Reaction: Supernatural 4.07 -Reaction, meta and other things
This weekend I wound up gravely over-booked by reality, some fun stuff *waves at S., J., T. and Lurking Wombat who now know how insane I am until I write up a reaction post* but most of it stressful, tedious, and annoying. And very annoying. And work, which is so far past annoying it's coming out the other side into psychotically cheerful. Anyway.
Reaction may contain profanity. It may also contain serious crack. Actually, that last one's a definite. Also grave butchery of the English language. More than usual. And the snark may be a little out of control in spots. Fair warning.
Spoiler Timeline
-Oct 21: Rolled forward from last time - Understandable distress expressed by part of the fan population. Something will be happening in 4.07 which will make Pagans and/or Wiccans possibly violently furious and it's going to be set on Samhain or Halloween. Maybe a case fic, involving 'witches' of some sort.
I hope Kripke doesn't screw with Samhain too much, but after what he did with Christmas... erk. Yeah.
-Oct 24: Promo Panic partial failure due to snickering about Jensen lip synching to "Eye of the Tiger" with the leg guitar and all. Caught "On the night before Halloween..." Yep. Halloween it is.
-Oct 25: Gah. Unexpected TV listing. Blah. Title for 4.07 "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester." ...Seriously? Hee. Episode blurb for 4.07: ... a witch is sacrificing people to summon a dangerous demon. Ah. Yeah. I think I see what the pagans/wiccan concern is about now, I think. Sigh.
I know show uses the word, but I've kind of got it mentally filtered. Show's 'witches' are being tricked by a demon. Actual witches/pagans/wiccans are completely different, and so anything show says about witches has no bearing on them. But most viewers won't see that, and so the net result for people of pagan or wiccan faith having another negative stereotype in the media is not cool. Maybe this time the show'll have a better explainer than the half-line dismissal they had in "Malleus Maleficarum."
So, anyway, external concerns aside, back to the spoiler. We will have a deluded person who believes he/she's a witch sacrificing people to summon a demon. A dangerous demon. So much different than a regular demon. *eyeroll*
Is this a Seal maybe? They've got quite a few to plow through yet, and I'm willing to bet they're going to go right down to the wire on it, if not over... I think it's probably a Seal. We're due for a Seal. *nods*
-Oct 25: What the hell is it with sites having TV listings pop up now??? Different blurb. The demon being summoned is called Samhain.
*massive facepalm*
Okay. Yeah. Now I see why some people are getting preemptively pissed. Crap. And I bet they're going to make the demon to the reason it's called Samhain, aren't they. Nothing about Old Irish or Summer's End or assemblies or anything.
Damn it all, Kripke.
Oh, and Castiel's showing up with a specialized angel called Uriel to nuke the site from orbit smite the whole town. Wheeeee. There should be some good scrambling and tension from that at least. Betting on some kind of direct confrontation or interaction between Sam and either Castiel or the... what? Smiting specialist? Because that meeting's also seriously due and with two angels running around doing things like planning to nuke a town, it's gonna be pretty impossible to keep them strictly interacting with Dean and not Sam, unless Ruby's back to have Sam off doing things and she's such a major coward I doubt she'd be anywhere near a town with angelic cross-hairs on it.
Hee, Sam meeting an angel will be interesting because even with the whole 'demon-blood/-tutor/-powers' thing, Sam's still praying and has faith, so meeting an actual angel... will... oh.
Great Pumpkin. I get it. Heh.
Sooooo. Let's head on over to some doomed town the pumpkin patch and try to crush revitalize Sam's Linus Van Pelt's innocence-maintaining belief in a benevolent higher power, the Great Pumpkin, shall we?
Reaction, Crack, Meta, Theories, Speculation, Snark, and more Crack for Supernatural 4.07 - "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"
... hm.
Okay, so, this reaction will contain some mild to medium crackification in order to cope with... certain... errors in research which were in serious danger of harshing my squee. *grits teeth* SO...
WARNING: Contains attempts at LolSpeak, LeetSpeak or other mangled typography in the process of crackification. I don't know if people will find it amusing or offensive. :-/
Also, I would like to state at the outset that crack-inducing research errors aside, I am full of squee for this episode. SO MUCH!
-Hi back of Jess's head! Miss you! *waves* How's that football afterlife working for you?
-Hi every frigging monster ever. Wow!
-Hi Castiel! Hi Seals! Hi Lilith! I knew you were all coming tonight (or being referenced, Lilith *pats*) from the spoilers, so no worries.
-"I can throw you back in." Ooo... Hm. Naw. Gonna be a while yet before that particular plot bomb goes off, I think.
-Wow, this town's nuts about Halloween. Plastic skeletons, yard displays two days in advance... I've seen exactly one non-shop-display pumpkin this year, and it wasn't even carved.
-That is indeed a well-smeared baby.
-However, my town also doesn't have mall brawls over buckets of non-chocolate genericandy two days beforehand either.
-I like this woman and her admonishing dolphin noises.
-Poison candy? No, it's GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Inside of mouth cam is sooooooo wrong!!!1! I am squarely blaming the TWOP recapper Demian's odontophobia for that frigging Mouth Cam. Gyah! (Also, why do I suddenly suspect someone on set took off with the Mouth Cam at some point during filming and chased people with it and the footage'll wind up on the blooper reel? *ponders*)
-Now that that's out of the way, we are using the Mouth Cam because GYAAAAAAAAH@!! Razor blade! Roof of the mouth! Gyah!Gyah!Gyah!Gyah!Gyah!Gyah! Gaaaaah! I hate that urban legend, the pins and razor blades in Halloween treats one! Demian from TWoP has a lot to answer for, I think. *nods*
-The boys get there the next day? There's a speedy reaction time. This guy's death can't have hit the papers yet. Hm. Maybe it's a "Bobby says there's demonic whatnot signs gathering over here" kind of deal, although a 'death by urban legend' would flag itself rather quickly for any hunter.
-Also rather surprised the local authorities are absent, but I guess maybe it was early in the day yesterday (?) and the intense police presence and "did you feed your husband razor blades" stuff happened then. *nods* Hm. The boys are getting a lot bolder with the 'Hi, Hi we're FBI' thing this year. They've gotten bold since Henrickson had them declared dead. Wonder if that's gonna become an issue again... It'd make a fine wrench to throw in the whole 'stopping the opening of the Seals' mission. But who knows, maybe there's some interference being run on their behalf... hm.
-"The candy was never in the oven." I do like this person. Mrs. Wallace. She's level-headed and logical despite horrific circumstances.
-Trivia note: The time when Sam and Dean are talking to the victim's wife is approximately 10:20. Clock on wall by fridge.
-Hm. On the chalk board by the fridge there it says "Milk" and "Honey" Heh. There's an oblique biblical reference... So, since someone had to have written that deliberately, what they intended to imply there? *ponders* (Um. Incidentally, beware if you google "Land of Milk and Honey". It... uh, turns up some... unexpected results O.o)
-Yep, hex bag under fridge. No surprise. One down. *ticks off spoiler* So, there is a person who has been duped by a demon into thinking they're a witch running around killing people. Loooooove the silent Winchester communication. :-)
-Heh. "Maybe a woman?" I am floored by the absolute subtlety of Sam. Oh so very floored. Really. Pft. Heh. Bet it's a man this time. Men can be just as easily duped by a demon.
-Hi credits! You're kind of random and scattered... and late... but mostly out of the way, so cool.
-"If someone wanted to kill my husband, don't you think they'd find a better way than a razor in a piece of candy he might eat?" Yay for victim logic! I really really like her! She's practical and logical yet so very out of her depth without knowing it, and she makes disapproving dolphin noises. She needs to open a bar with Ellen. *nods*
-Hee. Dean will not let its recent use as a murder weapon dissuade him from eating candy. If he waited a week he could've paid half price though.
-"For us every day is Halloween." Not so much with the candy though, hm Sam? Let your brother ravage his blood sugar for a couple days. Bet they didn't have candy in Hell, unless it's the stuff reviewed here...
-100 year-old charred baby bones. Eeek. What's the herb in the hex bag? Goldfrey? Gold Thread? My sound went muddy. *googles* Since Goldfrey isn't turning up any results, I say it's Gold Thread which is not extinct, and apparently doesn't normally do that curly thing.
-"He made vanilla seem spicy." Heeeee I love that line. I know people like that.
-Party party party. It does kind of suck as a party but really, it's the day before and a school night so the only people there in full-on costume would be the desperate or the hard-core, and hard-core party people aren't usually into the kindergarten decorations and the jillion mega-watt lighting scheme. Turn off half the lights, get some dry ice and crank the music, maybe. Right now it looks like they're waiting for the guy's mom to come downstairs with Kool-Aid and Rice Krispie Squares. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just a little... young for the crowd. Still, the night before? *headshake*
-Written by Julie Siege, new to the show, apparently. Directed by Charles Beeson, who among other things directed "Time is on My Side" Hm.
-Oh wait, there's something happening at a mausoleum actually on Halloween, so this is just a warm-up party. I see.
-Ah, the good old traditional bobbing for bacteria, viruses, retainers, pre-chewed gum, hair, spit... oh! And apples. Bleccchhh. Cheerleader has some kind of unnaturally-hinged jaw to get an apple that fast and that cleanly. Also, that water is far too clear to be genuine apple-bobbing water.
-Short skirts and wet white tops. *facepalm* Yeesh. Teenage hormones. And now "Wow she can really hold her breath" sounds lewd for some reason.
-Gahhhhh. I've had a thing about getting trapped under the surface of water since I managed to bypass my parents' "absolutely nothing scary or weird ever" policy and see The Watcher in the Woods. Scared the lights out of me, and I apparently never saw the end because *snerk* seriously?
-Tip the tank over you fools! Oh, wait, it's probably stuck to the floor by 'plot monster says no' effects.
-It's boiling. Seriously? *sighs and tosses laws of physics and thermodynamics out the window and wonders why the heck they were lurking around in the first place because, hello, magic* *handwaves*
-Eeewww! Boiled head! So very very glad there were no effects for that beyond some blistering and a red face because I was hiding behind my hands in case there was some oozy CGI face-meltage! I was seeing... gyah... *is shaky* The imagination has an unlimited special effects budget.
-Yay suits incidentally. Did the boys swap ties from last week?
-A specialized apple bobbing tank with little ghosty pictures on the side. Who is that much of an apple-bobbing fanatic that they have a dedicated tank? Is there an apple-bobbing league? Although I guess the days of the ubiquitous aluminum washtub are long gone. *laments*
-Heh. "Two words. Jail bait." Is it two words? I suppose Sam would know, with the law thing at Stanford and all.
-Yeah, that yellow tone to the water in the tank now. That's more like apple-bobbing water colour I remember. Now with cooked apples and boiled head residue. Bleaugh!
-Agent Seger. Which makes Sam Agent "Silver Bullet Band"? Which... kind of works actually. *mentally rocks out to "Old Time Rock and Roll", as one must*
-Of course cheerleader girl has no idea about anything. She's completely innocent. Totally. And show is making such a point of establishing her innocence that I'm dead certain it's getting overturned later. *nods*
-Very subdued hotel room by the usual standards... The layout is very similar again...
