Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 7.05
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Contains profanity, capslock, meta and speculation.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
I believe this is the one that has a couple guest stars who used to be on that show that everyone in the fandom universe seems to have watched avidly except for me, because the news kind of exploded all over everything last summer during filming. Of course one of them's also been on Torchwood and multiple other things that I have seen, which is nifty.
Neither of them have been on Supernatural before, so that makes their casting info a little less spoilery to me, because knowing they're on doesn't automatically mean that any specific character will be returning in the episode, so yay. The show has had an actress or two from Buffy on before and turned them into vampires, so I doubt we'll be seeing Spike-lite tonight. Pretty safe to assume that one or both will be Leviathans, or witches, or some sort of supernatural creature, maybe not werewolves, but I don't know what Buffy's take on werewolves was, if there was one. If James Marsters' character is an ancient being that can time travel, has an unusual dress sense and flirts with everything, I will laugh mightily. (Ooo, maybe Balthazar lived and his new vessel is James Marsters?)
Beyond that, I recall nothing specific to this episode. I might have some 'oh yeah, I heard about this' moments while watching if something churns to the surface or turns out to be in this one, but I'm relatively unspoiled for this. Yay! \o/
ETA ...except parts of the first Sam and Dean scene were posted openly in a few different places unwarned, uncut and unlabeled, so it turns out I've seen bits of it after all. Blah. :-/
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.05 - ???? "Shut Up, Dr. Phil."
-Is it just me or are the Then's getting shorter? *skipping*
-I do not trust those things. Especially not when they show up in the pre-title sequence of this show.
-Yeah. Thought so. Eaurgch! :-P
-Aw, sleepy Dean.
-*snerk* "Shut Up, Dr. Phil" Okay, so, dealing with issues tonight, or avoiding dealing with issues. YAY! \o/
-And there is definitely no shortage of issues there. *pats Dean*
-Bwahahahahahah! XD Fear Dean's masterful Google-fu! And no Lorem Ipsum or repeating text in the article, and it's all relevant stuff, so yay for the art department!
-Ahhhh, crap. *adds things to spoiler section* Okay, I've seen bits of this. Sam jogging and other things. I guess this was one of the scenes released as a promo then? Stupid promos. :-/
-I must say though, jogging on top of the zen attitude towards guilt is making me even more nervous about Sam. Oddly, I'd feel more reassured if he was still poking at his hand regularly or Lucifer was showing up now and then. This calm and rational balanced Sam is making me very nervous....
-"That doesn't mean there's something going on with me." Dean, honey, the sun coming up in the morning means there's something going on with you. The sun not coming up in the morning means there's something going on with you. There is always something going on with you, you adorable angst-muppet. *pats*
-Written by Brad Bucker and Eugenie Ross-Leming. Familiar yet not overly familiar names.
-Hey! I recognize that store-brand format spice-pouch packaging! My cupboard's full of it. The Leviathan's been shopping at Superstore or Extra Foods. Same parent corp and generic brand supplier. Ooo, and he's got some Mrs. Dash too. maybe it's some kind of Leviathan spell components? Though if there's a spell that uses Mrs. Dash, I'd like to know about it. Maybe he's moved on from torturing people with nacho cheese to a spice rub and roast kind of thing? I don't know, but he shops where I shop. *nods*
-Directed by Phil Sgriccia. *nods* Wonder if he got some teasing relating to the title of the episode during filming?
-Yep, spice rub. Nummy. I'd say that the Mrs. Dash might imply he's trying to avoid salt, except for the previous nacho cheese incident. Any creature aversely affected by salt wouldn't go anywhere near gas station nacho cheese. :-P
-And our gourmet Leviathan pal is driving a Chevy Malibu LS. Wonder if the show's getting any kind of product placement bucks from Chevy? I know I think a hell of a lot more highly of Chevy products because of this show, they really should be paying them something for the advertising.
-Even semi-slouched with his hands in his pockets, Sam is very tall. You know, news flash.
-'Everyone loved Wendy, pillar of the community, volunteering, shining example of perfection.' Sure. No one is that perfect.
-"Agent Sambora." *sneeeeeeeeerk* Well, yeah, Bon Jovi rocks on occasion, but they do have members with less recognizable last names you could snag. Also, that's the name Meg!Sam used, back in "Born Under a Bad Sign," so... oh wow. Say. Where is Meg lately? Sam's body got reconstituted with the anti-possession tattoo, but... and then there's Lucifer.... and the monster blood.... THERE IS ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING GOING ON WITH SAM. Too many possibilities. Must ponder and await further evidence. *ponders fiercely*
-...I'm reading way too much into a fake name. It's gonna be like the fry-lady last week, isn't it. *headdesk*
-...Though if somewhere down the line, fry-lady comes back and is Ruby, and Sam's weirdly half-possessed by Meg, Lucifer and/or some random monster via that blood on the shard, I reserve the right to say a really humungous 'I told you so.' Right before they cart me off to the loony bin. *nods*
-I really like the way hairdresser guy is being played here, while Dean's investigating. Understated grief, genuine concern and willingness to help, not defensive.
