supernatural s15e10 the heroes' journey (w. andrew dabb)
clair de lune during an action sequence, not the most original but still a good one. monster death match making me think of altered carbon (mentioned matt frewer in the role that ran the monsters-but-actually-modified-people cage matches, no less, when he was in spn) and dude in thick glasses at the match in shadow making me think of blade runner
samuel. oven mitts, pot holders, a towel. literally, anything. and 2019 best pie magazine winner on that "delicious pies" magazine
feel like we're reliving bad day at black rock
SAM
That’s the card Charlie hacked for us, the one –
DEAN
Yeah, the one that’s supposed to be our “no more hustling, always working” Golden Ticket.
(cheap) answer to the long standing question of what they've been doing for money, but okay
always thought garth's role was gonna be bigger, just because i saw him mentioned in fandom periodically. only in 6 episodes though. (imagine eileen is around the same number?)
DEAN
You know, I gotta say, aside from pincushion in there… this is pretty nice.
GARTH
Yeah, better than I ever thought I’d get. I mean, hunting – I figured I’d be dead before I’m 40.
You know, go out young and pretty. But now I’ve got a great wife, great kids. I guess...sometimes things work out.
DEAN
Yeah, sometimes. Good, man. You deserve it. You do.
sometimes things work out, just not for our guys
hijinks with sam drinking a cayenne cure-all and dean being forced to accept dental work from garth sure is something. bit more like old school spn humor that i didn't mesh with. but jackles sure loves to ham it up.
...ok. that felt like it lasted forever. it was fine but this episode is ... something. was letting jackles dance on the bucket list and this was the best thing they could think of? or was the extended dancing just part of dabb's ✨vision✨
SAM
What do you mean?
GARTH
I mean, apparently Dean’s never been to a dentist before, and suddenly he got a mouthful of cavities, you’re sick, and your car is broken down. Who did you guys piss off?
SAM
God.
that was cute
GARTH
Oh, no, no, no. I want to be the guest star. Being the hero sucks. I mean, sure, you’ll probably win eventually, but until you do, your life blows. Your parents get gunned down in an alleyway. Your home planet gets blown up. You, uh, interview this good-looking rich guy, and it doesn’t go well, so he shows up at the hardware store where you work, and, man, it starts to get, you know...
BESS
It’s from, uh – We love “Fifty Shades.”
GARTH
Yeah, we do.
SAM
Who's the hero in that?
come now, sam
GARTH
Exactly. See, the hero never sweats the small stuff. It slows down the story.
SAM
So, then, what happened? Chuck...downgraded us?
GARTH
Maybe, yeah. And now you’re –
DEAN [muffled]
Cursed.
GARTH
No – normal. For the first time in your lives, you’re having normal-people problems.
getting very meta and feeling clever again i see
SAM
So help us. Please.
BRAD
Wow. I mean, wow. With the furrowed brow and the puppy eyes – did you see that? That never actually works for you, does it?
uh huh. and the meta shade again
DEAN
Hey, look, just because God yanked the magic horseshoe out of our ass or whatever doesn’t mean that we’re gonna give up. This is our job. It’s what we do. And, yeah, it might be a little harder right now, but so what?
could very much do without an extended scene of dean getting sick.
ok....
LOL this is a new variation of the mushy music theme. i just laughed. and the speech sounds like it was cribbed from a bad action movie. but guess sammy was with it
this slapstick fight with the big vamp in the parking lot... also something.
DEAN
This Cass keeps looking at me weird.
SAM
So kind of like the real Cass.
sam cracking himself up. this is an excellent face from the baby
that was a nice goodbye to garth at the end, at least. i think they've used werewolves in london before right? ok yes, 10x04 (oh god the crooked sunglasses on jared during their "we time" but also a season's worth of clear communication between sam and dean)
GARTH
Not sure. The guy who told me said it was in Alaska, on the road between Barrow and Kotzebue. He said, “You’ll know it when you see it,” whatever that means.
sure hope they plan on flying because that's a long ass drive, even by their standards. and utqiagvik (formerly barrow) is literally the northern most city in alaska/the us. at one point there was a chance my dad could take a job in deadhorse alaska when i was a kid (but we ended up in phoenix instead) which is also extremely far north
that sure was an episode. not my kind of episode, but it didn't make me extremely irritated like the previous ep so i guess i'll take the win
ok well being the still on the wiki made me smile, love me some babies and looks like both sams were having a good time
When Dean gives Sam his speech about the two of them kicking ass in the fight, a slightly off-key version of the track "Americana" (also known as "Dean's Family Dedication Theme") plays behind his words.
who calls it that??? should they add that i call it the spn mushy music theme :P in the 15x03 wiki entry, they alternately call it "Winchester Family Theme"
So dean goes into his anesthesia induced sleep and has the tap dance thing. Just imagine if, instead of lamp, he actually dreamed of dancing with Cas. Like imagine him waking up from that and being so confused and embarrassed and unable to even look Cas in the eye after that as he comes to terms with his emotions. Imagine him rationalizing it away as just friends, like he always does. Imagine when he finally does realize he loves Cas, he still can't find the words to say it, especially since Dean doesn't think Cas could ever love him (even though that's just more of his insane rationalizing). Then imagine 15:18 taking place. He not only learns that Cas can love like that but he does and he loves Dean and Dean is in so much shock but this time he manages to do something about it because he may not be good with words but actions matter so he does kiss him and he does vow to save him and save him he does.
i keep forgetting that 'this cas keeps looking at me weird' -- 'so kind of like the real cas' is an actual, real dialogue. im like. don't even get me started.
Look, I didn’t sign up for this shit, I didn’t ask for it and, most importantly, I did not look for it. Years ago, all I wanted is to watch a show with some scary monsters, cool mythology, classic rock, and two brothers driving a badass car and solving murder cases. I.could.have.never predicted that it would evolve into this 10 year old, slow-burn, telenovela-level love story about two idiots who are okay with silently staring at each other for 15+ seconds, but will never dare to admit they have feelings for one another. Nor could I have guessed that I would get involved into this story more so than anything else in my goddamn life