#spn episode commentary

[azrael08]

Weird take but I have huge grudge towards the background actors in the diner scene in 15x08, not throughout the entire scene but just at the end when Michael smites Lilith, when it pans around to the rest of the diner none of them look afraid enough, they all just look mildly shocked (except that one girl on the table behind Micheal when he leans over the booth, that girl look traumatized and I appreciate it) and it just takes me out of his whole 'Archangel power thing that Jabel had going on.

#is this ok? #Its probably just me being a cinema nerd #but those people annoy me everytime I rewatch that episode #spn #supernatural #spn commentary #spn 15x08 #midam spn #midam

[bobwess]

Edit: The video has been posted

#spn #episode commentary #my bloody valentine #supernatural #youtube #soon #matts the husband

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Dean's beautiful

#my only commentary for this whole entire episode #spn liveblog

[angelinthefire]

Actually the reason why we're so insane about Cas and destiel is that the episodes where they feature heavily are some of the best stuff supernatural has produced. like there are definitely some episodes that are viewed with goggles on (tombstone is not that great an episode) but the best episodes are the best episodes for a reason, and that reason has to do with their objective quality.

#supernatural #spn #destiel #castiel #my commentary #anyways stop slandering 6x20 it is an objectively excellent episode of television

[mlobsters]

supernatural s4e12 criss angel is a douche bag

all right maybe you know him from the rocky horror picture show, but honestly hey i know you from spin city.

barry bostwick in the rocky horror picture show (1975) & spin city (1996) (his character was literally "the mayor", no name)

okay so he had a very small part in riverdale! but honestly he reminds me of this guy on tiktok for some reason 😂

riverdale s1e9 chapter nine: le grande illusion - alex zahara as uncle bedford

casting call for all the red haired folks to populate this cursed town

bold move having the knockoff criss angel in universe that criss angel exists, and straight up naming your episode criss angel is a douche bag. two words, apparently.

*heavy sigh* now you don't be a douchebag, dean. no homo, we got it.

DEAN

Man...hope I die before I get old. Whole thing seems brutal, don't it?

not cool. think that's enough for me today.

#supernatural #spnhiky #barry bostwick #spn 4x12 #how do you all deal with what happens to Dean at the end of the show #I'm not dealing well and I'm not even close to the end #I'll finish the episode tomorrow or something for a continuation of my thrilling commentary #spnwatch

[compatiissante]

"... man, that college musical about sam and dean remembered adam in hell faster than they did."

a pause, poking her head out the door.

".... LOVE YOU, ADAM--"

#└ — see it in your walk and tell ‘em when you talk ( commentary. ) #v. only the lonely survive ( spn. ) #SP OT IF Y REMINDED ME OF THE MUSICAL EPISODE WITH 'SINGLE MAN TEAR' AND I'M CRYING #but also.......maya love adam v v muchly thank u

[stellernorth]

sera gamble on the jus in bello dvd commentary:

We knew we were going to reveal the new up-and-coming demon leader and we had him on the board and we were calling him Zarkowi actually because we didn't know what he was going to be. We just knew that he was gonna be like the new guy that steps up. and and then Eric and I had a conversation that happened over several days but we were trying different things and I kept saying, think, I think, it should be a woman this time, and you know, we call her, like we could, we could make her Lilith, and and then we went back-and-forth about well. Should it be a woman or should be a little girl and I'm always like nothing creepier than a little girl

#never actually seen what sera looks like before it was like hi #for s3 instead of episode commentaries they have these really short featurettes where they interview people about specific scenes #which i assume is bc of the writer’s strike somehow #post i made #spn backstage #spn s3

[fandom-susceptible]

Supernatural Rewatch Commentary: S1 E4 (the first demon episode)

I fucking love this show. The pacing in this season sucks, I also hate it, I'm so ready to get back to seasons 4+ where they know about the demon and angel stuff again, but there's a New Show charm to Season 1 too.

Can we talk about how Dean sleeps cuddling a pillow?

That guy saying John was real proud of Sam and wouldn't stop talking about him fucking hurts when you know the rest of the story, huh? Especially with Dean's face in the back.

