supernatural s13e20 unfinished business (w. meredith glynn)
taking a second to reflect i'm just about a year into this spn first time watch. first screenshot i took was in s1e2 and that was feb 1, 2023. inching closer to the end but damn.
wtf is happening with gabriel fighting a werewolf-esque whatever with a singlestick type thing. and this music? so cheesy 70s whatever. i see you jay g (christopher is also guilty of it when there's A Theme though so)
aww he's got a list like arya. ok so, like kill bill. which i tried to finally watch here not long ago and i couldn't get past the first fight scene in the house. feel like i might have enjoyed it when it came out when i was 23, but my appetite for tarantino tanked somewhere along the line. also, we already did a reservoir dogs homage episode, did we need another one?
these massive motel rooms, what even
haven't made a dean loves the magic fingers reference in a long ass time. reunion tour of references too
so this is a directed by speight episode too. ok
the apocalypse is good for mary's hair apparently
GABRIEL
I call that art. But yes, without me, you two chuckleheads never would've known how to throw Lucifer back in the Cage.
DEAN
But instead of giving us a hand, you ran. And you just did it again when you ditched us in the bunker.
GABRIEL
All right, Dean-- I have more important things to do than to join your little band of merry men.
DEAN
Hey, what you're doing? This? This is not important.
GABRIEL
Every day, Asmodeus tortured me. Every… day! He fed off my grace for years! He used me, he debased me until I was… What I went through… you don't forgive. Everyone who had a hand in it will die. Get me?
a) this weird explanation/retcon of loki actually being someone else and that's why gabriel was pretending to be him is... weird. b) i get the impassioned speech but talking to two dudes with many more years or torture under their belts, i think they get it
DEAN
Not like I care about killing gods, okay? But this whole revenge kick? It's a waste of time.
SAM
What if it's not?
DEAN
You've seen it, Sam-- with me, with Dad. Revenge only ends one way-- ugly.
SAM
Well, maybe it doesn't have to.
DEAN
Okay, I think I know what this is.
SAM
Okay, what is this?
DEAN
You. You're you're so hopped up on this “Kill Bill” fantasy of his.
SAM
No, no, no. This has nothing to do with me.
DEAN
If you had a shot at Lucifer, you wouldn't take it?
SAM
Of course I would. But this is about Gabriel. He needs our help.
[Dean rolls his eyes, but agrees to hear out Sam’s plan back in the room]
SAM
Gabriel, you agree to help us, we'll agree to help you.
and a throwback to revenge never pays. but like, why doesn't sam just go for the obvious, we need his help and maybe he'll do it if we help him quid pro quo. jay bringing the eye rolling music juice, wouldn't expect anything else
GABRIEL
Well, Sleipnir's a lot of things, but mainly, he is a coward. I will bet all the personal lubricant in the S.F.V… that after we killed Narfi, he ran straight back to papa's skirts.
and throwback to references i don't understand, that used to be a regular occurrence in kripke-era seasons. per the wiki:
S.F.V. refers to the San Fernando Valley in California, the center of the adult entertainment industry.
wonder how many people caught that, seems awfully obscure
MARY
I know you've been winning all these fights, and you want to take him on so bad. I was just like you, with hunting. But I learned the hard way-- thinking you can win all the time, running in blind into every fight? That's how you make mistakes. And the people here, they--
JACK
I'm doing this for them.
MARY
You can't help them if you're dead. And I can't lose another boy.
i'm sorry mary but i snorted. we just haven't had enough time to really establish this, and it's been backburner at best when it's around. #boymom 🤪🤪🤪
LOKI
Yes, you do. Little bit. Our treatment of your friend is payback for a slight of a more personal nature. The death of my father, Odin.
DEAN
Oh, that wasn't him. Lucifer did that.
