(Still sick. Short and shallow again. Sorry. :-P)
Contains profanity, capslock and rambling.
Spoiler and Theory Summary
ALL. THE. SPOILERS.
Time Travel! God of Time! Eliot Ness! Dean in the '40s with a hat and a suit!
I do not know what this is going to mean for how the Angels can time-travel or even if that's going to get tagged at all, but all I've got to say, is between 'Amy Pond' and 'fishing around in your custard' if there isn't a significant number of Doctor Who references in this episode, I will be shocked.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.12 - "Time After Time"
*refills tea* Right, off we go!
-Skipping the Then, which clocks in at 54 seconds this time in case anyone wants to know.
-"What's the plan exactly?"/"Don't die." Sounds a lot better than some plans that have been had around here.
-I have to say, it's weirdly comforting that they seem to be treating the succession of non-Impala cars with indifference. I mean, yes they have pitched crap around in the Impala and left things on the dash, but that level of egregious slobbery wouldn't be happening in the Impala.
-Beware guys in long-coats and funky hats, for they will mess you up big time.
-And a very familiar alley it is. "The End", and the Castiel beat-down of Dean, and Sam offing the demon that killed Jess, possibly also the alley 'Misha' died in. They get a lot of use out of that alley. It's a good alley.
-Oh that's never a good sign.
-Full-body tackling the glowing guy is not usually the smartest option there, Dean. At least it's recently fed?
-Or is this perhaps a sign of some new level of personal recklessness on Dean's part, after that heartbreaking painful smile thing from the end of last episode. Hmm...
-And from Sam's perspective, Dean may have just blown up. Or been sucked into a Reaper. Or into the Fae dimension. Poor Sam. *pats*
-"Two Days Earlier" Ah, in medias res. And now we find out why they were after the hat-man.
-And the title shows up. And I get earwormed by
Cyndi Lauper. Again.
-"Don't give me that dirty diaper look, I ain't callin' you." Ah, but what if he is, FROM THE FUTURE. Past. Thing. Whatever. Why yes, I am still taking cold medication, why do you ask?
-*blocks guest stars, just in case*
-JODIE! JODIE! OMG! JODIE! JODIE! JODIE! OMG IT'S SHERIFF JODIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! *flailing so hard, lost control of trackpad and had random function windows popping everywhere* Oh god, I hope she already knows about Bobby. D-:
-*so much flailing everywhere for Sheriff Jodie keeping an eye out for cases for the boys*
-"Look after all I've been through with you boys... and with Bobby." *FLAAAAAAAAIL* Oh, Jodie!
-"I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I hope you're watching cartoon smut." Hee. Also, rumpled sleepy Sam.
-It just paused like this. What can I say?
-"It's called anime, and it's an art form." Dean, you total fanboy, you.
-Canton, Ohio... Hey, they've been there before. Wax museum, Paris Hilton thing?
-"Define semi-functioning and do not use the words 'hole in the floor'." Heee, Sam's face!
-Slightly blurry tie report: Sam, light blue with wide white stripe and narrow navy stripe, down to Sam's left. Dean, marroon-ish, thin white stripe, down to Dean's right. Pretty much opposite ties. Doesn't bode too well.
-"How does paper beat a rock?" HA! SO, since Dean always throws scissors, Sam was throwing paper to let Dean have the room. But Dean wanted to beat Sam this time, so he threw rock, and now he's outfoxed himself and Sam gets the room. Oooooooor we're in another alternate timeline. Which given the premise of the evening is entirely possible.
-Okay, I have to cap Sam there, because the hair is starting to look awesome, as though there's a resurgence of EVIL or SOULLESSNESS, the sideburns are getting closer to becoming a mustache, and that coat is made of shoulders or something. It makes for an interesting Sam gestalt image. Not a bad one, just interesting. The hair does worry me though... O.o
-"Special Agent Smith, this is Special Agent Smith, no relation." Pfffffffft.
-Hey, if you answered the door wearing an afghan and were confronted by that much bullshit in suits, you'd look this stunned too.
-"We're not gonna laugh at you." He might be more inclined to believe that is Sam stowed that smirk.
-"I'm on the steps medicating-" Ahahah. Yeah, I see why 'unreliable witness' was attached to this guy.