Dean really just printed out fake Homeland Security IDs in a public shop and carried them out in his hand and nobody questioned this huh

fucking Jensen's voice in this season, I can hear the Texas in it lmao

It kills me that they manage to keep the same license plate for the whole damn series. How were they not pulled over constantly? Were they not on just So Many Blacklists?

Why is Sam so bitchy? "What is that?" he asks, and Dean says "it's an EMF meter" and then he demands why it looks like a busted up Walkman. Which like ok fine at this point brotherly bullshit, whatever. And then Dean says "because that's what I made it out of, it's homemade!" all proud of himself and Sam fucking goes "Yeah, I can see that" as if he didn't. literally just ask about it. Like. You're backtracking on your own? bullshit? that's just annoying.

Escaping from the facility: Were there not security cameras?? Why wouldn't there be, in a high-security facility like that in 2005? the US has been using them in a business capacity since 1947. Really became common in the 70s but still should have had them here.

"Demons, this isn't our normal gig" LMFAO

Dean's a horrid driver, he keeps swerving over the centerline.

I feel this face. so hard. Oh my gods. Mood Dean. I also hate planes. Something about being suspended so far in the air by a manmade machine is scary by itself, but then the pressure changes? when you go to land? Excruciating. "why do you think I drive everywhere, Sam!" MOOD. also a mood with insisting on going with though, I would also do that for my little brother even if he is being a dick.

Introducing "Christo" as an easy identifier for a demon only for it to never be a factor in the demon heavy seasons was a hell of a move.

I have mixed feelings about how Sam handled Dean's panic attack there. Because ok, it was effective to snap at him like that. They needed something effective and fast, and it did the trick. It was a dick move, which wouldn't have worked on just anyone. It worked on Dean because we see John use similar/the same tactics, he's been conditioned to it. I don't think Sam's the cause of Dean's trauma there, but I do think he's taking advantage of it, and I think he's aware of what he's doing in a way that Dean might not be, with how deep he still is in John's conditioning. Just. icky vibes all around.

"Hurry up Sam, I don't know how much longer I can hold him" Dean says in season 1 of a demon they're just hand wrestling with. Contrast with Season 5 Dean who tells God he's a bitch to his face.

wait I just realized, "over 100 people on this flight" and then you only see like, 30, when the camera shot goes from the cockpit to the back.

How are these men not constantly overheated in their three layers of plaid and leather jackets in the sun?

#Supernatural #Supernatural Season 1 #Dean Winchester #Sam Winchester #Supernatural Commentary #SPN Rewatch #Winchester brothers #season 1 episode 4

[saving-people-haunting-things]

Is it bad that I just really don't care about the "bodily autonomy" discourse?

#idk i don't even really see it as a major theme in spn actually (some one-off episodes aside) #like there is a major theme of fighting against destiny and other forces trying to control them #but i really wouldn't label that as *bodily* autonomy #and when people frame it as such it's clearly just an easily-repeatable piece of rhetoric that people say just because it sounds smart #and respectable even if they obviously don't actually know what they're talking about #and it's very clear that the people talking about it don't actually care about the subject because they are really pick and choose when it #comes to what they consider to be an autonomy violation #idk maybe i'd take it seriously and care more if it wasn't just an easy talking point for certain fans who just love screeching about how #wronged their fave is #my commentary

[dotthings]

The latest episode of the SPN Then and Now podcast gave us some insight into process during the early days of the Dean and Cas era. I transcribed a few bits to share.

First I really appreciate Rich's appreciation of Dean and Cas: "I love the origin of the Dean and Castiel relationship, I thought it was so engaging to have those two start building that rapport, that yes, maybe you said Misha had said maybe it was a bridge too far, I didn’t see that as a viewer, I just thoroughly enjoyed it, and I felt their connection sort of solidifying in a fun way that felt real and not hyper-dramatic." (This is extra neat considering Rich "I am the prophet of Destiel" Speight Jr directed ep 15.18).

Then there's the commentary from SPN director J. Miller Tobin, which gives us insights into the early development of the Dean and Cas relationship, Jensen and Misha's friendship, and their growing rapport and development as screen partners.

