Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 7.07
(Sleep or code the reaction post, sleep or code the reaction post.... Decisions decisions.)
Contains profanity, capslock, meta and speculation.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Nothing. Bugger all. Not even gonna speculate. Last week's theory accuracy kind of freaked me out. O.o
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH. *headdesk* *deletes caps*
Okay, so I started watching the episode, ready to skip the THEN except... there wasn't a THEN screen! So I hit play instead of fast-forward and there's a big moon on the screen and Bad Moon Rising is playing! I get all excited that they're monkeying around with the opening and having the same music as was playing during the season one finale Impala crash and gleefully continue on, trying to figure out what's happening.
There's a guy walking through a dark field who looks about Sam's size (Sam!) and is wearing a hoodie (A hoodie!) and carrying a gas can (A gas can!), and I'm merrily thinking he's gone to do some ritual cremation thing on Amy or something, but then the guy sets the whole field on fire and catches his arm on fire but isn't too bothered by it. So then I'm thinking "Sam's been taken over by the voices in his head!" and theorizing about that. Then there's a child getting out of bed in a nearby house and looking out the window at the fire and screaming for her dad and so I'm suddenly thinking "Holy crap, is there a new YED starting the special kid lottery again?? Or is Crowley's crew possessing people and getting the to set fires to attract Sam and Dean's attention? Or are the Leviathans setting fires for some reason? What's going on???" O.o
...Aaaaaand then the title card turned up and, as all of you already know, it was a totally different show.
*epic facepalm*
"Against the Wall" was the title I think, some kind of cop show. Seriously, if you can find the current episode of that, watch the opening bit before the title and tell me that doesn't look like it should be part of a Supernatural episode. I mean really, 'Bad Moon Rising'! XD
I swear, the guy shook the last of the gas out of the gas can just like Jared does. ANYWAY.
*goes and finds the right show*
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.07 - ??? "The Mentalists"
-Yep, that's a THEN. Yep, I'm skipping it.
-A seance, oh dear. None of these people are going to survive are they?
-And a talking board! More like Bella's (that got shot in Bad Day) than the one Sam used in In My Time of Dying to talk to Dean. Has anyone ever done a study on the effect of bangly bracelets and rings on communications with the dead? They seem to be a common item among fictional mediums.
-Skeptic man's going to survive. Calling that now. The dark-haired woman is far too excited and the medium is the, well, medium. Skeptic man's going to survive and have to deal with the Winchesters. Well, one or the other of the Winchesters. Aw.
-I don't do jewelry at all but I really like her necklace. Not that I'd wear it, it just looks nifty.
-And everything goes foom and the planchette starts moving without anyone touching it and, yeah. No survivors. And I bet someone's getting that planchette in the eye before the title card. XD
-Ooo. And that definite 'no' was in response to "Danny?" and therein lies the trouble of messing with stuff that's supposed to open psychic pathways or channels to the afterlife or what have you when you have no idea what you're doing. The thing about an open window is anything can come in through it. That's why window screens exist. Keeps the nasty bugs out. *nods*
-Okay, fine, throat, not eye. Close enough.
-Title card! Ooo, two survivors. Yeah, I suppose enthusiasm woman needed to survive too, because either Sam or Dean are probably going to get an earful about Danny's little dog fetching tennis balls in the afterlife.
-Aw. *pats Dean*
-Title: The Mentalists. Ooo. Now there's a crossover. Patrick Jayne and Dean getting into a snark-off.
-Why in the world are you stealing a Dodge Charger, Dean? Did the My Little Pony Acadian crap out before you got back to where you stashed the Impala, or are you just trading up? Given its body condition, the engine might not be any good.
-Good to know that Dean's not against My Little Ponies in particular, just against random crap dangling from rearview mirrors. Sensible. It's a distraction while driving and when you can drive from anywhere to anywhere in about 2 hours, the last thing you need while going Mach 9 down the I-5 is dangly crap swinging in your field of vision. *nods*
-News of the weird, how very convenient. All radio stations should have that. My local radio station just has endless hockey wank, but i do live in Canada, so no real shock there.
-One-sided (*wibble*) tie report: Dark blue, narrow lighter blue stripes going down to Dean's left. Dark, solid, no-frills serious tie. Have to see if Sam wears a tie. If we see Sam.
-Written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker. Hee! Well-paired names. Their first Supernatural gig, but they've worked together on other projects it seems, so we'll see how they do. Directed by Mike Rohl, a name we've seen before.
-And that's when I'd scream and run out the door. Seriously. Even if this wasn't a show where the special of the day might indeed literally be you, particularly with Leviathans running around, that is far too much... muchness for me. O.o
-Ahahahahahahahah. Yep. Now. Odds of either of them untwisting their twisty bits to work the case together are fairly good, but it'll probably happen about a minute before the designated Person in Peril is about to get splattered.
-Second half of the tie report! Charcoal gray with silver-grey compound stripes, also going down to the left. A slightly gloomier tie, but similar in *gestures* thing, tie feelings. I gotta say though, Sam's hair is looking severely depressed.
