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StackedNatural Day 171: 1x22, 7x21, 11x20, 12x20

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May 4, 2022

1x22: Devil's Trap

Written by: Eric Kripke

Directed by: Kim Manners

Original air date: May 4, 2006

Plot Synopsis:

Sam and Dean seek help from Bobby Singer, an old family friend in their mission to save their father from Meg. The brothers set a trap for Meg.

Features: Bobby’s intro, our first Devil’s Trap, Meg getting exorcised, a building full of human shields, going undercover as firefighters, holding your dad at gunpoint, the plans for Sam and all the children like him.

My Thoughts:

It’s shocking how weird a season finale recap feels without Carry On My Wayward Son. Sorry, but it is.

I love the set piece for Bobby’s house, I love the stacks of books and the things pinned to the walls and how it feels like a real place that a weird hermit would really live in. The devil’s trap on the ceiling is a classic move and it’s fun to see the first time they’ve used it. They used to be so ornate, and I get that it slowed plot down if they had to take the time to draw a whole scorpion each time, but they could have made them a bit more interesting later on. Exorcisms were so intense before too, and they cared so much about the victims of demonic possession than they do later on. Dean is talking about how it scares him what he’s willing to do for his family when we know for a fact that it’s going to become routine to him.

It can’t be said enough how wild it is that the demon possessing John Winchester was Too Nice to his kids and that’s what gave the game away. Insane.

Notable Lines:

“Storm’s coming, and you boys, your Daddy – you are smack in the middle of it.”

“You both can’t wait to sacrifice yourself for this thing. But you know what? I’m gonna be the one to bury you.”

“Killing that guy, killing Meg. I didn��t hesitate, I didn’t even flinch. For you or Dad, the things I’m willing to do or kill, it’s just... it scares me sometimes.”

“He’d be furious. That I wasted a bullet. He wouldn’t be proud of me, he’d tear me a new one. You’re not my Dad.”

“ You know, you fight and you fight for this family, but the truth is they don’t need you. Not like you need them. Sam – he’s clearly John’s favorite. Even when they fight, it’s more concern than he’s ever shown you.”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 9.0

IMdB Rating: 9.3

7x21: Reading is Fundamental

Written by: Ben Edlund

Directed by: Ben Edlund

Original air date: May 4, 2012

Plot Synopsis:

Sam and Dean have possession of a Word of God, but are unable to read it. They find a young prophet that can help, but unfortunately, the angels and leviathans are after him, too.

Features:

Kevin’s intro, spookily-timed thunder and lightning, Nurse Meg Masters and Honey-Cas, the Word of God, communication via board game, Hester and Inias, literally so many iconic lines, how to kill a leviathan.

My Thoughts:

I can’t believe how many absolutely iconic supernatural lines there are in this episode. I love a Bedlund ep and this is a great example of one. Even characters working towards the same goal all have different motivations and tactics that put them in conflict with each other, and the emotional strings are a bit more nuanced than your standard monster of the week episode.

The transition between Dean thinking that Cas is fine when they first arrive (actual heart eyes, there) to realizing the impact of the trauma he took on is great. I was writing notes about how he has absolutely no empathy for Kevin, a kid whose life has been turned completely upside down, but so much of his emotional bandwidth is taken up by being scared and upset for Cas. Not to mention blaming himself for the whole situation, because after all, Cas did everything in The Man Who Would Be King for him, and that’s what led him to this state.

Meg is great in this episode. I love seeing how sweet and gentle she is to Cas, especially on the phone right before he pops into the car.

I wish I had the ability to make gifsets because the line “You realize you just broke God’s word?” can apply to Cas in so many situations throughout the series that it is mind boggling. Thesis statement of the character.

Notable Lines:

“Outside today, in the garden, I followed a honeybee. I saw the route of flowers. It's all right there, the whole plan. There's nothing to add.”

“ don't fight anymore. I watch the bees.”

“You seem troubled. Of course, that's a primary aspect of your personality, so I sometimes ignore it.”

“The angels – they don't care. I think maybe they just don't have the equipment to care. Seems like when they try, it just... breaks them apart.”

“I've figured one thing out about this world – just one, pretty much. You find a cause, and you serve it. Give yourself over, and it orders your life.”

“The very touch of you corrupts. When Castiel first laid a hand on you in Hell, he was lost!”

