5.10 Abandon All Hope, Part 1/3
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THE ROAD SO FAR...
The Far Side of The Real Ghostbusters
NOW...
1. In the Beginning, it was a nice day. Oh dear, this is not helping with me being dizzy today. Man, this is a cool shot. VERY COOL. This looks like Lord Phil Sgriccia or His Excellency, Robert Singer.
2. This guy rolls up in a limo and as he gets out, he steps in a puddle. NICE. And it's under a bridge, where secretive deals go down in all of those thriller movies and then I realize... it's a crossroads... and a bridge. IT'S A BRIDGE WITH A CROSSROADS. A highway bridge. And something is about to go down. A BIG DEAL. But WHAT?
3. And I'm just WAITING for a dude demon to show up because that would be just like you, Show, for Jared Sam to get a dude demon and WANT TO kiss him and not GET TO (Oh, Show, how you are JUST WRONG), and then, some other nameless, obviously rich dude does it to save his company or something... um. I may have lost sight of something there for a minute. Oh, yeah. DEMONS. Wheelin' dealin' demons that are hot and have red eyes and report to a boss like everybody.
4. "Mr. Pendleton, I presume. The name's Crowley."
Heyyyy, demons at crossroads don't introduce themselves...
0.o
waaaaait... he even has an English accent...
O.O
\0/
CROWLEY!
Crowley was an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people. And he rather likes people. It's quite a failing in a demon.
CROWLEY IS THE BOSS?! ... Azazel told John that he himself couldn't do a deal, but he knew someone who could. How did this not occur to me before?! *smacks forehead*
Does he have Bruce Springsteen theme music now, or is it still Queen? Does that mean Crowley has yellow eyes?
5. Dear Show, you are being more and more blatant with the Neil Gaiman shout outs this season and I kinda want to send a prop plane to Burnaby with a banner on it, but I don't know what it would say except I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES NOW, and that would just be socially awkward. -Lid
6. He calls him a Big Fish and he does those deals himself and yet he didn't do John's or Dean's deals and who did John kiss anyway, I'd like to know, and since when are John's and Dean's deals NOT BIG FISH? This just really makes me wonder what on earth this Pendleton fellow has or does or knows that makes him bigger than two Winchesters whom Hell used to trigger an Apocalypse and break Lucifer out of the nut wagon. I MEAN REALLY. *breathes*
Is Hell, Inc. building up their hedge fund?
7. And then he looks all affectionate, and grabs his neck all sexy, and kisses him, even though the guy squeaks out, "Nnnooo", at the last second and then. Doesn't. Let. Go.
I squirmed; not because it was two guys, but because the gentleness and duration made it friggin' creepy. *thumbs up*
8. Castiel is a voyeur, who has been an action figure small enough to fit in your pocket and silent enough to be deadly and that makes him a Pocket Voyeur. BECAUSE IT DOES.
9. That's where my brain was, you guys, and then Castiel smitingly says, "GOT HIM ... even as we speak, it's... going... down...", and if I'd been drinking anything, it would have snorted out my nose.
Your Dad, he's in here with me, trapped inside his own meat suit. He says “Hi” by the way. He's gonna tear you apart. He's gonna taste the iron in your blood.
10. The boys have stopped for a very unscheduled Salvation/Metamorphosis looking stop on the roadside for a mental health break, and it makes me think that maybe they're already not having the best day. It doesn't look like they were taking Facebook quizzes. It almost looks like they were talking about... how to go about this Crowley business. And that maybe one of them wanted to bring in help and the other one thought it was too risky and whatever was said, they clearly didn't agree because Sam's back is turned on the whole conversation - and omg, Show, how do you tell me so much with 5 seconds and a history of visually familiar familial dysfunction? This could have been done anywhere, but you do it like this and it MEANS so much more. *boggles at the awesome*
11. HI, SAM'S HAIR! *combs it back behind his ears*
12. I loved the movement of this sequence - how they walk into blind spots and disappear. Like... ghosts, or little astral-projecting, serial-killing Snow White girls who poop apples when they're startled.