-Oh Dean. Plunks down, starts babbling about the case, and Sam is definitely still a bit too torqued to talk. But Dean talks, because he hasn't had anyone to talk to and is going nuts from isolation and rejection and abandonment and hopes that maybe things are alright now because he doesn't have his car, he doesn't have his brother, and except for the job that's his whole world shot right there. Oh Dean.
-"When's the last time you saw a real psychic, hunh? Pamela? Missouri?" Aw, yay for name-tagging. :-)
-"You are a virile manifestation of the divine." *chokes on tea* See, that's why I avoid places like that. Last thing I need is someone interpreting my breakfast at me. :-P
-Ah, or maybe it actually is flirting, as the slightly blurry little lip bite from the server seems to imply. As far as pick-up lines go, that's not bad actually, if a tad florid.
-'We're here, we're working the case, we might as well work it together.' And Dean's been alone and Impala-less for a week and a half, and Sam's been on the road seething for a week and a half. Yeah. This is going to go about as smooth as a row boat in a hurricane.
-"You're the brothers from the-!" YES!!! SOMEONE RECOGNIZING THEM AND FREAKING OUT ABOUT THEM BEING SERIAL KILLERS! OMFG I'VE WAITED ABOUT SEVEN YEARS FOR THAT! \o/
-"Us on the other hand, we're completely harmless." Dean's completely harmless face, hee!
-"I can see by your energies you're completely gentle." Yeaaaaah, no real psychic sense there. She's next on the medium-killer hit list, isn't she?
-Or Nikolai is. He's got a bit much in the way of background character detail not to be either a later in the episode victim or the killer. I like him, too, so given my track record, he's either evil or dead. Sigh.
-Hm. *quick paranoid Google* Nope. Rasputin's first name was Grigori.
-"Teach you to harness the power of your mind." Hehehe. Sam's kind of been there done that mostly against his will for seven seasons now. I don't think he'll be too keen on a refresher course.
-Oh hello same necklace on both victims. I definitely wouldn't want to wear it then if that's the link. Still looks cool though, just not cool enough to get killed over.
-*nods along with the plot* So, not another thing like the meadowsweet wreath makers where someone's selling the things to mark out targets, just something passed along. Good to know you aren't going to be tracking down half the town that bought the things. Time saving. Cursed object though, how long has it been? The last one I remember off-hand (pardon the pun) was the hand of glory in Red Sky at Morning.
-Also *rewinds to check* Nope, no necklace on the woman who recognized them, so unless she acquires it later, she's safe.
-Okay, normally spoon-bending doesn't have a delay-action timer. Nikolai is more than he appears to be.
-"I read people, it's just less woo-woo, more body language. Like you two..." Oh dear. This could be fun. XD
-She did nail the basics. Very cool. I like her. So she's doomed. Sigh.
-OH YAY A JUNK SHOP! \o/
-"You're looking... for something." Yes, psychic powers do help out with customer service skills. Is is just me, or does the emporium owner here come across a bit like Ben Edlund Lite?
-"This is an Orb of Thesulah." Ah! New thing! *googles carefully* *headdesk* Not so new. It's from Buffy. Which exists as fiction in the SPN 'verse (Hell House - "What would Buffy do?"), so I hope one of them will call him on his crap. It's not even close to being an orb of anything anyway.
-"A loss weighs on you. You're angry." You know, when these two aren't talking to each other, a town full of psychics and people-readers is probably the best place to air out the crap. It's not like they can go to family counseling, right? "He killed the first girl I ever kissed when he said he wouldn't!"/"Yeah, well, she was a monster who ate pituitary glands and would have killed more people." See? Not therapy-friendly problems these guys have. Having strangers poke at them in vague terms is probably going to be the fastest way to get them to the epic yelling stage so they can get to the dealing with it stage, so they can get the car back and continue on like they should.
-*snerk* Jimmy Tomorrow. Sounds like he should be wearing a silver jumpsuit and a jet-pack instead of telling people's fortunes.
-"Oh we'll send you a check." Smug Dean is smug. Ooo, giant orange D6!
-Random thing of set design having a little fun, maybe, but the cash register reads 7777.
-Ah, the necklace is a red herring. (Unless it's a brand new fresh curse on a cheap necklace, and this 'necklace is a red herring' thing is also a red herring... *ponders*) Cool! And the sudden cut to Nikolai doesn't bode well for his innocence.
-...but the sudden laying out of a large pile of cutlery just before a commercial break doesn't bode well for his survival. So, dead or evil, happening nowish.
-OH HOLY SHIT. Okay, that's the first genuine jump this show has gotten from me in a while. GAH THAT'S CREEPY!!! O.O
-And rather than throw the objects at the victim like it did with the first two, whatever it is throws the victim at the objects. Just to change things up. Evil serial-killing psychic whatsits have to avoid getting in a rut too. *nods*
-...thooooose whispers sound a bit... angelic... Didn't they? I mean, just because Castiel is gone napping at the bottom of a reservoir somewhere around Kansas or South Dakota doesn't mean the rest of the angels aren't frantically scrambling to fill a power-vacuum and/or rampaging around on Earth, messily wiping out 'psychics' in New York for some reason or other. *eyebrows*
-And second tie report: Sam - looks like the same tie, might be slightly different stripes, but if it's not the same, it's damn close. Now Dean, Dean has gone from blue to red, one stripe to two, tilting left to tilting right, he almost couldn't be wearing a more opposite tie to the one from earlier without abandoning stripes all together. What does it mean? Sam's not budging. Dean is either relaxing due to the return of Sam thinking everything's back to some kind of normal, or is indicating a willingness to be flexible and deal with the situation so Sam won't leave. Sam doesn't want flexible though. Sam's grieving and angry and not budging. And so his tie is still dour, desaturated and not significantly changed from before, leaving Dean's optimistic change of tie (but also opposite sloping) sadly thwarted. This tie report has been brought to you by the letter 'OW.'
