Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 7.08
Contains profanity, capslock, meta and speculation.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Apparently in last week's promo, Sam is getting married. I very specifically avoid the promos and ads, but I was informed of this anyway. Sigh.
Okay, so, from that the options are most likely Siren-like entity or love potion/spell or hallucinations of some kind. Soooo, since we haven't heard from the Big L inside Sam's head for a while, it's probably a Lucifer/monster blood/mental trauma-related hallucination, which, since we are quickly approaching a mini-hiatus, means a probable second-stage reveal regarding Sam's hallucinations at the end of the episode.
Unless it's Samviathan marrying someone, which would be... weird. And brief since he'd be eating his new spouse at the reception. :-P
Or maybe it's a Trickster. Or hell, Supernatural Novel-series fanfic made real. Or both. ...eek! O.o
Could be a lot of things, really. But the only thing I do know is that Sam is not really getting married, or if he is, it won't be for long.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.08 - ??? "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!"
-Skipping the Then.
-Oh dear god, Dean's in Vegas. That does explain the ease and speed of Sam's marriage though.
-"You came in here looking like somebody shot your puppy." Yeah, he does that well.
-Yeeeees. Sam's calm reasonableness is indeed alarming. Again, I suspect Lucifer. *steeplefingers*
-I'm just gonna leave this cap here. It paused like that.
-Wear Fed Suit. Wear Fed Suit. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
-Incidentally, 348 Twain Avenue on Google Maps street view comes up as a 7-11 and a MacDonald's on East Twain, and some residences and a big empty lot on West Twain. Just because we can look these things up. *nods*
-Tie Report, the Dean edition. Dark, narrow oddly fuzzy-edged stripes sloping down to Dean's left, with a know that looks a little odd. It's a very grimly nervous tie. Goes well with the face. Seriously, for all Dean knows he's walking into a case or a crime scene here, rather than Sam's incredibly not-real wedding.
-Ah, and the lights are flickering, feeding Dean's thoughts about a potential case and swinging the 'reasons why Sam is getting married' meter over into supernatural cause territory.
-Dean. Redefining 'shotgun wedding'?
-HI SAM! Tie Report, the Sam edition. A cheery periwinkle tie with dark triplet stripes going down to his left. Almost the inverse of some ties he's worn before, and his knot is looking rather relaxed. Also, pastel colors and bright lighting are often a sign of altered reality in this show, so a dead give-away there. Also also, pink carnation. Very disturbing. Also also also, Sam's hair is looking a little too poised and ready to spring into great-yet-evil-Sam-hair, and his sideburns are plotting to take over the world starting with his cheekbones. First Sam's cheekbones, next, maybe Australia!
-"I'm in love! And I'm getting married!" Happy Sam is generally a bad sign when he has a head full of inconclusively managed Satan-visions. Adorable though.
-Hee! Dean's little uncappable pucker-squinty-flappy face wiggles before "...what?"
-*SNEEEEEEERK* HAhahahaha. Okay, yeah. Love potion or a dream or something. Maybe Becky's gone Dark Side now that Chuck's gone. BWAH!!!
-TITLE THING DEMANDS CAPS!!!
-OMG EXPLODING CAKE DEMANDS MORE CAPS!!! (Just keep scrolling, they'll end eventually) XD
(I might .gif that later...)
-Oh man, that was almost as good as the Very Supernatural Christmas title sequence. And I really hope LJ and my batch uploader are going to talk to each other today.
-Hi title! "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!" Hee, what fourth wall? *wads up theories and tosses* I predict crack with a hint of continuing plot. WHEE! \o/
-*commences blocking roster of guests*
-"Have you forgotten the average life span of your hook-ups?" WHAT FOURTH WALL??? HA! *FACE DOWN ON KEYBOARD WHEEZING WITH LAUGHTER* XD
-"If anyone knows that it's me! I've read every book, so open eyes, y'know?" And Becky it still totally looney tunes.
-Hm. Rogue cupid maybe? One who's decided, since all the fated partnerships they were setting up to contribute to the set-up for the Apocalypse or something came to naught, to just randomly hook everyone up? ...That would explain a lot about Vegas, actually...
-"Not a monster, just the right girl for your brother." HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
-"Maybe Chuck wrote about it?" Oooo, that's right, they don't know about Chuck disappearing do they? Or did he disappear? Maybe he came back again after deciding he wanted to extend the whole 'free will for the angels' experiment, or whatever?
-Written by Dabb and Loflin, kings of backstory, hmm.
-"First official tweet as Mrs. Becky Rosen-Winchester." It's well under 140 characters even if she does spell out the hyphen. Man, her fandom is going to wank all over her for this. Sam's fictional to them. Welllll, probably no more or less than when she was with Chuck. She has got to have a bad rep in her fandom, even if it is all true. Sort of. They are kind of adorable together.
-Directed by Tim Andrew. I think he's new?
-"I know you're beard-deep in that Oregon nest." Funny, I didn't know Oregons had a nesting instinct. *smirks*
-Ooo, random thought from earlier Re: Becky's eyes wide open comment. She's read the books, including Dean making the crossroads deal. What are the chances she's daft enough to sell her soul to Crowley to marry Sam? O.o
-Pike Creek, Delaware.... why is that familiar? *roots around a bit* Oh my god, that's where Nick, AKA Lucifer's first vessel is from. Oh crap. The foreboding just got a little thicker in here.
