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puppypaw-wc · 3 years
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i like how basically the only official rhythm heaven merchandise is like. towels-
#puppy rambles#rhythm hell#i'm not joking by the way#according to the rhythm heaven wiki#''The Flippers and the Wandering Samurai are the two characters to have printed towels of them#that could be bought from Club Nintendo Japan in December 2012.''#i have no idea why they were like ''yeah let's make rhythm heaven towels''#but i mean. you do you nintendo#god i just remembered there's a rhythm heaven wiki page that's just f o r k#''The Fork is an object which appears in the minigame Fork Lifter in Rhythm Heaven Fever & Rhythm Heaven Megamix.''#''The fork is silver with 3 prongs & a pentagon-shaped tip. In the Megamix artwork it lacks the special tip & has more curved prongs.''#i guess it showing up in fever's cast after the credits means it has to have a page#but it's still funny to me-#just. f o r k#oh and we can't forget w i d g e t#''Widgets (組み立てキット Kumitate Kitto?) are recurring objects in the Rhythm Heaven Series. Their purpose is mentioned to be unknown.#A widget is composed of a rod and one or two square nuts.''#thanks rhythm heaven wiki#oh and i love this trivia point on the page for the widgets idk why but it's strangely funny to me:#''Rods and Widgets have appeared in 15 different games total throughout the series#while Karate Joe has appeared in 23 and The Wandering Samurai in 16.''#WAIT WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH SOME OF THESE ALTERNATE LANGUAGE NAMES FOR WIDGETS-#mr untensil- mr. device- t h e c o n t r a p t i o n#c u b e#god i love the rhythm heaven wiki#did you know that this is the second remix 8 to be speedy?#... yeah these tags are getting cut off for sure sfikfsjk
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shootingcookielover · 4 years
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Oh, Roman...
@transformationloveb you're a fountain of good ideas, you know that? I was inspired by this prompt, and I know I didn't adhere to it exactly, but eh. Close enough?
Warnings: mentions of blood and dicks, sickness, that should be it
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Janus was fairly certain that Roman should not be this hot. 
And for once it was not meant in relation to his looks. 
The creative side had fallen asleep earlier, his head resting on Janus' shoulder. A head that had reached a worryingly high temperature. 
He wrapped and arm or two or three around the creative side to keep him upright. 
Sweat was soon soaking through his gloves. Disgusting and probably not good. 
But he still wasn't sure; as he was half-snake his temperature was already less than human and Remus, well… Remus was so cold on most days, Janus wondered whether he slept in a freezer. 
Roman was neither ice-cold nor dependent on the surroundings to be at least luke-warm. 
With worry twisting his insides Janus resigned himself to summon Logan. 
The logical side appeared immediately, though he looked rather disgruntled. "Yes, Janus, what is it?" 
The serpent pointed at Roman and quietly asked: "Does he have a fever?" 
Logan furrowed his brows, but crossed the room nonetheless. "I don't see how that would be possible, seeing as Thomas is…", his voice trailed off as he placed his hand on Roman's forehead. 
His eyebrows furrowed even more. His eyes moved upwards to meet Janus'. "How long has he been this warm?"
"I don't know; but he fell asleep about ten minutes ago."
"Why didn't you call me earlier?", Logan was kneeling in front of Roman, dabbing a wet piece of cloth against the creative side's forehead. 
"So I'm guessing he does have a fever, then?", Janus replied, easily ignoring the question Logan had posed. The logical side didn't need to know how much he relished in the fact that Roman trusted him enough to fall asleep on his shoulder.
"Yes, indeed he does. We need to get him to bed. He needs rest and water."
Logan stood again, motioning towards the creative side's room. 
Janus nodded, wrapping his remaining three arms around Roman to pick him up. The rest of Roman exuded just as much heat as his head.
It would have made Janus' snake side melt contently would it not mean the creative side was sick. 
"I will remain here and cook a 'chicken noodle soup'. It is often credited to help with sickness.", with those words Logan disappeared into the kitchen. "I will also inform the others of Roman's current state."
Janus nodded in agreement as he entered Roman's room. The creative side stirred for the first time since he'd fallen asleep. 
The serpent gently dumped Roman on his bed and pulled the covers over him. Then he hesitated. 
Roman was too warm. 
Janus pulled the covers off again. 
The creative side gave an unhappy grumble at that. He curled up on the bed, face twisted into a frown. 
Janus, unsure of how to proceed now, hovered at the edge of the bed. After a bit of deliberation he decided to head out and ask Logan for some more advice on how to handle this. 
His steps faltered at the door when he heard a weak, confused voice ask: "...Janus…?"
The serpent turned around again to find that Roman was squinting in his general direction. 
"You're awake.", Janus stated, walking back over to the bed. "How are you feeling? Logan said you have a fever. How long have you been sick?" 
The creative side groaned, eyes closing again. A shiver ran across his body. "...I don't know…", he mumbled, "'m cold."
Considering how little Janus knew of sickness in other sides, he decided to let his worried nature take over. Soon the blanket was back over Roman and the creative side relaxed a bit, a soft sigh escaping his lips. 
"Why didn' t you say anything?", the serpent asked quietly, pushing a sweaty strand of hair out of Roman's forehead, now kneeling before the creative side.
His eyes slowly fluttered open again. The way they were glazed over made Janus wonder how he hadn't noticed Roman being sick before now. 
"...didn't think you'd care…" 
Janus rested his gloved hand against Roman's cheek. "Oh Roman…", he mumbled, softly stroking his cheek bone. "Of course I care."
The creative side shut his eyes again, a soft expression on his face. 
Just in time for the door to fly open. "I hope we're interrupting something!", Remus yelled as he stepped inside. 
Roman winced, pulling the blanket farther up. 
Janus sighed and got to his feet. "Remus, I know how much you love following orders, but for once, please don't keep quiet."
"Aw, don't get your dicks in a twist, double Dee!", the duke giggled, pushing past Janus alongside Patton. "He isn't even bleeding out of every orifice while choking on his own blood, he'll be fine!" 
The serpent sighed, throwing a glance towards Virgil who was worriedly hovering by the door. His eyeshadow had begun to bleed down his cheeks. 
Their eyes met and Janus gave him a reassuring smile. He didn't know much about sicknesses, but Remus and Logan did. Since they were both unconcerned - or, in Remus' case, not over the moon with excitement - Roman should, indeed, be fine. 
The anxious side gave a wobbly smile of his own and a small nod. 
Janus counted it as a victory. 
A sudden tug on Janus' sleeve drew his attention. He glanced down, where Patton was kneeling next to Roman. 
Worry radiated off the fatherly side, concerned tears brimming in his eyes. "Is he…?", his voice gave out. 
The serpent bent down and wrapped an arm around Patton. "Don't worry.", he mumbled, "Roman will be fine."
"Maybe he won't!" 
Janus glared at the side who'd made the gleeful remark. Oblivious, Remus continued. "Maybe he'll die and we will have to chop his corpse into tiny pieces so we can eat him!" 
"Why would we eat--", Virgil cut himself off. "Nevermind."
The anxious side cast a glance towards Patton who was still in Janus' arms, worriedly clinging to the serpent. With a sigh he said: "C'mon Remus, I've got something I wanna show you."
The duke's brain didn't seem capable of reacting to that statement. He stared at Virgil dumbly for a few seconds before letting out a single: "Huh?" 
"Well, come on.", Virgil repeated, already halfway out the room. "I gotta show you something."
A single glance was exchanged between Janus and Remus, the former nodding encouragingly. That was all the duke needed to run after the anxious side, ecstatic yelling following after him. 
Seconds later Logan appeared in the doorway, a steaming bowl of, presumably, soup, as well as a glass of water in his hands. 
The items were quickly placed on Roman's nightstand. 
Before Logan could leave the room again, Patton got to his feet, wiping at his eyes. 
Janus was glad the fatherly side let go of him and stretched his arms before retracting the extra ones. 
"Wait, Lo!", Patton cried, quietly. "Will Roman be okay…?" 
Logan turned around and Janus saw him smile for the first time. 
"He will be.", the logical side promised. 
The truth tasted like honey in the air and Janus nodded when Patton turned to him, a question in his gaze. 
His shoulders sagged in relief. 
"To properly regenerate we should, however, leave him to rest.", the logical side added. 
Patton nodded. "Of course."
Together the two of them left. Janus was about to follow them when he felt another tug at his sleeve, much weaker this time.
The hand twisting the fabric of his shirt was pale and belonged to none other than Roman. The sick side looked up at him pleadingly. 
"Stay…?", he asked, voice weak and so, so quiet. 
The serpent smiled, conjuring a chair for himself. "Always.", he reassured the other and sat down. 
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hippychick006 · 4 years
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15.10: The Heroes Journey - Episode Review/Recap
Haven’t done one of these for a while, but I really wanted to watch this episode. I’ve seen mixed feedback on it and wanted to put down my own thoughts. As always, due to it being show critical, it’s under a cut. Everyone looking for positivity, zero criticism, rainbows and puppies can scroll on by.
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I’ve seen Hellers moan about what the “bibros” issue with this episode is, given that the brothers are together so what have we to complain about? And if nothing sums up the Hellers more, it’s that mentality. Castiel doesn’t even have to be in the same episode and they are still happy because apparently, Castiel was a lamp in this episode. I mean, how dare I be so entitled to have higher standards than just having them finally be in the same episode and working on the same case. How dare I expect that the episode actually be… gasp…good.