There is a game with blind spots on this show. Wanna see? Faith ... Something Wicked ... Everybody Loves A Clown ... Heaven and Hell ... Death Takes A Holiday... all have blind characters who see better than those with sight... all sleepin' with their peepers open.
Like I keep saying, on this show, what you don't see is just as important as what you do see (#10 is a case in point).
13. Castiel can't get in with his Pocket Voyeur because there is Enochian warding magic all over the walls and the gate. Which leads me to another conjecture: if Castiel is getting gradually more human, does that door closing open a window to helping the boys later? Will he be able to walk where angels fear to tread? I don't know, but it would be quite poetic.
Dear Show, MAKE IT SO. -Lid, Queen of the Omniverse
14. Yeah. I HAVE been here before. I remember, ESPECIALLY because of Pastor Jim.
John: Alright, why didn't I hear about this? If something like this starts happening to your brother, you pick up the phone and call me!
Dean: Call you? Are you kidding me? Dad, I called you from Lawrence. Sam called you when I was dying! Getting you on the phone, I've got a better chance of winning the lottery!
(Salvation)
$1.7 Million, right?
John: Alright. You know the drill, Dean. If anybody calls, you don't pick up. If it's me, I'll ring once and then call back. You got that?
Young Dean: Mmhmm. Don't answer the phone unless it rings once first.
John: Come on, Dean, look alive. This stuff's important.
Young Dean: I know, it's just, we've gone over it, like, a million times, and you know I'm not stupid.
John: I know you're not. But it only takes one mistake, you got that?
Dean: *nods*
John: Alright, if I'm not back Sunday night?
Young Dean: Call Pastor Jim.
John: Lock the doors and windows, close the shades, and most important...
Young Dean: Watch out for Sammy.
(Something Wicked)
Sam: Dad rattles off an exorcism that will kill demons? I mean, not just send them back to Hell, but kill them?
Dean: Checked on that, too. In fact, it's heavy duty Dark Ages. 15th Century.
Sam: Yeah. I checked on it, too, Dean. So did Bobby.
Dean: Okay. And?
Sam: Look, it's definitely an exorcism, okay, there's just no evidence that it can kill a demon.
Dean: No evidence it can't. As far as I know, the only one of us who's been to Hell is Dad, okay? Don't you think he'd have picked up a trick or two down there, like which exorcisms actually work?
Sam: Maybe it works, okay? Look, I hope it does. We've just got to be sure, here.
Dean: Why aren't we sure?
Sam: Because we're not sure what's going on, Dean! Some guy blows his brains out, a girl is scared out of her wits...
Dean: Oh, wow, a few civvies are freaked out by some ghosts. Newsflash, Sam! People are supposed to be freaked out by ghosts!
Sam: Okay, well, did Dad tell you where to find the demon?
Dean: I'm waitin' on the call.
...
Dean: Oh, you're unbelieveable, you know that? I mean, for months, we've been trying to break this demon deal. Now, Dad's about to call us with the freaking address and you can't accept it?! The man is dead and you're still buttin' heads with the guy!
Sam: That's not what this is about--
Dean: Well, what's it about?!
Sam: The fact is, we've got no hard proof here! After everything, you're still just going on blind faith!
Dean: Yeah, well, maybe. Maybe that's all I've got!
(Long Distance Call)
15. You gotta chop a few lemons to make lemonade.
Zachariah: You wanna make an omelet, you gotta crack a few eggs.
(Lucifer Rising)
16. If I'm not mistaken, Crowley is watching Hitler's visit to the Army Group Centre in 1943... where a contingent of officers smuggled a bomb aboard his plane in the first of many attempts to assassinate him during Operation Valkyrie. Which says something about Crowley. I'm just not sure what.
17. This place is like a fortress and not just the kind that's built to keep things out, but the kind that keeps things in. Hm...
18. OMG! JO! I thought my ears and eyes were deceiving me! You're back! And you're foxy. Clever ploy, getting in like that. Good luck getting back OUT.
19. She's being the bait again. Drawing them out. Clearly very aware that these guys are going to have no trouble seeing her for what she is and demanding that she stay. She knocks one down and ...