-They just got married in time to go to her ten year high school reunion... oh Becky, you twit, you've really sold your soul, haven't you? *facepalm*
-"Yechy Becky!" Yeaaaaah, see, that's why skipping high school reunions can be a good idea, because some people never grow out of high school mentality. And those people aren't worth trying to impress and certainly not worth selling your soul over.
-"We met in the erotic horror section-"/"Ohhh my god." Aaaand that explains the look. He's read the books too, and I bet she told him who she was off to marry, and that Sam and Dean are real. Oh dear.
-Hello, interesting odd widget thing, I wonder what you're for?
-"If everyone had a Wiccan in their pocket the world would be a happier place." Ohhhhhh really? So. Hm. Well, obviously now more likely a love potion than her selling her soul, (which yay, because doing that after reading what happens would be really stupid), and one that needs re-dosing. But... Wiccan. Hm. Wiccans in a world with a higher base mana level, I could see functional potions being feasible, but still the whole "an it harm none" thing seems to be going by the wayside here... *watches show nervously to see how this is handled*
-And so, Becky used the potion on him long enough to get hitched and do the reunion, but doesn't intend to keep him forever. I hope. Because Becky may be excruciatingly enthusiastic and more than a bit batshit, I don't think she'd be down with the morals of binding a guy to her forever via magic (even a guy she used to think was fictional, unless she still disbelieves he's a real person, hm), and if they're doing Wicca with a bit of realism, neither would our potion-brewer. I think, anyway. I may be overestimating Becky's morality.
-...or maybe it's like a wish coin? I'm liking the multiple probabilities on the cases in episodes lately.
-Heeeee! Barbecue chicken from the grocery store, with sides, under 10 bucks, and in such an elegant serving dish! XD
-Oh yeah, here comes the potion hangover.
-"Feeling better honey?" She really does the crazy face well.
-Ah, and here's the 'bad luck' guy. Wonder if we're going to get 'witches' (demon-powered SPN version) versus 'Wiccans' (...hopefully reasonable approximations of those practicing Wiccan traditions, except in a world with a higher magical baseline than here.) This could go so very bad, or ...okay. *is nervous*
-WAFFLE IRON! \o/ XD
-"Our first thought was crossroads demon, but there's that ten year time frame on collecting souls." Oh god, Becky's working the case. At least her role-playing skills have improved a bit since the convention.
-That has got to be the cutest wall o weird ever. It's like a grade three science fair display. With flowers!
-"You're not even acting like yourself, Sam!"/"How am I not?"/"You married Becky Rosen!" *titters madly*
-"I mean you took care of me, and that's great, but I don't need you anymore." Oh dear. OW.
-... I have no words. None at all. XD
-...Except maybe that that really doesn't bode well for exactly how things are going to go sour for Becky if guy #2 is souring her friends' potion results.
-Oh phew. She's writing it.Not Sam. That's considerably less disturbing.
-"His and hers fake ID's?" Aw she's so cute. And totally needs to stop dosing Sam and let him go. Arg. The moral ambiguity is starting to burn a bit. Particularly since it's not terribly ambiguous. *looks sternly at Becky*
-Rule one in any relationship; never pick up and read a person's Diary or Journal. Even the sanest individual will frequently occasionally write things that will make you want to back away slowly and get a restraining order disturb you greatly. Sometimes in big scrawly letters half a page high, sometimes over and over again in scented pens.
-"...beautiful." Aw Sam's wibble faaaaaaaaace. And the diary hugging! Hee! That is a seriously effective potion.
-Okay, where have I seen this guy before? He's not the same guy from Monster Movie with the giant stein and the 'Creature of the Night' speech, is he? No. Arg! I'm sure I've seen him before. This is gonna be another Jewel Saite, isn't it, where it's someone really well-known or something, but I miss it completely?
-Aw, he's a hunter. Should have known from the plaid. Good to see a guy who isn't the rugged type as a hunter. He's kind of adorable.
-"Oh Marmaduke, you crazy!" Yeah, I'm sharing Dean's reaction on that.
-*BLAAAAAAAAAAAT!!* EMERGENCY TIE REPORT! EMERGENCY TIE REPORT! THERE ARE NO STRIPES, I REPEAT THERE ARE NO STRIPES! AT ALL! ANYWHERE! OH MY GOD YOU GUYS! Things are very dire indeed. Dean's tie is dark blue with little white and grey bull's eyes on it and is VERY SIGNIFICANTLY covered almost entirely by a hitherto never-worn-before sweater vest. Sweater vest! Sam's tie is a kind of an interlocking dark blue web between silver grey... targets. So Dean is feeling so out of sorts about the Sam situation that he's completely closed off and feeling under the gun to try to stop whatever's going on with Sam and Becky, and he's also blocked off versus this new hunter guy since he doesn't have any kind of familiarity with him and his methods (and doesn't particularly want to foster one), and now the targets are making me think new hunter guy might not be what he says. Dean's only been talking to Bobby over the phone. If Bobby's phone has been stolen or compromised, the Leviathans would have no problems slipping in Random Dude X. Or something. *eyes new guy* Sam on the other hand, well, Becky might have picked his tie for him. A web, like a net, Sam's trapped in his situation by Becky. Compared visually, the ties are almost inversions of each other. The boys are both hunting, but with the wrong partner. Sam's trapped, and Dean might be being targeted and neither of them are dealing with the situation in front of them, Sam because he can't see his own due to the potion, and Dean because he has his walls up and is off-balance enough to take a random unfamiliar Marmaduke-reading guy at face value. THINGS ARE VERY DIRE. This has been an emergency tie report. Please proceed to your closets and wardrobes in an orderly fashion.