-On the desk behind the laptop is hex bag, candy wrappers, coffee, burger in tinfoil and... odd bottle. No idea. Also, even though there's no overt badging, I still say this laptop's a Mac. You can get cases without the glowing Apple Logo on them.
-Dean's doing research!!! *glee* And totally doesn't have porn loading in the background!
-'Maybe it isn't a grudge, maybe it's a spell.' See, this is why I hate spoilers. I already knew that, so I've been coasting passively through the ep so far. My brain doesn't activate nearly as much on the observational level if I know what's happening, and I just passively watch instead of getting totally involved. Arg. *kicks TV listings, and ticks off another spoiler*
-Ah, strange bottle is beer. Of course. I thought it was some kind of funky shaving cream and was confused.
-"Sam Hane". Who is a demon. Who the day is named for. Who is the origin of Halloween. *breathes* It's not pronounced- That's totally-! Research-! GNH!!! *bites things and breathes some more* Dammit Kripke!! This, this.... this is gonna need some serious spin to cope with. :-/
-"Sam Hane" Okay, so... it's not Samhain, right? It's some demon taking what it thinks is the name to either piss off the celts/pagan/wiccans/mythology buffs/people who can use Google and Wikipedia and also simultaneously to try to prop up the whole "Serve me and you'll be a *finger quotes* witch *end finger quotes*". Also a demon who can't pronounce things for crap. Samhain, which means "Summer's End" or "Summer Assembly" or "Harvest Festival" depending on where you Google, is pronounced "SAHW-in". Dumbass demons.
-Also, it's a demon who's gone and re-written parts of history and mythology to make himself seem greater, and to support his duping the easily dupable and making them think they're 'witches'. Like he hacked the SPN-verse central myth and legend structure and splatted himself into it. In bad, intermittent LolDemon:
"SAM HANE iz toatally awesum + iz why therz Halloween and not 'coz of sum season thing 'coz it's really named after me and I didn't name myself after it, no, 'cuz I'm awesum 'n' humans wear masks to hide from me and make jack'o'lanterns and get all the candy for me but I want blood sakrifices becoz I'm awesum and feerce and will take over the world if not apeeeeezed!! FEER TEH PWR OF SAM HANE!!! Also Azazel's a loser."
(Am not. BTW, Dad says you're grounded for the next 600 years for being a dumbass.)
-So, lore is messed up due to demonic self-aggrandization and universe-hacking, which really could be as simple as encouraging his gullible followers to write books about him and his version of things and disseminating them throughout occult lore, and Sam simply missing a "this is what the people demons have tricked into thinking they're witches believe" comment to preface the Sam Hane stuff, but I need crack to cope with this level of research botchery, so, SAM HANE, Hacker LolDemon.
-*tests disbelief suspension, finds it a little squashy, but holding, and hopes for lack of major plot holes that might make it bottom out and flatten the squee*
-Every 600 years, which is tomorrow night, in the year someone's trying to open the seals. How conveeeeeenient. Though I guess with these seals there's bound to be a lot of "every x years" things coming due. Hm. You'd think someone might have noticed that. *ponders vaguely about Aztec and Mayan calendrical cycles*
-Leprechauns. Small hands. Hee. Is this some heretofore unknown Lucky-Charms-induced trauma, Dean?
-Ghouls. They haven't had one of those yet have they? Not on the show at least?
-"SAM HANE has teh bestest partees! Evry 600 years, all skeery pplz invited! Bring frendz + bheer!" Sorry, sorry. Like I said, It's helping me cope with the lamentable 'lore'.
-Dean + Candy again, aw. Better clean those wrappers out of the Impala, though.
-"Big steamy pile of nothin'." Hee. They've had those before. Yay Winchester repeated phraseology!
-"No, Sam, I mean sonofabitch." Ha! Yeah, they know we're paying attention. Has there been a single episode of Supernatural where no one says 'sonofabitch'? *ponders*
-Widow may seem to be coping well, with having a sitter in the day (or two) after her husband's grisly death, but really, with the amount of sudden-death-related bureaucracy and planning she's got to deal with, plus personal stuff to deal with obviously, a sitter is very practical to keep an eye on the baby while she's out dealing with those things, since she's apparently got no friends or family or they'd be around trying to help her, yet she's all alone and answering her own door. I really do like her. Although since cheerleader girl is looking kind of complicit in something that requires baby bones, her choice of babysitters is alarming.
-The boys are staying at the Moonlight Motel, #126, in case anyone missed that oddly prominent key fob slide.
-600-year-old hag? Wait, what? Okay, so, there's some unspoken lore thing that happened off camera where there's a single person preserved by 'Teh awesum Pwrz of SAM HANE SUPER-DEMON!!1!', just so they can raise him? Which makes sense because the promotional skills of SAM HANE aren't up to duping generations-long strings of faithful acolytes who think they are witches but really aren't. He picks Ms. Most Easily Duped of 1408AD and keeps her alive and kicking until he's ready for the next epic 'All Bad Guyz' kegger. Or Mr. Most Easily Duped because the pointed 'a woman' of Sam's still makes me think the gullible deluded one is male this time. Although I doubt Ms. Cheerleader Tracy is fully innocent with the lie about knowing the husband of the awesome woman who makes disapproving dolphin noises and all, but we'll see.
-"Cheerleader. Mmm...." Dean's been reading the fanfic, apparently. I've seen Gen versions of that one, even. Somewhere... The exchange of facial expressions between Sam and Dean are making me lose control of my notepad with the giggling.
-Ooo, masks. Oooo... A melty sort of 'Star Trek Salt-vampire' mask that triggers Dean's 'noises of Hell' flashback. Oooo... eek. I think this theory might really be right. I can almost see the effects sequence. O.o
-Sam: "All that angst." Dean: "Hunh?" Hee. Sam remembers the angst, Dean remembers the... giant clay bong. *facepalm* Sigh. *mutters*
-Incidentally, a giant bong as a high school art project? Yeah, that's really gonna work there, lame-party-throwing bong dude. Enjoy your lungful of hot mud.
-Geddy and Lee? Now, I'm all for the whole silly names/faking people out to get info, but wasn't Dean just using a different alias yesterday? Agent Seger? Just because you've changed ties doesn't mean you have to change aliases. Maybe Sam was violently opposed to being Agent 'Silver Bullet Band'
-It's totally the teacher. I say he's the head gullible deluded guy trying to dupe his own gullible deluded acolyte and having it backfire on him.
-Emancipated teen. Ooo. Yeah, that doesn't look good for the cheerleader flying solo. Hm. Wonder if this is a kind of Heroes reversal. "Gank the cheerleader, save the world." Although really it could indicate 'marginalized teenager that lacks a personal support system and is viewed as easy pickings by deluded demon-serving teacher' as easily as '600-year-old demon pawn.' If it's the former, then she's probably dead at her apartment or will be otherwise missing.... Okay, missing, so either prepping for, or becoming the third blood sacrifice. Still fifty-fifty.
-That spacesuit costume is awesome! If a kid made that himself and showed up on my doorstep (if I had one and the building wasn't in lockdown on Halloween) and I had no candy, I'd give him cash. Though really, trick or treating in the middle of the afternoon at a hotel is very much not a good idea. And no, whining will not help.
-Ooo! Sam's commanding bellow! Missed you! *pats*
-Castiel, sitting in their hotel room brooding. Not surprised given that whole 'smite the town' thing that's in the works from the spoilers. Speaking of which, where's your buddy? Ah, skulking broodily by the window. He looks a little like Henrickson from behind, though maybe a little broader. I had a second of hope they'd got Charles Malik Whitfield back to play the combat specialist angel. Anyway, hi Uriel, who's name and purpose I know from the TV guide blurb so your lurking by the window seems less ominous and more... strumpy.
-Oh and *kicks spoilers to a fine pulp for sucking all the tension out of the episode so far*
-Hee, Sam fangirling the angels. That's... kind of sad, all things considered. Poor Sam, no doubt about to get his nose rubbed in something, one way or another.
-And off to a fine start with Castiel looking at Sam's hand like he doesn't know what to do with it, which is interesting, but a little weird since humans have been shaking hands since the second century BCE. Unless he was actually looking at Sam's hand like it was a dead rat, which may be how it looked to Sam. Oh poor Sam, you're in for a world of hurt here. But nice recovery from Castiel with the two-handed clasp... or... hm. That looks an awful lot like how Missouri held Sam's hand in Home... Hm, did Castiel do some kind of psychic/angelic scan thing there?
-"Boy with the demon blood. Glad to hear you've stopped the extracurricular activities." Yeah. Ow. Heh. Castiel looks a little nervous shaking Sam's hand.
-Castiel calls the demon 'Sam Hane' too. Sigh. "SAM HANE haz haxxored teh angel database of hooman mythology n'stuff. SAM HANE pwns allll!!" *headshake* Or Castiel and Uriel are going on the buggy human records, but... ehn. *handwaves*
-Seal. Yep. *checks off spoiler*
-Getting rather tired of the back of Uriel's head. He's gone from ominous to strumpy to total poser. There's dramatic delay of character introduction, and then there's fannying about. Although it could be that Uriel's just jealous because even though he's the special combat angel, Castiel's intro kicked more ass than he could ever hope to kick.
-*briefly notes while VCR is paused that Castiel's had the coat and suit repaired and is pleased* Hopefully this 'vessel' guy he's in got repaired too.
-Oooo... Castiel's nervous! (They're also working some seriously whacky camera angles to make it seem like he's not so much shorter than the rest of these guys. Hee)
-"Cloaked to our methods" Reeeeally.... *shrug* "Nothing kan beet teh metaphysical firewall of SAM HANE!!!1!" *handwaves*
-"This is Uriel, he's what you might call... a 'specialist'." Hee! He sounds so exasperated! Castiel's whole aggravated/nervous "don't wanna do this/Uriel's a massive nutbag" head turn/tilt is an awesome and very small thing that tells so much about the characters and their interrelation. His nervousness is awesome, and still all subtle and Castiel-like. It's awesome.
-Ooo! Wing time for Uriel?? Nope. Not in the budget. Ah well. That's probably for the best.
-So, since we've finally been introduced, hello Uriel, "nuke the site from orbit" angel. Uriel, who has a metric assload of lore even at a basic level, including: He checked the doors of Egypt for lamb's blood during the plague (but the Angel of Death did the smiting). He holds the key to the Pit during the End Times (so... he's got the Colt?). He contacted Noah about the upcoming Great Flood. There's also a note about him discussing the judgment passed on the fallen angels and the two main leaders Samyaza and Azazel. Yeah. Azazel. Interesting, no? *giggles randomly at 'Samyaza'* Loads of other stuff, most of it referenced in non-standard places, I'm guessing from the notations on the Wiki page, but certainly more than a few notes about being the "Angel of Thursday" for good ol' Castiel. Who, no matter how big a gun this Uriel is, has that one thing Uriel will never get. The most ass-kickingest character intro ever. Castiel with the calmly walking through exploding things versus Uriel with the staring strumpily out a hotel window for waaaaay too long? Castiel wins. I know I said it before, but it bears repeating. *pats Castiel*
-"Both of you, you need to leave this town immediately, because we're about to destroy it." *checks spoiler list* Okay, looks like the spoilers are done with. Cool! So, aside from knowing that there's no way they're actually nuking the town because it's not sweeps or an inbound hiatus, now we just need to get from point A "Screw it. Evacuate and vaporize the town" to point b "Stopping the major harm from the Seal getting broken in a manner which lets the town survive".
