rewatching supernatural is so fun because. why would you put yourself through that torture again. but it is so comforting. like this show is insane and gay and sexy and agonizing and homosexual and erotic and deeply upsetting. but it’s just. so good.
Irks me a little bit whenever Dean torturing in Hell is positioned as his own fault, or even really his choice to do. We get given the solid number, 30 years of torture for him and 10 inflicting it on other people (which was also more torture for him because it’s Hell, the torture evolves, it doesn’t stop), and we get told that wasn’t long enough. That John held out longer. That angels were going to pull Dean out of Hell and if he’d just held on a few years more, the seal wouldn’t have been broken.
But that isn’t true, right? We know Heaven wanted the seal broken, ergo Dean wasn’t getting saved until it was. Until it, and he, we’re thoroughly broken and usable by Heaven to achieve their own ends (ie to make him into a good (obedient) Michael sword.) So, it wouldn’t have mattered how long he held out in Apocalyptic terms because the game (that he didn’t know he was playing) was rigged against him.
But more importantly for Dean, the amount of time he managed not to break literally does not matter. Because it was never going to be long enough. Thirty years, forty, a hundred, a thousand, it does not matter how long he held out because the breaking itself is the unforgivable part to him and the breaking was always inevitable.
Anyway. There’s my Dean meta for the year. Eat up, I guess.
It’s been a hot minute since I watched any spn at all but I’m pretty sure Emily Swallow’s raw charm and screen presence quite literally saved Amara’s character from the depths of writing hell. Do you ever think about what this person was up against. Do you ever think about how bad some of Amara’s lines are. To say nothing at all of the Dean thing. And it’s just like.. how did Amara survive that? How did she become a Good Character not only in her initial season, but then also go on to become something of a fan favourite for just her minor role in s15? I’ll tell you. It’s because Emily got out there in front of the camera in spn s11, and she looked up from her script and said, I am going to say these lines but I am going to tilt my head and make my little faces and add just the right cadence to these words and I am going to create scenes of incredible palpable emotion and I will have her be so alien yet so human at once in faultless balance. I am going to make Amara Supernatural more endearing and sympathetic and dimensional than she could ever be on the page in my hands I will do this if it fucking kills me
Btw if my Wynonna Earp spamming has inspired anyone to start watching (all 4 seasons are on Netflix, at least in the US), please be prepared for…let’s call it camp. Not sure if it counts as camp when I don’t think it was on purpose, but that’s what I’m calling it. The CGI is BAD. It gets a little better as the show goes on, but I’m warning you now. Sometimes the actors outside the main cast are……..less than stellar. (But the main cast is very good! Don’t worry!!) Sometimes the writing will unintentionally make you laugh, and there are some plot holes that never get resolved. BUT WITH ALL THAT BEING SAID: your payoff will be hilarity, kickass women who don’t fall into two stereotypical personalities, loving found family that will die for each other (and often make horrible deals with dark entities to save each other), and happy endings. It’s worth it!!!
I’m sorry but when Castiel was on his villain arc in season 6, and Dean was like “don’t make me lose you too” even though he was the main reason he lost Lisa and Ben and he purposefully put Sam down. Even after everything and Dean still couldn’t handle losing him.
aaaaarrrrggghhhhhhdjjfigjfi he was literally an angel of the lord who dragged a repressed homosexual man (!!!) out of hell and then fell in love with him (!!!!!!) and rebelled against heaven and committed literal genocide for him and furthermore helped kill THEE literal Abrahamic God with him ?!?!?! like what is not clicking…how can you watch this show and be normal…how are you immune to the cw’s supernatural…with banger lines like ‘you draped yourself in the flag of heaven, but ultimately, it was all about saving one human…’ and ‘when castiel first laid a hand on you in hell he was lost’ and ‘you came off the line with a crack in your chassis. you have never done what you were told’ and ‘the worst part was dean, trying so hard to be loyal, with every instinct telling him otherwise’ and ‘i cared about the whole world because of you…’ etc and so on and so forth…like how are you immune to the unbelievably depressing queer narrative spn writers unintentionally created while they were busy writing the worst show of all time…do you not yearn? we are not the same…they literally sent castiel to nothingness until the end of time all bc he was a little fruity and then dean was like ‘hmm i think im done living now bc i miss cas :-(‘ and died on a RUSTY NAIL after years of fighting literal angels and demons and dying and being brought back to life from literal HELL…while his straight boring whitebread brother lived a long and happy normal life with his wife and children…like what more could you possibly want from a tv show…hashtag love is only for the brave 🌈
Damn I forgot how much I love Charlie’s character?? S8 Charlie was an absolute mood, and her and Dean were an absolute delight of a duo in all of her episodes wowie
btw i promise i still care about spn it’s just that i physically don’t have the bandwidth to keep up with mcr and also engage with spn posts while trying to apply to schools and this tour feels like such a once in a lifetime event how could i not be paying attention to it