supernatural s11e1 out of the darkness, into the fire (w. jeremy carver)
i'm feeling very dispirited about my ability to watch the entire series, gotta say. i'd been kind of looking forward to s11 because i have some vague notions of a few of the episodes. ah well. tally-ho
dean sucked up by the darkness straight away, great (scrolling through my internal rolodex of ladies i very vaguely know of from fic. amara??). turns out our nice boy is just taking a nap with the flowers
sam's hair situation looks improved, looks like they let it grow out so it's uneven in the back and flipping up in parts again instead of a shaped smooth bob situation
they're getting a little more creative with the effects with rolling in the flashbacks, which is neat. though using the same effect (differently but similar enough) for dean and sam's recollection, less neat
cas has progressed to rabid wet kitten i see
JENNA
Rebar. I sought cover. I fell.
😬
all right so. just the moral calculation of culpability in all the rando human deaths at scale due to ye olde brothers. letting lucifer out i think is zero sum, they were pushed by heaven and hell to make it happen. sam saved a lot of people by jumping into the cage to lock lucifer (and michael and poor adam) back up, that's gotta add a good number in the black. (cas has got some big negatives with the whole god-stint and releasing the leviathans i wager. oh and the whole angels falling business). choosing for sam to live instead of closing the gates of hell forever, well that is less definable but seems like a big fat red number on dean's tally, but probably less than would have died with lucifer and michael duking it out? so if we consider them one (ofc) they're still in the black. this business with the darkness though, is a lot more definable and in your face if we're seeing this hospital full of dead people on their first jaunt out post evil!twister. curious what kind of guilt they're gonna lay at sam's feet. he gets squirrely when it's people in the way of having dean. anyway. i think y'all might be the bad guys 😔
moving on, finally.
oh funny, the deputy was the original fen in the magicians which i've definitely mentioned before while watching this. aha, she was in 7x22 with rick worthy (dean fogg on the magicians, spn alpha vampire). those light eyes and dark hair are very striking and memorable
did they scrimp on the makeup budget or something?? looks like he's sewing up a vulva and not even bothering to lift her shirt. UNSANITARY, BRO. hope she's up to date on her tetanus too. and gets some antibiotics to boot
that's some weirdly lit cleavage. also, dean already lied to sam about what went down with her? SIGH. so. tired.
this lighting got him extra haggard looking. why didn't he just kill the zombie whatever, especially after hearing the baby crying? wtf is going on.
the little yawn 🥺
MARN’S HUSBAND
You just sit your tush down, okay? Just let me get this out. I've been thinking a lot about what you said -- and -- and I know, I lost my chickens when you put it out there. But it's not every day that your wife tells you that she wants to watch you get a party started with your best friends. I mean, am I right?
this whole interlude is... something. aaand straight to maternal death. sigh. and dad's gonna die too. great
giving 2x9 croatoan slash 2004 dawn of the dead vibes
DEAN
And how long is that? And when they infect others, how long is that? No, we stay here, that baby dies. We did this, Sam. Okay? We broke it, we bought it.
indeed. why don't you tell sam about the dark cleavage lady then
CASTIEL
Sam, Dean... goodbye. It may be some time before we see one another again.
DEAN
Wait, Cas. Cas!
LOL okay. couldn't squeeze in any details i guess
MINION 1
It's just, you barely escaped assassination. You're arguably on the run from the most powerful witch on earth -- not to mention an angel of heaven and uh...
CROWLEY
And?
MINION 1
You didn't call for help until after the orgy?
come now, minion 1, do you truly expect otherwise
sam's talking big picture logistics and dean's just like wtf is the other option right at this moment
DEAN
We have a plan, okay? It's the same plan as it's always been. In order to get out, we go through.
SAM
And? How's that been working for us?
DEAN
We can't save Cas if we're stuck in some hospital, okay? Just like I can't strap on a time machine, go back, and tell Cain to shove that Mark up his ass or stop you from releasing the darkness. Now, have we made mistakes? Yes. Hell, yes. And we can analyze each and every one of them over a couple of frosties when we're old and farting sawdust and out of this room! Right now, all I can do is I can gear up, I can head out, and I can save that freaking baby, which is exactly what I'm gonna do.
when they get old. together. right.
SAM
Dean, if we don't change -- right now -- all of our crap is just gonna keep repeating itself.
DEAN
Okay, I-I don't even -- what?
i'm with you on this one, dean. what
SAM
There is always a cure. You just have to want to find it.
DEAN
Yeah, how are you gonna find it if you're dead? And around and around we go.
SAM
Saving people means all of the people, Dean. Not just that baby. Not just each other. I unleashed a force on this world that could destroy it... to save you.
DEAN
And I told you not to.
SAM
And I'd do it again. In a second, I would do it again. And that is what I'm talking about. This isn't on you. It is on us. We have to change.
(i hate that my thought process legit is, take yourselves off the board, go to heaven, do not pass go)
so i guess sam's guilt caused a come to jesus moment about killing the people (rabids??? zombies) who we've seen already have an inherently short shelf life even without intervention. guess that's why he refused to shoot one despite the crying baby. this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. i can see sam having this thinking, but not in this situation and moment.
poor woman stuck watching their messy drama play out. i hope they're packing her a big ass duffel of formula and diapers. did you know when you give birth in a hospital, you can take all that stuff you don't use in your room with you? stock up, folks
SAM
Get Jenna to the car. Get her and the baby somewhere safe.
