#ANYWAY on goes my disappointment w the wasted potential of constantien (2014)

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In episode 10 of Constantine, John says to Zed the Achilles tendon that nullifies magic is Chas' favorite trick. So he is into magic cancelling ropes... something to chew on. Happens around 5min into the episode.

sorry to have taken so long to answer this (though this is NOT the oldest chastantine related message i'm responding to tonight 😬) but also it's partly bc it's driving me insane that this wasn't a bigger deal when the episode first aired, or since then, bc obviously i went to look it up and:

(from a transcript site that doesn't uh identify the speakers, which is unhelpful, but that's john & zed).

i have to admit i haven't re-watched quid pro quo in literal years despite it i guess being one of the most explicitly (lol) chastantine-y episode, between the kiss (i still remember the showrunners being like 'ooooh just wait for episode 10, john's actually going to KISS a MAN' and then it was. chas and it was a cheek kiss which tbh i do still love but also the camera refused to actually let anyone perceive it fully, SO) and the arthurian curse that's forever binding chas to john (or at least till the 47 lives run out) and the hug and the pride flag hanging directly above john, zed, and chas as john looks smugly on at chas threatening someone w a shotgun.

but from what i recall there's a lot of talk in that episode about how well john knows chas (or how well john thinks he knows chas, which is actually what gets him in trouble/punched in the face, ultimately). so that exchange is a nice little hint of that early on in the episode, of john knowing that chas has a favorite (magic related) thing john does. and bc it's chas OF COURSE it's a magic-negating magic related thing (like, bondage potential aside, my first thought was -- was that the first magic-related thing john did for/around chas, to help protect him from whatever queenie was doing to him?) anyways i'm emotional about it, it's fine.

tho obviously the bondage implications ARE NOT LOST ON ME but i think i'd have to do a refresh by watching the episode itself to get a firm grasp on how that would -- potentially work.

#chastantine #(my secret unpopular take is that i actually didn't love that episode as much as i'd hoped i did) #(when i first heard they were going to do a chas- focused episode that dealt w What His Deal was) #(like i did think that part of What His Deal was is a good storyline -- john getting a spell that no one has ever gotten to work before #to work PURELY bc chas is such a selfless person #chef's kiss etc #but tbh i think the episode didn't focus enough on chas and also iirc it's the last episode he's in before the show ends!!!!!!!!!!! #or else he's very minorly in one other one bc i know neither he nor zed are in the ritchie simpson episode (one of the best standalones imo #nor in the finale #ANYWAY on goes my disappointment w the wasted potential of constantien (2014) #it's fine i'mm over it #(i'm not over it and it's been eight years which is like. sad at this point) #john constantine #john constantine kissing dudes 2k14 #chas chandler #he's a bear. and he's a daddy. he's a daddy bear