4x11: Reaction
First of all... evemaykill? *HUGS* Thank You so much for the chai!
blindfold_spn, the Supernatural Anonymous Kink Meme, has come to an end thanks to the Show returning. For the first time in a good while, I ended up writing stuff that I actually like; after Saturday's safely over, I'll gather the ficlets in a single post. But the prompts I will not own up to. ;)
But the Show is back! The hiatus is over! Without me ending up spoiled! \o/ Or that much around, even... *sigh*
During the hiatus I came to the conclusion that those 40 years Dean spent in Hell? He wasn't tortured nor torturing others in the conventional sense of the term. He was, however, forced to participate in endless tea parties with Lilith and her dollies, complete with all the pink frilly things from the dreams of little girls everywhere. And Alistair? Why, he was playing the Dad. And preventing Dean from cursing.
That thought amuses me probably more than it has a reason to.
Soundtrack for today? Assemblage 23's "30k Ft" and 30 Seconds To Mars' "Welcome To The Universe". I will not let my brain start prophesying what this episode has in store based on those.
Then
CASTIEL! \o/
I've missed that Voice. Good gods, but Misha does something very delightful to all my girly parts every time he opens his mouth. What's weird is that neither Jensen nor Jared evoke quite the same reaction. Save when they are depicted in various intimate positions...
"...and raised you from Perdition."
*LOVE*
And yes, there needs to be more hand!kink-fics. *grabby hands*
And the kink meme? Didn't really help. Though I'm bemoaning the fact that no one's yet been really willing to write, in loving detail, Misha/JDM...
LILITH! \o/
"Don't you remember all the fun you had down there?" *hee*
ALISTAIR! \o/
What is this? Everyone with a demonic divine twist who's had a thing for Dean getting together to share some stories over tea and cookies? In that case, will we get YED, too? Bummer. But maybe they just didn't have time to include him... or Anna.
Now
That house, with a car parked outside reminds me way too much of Constantine Welch's house all the way back in the Pilot to make me feel comfortable. That static-y sound doesn't help, really. Or the fact that this is the teaser and... there. Lights out, it's the witching hour. And apparently the Creepy Little Girl quota for this season hadn't been filled yet. Seriously, wtf? Are child actors cheaper or some such? Why can't it be a Creepy Little Boy for once?
I don't usually mind it, but... the idea that women are easier for evil to twist to their likes is already really, really old, guys.
Still loving the title card. It warms me to the bones. *LOVES*
"Family Remains"?
Just... *INSERT MAD LINGUOPHILISTIC GLEE*
But why are the, yes, the Boys out in the woods? Sleeping in the car? Hiding from the law?
Oh, but hey, look! Sam's sleeping! We've had that last time in...wait. Are You There God?-ep (4x02)? And for him to be sleeping in the car... *thinks fondly of Bloody Mary (1x05)*
"Yahtzee!"
Dean's signature term. *smishes the continuity*
Sam was sleeping in the backseat? Exactly where Anna was laying (and Dean, too) in last episode... *shushes the wincesty part of the brain*
*makes a note* Month or so, continuously on a hunt... with the last one finished "like two hours ago".
Yay, the boys sort of talking! For Winchesters! \o/
Worn down, exhausted Sam's making me happy. Wtf, brain?
I have to check this, but in daylight, that house looks disturbingly much like Roy Le Grange's (Faith, 1x12).
Alas, the Impala still has the fake plates. :(
ETA: Looks the same to my eyes. Save with a darker paintjob.
Apparently, someone behind the camera simply loves peeping at the boys from curious places. Anna in 4x09, and now... whoever in this. Probably the same people we can thank for Sam's canon voyeurism.
"Know-it-all."
*smishes continuity*
Been a while since anyone's really made a mention of Sam's "walking encyclopedia of weirdness"-status... *smishes some more*
*is getting slowly eaten by the love for continuity* Power lines screwing with the EMF! Hell House (aka The One With The Pink Flamingoes, 1x17)! \o/
Okay, the next creepiest thing after (ghostly) kids? Dismembered dolls. *does not want*
And Playthings (2x11) had both. Just like this one. I wouldn't mind getting rid of both, for a while, in the Show.
Here's another nice juxtaposition, on multiple levels... the black, lonely, old Impala among the fallen leaves, shadowed, hidden, and the white, new cars bursting with the everyday life of a family, on the green grass, in the light... complete with a dog called 'Buster'. *sigh*
Yay, the boys didn't pull the FBI-card! \o/
Another motel? Hmm... I see some sort of bonding between Dean and/or Sam and Kate, here, over this matter. Considering that Kate looks, to my eyes, borderline jailbait... not necessarily a good idea. Neevermind. The Show didn't go there.
No FBI-cards still in sight, but those suits are certainly getting mileage. I might have gotten a kick out of the boys wearing near-identical ties, though. :)
"And Mr Gibson, where was he?"
"Everywhere."
Another victim, another place, same conversation.
"And what condition was Meredith in?"
"Meredith was all over. In pieces." -Shadow, 1x16
Mr Gibson: the lady cleaned up his house for about 5 years. Before that, his daughter hung herself (in the attic), 20 years after his wife died in childbirth.
And I'm guessing that one of the photos she handed Dean was of the daughter, showcasing her lovely dark hair. Have we had ghosts possessing living people before in the Show?
Dr Ellicott (Asylum, 1x10) was just fanning to flames the embers already present, but...