LOKI
Ah. But why was my father there in the first place? To parlay, to deal with Gabriel's brothers. When we first made terms, I had only one condition-- I would give him my face, teach him to be me, the trickster, if he agreed to abandon the more… volatile affairs of his family. Forever. When he hit that hotel, he broke that promise, and it cost my father his life.
hokay. never gonna retain any of this. i thought odin died another way but i think i'm thinking of zeus. big ask for me to care/remember the nonsense plot going on from an episode in s5. i can only imagine if i watched this as it aired. perpetually lost
SAM
That's not… I'm saying this has become a whole thing with you lately.
DEAN
A whole thing?
SAM
Yeah.
DEAN
Since when?
SAM
Since the last time we opened up a rift. Since you decided to sideline me and then head to Apocalypse World with Ketch.
DEAN
Okay, well… we talked about that.
SAM
Did we? Because I gotta be honest, after everything, you're treating me like I-I deserve to be back at the kid's table or something.
good on you, sam
DEAN
Sam, I'm not gonna apologize for protecting you.
SAM
So that's what you think you're doing here?
DEAN
You remember what happened the last time we had front row tickets to the Lucifer/Michael show? 'Cause I do. You died… and went to Hell. But see, this time, the apocalypse isn't looking for us. We're actually looking for it. I don't care what happens to me. I never really have. But I do care about what happens to my brother.
SAM
Dean, we're going to that place, and we're gonna save Jack and Mom. Together. And if something happens, we will deal with it together. And if we die? We'll do that together, too.
on one hand it's like oh yeah, maybe dean is feeling the lingering trauma of what happened the last time michael and lucifer were in their lives. but also, they let so much of that slide it feels like it's just being used for convenience. but whatever. i'd rather this than no conversation at all
and damn straight, sam, everything together. dying is a little much, and you didn't get to follow through on that one anyway. read a fic the other day that was about dean being afraid once sam's blurry wife got to heaven, he'd want to leave to be with her. and they made the point that sam had almost the same amount of years with the blurry wife as he did with dean. and now i'm making myself sad again 🥲🫠 this is why i don't read much heaven fic
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supernatural s15e11 the gamblers (teleplay: meredith glynn, story: meredith glynn, davy perez)
so had an infuriating ep, a light (in theory) funny ep, so what's up with this possible alaska excursion. recap was full of a whole mess of things including some random class of angels i forget 2 seconds after hearing it
are they truly driving to alaska
reminds me of this tiktok i saw today of a guy from the uk who lives in the us now and had his mind obliterated when he just realized how close alaska is to russia
but wait, garth says road between barrow and kotzebue, which is nowhere near each other. kotzebue is ....
ok so driving 3800 miles - on a budget, as sam reminds dean - in their like... i'll be generous and say 12mpg impala. that's 316 gallons of fuel, one way. we'll say $3/gal? $950 gas one-way? sounds like any way you slice it, that's a lot of money
lol nic, please, drop it. it's just picking alaska is so wacky because it's so so far away from the rest of the US and it's so big and so sparsely populated
DEAN
What can we get for, uh, $4.60?
WAITRESS
Um, a slice of pie and a cup of coffee?
DEAN
Two forks?
SAM
A-A pool hall that makes you lucky or might kill you? I mean, it sounds like a demon or a witch or…
DEAN
Or it could be awesome. It’s pool. The- the- the game of champions, kings. My game. Hell, our game. How many honest-to-goodness great memories do we have hustling pool?
SAM
Yeah, because we had to. To eat.
DEAN
Okay, well, my point is, that if pool is the way we get our mojo back, then maybe we ain’t as screwed as thought.
but how good are they at pool under the chuck whammy.
day 2, still boggling over driving to alaska. also this whole thing reminds me of the poker playing for years thing from whatever, 5x07 let's get into it
DEAN
Man, I’ve been slinging pool cues since before you were born.