-Tie report, 'temp' edition. No pattern at all, solid brown and so bland I didn't even notice he was wearing a tie at first. Also, the entire ensemble is looking a bit Boy Scouty. He's definitely not what he seems, masquerading as someone innocent and harmless. *nods*
-I am rattled by the disruption in the ties, you guys. I tell you, rattled. O.O
-"I didn't mean corporate backstabbing, I meant more like black magic or hoodoo." Hahahaha, yeah. He's new. He's almost Castiel-level new.
-Ah. CEO guy hates the new job and his wife is a bit of a harridan. I see who's dream this is now. *nods*
-I know it's not the right pair of hunters, but I find this to be an exceptionally cute eye-swap.
-"Why do people think I'm threatening them?"/"Because it sounded exactly like a threat, dude." Also the random grabbing and impeding of progress. People tend to react badly to that sort of thing.
-Dammit, the guy's familiarity is bugging me, where have I seen him before... I think he might have played an unsub on Criminal Minds once, or a murderer of some variety on CSI or something. He's ringing murdery bells. Which could be part of the reason I think he's not on the level. Still... *eyes the tie*
-Yeah, if you're keeping someone doped into loving you, make sure you're well-stocked on dope. Well, at least Sam's going to get his free will back and maybe some answers. Becky. *headshake*
-Oh this is gonna be messy.
-Or not, yay Dean! Headway from both ends, huzzah!
-"Craig's job for my soul." Ahahahahahah! Hi Crowley! Gotta get the boys' attention somehow!
-"You'll be living with a tri-racial paraplegic sniper 'til this all blows over." I suddenly want to meet this guy's cousin.
-And Dean's 'what the hell just happened?' face in response to having the new guy just stomp in and take over command.
-When you run out of magical roofies, use a waffle iron. Becky, honey, I don't really think you've gone totally Dark Side, but you're making that morally grey thing rather hard to apply. Like at all.
-And now, non-con bondage until she can get more potion. Becky, seriously honey. You are off the rails in a very bad way. *frowns*
-"Don't worry, I didn't do anything weird." Except love potion and braining with a waffle iron, but other than that I guess this means the non-con marriage has been Gen so far? I really hope so.
-Sam is a tad on the large side, in case anyone forgot.
-"We haven't even consummated our marriage." Okay, so yes to 'Gen marriage so far', no to 'intent to be Gen'. Just because she didn't get the chance doesn't mean the intention wasn't there. Very very bad Becky. *scowls*
-"Yes, I used a social lubricant-" Hahahahahahahaha. Yeah. No. It's not a beer, it's a love potion. And either way, it's still not an excuse.
-"You roofied me!" Exactly.
-"When are there ever two crazy things in town at the same time!" Now, apparently. Plus Lucifer's back-up vessel. Though I don't know about the non-answer answer about the whole Wiccan/witch thing. *is nervous again*
-"He said it wouldn't even work unless you already loved me deep down." Really? Sounds like a handy moral justification there. Or maybe the monster blood/Lucifer/hallucinations love Becky? It would certainly be a perverse way for Big L to mess with Sam's head. (You know, now would be a perfect time for him to show up, while Sam can't do the hand thing.)
-"Let's talk price." Hello there other shoe. And maybe he's just been using the label of Wiccan as a cover. *is still nervous*
-"You're so pathetic it actually loops back around again to cute." Oh dear. Kind of true though, if a very high school thing to say.
-OMFG HI MINION OF CROWLEY!!! He was playing a long game there with Becky, I guess since she was forewarned by reading the novels. Ooo! And he was never Wiccan, just using the name as cover, so YAY.
-"For legal reasons, let's just say they had unfortunate accidents." Ahhh. Right. Crowley's low on juice and needs souls, so he's harvesting the deal-makers as fast as he can. *nods*
-While we're here anyway an extra special crossroads demon tie report. Lilac-lavender, and stripes, except the stripes are achieved by differences in fabric texture, meaning that sometimes you see them sometimes you don't. Also, matched the shirt, so camouflaged again. I should have been paying attention to that tie, it totally gives him away.
-"Not 10 years, 25. No pianos, guaranteed." Aside from the whole big moral NO of having Sam love you against his will, keep in mind, he's only saying 'no pianos'. Not 'no crosstown buses, no botulism, no unexpected attacks of killer bees...'. Lots of latitude in that deal. And again, morally wrong.
-He's a quick little guy! And he's back to wearing plaid. Also, Becky's apartment is number 7. Lots of 7's roaming around loose lately...
-For the Tweeters out there, you too can follow Becky Rosen. *ponders* I never check it anyway because of spoilers, but what the hell. *follows* AND HOLY CRAP WE NOW HAVE A CONCRETE DATE FOR THE EPISODE. Sep 23, 2011, the date when Becky Rosen spammed the bejesus out of Twitter all day about Sam. Of course that might just be the date the production team twittered everything, but still. Put that into your chronologies and see if it jives. But oh! The Cap does not match the twitter! They've edited the dates! Looks like 12/10/11... does that make it October 12th or December 10th? I'm not sure which way around the US does dates. And so despite having concrete dates, we have three. Series timeline obfuscation is still intact.
-Aw, wee!Becky was adorable!
-"I'm a loser. In school, in life. Guess that's why I like you so much."/"*muffled* What?" Heheeheheheeheh. Yeah, that didn't quite sound right there, if you're trying to convince him not to be as pissed off as he should be at you when you cut him loose.