Rich: …to me, this was the first episode where I saw what the Dean Castiel relationship then looked like for the rest of the year.

J. Miller Tobin: It’s funny, then I watched it again this morning, and I kind of had the same feeling. This is sort of old Castiel, and he’s sort of starts to move into where he is for the rest of the series. There’s that shift into sort of the comedic tone in his relationship with Dean, it’s the Dean and Castiel show.

Rich: It really is. This didn’t exist before. It was a tonal shift.

J. Miller Tobin: Right.

Rich: Now I obviously know that some of that some of that must have been in the script. Was any of that something…like the personal space bit, was that scripted? Or was that you guys on the day?

J. Miller Tobin: I don’t remember. I don’t remember.

Rich: It felt like an improv because of the way it was blocked and he turns and there’s that scene…

J. Miller Tobin: That long beat, and again, Jensen is just a master at it, he barely moves a muscle and you’re laughing your ass off already…the truth is you just let those two guys start riffing. They’d known each other long enough now that they were very well aware this was kind of a shift in tone and they had a chance to start to play with it a little bit, and as good actors do it was subtle, and it was easy.

Rich: I just think it’s cool that you got to be the guy to sort of set that framework. Obviously the actors are doing a ton of that work too. But again, bless your hands…

J. Miller Tobin: I just like to get out of the way and let them do what they do best.

-Supernatural Then and Now podcast, April 8, 2024

#Richard Speight Jr #J. Miller Tobin #Castiel #Dean Winchester #Jensen Ackles #Misha Collins

[dailyspnpolls]

How much Supernatural have you actually watched?

Space is tight in the actual option bubbles, so I'm going to explain my thinking behind each before we start:

The die-hard option. This one's for the people who watch through, and then wanted to start all over again, or who go back to specific episodes or arcs.

This is the more casual version of "I have seen every episode at least once" - not quite as intense as option 1.

This one's for if you've watched maybe 75% or more. Maybe you're on your first binge and haven't quite got to the end yet, or maybe someone convinced you there was a season or two (or a few episodes) that could be skipped.

This one's for if you feel like you haven't watched enough to qualify for option 3.

This one's for the people who fit mostly into option 6, but have watched an episode or two.

This one's for the fans of the fandom. The people who consume the gifsets and the art and the meta without having ever actually watched an episode. I think

This is one I'd definitely be interested in seeing some commentary on. Leave your thoughts and SPN story in the tags and replies. 🤗

Don't forget to check out the blog for other polls. There's a new one every day!

#spn #supernatural #spn polls #daily spn polls

[charcubed]

I'm curious, what are the main reasons why Dean is your favorite canon bisexual in media? Love your meta and that video btw

Ooooo, anon, thank you for the kind words and for giving me an excuse to talk about my love for bisexual icon Dean Winchester <3

I'm going to be really annoying (sorry) and quote part of my meta first. It summarizes and articulates many of my thoughts on this. And then to further answer your question I'll add a bit under it!

From the very beginning, Dean Winchester has been a character tied to classic elements of American masculinity. He was introduced with a superficial veneer involving those elements, but almost immediately the early episodes provide a look at the complexity of his character underneath it. Over the years, that complexity was further explored, and he came to embody a study in things society would often have us think should be incompatible contrasts: the gruffness and grit of hunting life and its associated masculine iconography, paired with his open and deep emotional care for the world; unabashed love for classic rock, superheroes, and horror movies, as well as unabashed joy connected to TV dramas, chick flicks, and childhood favorites like Scooby-Doo; life on the road with a muscle car, but the desire for a home base with creature comforts he can make his own; motivation to always help people, but the clear longing for balance with personal domesticity and relaxation so he could save not only others but also himself.

As a whole, his character functions as an effective deconstruction of toxic masculinity and stereotypical American heroism. And while much of Dean’s most masculine traits and interests are said to come from his father’s influence, part of his journey is loving those parts of himself on their own merit not because he ever had to but because he wants to. He is not his father, and he redefines those valued parts of his identity so they are his and his alone. He also crucially learns to recognize and joyfully embody that those masculine traits were never all that he had to be, working through and overcoming shame and hesitancy along the way. The result? He’s “good with who he is.”