-A coin. Last coin we had was the wishing coin, doubt this is related. Not random or cracky enough.
-"I observe, with my eyes." Yep. And you can count on Dean to observe women in bathrobes very closely. *nods*
-Tie report. Sam, silver-blue stripes on russet, sloping down to his left. Dean, fine grey on blue, down to his right. Still at odds, at least in the tie department.
-Hex talisman? Okay, so a witch. Now is it going to be 'Spike' or 'Cordy'?
-"BM Disposals" on the porta-potty. Really? Someone in set design is 12. XD
-An air compressor and a porta-potty. This will not be a pleasant death.
-Oh a nail gun! That's not too bad then.
-"You got any ideas?"/"Cirque du Soleil?" Yay, Canadian content! \o/
-Hey! OMG DEAN'S WEARING SAM'S TIE! Look! It's the same one Sam was wearing earlier! I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEEEEEEEANS!!! O.O
-...Except of course "Awww, they share ties!" *flappy hands* and "What happened to the one Dean was wearing previously since Sam's not wearing it?" I'm betting chili or pie happened. *nods*
-Shopping center project cancelled. Mhmm. And I'm guessing there's a house in the way of it with someone who likes leaving magic coins all over and isn't at all upset the center's not being built?
-Also, whatever's happening with Sam, it's making his sideburns more intense.
-Nice flask, bad habit.
-"So we're looking for an old Romanian?" Ooo. ciaranbochna? Romani? O.O
-Bunches of plants growing weird, also another prior season thing that's steered them right a few times. Any bets it's going to steer them wrong now?
-"No one knows he's crying/No one knows he's dying on the inside." Well, if we didn't know he was evil, now he's listening to songs about clowns.
-*waves hi tentatively* James Marsters sounds so weird with an American accent.
-"She bakes cupcakes." Yep. Some people do.
-Oh dear. Empty closet, broken shoe and an inverted pentagram-like thing. So he's recently divorced the Supernatural version of a 'witch'. And yet, glancing at the time left in the ep, I still think that's not going to be what's really going on.
-Note to spell-casters, evil/good/amateur of otherwise. When you move out, take your spell notes and components with you. People so easily get the wrong idea. Or the right one when it's least convenient.
-"Thing were kind of cordial between you and your assistant." No really, Dean, some people actually do make cupcakes for non-adulterous reasons.
-"I had a recent little thing with a business associate." ...or not. Or maybe he was with the hair-dryer woman?
-"We're just saying you should be careful. And take her to dinner. And apologize."/"And uh, grovel. Wouldn't hurt." Heeee. Sure, if she's killed three people, dinner and an apology is going to be enough to assuage her.
-"Nicole Kidman was in the remake. Red-head. Hel-lo." *snerk* Dean.
-"It's Dean. ...Winchester!" Bobby's either not Bobby or grumpy. Hard to say.
-Or it could be exactly what it seems like. Spell closet. That's awfully convenient though....
-And this would be the other Buffy Alum? Being introduced early enough as a practitioner of some kind of spell-casting to possibly be a red herring and maybe not killing people but trying to prevent a curse on the land the center was to be built on taking effect on those involved or something like that? Those could have been protective bloody sigils. Or not. But it's an option.
-Oh clever, clever Sam with the car alarm. :-D
-*facepalm* The uncappable closet door that didn't quite close. Arg. Always double check, don't just slam and run. Silly Dean.
-"Restless Leg Syndrome." That could explain the jogging. XD
-Dean's shoes clomped awfully loud on that floor as he left. If she didn't hear that, maybe she's oblivious and won't notice the door on her spell closet open.
-"Spoiler alert." *glomphs Dean* Hee!
-Yeaaaaah, that's kind of noticeable.
-Niiiiice cupcakes. Too bad they're coconut. And fictional.
-Hm. Symbol looks like this one with an extra bit on the one arm. Some interesting things in there including stuff about Saturn, it being shaped like a sickle and association with death and reapers, and "Saturn only brings sorrow and deprivation in those areas of a person's life that are based on illusions or unrealistic expectations." Hm. Interesting, and well chosen by the show, I think? Also, when spell-casting with photos, make sure you hang on to back up copies in case someone steals one. Or, you know, scan it in and reprint as many as you need.
-Sounds like Spanish or Italian, not Latin, and there was a distinct 'muerte' or 'morte' in there, so the odds of her being misunderstood and a red herring kind of going down a tad. But still possible.
-GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Okay, that's me off cupcakes for a long while. Though our foodie Leviathan would probably love to swap recipes. D-X
-Winchesters to the rescue! With blurry door-kicking! \o/
-Shooting a hex-thingy coin makes it stop. Good to know. What used to work on hex-bags? Setting them on fire, wasn't it?
