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shirtlesssammy · 4 years

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6x17: My Heart Will Go On

Then:

You never really die on Supernatural

Now:

Chester, Pennsylvania

In a Rube Goldberg-esque bit of murder mastery, a man fumbles his way around his garage, nearly dying several times, only to finally get taken out by his falling garage door. What a ride.

Meanwhile, in Bobby’s neater than normal home, Sam and Dean watch him open another bottle of booze. They silently egg each other on to talk and finally decide on Rock-Paper-Scissors. Oop, it looks like you’re going to have to do the talking, Dean.

Only, wait, Dean won! They think he should take some time and sleep, and process losing Rufus. Bobby’s DOING FINE. He just needs some Irish coffee. Sam suggests taking him on a hunt. Seems like different family members are dying in Chester, Pennsylvania. Bobby kicks them out of the house, so they decide to head out alone.

They get in their trusty Mustang, and hit the road.

...

Bobby keeps drinking until Ellen (!) shows up.

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She consoles him about Rufus and tells him to get ready for dinner.

And she’s his wife.

…

At the garage of horror, Sam finds a thread of gold.

They split up. Dean interviews next of kin. He first meets with a Saul Goodman wannabe Shawn Russo. The guy isn’t too upset by his family members dying --he wasn’t too close with them. He also doesn’t have a lot of time for Dean’s genealogy questions.

Dean tries sussing out any past family curse --poorly. Shawn wants Dean to go, so Dean just comes out and tells him, “Your life is in danger.” Shawn thinks Dean’s threatening him.

He connects with Sam who can’t find a single thing wrong with the family.

At a travel agency, we watch Anne Witting chat on the phone, and time suddenly stops. Another woman, looking like Sam’s kind of librarian, takes Anne’s keys from her purse and throws them on the floor next to the copier. She leaves and time starts again.

The woman gets off the phone and notices her keys are on the floor. Grabbing for them knocks a vase of flowers onto the copiers, which creates an electrical nightmare, which causes her to start slapping at it and finally reaching behind it to turn it off, which then causes her scarf to get stuck in the autofeeder, which the copier then tries to make a copy of, which strangles her. (Note to self: BE NICER TO THE COPY MACHINE.)

The blonde woman comes back and marks a name off in a book, and drops a gold thread.

The brothers check out the travel agency that night. It turns out that Anne isn’t part of the Russo family --so they’re not dealing with a family curse. Dean wonders what then. He then finds another gold thread.

He calls Ellen, who reports there’s been about 75 deaths associated with this across the nation. The only thing Ellen has that connects the people is that their ancestors all immigrated to the US in the same year, on the same boat: The Titanic. Neither Dean nor Ellen had ever heard of it.

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Sam either. (And that’s when I call bull --unless this Sam isn’t a history nerd-- because the Titanic was a BIG deal before it became a BIGGER deal. It was the largest ship of its time. But as I typed this out, I feel like I should eat my words because there was another sister boat built with the Titanic, and I can’t for the life of me remember its name, so, yeah, chances are good it would have been lost to history for most people.)

During their research, Sam notes that the ship almost hit an iceberg, but the First Mate, I.P. Freely saw it in time.

Balthazar!

They summon Balthazar for answers about the boat. “It was meant to sink, and I saved it.” He hated the movie. (Boris is still one of the few and proud that’s never seen it --I cheered SO hard for Balthazar here.) He hated the Celine Dion song. Sam doesn’t even know who that is (HIS FAVORITE SINGER!) Sam points out that he thought that history can’t be changed. Balthazar points out that there’s no more rules. Anyway, only minor details have been changed --like no Impala.

More importantly, Ellen and Jo are alive. They are supposed to be dead.

Dean and Sam focus on the here and now and point out that something is killing the descendants of the Titanic travelers. They need to find out who. Balthazar drops a truth bomb out of nowhere --pointing out that Cas is in love with Dean. Sigh. Also, he doesn’t care, and flaps away.

They talk with Bobby on the phone and he thinks they’re dealing with Fate. How do they stop fate? Bobby suggests that they get Balthazar to re-sink the boat, but Dean nixes that idea instantly. Bobby wants to know what set him off --Dean tells him that if the boat sinks, Ellen and Jo die. Yeah, no way is that boat sinking.

The boys lurk in their iconic, uh, Mustang to follow Russo.