He and the audience are encouraged to see that there are no rules his identity and interests must subscribe to, on a micro or a macro level. The message is to disregard predetermined destiny or duty. Free will means his life is his to determine, his family can be what he makes of it and how he defines it, and what he needs and wants do not ever have to be mutually exclusive. Dean’s journey is about freedom from outwardly-imposed limitations–whether those limitations come from his father’s example and the God altering his story, or from the pervasive societal ideals and network/executive interference outside of it. Dean can and should contain multitudes, all at once.

In this way, Dean’s story is a powerfully queer narrative that acts as metacommentary. In the fullness of its execution, it is also specifically a deeply bisexual narrative.

The not-so-hidden truth is that Dean is canonically a bisexual man. His story was afforded something that’s rare for most characters and almost nonexistent for queer ones: fifteen years of lengthy, nuanced development.

[...]

Again: Dean’s identity journey is about how he can and does contain the capacity for multitudes, and it’s part of what makes him such a compelling character. He can like “this” and “that.” He can be attracted to women and men. Or, as writer Ben Edlund and director Phil Sgriccia said in a DVD commentary, Dean has “the potential for love in all places.”

I wanted to include the above verbatim because it spells out something specific: Dean's narrative is bisexual in its bones. Supernatural evolved to become a queer text, but the specific ways the show and Dean as a character evolved are very intertwined with and informed by the fact that Dean is a masculine bisexual man. SPN is a story that was not meant to be about being queer, but as it became about freedom through free will, those themes were then leveraged and emphasized in connection to queerness because of Destiel. And by the end, the free will narrative and Dean's journey as a bi man are utterly inseparable, because Dean's fight for true freedom is tied to his love for a man and their untraditional family in a way that higher forces are trying to hinder.

You cannot cut out or edit or remove Dean's bisexuality from the story, or several narratives and plot lines (not just Destiel) would at minimum be misunderstood or at maximum fall apart. And yet, simultaneously? Dean's bisexuality is also far from being the sole important thing about his character because he is written with such nuanced complexities and across so many years of material.

Of course, add onto this the overall unique situation that surrounds Supernatural as a piece of media. People talk at length about how there will never be anything like it again, including me; that's obviously true from multiple different angles and for multiple different reasons, with Destiel being prime amongst them. But a related yet distinctly significant branch of that topic is there will never be another bisexual character who is written and evolves quite like Dean.

Was Dean supposed to be bisexual from the very start, out of the mind of Kripke? Who can know for sure, but probably not. Were certain writers and members of production deliberately putting more queercoding and subtext into Dean's character/story from the very start? Who can know for sure, but potentially yes, and certainly the answer becomes unarguably definitely yes the farther you get into the show. That's part of my love and passion for him too, because all of that is deeply unique and incredibly cool.

Dean's bisexuality evolved in a way that (against all odds) actually feels organic, seamless, and like it's simply a part of his character that's been there all along. The effect when you look at Supernatural as a whole body of work is that Dean's always been bi, and his expressions of and acknowledgements of that part of him ebb and flow depending on situation–which is a very relatable notion for many queer people. And as those writing the show became more committed and certain about that piece of who Dean is, so did he, in nuanced and subtle ways skillfully embedded into his story by design. It's bafflingly, impressively cohesive; gives him an incredibly realistic feel; matches his overall character growth; and rings true to his demographic, age, personality, and experiences.

Dean and his story and the situation(s) surrounding both are simply incomparable, and that will be true forever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

...also. Well. I simply love him, y'know? For even more reasons unconnected to this. How can you not, right? :')

Thank you for asking, and thanks for reading this bi Dean manifesto!

Putting my video that you mentioned here for anyone who's not watched it:

My new magnum opus, please stream, etc.

(or watch on Tumblr here)

#bisexual dean winchester #dean is bi #bi dean meta #bi dean winchester #dean winchester is bi #supernatural #spn meta #char writes things #God I LOOOOOVE HIIIIMMMM #dean #anonymous #yes I used like 5 dean is bi tags. I'm valid. leave me alone

[lol-jackles]

Back in 2021, Danneel had mentioned in a podcast that CMP had optioned/bought rights to a young adult book that was a “gay Great Gatsby” to turn into a tv series.