-And even though it's not moving and less than a foot away, hitting a coin dead on on the first shot is pretty darn hard to do.
-"There were tiny, beating hearts in my cupcakes." *cackles* I know it's gross and nasty, but I just know there's going to be a few people trying to figure out how to emulate that for Halloween. The beating part wouldn't be doable, but a bleeding cupcake, maybe a jam filling or something, I'm certain there will be a few attempts at replication out there, and there are no doubt several recipes around from prior Halloweens etc to start from.
-"That's never happened before!" Well, I should hope not. She's in a bit of shock, yeah?
-"Go where?"/"Doesn't matter, five or six hundred miles oughta do it." Hee. Nothing to a Winchester, 'HOLY CRAP HOW FAR?' to an average person. I must say I approve of the tie borrowing and the unification of stripe direction. Different colours, but that's fine. It'd be alarming if they ever had exactly the same tie.
-"Me and Don Stark. Ew!" Yep. Completely unadulterous cupcakes. But not unadulterated. Told ya.
-"I love you for what you did."/"I love you too." Ohhh okay. Best friend is maybe the one doing the death things, or maybe the one who taught her how to do things but didn't tell her what they actually did, and is carrying a large torch for her. Or something. The former Mrs. Stark is now tentatively on the innocent dupe bandwagon. Best friend person, there really are better ways of letting a person know you're interested in them than killing off anyone who annoys them. Have you tried baked goods? Apparently they have adulterous implications. And hearts!
-Yes. Mocking your estranged wife's departure as 'fun', refusing to accept responsibility, criticizing everything she's doing and calling her BFF an evil bitch is an excellent way to win her back. Primo. Keep it up and you'll get a restraining order in the face.
-"Two FBI agents came by, asking questions."/"Hunters, sweetheart, that's what they are." OH HAI! O.O So, they're both... something vaguely 'witchy' and... I don't know who did what and who's good and who's evil and YAY! \o/
-Well, somebody's making a point. I'm thinking it's the BFF. Maybe.
-Or not. I don't know! Not a freaking clue what's really going on! This is great! \o/
-"I'll remember! It's fine!" Hee!
-Oh it's so her. Or at least something is her. I'm getting a 'they all did it separately for different reasons, most of which aren't really evil' feeling here. Moral ambiguity for everybody!
-"I have to check on the finger sandwiches." That was about the subtlest threat I've ever heard.
-Dean is alone in the room with an entire pie. Shouldn't there be a sock on the door or something so Sam doesn't disrupt the intense pie appreciation?
-"Dude. Pie." Too late!
-Chicken feet. Dean's not usually that squeamish. I mean it could be worse, at least you can get chicken feet at most butchers and don't have to go out and churn though twenty wild chicken hunts to collect the feet yourself, but regardless, bad, bad Sammy for harshing Dean's pie squee!
-Okay, yeah, rotting chicken feet would be a million times worse. Ew. Very bad Sammy. *eyeballs for soullessness or possession again*
-"It's like all of a sudden the town ran out of luck." Hmmmm.... I still have no idea who's doing what to whom or why. YAY!
-"Can you take the feet!" Hee! You flopped the bag down next to his pie, Sam, you're lucky he's only waving it in your face.
-'Eye' couldn't have done it without you. Ahh hah hah. Cute. XD
-Ooo. Okay. They're both 'witches' they're having a divorce/conflict whatever, and they're screwing with each other's stuff. Mall developments and big charity art galas and cupcake-baking admins and things. And in the meantime, the town's going to hell. I think I got it now. I'm slow this evening.
-Really though, most art I've seen publicly displayed lately looked much like that. Call it neo-avant-garde or something and no one will even notice.
-"You have people who love you, and he can't take that away from you." Oh god, I can't even watch. I'm sorry I ever thought you were at all evil or manipulative, Ms. BFF.
-And the boys have it figured out too, yay!
-And just in time to complicate things, it's Mr Leviathan! How'd the spice rub go? You know, if this guy sticks to the food and cookery theme, there are a lot of food prep techniques that would be nasty if applied as a torture. There was a conversation had by my group of friends in high school involving carrot peelers and cheese slicers and lemon zesters and garlic embedders and deep-fryer and that's without even getting into the mechanized equipment. There could be some very painful things inflicted randomly by our LeviaChef. Unless they get him tonight.
-Okay, one, neither of you are below window level because you're so frigging tall. Two, it's a shiny black '67 Impala, which she probably noticed sitting outside her place with the hood up right before she was accosted by an 'FBI agent' with restless leg syndrome and someone took her target's photo out of her spell closet. Best you can hope at this point is she's too distracted to notice and doesn't have any kind of 'detect hunter' spell up, which she really should, since she knows you're in town and know where she lives.
