SPN picspam + meta for 5x17
I haven't read very many episode reactions. Since I can't seem to resist doing it, after I was done flailing, I made a
This episode went to town on the green and red. I...don't know what that means yet. There was red and blue at work in 5x06 and in 5x07. There's some red and blue in 5x17, but the green seems on the rise.
1.
Dean: Are you okay?
Sam: Yeah, I'm amazing.
Even after where things landed with them in 5x16, and how defeated we know Dean's feeling, he's still very intent on Sam (who is bleeding) in the chase sequence, checking on him.
The lighting on the window behind Sam slides from blue to green.
2.
I ♥ that Sam calls Castiel. They are forming a friendship that isn't just about Dean as the pivot point. Then Sam and Dean sit down over beers. This is one of two drinking scenes they have -- the second when the teenage kid gets killed. Neither are happy drinking scenes.
Look at the red on one side of Sam, the green on the other.
Sam: Who says they're all gonna die? What happened to us saving them?
Side note: I thought it was interesting that Dean remarked on the 12 year old packing salt-rounds. For Dean's childhood, that was normal. It's like with his growing perspective on his father and his childhood, he's questioning it. However, it's also consistent with Dean's one set of rules for Winchesters, another set of rules for everyone else, which also fits with his "have to save the world" mentality.
3.
Picking locks, in combat mode. What a pair of badasses. The demon-fighting sequences were kinetic, and felt very war-like (in the absence of Kim Manners, Charles Beeson is one of my favorite three SPN directors, the others being Phil Scriggia and Steve Boyum) . Also we got the chance to see the boys working with other hunters.
Sam: Guess that's what it's like.
Dean: What?
Sam: Having back-up.
There were some great Sam moments in this ep -- later there's the scene in the bar when we get Paul's take on his own lack of faith, and then Sam's current assessment on God: I believe, yeah. I'm just pretty sure God stopped caring a long time ago." I liked Paul the bartender. He's also a reminder (along with the teenaged boy, whose death seems to further send Dean into a sense of futility) that Sam and Dean don't get to have drinking buddies or back-up -- they tend to get killed. :(
4.
Sam: You can't do this to me...you think you're the only one white-knuckling it here, Dean? I can't count on anyone else, and I can't do this alone."
Shout backs:
Dean: I can’t do this alone.
Sam: Yes, you can.
Dean: Yeah, well, I don’t want to.
--Pilot
Sam: Yeah, I've been following you around my entire life! I mean, I've been looking up to you since i was four, Dean. Studying you, trying to be just like my big brother. So yeah, I know you. Better than anyone else in the entire world. And this is exactly how you act when you're terrified. And, I mean, I can't blame you. It's just...
Dean: What?
Sam: I wish you would drop the show and be my brother again. 'Cause... just 'cause.
--3x07, Fresh Blood
This is what the boys have done for each other, season after season, and they take turns at it. Trying to pull the other one back from the edge, one way or the other. It's Sam's turn again.
Green shirt for Dean, there. Huh.
Side note: after this argument, Dean, who's been insisting throughout the ep that he's done, nothing he can do, goes into the bar when he hears the fight and tries to help Paul. It's like Sam's words got to him, at least temporarily. But throughout the ep, even with his "no longer give a damn" stance, Dean's actions continue to be to try to save others.
5.
Castiel: I found a liquor store.
Sam: And?
Castiel: And I drank it.
GLEEING over Sam and Castiel being all geeky together over the old books. Also these caps are very Sam/Castiel. Shhh, don't tell Dean/Castiel I said that. <3
Castiel gets drunk, explains and smiles at an actual JOKE -- it's funnier in Enochian -- and is generally a BAMF. There's vulnerability too.
Note the red couch and the green in the field of flowers on the wallpaper behind them.
6.
OH THE CANONICAL HURT/COMFORT. Dean offering him painkillers. Oh, my heart. Also, the look on Dean's face, like he's trying to be Mr. Can't-Give-a-Damn but then notices Castiel's in pain and he puts that wall down for a moment.
There was actually quite a bit of hurt/comfort in this ep, with Dean checking on Sam, and then Sam really worried when Dean showed up bloodied after Paul gets killed and Dean has to explain it's not his blood, and Sam patching up Pastor Gideon's arm and trying to keep a drunk Cas from toppling over.
Look at all that red; and red with blue for Dean. Look at that big red NO VACANCY sign between Dean and Castiel. What does THAT mean? Is that the show's idea of a weird vessel joke? Dean is about to have a no vacancy status and get occupied by Michael? Red is a warning on the show, and is also a color often associated with Dean.
