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captainchilly · 4 months
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TIMESTAMP ROULETTE - SUPERNATURAL (8/327) ↳ 14.19 - JACK IN THE BOX
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soullessjack · 3 months
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actually i think Jack’s whole psychotic meltdown after killing Mary makes a lot more sense when you remember that this was one of his worst fears:
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i don’t have the exact scripts but suffice it to say, this is not the first time michael has insinuated that jack is his only equal/match/rival in terms of power, and it’s also not the first time he’s insinuated that jack would simply outgrow his sense of humanity and turn on everyone that he’s claimed as family; the fact that jack is even human to begin with is more or less a glitch in the system to all other angels. it’s “just a phase.”
and then on Jack’s response, all it says is that he doesn’t want to admit it could be possible. i feel like in most other scenarios like this, where the Hero has some connection to the Villain that’s used against them, the Hero usually just dispels the Villain’s claim of connection with some easy shit like “you’re wrong! i have confidence in myself to stay by my friend’s sides forever!” the villain is then defeated and the hero’s connection to them (and all that implies) is never brought up again. but here, with jack and michael, jack is clearly doubtful of his own humanity—I mean, he has been for a while, he’s just afraid to admit it to anyone because it holds too much risk of losing everyone he cares about.
jack has pretty much dedicated his life to proving that he isn’t evil, that he is trustworthy and safe and that he isn’t like Lucifer. however, while he and Mary are in apocalypse world you also get the sense that he now has to prove he isn’t like Michael—despite them being equals. but his dedication and determination are very much rooted in/responsive to fear, not just of losing everyone he loves, but for his True Nature to ultimately be evil and of his father.
so, of course killing his mother figure causes jack to spiral out of control and into psychosis, because he hardly understands what’s happened—he’s literally debating whether or not he intended to kill Mary while at Rowena’s flat—and he’s very jarringly faced with the potential reality that he had finally lost humanity and turned on everyone just as Michael had said.
and despite his literal subconscious telling jack that he’s as good as fucked, he can’t come back from this and he can’t call the Winchesters or the Bunker his home ever again, he obsessively tries to fix it and desperately denies that he could have actually wanted Mary dead or intentionally hurt her (remember he tells Rowena he just wanted her to “be quiet”) because how is he ever supposed to be seen as trustworthy again after possibly-deliberately hurting Mary (and later with Duma, the “nonbelievers”) when the entire reason he wasn’t trusted to begin with was the fact that everybody saw him as something dangerous/truly evil and merely choosing not to act on his true nature, and now if he can’t fix it, then he’s inevitably back in the pigeonhole of a dangerous monster, and Michael was right.
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chocolate-apple7 · 23 days
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Ok guys I don’t think I’m ready for the divorce arc. I thought I was but I really think I’m going to hate Dean being so mad at Cas (and Jack) for the first part of s15. Like I know he and Cas make up in 15x9 and I am looking forward to the forced proximity before that, but it still worries me. Like I’m worried I’m not going to have enough time after that arc to like Dean (and Destiel) again before the love confession. I really don’t want Cas to be pinning after someone who treated him so horribly.
Anyway, I guess I shall see soon!
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Season 14 Episode 19 of Supernatural is titled "Jack in the Box" I fucking hate this show.
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franklespine · 5 months
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Oh my god. Genuinely, s14e19 jack in the box was the single most excruciating episode I have ever watched. I am devastated.
How people act when they are without a soul is something I found incredibly interesting in s6 with Sam, and its interesting how the way that Jack is portrayed in this episode fits into it. Just like Sam - he's got no instinct. No guiding moral compass. No gut feelings. Except now it's a billion times worse because Jack is the most powerful being in the universe and everyone seems to want their part in manipulating him. Because the interesting thing about soulessness is it doesn't just make you incapable of feeling empathy, but also makes you incredibly susceptible to manipulation.
I just knew Dean was a ticking time bomb the entire episode. Ugh and the way he painted it - like Jack was just playing them the whole time, that they fell for his act or whatever.
And the Ma'lak box???? What if that was my final straw? What if watching Sam have to manipulate the kid that he sees as his son, that he sees as a reflection of himself, was the end of me? What then?
This entire episode, Sam isn't even angry, he's just full of guilt and sorrow and disorientation. He can't even really articulate how exactly he thinks it's his fault, just that he is somehow at fault. s14 really punishes Sam for being sympathetic huh - at every turn and every mercy.
Whereas Dean is just guilty in an angry way that is like I feel horrible and guilty but in a way that means I really do actually blame you.
