#ok listen if spn was the reason meta shit got popular

[themanicgalaxy]

SPN 4X19 Jump the Shark

Oh hey is this the illegitimate brother plotline

boy I love me some sweet sweet ANGST

whelp she's fucking dead

picture of JOHN?

Sam's peacefully brushing his teeth and Dean's Not a Morning Person

boy he's having a bad morning

to be fair, living out of the car is kinda not fun either

"I'm his son" Dean: I'm gonna fUCKING KIL-

he's..premed?

they're going to ruin his life too aren't they, Aren't The-

Dean is taking this really well

I mean he did get the brunt of John's Issues, so I get it, yike

ASDFPIHP them discussing their dad's ~sex life~ is very funny though

Dean was...preteen? when this kid was born? Sam was under ten definitely

Dean Please

No that's your Actual Brother guys PLEASE

hunting accident "ah fair enough"

"who is a nuclear family these days" FEELS SO LOADED

Dean...Dean please don't fUCKING KILL HIM DEAN

THE IMPALA NOOO

"he took you to a baseball game" IDSFHAPF

He's Trying not to CRY OH MY GOD NO WAIT

Sam resonates with the away from college thing oh NO

Dean is trying SO HARD not to snap

at least he's...trying..to keep adam out

corpse snatching => HEY LOOK IT's THE BONE STEALING WIT-

I think I need to stop being online jesus christ

the [both sigh] was so good

well...that's a lot of blood

How the hell do you break it to your illegitimate brother that you're ~technically Wanted by the FBI

at least he's not an idiot

HE'S SO MUCH YOUNGER THAN THEY ARE

I mean obligatory dead mom

"do i get a say in this?" "NO!"

no..no SAM DEAN HAS A POINT

Middle sibling + younger sibling gang up on elder

"have u thought about eternity" "bro i've literally been to hell Idk what to tell u"

Dean doing it solo but Sad is...:(

Oh he worked the old case, that's neat

"so it's over for you" welllllll

OO THE TRUCK SHOT WAS COOL

dean + long dark coat truthing tonight HE LOOKS G O O D

it wants revenge

YOU FUCKERS AND YOUR REVENGE BELA WAS R I G H T

and Adam Instantly wants revenge, you sir are definitely a Winchester

"it's life" WELL IT SHOULDn'T BE

the stupid isolationism I hate it

NO GO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE KRIPKE WHY

Sam's becoming his dad, and Dean isn't

...SAM WHAT THE FUCK

DAD MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT DO RIGHT BY YOU

HIS GODDAMN GRIEF SPIRAL GOT BOTH OF YOU

LET HIM BE NORMAL! HAPPY! IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU RIGHT NOW(NOT ALWAYS)(Also very close to the thing with zachariah in placement(eye emojis) BUT LEAVE HIM ALONE!

I do appreciate Dean Eldest Sibling'ed it up even if he didn't like the kid/was jealous. Goddammit I wish we got connection in this stupid show

I was expecting a jump scare but somehow the squish is worse

sOn oF aBitcH

Ah FUCK NOT ADAM TOO

I do like the little angel Icon though, that's what's Dean's way out

Ghouls is a racist term?what????

no john winchester was 100% a monster

ah it was their father

yada yada father killing circle idk

YAY! DEAN'S INGENUITY IS BACK!

Ghoul!mom is really really good. I liked Scared Adam better though

the slicing sam scene is BRUTAL jesus christ

So...John got his own son killed in the end...

SERIOUSLY HE WAS TERRIBLE

Dean JESUS CHRIST

awww caring Dean is nice

AWW HUNTER'S FUNERAL

"Adam's in a better place" :(

Dean tried to fit himself into the Dad box, Sam's actually him

"you take it any way you want" oh for FUC- HE- I-

he looked so Sad, so like...he's stopped idolizing him

jesus christ.

boy there's gonna be overlap ok here we go.