-"All from clairvoyants who know what 'really happened'." HAHAHA. Yeah, three weird deaths during a town-wide psychic convention would draw in the voluntary prognostications.
-"A ghost or some kind of ogre that only attacks Russians." Did the other two have a Russian background? I missed that. Can't tell.
-"Did you mean it when you said you had an open mind?" Heeee. Yeah. He kind of did.
-"You're serious?" And then when they tell you it's a real ghost and the open mindedness is on the other foot (so to speak), you don't believe them. Hmpf.
-"See there's fake woo-woo crap, and there's real woo-woo crap." Heeeeee. Woo-woo.
-"This could be like looking for a needle in a stack of fake needles." Aw, poor Dean looks so woebegone.
-I don't know why I like this one. I love the outfit. She seems to have sensible advice too, I mean, if the lady's brother keeps going back to jail, his 'curse' probably would be dragging her down. Of course, because I like her and because there's a commercial break coming up, that means she's probably dying in the next 60 seconds. :-P
-"Family is a pain in the ass anyhow." I really like her. I really do. She's going to die messy now isn't she?
-OH HAI ACTUAL SOMETHING HAPPENING FOR THE NOT-SO-ACTUAL PSYCHIC.
-Death vision, with choking and cuckoo clocks. Hmm.
-OMFGAAAAAAAAH! Second actual jump of the night for me THERE'S SOMEONE STANDING BEHIND HER GAAAAAAH! *buries back of neck in chair* Gaaaaah!
-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!! WHY AM I WATCHING THIS AFTER MIDNIGHT!!! *burrows further into chair* O.O
-That is the pinkest museum I have ever seen. Looks better suited to a museum of bubble-gum.
-Heh. Hehehe. Campbell is a common name, doesn't necessarily mean it's a relation... ha. It probably is. Also, that particular display wall has a brotherly theme. Also also, *squints* Stefan S. Campbell writes in a very familiar font I can't quite place. Like the Blackadder font italicized, but the capital S's aren't right.
-"The strain of working together, or maybe just being around each other all their lives." Yeah, that point's not relevant to you guys at all, is it?
-"That was just a stage name, they weren't actually brothers." Ah, yes. The bad old days where the law decreed some kinds of love to be illegal. *glares at history and sadly not-so-history in some places*
-"She looked after Kate." And she's the ghost, not Kate, hm?
-"I don't normally do this during business hours, but do you know an Eleanor, or an Ellen?" *gasp* Oooo... Of course again, it's a common name with a lot of variations, so odds are pretty good he'd know one. Actually two. Ellen and Lenore, the now-dead vampire.
-"If you don't tell someone how bad it really is, she'll kick your ass from beyond." GO ELLEN!!!! \o/
-"We agreed to work the case, we didn't agree for you to be a dick the whole time." And here it comes. Though perhaps if you're going to yell at each other about who promised not to kill who's monster girlfriend and then did it anyway, you might want somewhere a bit less public considering there are people in this town who already recognized your undead selves from your doppelgangers well-covered murder spree.
-Ow ow ow.
-"Look, I get it. There are certain people in this world, no matter how dangerous they are, you just can't." OW.
-"And I would've told you. Eventually. Once I knew this whole 'waving a gun at Satan' thing was a one-time show." Oooo. Ow. And easy to say he would have said when it's moot now. I don't know if he would have, satan-vision of not.
-"You can be pissed all you want, but quit being a bitch." Owwwww. And now either walls or a return volley from Sam. ...Unless Dean walks away first. Leaving Sam to stew. Always a dangerous prospect, stewed Sam.
-They haven't lost the knack of digging perfectly rectangular holes through ancient, settled and grown-through dirt either.
-"I get why she's killing people, I just don't get why she's warning them." Ohhhhhhh. Because she isn't killing them, her sister is, and she's trying to warn them all before her sister gets them, and burning her corpse is just going to stop the warnings and I do so love a good case of ghost layering. *glee*
-And also, if you are taking out a spirit with a known protector, take out the (uncappable) protector first. *facepalm*
-Either her dental hygiene was really bizarre when she died or she's been chewing on highlighters in the afterlife. Those teeth are ridiculously yellow.
-"Why isn't anybody listening?" Because they are being distracted by their own family angst and drama and not paying any attention to yours. Sorry.
-Cuckoo clocks. Evil. *nods*
-"Dean just gimme the phone and drive." YAY FOR ROAD-SMART SAM. \o/
-So much love for the crash course in basic ghost-busting over the phone. Also, if these two survive, I kind of want them to start hunting on their own.