I’ve also seen other people try to say (with no supporting evidence whatsoever by the way) that The Heroes Journey is the same as Bad Day at Black Rock (BDABR) or Yellow Fever. You are free to say this all you want and you’d still be wrong. It isn’t the same in any way, shape or form. It’s so much not the same and that is why you’re seeing criticism and not because people just don’t like Dabb. The Heroes Journey is a bad writer’s attempt at trying to write an episode like BDABR and they failed. They. Are. Not. The. Fucking. Same!
In BDABR, and Yellow Fever, both episodes had a very well explained reason within the episode for why Sam (in BDABR) and Dean (in Yellow Fever) were acting the way they were. This is why within the context of that episode, you could suspend disbelief that Dean was scared because the ghost sickness made him that way. You could accept Sam trip over the lamp because losing the rabbit’s foot made him unlucky. French Mistake, another meta episode, was funny because Sam and Dean were fish out of water. I still laugh at the scene where Dean stabs Sam with the fake knife or they have to act and they are terrible at it. It was very clever writing and everything that happened made sense within the clearly defined context of the episode. That clear definition is what made it funny and more importantly, the humour wasn’t done at either of the Winchester or audiences’ expense.
In The Heroes Journey, it wasn’t explained in the episode, it was guessed at by Dean and Garth, but they didn’t really get to the bottom of it, which left a lot of holes for me in trying to understand the “rules” of the game being played. I could give the benefit of the doubt it will get explained in an upcoming episode, but likely not as it’s Dabb and he’s a lazy fucker that doesn’t care if things like this get tied up.  He just relies on people to try to make sense of things themselves which I’ve seen plenty of people rush to do. However, I don’t want meta or speculation to fill in the gaps to justify something that happens, particularly when the entire episode revolves around it. I want the writing to be decent in the first place so no one has to do that.
Overall, although not the worst episode ever, The Heroes Journey just doesn’t make sense to me. And I’ll try to break down where it works and where it fails.
From a positive perspective, I thought the settings, lighting, make-up, choice of camera angles, the filming techniques used, the editing, the casting of the key guest stars etc. were all good. I thought the episode was let down by some of the choices of the music, but in fairness I’ve felt the music choices in the later seasons of supernatural have been questionable and overpower the scene rather than compliment it, which is what music should do. Going scene by scene;
Cage Fight Scene
In addition to great setting, lighting etc. I liked the choice of camera angles and the mix of slo mo with live action. I liked the sound going between being laser focused on the fight and widening out to encompass the crowd. I thought it was used to very good effect. I thought both guest actors and the extras were great, and in contrast to the previous episode, they did the fake teeth very well and that may also have been down to the actor himself. I absolutely love piano music, but I didn’t get the use of it here, it did not work in the context of the scene (or that particular music did not work and maybe another piano piece would have). Overall though, I liked this scene and watched it a couple of times to do it justice. We’re currently at the 3 minute mark and I’ve been happily entertained without Sam or Dean in sight. I don’t need Sam and/or Dean to be in a scene to enjoy it as long as it’s well done and fits within the overall plot so great job show on this scene.  👍  
It goes downhill from here.
Dean shopping/Sam cooking Scene
After sobbing at the loss of cutie werewolf guy, we move on to a scene that alternates between Dean shopping in town and Sam in the bunker cooking (I accept the head-canon that this is for Dean’s birthday dinner 😍 so Wincest for the win).
Sometimes Supernatural doesn’t do switching back and forth between scenes very well, giving the viewer whiplash. I think they did okay here.
I really liked the shot through the window of baby being ticketed, I genuinely laughed that Dean didn’t notice. The only thing wrong with this scene so far, is that Chuck damn awful music. Bad choice and is starting to annoy.
So in this scene, we see the first misfortune, and for every misfortune we see in the episode, I’m going to consider two key questions; 1) Were they hit with the stupid stick, 2) Is it believable that the misfortune has not happened before.
Misfortune #1 – baby being ticketed. 
Was Dean hit by the stupid stick to make this misfortune work? No. 
 Is it believable that the misfortune has not happened before? I think the episode managed to show that okay so, Yes.
We go with the annoying music over to Sam. Sam’s cooking which honestly, he’s 6’ 4” of beautiful perfection already and he can cook using more than one pot? 😍. Or maybe not as the smoke alarm is going off and the water is in danger of boiling over.
We switch back to Dean at the store and I love the interaction with the clerk. Again I genuinely laughed. Dean: What’s new? Clerk (scratching his face): my psoriasis is back. Dean: Oh… Dean’s face here. 😂. He really didn’t want to know. The clerk was not following the protocols of polite conversation with people that are not strangers but not friends either. But what I love about this scene is that it shows Dean (and Sam) are know well enough in the town that they get the locals genuinely thinking they are interested in them and they really are not. This is small towns for you.
Sam uses his hands to take whatever that burning thing is out of the hot oven (I’ve seen people say a roast of some sort, but I’m thinking more likely garlic bread to go with the pasta, but I didn’t see it clearly enough on my screen to be sure). Unsurprisingly, Sam burns his hands.
Misfortune #2 – Sam burns his hands
Was Sam hit by the stupid stick to make this misfortune work? Yes, because it relies on Sam being dumb, and if you really think Sam doesn’t know to grab at the very least a dish towel instead of using his hands, you’ve got a far lower opinion of Sam than I have. This misfortune is not believable so it’s not funny.
Is it believable that the misfortune has not happened before? It’s 100% likely this misfortune hasn’t happened after Sam reached the age of 2. 🙄
Back with Dean and I think he cracked a tooth on the candy bar he was eating. He hands over a credit card which seems to repeatedly fail.
Misfortune #3 – Dean has toothache
Was he hit with the stupid stick for this misfortune? No.
Is it believable that this has not happened before. Not really, our teeth can be okay right up until they aren’t. It’s easy to crack a failing tooth on a hard piece of candy. What makes this scene funny for me though is the fact that despite the pain Dean’s obviously in, he still tries to eat the candy bar. That was funny and I have no issue with this scene. But we’ll come back to the teeth thing later.
Back with Sam who is so fucking dumb and obviously learned nothing from touching hot metal only seconds before… because he once again touches hot metal and drops the pasta pot on the floor, Dean’s birthday pasta dinner is now in ruins. Ha ha, how I laughed and laughed at this scene… not really.
Misfortune #4 – Sam picks up metal pot and burns himself again
Does it rely on Sam being hit with the stupid stick? Yes, it’s not funny.
Is it believable this hasn’t happened before? I’ve covered this, Sam isn’t stupid show!
Back with Dean, and the credit card gets declined and Dean’s groceries get taken away, including his beer and partially eaten candy bar.
Misfortune #5 – credit card declined
Does this misfortune rely on Dean being hit with the stupid stick? No, it’s an external factor, and believable.
Is it believable that the misfortune has not happened before? Yes, The episode covers this in conversation between Sam and Dean, this has not happened before and should not have happened.
Dean leaves the store and almost gets run over by a skateboarder (not slapped by stupid stick but not convinced something similar hasn’t happened before, they kept bumping into that girl in the street in mystery spot and I’m sure there’s other instances if I bothered to go looking). Dean’s reaction when he discovers baby has been ticketed though. Funny 😂
Back with Sam and he’s still in the kitchen looking at the ruined pasta when Dean returns, and we’ll “suspend disbelief” that time works in that way. Anyway, show is immediately forgiven as I get not one, but two SAMMEH’s to placate me. This show is awesome (not really).
Sam runs to Dean, because they’ve probably been separated all of twenty minutes by this point (less if Dean teleported both there and back). Sam trips and the jury’s out on this one.
Misfortune #6 – Sam tripping
Does it rely on Sam being slapped with the stupid stick? Somewhat, he’s not in control of his limbs and this is verging into not believable territory for me. I’ve seen someone else say his grace has been taken, but let’s look at the second question
Is it believable that the misfortune has not happened before? No, Sam has tripped before. He broke his wrist in season 2 tripping while running ffs. He broke his arm as a kid jumping off of something. If I could be bothered, I’d go looking for other instances – e.g. off the top of my head he wasn’t very stable on his feet when they came through the portal to the AU world. So this misfortune doesn’t work for me in what they are trying to show within the episode.
Anyway, Dean explains about the parking ticket, and it’s clear Sam’s warned him about parking there so Dean’s lucky not to have been ticketed before now. He tells Sam that the fake credit card Charlie hacked for them got declined. (I’m presuming Charlie as opposed to her AU doppelgänger). I like the explanation of how they’ve been getting money as I know some people always wondered, and unlike Dabb attempting to explain other things badly *cough* Sam hating Halloween *cough*, he doesn’t really fuck this one up. As an aside, I don’t mind Charlie is a character that has computer skills, I do mind that Sam’s own hacking skills were watered down needlessly and that took away one of Sam’s core skills. Anyway, before I get too bitter, we’ll move on…
Sam sneezes and I think using his sleeve is such a Jared thing to do, rather than sam. It’s cute though, I’ll let it slide.
Misfortune #7 – Sam gets ill
Does Sam being sick rely on him being slapped with the stupid stick? No
Is it believable that it has not happened before? No, I just don’t buy he’s never been sick and don’t think this is backed up in the show. In fact in 8.21, The Great Escapist, Dean brings a trials sick Sam food and says: “Alright, here we go. John Winchester's famous cure-all kitchen sink stew. There you go. Enough cayenne pepper in there to burn your lips off, just like Dad used to make.” Why would John Winchester have a cure all stew if they are never Ill from normal human things (I’m aware trials sick Sam isn’t a normal illness doesn’t count). But no, I don’t believe they were never sick before now.