Mother and daughter both cremated... boys, please tell me you remember Provenance (1x19), and this lovely little girl called Melanie Merchant...
*sigh* This, nice little family, is your welcoming committee: You've just stepped into a horrorflick. The house's gonna kill you, just like Dean said. *does not like the idea of kids dying*
However, the idea of telling the truth has become a joke with the boys. Every time they've voiced the possibility, the other one's crushed it. Every time they have told the truth, someone's (almost) ended up dead.
Oh, goody. The boy's still breathing. I'm getting worried about the girl, though. But a boy that age still uses crayons? *scratches head*
Talk of the devil... but I don't like that sound. *hides*
Yay for the boys to the rescue! ("We heard screams." \o/)
Yay for a man with clear opinion about Dean! \o/
"We're not the bad guys-"
*GLEE*
Heh. First time the antagonist has touched the boys weaponry. Not the first time the Impala's gotten caught in the crossfire, though. Or even the second. And Dean immediately assumes the Army General role. *loveses that boy hard*
"-As long as the salt line is unbroken, this is the safest place to be."
You're forgetting about thrown stuff, Dean, love. The ghost doesn't need to enter nor break the line... as long as the thing it throws has momentum enough. *is really getting creeped by the poker in Dean's hands*
"Safe from ghosts."
"Nobody likes a skeptic, Roy." - Wendigo, (1x02)
I was just so expecting for Dean to throw a variation on that line...
"-waiting for her to go all "Deliverance" on my ass."
Heh. Nice to see that movie referenced by name. Last time (Benders,1x15), it was just hinted at. But apparently this guy's well aware of strap-ons.
"-I've got a gun. If you don't get your ass back in the circle, you can have yourself a third hole."
I guess this line's supposed to show us how Dean's come back 'wrong', but personally? He's making me want to say "Yes, Sir!" :)
Besides, all I've seen/heard so far is just Dean's "Save the Civilians"-routine and the In Charge-voice and -wording that routine brings... Just wait if something would happen to Sam, though...
This Janey doesn't have a gun, but she does have a knife or somesuch... And isn't a ghost? Acheri (All Hell Breaks Loose, Part I, 2x21), anyone?
And the funny thing about that demon? Controlled by a PsyKid, lovelies. *GLEE* So where the heck is Sam and his Demon Barf Mojo? Should've seen the revelation coming, what with with the "Deliverance"-reference and all, but...
But she screams... and that reminds me of banshees. And is scared by sudden lights. I'd be, too, though. Incidentally, Sam to the rescue as Dean's getting his ass kicked by another female thingie! \o/
Just a human?
I'm... really not comfortable with the things my brain's whispering. *thinks of Dean and tea parties instead*
"You smell that?"
"Every day."
And that exchange alone makes me all conflicted. On one hand, I want to smish JAck for the delivery of that line, on the other I wanna go and rock in the corner, crying for poor, poor Dean...
Dean goes down into the funny hole, guess who's gonna be dinner... Yeah. *sigh*
I like seeing Sam standing still and silent like that (and still alive). :)
Poor Dean.
Another 'Andy' pops up in canon. And guess what? He's dead! That name, obviously, is cursed. PsyKid!Andy met an Acheri's claws, Sin City!Andy blew his brains out, Son!Andy here...um, wait. Car accident? Ever since I read a draft of the Pilot in which Mary's death was explained as a car accident, I've been thinking that that term's a synonym for 'Weird Shit' killing people in the Show.
Sammy's getting his voyeuristic kicks in an acceptable way by reading a diary.
*THINKS OF DEAN AND TEA PARTIES AND PRETTY, FRILLY THINGS VERY, VERY, VERY HARD*
Think this is an attempt to squash out the wincest?
What's making this whole ep even more creepier is that the boy who's playing Danny looks disturbingly much like the son of a friend of a family.
Ah. Dean, reunited with his beloved sawed-off shotgun and his Colt... *happy with the continuity*
Brother? Holy hell.
I give up and just watch the rest, now. And think of tea parties.
And thus the Winchesters got another four people to vouch for their goodness.
"I was worse. They were animals, defending territory. Me?"
"-had tea parties with Lilith and all her dollies." *lalalaa*
That alternative even fits eerily with the next couple of lines, imo.
But... I wasn't okay with the ending of Heaven and Hell (4x10). This? Miles better. Miles and miles and miles. And hitting where it really hurts. Owwwwwwww.
Even if I ended up watching this ep mostly from behind my hands, the end and Dean, as a whole, works. For some reason, now I'm willing to accept Dean's former 'lack' of PTSD. The way I see it now, he's been in a shock, trying to do what he used to do, trying to be the man he once was. He's been going after girls, food, alcohol... just like before. Then in Yellow Fever (4x06), he was pushed out of that empty comfort zone, forced face to face with things he'd been trying to deny. But it wasn't like he could fall apart in front of Sam. Sam who has his own problems to deal with, all the unresolved things that have been piling on him over the last couple of years...
Then Anna who told Dean, essentially, that everyone knows already. And that, by association, sooner or later Sam would, too. And now Dean's stumbling with trying to deal with his time in Hell and all the tea parties he was forced to go through.
I'm bloody thick.
I'd also like to wax poetic about Dean's comment of having a hole inside himself again. Last time that that was an issue was, methinks, after John's death. Remember Bloodlust (2x03)? Back then, the suggested 'cure' was violence, killing. But now that's the problem.
All things considered, this was a good ep to come back from the hiatus with, imo.