The Dee-Annotated Supernatural - Shadow

[cupiscent]

While I'm talking: happy birthday, tvm. Hope the Winchester boys get magically transported to your house, with the car, but bizarrely without their clothes. *G*

The Male: So what's this episode about?
Me: I don't know. When the fangirls talk about it, they never seem to mention the plot...

Comments

[_seraphina_]

man, their heart to heart killed me...Dean bracing himself against the dresser was a little overdone but, man...broke my heart. The Ackles is just so wonderfully wonderful with his expression!!!
and Yay for Hell House next week!!! Sweet Lord...of the Rings!

[cupiscent]

Dean bracing himself against the dresser was a little overdone
AHAHAHA I KNOW. I was just sitting there going, "Hey, there's his Days of our Lives melodramatic acting training paying off!"

I feel like they came half a step closer to seeing each other properly. Now we just have to wait until hell freezes over Sam admits that Dean's feelings have validity too and maybe gives a bit. I dunno. Bwee, anyway.

[rogueapprentice]

I so wish I could sit down with you and the Male and re-watch these. The hilarity just never ends. ;D

[cupiscent]

The hilarity does sometimes end. We have these big goes-for-the-whole-ad-break arguments about whether you actually CAN sneak up on a closed door, complete with demonstrations. I just edit those out for the sake of brevity. *G*

[rogueapprentice]

Eeee, someday you must publish the unabridged versions! :P

[cupiscent]

Dude, good point. Or at the very least bridge. Actually, his technique's pretty shoddy. He totally should have used the layback - feet on the solid wall, holding the bars. He could've walked up.

...hello, I became an elitist climbing bitch or something. *G*

PS: So have you made a decision yet? *G* poppycock!

[queeniegalore]

also, he's bleeding pretty again.

I'm sorry, I was GOING to comment properly on your wonderful recap, but then I got to that line and all thoughts flew outta my head...funny, that :D

I will say that these always make me giggle like a six year old. And me and MY male were watching it together, and mine said the EXACT SAME THING about the connect-the-blood-smears game Dean plays. Heh.

[maleyka]

I might have spent big portions of the day after flailing incoherently at the memory of the boys in that scene. You know, that scene. I mean. Oh God. And it slays me that Dean is finally opening up, laying it all out right there for Sam to take or reject. And Sam chooses the latter and breaks Dean's heart into a thousand little pieces in the process, and you can see that it's killing Sam to say it, but he has to because honesty is the one thing he can give Dean right there. He's saying it so sincerely and as gently as possible and repeats that he'd do anything for Dean (anything but this) and oh God by that point MY SOUL WAS IN PIECES OMG.

Because that's the part that breaks my heart. Dean isn't jaded. Dean isn't cold. Dean is staggeringly vulnerable where his family is concerned. He's had people leaving him and people disappointing him all his life, and yet he still tries. He comes out and pretty much offers up his heart on a silver platter, and again it gets stomped on. *sniff*

[maleyka]

ETA: It's Dean. And that's a lot of sharing going on in that scene. So I don't know whether I truly buy it for his character, but it made me weepy enough to overlook any OOC-ness.

[cupiscent]

I finally get a chance to reply to comments a WEEK after the fact. *italian hands!*

Anyway, yeah. It's a beautiful lovely wonderful scene for our boys. And that revelation (expected as it may be, it's still delivered well) that Dean isn't flippant and carefree all the way through, that he does care, deeply... yeah, it's like the payoff for sitting through all that Sam-angst. *G* (I TEASE!)

The more I think about it, the more I bought the sharing as a Dean thing. It was in the delivery, really, because Jensen just sort of makes it a challenge. It comes across as a "No, you IDIOT, it's THIS. It's ALWAYS been this, you're just too goddamn self-absorbed to pay any attention when I'm subtle about it so I have to say it out loud and blatant in order for it to get into your THICK SKULL before we go into this life-or-death situation and I possibly lose you forever one way or another."

Er... yeah. So that's how I buy it. *G*