In summary of all of this, I think the issues that happened to Dean work reasonably well. They are factors that don’t require Dean to forget basic things like hot metal = burny fingers. My two year old understood this and Sam can’t? Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense. So Sam’s misfortunes don’t work for me as they rely on Sam being a complete dumbass or me suspending belief that the Winchesters have never had an injury or been ill when I’ve watched the show and seen that they both have. It just illustrates what in theory could have been a good concept, but it’s poorly executed through lazy writing and poor characterisation. In short, Dabb at his finest. He wants something to happen and doesn’t care about the character to make it happen.
Anyway, Garth’s call saves me and you from further ranting, and he needs their help, and given he’s a werewolf, I think it’s safe to say that he’s our connection to the opening scene so nice tie in.
Driving to Garth’s Scene
On the drive to Garth’s, we get a broment in the car, Dean speculates they are cursed, Sam thinks they are just having a bad day, and from what I’ve seen so far, I agree with Sam. But Dean doesn’t think any of this is normal. Sam continues to sneeze while the piano music continues to annoy intermittently.
Cass mention! Thank fuck. I thought we were going to get through one episode without the obligatory mention of him off doing something completely useless that we don’t care about, but no, got to keep his psychotic fans happy at the expense of the rest of the audience that don’t give a fuck and are wondering what happened to their beautiful, beautiful show and why that weird guy in the trenchcoat keeps getting mentioned these days. 🙄
Sam’s still not convinced they aren’t dealing with normal things, but baby takes that moment to break down. I love Dean talking to baby here. Been there Dean, out in the middle of the arse end of nowhere, in the middle of the night and you break down. I like this scene.
Misfortune #8 – baby breaking down
Does baby breaking down rely on Dean being slapped with the stupid stick? No.
Is it believable that it hasn’t happened before? I can believe that baby breaking down is unusual as Dean has been shown to keep her in tip top condition with regular maintenance. I even remember the quote from John way back in season 1 that he wouldn’t have given Dean the car if he wasn’t going to take care of her, so Dean looks after that car. But baby breaking down never happened before? Not believable, I remember Dean teaching Sam car maintenance in an episode in season 3 and he certainly seemed to be repairing baby at the side of the road, so it’s not a believable misfortune for me.
Mechanic!Dean who built baby up from scratch in early season 2, doesn’t even take a look under the hood? They just start walking and leave her. I have safety concerns if nothing else. Do you guys not have hazard lights? Piano music is still annoying.
At Garth’s house Scene
The boys arrive at Garth’s house and yeah, Garth is friend/family, so close in fact that they don’t even know that Garth had more kids? I mean if they are selling friends/family don’t end in blood narrative, surely this would have made it on to Sam’s hunter newsletter? It’s just… not believable they wouldn’t already know this, but again sums up the writing.  Friends when they want them to be, never mentioned in between times.
I think the bit where Garth tells Sam he named the kid after him is funny because of Sam’s reaction, but then we get:
Dean: that means this one must be…
Garth: …Castiel
I’m supposed to laugh right? Har de har. 🙄 This line is funny only if you don’t bother to look beneath the surface. It’s a cheap joke at the expense of character I personally don’t see a character like Garth doing something like this and he would know how shitty it was to do that. I also want to point out that this is the second instance - so far - that if Castiel had been killed off when he should have been, these 2 pandering references and jokes at Dean’s expense wouldn’t have been in the script. Just saying; a lot of the reason for poor writing is inserting the waste of space into the narrative to placate his fans, so he not only ruins the scenes he’s in, he ruins a scene even when he isn’t in it.  Stop. The. Fucking. Pandering!
Oh cutie werewolf is okay. I’m so glad. I like the concept of this episode, bringing down a monster fight club. And as I mentioned before in another post, having Sam and Dean forced to take part in that fight club? Yeah, that would have been awesome. Sign me the fuck up for that episode. Why didn’t they write that? 
We leave sleeping beauty after Dean has cracked his tooth yet again on more food. Sam’s still sneezing, but Garth’s wife, Bess, has something to help.
Meanwhile, Garth talks to Dean about how happy he is, I’m hoping that we’re seeing Garth in a normal and happy life as a reminder to the Winchesters that while it works for some people, it’s not something they want anymore. They are happy with the way things are. Supernatural has been great for breaking the barriers that not everyone wants a romantic life partner, not everyone wants children and I’ve applauded their stance. To fuck that up now, after 15 seasons, and force the cheesy narrative that “everybody needs a partner and 2.4 kids in order to be happy”, I’ll be seriously pissed.
I’m okay that Garth was studying to be a dentist before becoming a hunter and finished his degree when he semi retired. I don’t think it’s out of the blue and unrealistic, unlike making Charlie a super duper hunter on the basis of reading books or Claire the best hunter eva without any real training. I also think from memory of Madison etc. that werewolves are naturally stronger than humans, so in theory Garth could manhandle Dean in the way he did. However, I’d caution that it isn’t good dental practice to force your patients to have surgery against their will.
We go between Sam and Dean again and I’m still not getting whiplash so it’s okay. Sam’s been given a secret cure for his cold which he downs in one. Turns out the main ingredient was cayenne. The little girl watches Sam in pain: “Mummy, the giant’s crying”. I’ll let this one slide. I don’t get references to “giant” and Sasquatch, he’s tall but not extremely so imo.
Sam licking his sleeve – which he sneezed all over earlier - I’m dying. 😂
Dean suddenly has 17 cavities? Again, this is played for the joke, and I’m not a dentist, but his teeth looked perfectly fine on the bottom row and we only have 28 teeth to start with, unless the wisdom teeth come in okay. In the context of the episode, is this believable? For me, no. They should just have stuck with a couple of cavities and there’s no way Dean (and Sam) have the teeth they do without visiting a dentist regularly. I’m really not buying that the Winchesters are not normal people with normal people problems. Dabb completely failed to sell this as realistic to me. I’m not interested in the premise either. It’s dumb and has the potential to ruin the concept of the entire show, which Dabb is more than capable of being incompetent enough to do.
Is gas still allowed? Wow, no, fuck that, fully sedate me. Thank you.
“Big Sam is okay” says big Sam as he’s rolling about the floor still in pain. Still funny.
Okay, Dean’s being put to sleep with the gas and wait, what?! I had to double check google to confirm that this is not realistic. I may not be a dentist, but I know Nitrous oxide does not knock you out or put you to sleep – which is the whole point of having it as opposed to sedation. You remain conscious and responsive at all times and you do not dream. Only sedation knocks you out (which I’ve had) and only rarely has a patient said they dreamed while under sedation (I’ve had it a few times and never once dreamed, you go to sleep and wake up and it’s as if you’ve lost time, it feels like no time has passed between going to sleep and waking up). But why bother doing research when you can still just collect your pay check, quality be damned! Right? Dabb wanted Dean to have a weird dream sequence and a weird dream sequence is what he was going to have!  And fuck anyone that expects a writer to do some god damn fucking research!  And don't come back at me because Kripke was as much an idiot with him not knowing how long you go to college for.  
Realism aside, I love the setting, I love the black and white, I love the lighting, I love that Jensen (and DJ) got the routine because this could have been a complete wirework part deux fiasco. I love that Jensen seems to be able to rise to anything thrown at him. I love his look at the end. Honestly, he is one sexy man. But… at the end of the day, I don’t think this scene worked for me. Would I rather have had a scene of Sam or Dean forced to fight monsters in the cage fight, yes please, sign me the fuck up. But Jensen did a great job with what he was asked to do so I can’t criticise him. I will criticise that they expected only 2 rehearsals to be enough and as I said before, this answers the wirework fiasco where actors train for months if wirework is involved.
One tap dance later and we’re back with Garth, and Dean’s mouth and face here. 😂
Garth twigs there’s something wrong and asks who they pissed off.
Sam shrugs: God
Okay, I do like when Garth asks if Sam and Dean are the heroes of the story, what does that make him, supporting character or special guest star? I use the term “side character” Garth for your future reference. Garth thinks for the first time in their lives that they are having “normal” people problems and I really, really, really do not buy that for several reasons.
Firstly, this whole episode relies on the premise that the Winchesters are not normal people who deal with normal problems, and that… just isn’t true. Sam’s broken bones at least 3 times, Dean’s broken his leg at least once, I don’t believe they’ve never been ill before and with the teeth they have, I don’t believe they don’t regularly visit a dentist. Going along with that premise just doesn’t work for me and means the episode and what happens within it was flawed from the start and I can’t suspend my disbelief and enjoy it because of the poor job they did setting this up. Sorry.
Secondly, I really, really, really don’t like the implication of what they are trying to say with this. Basically, the reason the Winchesters have been able to do what they’ve done is solely because of Chuck? They are able to fight only because of Chuck and not the years of practice and practical application in fighting monsters since before they reached double digits, Is that really the trash dumpster fire you’re trying to sell me here? Because I ain’t buying. That sounds like a terrible show that I’d be a little pissed at investing 15 years of my life watching.
Anyway, Cutie pie wakes up. Sam’s puppy dog eyes fail with him. This is not a drill, the puppy eyes fail, which get the fuck out, Sam is cute. He looks devastated. Bess is a stand in for Sam girls at this point, digging her fingernails into the werewolf formely known as cutie’s injury. Yeah, dickhead, you don’t fuck with Sam Winchester and not have us come after you. Anyway, Bess gets the location of the monster fight club and Sam and Dean are on the road.