-Becky going on about fandom and being a freak and having some character development maybe while Sam is literally a captive audience. Poor Sam.
-"I think I intimidated him with my vibrant sexuality." Considering he was ordering up 20 hookers to wait out the Apocalypse and was possibly also God (though I think that happened only at the very end, but head canon, what can you do *handwaves*) I really doubt anything Becky flying solo suggested would've daunted him.
-And again, poor Sam.
-Revised Demon tie report, the hide and seek stripes go both ways. *looks back* He wasn't wearing a tie when he first showed up, but he was wearing a shirt with a strong check pattern hidden under the vest. Sneaky bastard. He's carrying the crossroads around with him, metaphorically.
-"Okay. I'm in." Becky, you are an idiot.
-OR NOT! Okay, that whole set the invisible alcohol on fire thing is freaking cool and answers a question. The Devil's Trap has to be visible. Awesome, and yay Becky for not being more of an idiot than before and giving up on the whole 'roofie Sam forever' plan.
-"Blueberry Vodka" 151 proof rum would have been a better choice for burning, but might have evaporated before he got there.
-"Dean Winchester, this is really thrilling! Hey can I have your autograph?" Hey, if you're looking disembodiment or death in the face you may as well snark at it.
-"It's called a loophole you moron." Heee. And there's plenty of those in a deal with a demon, at least on the demon's side.
-Back up comes in, everyone goes flying and then...
Becky's totally gonna pick that up and stab a demon or two and save people. Not that it'll redeem her at all, but it's something.
-Holy water in the face. Can't beat the classics.
-"Becky, run!" Or she'll do what the experts tell her to. Still think she's gonna do something, if not stab someone, maybe toss someone the knife, or heck, she probably knows the exorcism as well as these guys, depending how well Chuck transcribed it.
-And the new guy's up - *MASSIVE FORCED HEADTABLE* - and he's down again.
-And of course the intern demon chokes Sam. Because he knows what day it is.
-Choking seems to be in season though.
-Yep. And she's gone from non-con marriage via magical roofie to murdering some poor schlub who had the misfortune to get possessed, all in the space of a week. Generally new hunters skip the magical roofie part.
-"Hello boys!" Uh oh, here comes the boss, now that he has your attention. Hi Crowley! Really, Dean, a hostage? Do you think Crowley gives the slightest crap about one of his Sales Agents?
-"You're Crowley!" And aren't you glad Chuck let you read those unpublished novels since Crowley was never mentioned in the ones published. *ruffles her amoral hair*
-The beard's new. Is Crowley doing Movember?
-"This isn't Wall Street this is Hell! We have a little something called integrity." Heheh. And that's a very fine demonstration of Lawful Evil. Rules are rules and a deal is a deal.
-"Make an example of him." Craaap. You know, I bet falling on that knife is looking really appealing to our Crossroads buddy here.
-"Hunting Leviathan, yes, I know. That's why I told my lads to stay clear of you meatheads." Ahhahaha. And Crowley's been keeping the demons off them. There's more than one way to help an unwilling ally without actually making an alliance. The enemy of my enemy is my convenient distraction. Strategy. *nods*
-"No, nonononono!" Yeah, this is going to be a very painful performance review. Initiative isn't always rewarded. Though, really, his actions did bring the Winchesters in and let Crowley have this little chat with them, that should be worth one less toasting fork. Not that it'd make much difference, but it's the thought that counts.
-"What'd I miss?" New guys. Hmf.
-"Will I see you again?"/"Yeah, probably not." Yeah, this was a bit beyond creepy stalker stuff, there, Becky, even though you pulled through in the end.
-"Just do your thing and the right guy will find you." Oh god.
-"No." Yeah, well, considering the ink's still wet on the divorce papers, attempting to cash in on the rebound... of... the... delusional marriage she forced on Sam with magic borrowed from a demon... um. Definitely not feeling any sympathy for Becky right now. But yeah. Give it a while, let things settle out, then call her up, maybe. Heck, you know her Twitter ID, tweet her. Just not right away. She needs some serious thinking time to re-establish some sane moral boundaries. Or something.
-"Ya don't suck. *shoulder slap*" Hehehehe. Well, not much. He does have a distressingly low consciousness threshold, being knocked out that long by a forced headtabling. Funny that, too, that the demon just knocked him out rather than strangling him, or doing Lilith's old trick of twisting the head around. Surprisingly non-lethal... *ponders*
-"That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me." D'aaaaawwwww, he's so adorable!
-D'aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
-"Aw, you made a fwend." *dying of snerks*
-New guy is driving a Ford Ranchero I think. Did we ever get a name for him?
-"For a whackjob you really pulled it together."/"That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me"/*mutual snerking* Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
-"Dude, I was camping. You camp." Okay, we need to see that now.
-"Now you finally get to take care of yourself." And Dean looks so thrilled by that idea.
Not my favourite episode by a long stretch, glad they didn't do anything too heinous in depiction of Wicca, Becky... *headshake* Just no, honey. Little bit of progress in a pile of morally dubious (at best) crack. Okay for a filler. *nods*
Sam is still way too freaking balanced about all this head!Satan stuff. I don't trust it. It's too quick, too pat and too early in the season for it to be completely dealt with. Something is waiting... *ponders*
...And now I'm running out the door, so I'll be correcting errors and checking out what the rest of y'all thought sometime this evening. Behave!