...she wasn't in any real danger with these two boys and their demon killin' knife around.
Jo cuts the power... and Crowley, warm fireplace behind him. smiles.
"The Hellfire Club." It feels like a bad joke. And like everything else in hell, it is deadly serious.
Dream, in Sandman #4: "A Hope in Hell"
20. The Hardy Boys finally found him. Took them long enough. *snerk*
21. Have I mentioned how much his church, I mean his house, looks like ... The Castle? Those Hardy Boys are getting good at swiftly and silently setting traps for demons. Crowley, though, and is merely miffed that they painted on his priceless rugs. Are they more priceless than that gun you're holding, Crowley? I think not.
22. So they go to talk privately and I get sidetracked again running the scene back because they KEEP DOING THIS THING where the light in the boy's eyes reflects in JUST SUCH a way as to make them really GOLD. Especially with Dean. It's so... foreboding awesome.
*Dean's eyes flare gold*
*kiss kiss bang bang* "We need to talk... privately."
*Dean's eyes flare gold again*
*rewinds again*
23. Bela stole it and told Dean that she gave it to Lilith, but we know that's a lie. (The Real Ghostbusters)
Here's what I think happened. Bela took the Colt and handed it over in the hopes of saving her own keester, because Crowley asked for it. He was the one who brokered her deal and he knew that Bela could get it. He probably also comforted Lilith with the knowledge that the Winchesters no longer had the Colt. Now, why would he want to take the gun from them, only to give it right back to them later? Easy. Lilith was his boss, but she's dead, Jim. Using the Colt would have been how they tried to kill Lilith, but without it, Sam was cornered into developing his powers. Ruby was sabotaging the whole thing from beginning to end, of course, rigging the Colt before Bela ever stole it, to killing demons to gain Sam's trust, to ultimately being the presence to bend his path down the hellish road of good intentions. But. You know:
It'd be a funny old world if demons went round trusting one another.
-Good Omens
None of which gives me a warm fuzzy feeling about this.
Crowley: "Do you know how deep I could have buried this thing? There's no reason you, or anyone, should know this even exists at all. Except that I told you."
Sam: "You told us."
Crowley: "Rumors. Innuendo. Sent out on the grapevine."
Nope, not Chuck and Becky, y'all. Go back further.
John: Back in 1835, when Halley’s comet was overhead, the same night those men died at the Alamo, they say Samuel Colt made a gun. A special gun. He made it for a hunter - a man like us, only on horseback. The story goes, he made 13 bullets. This hunter used the gun a half dozen times before he disappeared, the gun along with him. Somehow, Daniel got his hands on it. They say... They say this gun can kill anything.
(Dead Man's Blood)
24. Crowley wants them to empty it into Lucifer's not-quite-fully-powered-without-Sam's-cro-magnon skull. Because he LIKES his rugs. And his brandy. And his Bentley. Can't we just go back to simpler times? He wants to get back to messing with destinies and selling people down the river! It's better than being an angel's cannon fodder!
Tahirire, thanks for doing the toxic_caps! Also, stop sticking random!Sam in my reviews. I am distracted enough as it is with Crowley's sales pitch to be not looking this gift horse in th.... *snuggles Sam*
25. Dear Sam,
If someone hands you a gun that can kill them, and you're in the habit of killing them, and then you aim it and pull the trigger? Points go to him for not laughing.
-Lid, who thinks that maybe since it's a six-shooter and you've shot this gun more times than the original hunter did, that you should have been able to tell from the weight that it wasn't loaded, perhaps.
P.S. Where do you suppose that Crowley got HIS 18 bullets from? I'M JUST SAYING.
26. ELLEN! *glomps*
Ellen doing SHOTS with Castiel! \0/
This is the first time they've ever met, right? This is the first time Ellen and Jo have met an ANGEL... right?
Wouldn't this be a kick in the...
It's as awesome as a barrel of monkeys on acid.
27. Boys! Dean doing research! Boys drinking and doing research together! And really talking! And blues! And golds! And greens!
28. Dean is the Master Li of Finding Demonic Omens in any city anywhere USA and smack yo mama. Which makes Sam the hair trigger guy with demon trust issues? Which makes Sam, and me, do this face.