-Of course if you're just going to walk in through the front door... Heh. 'Hi, welcome to the neighbourhood, have a bowl of rancid chicken feet'. The poor Impala must smell something fierce. D-:
-And given how much time is left, this totally won't work.
-"Not chilled." Yep. Was wondering what a power-cut to random businesses in down had to do with their tiff. That was a defensive measure. Cool.
-"If we can't kill them, counsel them." Hahahahah! Sure! This should be fun, if you can convince them to stop with the trying to kill you stuff. It would totally suck to get clawed to death by a bowl full of rancid charred chicken feet.
-Dean. Marriage counsellor, but only in self-defense.
-"Kinky... clamps and feathers kind of love." *chokes laughing* The hand motions! XD
-"You're defending him?" Yeah, taking sides will get you guys killed. But hey, while they're talking, they aren't killing you outright. Right?
-"Don't suck up to her." And here we go again. Internal injuries and lacerations for everyone!
-"I've had 800 years of this! Do not make me bring up the Renaissance!"/"1492 ring any bells?" Heeeee! You know, 800 years is a long time to be together. Bound to be hiccups.
-*titters and hums Chumbawumba* They get knocked down and they get up again. Heee!
-"All these years you bury your anger and your disappointment-" Heh, heh, heh. Sam's not too whumped to take a sideways poke at Dean's issues, eh?
-And Dean's down again... NO! OMG IT'S THE FRIGGING CGI BEES FROM 'BUGS'! Talk about surprise guest stars! They really are hitting the season 1 drum hard. XD
-Not wanting to murder each other is a very good thing to have in any relationship. *nods*
-Yay, motel room screen! Basketballs! Haven't noticed room screens much lately, good to see one again.
-Hi Hi LeviaGuy! Kind of wondering what's up with the reveal and talking rather than just jumping out and attacking or whatever, but we'll see.
-"...do we know you?" Heeee! Very true, they haven't seen this guy before, and he's dressed like a hunter so for all they know he's some friend of a friend of someone Bobby's answered the phone for in the past eight months. But of course he's not.
-Direct threats, yeah. See, if you were going for a frontal assault, you shouldn't have given them any warning. Or if you weren't going for a frontal assault, you could have claimed to be a hunter, tagged along quietly, then poached them in their own juices later on. But now you have a hole in your jacket. Silly Leviathan.
-Jared has been pulling some awesome faces so far this year.
-And now he's getting choked, and Dean's been uncappably thrown into a wall just a few seconds ago. WHAT DAY IS IT??? \o/
-OH HAI, Leviathan going electro-zappy! What the heck? Has that happened before? I didn't think they had anything that worked versus Leviathans! Or is it some thing to do with that monster blood or Lucifer thing Sam's got, or did the witches show up to repay them for the counseling or something, OR IS IT CASTIEL DISPERSED THROUGH ALL THE LEVIATHANS AND FIGHTING BACK OR- ...I should just let it play, right?
-And it's door number two! Yay! They needed to find something that would work versus Leviathans, so apparently there's a spell an 800-year-old witch can do. Though I wonder why Dean isn't more determined to try to off these two in light of Amy. Or is it that they can't take them out even if they tried?
-"Spell only lasts for a few days." Okay, that's good. I mean, it's good that it's not an insta-kill on something that's horribly old and ancient and implacable and stuff, that'd be a bit of an anti-climax. Still, it is something that works. And I doubt that's the last we've seen of our foodie Leviathan.
-And that also answers the question of why Maggie and Don let the the boys go even though they know who and where they are.
-"Bottomless pit." Cool. Don can come back anytime. Despite the random murdery death business.
-"We're just hoping you've got a place you can put him, Bobby." Nice big pit of wet cement might do. Also, I've gotta say, I love how much of a presence Bobby has been in this episode without actually having been heard or seen once. It would have been cool to see or hear Bobby, but even so, I like the contiguity of the team, so to speak. Even the one thats not there is still a vital part. *nods*
-"You notice how they opened up, got everything off their chest." Heheh. He's Sam, he has to try.
-"There's always something eating at me, it's who I am." Ow. Kinda true, but ow. And he's definitely not going to be willing to share what's currently eating at him (which must be eating at him even harder since they have let the Starks go with a friendly chat after what they did do, but he tracked down Amy and killed her for what she might do) with Sam.
-"We're good, right?"/"We're good." Gaaaaaah. Between the perpetual guilt-complex and the drinking on top of the big 'not telling Sam About crap that will hurt Sam or will make Sam want to leave or hate Dean', it is a true miracle that Dean doesn't have eleven kinds of bleeding ulcer.
-Also a miracle that Sam hasn't gone insane, Lucifer yammering away in his head or not, just from the frustration of dealing with Dean's big old spiky walls.
-Aaarg. And a vague hint of Dean's family theme in the soundtrack at the end. In stealth mode. Really slow, just listen to the piano. Dammit sound people, why you gotta step on my heart like that? Right. It's what this show does.