Driving to fight club Scene
Love the shots of baby in this episode, and it’s clear that Dean at least still knows how to fix baby, so it’s only Sam that’s been made to look a twat in this episode. Good to know he’s not deserving of them putting any effort in. I suppose I should be grateful he’s not been knocked unconscious yet (yes, sometimes my bitter Sam girl can’t help but rise up in outrage).
Dean and Sam drive up to where the cage fights take place. This music is better. What the fuck Jensen, your Texan is showing in this scene. I can barely understand you. I like how Sam wants to prepare for anything when they get inside and Dean once again grabs the grenade launcher.
Dean eating sloppily, that never gets old, except when it does because Dean never ate sloppily before Tall Tales and its only funny in Tall Tales, because it’s Sam’s exaggeration of him.🙄
Inside Fight club Scene
Ah Sam’s been slapped with the stupid stick again. Ha ha. Seriously? I’m not even going to cover this, see misfortune #6 🙄
Dean’s lactose intolerant now, or he may just have overeaten on the cheese sandwiches. Since this isn’t making Dean incompetent, I can believe this is an external influence. I can also believe that Dean rarely, if ever vomits from food so it’s a believable misfortune.
I spoke too soon on Sam being knocked unconscious. 🙄 I think the thud we hear when Dean is throwing up in the toilet is Sam being knocked out. I’d say it serves them right as the two have never looked less like hunters, hollering all over the place, not being quiet and not being weapons ready. Is this incompetence more of Chuck’s “influence”? Really? I’m not buying this is logical. It’s stupid and not believable and I’m getting 😡
Now we have the funniest line of this episode, if not the entire series. Sam: I can’t believe they got the drop on me.” Considering Samsel in distress gets knocked out fairly frequently, someone is deliberately taking the piss with this line.
I like the scene between the brothers and the owner of the fight ring. Dean (to the shifter): Shifter? So you chose that face?! I can’t. 😂. This is a funny line, ditch the Cass pandering bull and come up with lines like this.
I absolutely love the promo scenes for the upcoming fights and the use of their mug shots for the Winchesters. Monday Monster Mayhem. This is my new show. Get me 22 episodes, stat!
How stupid are they separating the brothers into different cages? Don’t they know that just pisses them off? Saving grace is they can see each other so neither is panicking just yet.
Dean finds something to try to pick the lock. He can’t do it and it’s over to Sam who… also can’t do it. And this is where I disconnect again. Sam and Dean were trained, picking a lock for them isn’t “luck”, it’s nothing to do with reduced to being “normal”. Picking a lock for them is the equivalent of driving a car for anyone else,. It’s a skill that once learned, shouldn’t be something difficult for them, it’s inherent within them. But Dean broke a nail trying, ha ha 🙄
Was that speech supposed to be inspiring, because it was pretty bad. 😬 I’m not even going to cover it. We’ve heard a variation of it alternating between Sam and Dean every episode (depending on whose turn it is to lose faith this week) and it’s getting boring.
No surprise to learn that Dabb was trolling with the shirts off comment. Shocker. When the shifter goes to get Sam and Dean from their cages for their upcoming fight with a vamp, they’ve disappeared. We rewind to find out how Sam and Dean achieved their great escape. Once again, I like how this scene is shot. I also like the music most of the time in this scene. I like Dean saying “He’s so strong” (about Garth) but no Hellers, he’s still not bi.
Contrary to what some people think, I’m not averse to the Winchesters having help. They’ve had help throughout the series. Bobby in Yellow Fever came to the rescue. Ellen and Jo helped in the hellhound episode (and paid with their lives) so no issue. My two caveats are: a) is it feasible for the helper to have those skills and b) were the boys dumbed down to make the helper look good. I think feasibly Garth has the skills for sure, but the Winchesters were slapped with the stupid stick in not being able to pick a lock so it’s another fail for me. 
Okay, did Garth just blow up all the monsters, including ones that may have been there against their will or like his wife’s cousin, were just trying to make some money? I mean were they really doing any harm, monsters fighting monsters? If they are watching each other and killing each other, and therefore not killing humans then isn’t that a good thing?
Oh, looks like I’m getting my fight scene! Bring it. Wait, what is with this fucking music in this scene, is this a cartoon? Dean apparently can still fight, he scores a direct hit in the vamps balls. Sadly, it makes no difference because for some reason the vamp has balls of steel and Dean gets kicked right back in his and he’s out.
It’s Sammy’s turn and unfortunately, Sam was slapped again with the stupid stick this episode, he’s swinging and missing and that boy has never had a single sparring session in his life and he gets punched in the face.  Should have complained less and listened to John more Sammy, you might even have been able to fight by now.
I’ve no idea what Dean is doing now, he’s finally been slapped with the stupid stick – Yay? I guess? Never seen him do this stupid move before and I pray to Chuck and all the deities that I never have to be forced to see it again because what the actual fuck are they going with here? No seriously? It’s not remotely funny, it’s a caricature.
Thankfully he’s head-butted before I have to endure more, and rooting for the monster of the week is a new one on me, but here we are.
Sam “I haven’t been in training from a very young age” Winchester is back up. He goes for a kick and is flipped over. Trying not to be distracted by the padabooty writhing on the floor again this episode – and damn you Dabb for knowing what I like - Dean’s back up. It makes a change for Dean to be getting strangled, I’ll give them that. I also like how he tries to tap out and the vamp just allows it. It’s dumb, but actually funny so it gets a pass.
Oh thank goodness, Garth to the rescue… again, because I cannot with how terrible this entire scene was. Is it believable that the Winchesters who trained for years just can’t fight any more and that’s part of the “bad luck”? Fuck no, it’s insulting I had to watch this nonsense.
Back at Garths Scene
Dean (holding one baby): “This Cass keeps looking at me weird.” Sam (holding the other baby): “so kind of like the real Cass”. Another pandering line that is unnecessary. If only Cass had stayed dead we wouldn’t have to endure these forced unfunny lines 😔
Garth suggests they go to a place in Alaska he’s heard about that might help with their “bad luck”.
Love the use of Werewolves of London, decent music for a change. Garth dancing with Bess is sweet. I’m not sure by Sam’s look whether he’s wishful thinking. I didn’t get that impression at all through the episode until now. I really hope not. Dean definitely doesn’t seem interested in having normal.
There’s a broment in the car at the end talking about normal and that they are not normal.
In terms of revolving side characters, Garth’s character is one I can take or leave. If his character had been ruined, it wouldn’t bother me as much as what they did with Gabriel. However, they didn’t ruin his character and I’m glad he’s a hunter that got a happy ending.   
In summary, my annoyance with parts of the episode have nothing to do with it being a Dabb episode and everything to do with it being an interesting premise, once again poorly executed due to lack of talent. I’ll stick with BDABR, Yellow Fever and French Mistake.
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psychadelickate · 5 years
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House MD - House: Dad
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Title: Dad Word Count: 1452 Fandom: House MD Pairing: None Characters: House. readerDaughter Rating: Teen Gif: Not Mine Requested: Anonymous Prompt: Okay i have a request for House Md. Could you please write something about being Houses daughter?
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You’re seated at the last booth in the coffee shop. At this late hour, the place is empty, leaving your favorite seat unoccupied. Your table is littered with books and papers and your iPad is somewhere in the mess, but it doesn’t concern you right now. What does, is the Jane’s expression as she walks up to your booth. “(Y/N), the usual?” she asks and you nod your head. You’ve been coming to this place ever since you can remember, Jane coming to get you when your dad couldn’t. Jane is tall, dark haired, loud, warm and brown eyed and though she looks nothing like you, people often mistake her for your mom.  “How about you, honey?” she asks your best friend, who simply smiles at Jane and tells her she’s good with anything.  You both go back to the assignment due the next week after Jane leaves the two of you at the table. Both of you immersed in the files, you only look up when a gaggle of women enter the coffee shop and settle at the table closest to you.  They’re all well dressed, composed and older and you don’t need to guess they’re doctors here for the conference.  “So, what’s it feel like to be back in Princeton?” you hear one of the women ask another and you resist the urge to look up and eyeball them.  “It’s different,” comes the reply.  “And how do you think he’s going to react when he sees you’re in town?” comes the next question.  You guess she shrugs in answer because there’s no verbal one.  “Do you really think House has changed? He’s a drug addict. Brilliant and world renowned, there’s no getaway from that, but still a drug addict,” comes another voice and this time you feel your face flame. 