-...and now I start feeling nervous and focussed on the show and the plot. *crumples spoiler list and tosses aside*
-[Arg, commercials... endless... inane... sucking will to live.... gaaaah...]
-Smite! Dean said smite! Yay for smiting! \o/
-"This isn't the first time I've... purified a city." So, Egypt then? Also, a thousand people isn't a city. More of a village. But hey, get your smiting in where you can I guess.
-Castiel is really not into this city-smiting stuff, is he? Aw.
-"We'll stop this witch before she summons anyone!" It's not the girl... it's her teacher, she's his pawn. Sam and Dean'll work with her somehow to get the teacher exposed, who will bugger off to be a pest another day while they're dealing with 'SAM HANE L33T Mythology HaXXor'. Yeah, the Seal's getting broken, no doubt, one way or another. In order to work out the season arc I think they are working on, they need to get right down to the wire. Or across it. Eeek. At this point, I put nothing past Kripke. *glee*
-Castiel... is looking very oddly at Dean while Sam is talking about catching the demon-deluded person before she/he can break the Seal. There's, like, a cut from Dean looking pissed off to Castiel and something about the way his eyes shift as he's looking at Dean... Like he's searching for a specific response or reaction from Dean. Like he's found himself trapped in an unconscionable situation of having to let Uriel nuke a town and is looking to Dean for some way of getting out of it. That's... really interesting... Hunh.
-Hee! Misha looks so adorably pocket-sized in amongst all the tall-fellows here. :-D
-...Mud monkeys? Seriously? I bet you think you've got your Boss convinced that you're using that as a term of endearment. Uriel is a major-league snob.
-"You're supposed to show mercy."/"Says who?" Sam. Dude. Aw. The crushed disillusionment. Aw.
-Castiel's awesome nervousness, doubt, "Help me I'm working with a dangerous smite-happy psycho" face, yet still quiet, intense and on the most surfacey surface, calm. Only not really. Do angels get ulcers?
-Heh. Hammers. Dr. Horrible has altered the meaning of 'hammer' for me a little, I snickered.
-Ooo. Castiel's face! Ooo, is there the slightest hint of a snarl from Castiel after Dean calls them hammers? His nose does a little twitch thing there. Ooo. I so want to see Castiel just lose it at some point in time. Hopefully not on a Winchester, but... eeek.
-'The plan is Just. Because it comes from Heaven.' Hoo. Aside from the widely varying potential reactions to that statement... yeah. Sam's faith is getting tested here for sure. Will he be able to retain it if he's being told that Heaven and Angels aren't like Sunday School said, although... hm. Must think. It's also sounding a little like Castiel's trying to convince himself, and that's... worrisome, yet fantastic. In a scary way.
-"When your father gave you an order, didn't you obey?" Ooohooo, Castiel invokes the spectre of John Winchester to get Dean to understand. Heh. That analogy's gonna backfire on you Castiel... John's last order to Dean is one he can't obey, and spent most of a season questioning it, so the whole 'Obey without question' thing doesn't really apply.... Hm. *ponders*
-Ohhhh... Dean. Using himself as a bargaining chip. Ooo. Also, hm. Do I note from Uriel a lack of concern over evacuating Sam...?
-Heheh. Microscopic smirk from Uriel at 'compensating for something' followed by a split second "Holy fuck!" face from Dean because he just faced down another angel.
-Aw. Is Uriel whining a little about not getting to smite things?
-OMG THAT LITTLE SHIT EGGED THE IMPALA!? Alright spacesuit boy, I retract all brownie points and hope you, you- ooo! So now Dean and Sam have to stop in the middle of hunting down deluded people who might bring about the end of the world before the egg hardens and bonds the shell on and makes it damn near impossible to get off without chipping the paint. Little bastard! If the world is destroyed it's all your fault, spacesuit boy! I hope you're freaking happy.
-Or what Dean said. ASTRONAUT!
-Lesson here: Don't egg awesome cars, it might destroy the world.
-Disillusioned Sam is emo because angels are mean. Good grief, you know angel lore, Sam, you pointed out way back in Houses of the Holy that angels were warriors (a scene I'm expecting to see in a previously any day now) Why is this such a shock?
-"Some a-hole" *facepalm* Censors? Asshole? Really? Or is Dean just avoiding calling them assholes. *thinks for a split second* Naw. Censors. And, indeed, righteous is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
-Aw, Dean's little pep talk about keeping faith in the face of disappointing angels is very aw-worthy and still so very Dean. Not that the two were ever mutually exclusive.
-Why exactly does Sam think the bone was burned recently, and not a hundred years ago when the kid died? Also, bone char is produced at about 400 to 500 Celsius, or 752 to 932 F, so a soldering iron could do it too. Maybe it was the shop teacher? Or they could be toasted over a Bunsen burner, easily, maybe it was a chemistry teacher? Can't trust those chemistry teachers, always up to something... Yeah, no. It's totally the art guy. A teacher that lets a student attempt to make a functional bong in class is more than likely someone who is easily duped. *nods*
-Chisel, Sam. It'd be quieter and faster if you use one. There's a chisel right- oh, never mind. Whack away. Sigh. Stealth thy name is not Sam Winchester.
-Those are some very clean baby bones. Like... boiled. Ew.
-"Plumbing on two legs" Ya know, Uriel's gotta be king of the spin-meisters to make stuff like that fly with his Boss, since Lucifer suppsedly, (according to Casey in 3.04) fell for refusing to kneel to humans/lesser beings or something. "Well, monkeys are so cute and clever, and plumbing, ah, has always fascinated me. Yes. Yay plumbing."
-Aw, Uriel's grumpy. Must be the lack of smiting. *pats*
-Ooo. Dean has potential. OOOOOOO... *flail*
-Grab Dean, bug out and nuke the site from orbit, says Uriel. Just Dean. Sam isn't included in Uriel's little evacuation plan. Yeah, I doubt anybody'd be happy with the results of that.
-"You. Know. Our. True. Orders." OUR TRUE ORDERS!!! *FLAAAAAAAAAAAIL* ooo. Ow. I think I strained my shoulder there. Eeeee! Secret angel orders!
-Basement sacrifice time. Hi cheerleader, not surprised to see you here.
-They seriously need a restraints consultant on this show. The way her hands are bound and the amount of shifting she's doing there, she'd be able to pull a hand free in about five seconds if she flexes her wrists the right way. *tsks* But maybe being susceptible to being duped by a demon makes you incompetent at tying knots. Or maybe SAM HANE can only hold his 'evil guyz epic kegger' every six hundred years because his idiot followers can't tie victims up properly and the sacrifices all keep escaping too early. Which is why they picked up the hex bag trick from Ruby's old duping-demon's crowd because it doesn't rely on the ability to tie knots. Aha! I have solved the conundrum.
-Pft. I see they do still have the bullet-time camera. No idea why they used it there, but yay for using the toys! \o/
-Hi pottery guy *pats*. Altar. Hm... yeah, not so much. Kind of cluttered and kitschy, but this is after all an altar to summon 'teh feerce SAM HANE' who is probably deeply into kitsch, excess mismatched candles, having a choice of three different steel knives and the skull of a... what? Dwarf goat? That's just sad. For an altar this guy's had the chance to perfect over the last 600 years it looks a little like the 5-cent table at a garage sale. Either that or the 600-year-old dupe lost track of time, realized his deadline was coming up and threw it together three days ago with stuff from the local Dollar Store. But maybe that's the way SAM HANE wants it, because he's a demon that likes a good bargain. Yeah. *nods*
-Heh. Choice of three perfectly fine steel knives on the altar-thing and he uses the crappy uncured iron one with no edge. Tradition's nice and all, but there's something to be said for getting at a victim's blood before said victim dies of old age.
-See? No edge at all on that knife. Ah, but this is the knife SAM HANE has decreed his followers use. SAM HANE prefers dull weaponry because his easily duped acolytes are less likely to injure themselves with them. Also, dull weaponry hurts more. He heard that from some Sheriff guy in the 12th century once. Feer teh mite of SAM HANE!
-Hee. Even the cheerleader looks like she's rolling her eyes.
-Yay! Bullets! \o/
-HA! Okay, she's in on it too. Mr. and Ms. Most Easily Duped of 1408AD. Whee! Double-crossing dupes! Did she say mother there? Or brother? I think it was brother.
-Ooo. Okay, Sam and Dean on the floor writhing in pain is *koff* nice and all but... is this a "beam razor blades into their guts" thing or what? Because that could get messy.
-Good grief she talks a lot! Although I guess 600 years with no one to whine to about how much of a pompous son of a bitch her co-dupe-ee (and brother?) is would do that, I guess. She's never read the Evil Overlord handbook regarding monologging has she?
-Heh. I'm not sure what she's supposed to be saying, but I get the feeling sloppy incantations run in the family. Sounds like the first word she says is a mispronunciation of 'Vegemite'
-Sam dips his hand in the dead guy's blood and... smearing... Sam?!! Dude! Eeek! What the hell! O.O If this is one of Ruby's tricks, Dean will kick your ass!!
-Cheerleader also hasn't read the Evil Overlord handbook regarding the wisdom of summoning things larger than her head. Sigh. Gullible dupe.
-Ooo, crack in the basement floor and smoke... hm. so... Hell is actually underground? *shrug* Okey dokey. Could be underground and extra-planar simultaneously. Gates and stuff. *nods like that made any kind of sense at all*
-Behold! It is SAM HANE!!! And he nudges the cement crack shut behind him. Feeer teh politeness of SAM HANE!!
-Why are the white eyes reminding me of Alice Cooper? Also, SAM HANE has blurry vision. Hee. Yeah you get that with the cheaper novelty contacts I've heard. SAM HANE's desire for a bargain will ruin him.
-Sam and Dean look very unpained on the floor there... did the blood on the face (O.o) fix it or did the cheerleader just forget to maintain the "make people writhe in pain on the floor" spell.
-Heh. SAM HANE is a cheesy demon. Not a cheese demon though. Those are nasty and don't have nearly as much mention in the press. Because they lack teh feerceness of SAM HANE.
-Hands on sides of head, she's totally getting her idiot neck snapped. Yes?
-Oh barf with the "my love" "beauty beyond time" crap. And the fresh corpse mackage. Well, not quite fresh, since he's been alive over 600 years. Bleh.