“Well, you know me. Always happy to bleed for the Winchesters.”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 9.6

IMdB Rating: 8.6

11x20: Don't Call Me Shurley

Written by: Robbie Thompson

Directed by: Robert Singer

Original air date: May 4, 2016

Plot Synopsis:

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Metatron eating out of dumpster, God’s world’s greatest dad mug, God’s blog and front row seat and autobiography, ominous fog, why God created Life, Amara’s message for Dean, the responsibility for Creation, Dean’s immunity, an actual Miracle, the Samulet’s return.

My Thoughts:

I’ve never seen this one and it doesn’t disappoint but it’s also way different than I thought. For some reason I was really sure that Chuck talked to Dean at some point and told him not to confuse him with John because I’ve seen gifsets of that moment, but I guess it happens later on.

The choice to have the God reveal between Chuck and Metatron first is really interesting and not what I was expecting, but I like it. They’re both the most meta characters in the show and they’ve both stood in for the writers at different times, although as Metatron readily admits, Chuck’s plot was better and more interesting. I’ve noticed before that Metatron’s plot was almost a proto-Chuck plot in that they have a writer pulling the strings behind the scenes, so it’s cool to see him confronted with the real God.

The reveal to the boys is great too, it’s cool to create an unwinnable scenario just to show how powerful Chuck is when he saves them. I LOVE that Sam has apparently had the Samulet in his pocket all this time, that he couldn’t bear to let it sit in a trashcan where Dean dropped it in season 5. There better be an explanation of why Dean doesn’t wear it for the rest of the series after this though, or I’m rioting.

Some fun notes that I wrote for myself watching this:

Fine, Dean can be straight but God’s definitely bi

God is a weird little freak with a blog, just like me

Notable Lines:

“Of the metric ton of books I've read in my lifetime, Supernatural didn't even crack the top ten... thousand.”

“I dated. Yeah, I had some girlfriends. Had a few boyfriends.”

“It will all be over soon. He's not gonna save them. It's all going away... forever. But not you, Dean.”

“I've been called many things – absentee father, wrathful monster. But, coward... I am not hiding. I am just done watching my experiments' failures.”

“I know I'm a disappointment, but you're wrong about humanity. They are your greatest creation because they're better than you are. Yeah, sure, they're weak and they cheat and steal and... destroy and disappoint. But they also give and create and they sing and dance and love. And above all, they never give up! But, you do!”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 9.6

IMdB Rating: 9.4

12x20: Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes

Written by: Steve Yockey

Directed by: Richard Speight Jr.

Original air date: May 4, 2017

Plot Synopsis:

Alicia Banes calls Mary for help after her mother goes missing. Later, Mary begins to have some doubts about the British Men of Letters.

Features:

Extremely unveiled racism, the Banes twins, Dean holding a wine glass like a neanderthal, Ketch being a clingy one-night stand, nightmare twig figures, Mary finding Mick’s body, the BMoL tracking American hunters, Mary beating the shit out of Ketch, some light body horror, Max making a deal.

My Thoughts:

I love this episode. No idea if it was supposed to be a backdoor pilot but it’s certainly written like one and it deserves to have it’s own spinoff. I want to see the Banes twins travelling around killing things while Max tries to reckon with the deal he made. The episodes you could write around not knowing if Alicia is Alicia or not…

The Banes make such a great mirror to the Winchesters. What they could have been if Mary was the one to survive the fire, the relationships they could have had to each other, and how either way they’ll sell their soul for each other and watch each other die. The line about parents just being people is a Mary thesis. And honestly, Max’s deal is better than Dean’s. Theoretically, he can live an entire life before going to Hell, not just one year.

I also love to see Mary beat the shit out of Ketch! This is a great episode for me! And it leads to There’s Something About Mary, one of my all time top tier episodes.

Plus, Dean calls his mom when he’s stressed about Cas and that is just. Well.

Notable Lines:

“Parents always seem smart and strong and perfect. It's only when you grow up that you realize that they're just people.”

“Brass knuckles are brass knuckles.”

“I'm sorry I haven't been there for you and Sam, but I wanna be. I will be. I just... I need to finish this. I miss you boys. I love you.”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 9.4

IMdB Rating: 8.1

In Conclusion: Watching Devil’s Trap and Reading is Fundamental in the same day makes me want to do a Meg watch along with my Claire watch at some point.