29. Dean: "But if we think about it, you can't come with. Look, I go get Satan and screw the pooch? Okay, you know, we've lost a game piece. That, we can take. But if you're there? We are handing the devil's vessel right over to him. That's not smart. We should hire a look alike."
30. Because your eyes are yellow, too, Sammy. That's why.
31. *pauses* *stares warmly for about five minutes*
Dear Dean,
I know that you know that you are not dispensable puppy chow. Telling Sam that you are is not going to make it any easier for him to accept your Tokyo Rose routine. Also? Sam has to say yes. But, that's it, isn't it? You think you're gonna bite it, because it's happened before, in the future, *shakes head to clear THAT hurdle* and you don't want Sam to be there to try to save you by saying yes... do you? You're still terrified, thinking that being together is your greatest weakness. Well, guess what? Sam could be in freaking Ecuador and he'd still come save your ass. You'd do the same for him. I think. ... So, that's not the point. The point is how far you'll go to save each other. That's what it's always been about. And so far, you guys are pretty much tied. Pointing a finger means three are pointed back at you. I really hate that saying. Where is the beer?
-Lid
Lonely feelin' deep inside
Find a corner where I can hide
Silent footsteps crowdin' me
Sudden darkness, but I can see
No sugar tonight in my coffee No sugar tonight in my tea No sugar to stand beside me No sugar to run with me
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow no no Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow
In the silence of her mind
Quiet movements, well, I can find
Grabbin' for me with her eyes
Now I'm fallin' from her skies
No sugar tonight in my coffee No sugar tonight in my tea No sugar to stand beside me No sugar to run with me
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow un-dow-dow Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow
Jocko says yes and I believe him
When we talk about the things I say
She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him
When they're standin' in each other's way
You're driven back now to places you've been to
You're wonderin' what you're gonna find
You know you've been wrong but it won't be long
Before you leave 'em all far behind
Jocko said no when I came back last time
It's lookin' like I lost a friend
No use callin' 'cause the sky is fallin'
And I'm gettin' pretty near the end
A smoke-filled room in a corner basement
The situation must be right
A bag o' goodies and a bottle o' wine
We're gonna get it on right tonight
'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over
It's the new splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature takin' over
She's gettin' us all She's gettin' us all
Lonely feelin' Jocko says yes and I believe him
Deep inside
When we talk about the things I say
Find a corner
She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him
Where I can hide
When they're standin' in each other's way
Silent footsteps
You're driven back now to places you've been to
Crowdin' me
You're wonderin' what you're gonna find
Sudden darkness
You know you've been wrong and it won't be long
But I can see
Before you leave 'em all far behind
'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over
It's the new splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature takin' over
She's gettin' us all She's gettin' us all
32. I love her Misfits t-shirt. I love how she smiles at him. I love that he's so self-conscious that he keeps looking around the room instead of ogling her pretty face, the way he has with girls before. I was never attracted to the rash, dashing, bravado side of Dean. It didn't do anything for me. But this does.
33. That's not a Last Nite on Earth face. That's a Gee, I Really Should Have Said This Sooner face.
34. And just for the smallest moment, I thought that she really had kissed him, which would have made me smile, because she could still kiss him and then tell him YOU CRAZY. MAYBE LATER. Which is almost kinda what she did say.
35. And this was so perfect, I could see Ellen all over it, from that look she gave him to the words coming out of her mouth. It was so perfect. Wait, I said that already.
36. I ARE A CAMERA. I feel like spouting something about the observer changing the observed via the act of observing, but it's getting really late and everyone is kinda drunk.
37. I inherited an Asahi Pentax like that from my grandfather. I like the thread of things Japanese going there with Bobby. ... I don't use it much because I don't have the patience or the tools for the light metering. Some things, you always mean to do, but you never get around to doing it, and then Pffft.
Tyler Durden: You know why they put oxygen masks on planes?
Narrator: So you can breath.
Tyler Durden: Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing - 600 miles an hour. Blank faces, calm as Hindu cows.
Narrator: That's, um... That's an interesting theory.