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Contains profanity, capslock, meta and speculation.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
I believe this is the one that has a couple guest stars who used to be on that show that everyone in the fandom universe seems to have watched avidly except for me, because the news kind of exploded all over everything last summer during filming. Of course one of them's also been on Torchwood and multiple other things that I have seen, which is nifty.
Neither of them have been on Supernatural before, so that makes their casting info a little less spoilery to me, because knowing they're on doesn't automatically mean that any specific character will be returning in the episode, so yay. The show has had an actress or two from Buffy on before and turned them into vampires, so I doubt we'll be seeing Spike-lite tonight. Pretty safe to assume that one or both will be Leviathans, or witches, or some sort of supernatural creature, maybe not werewolves, but I don't know what Buffy's take on werewolves was, if there was one. If James Marsters' character is an ancient being that can time travel, has an unusual dress sense and flirts with everything, I will laugh mightily. (Ooo, maybe Balthazar lived and his new vessel is James Marsters?)
Beyond that, I recall nothing specific to this episode. I might have some 'oh yeah, I heard about this' moments while watching if something churns to the surface or turns out to be in this one, but I'm relatively unspoiled for this. Yay! \o/
ETA ...except parts of the first Sam and Dean scene were posted openly in a few different places unwarned, uncut and unlabeled, so it turns out I've seen bits of it after all. Blah. :-/
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.05 - ???? "Shut Up, Dr. Phil."
-Is it just me or are the Then's getting shorter? *skipping*
-I do not trust those things. Especially not when they show up in the pre-title sequence of this show.
-Yeah. Thought so. Eaurgch! :-P
-Aw, sleepy Dean.
-*snerk* "Shut Up, Dr. Phil" Okay, so, dealing with issues tonight, or avoiding dealing with issues. YAY! \o/
-And there is definitely no shortage of issues there. *pats Dean*
-Bwahahahahahah! XD Fear Dean's masterful Google-fu! And no Lorem Ipsum or repeating text in the article, and it's all relevant stuff, so yay for the art department!
-Ahhhh, crap. *adds things to spoiler section* Okay, I've seen bits of this. Sam jogging and other things. I guess this was one of the scenes released as a promo then? Stupid promos. :-/
-I must say though, jogging on top of the zen attitude towards guilt is making me even more nervous about Sam. Oddly, I'd feel more reassured if he was still poking at his hand regularly or Lucifer was showing up now and then. This calm and rational balanced Sam is making me very nervous....
-"That doesn't mean there's something going on with me." Dean, honey, the sun coming up in the morning means there's something going on with you. The sun not coming up in the morning means there's something going on with you. There is always something going on with you, you adorable angst-muppet. *pats*
-Written by Brad Bucker and Eugenie Ross-Leming. Familiar yet not overly familiar names.
-Hey! I recognize that store-brand format spice-pouch packaging! My cupboard's full of it. The Leviathan's been shopping at Superstore or Extra Foods. Same parent corp and generic brand supplier. Ooo, and he's got some Mrs. Dash too. maybe it's some kind of Leviathan spell components? Though if there's a spell that uses Mrs. Dash, I'd like to know about it. Maybe he's moved on from torturing people with nacho cheese to a spice rub and roast kind of thing? I don't know, but he shops where I shop. *nods*
-Directed by Phil Sgriccia. *nods* Wonder if he got some teasing relating to the title of the episode during filming?
-Yep, spice rub. Nummy. I'd say that the Mrs. Dash might imply he's trying to avoid salt, except for the previous nacho cheese incident. Any creature aversely affected by salt wouldn't go anywhere near gas station nacho cheese. :-P
-And our gourmet Leviathan pal is driving a Chevy Malibu LS. Wonder if the show's getting any kind of product placement bucks from Chevy? I know I think a hell of a lot more highly of Chevy products because of this show, they really should be paying them something for the advertising.
-Even semi-slouched with his hands in his pockets, Sam is very tall. You know, news flash.
-'Everyone loved Wendy, pillar of the community, volunteering, shining example of perfection.' Sure. No one is that perfect.
-"Agent Sambora." *sneeeeeeeeerk* Well, yeah, Bon Jovi rocks on occasion, but they do have members with less recognizable last names you could snag. Also, that's the name Meg!Sam used, back in "Born Under a Bad Sign," so... oh wow. Say. Where is Meg lately? Sam's body got reconstituted with the anti-possession tattoo, but... and then there's Lucifer.... and the monster blood.... THERE IS ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING GOING ON WITH SAM. Too many possibilities. Must ponder and await further evidence. *ponders fiercely*
-...I'm reading way too much into a fake name. It's gonna be like the fry-lady last week, isn't it. *headdesk*
-...Though if somewhere down the line, fry-lady comes back and is Ruby, and Sam's weirdly half-possessed by Meg, Lucifer and/or some random monster via that blood on the shard, I reserve the right to say a really humungous 'I told you so.' Right before they cart me off to the loony bin. *nods*
-I really like the way hairdresser guy is being played here, while Dean's investigating. Understated grief, genuine concern and willingness to help, not defensive.