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xofemeraldstars · 9 months

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🎉 CONGRATS TO THE 69.4% 🥳

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dollhousemary · 1 year

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“The Dollhouse” — a dialogue poem between Chuck and Metatron, for today’s prompt of the same name!

this poem was inspired by a good handful of other things, namely Supernatural 11x20 "Don't Call Me Shurley", "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo, and a philosophical dialogue between Socrates and one of his students, Euthyphro :)

taglist below!

@spnpoetryrenaissance @aturnoftheearth @friendshapedcas @pinoruno @gracekisses @soupernatural @evenupsidedownbeautifulsomehow @magdaclaire @cinderellarhea @enochianribs @heartshapedcas @breo-rose @raytoroinmybackpack @gilmorenatural @leafblogger @supersapphical @notreallyaroad @frogstiel @ididit-allofit-foryou

#ivy.txt #ivy's writing #poetry #spnpoetryrenaissance #i’ve been so so excited to do this one since the beginning of the month oh my god #when i camp up with the dollhouse prompt my first thought was mary (ofc)#but then i started thinking about chuck and s14 and was like…oh….#*s15 not 14 augh >:(#what if there was a kind of mini sequel conversation to the one in 11x20 #but following the events of the s14 finale/s15 premiere?#and that’s how i got here :)#metatron’s presence can be explained however you want—he’s a figment of chuck imagination he resurrected him to talk to somebody #he never actually died #etc etc #honestly i could’ve just as easily made metatron becky here too #anyway! rambling! my bad #hope you enjoy <3

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missjackil · 2 months

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Supernatural Battle of the Episodes!

No surprise that Red Meat wins in a landslide again! Kudos though to The Chitters for being a very good episode on its own, it just had a very strong competitor! Let's see of the next episode can do any better!

Bring 'em out Chuck!

Chuck: Next up we have Don't Call Me Shurley: my stupid sister, let her killer fog roll in, infecting everyone including Sam, but not Dean! This triggers an epic broment with leg rubbing, hair tugging and "I'm not leaving you...EVER!!"

Meanwhile, I come out to Metatron that I'm God and he tells me off 🤨

#supernatural #spn #episode battle #polls #red meat ftw #but i do enjoy this episode #great broment #and also metatron makes me cry

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unhinged-jackles · 8 months

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SPN Best Episode per Season

Masterpost

reblog for sample size

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #jensen ackles #jared padalecki #misha collins #tanoo polls #spn season 11

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spnmarchmadness · 1 year

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Supernatural March Madness: Round 1, Match 21

11x20 Summary: lets go author father god stans. metatron gets teleported to a god bar where chuck reveals he's god! chuck and metatron edit chuck's latest books while sam and dean try to solve a case where amara has created a dark fog. sam gets a gulp of it, and is nearing death when the samulent activates and chuck returns to earth.

10x22 Summary: after charlies death, dean loses it big time baby. he gets arrested, crowley bails him out. sam is working with rowena to translate the demon tablet to save dean but needs to kill crowley to do so. he takes a shot but crowley is able to remove the devils trap bullet. dean goes on a lil killing spree which cas discovers. after a confrontation about the mark, cas says he'll watch dean destroy the world and dean beats cas. and uhhh. the dialated pupils of it all.

carver era standoff, who takes the cake?

#spnmarchmadnessr1 #spnmarchmadness

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ambersock · 7 months

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Which SPN character's crimes are you the #1 defender of to the end of time?

Going the unpopular route:

Metatron. His crime was trying to wrest control of heaven away from Naomi, who was ruling with an iron fist by memory wiping/brainwashing/mind controlling all of the other angels. And even if he had done worse, he gets a pass for sticking up for humanity to Chuck and for Curtis Armstrong delivering one of the finest performances of the entire series in 11x20 Don't Call Me Shurley.

(The fact that I've had a crush on Curtis since Better Off Dead has nothing to do with it.)