-Yep! Snap neck. See? There goes Ms. Easily Duped of 1408AD. Not a witch, just someone who was fooled into thinking being the tool of a demon made her one.
-Hee. I don't know if it's something about the way the guy is standing or holding his head, but it looks like he has Kim Manners' hair.
-Okay. I know they are playing dead, but the sight of Sam and Dean bloody and motionless on the floor in front of a demon (even SAM HANE, super-demon of the Sescentennial Evil Doodz Kegger) is making me anxious.
-Oh. Masks. *eyeroll* Hee. Gave it a shot. That's happened before, and I believe Dean still owes him an ass-kicking for the 'go play chicken with the racist truck' thing back in Season 1.
-[Why does the Skittle man have a desk, and non-voice activated equipment? His workplace is not accessible to him. It's cruel.]
-[OMG Demonic smoke cloud stink spray! Heeeeee! Is it possible to bless an aerosol can of air freshener? *ponders*]
-Ah, and teh TROO brilliance of SAM HANE random reality-hacking kegger demon's tremendous P/R trickery comes to light! The whole 'They wear masks to hide becuz I M so Feerce and do it every year!' thing makes it possible for him to walk among teh mortals, because they think he's in a costume, bwaha! Except it makes teh mortals invisible to him because he believes his own press! Bwaha! Feer teh foresightedness of SAM HANE! Or not.
-[Sorry, that's probably getting annoying, but it's the only coping mechanism I have for that aspect of this episode. Well, that and booze and I need to work in the morning. :-P]
-Egg cleaned off, yay. Kid, you are so lucky stopping to clean off the Impala didn't delay them from saving the world.
-"Where would you go to raise the dark forces of the night?" High tea at the Empress hotel. What? It's a strategically sound location and any place that charges close to a day's wage for a cup of tea and a cucumber sandwich must be evil.
-OOO... Sam wants to use the powers.... why? The host is totally dead, no need to worry about carving up the host who's a 600 year-old fool... hm. I'm thinking I might be right about the Sam demon-power addiction too. Except Sam's not resisting much here... Eeeek.
-Ah, SAM HANE, evil kegger demon being a traditionalist as we saw with the dull iron knife, picks the cemetery as the epicenter of evil. Where there's a bunch of kids with a recently dead friend partying in the mausoleum with a freshly thrown ceramic bong. Target-rich environment.
-Okay, so, the kids are wearing masks, costumes, etc, right? So 'teh grate and Powrfl SAM HANE' can't see them... So, why is he locking the big iron gate to keep them trapped inside with the zombies and ghosts? Maybe he can't see, them, but he can still hear them. If they were wearing one of those voice-disguising Cylon or Cyberman masks, he probably couldn't hear them, but they aren't so he can. Ah hah! Or he's closing the door to keep his early-bird evil kegger guests from leaving before the real party starts. *nods* Either way, and aside from all the ludicrous nitpickery, him locking them in the crypt in utter calm and silence is about the creepiest damn thing ever, and hits a personal eek for me, but it's so damn cool I don't care. *peers through fingers*
-"Uh, Don? You, uh, you locked us in." Heh. This is what happens when you huff hot mud, kid. Your clue phone gets disconnected. ;-P
-Ooo! Zombies! Massive splattage! Man that kid had high blood pressure!
-Gyah! The down the wall crawl, that wasn't even CGI, that was a stunt guy. Ooooooo that was frigging AWESOME!!!
-"Bring it on, Stinky!" Hee!
-Wah! Sam calmly walking through the nukey hand flare! Or "Demon ray gun" flare, I guess. Alright, I know I've seen that somewhere, who in fandom coined it?
-Um. Sam? Knife? Knife Sam? Hellooo? Close combat, knife works great... There's still no point in engaging a demon in a straight-up fist fight, yes? Well, maybe unless it's SAM HANE demon king of evil keggers, I guess, because he seems to be a bit bothered by it. Not as bothered as he would be if Sam would use the stupid magic item knife though. *looks at Sam with concern for his intention here*
-Sam's getting choked! What day is it?
-Aw, only two zombies? Not so much a crypt full of zombies, then. Good thing because Dean must be running low on those stake things since he wasn't carrying a golf bag. Also he must be tired after pinning those into their mausoleum grave bed which is solid freaking marble. But he's Dean Winchester. He can do things like that. With an aluminum (?) spike. Sure. Or maybe it just slowed them down until he can do... something else. Of some sort. I'm thinking explosives. *handwaves*
-Ooo! Ghost! With poltergeist action! And Dean's being thrown into a wall! It's Thursday all right!
-"That's it, I'm torching everybody!" Yay Dean! So, not explosives, but fire works. Now! That makes, what, about *counts doors* 18 to 24 salt and burns within the next *checks VCR counter* 12 minutes. Dean can do it! He doesn't even need to do any digging! And maybe he has thermite grenades tucked away for a special occasion! Yeah!
-Sam's getting choked some more! And there's 18 to 24 salt and burns in progress! This is like the Thursdayest Thursday ever!
-Seriously, though, Sam? Knife? It's been inferred a couple times in canon that Sam's a blade freak, and while Padelecki may or may not still be barred from handling most sharp objects after the Phantom Traveller incident, Sam should be kicking ass with that knife. He only needs to land one solid hit!
-Oh! Wait there it is! Thank you Sam for deciding to finally stop playing around with SAM HANE who is likely pretty pissed now that Dean's torching his evil kegger's early-birds.... hang on, what?? Okay, so... Sam draws the knife from inside his jacket, while in a perfect position to just, like, angle it up, push forward and gut the guy... but instead, he gets the knife up, out, off to the side for a frigging arm hit, and subsequently the knife is knocked away??? Oh Sam. Oh Sam you idiot. You did that deliberately. You totally did that deliberately. So you could have a cover story and use your power. "I tried to use the knife, Dean, I was disarmed, I had no choice!" Oh Sam. Ohhh, dude, you are so very much screwed if that's how much of an impulse and control issue you're having with this. Oh Sam.
-Ooo, and here's the demonic emetic hand! Oooo. Which also has, like a 'hold demon' effect. Cooool! Battle of wills. Awesome. Since SAM HANE Kegmeister of the Evil Sescentennial Hoohah seems to be on a similar level to Lilith in some ways (white eyes, nukey hand demon ray gun)... this is really cool. Even though Sam arranged for it to get to this point is very much made of ow.
-Hee! Sam's twitchy nose!
-Hex pattern floor! Ooo. *is side-tracked and ponders battlemaps*
-Ooo, firelight! Oh. Ohhhh, no. And speaking of ow from before I was distracted by noses and battlemaps... ow. Oh Dean. There are times when being able to set 18 to 24 corpses on fire in under ten minutes is not a good skill. Like when it lets you see your brother breaking his word, again. Oh Dean.
-Oooo. Psychic migraine! With heartbeat noises! OOO! NOSE BLEED!! OOO! I don't even care that they used a half second of 'Sam's nose starts bleeding' footage twice! OOO! \o/ OOO! *glee*
-And SAM HANE goes away, either into a scorch mark on a crypt floor, or back to Hell. I kind of hope Sam permanently roasted him. Because we do not need to have any more gullible people duped into helping a "l33t haxxor" demon plan a kegger for the evil and the undead, now do we? We'll settle for a Celtic harvest festival. Or at least I will.
-Dean seeing Sam, Sam seeing Dean seeing Sam, and, and... Oh crap. Oh Dean. Oh Sam. Oh fuck. Oh ow. Ow ow ow ow ow. Ow. Oh boys. There's going to be some epic shouting.
-What? Sam's leaving??? He's packing his 'leaving Dean' camo bag! The one he had in Scarecrow and when he went off to shoot the Crossroads Demon! Oh no you don't, Sam! You stick around and take your epic shouting like a Winchester!
-Ooo. Hi Uriel.... Who pokes Sam right in the November 2nd owwie. Uriel really is a dick. Except he's kind of got a point there, Sam...
-OOO! Shadow fluttery wing zooming! There's how you get wings on angels without straining the effects budget! A foof of air and shadows in light. Awesome. Also establishes Uriel's personality even more that he'd whip out the wings that fast just to cross a hotel room and make a point to a human.
-Useful, but we will kill you with a word. Heh. Sam got spanked by an angel. Metaphorically. Hm. Hoping we keep Uriel. He's adding some excellent tension. He's like a pitbull to Castiel's collie. *nods*
-"Ask Dean what he remembers from Hell." ASK DEAN ABOUT HELL!! OMG. EEE. I, um. Theory! Eee! I will be truly insufferable if I'm right. There may be prancing. Eee! O.O So, I suspect next ep we'll get some epic shouting about powers, a 'disarmed' excuse from Sam, a deeper depth of doubt in Sam from Dean (ow), followed by some pointed questions, whereupon Sam will ask Dean about Hell and all the walls will go up for everyone and the conversation will be over. For an ep or two and then everything will hit the fan right before a hiatus or something. Whee!
-Orders to do what Dean told them? Wow. OH WOW!!! OH YAY! TESTING! *APPLAUDS LIKE A MAD THING!!!!* AND!!! OMG AND!!! That whole "When your father gave you an order, didn't you obey?" thing!!! I bet Castiel knew what response that would get!@! OMG all the looks in the hotel room! HE WANTED DEAN TO DO IT THIS WAY!!! He was looking at Dean for a response he could cope with carrying out!!! EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! *FLAILS INCOMPREHENSIBLY WHILE THE VCR PAUSE TIMES OUT* Gah. Hoo. Wow. Okay! EEE!
-Dean thinks he failed. Of course he does. Oh Dean. Oh Dean.
-Aw. Kids. Still here because of my brother and me. AWWWWWW!!!
-Yep! Castiel was praying Dean would do this (and maybe nudging him that way too, by doing things to... hm. Not necessarily encourage him to stand up and defy what he was being told had to happen, but to let him know that saying 'No' was an option that was available without saying so outright?)
-Father's creations. Works of art. Heh. Aw. And it comes down, once again, to family. Whoa. Isn't that interesting. Meep. O.O
-"I am not a hammer." *snerk* Sorry. Sorry. Dr. Horrible is influencing my definition of 'hammer' again.
-Castiel doesn't know. And he doubts. Oh. Oh. Bloody hell. Hmmmmm.... So, since likelihood that this is a secret from Castiel's Boss is minimal... is this another test? If so, a test of who? Is Dean going to have to keep Castiel or Uriel from Falling?!? Castiel for doubts, or Uriel for being, well, kind of a dick about humans in the same way Lucifer was supposed to have been? Hm. Or will one of them Fall and... um. Hum. Ah. Crap. Neeeever mind. O.O
-More decisions. Ooooooooooooooooo.
-Hee. Dean and Castiel with the staring at each other and Castiel with the vague sense of "Look away so I can disappear, jackass." Like the whole "You hang up first!" "No you hang up first!" "No you!" thing kids do with friends on the phone in high school. Hee! XD
There. I think I feel better now even though I think my spell checker has had a nervous breakdown, and I hope that if you made it all the way through all that, that you aren't horribly offended.