7.
...and then there's Dean helping Castiel to the Impala. Noting how Dean's knees are bent--he's taking Castiel's weight. Also Dean is grasping his hand. Okay, I'll stop there.
8.
I feel so bad for Sam here, as much as my heart is shredded for Dean too. In this ep we're also seeing Sam more and more stepping up as the most well-adjusted one in the room, the one trying to hold everyone else together, especially Dean.
Dean is about to sacrifice himself, again, after his earlier determination about the Winchesters stopping that martyr cycle. On one level, yes he is doing it to save as many people as he can save, but on another level, it is him giving up and that is incredibly hard to take. It's easier for him to let go and go into freefall than to keep clinging on with his fingernails. It's Dean going in for yet another-self destructive self-sacrifice and doing it in a way that is the ultimate loss of self, letting himself be inhabited by/becoming something else. Which is in turn an echo of Sam's willingness to alter his very nature to beef up his powers in order to avenge Dean during S4.
This can only end in tears. /o\ This time around, Dean's doing it knowing full well the impact this will have on the people who care about him. This Dean is a lot different than Dean in AHBL 2. Which actually makes it worse, because he knows better. I understand how he got to this point -- the arc towards this has for me been a brutally effective story, the slow wearing down of Dean. It's something that started as far back as S2.
Ye small disclaimer: this is a Dean-friendly, Sam-friendly, and Castiel-friendly journal. Please comment accordingly.
side note: here to show you the screamingly bright red and the green as Dean drives away -- I only enanced the saturation a smidge.
9.
Dean: When I did picture myself happy, it was with you.
Lisa represents a lot of the things Dean can't ever have. Gah, this scene wrecked me a little (and I think they have lovely chemistry). For me, it fit, we know Lisa's his ideal from the dream sequence in DALDoM, and it was a beautifully filmed, melancholy scene. Dean is giving up on a lot of things, the life Lisa and Ben represent being one of them. He's saying good-bye. Also, he can't say goodbye to Sam, Bobby, or Castiel because they'd try to stop him. But he needs to have that ritual of saying goodbye, so he finds Lisa.
Note the green behind Dean, and that Lisa is wearing a blue sweatshirt.
Screen caps by humanshapes. Episode excerpts transcribed by me or taken from the Super-wiki.
This episode went to town on the green and red. I...don't know what that means yet. There was red and blue at work in 5x06 and in 5x07. There's some red and blue in 5x17, but the green seems on the rise.
1.
Dean: Are you okay?
Sam: Yeah, I'm amazing.
Even after where things landed with them in 5x16, and how defeated we know Dean's feeling, he's still very intent on Sam (who is bleeding) in the chase sequence, checking on him.
The lighting on the window behind Sam slides from blue to green.
2.
I ♥ that Sam calls Castiel. They are forming a friendship that isn't just about Dean as the pivot point. Then Sam and Dean sit down over beers. This is one of two drinking scenes they have -- the second when the teenage kid gets killed. Neither are happy drinking scenes.
Look at the red on one side of Sam, the green on the other.
Sam: Who says they're all gonna die? What happened to us saving them?
Side note: I thought it was interesting that Dean remarked on the 12 year old packing salt-rounds. For Dean's childhood, that was normal. It's like with his growing perspective on his father and his childhood, he's questioning it. However, it's also consistent with Dean's one set of rules for Winchesters, another set of rules for everyone else, which also fits with his "have to save the world" mentality.
3.
Picking locks, in combat mode. What a pair of badasses. The demon-fighting sequences were kinetic, and felt very war-like (in the absence of Kim Manners, Charles Beeson is one of my favorite three SPN directors, the others being Phil Scriggia and Steve Boyum) . Also we got the chance to see the boys working with other hunters.
Sam: Guess that's what it's like.
Dean: What?
Sam: Having back-up.
There were some great Sam moments in this ep -- later there's the scene in the bar when we get Paul's take on his own lack of faith, and then Sam's current assessment on God: I believe, yeah. I'm just pretty sure God stopped caring a long time ago." I liked Paul the bartender. He's also a reminder (along with the teenaged boy, whose death seems to further send Dean into a sense of futility) that Sam and Dean don't get to have drinking buddies or back-up -- they tend to get killed. :(
4.
Sam: You can't do this to me...you think you're the only one white-knuckling it here, Dean? I can't count on anyone else, and I can't do this alone."
Shout backs:
Dean: I can’t do this alone.
Sam: Yes, you can.