#pro metatron #curtis armstrong appreciation

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cockworkangels · 2 years

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remember when they made the biblical god bisexual. but then refused the possibility that some guy from kansas could ever have a singular gay thought

#no other show #s11 rewatch #11x20 don't call me shurley

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hermywolf · 1 year

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Top 5 SPN episodes? (Hope you're having a good day today! <3)

hi!:! thank you you too!!<33

oh god im terrible at picking lmaoo i have so many i love

okay im gonna say baby. off the bat. i love baby so much its so good

FUCK okay because now there's. all the anna episodes. especially heaven and hell & i know what you did last summer and obviously THEE on the head of a pin. i really love sacrifice and the end. don't call me shurley and 11x21 and 11x22 and 11x23 too (can you tell im a s11 girlie) fuck this is hard

okay im gonna say. fuck. okay. uuh. 1) baby 2) on the head of a pin 3) sacrifice. also im just gonna put all of 11x20-11x23 in honorary mentions here i can't pick one i love the end of s11 so much

#asks #spn #and probably a bunch i forgot too. like i just remembered the man who would be king and free to be you and me. and dead in the water!!#there's so many

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samepisodebracket · 1 year

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justice for sam

If the spnepisodebracket craze has shown us anything, it's that the supernatural fanbase is extremely divided, with the lowly sam stan seemingly at the bottom of the pile. sam is always last in polls, so this is a bracket for the 10% or so who always votes for him. because yeah, there's 327 episodes of Supernatural, but how many are popular because of a dean or destiel moment? how many good episodes are drowned out because they focus on sam?

i've chosen, with some crowdsourced peer review (special thanks to @spneveryseason, @suncaptor, and @ambersock!) 125 episodes that are Sam Relevant. Some are extremely sam-centric, some just have a shot where sam looks like he's being crucified that gives me brain worms -- i tried to be generous about it to keep a relatively even seasons distribution! matchups will be random and polls will last 24 hours each. in the tradition of @spnepisodebracket (who this is obviously inspired by and would not be possible without!) i'll try to rb a gifset for every episode in the poll!

a final note: no this is not that serious but the criteria for voting here should be how good the episode is as a SAM episode, not as anything else, so please vote accordingly! i am making this for people who actually enjoy sam and if that is not you, then this is not the poll for you!

with that out of the way, here is the compiled list of episodes! voting starts this sammy sunday, 3/26!

Season 1 Pilot (1x01) Bloody Mary (1x05) Home (1x09) Asylum (1x10) Scarecrow (1x11) Nightmare (1x14) Shadow (1x16) Provenance (1x19) Salvation (1x21) Devil's Trap (1x22) Season 2 Simon Said (2x05) Croatoan (2x09) Hunted (2x10) Playthings (2x11) Houses of the Holy (2x13) Born Under a Bad Sign (2x14) Heart (2x17) All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 (2x21) All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 (2x22) Season 3 Bad Day at Black Rock (3x03) A Very Supernatural Christmas (3x08) Mystery Spot (3x11) Jus In Bello (3x12) Time is On My Side (3x15) Season 4 Metamorphosis (4x04) It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester (4x07) I Know What You Did Last Summer (4x09) After School Special (4x13) On the Head of a Pin (4x16) It's a Terrible Life (4x17) Jump the Shark (4x19) When the Levee Breaks (4x21) Lucifer Rising (4x22) Season 5 Good God, Y'all! (5x02) Free to be You and Me (5x03) Changing Channels (5x08) Sam, Interrupted (5x11) Swap Meat (5x12) The Song Remains the Same (5x13) My Bloody Valentine (5x14) Dark Side of the Moon (5x16) 99 Problems (5x17) Two Minutes to Midnight (5x21) Swan Song (5x22) Season 6 Exile on Main St. (6x01) You Can't Handle the Truth (6x06) Family Matters (6x07) Clap Your Hands if You Believe (6x09) Caged Heat (6x10) Appointment in Samarra (6x11) Like a Virgin (6x12) Unforgiven (6x13) The French Mistake (6x15) The Man Who Knew Too Much (6x22) Season 7 Meet the New Boss (7x01) Hello, Cruel World (7x02) The Girl Next Door (7x03) Season 7, Time for a Wedding! (7x08) Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie (7x14) Repo Man (7x15) Out with the Old (7x16) The Born-Again Identity (7x17) Season 8 We Need to Talk About Kevin (8x01) Hunteri Heroici (8x08) Trial and Error (8x14) Taxi Driver (8x19) Pac-Man Fever (8x20) The Great Escapist (8x21) Clip Show (8x21) Sacrifice (8x23) Season 9 Holy Terror (9x09) Road Trip (9x10) First Born (9x11) The Purge (9x13) Meta Fiction (9x18) Season 10 Black (10x01) Soul Survivor (10x03) Fan Fiction (10x05) Inside Man (10x17) Book of the Damned (10x18) The Werther Project (10x19) The Prisoner (10x22) Brother's Keeper (10x23) Season 11 Form and Void (11x02) Baby (11x04) Just My Imagination (11x08) Oh Brother Where Art Thou (11x09) The Devil in the Details (11x10) Into the Mystic (11x11) Ouroborus (11x14) Red Meat (11x17) Don't Call Me Shurley (11x20) Season 12 Keep Calm and Carry On (12x01) Mamma Mia (12x02) American Nightmare (12x04) Rock Never Dies (12x07) The Raid (12x14) Who We Are (12x22) Season 13 Lost and Found (13x01) Patience (13x03) The Big Empty (13x04) Various & Sundry Villains (13x12) A Most Holy Man (13x15) Funeralia (13x19) Beat the Devil (13x21) Exodus (13x22) Let the Good Times Roll (13x23) Season 14 Stranger in a Strange Land (14x01) Mint Condition (14x04) Nightmare Logic (14x05) Byzantium (14x08) Prophet and Loss (14x12) Lebanon (14x13) Peace of Mind (14x15) Game Night (14x17) Moriah (14x20) Season 15 Back and to the Future (15x01) Atomic Monsters (15x04) The Rupture (15x03) Golden Time (15x06) The Gamblers (15x11) Unity (15x17) Inherit the Earth (15x19) Finale: Carry On (15x20)