Do you think this is the project Jensen referred to as being sold? It’s my understanding that most book options are only a year, and she mentioned this 2-3 years ago.

My guess that concept was already pitched and denied but maybe it took them this long to develop a teleplay for the book to pitch. Would they have to repay the author if their original option expired?

Link.

You are correct that book options usually only last a year so the show the Ackles sold is not likely the "gay Great Gatsby", especially with Amazon studios' own focus groups and test audiences having general aversions toward gay leads.

The author was already paid an upfront fee for selling option rights. If the studio buys the pitch, then the author gets paid an additional "purchase rights". If the studio does not buy the pitch, then the option rights are returned the author, and they can try to sell to another buyer.

With that said, it was never not funny how they tried to insert Danneel in to the $PNFamily brand and even had her provide commentary on the SPN dvd after appearing in just two unmemorable episodes.

Anyways, lets have a look at the last project that Danneel "worked" on. Side note, I unironically love the huge TV Guide cover of Jensen in the background during the promotion of The Winchesters.

#danneel ackles

[buckybarnesss]

I, of course, was orphaned after leaving the SPN fandom, and got into Teen Wolf because of the gifsets. Teen Wolf was on it's second season by then, so I had to binge season 1 to catch up.

It was so much fun!! It was really the last time I felt connected to a big fandom! We would all liveblog the episodes (RIP to my SPN followers who were annoyed with me for not tagging it), we'd argue about whether or not Allison should apologise, we'd yell about the treatment of black and brown characters, and then the Scott vs Derek war happened and we all yelled at each for MONTHS.

I think THAT is when the phrase "Defense Squad" started. I never saw it in use in the fandom before then, but we were definitely splintered off into camps at that point.

I remember the beginnings of Failwolf Friday. Pink Undies Sunday. Who first wrote the phrase "Derek lets his eyes bleed red" to indicate that Derek's eyes changed colour? I don't know but that pioneer lives on in every Sterek fic (because we all stole that phrase immediately).

Also we had knotting BEFORE omegaverse became a thing, and without any of the weird gender rules.

lol i was on ontd_spn too and followed the mass fandom migration to tumblr.

teen wolf fandom is important to the history of fandom culture on this god forsaken webbed site in large because it was a fandom that took off after the large livejournal migrations and the end of the closed fan forum. we had no where else to go to interact and twitter always has and will always suck at being a place for fandom.

i also started watching in s2. i binge watched all of s1 in a night at my then job and was right on time to join fandom right when abomination aired.

i loved supernatural but i cannot emphasize how hard it was to break into that fandom. one thing about livejournal i never cared for was how easy it was for cliques to form and if you didn't befriend the right person your meta, your fics or your discussion thoughts went into a black fucking hole.

at least on tumblr there was a higher chance of engagement. your posts would be in the main tag and if you by chance got reblogged by someone with a higher follower count you would then get more followers. meta would be passed around and developed with additions and commentary by others. it was so much fun.

gif sets were a new method of communication of ideas. we could easily do parallels, create visual au's and just generally engage in a new but fun and interesting way.

tumblr leveled the playing field in a lot of ways for smaller creators.

of course the old fandom ways of shipping wars and rivalries happened too and even now a decade later there's still division in the teen wolf fandom but sometimes i got to like the subreddit and i'm like "bro we had this discussion in 2013. this is a settled matter!"

#my blog #thoughts on teen wolf #teen wolf

[educatedinyellow]

Theme: Rec a fic that starts with the same letter as your username.

I spotted this rec theme on another blog and it sounded charmingly random and fun! I had a good time looking through my bookmarks and sorting out this little collection of mismatched seashells :)

Every Man's Got a Right by MollyC (SPN, Destiel, Endverse!Cas, time travel, 78K, E) In this one, Endverse!Cas is given a second chance to stop the world, and the people he loves, from going irretrievably off the rails -- he finds himself, without explanation, dropped straight into Season 2 and the first outbreak of the Croatoan virus. Watching him rediscover just how much Dean means to him and how far he's willing to go in order to change things for the better is beautiful. (Written in first-person, for those for whom that is a deal-breaker. It really shouldn't be, though!)