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Spoiler and Theory Summary
Apparently in last week's promo, Sam is getting married. I very specifically avoid the promos and ads, but I was informed of this anyway. Sigh.
Okay, so, from that the options are most likely Siren-like entity or love potion/spell or hallucinations of some kind. Soooo, since we haven't heard from the Big L inside Sam's head for a while, it's probably a Lucifer/monster blood/mental trauma-related hallucination, which, since we are quickly approaching a mini-hiatus, means a probable second-stage reveal regarding Sam's hallucinations at the end of the episode.
Unless it's Samviathan marrying someone, which would be... weird. And brief since he'd be eating his new spouse at the reception. :-P
Or maybe it's a Trickster. Or hell, Supernatural Novel-series fanfic made real. Or both. ...eek! O.o
Could be a lot of things, really. But the only thing I do know is that Sam is not really getting married, or if he is, it won't be for long.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.08 - ??? "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!"
-Skipping the Then.
-Oh dear god, Dean's in Vegas. That does explain the ease and speed of Sam's marriage though.
-"You came in here looking like somebody shot your puppy." Yeah, he does that well.
-Yeeeees. Sam's calm reasonableness is indeed alarming. Again, I suspect Lucifer. *steeplefingers*
-I'm just gonna leave this cap here. It paused like that.
-Wear Fed Suit. Wear Fed Suit. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
-Incidentally, 348 Twain Avenue on Google Maps street view comes up as a 7-11 and a MacDonald's on East Twain, and some residences and a big empty lot on West Twain. Just because we can look these things up. *nods*
-Tie Report, the Dean edition. Dark, narrow oddly fuzzy-edged stripes sloping down to Dean's left, with a know that looks a little odd. It's a very grimly nervous tie. Goes well with the face. Seriously, for all Dean knows he's walking into a case or a crime scene here, rather than Sam's incredibly not-real wedding.
-Ah, and the lights are flickering, feeding Dean's thoughts about a potential case and swinging the 'reasons why Sam is getting married' meter over into supernatural cause territory.
-Dean. Redefining 'shotgun wedding'?
-HI SAM! Tie Report, the Sam edition. A cheery periwinkle tie with dark triplet stripes going down to his left. Almost the inverse of some ties he's worn before, and his knot is looking rather relaxed. Also, pastel colors and bright lighting are often a sign of altered reality in this show, so a dead give-away there. Also also, pink carnation. Very disturbing. Also also also, Sam's hair is looking a little too poised and ready to spring into great-yet-evil-Sam-hair, and his sideburns are plotting to take over the world starting with his cheekbones. First Sam's cheekbones, next, maybe Australia!
-"I'm in love! And I'm getting married!" Happy Sam is generally a bad sign when he has a head full of inconclusively managed Satan-visions. Adorable though.
-Hee! Dean's little uncappable pucker-squinty-flappy face wiggles before "...what?"
-*SNEEEEEEERK* HAhahahaha. Okay, yeah. Love potion or a dream or something. Maybe Becky's gone Dark Side now that Chuck's gone. BWAH!!!
-TITLE THING DEMANDS CAPS!!!
-OMG EXPLODING CAKE DEMANDS MORE CAPS!!! (Just keep scrolling, they'll end eventually) XD
(I might .gif that later...)
-Oh man, that was almost as good as the Very Supernatural Christmas title sequence. And I really hope LJ and my batch uploader are going to talk to each other today.
-Hi title! "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!" Hee, what fourth wall? *wads up theories and tosses* I predict crack with a hint of continuing plot. WHEE! \o/
-*commences blocking roster of guests*
-"Have you forgotten the average life span of your hook-ups?" WHAT FOURTH WALL??? HA! *FACE DOWN ON KEYBOARD WHEEZING WITH LAUGHTER* XD
-"If anyone knows that it's me! I've read every book, so open eyes, y'know?" And Becky it still totally looney tunes.
-Hm. Rogue cupid maybe? One who's decided, since all the fated partnerships they were setting up to contribute to the set-up for the Apocalypse or something came to naught, to just randomly hook everyone up? ...That would explain a lot about Vegas, actually...
-"Not a monster, just the right girl for your brother." HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
-"Maybe Chuck wrote about it?" Oooo, that's right, they don't know about Chuck disappearing do they? Or did he disappear? Maybe he came back again after deciding he wanted to extend the whole 'free will for the angels' experiment, or whatever?
-Written by Dabb and Loflin, kings of backstory, hmm.
-"First official tweet as Mrs. Becky Rosen-Winchester." It's well under 140 characters even if she does spell out the hyphen. Man, her fandom is going to wank all over her for this. Sam's fictional to them. Welllll, probably no more or less than when she was with Chuck. She has got to have a bad rep in her fandom, even if it is all true. Sort of. They are kind of adorable together.
-Directed by Tim Andrew. I think he's new?
-"I know you're beard-deep in that Oregon nest." Funny, I didn't know Oregons had a nesting instinct. *smirks*
-Ooo, random thought from earlier Re: Becky's eyes wide open comment. She's read the books, including Dean making the crossroads deal. What are the chances she's daft enough to sell her soul to Crowley to marry Sam? O.o
-Pike Creek, Delaware.... why is that familiar? *roots around a bit* Oh my god, that's where Nick, AKA Lucifer's first vessel is from. Oh crap. The foreboding just got a little thicker in here.