...and sometime before next Thursday, I'll hopefully catch up on comments and the f-list and stuff. *is pathetic*
Edited for punctuation and sentence structure, and a misplaced observation
Reaction may contain profanity. It may also contain serious crack. Actually, that last one's a definite. Also grave butchery of the English language. More than usual. And the snark may be a little out of control in spots. Fair warning.
Spoiler Timeline
-Oct 21: Rolled forward from last time - Understandable distress expressed by part of the fan population. Something will be happening in 4.07 which will make Pagans and/or Wiccans possibly violently furious and it's going to be set on Samhain or Halloween. Maybe a case fic, involving 'witches' of some sort.
I hope Kripke doesn't screw with Samhain too much, but after what he did with Christmas... erk. Yeah.
-Oct 24: Promo Panic partial failure due to snickering about Jensen lip synching to "Eye of the Tiger" with the leg guitar and all. Caught "On the night before Halloween..." Yep. Halloween it is.
-Oct 25: Gah. Unexpected TV listing. Blah. Title for 4.07 "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester." ...Seriously? Hee. Episode blurb for 4.07: ... a witch is sacrificing people to summon a dangerous demon. Ah. Yeah. I think I see what the pagans/wiccan concern is about now, I think. Sigh.
I know show uses the word, but I've kind of got it mentally filtered. Show's 'witches' are being tricked by a demon. Actual witches/pagans/wiccans are completely different, and so anything show says about witches has no bearing on them. But most viewers won't see that, and so the net result for people of pagan or wiccan faith having another negative stereotype in the media is not cool. Maybe this time the show'll have a better explainer than the half-line dismissal they had in "Malleus Maleficarum."
So, anyway, external concerns aside, back to the spoiler. We will have a deluded person who believes he/she's a witch sacrificing people to summon a demon. A dangerous demon. So much different than a regular demon. *eyeroll*
Is this a Seal maybe? They've got quite a few to plow through yet, and I'm willing to bet they're going to go right down to the wire on it, if not over... I think it's probably a Seal. We're due for a Seal. *nods*
-Oct 25: What the hell is it with sites having TV listings pop up now??? Different blurb. The demon being summoned is called Samhain.
*massive facepalm*
Okay. Yeah. Now I see why some people are getting preemptively pissed. Crap. And I bet they're going to make the demon to the reason it's called Samhain, aren't they. Nothing about Old Irish or Summer's End or assemblies or anything.
Damn it all, Kripke.
Oh, and Castiel's showing up with a specialized angel called Uriel to nuke the site from orbit smite the whole town. Wheeeee. There should be some good scrambling and tension from that at least. Betting on some kind of direct confrontation or interaction between Sam and either Castiel or the... what? Smiting specialist? Because that meeting's also seriously due and with two angels running around doing things like planning to nuke a town, it's gonna be pretty impossible to keep them strictly interacting with Dean and not Sam, unless Ruby's back to have Sam off doing things and she's such a major coward I doubt she'd be anywhere near a town with angelic cross-hairs on it.
Hee, Sam meeting an angel will be interesting because even with the whole 'demon-blood/-tutor/-powers' thing, Sam's still praying and has faith, so meeting an actual angel... will... oh.
Great Pumpkin. I get it. Heh.
Sooooo. Let's head on over to some doomed town the pumpkin patch and try to crush revitalize Sam's Linus Van Pelt's innocence-maintaining belief in a benevolent higher power, the Great Pumpkin, shall we?
Reaction, Crack, Meta, Theories, Speculation, Snark, and more Crack for Supernatural 4.07 - "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"
... hm.
Okay, so, this reaction will contain some mild to medium crackification in order to cope with... certain... errors in research which were in serious danger of harshing my squee. *grits teeth* SO...
WARNING: Contains attempts at LolSpeak, LeetSpeak or other mangled typography in the process of crackification. I don't know if people will find it amusing or offensive. :-/
Also, I would like to state at the outset that crack-inducing research errors aside, I am full of squee for this episode. SO MUCH!
-Hi back of Jess's head! Miss you! *waves* How's that football afterlife working for you?
-Hi every frigging monster ever. Wow!
-Hi Castiel! Hi Seals! Hi Lilith! I knew you were all coming tonight (or being referenced, Lilith *pats*) from the spoilers, so no worries.
-"I can throw you back in." Ooo... Hm. Naw. Gonna be a while yet before that particular plot bomb goes off, I think.
-Wow, this town's nuts about Halloween. Plastic skeletons, yard displays two days in advance... I've seen exactly one non-shop-display pumpkin this year, and it wasn't even carved.
-That is indeed a well-smeared baby.
-However, my town also doesn't have mall brawls over buckets of non-chocolate genericandy two days beforehand either.
-I like this woman and her admonishing dolphin noises.
-Poison candy? No, it's GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Inside of mouth cam is sooooooo wrong!!!1! I am squarely blaming the TWOP recapper Demian's odontophobia for that frigging Mouth Cam. Gyah! (Also, why do I suddenly suspect someone on set took off with the Mouth Cam at some point during filming and chased people with it and the footage'll wind up on the blooper reel? *ponders*)
-Now that that's out of the way, we are using the Mouth Cam because GYAAAAAAAAH@!! Razor blade! Roof of the mouth! Gyah!Gyah!Gyah!Gyah!Gyah!Gyah! Gaaaaah! I hate that urban legend, the pins and razor blades in Halloween treats one! Demian from TWoP has a lot to answer for, I think. *nods*
-The boys get there the next day? There's a speedy reaction time. This guy's death can't have hit the papers yet. Hm. Maybe it's a "Bobby says there's demonic whatnot signs gathering over here" kind of deal, although a 'death by urban legend' would flag itself rather quickly for any hunter.
-Also rather surprised the local authorities are absent, but I guess maybe it was early in the day yesterday (?) and the intense police presence and "did you feed your husband razor blades" stuff happened then. *nods* Hm. The boys are getting a lot bolder with the 'Hi, Hi we're FBI' thing this year. They've gotten bold since Henrickson had them declared dead. Wonder if that's gonna become an issue again... It'd make a fine wrench to throw in the whole 'stopping the opening of the Seals' mission. But who knows, maybe there's some interference being run on their behalf... hm.
-"The candy was never in the oven." I do like this person. Mrs. Wallace. She's level-headed and logical despite horrific circumstances.
-Trivia note: The time when Sam and Dean are talking to the victim's wife is approximately 10:20. Clock on wall by fridge.
-Hm. On the chalk board by the fridge there it says "Milk" and "Honey" Heh. There's an oblique biblical reference... So, since someone had to have written that deliberately, what they intended to imply there? *ponders* (Um. Incidentally, beware if you google "Land of Milk and Honey". It... uh, turns up some... unexpected results O.o)
-Yep, hex bag under fridge. No surprise. One down. *ticks off spoiler* So, there is a person who has been duped by a demon into thinking they're a witch running around killing people. Loooooove the silent Winchester communication. :-)
-Heh. "Maybe a woman?" I am floored by the absolute subtlety of Sam. Oh so very floored. Really. Pft. Heh. Bet it's a man this time. Men can be just as easily duped by a demon.
-Hi credits! You're kind of random and scattered... and late... but mostly out of the way, so cool.
-"If someone wanted to kill my husband, don't you think they'd find a better way than a razor in a piece of candy he might eat?" Yay for victim logic! I really really like her! She's practical and logical yet so very out of her depth without knowing it, and she makes disapproving dolphin noises. She needs to open a bar with Ellen. *nods*
-Hee. Dean will not let its recent use as a murder weapon dissuade him from eating candy. If he waited a week he could've paid half price though.
-"For us every day is Halloween." Not so much with the candy though, hm Sam? Let your brother ravage his blood sugar for a couple days. Bet they didn't have candy in Hell, unless it's the stuff reviewed here...
-100 year-old charred baby bones. Eeek. What's the herb in the hex bag? Goldfrey? Gold Thread? My sound went muddy. *googles* Since Goldfrey isn't turning up any results, I say it's Gold Thread which is not extinct, and apparently doesn't normally do that curly thing.
-"He made vanilla seem spicy." Heeeee I love that line. I know people like that.
-Party party party. It does kind of suck as a party but really, it's the day before and a school night so the only people there in full-on costume would be the desperate or the hard-core, and hard-core party people aren't usually into the kindergarten decorations and the jillion mega-watt lighting scheme. Turn off half the lights, get some dry ice and crank the music, maybe. Right now it looks like they're waiting for the guy's mom to come downstairs with Kool-Aid and Rice Krispie Squares. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just a little... young for the crowd. Still, the night before? *headshake*
-Written by Julie Siege, new to the show, apparently. Directed by Charles Beeson, who among other things directed "Time is on My Side" Hm.
-Oh wait, there's something happening at a mausoleum actually on Halloween, so this is just a warm-up party. I see.
-Ah, the good old traditional bobbing for bacteria, viruses, retainers, pre-chewed gum, hair, spit... oh! And apples. Bleccchhh. Cheerleader has some kind of unnaturally-hinged jaw to get an apple that fast and that cleanly. Also, that water is far too clear to be genuine apple-bobbing water.
-Short skirts and wet white tops. *facepalm* Yeesh. Teenage hormones. And now "Wow she can really hold her breath" sounds lewd for some reason.
-Gahhhhh. I've had a thing about getting trapped under the surface of water since I managed to bypass my parents' "absolutely nothing scary or weird ever" policy and see The Watcher in the Woods. Scared the lights out of me, and I apparently never saw the end because *snerk* seriously?
-Tip the tank over you fools! Oh, wait, it's probably stuck to the floor by 'plot monster says no' effects.
-It's boiling. Seriously? *sighs and tosses laws of physics and thermodynamics out the window and wonders why the heck they were lurking around in the first place because, hello, magic* *handwaves*
-Eeewww! Boiled head! So very very glad there were no effects for that beyond some blistering and a red face because I was hiding behind my hands in case there was some oozy CGI face-meltage! I was seeing... gyah... *is shaky* The imagination has an unlimited special effects budget.
-Yay suits incidentally. Did the boys swap ties from last week?
-A specialized apple bobbing tank with little ghosty pictures on the side. Who is that much of an apple-bobbing fanatic that they have a dedicated tank? Is there an apple-bobbing league? Although I guess the days of the ubiquitous aluminum washtub are long gone. *laments*
-Heh. "Two words. Jail bait." Is it two words? I suppose Sam would know, with the law thing at Stanford and all.
-Yeah, that yellow tone to the water in the tank now. That's more like apple-bobbing water colour I remember. Now with cooked apples and boiled head residue. Bleaugh!
-Agent Seger. Which makes Sam Agent "Silver Bullet Band"? Which... kind of works actually. *mentally rocks out to "Old Time Rock and Roll", as one must*
-Of course cheerleader girl has no idea about anything. She's completely innocent. Totally. And show is making such a point of establishing her innocence that I'm dead certain it's getting overturned later. *nods*
-Very subdued hotel room by the usual standards... The layout is very similar again...