Everybody's Got a Hungry Heart by PallasPerilous (SPN, Destiel, musician!AU, 18K, T) Distinguished by Pallas's inimitable comedy-prose, this thing is an unhinged delight from start to finish. Dean is jumpy as shit. Why one possibly Icelandic beep-boop specialist has him on edge while Mick Jagger’s own vocal coach barely got his heart rate over 55bpm is a goddamn mystery. Maybe it’s the harp solos from that sample track; maybe Dean’s nervous that this is his last shot and if this guy can’t save Dean from filling out the back end of his contract with “Best Of” and “Live In Concert” compilations he might as well walk into the fucking sea.

Engineering 101 by Mara (Batman, Dick Grayson, early days, 4K, G) A clever use of extended metaphor to take a look at the process by which Bruce trains the first child he raises to be Robin and begins to realize what he risks breaking. (I'd say it largely embraces comic book logic in that it does not try to critique the whole premise of child crime fighting as an essentially bad thing, but it sprinkles in traces of real-life concerns. It doesn't vilify Bruce, but it does add some shades of gray to the creation of the dynamic duo.) "Engineering is about testing to destruction," Bruce said, settling into lecture mode. "You don't understand how you can do things better until you understand when and why they break apart."

The Eleventh Hour by Azdak (Man From UNCLE (TV), Napoleon-centric, 4K, G). OK, so, in the TV series there was an episode called 'The Gurnius Affair' wherein Illya had to go undercover as a bad guy, and -- long-story short -- things went wrong, Napoleon got caught, and in order to salvage his own cover and thereby the mission, Illya had to straight-up torture Napoleon. And he did so. Both of them were aware that he had to, both of them were horrified by the experience, and being 1960s television, there was never any adequate follow-up or emotional resolution. A lot of fanfic writers have tackled the aftermath of that disaster in different ways, and this is a fun and interesting take. Napoleon's narrative voice is many things here -- it's petty and angry in a way he rarely is, because his self-image and his pride have been so hurt and he's on ego overdrive here. But it's also wry, and self-dramatizing, and stubborn, and optimistic against all odds. Meanwhile, the narrative commentary of the femme fatale is a load of fun, too. A prickly, funny, angry, and ultimately triumphant brush with death is just what Napoleon needed, it turns out, to settle back into himself.

An Evening of Little Luxuries by otherhawk (MFU, Illya-centric, character study, 7K, G) Oh, I love this one, such a good look at Illya and what it means to him to live between cultures. Before the war he'd been more or less bilingual. He'd grown up speaking Ukrainian at home to his family and Russian everywhere else. After the war there had been no home left, and Russian had been the only language he heard, the language he thought and dreamed in. Now Ukrainian was simply another language he spoke, no different in his head from German or Japanese. His heart was a different matter, and he regretted that loss, regretted that when he dreamed of his parents, his sister, they spoke to him in a language that was no longer his own. Now, more and more, he found himself dreaming in English, and yes, that bothered him. He had no wish to lose Russian the way he'd lost Ukrainian. And so he let himself have evenings like this – the simplest things that felt like decadence – amid his fellow countrymen, many of whom, he suspected, were here for similar reasons.

Escape Velocity by Vehemently (Firefly, Simon Tam, character study, 5K, G) Such concise and vivid world-building, and a poignant look at how Simon grapples with how to accept the loss of the sister he once knew as he takes small, reluctant steps toward facing up to his own over-protectiveness toward the very different person River has now become.

Enduring, Quiet, and Calm by thesardine (BBC Sherlock, Johnlock, strange tenderness, 1K, G) A little gem of a sick fic -- so odd, so sweet. Has that hazy feeling of very late-night exhaustion.