-Or, um. Melanie can start hunting. Poor Camille. D-:
-And for posterity, a shot of the license plate on the Dodge. At least I think it's a Charger, but I could be totally wrong.
-Poor Melanie. Though really, yelling at the guys who told her her friend was safe when she wasn't would be an entirely justifiable response as well.
-"Turns out that Kate was just trying to warn people about her evil bitch sister." Yup. Told ya so. Nyah.
-"I feel naked doing this in the daylight." Totally. Not a wise time of day to be in plain sight in a graveyard digging up one of the town's founders, but what can you do, right?
-Hehe, yep. Of course she's gone. Too much time left on the progress bar yet to get this resolved now.
-"Dean, if someone knew enough to take Margaret's bones, they're not kidding around." Hmmm. Running low on speaking parts here. Maybe the museum curator, even though he passed on a message from Ellen?
-"Because all the headliners are dead." Had to be some connection between them. I guess Camille was an alternate?
-Ah, yes, junk shops. Great for Giant d6's, battered musical instruments, CD's by obscure eighties bands and spell components for binding ghosts.
-Salt circle! *fond smile* Though really, putting a chair inside the circle too might be thoughtful.
-"Does it hurt 'em, burning their bones?"/"Probably, yeah."/"Good." She did just watch her best friend die messily, so rooting for pain seems fair.
-Oh hi random talking woman from the coffee shop! I'm glad it's you and not the museum guy. Also, I'm thinking Sam may have nearly caused a premature labour there, barging in and waving a gun around.
-...or it's not her. It's spawning season for red herrings apparently. Maybe it is the museum guy. Or hell, at this point, the guy at the coffee bar. Or hell, Melanie. IT'S ALL OF THEM. *headdesk*
-Or the pawn shop guy. I was totally going to say pawn shop guy, but I was thrown off by his Edlundishness.
-Nice to get an obvious ghost-binding altar now and then.
-Sam, Sam, Sam, you turnip. Check the room completely to make sure it's clear before going for the altar. Silly.
-WOO, NICE MOVE SAM!!! How did that happen? You aren't usually that good at hand-to-hand. Is it Lucifer? *squints at hair to detect evil*
-Ghosts have gotten smarter, using the environment to attack when they can't get in directly! About time! How many hunters etc. down through the years have used salt-lines versus ghosts and they're only now figuring out tactics.... Heh. Wonder if the Leviathans are providing remedial tactics classes to the spirit world. Regardless, WOO! MORE CHALLENGE!!! \o/
-Yeah, there's a ghost that enjoys her job.
-"Sometimes the real thing isn't pretty or entertaining enough." Dude. Whether there's real power there or not, it's all in the presentation. Showmanship. Take some acting classes, get a different suit, and for the love of Pete, change your stage name to something that doesn't sound like a space cadet. Also, your business cards are woeful. All centered serif text, filling the card? And the exclamation point? AND NO PHONE NUMBER OR EMAIL OR WEBSITE??? Oh honey, just no. You need a makeover of your professional image and some desktop and web publishing, maybe a radio ad in the nearest big city centre, you don't need to bind a ghost and kill your rivals. Silly murdering ninny. *pats*
-YAY FOR SHOOTING GHOSTS WITH ROCK SALT!!! \o/ (Also yay for the very amateur imitation of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" on the wall.)
-"You know what else I am? A real psychic, you dick-bag." Oh dear, psychic battle time and Sam's been off the demon blood for a whole season now.
-Tactics! *draws hearts*
-"They're in the bedroom aren't they?"/"No." *BLAM* Pardon the conversational math, but I think no + gunshot = yes. Also good thing the guy can't shoot, missing from ten feet away like that. Whereas Sam has a bit better aim.
-She does very good unholy glee, she does indeed.
-"I can't believe he was boning her." Aaaaaaaaaarg. *headdesk* Bad pun arg. Also how would that even work? ...Ow? O.o
-"And if you affirmate me, I'm gonna punch you in the face." Hee! That sounds like a t-shirt.
-"Well, you didn't send that ghost so thank you for coming to kill it." She's almost too well-balanced about all this. She watched her friend get killed by a ghost. I wonder if she's hiding something. If she's not, she'll make a very stable hunter but... *eyeballs suspiciously*
-Heh, reading Dean Winchester's palm is a risky proposition at best.
-"Answer is hazy, try again later." When in doubt, resort to Magic 8-Ball-isms. *nods*
-"I figured we take one car." And they're back together. Yay!
-"You can't just look me in the face and tell me you're fine." Hehehe. Why ever not, Sam? He's only been doing it almost your entire life. :-P
-"Ever since Cas I'm having a hard time trusting anybody." Ooooo, there's the tip of an iceberg.