-On the desk behind the laptop is hex bag, candy wrappers, coffee, burger in tinfoil and... odd bottle. No idea. Also, even though there's no overt badging, I still say this laptop's a Mac. You can get cases without the glowing Apple Logo on them.
-Dean's doing research!!! *glee* And totally doesn't have porn loading in the background!
-'Maybe it isn't a grudge, maybe it's a spell.' See, this is why I hate spoilers. I already knew that, so I've been coasting passively through the ep so far. My brain doesn't activate nearly as much on the observational level if I know what's happening, and I just passively watch instead of getting totally involved. Arg. *kicks TV listings, and ticks off another spoiler*
-Ah, strange bottle is beer. Of course. I thought it was some kind of funky shaving cream and was confused.
-"Sam Hane". Who is a demon. Who the day is named for. Who is the origin of Halloween. *breathes* It's not pronounced- That's totally-! Research-! GNH!!! *bites things and breathes some more* Dammit Kripke!! This, this.... this is gonna need some serious spin to cope with. :-/
-"Sam Hane" Okay, so... it's not Samhain, right? It's some demon taking what it thinks is the name to either piss off the celts/pagan/wiccans/mythology buffs/people who can use Google and Wikipedia and also simultaneously to try to prop up the whole "Serve me and you'll be a *finger quotes* witch *end finger quotes*". Also a demon who can't pronounce things for crap. Samhain, which means "Summer's End" or "Summer Assembly" or "Harvest Festival" depending on where you Google, is pronounced "SAHW-in". Dumbass demons.
-Also, it's a demon who's gone and re-written parts of history and mythology to make himself seem greater, and to support his duping the easily dupable and making them think they're 'witches'. Like he hacked the SPN-verse central myth and legend structure and splatted himself into it. In bad, intermittent LolDemon:
"SAM HANE iz toatally awesum + iz why therz Halloween and not 'coz of sum season thing 'coz it's really named after me and I didn't name myself after it, no, 'cuz I'm awesum 'n' humans wear masks to hide from me and make jack'o'lanterns and get all the candy for me but I want blood sakrifices becoz I'm awesum and feerce and will take over the world if not apeeeeezed!! FEER TEH PWR OF SAM HANE!!! Also Azazel's a loser."
(Am not. BTW, Dad says you're grounded for the next 600 years for being a dumbass.)
-So, lore is messed up due to demonic self-aggrandization and universe-hacking, which really could be as simple as encouraging his gullible followers to write books about him and his version of things and disseminating them throughout occult lore, and Sam simply missing a "this is what the people demons have tricked into thinking they're witches believe" comment to preface the Sam Hane stuff, but I need crack to cope with this level of research botchery, so, SAM HANE, Hacker LolDemon.
-*tests disbelief suspension, finds it a little squashy, but holding, and hopes for lack of major plot holes that might make it bottom out and flatten the squee*
-Every 600 years, which is tomorrow night, in the year someone's trying to open the seals. How conveeeeeenient. Though I guess with these seals there's bound to be a lot of "every x years" things coming due. Hm. You'd think someone might have noticed that. *ponders vaguely about Aztec and Mayan calendrical cycles*
-Leprechauns. Small hands. Hee. Is this some heretofore unknown Lucky-Charms-induced trauma, Dean?
-Ghouls. They haven't had one of those yet have they? Not on the show at least?
-"SAM HANE has teh bestest partees! Evry 600 years, all skeery pplz invited! Bring frendz + bheer!" Sorry, sorry. Like I said, It's helping me cope with the lamentable 'lore'.
-Dean + Candy again, aw. Better clean those wrappers out of the Impala, though.
-"Big steamy pile of nothin'." Hee. They've had those before. Yay Winchester repeated phraseology!
-"No, Sam, I mean sonofabitch." Ha! Yeah, they know we're paying attention. Has there been a single episode of Supernatural where no one says 'sonofabitch'? *ponders*
-Widow may seem to be coping well, with having a sitter in the day (or two) after her husband's grisly death, but really, with the amount of sudden-death-related bureaucracy and planning she's got to deal with, plus personal stuff to deal with obviously, a sitter is very practical to keep an eye on the baby while she's out dealing with those things, since she's apparently got no friends or family or they'd be around trying to help her, yet she's all alone and answering her own door. I really do like her. Although since cheerleader girl is looking kind of complicit in something that requires baby bones, her choice of babysitters is alarming.
-The boys are staying at the Moonlight Motel, #126, in case anyone missed that oddly prominent key fob slide.
-600-year-old hag? Wait, what? Okay, so, there's some unspoken lore thing that happened off camera where there's a single person preserved by 'Teh awesum Pwrz of SAM HANE SUPER-DEMON!!1!', just so they can raise him? Which makes sense because the promotional skills of SAM HANE aren't up to duping generations-long strings of faithful acolytes who think they are witches but really aren't. He picks Ms. Most Easily Duped of 1408AD and keeps her alive and kicking until he's ready for the next epic 'All Bad Guyz' kegger. Or Mr. Most Easily Duped because the pointed 'a woman' of Sam's still makes me think the gullible deluded one is male this time. Although I doubt Ms. Cheerleader Tracy is fully innocent with the lie about knowing the husband of the awesome woman who makes disapproving dolphin noises and all, but we'll see.
-"Cheerleader. Mmm...." Dean's been reading the fanfic, apparently. I've seen Gen versions of that one, even. Somewhere... The exchange of facial expressions between Sam and Dean are making me lose control of my notepad with the giggling.
-Ooo, masks. Oooo... A melty sort of 'Star Trek Salt-vampire' mask that triggers Dean's 'noises of Hell' flashback. Oooo... eek. I think this theory might really be right. I can almost see the effects sequence. O.o
-Sam: "All that angst." Dean: "Hunh?" Hee. Sam remembers the angst, Dean remembers the... giant clay bong. *facepalm* Sigh. *mutters*
-Incidentally, a giant bong as a high school art project? Yeah, that's really gonna work there, lame-party-throwing bong dude. Enjoy your lungful of hot mud.
-Geddy and Lee? Now, I'm all for the whole silly names/faking people out to get info, but wasn't Dean just using a different alias yesterday? Agent Seger? Just because you've changed ties doesn't mean you have to change aliases. Maybe Sam was violently opposed to being Agent 'Silver Bullet Band'
-It's totally the teacher. I say he's the head gullible deluded guy trying to dupe his own gullible deluded acolyte and having it backfire on him.
-Emancipated teen. Ooo. Yeah, that doesn't look good for the cheerleader flying solo. Hm. Wonder if this is a kind of Heroes reversal. "Gank the cheerleader, save the world." Although really it could indicate 'marginalized teenager that lacks a personal support system and is viewed as easy pickings by deluded demon-serving teacher' as easily as '600-year-old demon pawn.' If it's the former, then she's probably dead at her apartment or will be otherwise missing.... Okay, missing, so either prepping for, or becoming the third blood sacrifice. Still fifty-fifty.
-That spacesuit costume is awesome! If a kid made that himself and showed up on my doorstep (if I had one and the building wasn't in lockdown on Halloween) and I had no candy, I'd give him cash. Though really, trick or treating in the middle of the afternoon at a hotel is very much not a good idea. And no, whining will not help.
-Ooo! Sam's commanding bellow! Missed you! *pats*
-Castiel, sitting in their hotel room brooding. Not surprised given that whole 'smite the town' thing that's in the works from the spoilers. Speaking of which, where's your buddy? Ah, skulking broodily by the window. He looks a little like Henrickson from behind, though maybe a little broader. I had a second of hope they'd got Charles Malik Whitfield back to play the combat specialist angel. Anyway, hi Uriel, who's name and purpose I know from the TV guide blurb so your lurking by the window seems less ominous and more... strumpy.
-Oh and *kicks spoilers to a fine pulp for sucking all the tension out of the episode so far*
-Hee, Sam fangirling the angels. That's... kind of sad, all things considered. Poor Sam, no doubt about to get his nose rubbed in something, one way or another.
-And off to a fine start with Castiel looking at Sam's hand like he doesn't know what to do with it, which is interesting, but a little weird since humans have been shaking hands since the second century BCE. Unless he was actually looking at Sam's hand like it was a dead rat, which may be how it looked to Sam. Oh poor Sam, you're in for a world of hurt here. But nice recovery from Castiel with the two-handed clasp... or... hm. That looks an awful lot like how Missouri held Sam's hand in Home... Hm, did Castiel do some kind of psychic/angelic scan thing there?
-"Boy with the demon blood. Glad to hear you've stopped the extracurricular activities." Yeah. Ow. Heh. Castiel looks a little nervous shaking Sam's hand.
-Castiel calls the demon 'Sam Hane' too. Sigh. "SAM HANE haz haxxored teh angel database of hooman mythology n'stuff. SAM HANE pwns allll!!" *headshake* Or Castiel and Uriel are going on the buggy human records, but... ehn. *handwaves*
-Seal. Yep. *checks off spoiler*
-Getting rather tired of the back of Uriel's head. He's gone from ominous to strumpy to total poser. There's dramatic delay of character introduction, and then there's fannying about. Although it could be that Uriel's just jealous because even though he's the special combat angel, Castiel's intro kicked more ass than he could ever hope to kick.
-*briefly notes while VCR is paused that Castiel's had the coat and suit repaired and is pleased* Hopefully this 'vessel' guy he's in got repaired too.
-Oooo... Castiel's nervous! (They're also working some seriously whacky camera angles to make it seem like he's not so much shorter than the rest of these guys. Hee)
-"Cloaked to our methods" Reeeeally.... *shrug* "Nothing kan beet teh metaphysical firewall of SAM HANE!!!1!" *handwaves*
-"This is Uriel, he's what you might call... a 'specialist'." Hee! He sounds so exasperated! Castiel's whole aggravated/nervous "don't wanna do this/Uriel's a massive nutbag" head turn/tilt is an awesome and very small thing that tells so much about the characters and their interrelation. His nervousness is awesome, and still all subtle and Castiel-like. It's awesome.
-Ooo! Wing time for Uriel?? Nope. Not in the budget. Ah well. That's probably for the best.
-So, since we've finally been introduced, hello Uriel, "nuke the site from orbit" angel. Uriel, who has a metric assload of lore even at a basic level, including: He checked the doors of Egypt for lamb's blood during the plague (but the Angel of Death did the smiting). He holds the key to the Pit during the End Times (so... he's got the Colt?). He contacted Noah about the upcoming Great Flood. There's also a note about him discussing the judgment passed on the fallen angels and the two main leaders Samyaza and Azazel. Yeah. Azazel. Interesting, no? *giggles randomly at 'Samyaza'* Loads of other stuff, most of it referenced in non-standard places, I'm guessing from the notations on the Wiki page, but certainly more than a few notes about being the "Angel of Thursday" for good ol' Castiel. Who, no matter how big a gun this Uriel is, has that one thing Uriel will never get. The most ass-kickingest character intro ever. Castiel with the calmly walking through exploding things versus Uriel with the staring strumpily out a hotel window for waaaaay too long? Castiel wins. I know I said it before, but it bears repeating. *pats Castiel*
-"Both of you, you need to leave this town immediately, because we're about to destroy it." *checks spoiler list* Okay, looks like the spoilers are done with. Cool! So, aside from knowing that there's no way they're actually nuking the town because it's not sweeps or an inbound hiatus, now we just need to get from point A "Screw it. Evacuate and vaporize the town" to point b "Stopping the major harm from the Seal getting broken in a manner which lets the town survive".