They follow Russo in an attempt to keep him safe from Fate’s machinations. They manage to save him from one deadly accident, only for the guy to die under the wheels of a bus seconds later. Sam notices a woman watching over the accident. She looked kind of like a librarian. “Your kind of librarian or my kind of librarian?” Dean asks. Oh, Dean, why does it have to be a binary choice? Eyebrow waggle. Dean decides to head over and confront Fate in a shadowy building.

Fate, meanwhile, is up to nefarious deeds. She turns burner knobs, releasing gas into the building as time stops around the Winchesters. When time starts up again, Dean’s flashlight flickers out in the dark. Sam suggests using a lighter and....

Just as the room starts to ignite, the Winchesters get yanked out of there! Cas saved them! He’s pulled them to Belarus. I will never not be able to watch this scene without thinking of the gag reel and Misha stag leaping around the woods.

“[Fate] harbors a certain degree of rage towards you,” Castiel explains. Since the Winchesters foiled their apocalyptic fate, they’ve made it into Fate’s bad books. Cas suggests the best solution is for the Winchesters to kill fate. And they can use themselves as bait!

For CAAAAAAAS! Science:

Ellen tries to talk through the case with Bobby after Jo reports more and more dead on the West coast. Ellen suggests that the best solution would be to re-sink the Titanic, a suggestion towards which Bobby reacts...poorly. Bobby’s horrified at her casual suggestion. Ellen senses something is off with Bobby. Over drinks, Bobby spills everything to Ellen. He tells her that he needs her.

After that solemn, emotional scene, we cut to Dean and Sam experiencing wacky near-misses. A skateboarder almost takes them out. Then a jumping BMX rider. Now a pair of aggressive dogs on leashes. (Extreme close of up Dean for extra sad jokes.)

They walk past a pair of jugglers tossing HATCHETS and KNIVES who proceed to LIGHT THEM ON FIRE - and I do love it when this show gets ridiculous. After several near-misses, a falling air conditioner finally plummets towards them. This looks like the end for our heroes!

For Looney Tunes Quality Science:

Time freezes the Winchesters under the air conditioner, and Castiel approaches. He greets Atropos, the Fate who’s after the Winchesters. She complains about the fallout of the recently averted apocalypse.

Cas tries to argue for freedom. It’s a bold new world! But Atropos isn’t buying what he’s selling. The last straw for her was the unsinking of the Titanic. Cas tries to shift the blame to Balthazar, but Atropos calls him on that too. That wasn’t Balthazar following a whim. Cas needed more souls for his war machine, and sent Balthazar back to unsink the ship. She’ll make Cas a bargain: if the boat stays unsunk, then she’ll kill his “two favorite pets.” She may not be strong enough to escape Cas’s retribution, but her sisters will take the Winchesters down after she dies. Cas contemplates Sam and Dean.

Balthazar shows up, ready to kill Atropos, when Cas stops him. Cas is ready to take the deal. Balthazar gets Cas’s new order: it’s time to save Sam and Dean! I mean, it’s time to sink the Titanic.

Sam and Dean wake up to Sam’s favorite singer belting “My heart will go on” on the radio. They talk about their weird, shared dream. Cas flaps in to greet them. He tells them that he had Balthazar re-sink the ship to ensure Sam and Dean’s safety.

Sam and Dean try to process the balancing equation Cas dealt with, where their lives were more important than 50,000 people (who were never born, Cas hastily points out). Dean asks about Ellen and Jo, and the answer is NOT GOOD. What could have been!

Dean asks if that whole alternate timeline was erased when the boat sank again. “More or less,” Cas says. EYEBALLS EMOJI. Cas wants the Winchesters to remember the alternate timeline. “You can make your own destiny. You don’t have to be ruled by fate. I still believe that’s something worth fighting for,” Cas tells them. Can I get a HELL YEAH?

While it seems for a short while like Cas is edging towards telling them the truth of his war, he ultimately plays off the Titanic as only stemming from Balthazar’s hatred of the movie. “Titanic didn’t suck THAT bad,” Dean says. There’s my soft boy. Cas flaps out, and the Winchesters head inside to check on Bobby. His house is back to cluttered, gloomy chaos. Bobby’s asleep on the couch. Sam and Dean vow never to tell Bobby what he could have had.

It is Your Quotedany:

Accidents don't just happen accidentally

"What's an Impala?" Trust me, it's not important

You have me confused with the other angel. You know, the one in the dirty trenchcoat who's in love with you

Can’t avoid fate

Who do we gotta kill to get killed around here?