Empty Houses by PlaidAdder (BBC Sherlock, Johnlock, case fic, 45K, T) A clever and involving case fic and the first story to feature PlaidAdder's wonderful take on Harry Watson. Written in that golden moment between Series 2 and Series 3 when we all imagined our own post-Reichenbach reunions and the possibilities for tenderness and healing were still wide open. This fic is rich in humor, compassion, and new beginnings, while also offering a darker take on some bits of canon than the show ultimately pursued.

Elevator Down by vikki (Inception, Arthur & Cobb, LJ fic, 10K, T) I really like this meditation on Arthur's backstory with the Cobbs. Psychologically interesting and elegantly written, and to me there's something touching about the thought that Dom's subconscious keeps lashing out at Arthur because, on some level, he knows it's Arthur who's working hardest to keep him alive. Arthur dreams up paradoxes. Cobb dreams up his late wife. One of these things is not like the other. One of these things is not safe.

Early Returns by rageprufrock (Inception, Arthur/Eames, journalist!AU, 15K, M) Rageprufrock is another author whose comedy-prose is always a pleasure. I love this one for the grouchy journalism malaise in which the embers of inextinguishable principle still smolder, lovingly described as only an insider can <3 For reasons that don't bear discussion, Arthur ends up at Safeway at a 6:30 p.m. on his way home for the night still carrying his messenger bag with his headphones around his neck, standing in one of the aisles looking at 200 different brands of plastic tableware and double-ply picnic dishes. He's been a journalist his entire professional career, so of course he's been this depressed before, but there's something profound when you mix the sinking misery of mortification with the heady, dizzying blur of self-directed fury, and it makes him feel numb down to the fingertips and toes.

If anyone else would like to play this meme, I'd be glad to see your recs!

#fic recs #multifandom #spn #destiel #batman #the man from uncle (tv) #inception #firefly #bbc sherlock #long post

[scoobydoodean]

Man did you saw the things that happened in the first season finale of the Winchesters prequel? Jensen Ackles is insane for that

I illegally streamed it but this means I missed like a solid 15 minutes of the episode probably from laggy issues and such. (I will clicky the show and put it in a way that adds views later okay???) But like I saw most of it. Idk it was basically what I expected. Nothing pleasantly surprising but nothing like super unpleasant either. I would say the SPN finale very much unpleasantly surprised me in pretty much every way. So like. Just having your expectations met is nice? My expectations were very low admittedly—I only started watching the show out of spite for bronlies. If I had made myself believe Dean would be alive I'd be upset, but I feel like the show showed its hand? I expected him to be up to post-canon shenanigans and he was.

Bobby and Jack were a surprise. Seeing Jack again in that kind of state was the only thing that was unexpectedly hard for me actually. Like. I just find the fact that Jack ended up as god and that Amara is like subsumed by him and that Jack's personality and countenance is completely different now really disturbing because of the symbolism in all of that and how I personally tie it into Dean's storyline and themes in SPN.

As far as Dean and everything, I knew Jackles wasn't going to pretend the show didn't end how it ended, because he's said that before—that he isn't altering things that happened? This means though that the symbolism of how Dean died (which is bad) and how that deeply scars the whole story still remains, and I'm never going to be okay with that I don't think? At the same time, I do think this whole thing did heal me as a Deanfan just a bit. I think the penultimate episode was a very obvious commentary on how weird it was for Dean to be so... smiley in the spn finale, and this episode also hit those same notes. Dean felt wistful to me in this spnwin episode. It felt like he wasn't content with his life in heaven (which was the lie being sold in the SPN finale—that Dean's journey was over, and he would just be happy driving around for 30 years waiting around for Sam to show up... and that just isn't true—that isn't him. It felt so so incredibly wrong). So this finale did at least deal with that bullshit, and it feels like a commentary on Dean not being willing to hang in the towel, and he isn't willing to be done (and there's even implications that he wants to be alive or elsewhere). He's dead but he's not dead dead—he's not done, he hasn't given up fighting and clawing for his happiness.

If you recall, Dean's favorite song is a tie between Traveling Riverside Blues and Led Zepplin's Ramble On. Ramble On played at the end of the finale, and that song is about traveling and a journey in search of something—a lover, happiness, the prize. Take that as metaphorically or literally as you want—the song is about how the singer's journey isn't done.

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