#the trap is truly THE dean episode im so obsessed with it

[daftmooncretin]

The Love Was There.

parallels between dean’s almost confession in the trap and castiel’s love confession getting me emotional yet again.

#castiel going from does it need saying in the trap to happiness is in just saying it #mr berens why did you do this i love you #the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us #destiel #spn #deancas #the trap #i wanted you to stay OF COURSE i wanted you to stay. (he didn’t stay) #the trap is truly THE dean episode im so obsessed with it

[toxicsamruby]

i am in love with the mystery spot episode... what takes do u have on it

i think a lot of my issues w mystery spot is just personal taste..but i will tell u anyway cuz thats what i do 

the concept is absolutely perfect. like literally start to finish i would not change the plot of the episode EXCEPT for the fact that sam knew bobby was the trickster. but aside from that very small edit im completely obsessed w the concept.

the execution...it falls so miserably flat for me. they were so preoccupied w making the Dean Dies 10000 Times In A Row thing into a funny joke that it totally ruined both the pacing and the tone. like we’ve been laughing at dean getting crushed by a piano for 25m and now, w 15m left in the episode, we’re supposed to take seriously that it was traumatizing? come on. and i think extreme tone switches like that ARE possible and can work really well but like...they didnt pull it off? they spent so much time on the 10000 tuesdays joke that by the time we get to the part of the episode that’s supposed to be a serious character study of sam, there’s only 15m left! they have to effectively switch the tone, display the real despair and hopelessness of six months alone, show how he’s become callous and cruel by himself, deliver the thesis statement of the episode, and revert back to normalcy/conclude. in fifteen fucking minutes. im not sure the most talented director in the world couldve pulled that off. they depend on montages and bobby’s 😧 face to tell us how far sam’s fallen, instead of actually giving this part of the episode the space it needs to breathe, and SHOWING us how far sam’s fallen. i know what you did last summer did a better job of this.

and thats the most frustrating thing is that the concept of mystery spot is so so so so so fucking good like it hits all the boxes for me like it’s explicitly about cycles and helplessness and being caught in an endless loop of violence and having absolutely no idea who you are WITHOUT that endless loop of violence. it had the potential to be one of the best sam centric episodes in the entire show bc it couldve genuinely explored what it meant to sam to be well and truly trapped in this family story again after he’d been completely Out only two years before, and maybe even given him a chance to Say something about that. but they were soo fixated on all the silly jokes and the comedic tone of the first half hour that the serious and substantive character study that the last 15m was supposed to be felt completely hollow bc it was rushed and all tell-not-show.

its sort of part of a bigger trend in the show of like. They’ll tell u all kinds of crazy shit but there’s no consistency in how serious we take that shit so we just have to wait for the show to decide when we’re gonna be serious. like when ur building up to a big sudden tone switch u dont do that by saying “hey u know what we’ve been calling a joke for the last 25m? that was actually really traumatizing! and now we’re going to move ahead accordingly.” that’s lazy, bc they didnt do any of the work in the first part of the ep to show that sam was being traumatized. he’s irritated and exhausted, yeah, but it’s all kind of funny and lighthearted. then they pivot, and the EXACT thing we were laughing about 2m ago is now serious and sad, and WE as the audience are supposed to do all the work and speculate about how fucked up it was for sam. and the audience did do that work! thats why theres a million and one mystery spot fics on ao3. but the episode itself....pure laziness. it doesn’t really drive home how helpless sam feels in this endless and circular family tragedy, it doesn’t truly establish how deeply sam will be changed by being unable to save dean (since he kills bobby KNOWING its not really bobby!), and it doesn’t give us any meaningful development or insight into sam as a character. its literally just Hey, wouldnt it be fucked up if THIS happened? Which is closer to an episode of the twilight zone than it is an episode of supernatural centered on sam and his relationship to dean.

#me and mystery spot r in a toxic relationship #asks