“And let’s not forget the kid that he got dumped with. Drug addicted father, mother who abandoned her. Who knows how she’s turned out?”  It’s too much for you to hear, and so you pack up your stuff with not much care. The world around you blurs for a second though it clears when you blink, but blurs up soon after and it takes you a little while to realise you’re silently crying.  You heave your backpack and walk out just as Jane walks to the table, plates in hand. You don’t have the strength or heart to tell her what you’ve just heard. You’re not sure where you want to go, but you find yourself on the forth floor of PPTH, walking toward your dad’s office. He’s in the middle of a diagnosing session with his ducklings but he sees you through the window and stops the session when he sees your expression.  He looks mutinous.  “Who,” he asks and you know he wants to know who’s responsible for the tear-tracks on your cheeks.  You look at the man before you, take him in, and you can’t equate him with the person those vile women were describing at the coffee shop.  Sure, your dad has pain issues with his leg; he’s never hidden that from you and with Uncle Wilson’s help he’s been able to manage the pain, somewhat. Yes, some days are worse than others, but you’ve never seen him popping pain pills, or injecting himself with opioids to forget about his pain.  What you see when you look at the man looking back at you is your dad. Your hero… Uncle Wilson often told you that you were the reason your dad become such a party-pooper and you always laughed it off but now… now you’re thinking about it.  Chase had talked about poker nights at the apartment, but you don’t remember living in an apartment and all the pictures of you since you were born were taken at the house you and your dad currently live in. Poker nights moved to your new home and boys nights decreased. You often heard Chase and Wilson complaining that your dad never joined them, but House always told you it was because he wanted to spend time with people he actually liked… Despite his leg pain, your dad was the one who taught you to ride a bike, without the training wheels. He was the one who cleaned and treated bruised and bloodied knees. He’d been the one to calm you down when you’d fractured your wrist falling off the monkey bars in the fifth grade and assured you it was fine to get a sky blue hard cast even though the nurse tried convincing you blue was for boys. Cooking, baking cupcakes, piano and guitar lessons were quality time he made available for you.  He was also the one who terrorised your dates if he didn’t like them, and to his credit, he was correct about ninety-five percent of the boys and thirty percent of the girls. You loved that he grilled them endlessly about their intentions toward with and with you, even though you made a show of protesting his behaviour in front of said dates. Your interest and love for medicine came from him. He was always explaining things to you, making learning as exciting he could for you and appreciated it. There was nothing your dad didn’t know or couldn’t do… “(Y/N),” you hear him call you though before you can answer his phone starts to ring.  You see the screen light up with Jane’s picture and you have no doubt she’s relating the coffee shop events to him… His expression changes from concerned to furious as Jane talks and you’re grateful his attention is off you for a few minutes.  The sound of heels clacking on the vinyl flooring gets your attention and you turn to see one of the women from the coffee shop walking toward your dad’s office.  The silence at her presence is deafening. Your dad’s ducklings have stopped quarrelling at are looking in shock at the woman. You’re clearly missing something here and its obviously something big.  “House,” she greets, but your dad is livid. You don’t have to hear his voice to know it, you can see it in his eyes.  “You need to leave,” he tells her and you note he hasn’t addressed her by name. Your dad’s anger doesn’t scare her and she continues talking as though he never asked her to leave.  “I want to see her,” the woman says.  “No.” There’s no explanation or reason.  “She’s mine too,” the woman says and the anger that your dad has been holding in blows out.  “Yours? Yours? Are you kidding me? You left her when she was three days old. Couldn’t wait to leave her on my doorstep because you didn’t want to have kids with a drug addict. And you needed to focus on your career. If she’s yours too, where were you when she had fevers that wouldn’t break for days, or when she cut her first tooth, or when she took her first steps or even said her first word? Where were you in the first grade when she had to do an oral presentation about her mother and she had no idea what to say, because she doesn’t know what having a mother feels like,” House is on a roll.  “You weren’t there!” he booms. “House,” the woman tries, but he’s done.  “For fifteen years you’ve missed every one of her milestones, every important event in her life, so no, you don’t get to meet her. She might have biologically inherited some genes from you, but everything else comes from me. She’s mine,” you hear your dad say.  And then just as suddenly as it started you see the fight leave your dad. He looks exhausted and older than he really is.  “Actually, she’s old enough to make her own choices so (Y/N) if you want to meet your mother and spend time with her, that’s up to you,” he tells you.  You, however, have no intention of doing so. Not when wounds are so raw and she’s hurt your dad so badly.  “I think you need to leave. And you can tell your posse of friends my dad isn’t a drug addict,” you tell her as you walk to your dad and hold onto his forearm.  He’s been your one constant in life and you’re not letting go of him anytime soon. Not for anything.  “It’s always been dad and I and I’m okay with that. We’ve done okay without you for fifteen years…” you don’t need to complete your sentence, she gets the meaning of it.  Your heart hurts at the sight of tears in her eyes, but you stay strong. That’s the most important lesson you’ve learnt from your dad…
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mtvswatches · 4 years
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Friends 1x23 The One With The Birth
In a nutshell: Ross and Susan fight over who loves the baby the most and Phoebe teaches them a lesson. Monica is having a breakdown over the fact she is neither married nor a mother. Rachel tries to get a date with a doctor. Joey helps a single mom during labor.
Chandler: Chandler tries to comfort Monica by telling her that she will have a baby and that if neither of them is married by the time they’re forty, they can get married and have babies together. This was obviously not meant to be any kind of foreshadowing for these two but ended up being a great one nonetheless. Chandler ends up saving Monica from the hellish phone call with her mom and comforting her when she breaks down crying.
Joey: While in the waiting room, Joey meets a single lady who is in labor – played by Leah Remini – and who shares his love for basketball. He immediately jumps to help her. This is something that Joey doesn’t get enough credit for – for all his macho, womanizer bullshit, he’s also very sweet and caring, especially towards women. He stays in the room with her and even though she kicks him out when he asks her about the baby daddy, he uses the pretense of their opposing sports views to go back in and stay by her side. She finally has the baby, and when Joey is about to go back into the room to bring her some presents, he sees that the baby daddy finally showed up and decides to quietly leave. The first time watching, I thought this was going to be a Joey arc, but I guess the writers didn’t feel he was ready to date yet, let alone date a woman who had just had a baby. In any case, it allowed the character to have some depth, probably for the first time.
Monica:  Monica gets baby fever just by being in a hospital and seeing all the newborns and women in labor. Monica then snaps at Chandler when he implies that she might not be married by the time she’s forty, which I think has more to do with her own hang-ups than Chandler actually believing she’s not “marriage material.” Things get worse when she calls her mom and the always caring and sweet Judy tells her this “might be her only chance to see one of her grandkids be born.” Judy is the worst. Just pick up the sock and shut up, Judy. Monica finally has a very sweet moment with her nephew, but I feel like for all her obsession with babies she didn’t really have a close relationship with Ben. Am I the only one who feels that way?
Phoebe: Phoebe plays an amazing song which everyone should listen to before even considering having unprotected sex (watch here.) Phoebe finds Ross and Susan arguing and gets them inside a closet and scolds them for shouting while there are people around them trying to have babies. Of course, the three of them end up stuck in the closet. I guess Susan must have hated that. During their shouting duel, Phoebe points out that the baby is the luckiest baby in the whole world because he has three parents who are fighting over who loves him the most, and that certainly puts a damp on the whole fighting thing. Phoebe ends up donning a hospital worker’s jumpsuit to see if she can crawl through the vents, but gets left behind when a janitor opens the door. Apparently, she does end up crawling through the vents as she gets to see the baby’s birth. 
Rachel: Rachel meets Carol’s obstetrician and can I just say that I don’t get ladies who get huge boners for doctors? I feel it’s an American thing. Anyway, she even goes back to the apartment to change her outfit. Rachel is shown to have some serious daddy issues as Chandler questions her obsession with doctors and as it turns out, her father is a doctor himself. Rachel ends up staying next to Carol while she’s in labor, but only so that she can flirt with her doctor. After having invested all the day flirting with the doctor, he confesses he has problems having relationships with women because of his job – and tbh, I’ve used the “coffee” metaphor on multiple occasions to talk about my job.
Ross: Ross gets into a peeing contest with Susan over the stupidest things – like who has the best watch or who can bring Susan some ice chips first. Ross kind of loses it when Susan tells him that the baby will be named “Jordy.” No offense to all the Jordys of the world, but who calls their kid that? Anyway, Ross gets angry about the fact that he wasn’t even a part of the final decision, and I know that a lot of people give Ross a lot of flack for the way he antagonized Susan, but he was rightfully angry, okay? This is his kid, and he’s trying hard to be a part of his life, he is not a deadbeat father, he wants to be involved and it is his right. Granted, this was neither the time nor the place to have such an argument, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was right. Carol ends up kicking both of them out. Ross and Susan finally open up about their feelings regarding their roles in both Carol’s and the baby’s lives – Ross points out that he wanted to be by Carol’s side because he won’t get to go home with either her or the baby, while Susan confesses she feels insecure about her role in the baby’s life. After Carol has the baby, they all agree to call him Ben, inspired by Phoebe’s speech and the jumpsuit she wore.
Some after thoughts:
1) Does someone else think it made no sense for all the friends to be in the room with Carol while she was having the baby? I mean, I get that her parents were mad at her for the whole lesbian thing, but didn’t she have any close friends or family of her own that would be with her…?
2) I feel this is one of the first episodes that felt cohesive and relevant as a whole, with all the cast getting a relevant storyline and all of the plots being both entertaining and meaningful.
One Iconic Scene:
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shirtlesssammy · 5 years
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7x03 : The Girl Next Door
Then:
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A meme was born for many fans
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Dean Winchester is at Sioux Falls General getting his broken leg set and cast. Sam is getting an MRI due to potentially severe head trauma. Yeah, whatever is happening in Sam’s head isn’t going to show up on an MRI. Dean needs to get out of there but they dose him with a sedative. He wakes still at Sioux Falls General, groggy and determined to get the fuck out of there.
(Sidenote: Season 7 Grief Dean might be Peak Dean, guh
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In his attempt to escape, he falls out of bed. Bobby shows up and Dean can’t believe that he’s alive (Oh, Dean, hold on to that feeling). Bobby hands him his clothes and tells him to meet him at the ambulance bay. He’s going to find Sam.
While Dean makes his escape, Dr. Leviathan learns about the WInchesters. Bobby finds Sam and they make a mad dash to escape the leviathan on their asses. They make it just in time.
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Whitefish, Montana
Three Weeks Later
In a cabin in the woods, Sam’s busy reading books on lore and Dean’s busy watching telenovelas. Bobby comes in and Dean fills him in on what he’s missed (Ricardo. Suicidio.) I don’t know why I love this so much, but MY GOD DO I LOVE IT.
