supernatural s15e11 the gamblers (teleplay: meredith glynn, story: meredith glynn, davy perez)
so had an infuriating ep, a light (in theory) funny ep, so what's up with this possible alaska excursion. recap was full of a whole mess of things including some random class of angels i forget 2 seconds after hearing it
are they truly driving to alaska
reminds me of this tiktok i saw today of a guy from the uk who lives in the us now and had his mind obliterated when he just realized how close alaska is to russia
but wait, garth says road between barrow and kotzebue, which is nowhere near each other. kotzebue is ....
ok so driving 3800 miles - on a budget, as sam reminds dean - in their like... i'll be generous and say 12mpg impala. that's 316 gallons of fuel, one way. we'll say $3/gal? $950 gas one-way? sounds like any way you slice it, that's a lot of money
lol nic, please, drop it. it's just picking alaska is so wacky because it's so so far away from the rest of the US and it's so big and so sparsely populated
DEAN
What can we get for, uh, $4.60?
WAITRESS
Um, a slice of pie and a cup of coffee?
DEAN
Two forks?
SAM
A-A pool hall that makes you lucky or might kill you? I mean, it sounds like a demon or a witch or…
DEAN
Or it could be awesome. It’s pool. The- the- the game of champions, kings. My game. Hell, our game. How many honest-to-goodness great memories do we have hustling pool?
SAM
Yeah, because we had to. To eat.
DEAN
Okay, well, my point is, that if pool is the way we get our mojo back, then maybe we ain’t as screwed as thought.
but how good are they at pool under the chuck whammy.
day 2, still boggling over driving to alaska. also this whole thing reminds me of the poker playing for years thing from whatever, 5x07 let's get into it
DEAN
Man, I’ve been slinging pool cues since before you were born.
SAM
What? When you were four? Really? What, between nap time and snack?
seen gifs of that one, classic. even knowing it was coming, made me laugh. sam's face, perfect
DEAN
Look, we barely made it out of that monster fight club, okay? We need this. And you know it. Now, look, you’re better than me at pretty much everything, okay? That’s okay. I’m not mad. I’m proud. But I can wipe the floor with you when it comes to pool.
that's very sweet. i will take it
i don't even know what's going on with this little heart-eating jack sidequest for cas
Grigori were watcher angels, some of the first placed on Earth to watch and protect humanity. They were an elite unit that turned rogue and were thought to have been wiped out. However, a handful survived and hid on Earth, feeding off of human souls.
literally only appear in 2 episodes, this one and 10x20 - one thing i really got tired of (which i also understand because the show went on for so long with so many episodes) is just piling on random lore and creatures and weapons and devices and secret societies, etc.
having the pool playing sucking away luck from nice rando humans as opposed to the witch or whatever is kind of an interesting twist. a moral quandary!
the roman goddess of luck, ok. these are the episodes i watch and almost immediately forget :p
FORTUNA
When I play someone, I get a read on them. And you… you’re just a beach read. Sexy, mm, but skimmable.
DEAN
Beach read? Lady, I’m Tolstoy.
cringe
JACK
Fair? The last one I killed was pretending to be a doctor. Feeding on the souls of humans he was supposed to heal. You do it, too. Only you like children.
KABAIEL
Who told you that?
JACK
Death.
so billie yanked him out of the empty to go kill some bad guys? okayyy??? and eating the hearts because...??? laughed out loud when cas popped up to have a sword fight?? with the angel blade
i was on board with jack and my 3 dads and i feel like this should be heartwarming but i'm just 😐
dunno why this remote alaskan bar has jazz music as a theme but whatever. cheaper than licensed music :p (christopher lennertz and philip white on music this ep)
FORTUNA
When you apes first climbed down from the trees, you didn’t pray to him. You prayed to the… the sun, the womb, the rain, and the stars. Well, at first, the creator was furious. How dare you not recognize his beneficence? But soon enough, he birthed us… Ra, Anu, Hera, Mixcoatl, all the rest.
DEAN
Why?
FORTUNA
Why? [scoffs] Why?
To take the blame. Bad harvest? Stillborn child? Our bad. Not his. Plus, we made for epic stories. But his ego could only handle that for so long. Now he’s happy to behind whatever religion has the best syndication deal. While we survive on scraps in the wilderness.
feels like they're trying to finally wedge in an explanation to how the christian god is The god, by way of like oh no, he's just some generic creator and he's actually responsible for everything in all religions which just makes my head hurt if i think about it too long
FORTUNA
You little minx. You got me talking. You’re good.
SAM
I learned from my brother.
there is a lot of cheesy dialogue this episode, i dunno what's going on
the people matter to me. to us. i cannot take this seriously :p
EVIE
Because of you. She said she thought your kind had gone extinct.
SAM
Our kind?
EVIE
Heroes.
loll. whyyy. am i just being an ass again? so cheesy!
EVIE
And, uh, she gave me a message. She said, “Don’t play his game. Make him play yours.”
okily dokily. whatever that means
awkwarrrd
sweet and weird, respectively
JACK
Because if I don’t stay hidden, if I use my powers, my grandfather… he’ll know I’m back, and he’ll try and kill me… again. He’s afraid of me. And that’s why we had to wait.
CAS
Billie kept him hidden in the Empty until Chuck went off world.
JACK
She let me out when it was safe.
DEAN
Safe to what? Eat a bunch of angel hearts?
JACK
Safe to do what I have to. The hearts, they were just the beginning. They made me strong, but I-I’m not strong enough. I… If I do exactly what she says, if I follow her plan, then I’ll get stronger and… I’ll be able to kill God.
LOL ok, sure. to say this season has lost me would be an understatement. i know when i'm like this i'm gonna pick at every little thing, where i let things slide a bit more when i'm fully engaged. i regularly complain about the main plots but usually i'm still here for the character beats, but i'm having a hard time staying connected with even that at the moment
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