PART 2 >
THE ROAD SO FAR...
The Far Side of The Real Ghostbusters
NOW...
1. In the Beginning, it was a nice day. Oh dear, this is not helping with me being dizzy today. Man, this is a cool shot. VERY COOL. This looks like Lord Phil Sgriccia or His Excellency, Robert Singer.
2. This guy rolls up in a limo and as he gets out, he steps in a puddle. NICE. And it's under a bridge, where secretive deals go down in all of those thriller movies and then I realize... it's a crossroads... and a bridge. IT'S A BRIDGE WITH A CROSSROADS. A highway bridge. And something is about to go down. A BIG DEAL. But WHAT?
3. And I'm just WAITING for a dude demon to show up because that would be just like you, Show, for Jared Sam to get a dude demon and WANT TO kiss him and not GET TO (Oh, Show, how you are JUST WRONG), and then, some other nameless, obviously rich dude does it to save his company or something... um. I may have lost sight of something there for a minute. Oh, yeah. DEMONS. Wheelin' dealin' demons that are hot and have red eyes and report to a boss like everybody.
4. "Mr. Pendleton, I presume. The name's Crowley."
Heyyyy, demons at crossroads don't introduce themselves...
0.o
waaaaait... he even has an English accent...
O.O
\0/
CROWLEY!
Crowley was an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people. And he rather likes people. It's quite a failing in a demon.
CROWLEY IS THE BOSS?! ... Azazel told John that he himself couldn't do a deal, but he knew someone who could. How did this not occur to me before?! *smacks forehead*
Does he have Bruce Springsteen theme music now, or is it still Queen? Does that mean Crowley has yellow eyes?
5. Dear Show, you are being more and more blatant with the Neil Gaiman shout outs this season and I kinda want to send a prop plane to Burnaby with a banner on it, but I don't know what it would say except I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES NOW, and that would just be socially awkward. -Lid
6. He calls him a Big Fish and he does those deals himself and yet he didn't do John's or Dean's deals and who did John kiss anyway, I'd like to know, and since when are John's and Dean's deals NOT BIG FISH? This just really makes me wonder what on earth this Pendleton fellow has or does or knows that makes him bigger than two Winchesters whom Hell used to trigger an Apocalypse and break Lucifer out of the nut wagon. I MEAN REALLY. *breathes*
Is Hell, Inc. building up their hedge fund?
7. And then he looks all affectionate, and grabs his neck all sexy, and kisses him, even though the guy squeaks out, "Nnnooo", at the last second and then. Doesn't. Let. Go.
I squirmed; not because it was two guys, but because the gentleness and duration made it friggin' creepy. *thumbs up*
8. Castiel is a voyeur, who has been an action figure small enough to fit in your pocket and silent enough to be deadly and that makes him a Pocket Voyeur. BECAUSE IT DOES.
9. That's where my brain was, you guys, and then Castiel smitingly says, "GOT HIM ... even as we speak, it's... going... down...", and if I'd been drinking anything, it would have snorted out my nose.
Your Dad, he's in here with me, trapped inside his own meat suit. He says “Hi” by the way. He's gonna tear you apart. He's gonna taste the iron in your blood.
10. The boys have stopped for a very unscheduled Salvation/Metamorphosis looking stop on the roadside for a mental health break, and it makes me think that maybe they're already not having the best day. It doesn't look like they were taking Facebook quizzes. It almost looks like they were talking about... how to go about this Crowley business. And that maybe one of them wanted to bring in help and the other one thought it was too risky and whatever was said, they clearly didn't agree because Sam's back is turned on the whole conversation - and omg, Show, how do you tell me so much with 5 seconds and a history of visually familiar familial dysfunction? This could have been done anywhere, but you do it like this and it MEANS so much more. *boggles at the awesome*
11. HI, SAM'S HAIR! *combs it back behind his ears*
12. I loved the movement of this sequence - how they walk into blind spots and disappear. Like... ghosts, or little astral-projecting, serial-killing Snow White girls who poop apples when they're startled.