-They just got married in time to go to her ten year high school reunion... oh Becky, you twit, you've really sold your soul, haven't you? *facepalm*
-"Yechy Becky!" Yeaaaaah, see, that's why skipping high school reunions can be a good idea, because some people never grow out of high school mentality. And those people aren't worth trying to impress and certainly not worth selling your soul over.
-"We met in the erotic horror section-"/"Ohhh my god." Aaaand that explains the look. He's read the books too, and I bet she told him who she was off to marry, and that Sam and Dean are real. Oh dear.
-Hello, interesting odd widget thing, I wonder what you're for?
-"If everyone had a Wiccan in their pocket the world would be a happier place." Ohhhhhh really? So. Hm. Well, obviously now more likely a love potion than her selling her soul, (which yay, because doing that after reading what happens would be really stupid), and one that needs re-dosing. But... Wiccan. Hm. Wiccans in a world with a higher base mana level, I could see functional potions being feasible, but still the whole "an it harm none" thing seems to be going by the wayside here... *watches show nervously to see how this is handled*
-And so, Becky used the potion on him long enough to get hitched and do the reunion, but doesn't intend to keep him forever. I hope. Because Becky may be excruciatingly enthusiastic and more than a bit batshit, I don't think she'd be down with the morals of binding a guy to her forever via magic (even a guy she used to think was fictional, unless she still disbelieves he's a real person, hm), and if they're doing Wicca with a bit of realism, neither would our potion-brewer. I think, anyway. I may be overestimating Becky's morality.
-...or maybe it's like a wish coin? I'm liking the multiple probabilities on the cases in episodes lately.
-Heeeee! Barbecue chicken from the grocery store, with sides, under 10 bucks, and in such an elegant serving dish! XD
-Oh yeah, here comes the potion hangover.
-"Feeling better honey?" She really does the crazy face well.
-Ah, and here's the 'bad luck' guy. Wonder if we're going to get 'witches' (demon-powered SPN version) versus 'Wiccans' (...hopefully reasonable approximations of those practicing Wiccan traditions, except in a world with a higher magical baseline than here.) This could go so very bad, or ...okay. *is nervous*
-WAFFLE IRON! \o/ XD
-"Our first thought was crossroads demon, but there's that ten year time frame on collecting souls." Oh god, Becky's working the case. At least her role-playing skills have improved a bit since the convention.
-That has got to be the cutest wall o weird ever. It's like a grade three science fair display. With flowers!
-"You're not even acting like yourself, Sam!"/"How am I not?"/"You married Becky Rosen!" *titters madly*
-"I mean you took care of me, and that's great, but I don't need you anymore." Oh dear. OW.
-... I have no words. None at all. XD
-...Except maybe that that really doesn't bode well for exactly how things are going to go sour for Becky if guy #2 is souring her friends' potion results.
-Oh phew. She's writing it.Not Sam. That's considerably less disturbing.
-"His and hers fake ID's?" Aw she's so cute. And totally needs to stop dosing Sam and let him go. Arg. The moral ambiguity is starting to burn a bit. Particularly since it's not terribly ambiguous. *looks sternly at Becky*
-Rule one in any relationship; never pick up and read a person's Diary or Journal. Even the sanest individual will frequently occasionally write things that will make you want to back away slowly and get a restraining order disturb you greatly. Sometimes in big scrawly letters half a page high, sometimes over and over again in scented pens.
-"...beautiful." Aw Sam's wibble faaaaaaaaace. And the diary hugging! Hee! That is a seriously effective potion.
-Okay, where have I seen this guy before? He's not the same guy from Monster Movie with the giant stein and the 'Creature of the Night' speech, is he? No. Arg! I'm sure I've seen him before. This is gonna be another Jewel Saite, isn't it, where it's someone really well-known or something, but I miss it completely?
-Aw, he's a hunter. Should have known from the plaid. Good to see a guy who isn't the rugged type as a hunter. He's kind of adorable.
-"Oh Marmaduke, you crazy!" Yeah, I'm sharing Dean's reaction on that.
-*BLAAAAAAAAAAAT!!* EMERGENCY TIE REPORT! EMERGENCY TIE REPORT! THERE ARE NO STRIPES, I REPEAT THERE ARE NO STRIPES! AT ALL! ANYWHERE! OH MY GOD YOU GUYS! Things are very dire indeed. Dean's tie is dark blue with little white and grey bull's eyes on it and is VERY SIGNIFICANTLY covered almost entirely by a hitherto never-worn-before sweater vest. Sweater vest! Sam's tie is a kind of an interlocking dark blue web between silver grey... targets. So Dean is feeling so out of sorts about the Sam situation that he's completely closed off and feeling under the gun to try to stop whatever's going on with Sam and Becky, and he's also blocked off versus this new hunter guy since he doesn't have any kind of familiarity with him and his methods (and doesn't particularly want to foster one), and now the targets are making me think new hunter guy might not be what he says. Dean's only been talking to Bobby over the phone. If Bobby's phone has been stolen or compromised, the Leviathans would have no problems slipping in Random Dude X. Or something. *eyes new guy* Sam on the other hand, well, Becky might have picked his tie for him. A web, like a net, Sam's trapped in his situation by Becky. Compared visually, the ties are almost inversions of each other. The boys are both hunting, but with the wrong partner. Sam's trapped, and Dean might be being targeted and neither of them are dealing with the situation in front of them, Sam because he can't see his own due to the potion, and Dean because he has his walls up and is off-balance enough to take a random unfamiliar Marmaduke-reading guy at face value. THINGS ARE VERY DIRE. This has been an emergency tie report. Please proceed to your closets and wardrobes in an orderly fashion.