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Bobby fills the boys in on what’s been going on in the world. Leviathan are like shapeshifters and nothing can kill them. “Good times.” Sam has a brief dissociative moment, but grounds himself by pushing on his hand wound. Ugh. Lucifer. Bobby says that he’s going out to collect all the copies of books he had in his now burned down house. Dean kicks Sam out to get rations (Pie specifically). He wants to talk about Sam’s state of mind. Bobby doesn’t think there’s anything to worry about.
Sam’s at the local Gas ‘n Sip (I love the woodsy Gas ‘n Sip aesthetic. I’ve spent many a vacation in rural, woodsy areas and this would fit right in). He finds a newspaper with a headline about the “Ice Pick Killer Strikes Again” (Sam, your love of serial killers is showing), and then pays for his stuff with a credit card (Sam, your lack of street smarts is showing).
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That swipe alerted the leviathan as to where they are.
Sam gets back to the cabin (sans pie) and Bobby is gone. Dean asks how he’s doing and he admits that he’s still seeing things that aren’t there, but he’s managing.
Much later, after Dean’s passed out on the couch, Sam pulls out the paper to read it. We flash back to baby Sam talking to Dean on an ancient cell phone about a Kitsune. Present Sam heads out while Dean sleeps (Things of note: Dean ate some of the cake, there’s a slasher flick playing on the TV --oh, I think this was the movie Jensen was in.)
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In a shady part of the outskirts of town, a drug dealer is a gross, awful, and disgusting asshole to a local washout. Sirens blare and they both take off. As drug dealer man runs through a skate park, he’s attacked, blood oozing from his head.
Dean wakes the next morning to see the note Sam left him: “Back in a few days. I’m fine. Sam.” I mean, great, but Dean’s got a broken leg, what’s he going to do all alone? Oh, he calls Bobby (and drops a Rear Window reference. My heart. Also, my ass he hasn’t seen It’s a Wonderful Life. If he’s seen one Jimmy Stewart movie, he’s seen them all.) Bobby tells Dean to cool it and wait until he gets his cast off to hunt down Sam. (Uh, A) where are all these cars they need to drive coming from? B) How is Dean supposed to get to the doctor to remove his cast alone?)
Cut to Dean cutting his own cast off. (I should have known.)
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Sam’s busy investigating the Ice Pick Killer. All the victims are stabbed right behind the ear. Sam wonders if their brains are missing.
Dean heads to the local Gas ‘n Sip (where the attendant is watching Looney Tunes!) Dean asks about Sam and learns that he bought a newspaper.
At the morgue, Sam finds out that all the victims are missing their pituitary glands.
While at the library, Baby Sam discovers the Kitsune need pituitary glands to survive.
Adult Sam makes a murder board.
Baby Sam figures out that these murders are happening on the outskirts of town, one town at a time.
Adult Sam guesses where the next killing will happen.
Baby Sam gets his Triple Red Eye coffee and follows a girl back into the library. He’s not so subtle as he watches her in the library.
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Adult Sam sees someone pull up at the abandoned park he’s staking out.
Baby Sam finds books and love in the library stacks. He also tells Dean on the phone that to kill a Kitsune, “You stab it in the heart!” He gets a “shush” for that, which doesn’t necessarily warrant it but it is kind of disturbing to hear. Also, Sam asks Dean how to talk to girls. #Bless.
Sam approaches said girl - moderately awkwardly - and tries to say “hi.” She shuts him down immediately; she’s not supposed to talk to boys. She leaves the library and Sam watches two creepy teens trail her. He follows THEM and when they threaten her Sam (who has yet to hit his growth spurt) kicks their asses. Sam, meet Amy!
In the present, a woman walks through the woods. Sam trails her like a PANTHER.
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The woman approaches a drunk guy trying to get in his car and drive (what a lowlife) but Sam stops her and she turns, revealing her face. It’s Kaylee! I mean, Amy! His old library pal. “You got tall, huh?” she asks him. Flattery will get you nowhere, lady. Sam wants to know what she’s up to. She protests that she has a steady job, a mortgage, and a cat. And therefore she’s up to absolutely nothing shady in the woods at night.
In the past, Amy patches up Baby Sam after his fight. She grabs a cool drink from the totally normal fridge. They bond over moving around the country.
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Present Amy begs Sam for mercy. She’s not a murderer, she’s desperate. When he hesitates, she knocks him out. (Ticks another check on the ol’ Sam brain injury chart.)
Dean, meanwhile, is busy following in Sam’s footsteps. At the morgue, he examines the dealer’s body for clues and the morgue attendant clues him in on the missing pituitary glands. Now he knows that they’re hunting a kitsune.
For Pidgeon-Cam Dean Science:
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Amy frantically goes through her house, hiding family photos and packing, when Sam shows up in her bedroom like some murdery Edward Cullen.
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She’s got fresh blood on her hand, indicating that she’s killed while on her way back to her house. Sam tells her that he’s going to have to kill her. Once again, she implores for him to remember her in the past.
Baby Sam spills a drink and in the flurry to clean it up, we learn that both their parents have bad tempers. “You don’t want to see [my dad] when he’s drinking,” Sam reveals. YIKES EMOJI. Sam insists that she’s a good person - he can just tell.
Present Amy shows Sam why she’s killing - she has a son.
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Her kid got sick and the dead people’s pituitary glands she gets from her mortician job weren’t enough to help him. She needed live glands to help him get better. She swears up, down, and sideways that she’s done killing now that his fever has broken. She reminds Sam of something she’d done in the past for him….
Flashback. Amy’s mom bursts in and Baby Sam hides while she begins to pack up. Some hunters in an Impala have tracked her down and it’s time to blow town fast. Her mom heads out again to gas up the van while Amy vows to pack. Sam emerges with a knife, puts two and two together, and they learn the truth about each other. A family of hunters and a family of monsters! Ah, ill-fated young love.
Adult Sam heads for his motel room some indeterminate amount of time later and gets walloped in the face by big bro Dean.
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Dean, there are healthier ways to deal with your feelings. Dean’s pissed that Sam stole his car to go hunt on his own for a few days. Sam insists that the case is over and he, uh, let her go.
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In the past, Amy’s mom sniffs out Baby Sam. She tells her daughter that Sam’s food, not a friend.
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Baby Sam’s about to get his brains carved out when Amy stabs her mom from behind, killing her and saving Sam. Sam tells her to grab as much cash as she can and get on the first bus out of town.
Dean tries to wrap his head around Sam’s story. He insists that Sam’s thinking is messed up. To make it clear, Dean insists on monster bad. Human good. If she’s killing people, they have to kill her. Sam insists that it isn’t that simple. He’s a freak and so is Amy - but they’re managing their lives. “You don’t trust her...fine. Trust me.” Dean reluctantly agrees.
Sam and Dean blow town. In another town, Dean sends Sam into a motel office to get them booked and makes up an excuse to drive off on his own. He tracks Amy to her motel room.
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Dean confronts her. “People...they are who they are.” Dean paints her as a killer who will kill again someday - it’s only a matter of time. And then he stabs her. Her kid, Jacob, walks in to find Dean standing over his mother’s body. (This episode always wounds me because Dean is so messed up but determined that his judgment is the only one intact. This scene does such a great job of turning this vigilante hunter show into something brutal and incredibly tragic.)
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Dean interrogates Jacob and tells him that if he kills anyone, then Dean will kill him. There’s only one person Jacob plans to kill, and that’s Dean. (I’m still patiently waiting for Dabb to bring this story around again.)
In the convenience store where Sam and Dean bought newspapers, a leviathan updates the head office about his Winchester hunt right before he pours molten cheese over the desk clerk and eats him.
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Don’t Worry, Everything’s Quotey, Captain:
They still making spleenburgers?
Hey, look, a monster broke my leg
Do you see any other strange charges on your statement? The May 27th charge to "Mistress Magda," perhaps? Oh. Sorry for asking.
Where's the pie?
All the coolest people are freaks
I’ve been around enough bad to know good when I see it.
Plain old people taste fine, but everything is better... with cheese.
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Gabriella Wilde on the Poldark gender pay gap, pregnancy and how she came to terms with being posh  (The Telegraph)
The new series of Poldark gets off to a frankly preposterous start. After bitter complaints, last year, that there weren’t enough sightings of Aidan Turner’s incomparable - and highly controversial - torso), the writers have clearly decided to give the people what they want.
And who can blame them? In the opening scene of the fourth series, which airs tomorrow night, Ross Poldark finally has his Daniel Craig moment. Striding naked but for a pair of breeches from the sea, his abs glistening, he resembles an 18th century James Bond. And just like that, the nation will be hooked for another summer to this curious drama about a Cornish mining town.
The hysteria around Turner’s chest seems to reach such a fever pitch every year, with some chatter that the show has been eclipsed by fraught debates around whether or not it is acceptable for female viewers to openly ogle the actor. For Turner, it must all be getting a bit old by now, but for the rest of the cast, it’s an opportunity to gently poke fun at him.
“I mean I guess it’s what people want to see,” says Gabriella Wilde, 29, who plays Caroline Penvenen, the coquettish heiress who refuses to abide by 18th century codes of behaviour. “Poor Aidan, rather him than me!
“I do feel for him because it’s so talked about, and filming those scenes is probably awkward. I’m sure he’s being cheered at and the crew are making jokes,” she adds. “But if you’re going to do it you’ve got to laugh at yourself. It’s paying the bills.”