There is a game with blind spots on this show. Wanna see? Faith ... Something Wicked ... Everybody Loves A Clown ... Heaven and Hell ... Death Takes A Holiday... all have blind characters who see better than those with sight... all sleepin' with their peepers open.
Like I keep saying, on this show, what you don't see is just as important as what you do see (#10 is a case in point).
13. Castiel can't get in with his Pocket Voyeur because there is Enochian warding magic all over the walls and the gate. Which leads me to another conjecture: if Castiel is getting gradually more human, does that door closing open a window to helping the boys later? Will he be able to walk where angels fear to tread? I don't know, but it would be quite poetic.
Dear Show, MAKE IT SO. -Lid, Queen of the Omniverse
14. Yeah. I HAVE been here before. I remember, ESPECIALLY because of Pastor Jim.
Click to viewJohn: Alright, why didn't I hear about this? If something like this starts happening to your brother, you pick up the phone and call me!
Dean: Call you? Are you kidding me? Dad, I called you from Lawrence. Sam called you when I was dying! Getting you on the phone, I've got a better chance of winning the lottery!
(Salvation)
$1.7 Million, right?
John: Alright. You know the drill, Dean. If anybody calls, you don't pick up. If it's me, I'll ring once and then call back. You got that?
Young Dean: Mmhmm. Don't answer the phone unless it rings once first.
John: Come on, Dean, look alive. This stuff's important.
Young Dean: I know, it's just, we've gone over it, like, a million times, and you know I'm not stupid.
John: I know you're not. But it only takes one mistake, you got that?
Dean: *nods*
John: Alright, if I'm not back Sunday night?
Young Dean: Call Pastor Jim.
John: Lock the doors and windows, close the shades, and most important...
Young Dean: Watch out for Sammy.
(Something Wicked)
Sam: Dad rattles off an exorcism that will kill demons? I mean, not just send them back to Hell, but kill them?
Dean: Checked on that, too. In fact, it's heavy duty Dark Ages. 15th Century.
Sam: Yeah. I checked on it, too, Dean. So did Bobby.
Dean: Okay. And?
Sam: Look, it's definitely an exorcism, okay, there's just no evidence that it can kill a demon.
Dean: No evidence it can't. As far as I know, the only one of us who's been to Hell is Dad, okay? Don't you think he'd have picked up a trick or two down there, like which exorcisms actually work?
Sam: Maybe it works, okay? Look, I hope it does. We've just got to be sure, here.
Dean: Why aren't we sure?
Sam: Because we're not sure what's going on, Dean! Some guy blows his brains out, a girl is scared out of her wits...
Dean: Oh, wow, a few civvies are freaked out by some ghosts. Newsflash, Sam! People are supposed to be freaked out by ghosts!
Sam: Okay, well, did Dad tell you where to find the demon?
Dean: I'm waitin' on the call.
...
Dean: Oh, you're unbelieveable, you know that? I mean, for months, we've been trying to break this demon deal. Now, Dad's about to call us with the freaking address and you can't accept it?! The man is dead and you're still buttin' heads with the guy!
Sam: That's not what this is about--
Dean: Well, what's it about?!
Sam: The fact is, we've got no hard proof here! After everything, you're still just going on blind faith!
Dean: Yeah, well, maybe. Maybe that's all I've got!
(Long Distance Call)
15. You gotta chop a few lemons to make lemonade.
Zachariah: You wanna make an omelet, you gotta crack a few eggs.
(Lucifer Rising)
16. If I'm not mistaken, Crowley is watching Hitler's visit to the Army Group Centre in 1943... where a contingent of officers smuggled a bomb aboard his plane in the first of many attempts to assassinate him during Operation Valkyrie. Which says something about Crowley. I'm just not sure what.
17. This place is like a fortress and not just the kind that's built to keep things out, but the kind that keeps things in. Hm...
18. OMG! JO! I thought my ears and eyes were deceiving me! You're back! And you're foxy. Clever ploy, getting in like that. Good luck getting back OUT.
19. She's being the bait again. Drawing them out. Clearly very aware that these guys are going to have no trouble seeing her for what she is and demanding that she stay. She knocks one down and ...
...she wasn't in any real danger with these two boys and their demon killin' knife around.