SAM
What? When you were four? Really? What, between nap time and snack?
seen gifs of that one, classic. even knowing it was coming, made me laugh. sam's face, perfect
DEAN
Look, we barely made it out of that monster fight club, okay? We need this. And you know it. Now, look, you’re better than me at pretty much everything, okay? That’s okay. I’m not mad. I’m proud. But I can wipe the floor with you when it comes to pool.
that's very sweet. i will take it
i don't even know what's going on with this little heart-eating jack sidequest for cas
Grigori were watcher angels, some of the first placed on Earth to watch and protect humanity. They were an elite unit that turned rogue and were thought to have been wiped out. However, a handful survived and hid on Earth, feeding off of human souls.
literally only appear in 2 episodes, this one and 10x20 - one thing i really got tired of (which i also understand because the show went on for so long with so many episodes) is just piling on random lore and creatures and weapons and devices and secret societies, etc.
having the pool playing sucking away luck from nice rando humans as opposed to the witch or whatever is kind of an interesting twist. a moral quandary!
the roman goddess of luck, ok. these are the episodes i watch and almost immediately forget :p
FORTUNA
When I play someone, I get a read on them. And you… you’re just a beach read. Sexy, mm, but skimmable.
DEAN
Beach read? Lady, I’m Tolstoy.
cringe
JACK
Fair? The last one I killed was pretending to be a doctor. Feeding on the souls of humans he was supposed to heal. You do it, too. Only you like children.
KABAIEL
Who told you that?
JACK
Death.
so billie yanked him out of the empty to go kill some bad guys? okayyy??? and eating the hearts because...??? laughed out loud when cas popped up to have a sword fight?? with the angel blade
i was on board with jack and my 3 dads and i feel like this should be heartwarming but i'm just 😐
dunno why this remote alaskan bar has jazz music as a theme but whatever. cheaper than licensed music :p (christopher lennertz and philip white on music this ep)
FORTUNA
When you apes first climbed down from the trees, you didn’t pray to him. You prayed to the… the sun, the womb, the rain, and the stars. Well, at first, the creator was furious. How dare you not recognize his beneficence? But soon enough, he birthed us… Ra, Anu, Hera, Mixcoatl, all the rest.
DEAN
Why?
FORTUNA
Why? [scoffs] Why?
To take the blame. Bad harvest? Stillborn child? Our bad. Not his. Plus, we made for epic stories. But his ego could only handle that for so long. Now he’s happy to behind whatever religion has the best syndication deal. While we survive on scraps in the wilderness.
feels like they're trying to finally wedge in an explanation to how the christian god is The god, by way of like oh no, he's just some generic creator and he's actually responsible for everything in all religions which just makes my head hurt if i think about it too long
FORTUNA
You little minx. You got me talking. You’re good.
SAM
I learned from my brother.
there is a lot of cheesy dialogue this episode, i dunno what's going on
the people matter to me. to us. i cannot take this seriously :p
EVIE
Because of you. She said she thought your kind had gone extinct.
SAM
Our kind?
EVIE
Heroes.
loll. whyyy. am i just being an ass again? so cheesy!
EVIE
And, uh, she gave me a message. She said, “Don’t play his game. Make him play yours.”
okily dokily. whatever that means
awkwarrrd
sweet and weird, respectively
JACK
Because if I don’t stay hidden, if I use my powers, my grandfather… he’ll know I’m back, and he’ll try and kill me… again. He’s afraid of me. And that’s why we had to wait.
CAS
Billie kept him hidden in the Empty until Chuck went off world.
JACK
She let me out when it was safe.
DEAN
Safe to what? Eat a bunch of angel hearts?
JACK
Safe to do what I have to. The hearts, they were just the beginning. They made me strong, but I-I’m not strong enough. I… If I do exactly what she says, if I follow her plan, then I’ll get stronger and… I’ll be able to kill God.
LOL ok, sure. to say this season has lost me would be an understatement. i know when i'm like this i'm gonna pick at every little thing, where i let things slide a bit more when i'm fully engaged. i regularly complain about the main plots but usually i'm still here for the character beats, but i'm having a hard time staying connected with even that at the moment
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