DEAN
Without a shot. And what are we gonna do about those things on our tail?
SAM
They won't be on your tail.
DEAN
No way.
SAM
You said it, Dean. We broke this.
DEAN
Yeah, we broke this, okay? We did.
SAM
I heard it in your voice when you agreed to take that child. I get it. You do what you do. But you've got to let me do what I do, too.
be bait?
quelle surprise sam locked himself in with a zombie. oh and got zombie juice in his mouth. STELLAR PLAN, SAM
MIKE
Her name.. is Amara.
okily dokily. so we think the baby's named amara but it's actually dark cleavage lady? do i get a gold star?
and lucifer slash michael is all riled up in the cage, even greater
DARKNESS
For the same reason that you'll never hurt me. (She pulls aside her dress to show the Mark of Cain on her collarbone) We're bound, Dean. We'll always be bound. You helped me. I helped you. No matter where I am, who I am... we will always help each other.
great great. it's like a neverending fucking romcom where an ever growing percentage of sam and dean's problems are caused by lack of communication. but we don't even get the catharsis of a good kiss at the end. i am so tired of it
i need to lower my expectations again so i can stop being so disappointed
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Again, ranked based on how likely I am to rewatch, not necessarily how good they are, the season premieres:
S4 I Don’t Have To Explain This.
S2 The cycles!! They’re cycling!!! Tessa!!!!!!
S12 I like Mary.
S13 I like Jack and widower arc
S11 lol the darkness zombies are fun for me idk it’s sort of atmospheric
S1 it’s iconic
S6 opening montage is soooo
S10 CAS HAS CONSUMPTION???
S14 Mostly just boring.
S5 MANY THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND MOST OF THEM ARE DISTRESSING
S7 Go Godstiel Go!
S8 This is actually a good season opener? I think I just associate it too heavily with ensuing Samelia
S9 I have almost no memory of this episode I think I only tuned in during the Cas bits.
S3 AND WE NEVER EVEN SAW THEM AGAINNNNN CANT HAVE ANYTHING ON THIS SHOWWWWW
S15 It’s so fucking boring and Belphegor can’t save it
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Samwena in 11x01 “Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire”?
In 11x01, both Dean and Sam claim to be the one who freed the Darkness:
When in truth, it was clearly neither of them who set the Darkness free.
It was Rowena, not Sam, who cast the spell in 10x23.
Sam wasn’t even present when that spell was cast. He and Dean were busy elsewhere—just spending a pleasant day, Winchester-style:
They were together in the same room when that lightning bolt crashed down from the sky and removed the mark from Dean’s arm in 10x23:
At this point, Dean already knew that Sam had been working behind his back to remove the mark. And that Sam had dragged both Charlie and Cas into it. So there is no point in secrecy about any of this any longer.
The one thing Dean doesn’t know about is Rowena’s involvement. Yes, there’s a 10x23 deleted scene where Crowley tells him about that in a dreamscape bar. But I’m not sure if or if not we should count deleted scenes as fully canon.
Normally I tend to do that. But then why would Sam reinforce Dean’s assumption that Sam is the one who cast the spell?
The only possible explanation my tired brain can think of right now is that Sam is actually covering for Rowena, so that Dean doesn’t have a new reason to go after her?
But still... why, after Sam himself (indirectly) threatened to kill her in 10x22?
Was Sam just bluffing towards Cas? Again, why do that?
What in the holy Samwena derangement is all this?? Can anyone make more sense of this than me in my sleep-deprived state?
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good meme! 6 and 13 🥴
6. least favorite Good Guy
Donafuckingtello. i didn't mind him at first because he had a few funny moments in s11 and even s13 - though that was more thanks to pithy writing than his pull as a character or actor.
but they brought him back again and again and it was just as unnecessary and frustrating as the Lucifer returns. would've preferred Kevin's return or, y'know. just not another old white dude. but it's spn so that was expected, i guess.
anyway, he took way too much plot and screen time away from the main characters and a better character that could-have-been. even the delicious destiel scenes from 13x14 (with protective bamf Cas) [x][x] ..
.. and from 14x12 (with Dr. Sexy Cas) [x] ..
..weren't enough to endear me to his actual character (and yes, i know I'm showing the bits i didn't hate in regard to my least favorite of something but i'm pointing out his best bits were actually the writers and the deancas going on around him).
13. worst plot twist
i had to think on this one. going through the season arcs i think Worst plot twist is different from my Least Fave plot twist.
Worst goes to the introduction of The Darkness. i remember cringing so bad during the smoke-cloud convo in 11x01 bc ofc it wasn't enough to introduce something dumb like God's sister (although the Woman V. Man aspect of it was interesting in retrospect) they had to sexualise said formidable primordial force, as spn loves to do (HBO!SPN would never). it felt s7-mouth-head-monsters silly.
that being said, Emily Swallow was brilliant and her character journey was intriguing because of The Growth™. plus her entwinement with Dean made for some memorable deancas moments ie. pining!dean [x] ..
.. sorry, i don't mean to bring everything back to destiel, but *shrug*.
Amara actually became one of my fave side characters! she was especially good in s15 (and in this house we do not acknowledge whatever became of her after 15x17 bc wtf).
fandom ask meme
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