-"I still wanna know how the guy bent my spoon." I'm thinking he didn't. I'm thinking it was either the ghost being frisky, or it was the voices in your head. Unless Nikolai had a huge budget and had a bunch of cutlery made of 2-way memory metal with body temperature as the high point and room temperature as the low, and just swapped one for your spoon. Because SCIENCE! *points dramatically into the air and nods*
Well, the nigh-complete inaccuracy of my on the fly theories for this episode has gone a long way toward repairing my faith in my own fallibility, hooray! I really liked this episode, there was a whole case and false leads and everything. Yay! \o/
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Contains profanity, capslock, meta and speculation.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Nothing. Bugger all. Not even gonna speculate. Last week's theory accuracy kind of freaked me out. O.o
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH. *headdesk* *deletes caps*
Okay, so I started watching the episode, ready to skip the THEN except... there wasn't a THEN screen! So I hit play instead of fast-forward and there's a big moon on the screen and Bad Moon Rising is playing! I get all excited that they're monkeying around with the opening and having the same music as was playing during the season one finale Impala crash and gleefully continue on, trying to figure out what's happening.
There's a guy walking through a dark field who looks about Sam's size (Sam!) and is wearing a hoodie (A hoodie!) and carrying a gas can (A gas can!), and I'm merrily thinking he's gone to do some ritual cremation thing on Amy or something, but then the guy sets the whole field on fire and catches his arm on fire but isn't too bothered by it. So then I'm thinking "Sam's been taken over by the voices in his head!" and theorizing about that. Then there's a child getting out of bed in a nearby house and looking out the window at the fire and screaming for her dad and so I'm suddenly thinking "Holy crap, is there a new YED starting the special kid lottery again?? Or is Crowley's crew possessing people and getting the to set fires to attract Sam and Dean's attention? Or are the Leviathans setting fires for some reason? What's going on???" O.o
...Aaaaaand then the title card turned up and, as all of you already know, it was a totally different show.
*epic facepalm*
"Against the Wall" was the title I think, some kind of cop show. Seriously, if you can find the current episode of that, watch the opening bit before the title and tell me that doesn't look like it should be part of a Supernatural episode. I mean really, 'Bad Moon Rising'! XD
I swear, the guy shook the last of the gas out of the gas can just like Jared does. ANYWAY.
*goes and finds the right show*
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.07 - ??? "The Mentalists"
-Yep, that's a THEN. Yep, I'm skipping it.
-A seance, oh dear. None of these people are going to survive are they?
-And a talking board! More like Bella's (that got shot in Bad Day) than the one Sam used in In My Time of Dying to talk to Dean. Has anyone ever done a study on the effect of bangly bracelets and rings on communications with the dead? They seem to be a common item among fictional mediums.
-Skeptic man's going to survive. Calling that now. The dark-haired woman is far too excited and the medium is the, well, medium. Skeptic man's going to survive and have to deal with the Winchesters. Well, one or the other of the Winchesters. Aw.
-I don't do jewelry at all but I really like her necklace. Not that I'd wear it, it just looks nifty.
-And everything goes foom and the planchette starts moving without anyone touching it and, yeah. No survivors. And I bet someone's getting that planchette in the eye before the title card. XD
-Ooo. And that definite 'no' was in response to "Danny?" and therein lies the trouble of messing with stuff that's supposed to open psychic pathways or channels to the afterlife or what have you when you have no idea what you're doing. The thing about an open window is anything can come in through it. That's why window screens exist. Keeps the nasty bugs out. *nods*
-Okay, fine, throat, not eye. Close enough.
-Title card! Ooo, two survivors. Yeah, I suppose enthusiasm woman needed to survive too, because either Sam or Dean are probably going to get an earful about Danny's little dog fetching tennis balls in the afterlife.
-Aw. *pats Dean*
-Title: The Mentalists. Ooo. Now there's a crossover. Patrick Jayne and Dean getting into a snark-off.
-Why in the world are you stealing a Dodge Charger, Dean? Did the My Little Pony Acadian crap out before you got back to where you stashed the Impala, or are you just trading up? Given its body condition, the engine might not be any good.
-Good to know that Dean's not against My Little Ponies in particular, just against random crap dangling from rearview mirrors. Sensible. It's a distraction while driving and when you can drive from anywhere to anywhere in about 2 hours, the last thing you need while going Mach 9 down the I-5 is dangly crap swinging in your field of vision. *nods*
-News of the weird, how very convenient. All radio stations should have that. My local radio station just has endless hockey wank, but i do live in Canada, so no real shock there.
-One-sided (*wibble*) tie report: Dark blue, narrow lighter blue stripes going down to Dean's left. Dark, solid, no-frills serious tie. Have to see if Sam wears a tie. If we see Sam.
-Written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker. Hee! Well-paired names. Their first Supernatural gig, but they've worked together on other projects it seems, so we'll see how they do. Directed by Mike Rohl, a name we've seen before.
-And that's when I'd scream and run out the door. Seriously. Even if this wasn't a show where the special of the day might indeed literally be you, particularly with Leviathans running around, that is far too much... muchness for me. O.o
-Ahahahahahahahah. Yep. Now. Odds of either of them untwisting their twisty bits to work the case together are fairly good, but it'll probably happen about a minute before the designated Person in Peril is about to get splattered.
-Second half of the tie report! Charcoal gray with silver-grey compound stripes, also going down to the left. A slightly gloomier tie, but similar in *gestures* thing, tie feelings. I gotta say though, Sam's hair is looking severely depressed.
-Oh Dean. Plunks down, starts babbling about the case, and Sam is definitely still a bit too torqued to talk. But Dean talks, because he hasn't had anyone to talk to and is going nuts from isolation and rejection and abandonment and hopes that maybe things are alright now because he doesn't have his car, he doesn't have his brother, and except for the job that's his whole world shot right there. Oh Dean.