-...and now I start feeling nervous and focussed on the show and the plot. *crumples spoiler list and tosses aside*
-[Arg, commercials... endless... inane... sucking will to live.... gaaaah...]
-Smite! Dean said smite! Yay for smiting! \o/
-"This isn't the first time I've... purified a city." So, Egypt then? Also, a thousand people isn't a city. More of a village. But hey, get your smiting in where you can I guess.
-Castiel is really not into this city-smiting stuff, is he? Aw.
-"We'll stop this witch before she summons anyone!" It's not the girl... it's her teacher, she's his pawn. Sam and Dean'll work with her somehow to get the teacher exposed, who will bugger off to be a pest another day while they're dealing with 'SAM HANE L33T Mythology HaXXor'. Yeah, the Seal's getting broken, no doubt, one way or another. In order to work out the season arc I think they are working on, they need to get right down to the wire. Or across it. Eeek. At this point, I put nothing past Kripke. *glee*
-Castiel... is looking very oddly at Dean while Sam is talking about catching the demon-deluded person before she/he can break the Seal. There's, like, a cut from Dean looking pissed off to Castiel and something about the way his eyes shift as he's looking at Dean... Like he's searching for a specific response or reaction from Dean. Like he's found himself trapped in an unconscionable situation of having to let Uriel nuke a town and is looking to Dean for some way of getting out of it. That's... really interesting... Hunh.
-Hee! Misha looks so adorably pocket-sized in amongst all the tall-fellows here. :-D
-...Mud monkeys? Seriously? I bet you think you've got your Boss convinced that you're using that as a term of endearment. Uriel is a major-league snob.
-"You're supposed to show mercy."/"Says who?" Sam. Dude. Aw. The crushed disillusionment. Aw.
-Castiel's awesome nervousness, doubt, "Help me I'm working with a dangerous smite-happy psycho" face, yet still quiet, intense and on the most surfacey surface, calm. Only not really. Do angels get ulcers?
-Heh. Hammers. Dr. Horrible has altered the meaning of 'hammer' for me a little, I snickered.
-Ooo. Castiel's face! Ooo, is there the slightest hint of a snarl from Castiel after Dean calls them hammers? His nose does a little twitch thing there. Ooo. I so want to see Castiel just lose it at some point in time. Hopefully not on a Winchester, but... eeek.
-'The plan is Just. Because it comes from Heaven.' Hoo. Aside from the widely varying potential reactions to that statement... yeah. Sam's faith is getting tested here for sure. Will he be able to retain it if he's being told that Heaven and Angels aren't like Sunday School said, although... hm. Must think. It's also sounding a little like Castiel's trying to convince himself, and that's... worrisome, yet fantastic. In a scary way.
-"When your father gave you an order, didn't you obey?" Ooohooo, Castiel invokes the spectre of John Winchester to get Dean to understand. Heh. That analogy's gonna backfire on you Castiel... John's last order to Dean is one he can't obey, and spent most of a season questioning it, so the whole 'Obey without question' thing doesn't really apply.... Hm. *ponders*
-Ohhhh... Dean. Using himself as a bargaining chip. Ooo. Also, hm. Do I note from Uriel a lack of concern over evacuating Sam...?
-Heheh. Microscopic smirk from Uriel at 'compensating for something' followed by a split second "Holy fuck!" face from Dean because he just faced down another angel.
-Aw. Is Uriel whining a little about not getting to smite things?
-OMG THAT LITTLE SHIT EGGED THE IMPALA!? Alright spacesuit boy, I retract all brownie points and hope you, you- ooo! So now Dean and Sam have to stop in the middle of hunting down deluded people who might bring about the end of the world before the egg hardens and bonds the shell on and makes it damn near impossible to get off without chipping the paint. Little bastard! If the world is destroyed it's all your fault, spacesuit boy! I hope you're freaking happy.
-Or what Dean said. ASTRONAUT!
-Lesson here: Don't egg awesome cars, it might destroy the world.
-Disillusioned Sam is emo because angels are mean. Good grief, you know angel lore, Sam, you pointed out way back in Houses of the Holy that angels were warriors (a scene I'm expecting to see in a previously any day now) Why is this such a shock?
-"Some a-hole" *facepalm* Censors? Asshole? Really? Or is Dean just avoiding calling them assholes. *thinks for a split second* Naw. Censors. And, indeed, righteous is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
-Aw, Dean's little pep talk about keeping faith in the face of disappointing angels is very aw-worthy and still so very Dean. Not that the two were ever mutually exclusive.
-Why exactly does Sam think the bone was burned recently, and not a hundred years ago when the kid died? Also, bone char is produced at about 400 to 500 Celsius, or 752 to 932 F, so a soldering iron could do it too. Maybe it was the shop teacher? Or they could be toasted over a Bunsen burner, easily, maybe it was a chemistry teacher? Can't trust those chemistry teachers, always up to something... Yeah, no. It's totally the art guy. A teacher that lets a student attempt to make a functional bong in class is more than likely someone who is easily duped. *nods*
-Chisel, Sam. It'd be quieter and faster if you use one. There's a chisel right- oh, never mind. Whack away. Sigh. Stealth thy name is not Sam Winchester.
-Those are some very clean baby bones. Like... boiled. Ew.
-"Plumbing on two legs" Ya know, Uriel's gotta be king of the spin-meisters to make stuff like that fly with his Boss, since Lucifer suppsedly, (according to Casey in 3.04) fell for refusing to kneel to humans/lesser beings or something. "Well, monkeys are so cute and clever, and plumbing, ah, has always fascinated me. Yes. Yay plumbing."
-Aw, Uriel's grumpy. Must be the lack of smiting. *pats*
-Ooo. Dean has potential. OOOOOOO... *flail*
-Grab Dean, bug out and nuke the site from orbit, says Uriel. Just Dean. Sam isn't included in Uriel's little evacuation plan. Yeah, I doubt anybody'd be happy with the results of that.
-"You. Know. Our. True. Orders." OUR TRUE ORDERS!!! *FLAAAAAAAAAAAIL* ooo. Ow. I think I strained my shoulder there. Eeeee! Secret angel orders!
-Basement sacrifice time. Hi cheerleader, not surprised to see you here.
-They seriously need a restraints consultant on this show. The way her hands are bound and the amount of shifting she's doing there, she'd be able to pull a hand free in about five seconds if she flexes her wrists the right way. *tsks* But maybe being susceptible to being duped by a demon makes you incompetent at tying knots. Or maybe SAM HANE can only hold his 'evil guyz epic kegger' every six hundred years because his idiot followers can't tie victims up properly and the sacrifices all keep escaping too early. Which is why they picked up the hex bag trick from Ruby's old duping-demon's crowd because it doesn't rely on the ability to tie knots. Aha! I have solved the conundrum.
-Pft. I see they do still have the bullet-time camera. No idea why they used it there, but yay for using the toys! \o/
-Hi pottery guy *pats*. Altar. Hm... yeah, not so much. Kind of cluttered and kitschy, but this is after all an altar to summon 'teh feerce SAM HANE' who is probably deeply into kitsch, excess mismatched candles, having a choice of three different steel knives and the skull of a... what? Dwarf goat? That's just sad. For an altar this guy's had the chance to perfect over the last 600 years it looks a little like the 5-cent table at a garage sale. Either that or the 600-year-old dupe lost track of time, realized his deadline was coming up and threw it together three days ago with stuff from the local Dollar Store. But maybe that's the way SAM HANE wants it, because he's a demon that likes a good bargain. Yeah. *nods*
-Heh. Choice of three perfectly fine steel knives on the altar-thing and he uses the crappy uncured iron one with no edge. Tradition's nice and all, but there's something to be said for getting at a victim's blood before said victim dies of old age.
-See? No edge at all on that knife. Ah, but this is the knife SAM HANE has decreed his followers use. SAM HANE prefers dull weaponry because his easily duped acolytes are less likely to injure themselves with them. Also, dull weaponry hurts more. He heard that from some Sheriff guy in the 12th century once. Feer teh mite of SAM HANE!
-Hee. Even the cheerleader looks like she's rolling her eyes.
-Yay! Bullets! \o/
-HA! Okay, she's in on it too. Mr. and Ms. Most Easily Duped of 1408AD. Whee! Double-crossing dupes! Did she say mother there? Or brother? I think it was brother.
-Ooo. Okay, Sam and Dean on the floor writhing in pain is *koff* nice and all but... is this a "beam razor blades into their guts" thing or what? Because that could get messy.
-Good grief she talks a lot! Although I guess 600 years with no one to whine to about how much of a pompous son of a bitch her co-dupe-ee (and brother?) is would do that, I guess. She's never read the Evil Overlord handbook regarding monologging has she?
-Heh. I'm not sure what she's supposed to be saying, but I get the feeling sloppy incantations run in the family. Sounds like the first word she says is a mispronunciation of 'Vegemite'
-Sam dips his hand in the dead guy's blood and... smearing... Sam?!! Dude! Eeek! What the hell! O.O If this is one of Ruby's tricks, Dean will kick your ass!!
-Cheerleader also hasn't read the Evil Overlord handbook regarding the wisdom of summoning things larger than her head. Sigh. Gullible dupe.
-Ooo, crack in the basement floor and smoke... hm. so... Hell is actually underground? *shrug* Okey dokey. Could be underground and extra-planar simultaneously. Gates and stuff. *nods like that made any kind of sense at all*
-Behold! It is SAM HANE!!! And he nudges the cement crack shut behind him. Feeer teh politeness of SAM HANE!!
-Why are the white eyes reminding me of Alice Cooper? Also, SAM HANE has blurry vision. Hee. Yeah you get that with the cheaper novelty contacts I've heard. SAM HANE's desire for a bargain will ruin him.
-Sam and Dean look very unpained on the floor there... did the blood on the face (O.o) fix it or did the cheerleader just forget to maintain the "make people writhe in pain on the floor" spell.
-Heh. SAM HANE is a cheesy demon. Not a cheese demon though. Those are nasty and don't have nearly as much mention in the press. Because they lack teh feerceness of SAM HANE.
-Hands on sides of head, she's totally getting her idiot neck snapped. Yes?
-Oh barf with the "my love" "beauty beyond time" crap. And the fresh corpse mackage. Well, not quite fresh, since he's been alive over 600 years. Bleh.
-Yep! Snap neck. See? There goes Ms. Easily Duped of 1408AD. Not a witch, just someone who was fooled into thinking being the tool of a demon made her one.
-Hee. I don't know if it's something about the way the guy is standing or holding his head, but it looks like he has Kim Manners' hair.