-Written by Robbie Thompson, the same one who wrote "Slash Fiction" with the duplicate Sam and Dean. Directed by Phil Sgriccia, who's a familiar name indeed.
-"One of those Justin Timberlake hats."/"You mean a fedora?" Justin Timberlake hat? *facepalm*
-"Even my watch stopped." Well, God of Time'll do that. So will aliens though.
-I don't know whether it's the beer cooler continuity or the scrounged furniture, but something about this makes me go Awwwww.
-So '28, '57, '74 three bodies each, sounds like a pattern, about every... no, not a set spacing. 29 years, then 17, then 38, unless they're missing one in the early nineties, and who knows, they could be, or it could have been suppressed better. Or maybe no one noticed? O.o
-"Are you gonna look at more anime, or are you strictly into Dick now?" *chokes to death* Um. Yeah. That, um... heh. Brothers. Sam's probably been waiting for a chance to use that inference before Dean uses it on him. *koff* *snerk* Oh look, Sam's tie is more complex that I first thought!
-Heh. See, if I didn't know about the God of Time thing, about here is when I'd start freaking out about Slenderman. To which I'd link the Wiki page but it's singularly useless. Just go to YouTube and watch Marble Hornets, but only if you're prepared to entirely lose your sanity and I very seriously mean that.
-And we've caught up to the opener, eating takeout in the wee little rental car. Yay!
-And fun jewelry for the big powerful whatsis! More of a round-ended hourglass than an infinity symbol since it doesn't cross itself in the middle. So, related to the Horsemen, maybe? How does that work?
-Heee! Hello boggle-check for Dean! Man they went to town on set design this time. (Doesn't 'Jeweller" have two 'L's? Retailer saving sign costs on neon maybe?)
-And now time for several boggle-checks from the cops as they go through Dean's wacky future stuff.
-"This badge was issued sixty-eight years from now." HA! Yeah, that'd be hard to buy. Also the laser-printing.
-Dean does year math, looking the same as he did when calculating Ben's age with the wiggly fingers and the eyerolling. Hee!
-Heheheheh. It's not terribly cappable, but... Trenchcoat and tie, hidden face, made extra hinty by having a light like the ones that blew up when Dean first saw Castiel right in the front of the shot? Hehehe. Yeah, They aren't playing on some hopes for Castiel's return there at aaaall.
-"I'm Twelve Monkied no matter what I say, so here goes." Now there's a reference I wasn't expecting! Yay
Twelve Monkeys! \o/
-"Tell me more about the red light." HOLY CRAP THEY MADE ELLIOT NESS A HUNTER! Or at least I think it's Ness. Regardless, HA! XD
-"And you're the same. Just sixty-eight years before me." It's really kind of sweet how Dean lights up at historical Hunters. Like it makes him feel more of a part of something bigger than just him and Sam and their family and friends getting kicked around by Hell, Heaven, Fate and everything in between.
-And he micro-smirks well, this probably-Ness guy.
-"Ness. Elliot Ness." Just when Dean thought he was done with boggle-checks for the evening.
-Yay, Sam with the wall-o-weird! \o/
-Yay Jodie! Who has been driving in the dark in the rain an awfully long time. And considering it's daylight in Ohio where Sam is and dark where Jodie is, that puts her.... somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. Heh. Okay, you know what? God of Time. It's afternoon in EST, night in CST because the God of Time says it is. SURE. WHY NOT. *HANDWAVES* Ow. I think I sprained something on that one.
-"Shut up, Sam, how can I help?" Have I mentioned how much I really really really like Jodie?
-"You don't even know!" *facepalm* Dean. Contaminating the timestream foreeeeeever. Gleefully.
-"Awesome."/"How does that fill you with awe?" Heh. Modern speaking versus 40's speaking. Also, a bit like Castiel there with the verbal confusion. (*Quantum Rock bunny whimpers* Oh shut up you. Yes that scene's been written since 2008, and if you'd have been more cooperative it would have been posted by now.)
-"You look like some kind of bindlestiff."/"I'll stiff your brind- What?" Yep. Language problems. Sigh. ('Bindlestiff' means tramp or hobo.)
-"Gas costs four bucks, and you can get cheese out of a spray can. And the President is a black guy." Heeeeeee!
-Jodie cleared out Bobby's storage locker. *wibbles*
-"And I'm pretty sure something's alive in at least three of those boxes." She's so damn cute, I really hope we can keep her.