Then Dean making SAM be the one to make the call to Jack. Taking advantage of Sam's close relationship with Jack, the one that he valued and took the patience to establish with new born Jack whilst Dean was drinking and condemning him before he'd even stepped a foot in the world. And he doesn't even pose it as a question. He's not telling Sam his plan - he's giving orders. "Because you are going to be so damn sincere". It's going to be you Sam because "you've always been in his corner. You're his go-to guy. If you reach out, he'll come." Yes Sam this is hard for me too, Dean says. Now you take advantage of your close trusting bond whilst I stand here and look imposing.
And then using the only thing that would make Sam actively participate in this crazy shit - his love and dependance on Dean. "If I do it, after what happened to Mom, I could lose it. I will lose it."
They both knows what happens to Dean when he looses it. They've been through the MOC, they've been through demon Dean. Like you can just see it on his face - the menacing way this scene is framed - with such clear power dynamics - this is a threat.
RAHHHH.
I can't. I can't do it.
Something that keeps happening in the later seasons is situations where Dean is aware of their codependence. He knows Sam puts a ridiculous amount of love and faith in him and he knows that he is the only thing that gets Sam to loosen his morals. And he uses it against him?? It happened with Gadreel and now it happened against with Jack and the box.
Time out. I need a breather.
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coramg · 10 months
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they knew they screwed up the moment they locked him up
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I think what really bothers me about Destiel is that every moment with Cas & Dean is seen as romantic Destiel. Every. Single. Moment
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There are moments in the show where I understand why a scene was tagged as Destiel in a romance way. Even as someone who despises Destiel I can look at some interactions and understand why the scene was tagged Destiel in a romance way
This for example
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But then there are moments that I would never in a million years see as Destiel in a romance way and I cannot fathom why people on Tumblr tag the scene as such
Like this one
Look at the reblogs on when Jack got imprisoned in a box and Cas' reaction to that
I ship Crowstiel but if Crowley did this to Cas? I would not see that moment as Crowstiel. I don't think a fictional ship has to be 100% fluffy to be valid or deserving of being shipped. This is fiction not reality
My issue isn't that people ship a ship that isn't fluffy. My issue is that some Destiel shippers genuinely truly believe that everything and anything is proof of Dean's love for Cas
Talking about the link above if I shipped Destiel as a healthy and romantic relationship then my reaction wouldn't be praise, it wouldn't be acceptance. It wouldn't be awwww Destiel 😍 I would be outraged because you asked for domestic Destiel, you begged for domestic Destiel and do you know what the writers gave you? A domestic Destiel involving Dean justifying child abuse to Cas
Why tf would anyone, who ships Destiel romantically ever tolerate that or let it slide? The show writers do have their own ideas but some of their ideas are from listening to the fandom. When you don't push back the show writers think it's okay
Some really dark ships like Ramsay x Reek are shipped because they've always been shipped as an effed up inappropriate relationship. People KNOW that ship is wrong. They KNOW this. They ship that ship for what it is. And what it is is a psychological study of a torture victim with stockholm syndrome and a torturer with lima syndrome. It is shipped as a psychological study. It is not shipped as a romance. It's shipped as a dark taboo kink that should only exist in fiction. It's never shipped as romance
But Destiel is NOT Thramsay. George RR Martin has created Thramsay as effed up from the very beginning. In the books written by Martin, Ramsay calls Theon his sweet Reek and kisses him on the cheek, while Reek is also a victim Ramsay tortures
Destiel. Either the show creators have intended Destiel to be a ship between an abuser and a victim
Or the writers intended for the ship to be a healthy relationship and listened to you guys on whether they were doing it right. Obviously with tags like this, it's no wonder they didn't get it right
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If the tags were #why did the writers vandalize my ship?! #I know this is wrong but I can't help but like how fucked up it is
Then I would think that Destiel shippers are aware of what they're shipping and that's all I ask for
But when they genuinely believe that this is proof of normal romance and parenting it is painful
Do you ship this moment psychologically as a character study of a toxic moment in a relationship?
Do you ship this moment as a taboo? Like I know it's wrong but it's psychologically fascinating
Do you ship this moment ironically?
All of the above I get
But shipping it as romantic I don't get
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coffincanary · 11 months
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I hate 14x19 "Jack in the Box" with a passion
Arguably the worst scene in Supernatural was Sam and Dean trying to lock Jack in the Mal'ak Box in 14x19. First of all, it felt deeply ooc for Dean. They've been building up Jack as his essentially adopted son, as a part of the family. Dean being upset about Mary's death is 100% warranted, but literally the main theme of the show is that the Winchesters will go above and beyond to save and protect their family. But Dean wanting to lock Jack in the Mal'ak box, something he had *literal nightmares* about when he considered locking himself in there?