1. poor dean. Ok couple things: 1) he elder sibling'ed it SO HARd! he didn't even like Adam, but he still tried to keep him safe(I think). he gave him a hunter's funeral! I just. It was nice to see. It was also INCREDIBLY painful to hear the realization of "you were always like dad, I never could be" and the fact that he didn't even see it as a good thing anymore? fUCK man, that huRT me. Dean tried so hard to be something he wasn't, he got probably the brunt of the abuse(because he didn't measure up to that metric like Sam always would), and in the end all it got him was...just. so much pain. Like it felt like John left his Broken children behind to get a new one, and just turned them into his quest for revenge. It was SO So fucked

Hey actually speaking of

2. AM I SUPPOSED TO LIKE BEING A HUNTER/JOHN? WHAT HTE FUCK?

YALL ALREADY MARTYRED HIM BUT UR MAKING HIM WORSE?

LIKE ok listen. John's kinda set up as the ideal of hunting. They martyred him! And I was halfway sold provided they didn't mention him again. Then! he did this thing where he abandoned his kids, seeing them only as tools to fulfill his quest for revenge, literally broke them(that too late thing+zachariah saying "it's in your blood" when really it was just trained from a young age), got a NEW family he treated a lot better. I just. I have...NO idea how I'm supposed to see him as a good guy here. Maybe I just kin Dean, or his plight is WAY more sympathetic(it is, Sam is kinda pissing me off), but John's just...coming off worse and worse and they KEEP doing it!

Also! this whole cycle of revenge thing! about how if you keep taking an eye for an eye, everyone ends up blind! they barely escaped this time, and I think this was the second revenge plot that I can think of with MONSTERS alone! it was a BIG theme! Like!! hunting sucks! revenge makes you end up in worse places! it's like this one episode was made to show how SHIT hunting was!

wait who wrote this

Dabb+lofflin. The hunting sucks always comes from-

this GODDAMN INCONSISTE-

3. Fuck John Winchester

4. Individualism. Ok this is a big one. Alongside the whole revenge plot thing(which is BIG, and a hunting sucks), this one drove home the sheer individuality of hunting. But while some of the writers see that as Badass, this one made it seem lonely, and painful. Like the flip side to American Individualism is American Chronic Loneliness. I know this one was used to process the ennui of the post recession/post 9/11 time, and it's doing very well for that, but it kinda ends up like this show is EVERYONE'S therapy all at once! the gang's all here! and we're gonna traumatize you in the process as well.

EDIT: and yeah yeah yada yada american individualism is King and then so is it’s accompanying loneliness in the post 9/11 post war in iraq post recession world(we were not having fun in 08/09)

and I get that this show is the writer’s therapy and whatever

(I just thing this is phrased better)

5. bring him back. Connect! Look. I know it breaks the core ethos of this episode. But having Weird Esoteric Hunter siblings would have been SO FUNNY!

give me more sibling content! Sam+Adam teaming up against the Eldest Sibling Dean WAS SO FUNNY! I WANT MORE OF THAT

6. SAM WHAT THE FU-. Look. I hate John. I very much hate John. They set up the Sam/Dean dichotomy in regards to John first episode, and Sam acting more like an ass+like his dad is. Not making me like him. Also I feel like this was written to sympathize with Dean. Which makes the finale even more ironic, I feel.

7. Listen. Listen. One of you has to keep track of continuity. Like I know this becomes a WAY bigger problem later in the series, but if a certain writer wants to process/examine a certain part of the Life/Story(and they should, they set up a lot of interesting stuff), they have to keep track! Because then the show becomes everything all at once.

Like this show has ALREADY started feeling like fanfic of itself, where it just kinda does whatever it wants with its own concepts. And the concepts are GREAT! but you can TELL how inconsistent it is, even in the kripke era

like it ends up being Study of X, Riff on X! and I think that's where the inconsistency comes from. It's also why it's so fucking Excellent in places.

whelp this was a lot holy hell.

OH AND ONE MORE THING!