-1940's tie report for Dean, since they've given me a lovely close-up. NOT STRIPED. But neither is Ness's. I don't even know what that pattern is called. Blue. Chaotic. Out of alignment with anything. Which suits, I suppose, given the temporal displacement. I have NO IDEA. It's an isolated tie and away from Sam, so, yeah. Chaotic, out of alignment and blue FITS DEAN PERFECTLY. ...I think I need a bit of a lie down now. O.o
-Dean does clean up well though, doesn't he?
-*gaaaaasp* She said idjits. Holy crap she said idjits. Is. No way. *mental math* Is this BOBBY'S MOM GRANDMA (since my math is out there and she's obviously not Bobby's Mom)??? :-O Or is he just sort of haunting around Dean regardless of timeline? In either case Awwwww. (I said hush, Quantum Rock bunny.)
-The infinite hourglass. Chronos, god of Time. Greek personification of Time, to be specific, but not looking at all like a snake with three different heads, so easy to not recognize him. *nods*
-SO. MUCH. LOVE. for Sam telling Jodie about hunting stuff. *waves fists of glee in the air*
-...I like her way too much, she's going to die, isn't she? :-/
-"No problem, come in a few hours, I'll see what I can scrounge up." I like Ezra too. So, doomed.
-Eeeeeehehehehehehe. Hat. He'll wear into it. XD
-Quoting movies that are going to be made about the people standing in front of you starring people who are currently *googles* 14 years old and living in Edinburgh will do nothing but confuse people. Not that it will stop Dean. At all. Ever.
-"Got a lockpick?"/"Sure." *doorkick* Subtle is Eliot Ness's middle name. Eliot Subtle Ness. Ha ha. Also, unlike Dean, he's got a real badge right now (in the Supernatural reality at least. In actual reality he was Chairman of a security safe company in 1944. Obviously the hunting angle made him stick in the government job longer for better resource access. Maybe his first marriage ended in something other than divorce in SPN reality), so he can do anything he wants at this point in history if he can justify it even vaguely.
-Ahahahahahaha. If you were a deity with no followers and no faith but could still time-jump, how would you support your lifestyle? Gambling! I mean it's not like Gallifrey is around in this universe to smack his hand for profiteering from time travel.
-Oh sure, you kick down doors with impunity, Dean punches a guy and he gets a glare.
-Hahahahah, good cop bad cop, starring Dean Winchester and Eliot Ness.
-"Lester. That a German name?" *facepalm* Oh dear god, don't improvise.
-"He lives in the joint." ...if this 'Snider' lives in 'The Early Bird', then what's up with that house.... *ponders*
-"We've got to get the timing right to the exact second."/"Or we get the angry god but no big brother." Wheeeeee! Nothing like a challenge! And I keep saying this, I know, but PLEEEEEEEEEASE CAN WE KEEP JODIE!!!!?
-"Fine, you ass, you win for once. Enjoy. R." Oooo. Packed next to the stuff about Chronos. Oooo. Hmm.
-"Rufus. A family friend." Family friend. Why yes, I am claiming that as stated proof that the boys adopted Bobby and vice versa. Not in law, but in all the ways that count. *wibbles*
-"We should drink this. He'd want us to, am I wrong?"/"It'd be rude not to." And *wibbles* again some more.
-"'Cause vampires were turning folks in Cleveland." Heh heh heh. Straight from Wikipedia.
"Ness was also Safety Director at the time of several grisly murders that occurred in the Cleveland area from 1935 to 1938." Which would be the
Cleveland Torso Murderer, but in the SPN 'verse was a nest of vampires and the aftermath, since the murder victims above had all been decapitated. Heh, heh, heh. That's a cute yet very disturbing reference of history there.
-"I used to do it 'cause that's what my family did, but they just seem to keep dyin'. Tell you the truth I don't know why I'm doing much of anything anymore." Aw Dean. At least he's talking to someone, even if it's a G-Man who was dead before John was born.
-"Are all hunters as soft as you in the future?" Heeeee. And Dean gets a 'suck it up and deal' speech from Eliot Ness.
-"Hunting's the only clarity you're gonna find in this life." Ow.
-WHEEEE! IT'S A TRUNK! And it's considerably better strapped down than the massive hodge-podge in the Impala. Wherever she is. *wibble*
-Temporal deities need love too, I guess?