Edits: Bugs (1x08) will be added, polls will not be completely random bc im not doing this for science im doing this to see a good episode win and my randomizer pit when the levee breaks against swan song in round 1

#samepisodebracket #sam winchester #polls #spn #spn polls

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liopleurodean · 6 months

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Season 11: The Road So Far

That's another season down! And, aside from the month-long hiatus between episodes 4 and 5, I'd say it went pretty quickly. This is your regular reminder to follow the "ashla chick flick moments" tag if you want to see more of my live reactions to Supernatural.

This season was... interesting. I think I'd put it in the middle of the rankings. A lot of "monster of the week" filler episodes, which is great, but the overarching plot was... lacking. (To be clear, I am saying this as a Deangirl, so I may be biased against the whole Amara thing.)

Overall, I really liked the concept of Amara. The bond thing, however... I wasn't really a fan. Speaking of bonds, we got a lot of Cas content. Props to Misha, his performance as Lucifer was fantastic.

As far as favorite episodes, is it really even a question? 11x04 Baby is THE episode Of All Time. Werepires. Bob Seger. Siblings™. The best Impala content of the entire show. No one does it like her. Some honorable mentions: 11x08 Just My Imagination, 11x11 Into The Mystic, 11x14 The Vessel, 11x15 Beyond The Mat, 11x16 Safe House, and 11x20 Don't Call Me Shurley. I don't think this is the first time that none of the finale episodes made the list, but I know it won't be the last (I'm looking at you, season 15).

While there were some pretty solid episodes, I just don't think the season as a whole brought much to the table. It looked good on paper, but (and maybe this is a consequence of watching it too fast) it didn't seem to have the right build and development.

Again, Amara as a concept was great. And bringing Chuck back as God was probably a huge plot twist at the time it came out, and was really a solid idea. I actually do like the way they handled Lucifer, and (I can't believe I'm saying this) Metatron was a valuable asset to the group and did pretty well. We were introduced to Billie this season, and I really do enjoy her screentime despite what I know about her later.

I suppose we should talk about Mary. Plot twist! Of course, I was spoiled for that, but I really am interested in seeing this play out. I already know it's not gonna go too well, but I wasn't really expecting any different.

And the British Men of Letters! I am not excited for them. I mean, the story will be great, but the boys deserve a rest. The whole thing is gonna spiral out of control and I really wish people would just leave them alone.

Anyway, I think I might get started on season 12 tonight. I'd like to get through it before Thanksgiving, but that's not really likely. Happy (belated) Nov. 5th, and Carry On!

#ashla chick flick moments #supernatural #season 11 #the road so far

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