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Gabriella Wilde as Caroline Penvenen in Poldark Credit: Mammoth Screen
And, to be fair, he does rather ask for it. This week, Turner admitted to choosing a smaller horse to ride because it makes him look “bigger”, and said that his trousers have got tighter over his years in the role.
But as Wilde remarks: “Well, maybe he’s a very smart man”.
She holds no truck with allegations that fans “objectify” Turner, arguing it is “different” from the kind of attention women get. She calls the reaction to Turner’s appearance “more lightheartedness”, whereas “women have been forced into thinking it’s a currency they have to use to get ahead, or to get the job. For women it is so deeply ingrained and infects so many aspects of your life.”
Wilde perhaps has more authority on the matter than most, having modelled from 14, when she was “discovered” by style icon Isabella Blow, whom she met through a friend of her mother’s (more on her well-connected family later).
Soon after, she met Naomi Campbell, who insisted Wilde be introduced to her agency, Premier Model Management. She was immediately successful, modelling for Burberry among others, but turned her back on it four years later to pursue acting.
“I started working from a very young age,” she says. “I had my mother with me, but there were things that went on…” she pauses. “I was working on fashion campaigns that were very much for women and probably being sexualised in a way that I couldn’t comprehend yet myself.
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'I was working on fashion campaigns that were very much for women and probably being sexualised in a way that I couldn’t comprehend yet myself' Credit: Andrew Crowley
“I’ve definitely had experiences looking back that, umm… I don’t think were ok. But it was just the norm. What’s good now is that there’s a questioning of that”.
It seems to have given Wilde a thick skin. She is softly spoken, and distractingly beautiful, but possesses a steeliness. “A woman isn’t being ‘difficult’ if she’s trying to stand up for something that she needs,” she says.
She is proud of her co-star, Eleanor Tomlinson (who plays Poldark’s wide, Demelza), for recently addressing the programme’s gender pay gap, forcing producers to admit that Turner was paid more. “If she had said that a year ago, I think people would have been up in arms, or she might have got into trouble with production because of the way the industry is,” says Wilde. “She has every right to say that, and she has every right to ask for what she thinks she deserves.”
Wilde admits she wouldn’t necessarily risk broaching the subject herself - yet. “I think that every actress has to push themselves, even if they feel frightened” she says. “[But] I would still feel nervous to request that for fear of losing the job.”
When she first joined the cast, in series two, Wilde (who has two sons - Sasha, four, and Shiloh, two) had to tell producers she was pregnant. “I was very scared,” she concedes. “I thought I would lose the job. Now I would bowl in there a lot more boldly and say ‘I’m pregnant and don’t you dare try and fire me’.
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When she first joined the cast, in series two, Wilde (who has two sons - Sasha, four, and Shiloh, two) had to tell producers she was pregnant Credit: Andrew Crowley
She has, however, “had a really good experience. I was hugely supported and lucky - it was pre the MeToo movement and this great empowerment of women in our industry. They made it work, I was on set until I was eight and a half months pregnant. The costumes fitted around me.”
When Shiloh was born, he came to the set, as Wilde was breastfeeding. “I don’t have the luxury of saying ‘I’m taking maternity leave’ because the show films when it does - so you have to make allowances for me to mother in the way that I want to,” she explains. “The days were scheduled around my son’s feeding times. It’s a brilliant example to set.”
It helps, she says, that home is close by. She and her husband - Alan Pownall, the singer for electro band Pale - moved to Somerset just before she got the part. “It couldn’t have been more perfect,” says Wilde. “It films for six months and then I take six months off to be with my children.”
Motherhood (which came unexpectedly early) has given her “a different kind of drive”, she says. “I am a mother first and my job is my job, it’s not my life. I want to get out of the door as quickly as possible, so that I can get home.”
Her rural family life is somewhat different to her own upbringing. Wilde has an almost preposterously posh pedigree - she was born Gabriella Zanna Vanessa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe - something, she admits, she has shied away from talking about. “I was desperately trying to define myself away from the image of what people might think. As I get older I feel more comfortable in saying that I am just me, and I don’t need to try and sever that. My upbringing, my family, is a huge part of who I am. I’m proud of them.”
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'I’m slightly done with the corsets' Credit: Mike Hogan
“Them” is a bevy of beautiful, blonde siblings - a tattoo on Wilde’s arm denotes, in Roman numerals, her position as seventh child. Her father, John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is a businessman and both her parents were previously married, which makes Gabriella one of a sprawling clan. She counts Prince Harry’s former flame Cressida Bonas among them (whose mother, Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, was married to Gabriella’s father).
“I think I probably mother in quite a different way to the way I was brought up,” says Wilde. “I wasn’t breastfed. I sleep with my children and I was definitely in a cot, probably at the other end of the house. My mother didn’t work, I do. My parents had very defined roles.”
What will she do after the Poldark, West Country bubble bursts? (The show is only due to run to one more season in 2019). “I think maybe not period drama, I’m slightly done with the corsets,” she laughs. “I’d love to do something in a t-shirt.”
What about The Crown, I offer? She could play her step-sister, Cressida.
“Oh no, no no,” she says wide eyed, waving her hands in front of her face in horror. “I think if The Crown is going for that long then we all need to move on.”
Poldark begins on Sunday at 9pm on BBC One
The Telegraph 10 June 2018
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Broken Shackles 21
Year Three Jim's long illness caused something of a setback in his studies, forcing him to spend his vacation between his second and third years making up what he'd missed. The fever had left him drained of energy for weeks and Bones watched him like a hawk to keep him from exerting himself in any way. Jim was tired and grumpy and frustrated and complained a lot which Bones thought was funny. "Trying to beat me in the bellyaching contest, Jim? Because you're doing a fine job of it." "Oh, shut up," Jim growled and hid himself behind his hair again. It was handy for shutting annoying best friends out and hiding his feelings from prying eyes. 
He'd kept thinking he'd heard Spock saying she loved him, but had it been only a dream? When she'd visited him after he was finally proclaimed out of danger, she'd been her usual friendly, logical self. But the nurses gave him the recordings to listen to again and he replayed Spock's over and over smiling happily every time. Maybe she didn't want to get all emotional in front of him yet, but the fact remained she HAD said it. He fully intended to say it right back, given the right opportunity. He almost did several times, but chickened out. Then, Spock went away for a month on a training mission and Jim could only contact her by brief, patchy messages which were rather inadequate for his purpose. Jim's own intense final year courses had begun in earnest before they were able to have a conversation again. "Greetings, James. It appears your color and vigor have returned." "Yeah. I'm finally back to normal again," Jim said. "Now I can get back on track and complete my credits in time to graduate in May. I assume your mission went alright since you're in one piece?" "It did. Only three cadets suffered minor injuries. Overall it was a most enlightening experience. Simulators cannot match the real actual sensations of working on a star ship. When the <i>Farragut</i> went to Warp, I was quite startled at the change in speed at first before I became used to it. Unlike Leonard, I do not believe I will have any issues with long exploratory missions." "That's good," Jim said. "What did they have you do?" "Scan and classify the life forms on a mid size planetoid. They were quite numerous and the largest mammal was a rather cat like creature with two tails." "Two tails!?! That sounds peculiar." "They were rather comical looking," admitted Spock. "It appeared each one had a separate use: the upper tail had a sharp spur on the end for self defense and the lower tail was used for balance as well as indicating sexual interest." Jim snorted at that. "Well, you're definitely having a more interesting year so far. I'm deep in the study of Stockholm syndrome in one class and various alien species' social structures in another. The criminal justice class is really the highlight so far.  But I didn't call to bore you with that. I wanted to say thank you for that message you left me when I was sick. I listened to it over and over while I was recuperating. Did you mean it when you said you loved me?" "James, It was my pleasure," Spock answered. "As for my sincerity, you are aware that Vulcans cannot lie, are you?" "Yeah," Jim said sheepishly, flushing a bit. "Just needed to hear it straight from you, because It's totally requited, Spock. I've.....uh...." (his face grew even more red as he stuttered the words out) "fallen in love with you when I never thought I'd be capable of such a thing. I'm sorry I didn't have the guts to tell you when you were here." Spock was inwardly ecstatic as Jim confessed. Yes, the shaggy haired man who'd been given to her father like cast off junk, worn out and malnourished, had, with time and nurture, become the driven, determined, well on his way to thriving, person who'd charmed his way into her heart. "You may not have said it verbally, Jim," she assured him, "but your actions and eyes were quite emotive." "Well, I am human, I guess," he said happily. "I wish this could have been more romantic, but I'll make it up to you later." He winked and smiled slyly. Spock couldn't wait for graduation to come so she could show him more thoroughly just how loved he was (in the Vulcan sense at least.) They would need to have many very frank talks in the future, but the declaration had been made. Four weeks later Vulcan Amanda greeted her guest with great enthusiasm having not seen Jim since his early convalescence. "Jim! It's so good to see you again!" She gave him a fond hug and looked him over carefully to make sure he wasn't looking stressed from the travel. "It feels like coming home, even with the boiling heat out there." Jim grinned as he wiped sweat off his face. Even the short walk had him red-faced and very warm. "I'm glad you're here," Amanda said sincerely, pleased to see her surrogate son again. "Your cool basement room is all ready for you, but tell me, What brought you out here for the weekend? This is highly out of character for a busy college student." Jim smiled shyly and lowered his travel bag to the ground. "Well, For one thing, I missed you. For another, I have something I need to talk to you and Sarek about." "It Must be important for you to come all this way to say it in person," she commented, noting how he was going with the neat ponytail and barely any facial hair. Jim nodded, looking a bit nervous. "It's very important. It has to do with....um.....major life plans." Amanda understood. Spock had looked almost happy when she'd talked to her last and with the way Jim's eyes were darting around the room and the fond smile on his face as he glanced over at her usual chair, she guessed (and hoped) it meant Jim wanted to make her daughter a part of his "major life plans." She set to work on getting him well fed and rested in order to stand the best chance of standing up to Sarek's inevitable interrogation. Vulcan fathers were very protective of their daughters, even if the marriage had been planned since childhood. As it turned out, Jim not only admitted he was in love with Spock, but intended to marry her if given their blessing. He held up surprisingly well against the onslaught of probing questions, obviously having come well-prepared to plead his case. "Are you aware of the fact Vulcan bonds are not merely physical, but mental, as well? Once bonded, it is nearly impossible to break." "I'm aware of that, sir." "With your varied careers, it may be challenging to grow and nurture your bond. Have you considered that?" "Yes. Many times. After graduation, there will be a period of time when we'll both be on earth for awhile while I'm in training and the Enterprise is refitted. Then I'm probably going to get an assignment on a Starbase or a ship itself, working in cooperation with Starfleet. We won't be completely out of range and I don't have the Kirk determination for nothing. I love Spock and I would do anything I possibly can to make this work." "And you feel you are ready for such a relationship?" "Yes," Jim said honestly. "I know I'll always have....certain issues.... because of what Andromeda did, but I trust Spock in a way I wasn't able to with anyone before. She never acted disgusted around me or pitied me or tiptoed around my problems. Cliche as it sounds, we connect with each other uncannily well." "Yes, you do," Sarek admitted. "Your minds seem very compatible from what I have observed." In the end, he gave his blessing (and so did Amanda) and Jim spent the rest of the weekend relaxing, eating pudding, and planning a proposal.