-Okay. I know they are playing dead, but the sight of Sam and Dean bloody and motionless on the floor in front of a demon (even SAM HANE, super-demon of the Sescentennial Evil Doodz Kegger) is making me anxious.
-Oh. Masks. *eyeroll* Hee. Gave it a shot. That's happened before, and I believe Dean still owes him an ass-kicking for the 'go play chicken with the racist truck' thing back in Season 1.
-[Why does the Skittle man have a desk, and non-voice activated equipment? His workplace is not accessible to him. It's cruel.]
-[OMG Demonic smoke cloud stink spray! Heeeeee! Is it possible to bless an aerosol can of air freshener? *ponders*]
-Ah, and teh TROO brilliance of SAM HANE random reality-hacking kegger demon's tremendous P/R trickery comes to light! The whole 'They wear masks to hide becuz I M so Feerce and do it every year!' thing makes it possible for him to walk among teh mortals, because they think he's in a costume, bwaha! Except it makes teh mortals invisible to him because he believes his own press! Bwaha! Feer teh foresightedness of SAM HANE! Or not.
-[Sorry, that's probably getting annoying, but it's the only coping mechanism I have for that aspect of this episode. Well, that and booze and I need to work in the morning. :-P]
-Egg cleaned off, yay. Kid, you are so lucky stopping to clean off the Impala didn't delay them from saving the world.
-"Where would you go to raise the dark forces of the night?" High tea at the Empress hotel. What? It's a strategically sound location and any place that charges close to a day's wage for a cup of tea and a cucumber sandwich must be evil.
-OOO... Sam wants to use the powers.... why? The host is totally dead, no need to worry about carving up the host who's a 600 year-old fool... hm. I'm thinking I might be right about the Sam demon-power addiction too. Except Sam's not resisting much here... Eeeek.
-Ah, SAM HANE, evil kegger demon being a traditionalist as we saw with the dull iron knife, picks the cemetery as the epicenter of evil. Where there's a bunch of kids with a recently dead friend partying in the mausoleum with a freshly thrown ceramic bong. Target-rich environment.
-Okay, so, the kids are wearing masks, costumes, etc, right? So 'teh grate and Powrfl SAM HANE' can't see them... So, why is he locking the big iron gate to keep them trapped inside with the zombies and ghosts? Maybe he can't see, them, but he can still hear them. If they were wearing one of those voice-disguising Cylon or Cyberman masks, he probably couldn't hear them, but they aren't so he can. Ah hah! Or he's closing the door to keep his early-bird evil kegger guests from leaving before the real party starts. *nods* Either way, and aside from all the ludicrous nitpickery, him locking them in the crypt in utter calm and silence is about the creepiest damn thing ever, and hits a personal eek for me, but it's so damn cool I don't care. *peers through fingers*
-"Uh, Don? You, uh, you locked us in." Heh. This is what happens when you huff hot mud, kid. Your clue phone gets disconnected. ;-P
-Ooo! Zombies! Massive splattage! Man that kid had high blood pressure!
-Gyah! The down the wall crawl, that wasn't even CGI, that was a stunt guy. Ooooooo that was frigging AWESOME!!!
-"Bring it on, Stinky!" Hee!
-Wah! Sam calmly walking through the nukey hand flare! Or "Demon ray gun" flare, I guess. Alright, I know I've seen that somewhere, who in fandom coined it?
-Um. Sam? Knife? Knife Sam? Hellooo? Close combat, knife works great... There's still no point in engaging a demon in a straight-up fist fight, yes? Well, maybe unless it's SAM HANE demon king of evil keggers, I guess, because he seems to be a bit bothered by it. Not as bothered as he would be if Sam would use the stupid magic item knife though. *looks at Sam with concern for his intention here*
-Sam's getting choked! What day is it?
-Aw, only two zombies? Not so much a crypt full of zombies, then. Good thing because Dean must be running low on those stake things since he wasn't carrying a golf bag. Also he must be tired after pinning those into their mausoleum grave bed which is solid freaking marble. But he's Dean Winchester. He can do things like that. With an aluminum (?) spike. Sure. Or maybe it just slowed them down until he can do... something else. Of some sort. I'm thinking explosives. *handwaves*
-Ooo! Ghost! With poltergeist action! And Dean's being thrown into a wall! It's Thursday all right!
-"That's it, I'm torching everybody!" Yay Dean! So, not explosives, but fire works. Now! That makes, what, about *counts doors* 18 to 24 salt and burns within the next *checks VCR counter* 12 minutes. Dean can do it! He doesn't even need to do any digging! And maybe he has thermite grenades tucked away for a special occasion! Yeah!
-Sam's getting choked some more! And there's 18 to 24 salt and burns in progress! This is like the Thursdayest Thursday ever!
-Seriously, though, Sam? Knife? It's been inferred a couple times in canon that Sam's a blade freak, and while Padelecki may or may not still be barred from handling most sharp objects after the Phantom Traveller incident, Sam should be kicking ass with that knife. He only needs to land one solid hit!
-Oh! Wait there it is! Thank you Sam for deciding to finally stop playing around with SAM HANE who is likely pretty pissed now that Dean's torching his evil kegger's early-birds.... hang on, what?? Okay, so... Sam draws the knife from inside his jacket, while in a perfect position to just, like, angle it up, push forward and gut the guy... but instead, he gets the knife up, out, off to the side for a frigging arm hit, and subsequently the knife is knocked away??? Oh Sam. Oh Sam you idiot. You did that deliberately. You totally did that deliberately. So you could have a cover story and use your power. "I tried to use the knife, Dean, I was disarmed, I had no choice!" Oh Sam. Ohhh, dude, you are so very much screwed if that's how much of an impulse and control issue you're having with this. Oh Sam.
-Ooo, and here's the demonic emetic hand! Oooo. Which also has, like a 'hold demon' effect. Cooool! Battle of wills. Awesome. Since SAM HANE Kegmeister of the Evil Sescentennial Hoohah seems to be on a similar level to Lilith in some ways (white eyes, nukey hand demon ray gun)... this is really cool. Even though Sam arranged for it to get to this point is very much made of ow.
-Hee! Sam's twitchy nose!
-Hex pattern floor! Ooo. *is side-tracked and ponders battlemaps*
-Ooo, firelight! Oh. Ohhhh, no. And speaking of ow from before I was distracted by noses and battlemaps... ow. Oh Dean. There are times when being able to set 18 to 24 corpses on fire in under ten minutes is not a good skill. Like when it lets you see your brother breaking his word, again. Oh Dean.
-Oooo. Psychic migraine! With heartbeat noises! OOO! NOSE BLEED!! OOO! I don't even care that they used a half second of 'Sam's nose starts bleeding' footage twice! OOO! \o/ OOO! *glee*
-And SAM HANE goes away, either into a scorch mark on a crypt floor, or back to Hell. I kind of hope Sam permanently roasted him. Because we do not need to have any more gullible people duped into helping a "l33t haxxor" demon plan a kegger for the evil and the undead, now do we? We'll settle for a Celtic harvest festival. Or at least I will.
-Dean seeing Sam, Sam seeing Dean seeing Sam, and, and... Oh crap. Oh Dean. Oh Sam. Oh fuck. Oh ow. Ow ow ow ow ow. Ow. Oh boys. There's going to be some epic shouting.
-What? Sam's leaving??? He's packing his 'leaving Dean' camo bag! The one he had in Scarecrow and when he went off to shoot the Crossroads Demon! Oh no you don't, Sam! You stick around and take your epic shouting like a Winchester!
-Ooo. Hi Uriel.... Who pokes Sam right in the November 2nd owwie. Uriel really is a dick. Except he's kind of got a point there, Sam...
-OOO! Shadow fluttery wing zooming! There's how you get wings on angels without straining the effects budget! A foof of air and shadows in light. Awesome. Also establishes Uriel's personality even more that he'd whip out the wings that fast just to cross a hotel room and make a point to a human.
-Useful, but we will kill you with a word. Heh. Sam got spanked by an angel. Metaphorically. Hm. Hoping we keep Uriel. He's adding some excellent tension. He's like a pitbull to Castiel's collie. *nods*
-"Ask Dean what he remembers from Hell." ASK DEAN ABOUT HELL!! OMG. EEE. I, um. Theory! Eee! I will be truly insufferable if I'm right. There may be prancing. Eee! O.O So, I suspect next ep we'll get some epic shouting about powers, a 'disarmed' excuse from Sam, a deeper depth of doubt in Sam from Dean (ow), followed by some pointed questions, whereupon Sam will ask Dean about Hell and all the walls will go up for everyone and the conversation will be over. For an ep or two and then everything will hit the fan right before a hiatus or something. Whee!
-Orders to do what Dean told them? Wow. OH WOW!!! OH YAY! TESTING! *APPLAUDS LIKE A MAD THING!!!!* AND!!! OMG AND!!! That whole "When your father gave you an order, didn't you obey?" thing!!! I bet Castiel knew what response that would get!@! OMG all the looks in the hotel room! HE WANTED DEAN TO DO IT THIS WAY!!! He was looking at Dean for a response he could cope with carrying out!!! EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! *FLAILS INCOMPREHENSIBLY WHILE THE VCR PAUSE TIMES OUT* Gah. Hoo. Wow. Okay! EEE!
-Dean thinks he failed. Of course he does. Oh Dean. Oh Dean.
-Aw. Kids. Still here because of my brother and me. AWWWWWW!!!
-Yep! Castiel was praying Dean would do this (and maybe nudging him that way too, by doing things to... hm. Not necessarily encourage him to stand up and defy what he was being told had to happen, but to let him know that saying 'No' was an option that was available without saying so outright?)
-Father's creations. Works of art. Heh. Aw. And it comes down, once again, to family. Whoa. Isn't that interesting. Meep. O.O
-"I am not a hammer." *snerk* Sorry. Sorry. Dr. Horrible is influencing my definition of 'hammer' again.
-Castiel doesn't know. And he doubts. Oh. Oh. Bloody hell. Hmmmmm.... So, since likelihood that this is a secret from Castiel's Boss is minimal... is this another test? If so, a test of who? Is Dean going to have to keep Castiel or Uriel from Falling?!? Castiel for doubts, or Uriel for being, well, kind of a dick about humans in the same way Lucifer was supposed to have been? Hm. Or will one of them Fall and... um. Hum. Ah. Crap. Neeeever mind. O.O
-More decisions. Ooooooooooooooooo.
-Hee. Dean and Castiel with the staring at each other and Castiel with the vague sense of "Look away so I can disappear, jackass." Like the whole "You hang up first!" "No you hang up first!" "No you!" thing kids do with friends on the phone in high school. Hee! XD
There. I think I feel better now even though I think my spell checker has had a nervous breakdown, and I hope that if you made it all the way through all that, that you aren't horribly offended.
...and sometime before next Thursday, I'll hopefully catch up on comments and the f-list and stuff. *is pathetic*
Edited for punctuation and sentence structure, and a misplaced observation