-A coin. Last coin we had was the wishing coin, doubt this is related. Not random or cracky enough.
-"I observe, with my eyes." Yep. And you can count on Dean to observe women in bathrobes very closely. *nods*
-Tie report. Sam, silver-blue stripes on russet, sloping down to his left. Dean, fine grey on blue, down to his right. Still at odds, at least in the tie department.
-Hex talisman? Okay, so a witch. Now is it going to be 'Spike' or 'Cordy'?
-"BM Disposals" on the porta-potty. Really? Someone in set design is 12. XD
-An air compressor and a porta-potty. This will not be a pleasant death.
-Oh a nail gun! That's not too bad then.
-"You got any ideas?"/"Cirque du Soleil?" Yay, Canadian content! \o/
-Hey! OMG DEAN'S WEARING SAM'S TIE! Look! It's the same one Sam was wearing earlier! I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEEEEEEEANS!!! O.O
-...Except of course "Awww, they share ties!" *flappy hands* and "What happened to the one Dean was wearing previously since Sam's not wearing it?" I'm betting chili or pie happened. *nods*
-Shopping center project cancelled. Mhmm. And I'm guessing there's a house in the way of it with someone who likes leaving magic coins all over and isn't at all upset the center's not being built?
-Also, whatever's happening with Sam, it's making his sideburns more intense.
-Nice flask, bad habit.
-"So we're looking for an old Romanian?" Ooo. ciaranbochna? Romani? O.O
-Bunches of plants growing weird, also another prior season thing that's steered them right a few times. Any bets it's going to steer them wrong now?
-"No one knows he's crying/No one knows he's dying on the inside." Well, if we didn't know he was evil, now he's listening to songs about clowns.
-*waves hi tentatively* James Marsters sounds so weird with an American accent.
-"She bakes cupcakes." Yep. Some people do.
-Oh dear. Empty closet, broken shoe and an inverted pentagram-like thing. So he's recently divorced the Supernatural version of a 'witch'. And yet, glancing at the time left in the ep, I still think that's not going to be what's really going on.
-Note to spell-casters, evil/good/amateur of otherwise. When you move out, take your spell notes and components with you. People so easily get the wrong idea. Or the right one when it's least convenient.
-"Thing were kind of cordial between you and your assistant." No really, Dean, some people actually do make cupcakes for non-adulterous reasons.
-"I had a recent little thing with a business associate." ...or not. Or maybe he was with the hair-dryer woman?
-"We're just saying you should be careful. And take her to dinner. And apologize."/"And uh, grovel. Wouldn't hurt." Heeee. Sure, if she's killed three people, dinner and an apology is going to be enough to assuage her.
-"Nicole Kidman was in the remake. Red-head. Hel-lo." *snerk* Dean.
-"It's Dean. ...Winchester!" Bobby's either not Bobby or grumpy. Hard to say.
-Or it could be exactly what it seems like. Spell closet. That's awfully convenient though....
-And this would be the other Buffy Alum? Being introduced early enough as a practitioner of some kind of spell-casting to possibly be a red herring and maybe not killing people but trying to prevent a curse on the land the center was to be built on taking effect on those involved or something like that? Those could have been protective bloody sigils. Or not. But it's an option.
-Oh clever, clever Sam with the car alarm. :-D
-*facepalm* The uncappable closet door that didn't quite close. Arg. Always double check, don't just slam and run. Silly Dean.
-"Restless Leg Syndrome." That could explain the jogging. XD
-Dean's shoes clomped awfully loud on that floor as he left. If she didn't hear that, maybe she's oblivious and won't notice the door on her spell closet open.
-"Spoiler alert." *glomphs Dean* Hee!
-Yeaaaaah, that's kind of noticeable.
-Niiiiice cupcakes. Too bad they're coconut. And fictional.
-Hm. Symbol looks like this one with an extra bit on the one arm. Some interesting things in there including stuff about Saturn, it being shaped like a sickle and association with death and reapers, and "Saturn only brings sorrow and deprivation in those areas of a person's life that are based on illusions or unrealistic expectations." Hm. Interesting, and well chosen by the show, I think? Also, when spell-casting with photos, make sure you hang on to back up copies in case someone steals one. Or, you know, scan it in and reprint as many as you need.
-Sounds like Spanish or Italian, not Latin, and there was a distinct 'muerte' or 'morte' in there, so the odds of her being misunderstood and a red herring kind of going down a tad. But still possible.
-GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Okay, that's me off cupcakes for a long while. Though our foodie Leviathan would probably love to swap recipes. D-X
-Winchesters to the rescue! With blurry door-kicking! \o/
-Shooting a hex-thingy coin makes it stop. Good to know. What used to work on hex-bags? Setting them on fire, wasn't it?