-Tie report, 'temp' edition. No pattern at all, solid brown and so bland I didn't even notice he was wearing a tie at first. Also, the entire ensemble is looking a bit Boy Scouty. He's definitely not what he seems, masquerading as someone innocent and harmless. *nods*
-I am rattled by the disruption in the ties, you guys. I tell you, rattled. O.O
-"I didn't mean corporate backstabbing, I meant more like black magic or hoodoo." Hahahaha, yeah. He's new. He's almost Castiel-level new.
-Ah. CEO guy hates the new job and his wife is a bit of a harridan. I see who's dream this is now. *nods*
-I know it's not the right pair of hunters, but I find this to be an exceptionally cute eye-swap.
-"Why do people think I'm threatening them?"/"Because it sounded exactly like a threat, dude." Also the random grabbing and impeding of progress. People tend to react badly to that sort of thing.
-Dammit, the guy's familiarity is bugging me, where have I seen him before... I think he might have played an unsub on Criminal Minds once, or a murderer of some variety on CSI or something. He's ringing murdery bells. Which could be part of the reason I think he's not on the level. Still... *eyes the tie*
-Yeah, if you're keeping someone doped into loving you, make sure you're well-stocked on dope. Well, at least Sam's going to get his free will back and maybe some answers. Becky. *headshake*
-Oh this is gonna be messy.
-Or not, yay Dean! Headway from both ends, huzzah!
-"Craig's job for my soul." Ahahahahahah! Hi Crowley! Gotta get the boys' attention somehow!
-"You'll be living with a tri-racial paraplegic sniper 'til this all blows over." I suddenly want to meet this guy's cousin.
-And Dean's 'what the hell just happened?' face in response to having the new guy just stomp in and take over command.
-When you run out of magical roofies, use a waffle iron. Becky, honey, I don't really think you've gone totally Dark Side, but you're making that morally grey thing rather hard to apply. Like at all.
-And now, non-con bondage until she can get more potion. Becky, seriously honey. You are off the rails in a very bad way. *frowns*
-"Don't worry, I didn't do anything weird." Except love potion and braining with a waffle iron, but other than that I guess this means the non-con marriage has been Gen so far? I really hope so.
-Sam is a tad on the large side, in case anyone forgot.
-"We haven't even consummated our marriage." Okay, so yes to 'Gen marriage so far', no to 'intent to be Gen'. Just because she didn't get the chance doesn't mean the intention wasn't there. Very very bad Becky. *scowls*
-"Yes, I used a social lubricant-" Hahahahahahahaha. Yeah. No. It's not a beer, it's a love potion. And either way, it's still not an excuse.
-"You roofied me!" Exactly.
-"When are there ever two crazy things in town at the same time!" Now, apparently. Plus Lucifer's back-up vessel. Though I don't know about the non-answer answer about the whole Wiccan/witch thing. *is nervous again*
-"He said it wouldn't even work unless you already loved me deep down." Really? Sounds like a handy moral justification there. Or maybe the monster blood/Lucifer/hallucinations love Becky? It would certainly be a perverse way for Big L to mess with Sam's head. (You know, now would be a perfect time for him to show up, while Sam can't do the hand thing.)
-"Let's talk price." Hello there other shoe. And maybe he's just been using the label of Wiccan as a cover. *is still nervous*
-"You're so pathetic it actually loops back around again to cute." Oh dear. Kind of true though, if a very high school thing to say.
-OMFG HI MINION OF CROWLEY!!! He was playing a long game there with Becky, I guess since she was forewarned by reading the novels. Ooo! And he was never Wiccan, just using the name as cover, so YAY.
-"For legal reasons, let's just say they had unfortunate accidents." Ahhh. Right. Crowley's low on juice and needs souls, so he's harvesting the deal-makers as fast as he can. *nods*
-While we're here anyway an extra special crossroads demon tie report. Lilac-lavender, and stripes, except the stripes are achieved by differences in fabric texture, meaning that sometimes you see them sometimes you don't. Also, matched the shirt, so camouflaged again. I should have been paying attention to that tie, it totally gives him away.
-"Not 10 years, 25. No pianos, guaranteed." Aside from the whole big moral NO of having Sam love you against his will, keep in mind, he's only saying 'no pianos'. Not 'no crosstown buses, no botulism, no unexpected attacks of killer bees...'. Lots of latitude in that deal. And again, morally wrong.
-He's a quick little guy! And he's back to wearing plaid. Also, Becky's apartment is number 7. Lots of 7's roaming around loose lately...
-For the Tweeters out there, you too can follow Becky Rosen. *ponders* I never check it anyway because of spoilers, but what the hell. *follows* AND HOLY CRAP WE NOW HAVE A CONCRETE DATE FOR THE EPISODE. Sep 23, 2011, the date when Becky Rosen spammed the bejesus out of Twitter all day about Sam. Of course that might just be the date the production team twittered everything, but still. Put that into your chronologies and see if it jives. But oh! The Cap does not match the twitter! They've edited the dates! Looks like 12/10/11... does that make it October 12th or December 10th? I'm not sure which way around the US does dates. And so despite having concrete dates, we have three. Series timeline obfuscation is still intact.
-Aw, wee!Becky was adorable!
-"I'm a loser. In school, in life. Guess that's why I like you so much."/"*muffled* What?" Heheeheheheeheh. Yeah, that didn't quite sound right there, if you're trying to convince him not to be as pissed off as he should be at you when you cut him loose.