-"When's the last time you saw a real psychic, hunh? Pamela? Missouri?" Aw, yay for name-tagging. :-)
-"You are a virile manifestation of the divine." *chokes on tea* See, that's why I avoid places like that. Last thing I need is someone interpreting my breakfast at me. :-P
-Ah, or maybe it actually is flirting, as the slightly blurry little lip bite from the server seems to imply. As far as pick-up lines go, that's not bad actually, if a tad florid.
-'We're here, we're working the case, we might as well work it together.' And Dean's been alone and Impala-less for a week and a half, and Sam's been on the road seething for a week and a half. Yeah. This is going to go about as smooth as a row boat in a hurricane.
-"You're the brothers from the-!" YES!!! SOMEONE RECOGNIZING THEM AND FREAKING OUT ABOUT THEM BEING SERIAL KILLERS! OMFG I'VE WAITED ABOUT SEVEN YEARS FOR THAT! \o/
-"Us on the other hand, we're completely harmless." Dean's completely harmless face, hee!
-"I can see by your energies you're completely gentle." Yeaaaaah, no real psychic sense there. She's next on the medium-killer hit list, isn't she?
-Or Nikolai is. He's got a bit much in the way of background character detail not to be either a later in the episode victim or the killer. I like him, too, so given my track record, he's either evil or dead. Sigh.
-Hm. *quick paranoid Google* Nope. Rasputin's first name was Grigori.
-"Teach you to harness the power of your mind." Hehehe. Sam's kind of been there done that mostly against his will for seven seasons now. I don't think he'll be too keen on a refresher course.
-Oh hello same necklace on both victims. I definitely wouldn't want to wear it then if that's the link. Still looks cool though, just not cool enough to get killed over.
-*nods along with the plot* So, not another thing like the meadowsweet wreath makers where someone's selling the things to mark out targets, just something passed along. Good to know you aren't going to be tracking down half the town that bought the things. Time saving. Cursed object though, how long has it been? The last one I remember off-hand (pardon the pun) was the hand of glory in Red Sky at Morning.
-Also *rewinds to check* Nope, no necklace on the woman who recognized them, so unless she acquires it later, she's safe.
-Okay, normally spoon-bending doesn't have a delay-action timer. Nikolai is more than he appears to be.
-"I read people, it's just less woo-woo, more body language. Like you two..." Oh dear. This could be fun. XD
-She did nail the basics. Very cool. I like her. So she's doomed. Sigh.
-OH YAY A JUNK SHOP! \o/
-"You're looking... for something." Yes, psychic powers do help out with customer service skills. Is is just me, or does the emporium owner here come across a bit like Ben Edlund Lite?
-"This is an Orb of Thesulah." Ah! New thing! *googles carefully* *headdesk* Not so new. It's from Buffy. Which exists as fiction in the SPN 'verse (Hell House - "What would Buffy do?"), so I hope one of them will call him on his crap. It's not even close to being an orb of anything anyway.
-"A loss weighs on you. You're angry." You know, when these two aren't talking to each other, a town full of psychics and people-readers is probably the best place to air out the crap. It's not like they can go to family counseling, right? "He killed the first girl I ever kissed when he said he wouldn't!"/"Yeah, well, she was a monster who ate pituitary glands and would have killed more people." See? Not therapy-friendly problems these guys have. Having strangers poke at them in vague terms is probably going to be the fastest way to get them to the epic yelling stage so they can get to the dealing with it stage, so they can get the car back and continue on like they should.
-*snerk* Jimmy Tomorrow. Sounds like he should be wearing a silver jumpsuit and a jet-pack instead of telling people's fortunes.
-"Oh we'll send you a check." Smug Dean is smug. Ooo, giant orange D6!
-Random thing of set design having a little fun, maybe, but the cash register reads 7777.
-Ah, the necklace is a red herring. (Unless it's a brand new fresh curse on a cheap necklace, and this 'necklace is a red herring' thing is also a red herring... *ponders*) Cool! And the sudden cut to Nikolai doesn't bode well for his innocence.
-...but the sudden laying out of a large pile of cutlery just before a commercial break doesn't bode well for his survival. So, dead or evil, happening nowish.
-OH HOLY SHIT. Okay, that's the first genuine jump this show has gotten from me in a while. GAH THAT'S CREEPY!!! O.O
-And rather than throw the objects at the victim like it did with the first two, whatever it is throws the victim at the objects. Just to change things up. Evil serial-killing psychic whatsits have to avoid getting in a rut too. *nods*
-...thooooose whispers sound a bit... angelic... Didn't they? I mean, just because Castiel is gone napping at the bottom of a reservoir somewhere around Kansas or South Dakota doesn't mean the rest of the angels aren't frantically scrambling to fill a power-vacuum and/or rampaging around on Earth, messily wiping out 'psychics' in New York for some reason or other. *eyebrows*
-And second tie report: Sam - looks like the same tie, might be slightly different stripes, but if it's not the same, it's damn close. Now Dean, Dean has gone from blue to red, one stripe to two, tilting left to tilting right, he almost couldn't be wearing a more opposite tie to the one from earlier without abandoning stripes all together. What does it mean? Sam's not budging. Dean is either relaxing due to the return of Sam thinking everything's back to some kind of normal, or is indicating a willingness to be flexible and deal with the situation so Sam won't leave. Sam doesn't want flexible though. Sam's grieving and angry and not budging. And so his tie is still dour, desaturated and not significantly changed from before, leaving Dean's optimistic change of tie (but also opposite sloping) sadly thwarted. This tie report has been brought to you by the letter 'OW.'
