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OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU SHOW NEVER EVER LEAVE ME EVER PRETTY PLEASE!!!!
LONGPIG. REHYMINATED. GAMECOCK! "they're very magestic animals." CORNJERKERS!!
JENSEN'S GIRLY SCREAMING! Is not as great as Jared's but IS AWESOME NONETHELESS. I wonder how many takes he had to do? "I'll man the flashlight!" Dude, there is no way I can quote every awesome line from this episode here!
Sam, with the EVIL FLASHING eyes at the end! SO HOT! Foreshadowing? Something you've read in fanfic 374,487,384 times? He was actually doing demon tricks. I always wondered why the first thing Ruby taught him to do was exorcise demons. How did she know how to do it? Can all demons do that? Is it just something Sam can do?
BOBBY WITH THE JAPANESE! Really, I think there's some kind of gun on the mantle thing going on with him, but that was AWESOME, nonetheless. And he was driving such a shitty car, oh BOBBY. "Aww, he's adorable." That he is, Bobby, that he is. (especially in that last shot: I have to have my 'Jensen is a raging hottie' moment every week and, though he was so CUTE when he was terrified out of his mind that last shot of his face with the sun behind it...NO ONE SHOULD BE THAT PRETTY!)
I'm guessing they used the dragging death to make it extra effective, since that was a real hate crime. Really, I was watching it with a black friend and when we both saw where it was going, my heart froze over. And she kind of caught her breath. There's nothing to fear but fear itself. And the way fear haunts you; not your own fear but the fear of everyone around you. The way that fear stifles you, makes it hard to breathe, means you can't live your life the way you're meant to live it, but always have to tread with extra caution, more than anyone else does because everyone around you suspects that you'll hurt them for superficial reasons.
Is it February already? 'Cause I could swear that's called being a black man in America.
J/k. Except not really. Am I reading too much into that? CanI keep reading too much into it because it maybe kind of redeems SPN in terms of it's kind of terrible racial track record....?
No, but seriously, there's the way the fear leads to anger anger leads to hate and hate leads to.....suffering. And it's interesting that the one person who tolerated him was the person who got the guy killed. Parallels anyone? It's interesting that this episode was told from Dean's POV and not Sam's. But Dean's 'why did this happen to me?' I don't believe the jerk explanation. Were we supposed to see it as 'anyone who's looked at anyone different like a freak?' What with the paralleling of the sheriff and Dean, and the sheriff hearing dead guy's voice and Dean seeing Sam as a demon (before he saw him as Sam looking at him with CONCERN!).
Poor Dean, though. He's got 40 years of hell to remember, that's longer than he's even been alive. That'll hurt. Maybe even enough to galvanize him against the forces of hell. Again, he had to be saved. They're really flipping the mythology on its head this season and the way Sam saved Dean here is reminiscent of the first time Sam ever really saved him. Dean grabbed the bible - he's really bought into this faith thing. Sorry guy. Looks like Castiel's only gonna bother to save you when he can use you for his dirty work.
GUMBY, GUMBY!! AND POKEY'S BEING DRAGGED AROUND, POOR BABY! Really, I spent half this episode laughing and the other half just wanting to hug Dean. Honestly, I wonder how scared Jensen was when they draped that snake over him (can someone ask him about that at the next con?).
OMG, so yeah, um...J2 anyone? (beside's blacklid :D). They were just so...in synch this episode, I dunno. You could like feel the brotherly concern despite the fact that Sam never hugged him or anything and they were walking so close together (exactly in synch right at the beginning when they were leaving the sheriff's office). I dunno, I noticed and I thought it was cute.
The sheriff's secretary was so drooling over them (as I would be, only I'd be doing it from Dean's lap as I stroked Sam's thigh). Man, you had the sheriff slicking up his hands multiple times, the Gamecocks, the Cornjerkers (?), Dean's drunken almost-FLIRTATION with said secretary (ok, maybe not, but it was hilarious either way - Sam had to drag him away like he did in Sin City), buttcheek-taping...and did I mention my mind lives ONLY in the gutter?
...I admit, I mostly cringed, but I still have Eye of the Tiger stuck in my head and the image of Jensen playing his ass like a guitar permanently branded on my brain. Oh, Jen, you MANLY MAN, you. Kinda. Sorta. Mostly...:)
For the last time, LET JARED DO HIS OWN HAIR IT IS HOTTER AND SHINIER WHEN HE DOES, MMKAY?
Is it February already? 'Cause I could swear that's called being a black man in America.
J/k. Except not really. Am I reading too much into that? CanI keep reading too much into it because it maybe kind of redeems SPN in terms of it's kind of terrible racial track record....?