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Episode 153 - 8.04 Bitten
I forgot to mention the cut scene on the dvd for this one, or maybe I just blanked it out of my mind, but Sam tries to call someone from a phone booth and then hangs up. When she calls back, he hangs up again. After Sam and Dean leave, Kate runs over, calls the last number dialed, and gets Dr. Amelia Richardson, veterinarian, who is very confused about Kate asking if she consults for the FBI.
I think the only thing this tells us is that Sam is having conflicted feelings about having left her, even despite the circumstances we’ll learn about in a few weeks. But I can see why this scene was cut for time. This episode is already jam packed, even if this likely would’ve helped make Amelia feel like less of an imaginary character.
But there are many scenes that did air, so let’s talk about those.
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My Tag
A short essay on What Makes a Monster, and why I love this episode
The feminist lens of Bitten (written while s8 was still airing)
Lizbob’s excellent thoughts on the character of Kate
my notes for this episode are right here on ao3
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watching 2.09 croatoan on the tnt loop, and noticing how sam gets to keep his self-righteous feelings about the fact dean did not "fulfill the prophecy" of shooting that kid that brought them to the town. when they drive off at the end of the episode, they're unsettled by what all of that meant in the bigger scheme of things, what was the point of any of it and what possibly worse things might be coming down the road at them as a result. they are such Smol Innocent Babs to the Bigger Plans of the universe still. they have NO IDEA what roles are planned for them.
but the way it ends, it just reinforces sam's belief that he's making the right choices.
they saved that kid! dean wasn't "corrupted" into killing an innocent!
and then *we* see the awful truth, that the kid had been a demon all along, and he murders one of the only other survivors from the town. and he's definitely part of a bigger plan for them.
all the while, with sam and dean, sam is pestering dean for the truth of what john's final orders to him were (and we have to wait for 2.10 to see the horrible fallout from that, but it will just reinforce sam's personal beliefs about dean in the worst possible ways... and it's all just a big game the universe is running on both of them)
(and every rewatch of this series just makes me hate the series finale that much more, which... hey, i guess that's a good thing lolol)
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why was i not informed about jeremy "scoobynatural" adams pitching a superwholock episode in season 15
#supernatural#jeremy adams#superwholock#davy perez you and your magic: the gathering cards can hush#from the archives#spiders georg of the tnt loop did not know about this#i didn't know about this#therefore posting
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Episode 144 - 7.18 Party On, Garth!
We officially have a Gross of SpnGeorg! wheee!
I sincerely appreciate Garth as a person, and as a friend to Sam and Dean. If anyone could've made them feel even a little bit better about the universe after last week, it was Mr. Fizzles Garth.
I also appreciate the expansion of the supernatural universe, especially through the medium of Beer Brands. We talk about beer in Supernatural having meta relevance (think El Sol, Kingdom, and Schultz, for starters), so the genesis of an entirely new category of beer brands (the trendy independent brewery that makes beers that dean ends up enjoying unironically) is fascinating to me personally. I love anything that expands the spn universe like this!
Also filed under things I love about this episode: Dean gets to be the sober one, and for once in his life, it works against him, especially after a season where his excessive and growing alcohol intake had been a lowkey running theme.
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
My rewatch notes from July 2019
A liveblog chat with Lizbob from July 2017
A Tidy Metaphor for Performing Dean, and Sam’s recurring inability to really understand his brother
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Episode 140 - 7,14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie
I love this episode. After half a season of beating on Dean emotionally, while all of Sam's crazy fit under the Hallucifer umbrella he could control with the button on his hand, Sam finally gets some horror from the outside.
From clowns.
I mean, Dean has to face some baggage from his childhood, as well, but it's not as dramatic as Sam getting pounded on by maniac clowns. Plus we get an actual (magically created, anyway) unicorn!
This whole episode just feels like a reprieve from their otherwise unrelenting series of losses, and we really needed the break right about now...
LINKS!
The Superwiki Page
My Tag
My Rewatch Notes from July 2019
Lizbob’s notes on Sam and Dean characterization that use this episode as one example
My fic Dean’s Days Off (14k, fluff, destiel) exploring what I always felt Dean was up to when he dumped Sam off at places like Plucky’s for a few hours
More Dean Posting
Even More Dean Posting
My rewatch notes from March 2016
Lizbob’s rewatch notes (long, but worth the read, because we might be the two largest appreciators of this episode in the world lol)
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Episode 139 - 7.13 The Slice Girls
Oh, bucklemming with their fast-growing monster babies... only they foisted this one off on Dean. To me, this one has always felt like a ham-fisted attempt to balance out the Amy Pond storyline from earlier this season, that just makes it all the more unbalanced.