Jo cuts the power... and Crowley, warm fireplace behind him. smiles.
"The Hellfire Club." It feels like a bad joke. And like everything else in hell, it is deadly serious.
Dream, in Sandman #4: "A Hope in Hell"
20. The Hardy Boys finally found him. Took them long enough. *snerk*
21. Have I mentioned how much his church, I mean his house, looks like ... The Castle? Those Hardy Boys are getting good at swiftly and silently setting traps for demons. Crowley, though, and is merely miffed that they painted on his priceless rugs. Are they more priceless than that gun you're holding, Crowley? I think not.
22. So they go to talk privately and I get sidetracked again running the scene back because they KEEP DOING THIS THING where the light in the boy's eyes reflects in JUST SUCH a way as to make them really GOLD. Especially with Dean. It's so... foreboding awesome.
*Dean's eyes flare gold*
*kiss kiss bang bang* "We need to talk... privately."
*Dean's eyes flare gold again*
*rewinds again*
23. Bela stole it and told Dean that she gave it to Lilith, but we know that's a lie. (The Real Ghostbusters)
Here's what I think happened. Bela took the Colt and handed it over in the hopes of saving her own keester, because Crowley asked for it. He was the one who brokered her deal and he knew that Bela could get it. He probably also comforted Lilith with the knowledge that the Winchesters no longer had the Colt. Now, why would he want to take the gun from them, only to give it right back to them later? Easy. Lilith was his boss, but she's dead, Jim. Using the Colt would have been how they tried to kill Lilith, but without it, Sam was cornered into developing his powers. Ruby was sabotaging the whole thing from beginning to end, of course, rigging the Colt before Bela ever stole it, to killing demons to gain Sam's trust, to ultimately being the presence to bend his path down the hellish road of good intentions. But. You know:
It'd be a funny old world if demons went round trusting one another.
-Good Omens
None of which gives me a warm fuzzy feeling about this.
Crowley: "Do you know how deep I could have buried this thing? There's no reason you, or anyone, should know this even exists at all. Except that I told you."
Sam: "You told us."
Crowley: "Rumors. Innuendo. Sent out on the grapevine."
Nope, not Chuck and Becky, y'all. Go back further.
John: Back in 1835, when Halley’s comet was overhead, the same night those men died at the Alamo, they say Samuel Colt made a gun. A special gun. He made it for a hunter - a man like us, only on horseback. The story goes, he made 13 bullets. This hunter used the gun a half dozen times before he disappeared, the gun along with him. Somehow, Daniel got his hands on it. They say... They say this gun can kill anything.
(Dead Man's Blood)
24. Crowley wants them to empty it into Lucifer's not-quite-fully-powered-without-Sam's-cro-magnon skull. Because he LIKES his rugs. And his brandy. And his Bentley. Can't we just go back to simpler times? He wants to get back to messing with destinies and selling people down the river! It's better than being an angel's cannon fodder!
Tahirire, thanks for doing the toxic_caps! Also, stop sticking random!Sam in my reviews. I am distracted enough as it is with Crowley's sales pitch to be not looking this gift horse in th.... *snuggles Sam*
25. Dear Sam,
If someone hands you a gun that can kill them, and you're in the habit of killing them, and then you aim it and pull the trigger? Points go to him for not laughing.
-Lid, who thinks that maybe since it's a six-shooter and you've shot this gun more times than the original hunter did, that you should have been able to tell from the weight that it wasn't loaded, perhaps.
P.S. Where do you suppose that Crowley got HIS 18 bullets from? I'M JUST SAYING.
26. ELLEN! *glomps*
Ellen doing SHOTS with Castiel! \0/
This is the first time they've ever met, right? This is the first time Ellen and Jo have met an ANGEL... right?
Wouldn't this be a kick in the...
It's as awesome as a barrel of monkeys on acid.
27. Boys! Dean doing research! Boys drinking and doing research together! And really talking! And blues! And golds! And greens!
28. Dean is the Master Li of Finding Demonic Omens in any city anywhere USA and smack yo mama. Which makes Sam the hair trigger guy with demon trust issues? Which makes Sam, and me, do this face.