-And even though it's not moving and less than a foot away, hitting a coin dead on on the first shot is pretty darn hard to do.
-"There were tiny, beating hearts in my cupcakes." *cackles* I know it's gross and nasty, but I just know there's going to be a few people trying to figure out how to emulate that for Halloween. The beating part wouldn't be doable, but a bleeding cupcake, maybe a jam filling or something, I'm certain there will be a few attempts at replication out there, and there are no doubt several recipes around from prior Halloweens etc to start from.
-"That's never happened before!" Well, I should hope not. She's in a bit of shock, yeah?
-"Go where?"/"Doesn't matter, five or six hundred miles oughta do it." Hee. Nothing to a Winchester, 'HOLY CRAP HOW FAR?' to an average person. I must say I approve of the tie borrowing and the unification of stripe direction. Different colours, but that's fine. It'd be alarming if they ever had exactly the same tie.
-"Me and Don Stark. Ew!" Yep. Completely unadulterous cupcakes. But not unadulterated. Told ya.
-"I love you for what you did."/"I love you too." Ohhh okay. Best friend is maybe the one doing the death things, or maybe the one who taught her how to do things but didn't tell her what they actually did, and is carrying a large torch for her. Or something. The former Mrs. Stark is now tentatively on the innocent dupe bandwagon. Best friend person, there really are better ways of letting a person know you're interested in them than killing off anyone who annoys them. Have you tried baked goods? Apparently they have adulterous implications. And hearts!
-Yes. Mocking your estranged wife's departure as 'fun', refusing to accept responsibility, criticizing everything she's doing and calling her BFF an evil bitch is an excellent way to win her back. Primo. Keep it up and you'll get a restraining order in the face.
-"Two FBI agents came by, asking questions."/"Hunters, sweetheart, that's what they are." OH HAI! O.O So, they're both... something vaguely 'witchy' and... I don't know who did what and who's good and who's evil and YAY! \o/
-Well, somebody's making a point. I'm thinking it's the BFF. Maybe.
-Or not. I don't know! Not a freaking clue what's really going on! This is great! \o/
-"I'll remember! It's fine!" Hee!
-Oh it's so her. Or at least something is her. I'm getting a 'they all did it separately for different reasons, most of which aren't really evil' feeling here. Moral ambiguity for everybody!
-"I have to check on the finger sandwiches." That was about the subtlest threat I've ever heard.
-Dean is alone in the room with an entire pie. Shouldn't there be a sock on the door or something so Sam doesn't disrupt the intense pie appreciation?
-"Dude. Pie." Too late!
-Chicken feet. Dean's not usually that squeamish. I mean it could be worse, at least you can get chicken feet at most butchers and don't have to go out and churn though twenty wild chicken hunts to collect the feet yourself, but regardless, bad, bad Sammy for harshing Dean's pie squee!
-Okay, yeah, rotting chicken feet would be a million times worse. Ew. Very bad Sammy. *eyeballs for soullessness or possession again*
-"It's like all of a sudden the town ran out of luck." Hmmmm.... I still have no idea who's doing what to whom or why. YAY!
-"Can you take the feet!" Hee! You flopped the bag down next to his pie, Sam, you're lucky he's only waving it in your face.
-'Eye' couldn't have done it without you. Ahh hah hah. Cute. XD
-Ooo. Okay. They're both 'witches' they're having a divorce/conflict whatever, and they're screwing with each other's stuff. Mall developments and big charity art galas and cupcake-baking admins and things. And in the meantime, the town's going to hell. I think I got it now. I'm slow this evening.
-Really though, most art I've seen publicly displayed lately looked much like that. Call it neo-avant-garde or something and no one will even notice.
-"You have people who love you, and he can't take that away from you." Oh god, I can't even watch. I'm sorry I ever thought you were at all evil or manipulative, Ms. BFF.
-And the boys have it figured out too, yay!
-And just in time to complicate things, it's Mr Leviathan! How'd the spice rub go? You know, if this guy sticks to the food and cookery theme, there are a lot of food prep techniques that would be nasty if applied as a torture. There was a conversation had by my group of friends in high school involving carrot peelers and cheese slicers and lemon zesters and garlic embedders and deep-fryer and that's without even getting into the mechanized equipment. There could be some very painful things inflicted randomly by our LeviaChef. Unless they get him tonight.
-Okay, one, neither of you are below window level because you're so frigging tall. Two, it's a shiny black '67 Impala, which she probably noticed sitting outside her place with the hood up right before she was accosted by an 'FBI agent' with restless leg syndrome and someone took her target's photo out of her spell closet. Best you can hope at this point is she's too distracted to notice and doesn't have any kind of 'detect hunter' spell up, which she really should, since she knows you're in town and know where she lives.
