supernatural s9e10 road trip (w. andrew dabb)
didn't realize we were on a 'road so far' episode already. oh did we really need a funeral pyre? buh. okay what irritates me about that is it can lean on the emotions i associate going back to john's pyre. as much as i warmed up to kevin, his death did not really make me feel anything. and now they can borrow against my fucked up dead parents feelings that got shaken up via john. don't like it.
also borrowing against my thoughts on dean's feelings via john's death, having this long zoom out from dean at the fire, licensed music playing. oh, it gets worse! the cleaning up kevin's footprint in the bunker. no more extra little brother at home.
was thinking today actually about mrs. tran, how crowley said she was dead but i couldn't remember if we ever confirmed if she was actually dead?
thought of it because of the phone. the logistics of the aftermath of someone has died. i was too young to deal with anything from when my dad died, but i was 32 when my mom died (fun fact i guess that would make it a year before this season aired) so my brother and i dealt with the house and belongings. damnit. now i'm upset about that, buncha cheap shots, show. sigh. too much thinking, more watching.
dean guilt++ and no sam because he's off being ridden around by a fucked up murdering angel
all right the picture with kevin and his mom got me. don't throw the fucking phone, asshole. break everything else, but not the phone, come on. this is like bobby burning the family picture with jo and ellen in s5e10 (brain, stop it)
so we go from this scene to.... this one.
okay tonal whiplash. they could have had a rockstar character and not making it into a cheesy joke. weird choices.
DEAN
Sammy was dying. What was I supposed to do?
can't blame a shark for being a shark. can't blame a dean for doing anything to save his sam.
CASTIEL
You kill an angel, its vessel dies, too.
DEAN
Think I don't know that? If I don't end Sam and that halo burns him out and I...
God, I was so damn stupid.
CASTIEL
You were stupid for the right reasons.
DEAN
Yeah, like that matters.
CASTIEL
It does. Sometimes that's all that matters.
castiel is banking on it being the something that matters for personal reasons too :p
CROWLEY
I told him this was gonna happen. I was the only person who tried to warn him. I told him to run.
DEAN
From what?
CROWLEY
You.
How many times am I gonna have to say this? People in your general vicinity don't have much in the way of a life-span.
don't let him make you feel worse, dean (even though it's true)
will admit i wonder what crowley does chained up for days, weeks?? at a time between visits from someone.
definitely. good levels of quippy crowley
CROWLEY
Looks like we need a tiebreaker. Go get Moose, squirrel.
Unless... Unless, of course, you can't. That's why you're here, isn't it? The poor giant baby's in trouble again, isn't he?
i will admit he made me laugh at that. poor giant baby samoose
dean is Very Sad and Very Guilty but i would like to take a moment to say i like the plaid he has on today. it's pretty. not covered up by a jacket so i can actually appreciate it
okay that made me laugh too
CROWLEY
Shotgun.
DEAN
Uh, wrong. You're in the back.
DEAN
Hey – you, too. Keep an eye on him.
so dumb but i cackled. more cas and crowley bickering please
dad!dean yelling at the kids fighting in the back. here for it
all right. mega confusion. so i was like this dude, why do i know this dude, is that ezekial/gadreel, was he in an older episode of spn? anyway i apparently didn't look him up when we first met him but he was one of the dimi's in s1 of altered carbon... and dimi 2 was in an spn episode (s4e5 the black and white one). i had forgotten that while dimi is the same dude, it was different meatsuits (sleeves, in the show).
s9e10 / altered carbon s1e1 tahmoh penikett as dimitri kadmin
wonder how padalecki felt about playing an even more different character now. recall reading something recently about jackles talking about how it was harder when he was playing soulless!sam etc because it wasn't that same dynamic
I've shared this before, it did make it a little bit more difficult when Jared was playing soulless Sam or Dean was playing demon Dean or Michael. It made it a little bit, well, it was different because that person that you rely on who brings their character to life in a way that supports what you're doing and that is relatable and that is almost, is somebody that you rely on to fulfill—he completes me. Great, that's the headline tomorrow... "Jensen Ackles finally admits... ...that he really does love Tom Cruise movies." So yeah, to get back the question, it it did make it a little bit more difficult to do what we were so used to doing when you take that element away and but again that's I think that that was one of the great things about Supernatural is that we took chances like that, we swung for the fences on a lot of different things.