Bela didn't fit the narrative. That's why they didn't like her. I said at the beginning that an Int'l art thief does NOT fit the vibe of "grungy Angsty American Midwestern gothic" and I was right. With the lucifer story and the vibe she didn't fit, and so they just killed her as foreshadowing, and only used her like that. God I wish they'd riffed on her, especially because her callouts were all completely correct

we're Bela Salting again

listen she was preppy Jack Sparrow with some spiritualism, how dare you tell me not to like her.

#pawswatchesspn #4x19 jump the shark #this one was a lot of... #I mean I can't say fun #but it was interesting #...I accidentally fucking quoted Gandhi #this show truly is everyone's therapy and I mean that in the worst possible way #this is unrelated to the gandhi thing these are two separate thoughts #And Bedlund wrote on the head of a pin #which was cool #but HE WROTE MONSTER MOVIE! MY PROBABLY FAVORITE EPISODE! #and the fun wishing well one #ok listen if spn was the reason meta shit got popular #or it helped #most of that was cuz of bedlund #....bow down to bedlund for singehandedly popularizing my aesthetic holy hell

[themanicgalaxy]

SPN 5X8 Changing Channels

oH FUCK YEAH it'S META TIME!!

I genuinely do think this is what helped popularize this shit oh HELL YEAH

it'S FUCKING G A B R I E L YA B O I

HE IS ALSO COMPLEX

JENSEN NARRATING BUT NOT WITH THE DEAN VOICE

CANNED LAUGHTER

THE COLOR BUT IT'S STILL THE OLD MOTEL LAYOUT

J U S T THE END OF THE WORLD

ALSO HIS HAIRCUT+color DOES NOT WORK IT'S GREAT

SON OF A BITCH AHAHA

HIS FUCKING VOICE CRACK

WHO WROTE THIS GODDAMN INTRO

tHIS INTRO IS SO FUNNY

also sidenote, it's so weird seeing them smile so much

DR SEXY

same pattern as the old time but you can SEE the color grading

huh like there's Something Wrong

and then business as usual

but like yeah they have to interview her

incredible hulk?

BANNER OR NORTON PFFT

Ah the TV version DEAN YOU NERD

a cartoon hole in the door the shape of the incredible hulk

oh it was HIM?

like he was a hothead, got killed by a hothead....

G A B RI E L

sam appealing to him is...interesting wait where is this going

facebook friends lmao Dean you Mom

he fucked with their radio didn't he

damn but he'S SMART

YOU'RE IN DOCTOR SEXY NOW LMAOOOO

THEY'RE SO FREAKED OUT

THEY'RE IN A MEDICAL TELENOVELA I'M CRYING

dammit I wish they let Dean grow his hair out the new lighting is making me sad

Dean's escapism is crashing down, it's great

Dean oh my GOD YOU FUCKING HYPERFIXATED NERD

DOCTOR SEXY

he does the...same lowered voice he does with Cas

ok listen there is a case to be made for hero worship, there IS but there's ALSO THE OTHER ONE

THE ABORTED HALF SMILE

the close ups work for him though?

oh the FREEZE! OH THAT'S NEAT!

HEY GABRIEL!

he morphs shorter lmaoooo

holy SHIT he's fun

the LIL GLITCH OUT OH MY GOD

THE EYEBROW WAG

GUYS HE HAS A POINT YALL WERE THE ONES THAT FUCKED UP

SAM IS SO TIRED OF THE MELODRAMA AHAHA

ah he gets killed again

dammit Gabe stop killing Dean

that's 100% not how surgery works

LMAO "figure it out"

what..the fuck did Sam do

THE FUCKING LADY

THAT WORKED??

and they switched to NUTCRACKER LMAOOO

THEY DON'T SPEAK JAPANESE

DEAN'S FACE!

SAM'S FACE

LMAOOOOO

commMERICALLL

CAS!

HE SOUNDS SO DISGRUNTLED!

