5.14 My Bloody Valentine, Part 1/3
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THE ROAD SO FAR...
The Far Side of The Song Remains The Same
NOW...
Screencaps by the awesome toxic_caps.
Just to warn you, my main focus this time will be playing around with the cap order in several spots to highlight the beautiful execution of visual symmetry in this episode, because WOW. Like so.
hmmm hm hmmmmmmm...
deh dheh duh duehhhhhhhhhum...
You don't know how desperately hungry you are until it sneaks up and smacks you in the face... literally.
In Dean's case, though, he's hungry for Roxanne not to have to put on the red light. What he wants and needs more than anything is to know that he and Sam are not alone. Everyone in life goes through a phase where they try to fill an emptiness with the comforts of the world. Even with a whiskey bottle in his hand, Dean has lived and died enough times to know that those things are just a band-aid, a precursor to an honest talk with yourself about what's really missing. Dean wants his father back... and I'm not talking about his dad.
*loves this show*
The couple in the street go from talking and chastely smooching goodnight to heavy macking and second-basing and biting right in the middle of the kitchen floor...
...and she's a VIRGIN, someone who would NEVER do something like this; this is an important element that just might come back around later. *whistles*
eep.
Woah, it's coming back around sooner than I thought. Like, now.
*hands*
*more hands*
*even more hands*
I would like a show of hands now... who squirmed when the sweet, innocent virgin girl chewed the guy's ear off and spit it out? And who DIDN'T squirm when Sam took a broken piece of glass to this woman's throat? (oh hi, The End reference to the little Croats kid in the street playing with glass instead of a teddy bear, I did not see you there)
What? She's only a demon...
Ah, perception and alliance changes so many things, does it not?
Is this innocent blood? Is there such a thing left in the world? *ponders*
Good grief, where's our sweet, gullible Jesse, The AntiChrist, when you need him.
Dear Sam,
It's a Valentine. It's got blood on it. If you get close enough to smell it for demon-induced sulfur traces, I'm gonna start worrying about you a little more than usual. *cringes*
-Lid, who would like to remind you that you aren't actually Fenrir. kthx
I started to think about every girl he's drained in his pursuit of strength tensile enough to kill Lilith and how much it has bothered him to do it ever since Ruby and Dean made him face it - Jus In Bello - and yet he kept doing it because he had to, right up until he couldn't deal with the guilt anymore. *hides face*
... and this girl would NEVER do something like that... she was a victim, too.
Dear Show,
All the fluffy white bunnies of bzuh make me exceedingly happy.
If you keep up this pace, I'm gonna have to resort to a Hair Hare Meta.
-Lid
P.S. We like the mooooooon.
P.P.S. But not as much as cheese.
Dear Sam,
Remember how Alice never really got anywhere following that silly white rabbit around? And remember that Trix are for kids? And remember that Far Side comic where the rabbit and the turtle are both still at the starting line because they got flattened by a steamroller? That is soooo you guys right now.
-Lid, who has been lapping the sycophant sauce
Hearts AND Diamonds? And the hearts are touching? And diamonds stand for the crown chakra, right? Am I getting too deep into this? Let me fix that. HOW ABOUT THOSE SHOES.
AND DEAN DOES RESEARCH. More. Again. Because he is SMRT.
And it's easier to do with a beer in your hand, as opposed to driving.
Dear Dean,
... Yeah. I want one. No, just one.
-Lid
Sam comes in with food that isn't for Dean? This is new and disconcerting. But that's okay because Dean, he's really tired OF LIFE all of a sudden and what's better at making that better than drinking on an empty stomach? Uh, nothing. Maybe sleep. Oh yeah, we're not doing that either.
This is a gratuitous cap for the sheer purpose of remembering the last two times that I saw that cooler, which were when Sam was learning how to fix the Impala and when Sam needed a really cold place to sit after getting kicked in the foundations (Show, SERIOUSLY), which doesn't have anything to do with anything at all except that I like green, okay, and how Dean tries to be useful and how Sam mostly is depressing.
It amuses me to hear fans talking about how they're going back to watching the earlier seasons during breaks and whatnot because this season is just OMGTOODEPRESSING what with all the distance between Sam and Dean and I'm all, Uhhhhh. It's pretty much always been this way. We just had more hope before.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! CALL IN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES AND WE'LL THROW IN ANOTHER BROKEN HEART FOR FREE.
Dean has to buy twist-offs now.
This is sad no matter how you look at it. I'mma look at it this way. *catwise*
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Dear Sam,
It's hard, not being able to say anything about someone else's drinking because of your recent history, huh?
Sucks to be him, Bobby, you,
Lid
Oh, wait. Sorry. Wrong cap. Here.
Sam wants to text his demonic girlfriend, shut up.
Something really makes me want to see Dean make this face. Hm. Waaaaait a min-
It totally counts.
Dean tries to explain the drawbacks of having a possessive demonic chick who put on that red dress for a girlfriend. You know, like death, for starters.
Demonic Chick: HOW DARE YOU GO TO WORK AND LEAVE ME ALL ALONE.
Sam: YOU CAN'T FIRE ME WHEN I'M NOT GETTING PAID.
Dear Demonic Crazy Red-Dress Wearing Chick Who Looks Like Mary-Kate Olsen,
I would totally be tempted to shoot him for making that face repeatedly, too.
-Lid, who is never ever wearing red ever again
She puts the gun to her own head to put them both out of their misery and I wrote a story like that once where Dean puts the gun to his head and Sam pulls the trigger and OMGDONOTWANT. Who wants to bet that wouldn't even work, anyway? *drinks heavily*
It's like a walking prune juice stand. No sucking on the smoky drugs, Sam.
Pruny fingers. No.
"I think I put on the wrong tie this morning."
"We have braised heart, chopped heart, enlarged heart, black heart, jack of heart and soup."
"DISASSEMBLE?"
Dear Sam,
OMGWHY.
-Lid, who really wants you to stop doing that.
P.S. Dean wants you to be his Valentine. That's why he's handing you an upside down butt. Or a number 3. Or is it an E. ... A pitchfork?
Dear Sam,
If you were less prone to sticking gross things in your face this episode, I'd be more prone to snuggling.
But, guess what? No.
-Lid
If they're wearing markings on their HEARTS, who did it? Is it like radar, or is it a repellent for bad things?
How does THIS differ from STUFF CARVED INTO YOUR RIBS?
What is the difference between tagging a pair of hearts and tagging a pair of ribs?
Don't say, "It's the sauce". *headdesk*
TOLD ME TO COME BUT I WAS ALREADY THERE.
"Yes, this is most definitely a multi-dimensional upside down butt."
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a.k.a. more than you ever wanted to know about sacred geometry
Yeah, that's kinda the same face I made when I started reading this stuff. It gets better.
The angel brain in a man vat is disconcerted by its intense desire for food. It cautiously watches from a distance, waiting for the opportunity to-- oh yes, thank you. Please pass the blood ketchup.
I was about to wax poetical about it taking angels to find angels on this show, but then I got whacked upside the head by a Misha. ...
Dear Misha,
I still type Micha about 70% of the time. We have not yet reached an appropriate junction where cuddling is allowed. Please take this number and wait for... probably about 2 more years. It's nothing personal.
-Lid
WHAT. ARE THESE. FACES.
STOP. IN THE NAME OF LOVE. BEFORE YOU BREAK MY HEART.
PART 2