29. Dean: "But if we think about it, you can't come with. Look, I go get Satan and screw the pooch? Okay, you know, we've lost a game piece. That, we can take. But if you're there? We are handing the devil's vessel right over to him. That's not smart. We should hire a look alike."
30. Because your eyes are yellow, too, Sammy. That's why.
31. *pauses* *stares warmly for about five minutes*
Dear Dean,
I know that you know that you are not dispensable puppy chow. Telling Sam that you are is not going to make it any easier for him to accept your Tokyo Rose routine. Also? Sam has to say yes. But, that's it, isn't it? You think you're gonna bite it, because it's happened before, in the future, *shakes head to clear THAT hurdle* and you don't want Sam to be there to try to save you by saying yes... do you? You're still terrified, thinking that being together is your greatest weakness. Well, guess what? Sam could be in freaking Ecuador and he'd still come save your ass. You'd do the same for him. I think. ... So, that's not the point. The point is how far you'll go to save each other. That's what it's always been about. And so far, you guys are pretty much tied. Pointing a finger means three are pointed back at you. I really hate that saying. Where is the beer?
-Lid
Lonely feelin' deep inside
Find a corner where I can hide
Silent footsteps crowdin' me
Sudden darkness, but I can see
No sugar tonight in my coffee No sugar tonight in my tea No sugar to stand beside me No sugar to run with me
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow no no Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow
In the silence of her mind
Quiet movements, well, I can find
Grabbin' for me with her eyes
Now I'm fallin' from her skies
No sugar tonight in my coffee No sugar tonight in my tea No sugar to stand beside me No sugar to run with me
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow un-dow-dow Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow
Jocko says yes and I believe him
When we talk about the things I say
She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him
When they're standin' in each other's way
You're driven back now to places you've been to
You're wonderin' what you're gonna find
You know you've been wrong but it won't be long
Before you leave 'em all far behind
Jocko said no when I came back last time
It's lookin' like I lost a friend
No use callin' 'cause the sky is fallin'
And I'm gettin' pretty near the end
A smoke-filled room in a corner basement
The situation must be right
A bag o' goodies and a bottle o' wine
We're gonna get it on right tonight
'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over
It's the new splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature takin' over
She's gettin' us all She's gettin' us all
Lonely feelin' Jocko says yes and I believe him
Deep inside
When we talk about the things I say
Find a corner
She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him
Where I can hide
When they're standin' in each other's way
Silent footsteps
You're driven back now to places you've been to
Crowdin' me
You're wonderin' what you're gonna find
Sudden darkness
You know you've been wrong and it won't be long
But I can see
Before you leave 'em all far behind
'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over
It's the new splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature takin' over
She's gettin' us all She's gettin' us all
32. I love her Misfits t-shirt. I love how she smiles at him. I love that he's so self-conscious that he keeps looking around the room instead of ogling her pretty face, the way he has with girls before. I was never attracted to the rash, dashing, bravado side of Dean. It didn't do anything for me. But this does.
33. That's not a Last Nite on Earth face. That's a Gee, I Really Should Have Said This Sooner face.
34. And just for the smallest moment, I thought that she really had kissed him, which would have made me smile, because she could still kiss him and then tell him YOU CRAZY. MAYBE LATER. Which is almost kinda what she did say.
35. And this was so perfect, I could see Ellen all over it, from that look she gave him to the words coming out of her mouth. It was so perfect. Wait, I said that already.
36. I ARE A CAMERA. I feel like spouting something about the observer changing the observed via the act of observing, but it's getting really late and everyone is kinda drunk.
37. I inherited an Asahi Pentax like that from my grandfather. I like the thread of things Japanese going there with Bobby. ... I don't use it much because I don't have the patience or the tools for the light metering. Some things, you always mean to do, but you never get around to doing it, and then Pffft.
Tyler Durden: You know why they put oxygen masks on planes?
Narrator: So you can breath.
Tyler Durden: Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing - 600 miles an hour. Blank faces, calm as Hindu cows.
Narrator: That's, um... That's an interesting theory.
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