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mycinemood · 7 years

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How to Be a Loving Parent When Your Child Behaves Badly

There is a wide range of research around the different ways to handle your child when he or she is behaving badly. The practice of using “time-outs” to punish objectionable behavior is as obsolete as spankings were for an earlier generation. Experts in child rearing and behavioral psychology say that incentive theory of motivation, also known as the reward theory, provides positive behavioral reinforcement that is the most effective way to get your unruly one to be…well, a little less unruly.

As a society, we are incentive based. One of the main reason many of us go to work on Monday mornings is to receive the “extrinsic” incentive called a paycheck, and the many corollary benefits it provides like cash to pay for our daily needs, as well as the “intrinsic” incentive of feeling more content when we have some measure of financial security. The psychologist Robert Feldman describes this as “incentive theory.”

From a psychological standpoint, we don’t go to work simply because a failure to do so for no good reason would cause us to get fired. We understand that cause and effect, but even though we understand it, that doesn’t actually motivate us. That is to say, a fear of being fired generally does not make us go to work in the first place; it is the incentive of the paycheck that leads us in to the workplace.

It’s the same with children. Negative consequences of bad behavior, meaning punishment, are something you would think kids would want to avoid. Often parents will warn children about consequences for naughty behavior, whether it is the threat of time outs, the removal of privileges (“no computer or iPad for you!”), or earlier bedtimes. But the human brain is hardwired to be motivated more towards those intrinsic and extrinsic things it perceives to be positive, and to focus less on the negative.

When Johnny is fighting his sister for control of some toy, his perceived positive benefits are two fold. First, there is the extrinsic benefit of the toy itself. Secondly, there are at least two intrinsic benefits – his expected joy of playing with it and probably more importantly, his expected feeling of empowerment if he triumphs over his sister. In Johnny’s brain these factors outweigh the potential negative punishment that his mom may be warning him about. Even if she is warning him in a very loud tone of voice. Sound familiar?

What’s a parent to do? First, it’s appropriate to get familiar with a wide variety of positive incentives that will motivate your child. These will include both material things like healthy snacks, toys and games – and experiential activities like a trip to the zoo, having a friend over, and picking a movie for the whole family to watch.

As you assemble this list of incentives, it’s important to consider the holistic picture of psychological motivation for your child. Think about the extrinsic and intrinsic benefits. When you spend a little time considering your child’s inner motivation, you can determine the psychological benefits that he or she is motivated by without needing a PhD to figure it out.

Going back to our example with Johnny, we can imagine the extrinsic incentive of getting a new toy might motivate him to abandon his struggle for that existing toy. But you know your kids better than anybody. Perhaps Johnny’s larger issue involves common sibling rivalry and he is fighting for control of the toy in order to exert a sense of empowerment in the natural pecking order of his family. A shiny new toy might be great, but providing Johnny an avenue to exert control in a positive way and for a limited period of time is even more motivating.

Here’s where you have to get creative. For example, provide an incentive where Johnny gets to pick the movie that the whole family watches together on Saturday night. Now he’s not just controlling his sister by taking over that toy; he’s top of the pecking order by determining what the whole family will enjoy on movie night.

We are big fans of cartoons, ranging from those old Warner Bros. Looney Tunes classics to the new features and TV shows available today. Family movie night with cartoons can be an excellent motivational incentive for kids, and a much more pleasant behavioral modification tool for parents than dishing out some punishment.

A landmark 2004 study on the cognitive effects of TV on young children was conducted by a team led by Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician and director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital. The paper, published in 2004, examined the relationship between the number of hours of television that a child watched between the ages of 1 and 3, and the child’s score on a well-known diagnostic test of attention problems at age 7. One of the researcher’s conclusions was that for younger children, slower-paced and repetitious educational cartoons were preferable to fast paced shows that have noisy voice tracks and lots of camera cuts. The more beneficial cartoons include Blues Clues, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Doc McStuffins and their like.

We call it the Mister Rogers effect – if the show has a more calm, slower pace, with repetition and some level of educational content, it is more beneficial for younger kids than the frenetic pace of other cartoons like Sponge Bob. When it comes to older kids, the key is to limit screen time to a reasonable amount of hours per day that you feel is appropriate. Ensure that your kids do their homework, play outside with friends, and try new sports and hobbies.

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