-Of course if you're just going to walk in through the front door... Heh. 'Hi, welcome to the neighbourhood, have a bowl of rancid chicken feet'. The poor Impala must smell something fierce. D-:
-And given how much time is left, this totally won't work.
-"Not chilled." Yep. Was wondering what a power-cut to random businesses in down had to do with their tiff. That was a defensive measure. Cool.
-"If we can't kill them, counsel them." Hahahahah! Sure! This should be fun, if you can convince them to stop with the trying to kill you stuff. It would totally suck to get clawed to death by a bowl full of rancid charred chicken feet.
-Dean. Marriage counsellor, but only in self-defense.
-"Kinky... clamps and feathers kind of love." *chokes laughing* The hand motions! XD
-"You're defending him?" Yeah, taking sides will get you guys killed. But hey, while they're talking, they aren't killing you outright. Right?
-"Don't suck up to her." And here we go again. Internal injuries and lacerations for everyone!
-"I've had 800 years of this! Do not make me bring up the Renaissance!"/"1492 ring any bells?" Heeeee! You know, 800 years is a long time to be together. Bound to be hiccups.
-*titters and hums Chumbawumba* They get knocked down and they get up again. Heee!
-"All these years you bury your anger and your disappointment-" Heh, heh, heh. Sam's not too whumped to take a sideways poke at Dean's issues, eh?
-And Dean's down again... NO! OMG IT'S THE FRIGGING CGI BEES FROM 'BUGS'! Talk about surprise guest stars! They really are hitting the season 1 drum hard. XD
-Not wanting to murder each other is a very good thing to have in any relationship. *nods*
-Yay, motel room screen! Basketballs! Haven't noticed room screens much lately, good to see one again.
-Hi Hi LeviaGuy! Kind of wondering what's up with the reveal and talking rather than just jumping out and attacking or whatever, but we'll see.
-"...do we know you?" Heeee! Very true, they haven't seen this guy before, and he's dressed like a hunter so for all they know he's some friend of a friend of someone Bobby's answered the phone for in the past eight months. But of course he's not.
-Direct threats, yeah. See, if you were going for a frontal assault, you shouldn't have given them any warning. Or if you weren't going for a frontal assault, you could have claimed to be a hunter, tagged along quietly, then poached them in their own juices later on. But now you have a hole in your jacket. Silly Leviathan.
-Jared has been pulling some awesome faces so far this year.
-And now he's getting choked, and Dean's been uncappably thrown into a wall just a few seconds ago. WHAT DAY IS IT??? \o/
-OH HAI, Leviathan going electro-zappy! What the heck? Has that happened before? I didn't think they had anything that worked versus Leviathans! Or is it some thing to do with that monster blood or Lucifer thing Sam's got, or did the witches show up to repay them for the counseling or something, OR IS IT CASTIEL DISPERSED THROUGH ALL THE LEVIATHANS AND FIGHTING BACK OR- ...I should just let it play, right?
-And it's door number two! Yay! They needed to find something that would work versus Leviathans, so apparently there's a spell an 800-year-old witch can do. Though I wonder why Dean isn't more determined to try to off these two in light of Amy. Or is it that they can't take them out even if they tried?
-"Spell only lasts for a few days." Okay, that's good. I mean, it's good that it's not an insta-kill on something that's horribly old and ancient and implacable and stuff, that'd be a bit of an anti-climax. Still, it is something that works. And I doubt that's the last we've seen of our foodie Leviathan.
-And that also answers the question of why Maggie and Don let the the boys go even though they know who and where they are.
-"Bottomless pit." Cool. Don can come back anytime. Despite the random murdery death business.
-"We're just hoping you've got a place you can put him, Bobby." Nice big pit of wet cement might do. Also, I've gotta say, I love how much of a presence Bobby has been in this episode without actually having been heard or seen once. It would have been cool to see or hear Bobby, but even so, I like the contiguity of the team, so to speak. Even the one thats not there is still a vital part. *nods*
-"You notice how they opened up, got everything off their chest." Heheh. He's Sam, he has to try.
-"There's always something eating at me, it's who I am." Ow. Kinda true, but ow. And he's definitely not going to be willing to share what's currently eating at him (which must be eating at him even harder since they have let the Starks go with a friendly chat after what they did do, but he tracked down Amy and killed her for what she might do) with Sam.
-"We're good, right?"/"We're good." Gaaaaaah. Between the perpetual guilt-complex and the drinking on top of the big 'not telling Sam About crap that will hurt Sam or will make Sam want to leave or hate Dean', it is a true miracle that Dean doesn't have eleven kinds of bleeding ulcer.
-Also a miracle that Sam hasn't gone insane, Lucifer yammering away in his head or not, just from the frustration of dealing with Dean's big old spiky walls.
-Aaarg. And a vague hint of Dean's family theme in the soundtrack at the end. In stealth mode. Really slow, just listen to the piano. Dammit sound people, why you gotta step on my heart like that? Right. It's what this show does.
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