Sam might think the scales are balanced now, but mostly because he's not exactly in touch with reality himself here... or at the very least not seeing Dean clearly. This is the part of s7 where the writers seemed to forget Sam was constantly hallucifering all over the place, but that makes a hell of a lot more sense when we do remember that while watching.
LINKS!
The Superwiki Page
My tag (only two pages of posts!)
The People’s Choice Pantsless Promo video
My rewatch notes from July 2019 (mostly about Sam and Dean and their main conflict throughout s6 and s7, really… and Sam’s dependence on his Magic Anti-Hallucination Button to the exclusion of actually perceiving reality unless it fits with his personal understanding of it. Plus, proof there can be good stuff even in egregious bucklemming episodes… Seriously, if you only click one link here, make it this one.)
My Complaint™ about the handprint disappearing
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Episode 142 - 7.16 Out With the Old
Yes, things locked in boxes unwittingly released to wreak havoc and ruin lives. Again. Still kinda shocked at how many times Sam and Dean still attempt to lock things up to solve their problems after all the escaped things they've had to round up and deal with over the years.
We also get a lot of innuendo and queercoding for Dean, and Sam's decompensating fast now that that he can't stuff his hallucinations back in their box with the scar button on his hand. We also finally begin to learn some of what the Leviathans have been planning. And while they may be practically invincible and invulnerable, they're also apparently largely... not all that competent as a whole.
Okay, I think I'm pas de done for now, so let's have some LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
And I guess that’s all for this week, which is probably for the best. Next week is gonna be A Lot.
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Episode 154 - 8.05 Blood Brother
no, really, how does benny know how this portal works? how is he the only being in the universe that seems to know about it, and exactly how it works? how does he know it’s only for humans to pass through? why does cas so easily believe it’s truly only for humans to pass through? i have always believed that it’s because it suits their respective agendas to believe that, whether it was the truth or not. In this essay I will…
Okay, that's just one of my usual questions around the beginning of season 8, and I will continue to ask them! But there's plenty of other things to wonder about in this episode, like how did Sam end up spending an entire year with Amelia... mysteries we will never really understand, I suppose. But at least we do get some insight into just why Dean trusts Benny so much. All this and more! including Dean's exasperation with Sam, Sam's exasperation with Dean, and interesting new facts about vampires!
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
My rewatch notes from November 11, 2020
My rewatch notes from January 2018
Some Destiel for you (i swear, completely relevant to this episode, but still important)
Plus, this week's notes are on ao3 right here.
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Episode 147 - 7.21 Reading is Fundamental
KEVIN! This poor kid... just add him to the list of Terrible Things Chuck Did.
We have a Leviathan Tablet and a new prophet to read it, which wakes Cas into a state of abject denial and depression of what he did, brings the angels back into play, and sets Sam and Dean on a big scavenger hunt for parts for a weapon powerful enough to end the leviathans.
Also, bees.
I think that about sums it up... oh and there's a lot of suffering of the personal emotional kind for everyone! Wheeee! Thanks, Ben Edlund!
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
Chuck is a real jerk
A reminder of why I don’t give too much credence to heaven/angel hierarchy
Rewatch notes and general yelling from October 2019
Thoughts on bees and honey on a very very old post
Cas and games and bees by ladyofthesilent
A more recent post by ilarual about the bees and guilt
A post from s13 that covers how I see the tablets and their power
Rewatch notes from January 2018 (focusing on the thread of being sorry and playing sorry connecting back to 4.22)
Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
Also, reminder that all my notes are on ao3 now! this week's notes can be found right here.
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Episode 151 - 8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
We all remember the origin of the tagline, “the destiels will never have that now,” right? When Sam hugs Cas in 9.11, folks cheered that Cas hugged Sam before he hugged Dean, as proof that Dean doesn’t like Cas or some nonsense. And then everyone else just laughed at them, because the destiels had already had the destiel reunion hug in this episode for like a year and a half. So we decided we will also have THIS now!
I swear this episode is about a lot of other stuff, too. We can have it all now!
Including some LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series, revived for one last ride… (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) And now that all of those are posted, we’re on our own for the destiel insight. But trust us, it’s there all over the place :’)
And once again, the notes for this week's episode are on AO3.
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Episode 146 - 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo
CHARLIE!
That's all I need to say, right? Oh, we also get the plot set in place for the rest of the season, with the awesome heist they pull on Dick's Brick. Dean gets to be both a lil geeky AND a lil queer. And Bobby goes terrifyingly close to vengeful. So much happening, and we're at least now pointing directly toward the season finale, so borax ahoy!