Dean: Yeah, well, I don’t want to.
--Pilot
Sam: Yeah, I've been following you around my entire life! I mean, I've been looking up to you since i was four, Dean. Studying you, trying to be just like my big brother. So yeah, I know you. Better than anyone else in the entire world. And this is exactly how you act when you're terrified. And, I mean, I can't blame you. It's just...
Dean: What?
Sam: I wish you would drop the show and be my brother again. 'Cause... just 'cause.
--3x07, Fresh Blood
This is what the boys have done for each other, season after season, and they take turns at it. Trying to pull the other one back from the edge, one way or the other. It's Sam's turn again.
Green shirt for Dean, there. Huh.
Side note: after this argument, Dean, who's been insisting throughout the ep that he's done, nothing he can do, goes into the bar when he hears the fight and tries to help Paul. It's like Sam's words got to him, at least temporarily. But throughout the ep, even with his "no longer give a damn" stance, Dean's actions continue to be to try to save others.
5.
Castiel: I found a liquor store.
Sam: And?
Castiel: And I drank it.
GLEEING over Sam and Castiel being all geeky together over the old books. Also these caps are very Sam/Castiel. Shhh, don't tell Dean/Castiel I said that. <3
Castiel gets drunk, explains and smiles at an actual JOKE -- it's funnier in Enochian -- and is generally a BAMF. There's vulnerability too.
Note the red couch and the green in the field of flowers on the wallpaper behind them.
6.
OH THE CANONICAL HURT/COMFORT. Dean offering him painkillers. Oh, my heart. Also, the look on Dean's face, like he's trying to be Mr. Can't-Give-a-Damn but then notices Castiel's in pain and he puts that wall down for a moment.
There was actually quite a bit of hurt/comfort in this ep, with Dean checking on Sam, and then Sam really worried when Dean showed up bloodied after Paul gets killed and Dean has to explain it's not his blood, and Sam patching up Pastor Gideon's arm and trying to keep a drunk Cas from toppling over.
Look at all that red; and red with blue for Dean. Look at that big red NO VACANCY sign between Dean and Castiel. What does THAT mean? Is that the show's idea of a weird vessel joke? Dean is about to have a no vacancy status and get occupied by Michael? Red is a warning on the show, and is also a color often associated with Dean.
7.
...and then there's Dean helping Castiel to the Impala. Noting how Dean's knees are bent--he's taking Castiel's weight. Also Dean is grasping his hand. Okay, I'll stop there.
8.
I feel so bad for Sam here, as much as my heart is shredded for Dean too. In this ep we're also seeing Sam more and more stepping up as the most well-adjusted one in the room, the one trying to hold everyone else together, especially Dean.
Dean is about to sacrifice himself, again, after his earlier determination about the Winchesters stopping that martyr cycle. On one level, yes he is doing it to save as many people as he can save, but on another level, it is him giving up and that is incredibly hard to take. It's easier for him to let go and go into freefall than to keep clinging on with his fingernails. It's Dean going in for yet another-self destructive self-sacrifice and doing it in a way that is the ultimate loss of self, letting himself be inhabited by/becoming something else. Which is in turn an echo of Sam's willingness to alter his very nature to beef up his powers in order to avenge Dean during S4.
This can only end in tears. /o\ This time around, Dean's doing it knowing full well the impact this will have on the people who care about him. This Dean is a lot different than Dean in AHBL 2. Which actually makes it worse, because he knows better. I understand how he got to this point -- the arc towards this has for me been a brutally effective story, the slow wearing down of Dean. It's something that started as far back as S2.
Ye small disclaimer: this is a Dean-friendly, Sam-friendly, and Castiel-friendly journal. Please comment accordingly.
side note: here to show you the screamingly bright red and the green as Dean drives away -- I only enanced the saturation a smidge.
9.
Dean: When I did picture myself happy, it was with you.
Lisa represents a lot of the things Dean can't ever have. Gah, this scene wrecked me a little (and I think they have lovely chemistry). For me, it fit, we know Lisa's his ideal from the dream sequence in DALDoM, and it was a beautifully filmed, melancholy scene. Dean is giving up on a lot of things, the life Lisa and Ben represent being one of them. He's saying good-bye. Also, he can't say goodbye to Sam, Bobby, or Castiel because they'd try to stop him. But he needs to have that ritual of saying goodbye, so he finds Lisa.
Note the green behind Dean, and that Lisa is wearing a blue sweatshirt.
Screen caps by humanshapes. Episode excerpts transcribed by me or taken from the Super-wiki.