-from 2022 JIB 12 Jensen Sunday Morning Panel
LOL i just realized i had the wrong era license plate in the painting i just did. cue me flushing and sweating. i did something wrong on the internet where people can see, the HORROR
CROWLEY
Your phallus on wheels just ran a red light in Somerset, Pennsylvania, 10 minutes ago.
lol. classy
this whole gadreel/abner thing. i dunno, man. there's just too much shit going on to care about everything
no judgement, i pet my car too
great, jabbing holes in sam's brain and wiggling a big needle around in there. like trying to find a recessed reset button with a paperclip
DEAN
Pretty much, yeah. How are you doing?
CASTIEL
You want to talk about me now?
DEAN
I want to talk about anything that's not a demon sticking needles into my brother's brain.
oh dean. i'm feeling the feelings, jackles
CASTIEL
You thought his life was at stake.
DEAN
Yeah, I got played.
CASTIEL
I thought I was saving Heaven. I got played, too.
DEAN
So you're sayin' we're both a couple of dumbasses?
me three
CASTIEL
I prefer the word "trusting." Less dumb. Less ass.
sorry but i laughed. that was a weird watery delivery
now crowley gets to tromp through sam's brain too, greeeeaat. this is just great.
DEAN
If you mess with Sam, if you try anything–
CROWLEY
I keep my bargains. Besides, I don't want to be inside your brother any longer than I have to. I'm not one for sloppy seconds.
classy as ever
DEAN
This don't make us square. I see you again–
CROWLEY
I'm dead. Yes, I know. I love you, too.
kisses, byeee
SAM
What you do want me to say – that I'm pissed? Okay. I am. I'm pissed. You lied to me. Again.
DEAN
I didn't have a choice.
SAM
I was ready to die, Dean!
DEAN
I know. But I wouldn't let you, because that's not in me.
it doesn't excuse what dean did, but sam knows this. neither dean nor i can tolerate sam being okay with dying. just like sam and i can't tolerate dean being self destructive and ready to die at the drop of a hat
at least i can tolerate it a little better when they have these little mini breakups, now that it's happened so many times. and i don't think they're committing to a long separation onscreen? but i don't know honestly
quality time for sam and cas?
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More than just a reference
What’s the difference between The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch?
Not much other than the removal of the Jedi
Because A LOT of the plot has been stolen*
You want an example? Of course you do
But be warned that this has the potential to be highly spoilery - if that wasn’t already obvious
Lets go with one of my favs and look at Wrecker (because he’s awesome)
We know that he was created on Kamino, that he’s a part of the Batch and that he’s super strong. And almost nothing else because they kept him firmly in the background all through S1.
But he’s the one who shows physical signs of what he’s previously been through. The one who has a big heart and cares for his brothers. The big strong one, the human wrecking ball.
And were have we seen that before?
In Season 3, ep 13 ‘Monster’
After having been altered from his original form by a weird and excessively pale woman while her younger daughter (who hand selected him for this) watched.
Before being sent to Serenno to meet his new ‘Master’ and to be trained to improve his usefulness.
But which was actually more of an exercise in use and abuse, both physical and verbal, by the man who had power over him and saw him as nothing more than a tool to be used to get what he wanted.
The man who then then agreed to kill his young female ‘apprentice’ when his boss told him to.
And didn’t hesitate to do his best to take out all those accompanying her at the time.
Season finale anybody?
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Following that betrayal they went their separate ways and Savage went off to find his lost brother. But that’s a story for a different season.
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So, would that spell the end for Wrecker?
Not automatically, no. Because there’s more than one recycled show in play here, and just because previous plotlines are coming back around doesn’t mean all the endings will be the same.
But that doesn’t mean they’ll all be happy or that everyone will survive.
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Do your homework and rewatch TCW, spot what’s being copied and you can see where all this is likely to be going. The details have been altered to fit a story that doesn’t rely on magic to make it work and to obscure what they’ve done, and the order of events has been rearranged, but they both need to foreshadow events and to show off how clever they are, so they can’t avoid it being visible.
(*Not just from the TCW, there’s plenty from elsewhere, but that’s where the ripoff is most obvious)
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