-"All from clairvoyants who know what 'really happened'." HAHAHA. Yeah, three weird deaths during a town-wide psychic convention would draw in the voluntary prognostications.
-"A ghost or some kind of ogre that only attacks Russians." Did the other two have a Russian background? I missed that. Can't tell.
-"Did you mean it when you said you had an open mind?" Heeee. Yeah. He kind of did.
-"You're serious?" And then when they tell you it's a real ghost and the open mindedness is on the other foot (so to speak), you don't believe them. Hmpf.
-"See there's fake woo-woo crap, and there's real woo-woo crap." Heeeeee. Woo-woo.
-"This could be like looking for a needle in a stack of fake needles." Aw, poor Dean looks so woebegone.
-I don't know why I like this one. I love the outfit. She seems to have sensible advice too, I mean, if the lady's brother keeps going back to jail, his 'curse' probably would be dragging her down. Of course, because I like her and because there's a commercial break coming up, that means she's probably dying in the next 60 seconds. :-P
-"Family is a pain in the ass anyhow." I really like her. I really do. She's going to die messy now isn't she?
-OH HAI ACTUAL SOMETHING HAPPENING FOR THE NOT-SO-ACTUAL PSYCHIC.
-Death vision, with choking and cuckoo clocks. Hmm.
-OMFGAAAAAAAAH! Second actual jump of the night for me THERE'S SOMEONE STANDING BEHIND HER GAAAAAAH! *buries back of neck in chair* Gaaaaah!
-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!! WHY AM I WATCHING THIS AFTER MIDNIGHT!!! *burrows further into chair* O.O
-That is the pinkest museum I have ever seen. Looks better suited to a museum of bubble-gum.
-Heh. Hehehe. Campbell is a common name, doesn't necessarily mean it's a relation... ha. It probably is. Also, that particular display wall has a brotherly theme. Also also, *squints* Stefan S. Campbell writes in a very familiar font I can't quite place. Like the Blackadder font italicized, but the capital S's aren't right.
-"The strain of working together, or maybe just being around each other all their lives." Yeah, that point's not relevant to you guys at all, is it?
-"That was just a stage name, they weren't actually brothers." Ah, yes. The bad old days where the law decreed some kinds of love to be illegal. *glares at history and sadly not-so-history in some places*
-"She looked after Kate." And she's the ghost, not Kate, hm?
-"I don't normally do this during business hours, but do you know an Eleanor, or an Ellen?" *gasp* Oooo... Of course again, it's a common name with a lot of variations, so odds are pretty good he'd know one. Actually two. Ellen and Lenore, the now-dead vampire.
-"If you don't tell someone how bad it really is, she'll kick your ass from beyond." GO ELLEN!!!! \o/
-"We agreed to work the case, we didn't agree for you to be a dick the whole time." And here it comes. Though perhaps if you're going to yell at each other about who promised not to kill who's monster girlfriend and then did it anyway, you might want somewhere a bit less public considering there are people in this town who already recognized your undead selves from your doppelgangers well-covered murder spree.
-Ow ow ow.
-"Look, I get it. There are certain people in this world, no matter how dangerous they are, you just can't." OW.
-"And I would've told you. Eventually. Once I knew this whole 'waving a gun at Satan' thing was a one-time show." Oooo. Ow. And easy to say he would have said when it's moot now. I don't know if he would have, satan-vision of not.
-"You can be pissed all you want, but quit being a bitch." Owwwww. And now either walls or a return volley from Sam. ...Unless Dean walks away first. Leaving Sam to stew. Always a dangerous prospect, stewed Sam.
-They haven't lost the knack of digging perfectly rectangular holes through ancient, settled and grown-through dirt either.
-"I get why she's killing people, I just don't get why she's warning them." Ohhhhhhh. Because she isn't killing them, her sister is, and she's trying to warn them all before her sister gets them, and burning her corpse is just going to stop the warnings and I do so love a good case of ghost layering. *glee*
-And also, if you are taking out a spirit with a known protector, take out the (uncappable) protector first. *facepalm*
-Either her dental hygiene was really bizarre when she died or she's been chewing on highlighters in the afterlife. Those teeth are ridiculously yellow.
-"Why isn't anybody listening?" Because they are being distracted by their own family angst and drama and not paying any attention to yours. Sorry.
-Cuckoo clocks. Evil. *nods*
-"Dean just gimme the phone and drive." YAY FOR ROAD-SMART SAM. \o/
-So much love for the crash course in basic ghost-busting over the phone. Also, if these two survive, I kind of want them to start hunting on their own.
-Or, um. Melanie can start hunting. Poor Camille. D-:
-And for posterity, a shot of the license plate on the Dodge. At least I think it's a Charger, but I could be totally wrong.