-"Talk to me."/"...I am." *facepalm*
-"Thousand year old olive carved by vestal virgins and dipped in the blood of... you don't wanna know." Um. That'd be at least sixteen hundred years old if it was carved by Vestal Virgins, since the order was disbanded before 400 AD by a Christian Emperor in a general purge. Unless there were secret societies of Vestal Virgins running around, and why the heck not. Or they weren't disbanded that early because weird crap that needed vestal virgin magic items to fight was going on in ancient Roman times in the SPN universe. Or it's another god of Time hiccup. Regardless, *handwaves*
-"How does it work?"/"You stick this end in his heart." *facepalm* Time travel is draining Dean's IQ. Although it might have needed to be stabbed somewhere else. Head? Spleen?
-"That's for luck. 'Cause I'm lucky." And I'm sure most of the fandom would agree with that assessment, since you just kissed Dean. XD
-"Back to the Future 3." I was wondering when you'd get around to that, Dean. (Shut up, Quantum Rock.)
-"Mr. Ness, I presume?" *facepalm* Maybe when wearing a brown coat hanging out next to a very green car isn't such a good idea? Though really, he wasn't anticipating being watched himself, though he really should have.
-For a serial killing ancient Greek personification of time, he's kind of cute.
-Oh this should be fun. Planting it in the house that's going to be abandoned. While it's not abandoned. Ha.
-"I am Detective Kostner with the Department of Homeland Termite Invasion." *headdesk* This is as close to being a legit FBI guy as Dean's ever been, and he comes up with that? XD
-"I'm going to install something that will protect this house forever." Yeaaaah. If you're lucky, the guy won't go whistle up the local beat cop to check into your credentials.
-Ha. Ha ha. And from then on, the house owner assumes the 'anti-termite protection' is enough, doesn't treat for termites, the house falls into disrepair, and is abandoned and termite-riddled and up for auction in 2012 because of it. Ha ha ha. Causal loops, yay.
-"Do I have to use my mom voice?" Oh, and Sam's face. Because he's never really heard a proper 'Mom voice' has he? Awwwwwww!
-Well, it's not quite an extended message under several decades of wallpaper telling him to duck, but it's effective.
-"All right, you asked for it! Young man-" *smishes the daylights out of Jodie* We're keeping her. I don't care how.
-And Sam looks so pleased with himself. Heee!
-I'm just going to cap a couple Sam faces here, don't mind me.
-Ahahahahahaha. November 5th, 1944. November 5th. The same day of the year used for ALL THE BACK TO THE FUTURE MOVIES. They did this before, didn't they, going back to meet Mary the first time, the newspaper date was Nov 5th too. Heh. Cute.
-"The night the clock stopped." Well, that's handy. As in Back to the Future as well. Less lightning though.
-"Ethan choked the life out of that man." Oh dear. Yeah, better get that timing right. The good news is, the amount of muscle in Dean's neck it'd take a long time to choke him to death, so you've got a couple minute window where his hands are going to be on Dean for sure.
-Also, Dean's gonna get choked. What day is it? \o/
-That hat is really starting to suit him.
-Aw. That's totally the re-purposed set of Bobby's place. Aw. *wibble*
-Don't forget the date and all. And daylight savings!
-"I used to wander, but now I have you." There is so much messed up about their relationship even before the cross-time serial killing, I don't know where to start.
-And Jodie lights the match on her... first spell is it? Aww.
-Nice when the deity you're trying to summon plays along. Now it's just a matter of Ness tossing Dean the hollywhatsit stick before they're pulled through.
-"Hey, Untouchable!" Awwwwwwww. And Dean gets his fanboy wish too. Awwwwww.
-"YOU DESTROYED EVERYTHING!" Yup, kind of. That relationship is certainly toast.
-Yeah, you just better hope he doesn't have two hearts because you don't have two stakes. His glowing pulse seems to imply he's got a weird circulatory system, going up alternating sides like that.
-"You wanna know your future?" OH. CRAP. O.O
-"It's covered in thick black ooze." Hunh. No surprise there then.
-"It's everywhere. They're everywhere. Enjoy oblivion." Cheerful bastard, isn't he?
Hunh. No Doctor Who references at all. I am indeed shocked. See, shocked. :-o
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