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Monster from Green Hell
Monster from Green Hell is a Giant Atomic Insect movie – I'm pretty sure that alone makes it MST3K eligible, but there are also some less-than-illustrious names involved.  Although the film was surprisingly not directed by Bert I. Gordon,  it was produced by Al Zimbalist, whose name you may remember reading in the opening credits of Robot Monster. Oooh, and remember Pepe the Latino-Transylvanian janitor from I Was a Teenage Werewolf? Actor Vladimir Sokoloff is in this, too, playing Dr. Lorenz the missionary!  Scared yet?
The opening narration explains to us that before mankind can venture into space, he must find out what exposure to cosmic radiation will do to a life form.  To this end, Dr. Brady and his colleage Dr. Morgan have collected an apparently random assortment of life forms and are launching them into space on board stock rocket footage (some of which I'm pretty sure we've seen before, perhaps in King Dinosaur). One of the rockets goes off-course and comes back to Earth in central Africa.  Six months later, there is panic in the area – although Dr. Lorenz dismisses the stories of 'Green Hell' as some kind of superstition, in the very next scene we see animals at a watering hole being terrorized by a giant mutated bug!
The bugs are hilarious. How do I even describe these things?  They're supposed to be mutant wasps but they look kind of like an ant drawn by a seven-year-old with a microscope, with a bee's wings and a lobster's claws attached just for fun.  They have nostrils. They buzz constantly even though they never fly, their size varies from 'horse' to 'house' depending on the shot, and the film-makers seem a little unclear on which end of the wasp has the stinger in it. The puppets are detailed enough that they would honestly be kind of impressive if they weren't so silly-looking, and watching them eat hapless extras is a real hoot.  At this point the audience settles back with a smile, figuring this movie is going to be awesome.
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Then it pulls the rug out from under us.  Rather than delving directly into the scientist's quest to destroy the monsters of Green Hell, we follow them through Padding Hell on the way.  After speaking to a territorial agent who looks weirdly like Josef Stalin, Brady and Morgan sit around in a hotel for a week and then set off on a month-long trek across the stock footage savannah. On the way they are menaced by natives, nearly die of thirst when they find a contaminated waterhole, and then come down with some kind of fever while they sit out a monsoon.  There are a couple of amusing things in this part of the movie, like the incredibly dramatic way the baggage men 'die' when struck by arrows, but that's not what the audience is here to see.  By the time the party reaches the Mission, the movie is more than half over.
They arrive there only to learn that Dr. Lorenz was killed by one of the bugs, so it’s off into the mountains to find and exterminate them.  So now we're finally gonna get some action, right?  Wrong again!  The group does manage to lob a few grenades, but these do nothing to their targets except annoy them, and the heroes end up trapped underground when the angry wasp queen causes a cave-in.  Time for more padding, as they wander in the dark trying to find their way out!  Luckily they discover an escape route before the Mole People can kidnap them... and moments later the local volcano erupts, destroying the hive.
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At this point, we realize... we just followed these characters halfway across a continent, only for their story to end in a deus ex machina?  Oh, fuck off, movie!
This is becoming a personal pet peeve of mine, actually – heroes who don't do anything.  There are an awful lot of them in these movies.  Mark English in Devil Doll never did anything. Cabot in Outlaw never did anything.  Nobody in The Mad Monster ever did anything.  Was this some kind of trend? Because all it does, as I've pointed out before, is make us wonder why we bothered watching this.  Imagine if, I dunno, Star Wars ended when the Death Star was hit by a meteor.  That would be really, really stupid, wouldn't it?
A coincidence can be a powerful ending for a story as long as it has a meaning.  The War of the Worlds ends with the aliens dying of diseases to illustrate the true insignificance of human beings.  It works because the protagonist we’ve been following isn’t trying to defeat the invasion, only to survive it.  The Lord of the Rings ends with Gollum slipping and falling into the volcano because the point is that the Ring ultimately destroys itself.  These are satisfying endings to the stories that came before them.  The ending of Monster from Green Hell just looks like the writers ran out of ideas.  The characters stand and watch and observe, “nature has a way of correcting its mistakes”, but that makes no damn sense either.  The wasps weren't nature's mistake, they were created by humans blasting random shit into space for fun!
This is doubly annoying because Monster from Green Hell starts off pretty well.  The exposition gets out of the way quickly, and although we are disappointingly not treated to a rocket crash, it's not long at all before we get to see the monsters causing panic on the savannah.  These are just the right kind of deliciously awful that we stick around hoping to see them again.  Only slowly do we come to realize that we're never going to get what we really want, which is an actual fight between the heroes and the monsters. The grenade-tossing is fun, but it's not a substitute, and then there's the anticlimax of an ending in which we don't even get to see the wasps overcome by the lava – they're merely superimposed on stock eruption footage while the characters watch.  The movie was seventy percent irrelevant bullshit and now it's over, and the first ten minutes or so did such a good job of getting our attention that we feel like we've been tricked. How dare you, movie?  How dare you!
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There's also a totally useless romantic subplot with Dr. Lorenz' daughter Lorna – and when I say useless, I mean fucking useless.  Not only does it not add anything to the story, it doesn't even take anything away.  The romance in Terror from the Year 5000 was useless because it wasted time that could have been spent on the actual plot.  The romance in Monster from Green Hell doesn't even get any time spent on it.  We see that Dr. Brady and Lorna have met, and she keeps running into his arms every time things get intense, but one gets the impression that this only happens because somebody went, “oh, wait, we need a girl in this movie” (and she is, literally, the only woman with lines).  Lorna doesn't even get the minimal plot function that would be imparted by needing rescue.  Why did they bother?
There are a couple of things in this movie that aren't bad. It's not too terrible in an aesthetic sense, at least.  Some of the sets are pretty nice: we open on a matte painting of a desert that isn't really convincing but is still very pretty, and the equipment we see the rocket scientists using is not too laughable.  Dr. Lorenz' mission looks convincingly ramshackle, and I like that it's actually more primitive than the native village we see at one point.  The monsters are stupid but a lot of effort clearly went into building them, and there's a fun bit where one of them fights a stop-motion python.  There's a lot of stock footage but it's usually well matched with the stuff shot for the production – we never find ourselves looking at lions on a savannah while the characters are supposed to be in a trackless jungle (*cough*leechwoman*cough*).
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There's also a fairly interesting dynamic between Dr. Lorenz, scoffing at 'native superstition', and his liason with the local tribe, Arobi.  Rather surprisingly, the script permits Arobi more dignity than the entire cast of Voodoo Woman put together. He and Dr. Lorenz like and respect one another, but Arobi resents the scientist's accusations of superstition and argues against them quite effectively.  At the same time, he doesn't want Dr. Lorenz going into the area called Green Hell to investigate the reports.  He is willing to go himself, despite his own fear, and reminds his friend, “I'm much younger than you.”  Vladimir Sokoloff and Joel Fluellen manage to give the impression of having known each other for years, and their relationship is the only one in the movie that rings halfway true.
One final observation I have is here is another movie that seems deeply pessimistic about the possibilities for human space travel.  Some of the experimental animals we meet were exposed to cosmic radiation for less than a minute, and yet they still show signs of mutation.  The monsters, we are told, mutated from ordinary paper wasps in a mere forty hours.  That's not even two days, and it took the Apollo astronauts three days to get to the moon – never mind the time they spent there and the trip back!  In the world of Monster from Green Hell, I imagine that the space race was scrapped before it even began, when Dr. Brady and his colleages submitted a report explaining that the effects of cosmic rays on living tissue were far too dangerous and unpredictable to risk manned spaceflight. We'd be trapped on Earth, the stars forever beyond our reach.
I guess it's a better excuse than being too cheap to fund NASA.
If you’re wondering, the reason the title card for this review doesn’t match any of the other screenshots is because the full title of the movie is never on screen all at once.  I had to grab the title from a trailer on YouTube.
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