-Becky going on about fandom and being a freak and having some character development maybe while Sam is literally a captive audience. Poor Sam.
-"I think I intimidated him with my vibrant sexuality." Considering he was ordering up 20 hookers to wait out the Apocalypse and was possibly also God (though I think that happened only at the very end, but head canon, what can you do *handwaves*) I really doubt anything Becky flying solo suggested would've daunted him.
-And again, poor Sam.
-Revised Demon tie report, the hide and seek stripes go both ways. *looks back* He wasn't wearing a tie when he first showed up, but he was wearing a shirt with a strong check pattern hidden under the vest. Sneaky bastard. He's carrying the crossroads around with him, metaphorically.
-"Okay. I'm in." Becky, you are an idiot.
-OR NOT! Okay, that whole set the invisible alcohol on fire thing is freaking cool and answers a question. The Devil's Trap has to be visible. Awesome, and yay Becky for not being more of an idiot than before and giving up on the whole 'roofie Sam forever' plan.
-"Blueberry Vodka" 151 proof rum would have been a better choice for burning, but might have evaporated before he got there.
-"Dean Winchester, this is really thrilling! Hey can I have your autograph?" Hey, if you're looking disembodiment or death in the face you may as well snark at it.
-"It's called a loophole you moron." Heee. And there's plenty of those in a deal with a demon, at least on the demon's side.
-Back up comes in, everyone goes flying and then...
Becky's totally gonna pick that up and stab a demon or two and save people. Not that it'll redeem her at all, but it's something.
-Holy water in the face. Can't beat the classics.
-"Becky, run!" Or she'll do what the experts tell her to. Still think she's gonna do something, if not stab someone, maybe toss someone the knife, or heck, she probably knows the exorcism as well as these guys, depending how well Chuck transcribed it.
-And the new guy's up - *MASSIVE FORCED HEADTABLE* - and he's down again.
-And of course the intern demon chokes Sam. Because he knows what day it is.
-Choking seems to be in season though.
-Yep. And she's gone from non-con marriage via magical roofie to murdering some poor schlub who had the misfortune to get possessed, all in the space of a week. Generally new hunters skip the magical roofie part.
-"Hello boys!" Uh oh, here comes the boss, now that he has your attention. Hi Crowley! Really, Dean, a hostage? Do you think Crowley gives the slightest crap about one of his Sales Agents?
-"You're Crowley!" And aren't you glad Chuck let you read those unpublished novels since Crowley was never mentioned in the ones published. *ruffles her amoral hair*
-The beard's new. Is Crowley doing Movember?
-"This isn't Wall Street this is Hell! We have a little something called integrity." Heheh. And that's a very fine demonstration of Lawful Evil. Rules are rules and a deal is a deal.
-"Make an example of him." Craaap. You know, I bet falling on that knife is looking really appealing to our Crossroads buddy here.
-"Hunting Leviathan, yes, I know. That's why I told my lads to stay clear of you meatheads." Ahhahaha. And Crowley's been keeping the demons off them. There's more than one way to help an unwilling ally without actually making an alliance. The enemy of my enemy is my convenient distraction. Strategy. *nods*
-"No, nonononono!" Yeah, this is going to be a very painful performance review. Initiative isn't always rewarded. Though, really, his actions did bring the Winchesters in and let Crowley have this little chat with them, that should be worth one less toasting fork. Not that it'd make much difference, but it's the thought that counts.
-"What'd I miss?" New guys. Hmf.
-"Will I see you again?"/"Yeah, probably not." Yeah, this was a bit beyond creepy stalker stuff, there, Becky, even though you pulled through in the end.
-"Just do your thing and the right guy will find you." Oh god.
-"No." Yeah, well, considering the ink's still wet on the divorce papers, attempting to cash in on the rebound... of... the... delusional marriage she forced on Sam with magic borrowed from a demon... um. Definitely not feeling any sympathy for Becky right now. But yeah. Give it a while, let things settle out, then call her up, maybe. Heck, you know her Twitter ID, tweet her. Just not right away. She needs some serious thinking time to re-establish some sane moral boundaries. Or something.
-"Ya don't suck. *shoulder slap*" Hehehehe. Well, not much. He does have a distressingly low consciousness threshold, being knocked out that long by a forced headtabling. Funny that, too, that the demon just knocked him out rather than strangling him, or doing Lilith's old trick of twisting the head around. Surprisingly non-lethal... *ponders*
-"That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me." D'aaaaawwwww, he's so adorable!
-D'aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
-"Aw, you made a fwend." *dying of snerks*
-New guy is driving a Ford Ranchero I think. Did we ever get a name for him?
-"For a whackjob you really pulled it together."/"That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me"/*mutual snerking* Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
-"Dude, I was camping. You camp." Okay, we need to see that now.
-"Now you finally get to take care of yourself." And Dean looks so thrilled by that idea.
Not my favourite episode by a long stretch, glad they didn't do anything too heinous in depiction of Wicca, Becky... *headshake* Just no, honey. Little bit of progress in a pile of morally dubious (at best) crack. Okay for a filler. *nods*
Sam is still way too freaking balanced about all this head!Satan stuff. I don't trust it. It's too quick, too pat and too early in the season for it to be completely dealt with. Something is waiting... *ponders*
...And now I'm running out the door, so I'll be correcting errors and checking out what the rest of y'all thought sometime this evening. Behave!
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