NO IT WAS SO FUN TO SEE HIMMM

pretty boy angels?? WHAT?

whaT THE FUCK WAS THAT QUESTION

THE FUCKING JAPANESE?

oh my god the play along

that worked?

so they have to play along

boy they are both PANICKING

"I've got...genital herpes"

they're really going for the STD's with Sam for the last two episodes

thIS LOOKS LIKE IT'S PHYSICALLY PAINING HIM

I am CACKLING THIS IS

SO FUNNY

also...it's picking on Sam, maybe it's like...Gabe has a point to make with him?

also yeah he did kill Dean like a hundred times to make a point maybe he feels bad

"we might die in here" [canned laughter]

CAS!

no CAS!!

he looks genuinely shocked/scared oh my GOD!

the priorities tho!

Sam: u know him?

Dean: IS HE OK??

"play your roles out there" OHHH NEAT?

ah he just wants Chaos

he's not even happy? like "let's get it over with" is pretty neutral?

he's...not in league with anyone? he's kinda Weird about it?

ah so it's an actual ultimatum huh

they look good in this lighting at least?

"I am wearing sunglasses at night" LMAOOO

HE HATES PROCEDURAL COP SHOWSSS

THE STRUTTT

GRAVELLY VOICE

thE FUCKING POSES

THIS IS SO STUPID OH MY GOD

play along till stab stab?

ah they figured it was a fakeout

silent communication!

you can't telll if it's real or not..ever?

SAM'S IN A FUCKING RADIO

IT'S ANOTHER GENRE SHOWWWW

The vISUALS

HE'S THE CARRRR LMAO

ah he guesses, because of that field trip with cas

Car!Sam is so FUCKING FUNNY

GOTTEM! ANGEL!!!

Dean rly wanted to make that joke

"call it personal experience but no one gets that angry unless they're talking about their own family" O h M y gOD

oh shit I forgot technically we didn't know his name till now

hE JOINED THE PAGANS OH MY GOD

"watching them tear at each other" even though you love everyone involved...jesus

ah it's happening again

"I just want it to be over" :(

"It's about two brothers that loved each other and betrayed each other" uh OUCH

"you were born to this" oh JEEZ

ah yes the one kills the other

you have to at least admire their tenacity

"I wish this were a TV show, easy answers" oW

especially with Dean

"and it's gonna end bloody for all of us"

"hey, bro" aw

the bloody trench-coat oof

"you being too afraid to stand up to your family" oh my GOD and of COURSE Dean says it because he was oh my GOD

cas and gabe cas and gabe CAS AND GABe

"I think he believes it" oof

he lured them in didn't he? on purpose

1. escapism! Dean, Sam, and especially Gabriel. Like Gabriel is a very Evasive person(I feel like so is Sam) when confronted with problems, and he knows Dean at least uses TV to cope. It was a way to run away and try to get the others to understand him, I think. That whole "TV is escapism, this is the real world" and that Dean is the one that really likes it...ouch. Gabe and Sam would be cool to flesh out please Please

2. Cas and Gabe. No I have very little here, but I really like the little bits of their like "oh my god it's you fuck you" thing they have going, please give me more, it was so good. Like you get invested when they know each other and it's just...good. So good.

3. actually family in general. Like Gabriel is too scared to intervene, but doesn't want something to happen, Cas and Dean bonded over the fact that their dads are absent, Sam gets thrust into something when all he wants to do is figure out who he is outside of the context of his family. It was... a lot, and...actually compelling.

4. fucking THIS WAS FUN TOO! like fucking with color grading, actual gags, riffs on tv formulas. It felt so much like a precursor to WandaVision(the freezes, the glitches out, some amount of genre savviness, the "play along especially"(that whole thing about being trapped with a sitcom is so Important here), just...the concept and the baby TV show thing is...so fun.

5. but it's plot? I THOUGHT CHANGING CHANNELS WAS ALL FUN BUT THERE WAS PLOT! like we got Gabe's actual motivations, we got an actual reasoning, we got exposition but it was interesting cuz we were already invested in gabe's moral compass

holy shit that was good.

#pawswatchesspn #5x8 changing channels #look it's not a surprise that I liked it I just was not expecting #SIBLINGS! PLOT! GAGS! META! #ALL OF MY PERSONALITY TRAITS!