If the plan had been to put Jack in there until they could find a way to regenerate his human soul, that might be something Dean would do. But he was planning on keeping Jack in there for eternity. Dean would never do that, unless he doesn't consider Jack family, which would essentially make all the father/son bonding we have seen completely irrelevant. Like them going fishing like John and Dean used to do? Why even put that in there, then? Then Sam just... agrees to it? Like he tries to mildly argue about it, but that's it??? It's not even from a place of anger and hurt about Mary dying, it feels like he's doing it because he's entirely resigned about Jack and helping him. But Sam having hope is a huge and important part of late season Supernatural. He constantly tells Dean not to give up, that they will find a way, especially when Dean says he might have to lock himself in there, but now he's just "well, can't do anything now" and that's it? And when they try to get Jack to go into the box, they just become really bad at lying, especially Sam? THEY'VE LIED LITERALLY THEIR WHOLE LIVES. Sam has lied to so many people. And you can't tell me it was because he didn't actually want to do it or because he cared about Jack, because then he would have actually put up a fight. It was so weird considering what they were trying to do with Sam in the later seasons.
If we want to keep locking Jack in a box for eternity as something that Dean would actually do, it would have been much more in character for them to have an argument about it. Both agree that Jack is dangerous, that something needs to be done, but they disagree on how to handle it. Dean wants to do the equivalent of killing Jack, while Sam holds out hope. Both of them are angry at each other, and Sam immediately drops himself into research and finding a way to get Jack out of there, while Dean probably drinks.
And then there's Cas who's just... upset about the situation, but doesn't do anything. Which, also, ooc for Cas. Like you literally fled from the Winchester's when Kelly was pregnant with him, you have shown your capability to rebel against them too, but now that they locked your son in a box for eternity, you're somehow just like >:( and that's it?? Cas would have tried to bust the box open as soon as he heard of it, and would have beat Dean and Sam's ass for even trying that shit.
This entire episode was just the writers trying to make all the characters "betray" Jack so he would listen to Lucifer. Even if that forced them to act completely different to how they would. It's genuinely the worst scene in the show, in my opinion, because it manages to butcher literally every character and theme they've been trying to build up.
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elasgottoomuchfreetime · 11 months
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Those manipulative little bastards
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inthiswhisper · 2 years
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dean: i didn’t want it to come to this either, but i know [jack’s] head’s not right. now that heaven has its hooks in him, we don’t have a choice. [we have to stop] jack once and for all.
sam: say i agree. dean, he can't be killed.
dean: no, but he can be contained. with [the ma’lak box]. ... we're seriously talking about not having a choice. we can't kill him, okay? and this is warded to lock down an archangel.
sam: ... so, what? we just force him inside?
dean: he goes in here, it’s gotta be his choice. ... he might if he only has to stay in there long enough for us to finish the spell to fix his soul.
sam: spell? what spell? there is no spell.
dean: we know that. ... what we need is to stop jack. ... we both gotta sign off on it. this might be our only shot, and if he even catches a whiff that this is a scam, he's off into the wind.
sam: ... how do you think he's not gonna know something's up?
dean: because you're gonna be so damn sincere. ... you've always been in his corner, all right? you’re his go-to guy. … if you reach out, he'll come. if i do it — after what happened to mom — i could lose it. i will lose it.
oh come on. i don’t want that box around any of you. everything is going way off the deep end and it’s just.... it’s so hard to watch this. 
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shallowseeker · 8 months
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From the 14x19 script, Cas reminds Sam of this important fact:
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From above: CAS: Everyone processes grief differently. SAM: I'm not sure he's processing anything.
But, see. Dean was processing. He was crying and grieving and processing in his own way. When Sam said, "We have to decide what to do about Jack," Dean insisted that he needed more time.
Sam, on the other hand, wanted to power through. Previously, at Mary's pyre in 14x18, he prevented Cas from going to Dean. (I think they may have surprised Sam with what they might've been able to work through, given that they're still in proximity during 14x19.)
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drskilliams · 2 years
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Supernatural 14x19: Jack in the Box, where the title literally told me what would happen but it didn't stop me because I can't read.
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Anyway this is quite literally Sam and Dean's plan for him and it's so funny to me.
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soullessjack · 2 months
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Also just since my one jack-psychosis post made its rounds i’d love to add on these things for extra salt in the wound:
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-> “jack smiles, so happy to be so needed, so loved.”
-> “they’ll never want to be friends again.” [“and that’s important to you?”] “they raised me. taught me to be who i am.”
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this was basically it jdkjflsd
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rose-nobles · 4 years
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gif request ↳ top 5 cas & jack moments
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hellfirecas · 3 years
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𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘥𝘢𝘺!
↳ 05.18.2017
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