-Poor Melanie. Though really, yelling at the guys who told her her friend was safe when she wasn't would be an entirely justifiable response as well.
-"Turns out that Kate was just trying to warn people about her evil bitch sister." Yup. Told ya so. Nyah.
-"I feel naked doing this in the daylight." Totally. Not a wise time of day to be in plain sight in a graveyard digging up one of the town's founders, but what can you do, right?
-Hehe, yep. Of course she's gone. Too much time left on the progress bar yet to get this resolved now.
-"Dean, if someone knew enough to take Margaret's bones, they're not kidding around." Hmmm. Running low on speaking parts here. Maybe the museum curator, even though he passed on a message from Ellen?
-"Because all the headliners are dead." Had to be some connection between them. I guess Camille was an alternate?
-Ah, yes, junk shops. Great for Giant d6's, battered musical instruments, CD's by obscure eighties bands and spell components for binding ghosts.
-Salt circle! *fond smile* Though really, putting a chair inside the circle too might be thoughtful.
-"Does it hurt 'em, burning their bones?"/"Probably, yeah."/"Good." She did just watch her best friend die messily, so rooting for pain seems fair.
-Oh hi random talking woman from the coffee shop! I'm glad it's you and not the museum guy. Also, I'm thinking Sam may have nearly caused a premature labour there, barging in and waving a gun around.
-...or it's not her. It's spawning season for red herrings apparently. Maybe it is the museum guy. Or hell, at this point, the guy at the coffee bar. Or hell, Melanie. IT'S ALL OF THEM. *headdesk*
-Or the pawn shop guy. I was totally going to say pawn shop guy, but I was thrown off by his Edlundishness.
-Nice to get an obvious ghost-binding altar now and then.
-Sam, Sam, Sam, you turnip. Check the room completely to make sure it's clear before going for the altar. Silly.
-WOO, NICE MOVE SAM!!! How did that happen? You aren't usually that good at hand-to-hand. Is it Lucifer? *squints at hair to detect evil*
-Ghosts have gotten smarter, using the environment to attack when they can't get in directly! About time! How many hunters etc. down through the years have used salt-lines versus ghosts and they're only now figuring out tactics.... Heh. Wonder if the Leviathans are providing remedial tactics classes to the spirit world. Regardless, WOO! MORE CHALLENGE!!! \o/
-Yeah, there's a ghost that enjoys her job.
-"Sometimes the real thing isn't pretty or entertaining enough." Dude. Whether there's real power there or not, it's all in the presentation. Showmanship. Take some acting classes, get a different suit, and for the love of Pete, change your stage name to something that doesn't sound like a space cadet. Also, your business cards are woeful. All centered serif text, filling the card? And the exclamation point? AND NO PHONE NUMBER OR EMAIL OR WEBSITE??? Oh honey, just no. You need a makeover of your professional image and some desktop and web publishing, maybe a radio ad in the nearest big city centre, you don't need to bind a ghost and kill your rivals. Silly murdering ninny. *pats*
-YAY FOR SHOOTING GHOSTS WITH ROCK SALT!!! \o/ (Also yay for the very amateur imitation of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" on the wall.)
-"You know what else I am? A real psychic, you dick-bag." Oh dear, psychic battle time and Sam's been off the demon blood for a whole season now.
-Tactics! *draws hearts*
-"They're in the bedroom aren't they?"/"No." *BLAM* Pardon the conversational math, but I think no + gunshot = yes. Also good thing the guy can't shoot, missing from ten feet away like that. Whereas Sam has a bit better aim.
-She does very good unholy glee, she does indeed.
-"I can't believe he was boning her." Aaaaaaaaaarg. *headdesk* Bad pun arg. Also how would that even work? ...Ow? O.o
-"And if you affirmate me, I'm gonna punch you in the face." Hee! That sounds like a t-shirt.
-"Well, you didn't send that ghost so thank you for coming to kill it." She's almost too well-balanced about all this. She watched her friend get killed by a ghost. I wonder if she's hiding something. If she's not, she'll make a very stable hunter but... *eyeballs suspiciously*
-Heh, reading Dean Winchester's palm is a risky proposition at best.
-"Answer is hazy, try again later." When in doubt, resort to Magic 8-Ball-isms. *nods*
-"I figured we take one car." And they're back together. Yay!
-"You can't just look me in the face and tell me you're fine." Hehehe. Why ever not, Sam? He's only been doing it almost your entire life. :-P
-"Ever since Cas I'm having a hard time trusting anybody." Ooooo, there's the tip of an iceberg.
-"I still wanna know how the guy bent my spoon." I'm thinking he didn't. I'm thinking it was either the ghost being frisky, or it was the voices in your head. Unless Nikolai had a huge budget and had a bunch of cutlery made of 2-way memory metal with body temperature as the high point and room temperature as the low, and just swapped one for your spoon. Because SCIENCE! *points dramatically into the air and nods*
Well, the nigh-complete inaccuracy of my on the fly theories for this episode has gone a long way toward repairing my faith in my own fallibility, hooray! I really liked this episode, there was a whole case and false leads and everything. Yay! \o/
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