressed up' as apparently the ideal women for the boys...a blonde and a brunette.
If the fandom doesn't jump on this juicy little morsel, and write some sexdoll!porn, I'm very surprised.
*hee*
I like this twist. I like how Bela's part of the RED-conned souls...even if the kid in the flashback's so very, very creepy. I like that they've streamlined it so that Lilith holds Dean's deal. *thinks of that one bunny* *staves off thinking*
*glee*
Though I wonder what the RED was doing at the swingset? Or was that another case of the demon sticking around after being summoned, like what happened with George Darrow's RED back in Crossroad Blues (2x08)? Evan didn't summon the RED, nor did the Doctor Pearlman, or the architect, but they were all approached by the RED, offering to let them live a dream for a decade...
I also wonder about the dates... if episode = ~ April 11th, 2008, then Bela's parents died on April 11th, 1998, when Bela was 14. Ergo, she was born either during summer/fall/winter of 1983 or before April 1984. *stares*
Sweet fuck... Bela could've been a member of Sam's PsyKid Generation! Unless that's specific to the USA, which would greatly irk me.
You were a bitch, and a pain in the ass, and intriguing, Bela, but I can't honestly say that I feel sorry for you.
However... After Bela says "because just maybe you can kill the bitch", the lights flash funnily over Sam. Especially on his eyes. *smiles at sammessiah*
I like how they chose to do Bela's death. It was well and good, and showed respect for the character; hands down the best death the Show's given us this season. *approves*
Also?
Bela: "We're all going to hell, Dean, might as well enjoy the ride."
In Bad Day at Black Rock (3x03), Bela's first episode.
In conclusion: Hellblazer is a sick novel in comic-form. Everyone of appropriate (mental) age should read it.
But the Show?
Sam met Mr. Leatherface, Dean found out about Bela's dirty little secrets, and Lilith thinks Sam's big enough threat to make a point of trying to kill him. This, however, begs the question... why not sic a bunch of demons on him? Take them by surprise, outnumber them beyond any shadow of doubt and, y'know...deal the killing blow. Or is Sam's Boy King-status too much to bear? Mayhap the gifts Ruby gave the boys at the very end of Jus In Bello (3x12) really do work and the boys are sort of invisible to demons? And no, still no revelations about Mary. *pouts*
Oh, and Doc Benton? Was played by Billy Drago. A man I remember from a horror flick I saw a good while back. I still like his name. And his profile. :)
Methinks I'm about ready for next week...
*digs out the archeological gear and gets to digging up the secrets of the flist*