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
scene analysis of the flirting split screen
my rewatch notes from July 2019
an interesting discussion of queer subtext
more on the flirting scene
dean vs harry potter (he’s so right)
the origin of my dean is bi tag
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Episode 152 - 8.03 Heartache
why is dean always the target of heartache, heartbreak, heart attacks, and other various and sundry attempts to stab, poke, crush, fold, spindle, mutilate and impale his heart? it is a mystery! but we're gonna wail about it for a bit today...
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
oh look a destiel mirror
down the bunny hole…
My tag for this one is short, but it’s almost entirely about the heart imagery in the series that gets pinned to Dean. I kind of regret pushing that so hard for so long, considering what happened in 15.20, but >.>
The notes for this episode are on AO3 right here
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Episode 149 - 7.23 Survival of the Fittest
As we bid farewell to the Gamble Era and usher in Carver era, Kevin goes from having leviathan troubles to demon troubles, Cas chooses to take responsibility for himself and he and Dean are destined for Purgatory, and poor Sam is left standing all alone in the aftermath... at least the leviathans are effectively washed from the earth...
Gosh that makes it sound like not much of import happens in this one. I'm really underselling it here, so instead let's just jump to...
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
my tag (there is A LOT of good meta posts in the tag for this one, but not so many that it’s overwhelming. Probably a good week to spend half an hour reading :)
lizbob’s dean and cas are in love series (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
link to my notes for this episode on ao3
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Episode 138 - 7.12 Time After Time
Time travel, and Dean gets to meet a personal hero in the flesh, while Sam and Jody have to save his ass from 1944. I love watching them all work at the same problem from opposite directions, and are able to make everything come together in the end. Plus who can resist Dean in that suit? Or resist just how much Dean loves that suit? Plus he's absolutely brilliant throughout this one (thank you Robbie Thompson, yet again!), and brilliantly queercoded. I could talk about this one for ages, but I already did...
Fine, just enjoy this one. I know we all will.
LINKS!
The Superwiki Page
My tag
My Dean is a Genius post from July 2020
Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (yes, the same one as for the last few episodes)
Lizbob’s post about the final deleted scene from this episode
My rewatch notes from May 2017
My post about Sam and Dean’s Rochambeau history
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Episode 148 - 7.22 There Will Be Blood
I just realized how threatening the subheading on that graphic looks... I am not actually out for blood over Dabb's nonsense car things... >.>
For those unfamiliar with our longstanding feud with Andrew Dabb over car and driving continuity issues, there’s some pretty glaring examples in this episode. Obviously the Supernatural Universe is not OUR universe, they have cities we don’t and vice versa, you know, like their Lebanon, Kansas is a thriving small town on the show and barely exists enough to mark on a map here, as just one example.
But Hoople, North Dakota to Missoula, Montana is not a 7 hour drive. It’s nearly 15 hours on a good day, on the highway. If that wasn’t enough, they doubled down on looking for somewhere within a 300 mile radius of Hoople. And Missoula is over 900 miles away. So either take this as your occasional reminder that the Supernatural universe is not our universe, and it’s kinda silly to make these sorts of comparisons because of that, or use it to fuel your personal vendetta against Mr. Dabb for not apparently knowing how to read a map.
We’ve reached the penultimate episode of season seven though, and we’re finally almost free of Gamble Era! Everything is coming together now, including a weapon they’re hoping will finally be able to kill the Leviathan, so we get a lot of plot to plow through.
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My Tag
My rewatch notes from July 2019
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Episode 134 - 7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding!
And here we finally get an episode that gets right to the heart of Dean's fears. He's just trying so hard to be a Good Brother. To respect Sam's wishes, to let him make his own decisions about his life, and not only does Sam STILL think Dean is being judgmental and controlling when he tries to save Sam from what is very obviously a terrible situation from the outside, Sam resents him for it the entire time (well, until he snaps out of the love potion spell anyway...)
It's a very specific (and really skeevy) way to show us in small scale how Dean is feeling about Sam and his larger season issues about the Hallucifering, and being concerned that Sam really doesn't have as much agency in all of this as he's trying to convince Dean that he does. Because boy is Sam making some weak choices...
Plus, who can really hate Guy the demon?
I mean, thank heck Dabb gets to bring Becky back in s15 for some redemption after this one, but this one also highlights just how much Chuck's hand is stuck to everything in the story. Always good to keep that in mind during a rewatch.
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
My rewatch notes from July 2019 (if you only read one thing, etc. etc.)
Lizbob’s excellent meta about Book Fandom vs Show Fandom
Because I can, even if I think I linked this one way back in 1.04, have a fic where I bring back Guy the demon for a short bit… The Terminal Job (24k words, rated M, case fic, destiel)
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