1. i was wondering your opinion on dean pulling a gun on Kaia that one time? that scene makes me sooo uncomfortable & it feels out of character for dean to do that to a kid.
2. i was wondered if youve ever heard this song--i am Obsessed with it: https://youtu.be/0Tl9gSq71Dk?si=WPKkz7-_0YbjRQHB
Hello! So I remember feeling that way the first time I watched 13.09. It's been a while now since I rewatched season 13, but I do remember on future watches, that I came around to it. Unlike what I was bitching about last night, I feel that what happens with Kaia is much better motivated. While absolutely out of Dean's typical character, it is intentionally so. It's supposed to shock us as a further reflection of Dean's very bad mental state in season 13. This season opens with Dean losing Cas, Mary, and Crowley, and seriously struggling with those losses to the point of wanting to die. He literally has a suicide plan and he actually kills himself in 13.05, only to be brought back by Billie. At the same time that Dean is dealing with this crushing mental state, Sam, in his own pain, is looking for support, which he tries to get by pushing Dean to step up and help him with Jack when Dean simply isn't emotionally capable of that at the time and knows it. Sam becomes so fixated on trying to "make" Dean get better that he tries to play therapist in a way that's ultimately very invalidating and unintentionally cruel. Dean is no goodie-two-shoes either most certainly, but that's again all part of this blinking neon sign screaming, "Dean Is Not Okay" that eventually culminates with what happens with Kaia.
Up until this episode, Dean has repeatedly told himself that Mary is dead. When Jack shows him something different, we literally see Dean's eyes get distant and it's like he can barely breathe and all the noise around him falls away as Sam and Jack are talking. He is having A Moment™️.
So when Kaia refuses to help them, Dean snaps. It's not pretty, and it's shocking from Dean because it is something we know is not typical of Dean's character. Jack also showed them a vision of Mary in a torture cage, so Dean believes his mom is in danger of death as they speak and is suffering. From his perspective, the thing standing between him and his mom being tortured to death is a teenager who just doesn't want to see something scary.
i do think that like. the current tiktok phenomenon of bullying teenagers for being really into stranger things, specifically a character who was considered an outcast for being nerdy and neurodivergent coded, is really weird though. like ive never watched stranger things and i dont plan to but like. it's a popular show. no one's going to look at you weird if you say you've watched stranger things and you really liked it. it's one of netflix's big shows
but people on tiktok are specifically making fun of kids who get over emotional about it. i havent touched anything stranger things and i still keep getting recommended tiktoks of people being like imagine getting attached to a character who was only in one season. that's so cringe
why is it now considered cool to be nerdy, but only if you're not too into it? why can i scroll through tiktok and see some conventionally attractive tiktoker get a million views for a low effort anime cosplay and then i scroll down and someone's mocking a stranger things fansong? it's like being a nerd is just an aesthetic and if it's more than that to you then you're a loser
After discovering government warnings prior to movies they have shown for their film club, Finn and Jake decide to make their own but get into a fight over the direction of the film in their favor. “Video Makers” premiered on this day, 13 Years Ago.
every time I see someone with a doctor who take or theory or anything that puts any weight whatsoever on 13s run I like immediately stop reading and just skim the rest of it. No hate to them I just
- didn't like the run
- gave up watching it during the timeless child arc cause the lore inaccuracies pissed me off
- generally ignore its existence cause it's easier
my a.soiaf hot take is that being angry they aged up the characters for the tv show will never not be weird to me because why do you want to see literal children go through all of that fucked up shit on screen