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Rewatching In My Time of Dying

Welcome to "Do You Think Sam Knows 'Light As a Feather, Stiff As a Board' Too?: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog" with Lor and Mace!

Up today, s2,e1: In My Time of Dying

All three Winchesters experience their own Supernatural cold open when they are rushed to the hospital after that crazy-surprise crash at the end of last season. Sam and John are superficially banged up, but Dean is in a coma and the predicted outcome isn't great. He spends most of the episode out of body, trying to beat the reaper who's after him. Meanwhile Sam and John butt heads, as per usual, and also as per usual, John goes off to do what he sees as The Hero Bit without telling Sam anything about it. We witness our first Winchester-thinking-a-deal-with-a-demon-is-the-best-option, and it has the same kind of outcome it always does: other Winchesters are pissed and sad and in the end the deal doesn't really do much good. Awesome, John. Great job, as always. But for now, Dean is saved and safe, although more emotional damage has been dealt. Sigh

Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.

[and we begin:]

Lor:

oooo, it's gonna be the Dean wandering around in jimjams, I mean hospital clothes, episode

Mace:

Ha! yep

Lor:

(I watched an S11 ep last night where Sam references Dean and John out after vamps when they were kids and we just watched that ep where John said he thought vamps were extinct and I was more annoyed by that inconsistency than is reasonable)

Mace:

(I would be too)

Lor:

oh, my beat up boys

(not you, John)

Mace:

ha!

poor Sammy

Lor:

yeah

god LOOK AT HIM

Mace:

yeah

Lor:

(I will forgive the nonsense of a car accident victim being dressed like that in the hospital because it looks so good)

Mace:

how many times are the boys the subject of the cold open, I wonder? Not very often, I think?

Lor:

yeah, not often

and... hmm. Every one I can THINK of involves one or both of them being dead or we're worried they are

Mace:

that makes sense, since the cold opens are all about people dying

Lor:

oh. YEP. they are

wow, I never... thought of that

Mace:

taps forehead

always thinkin'. that's me

Lor:

LOLOL

YES

Mace:

YOU TELL HIM SAMMY

Lor:

oh JEEZ. hold me back from going RIGHT through the TV and strangling John

LIAR

"well you sure know something"

Mace:

yep

I love Sammy saving the impala for Dean

Lor:

YES

he understands that Baby is Dean. UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE

Mace:

YUP

Lor:

"I gave you everything I ever had" OH DEAN

Mace:

"what the hell kind of father are you?"

There you go, Dean. THAT'S the question

Lor:

hold on to that feeling, baby.

Mace:

banged up and angry Sam is sending me someplace

Lor:

yyyep

"Dean is dying and you have a plan"

omg, Dean is pissed at John and heartbroken and he's STILL trying to get between John and Sam

Mace:

DO NOT PUT THAT ON SAMMY, JOHN

JFC

Lor:

RIGHT?!

"now what?"

Mace:

HAHAHA

Lor:

poor Dean. he's having a day

Mace:

yep. Sammy too

Lor:

yep

Mace:

but honestly, that's sort of the show

Lor:

lol. it IS

aw, listen to him rattling off lore

Mace:

he pays attention when Sammy talks. Adorable

Lor:

LOLOLOLOLOL

hey now

LIAR

Mace:

YUP

Lor:

"you can either roll over and die or you can fight"

Mace:

"you always have a choice” FUCK 327

Lor:

RIGHT?

Mace:

(327? I can't remember the number)

Lor:

it's like when they wrote the finale someone erased every episode of the show from their minds

Mace:

yup

Lor:

don't sit on a hospital floor! gaaaaah

Mace:

ha! honestly it's prolly pretty clean?

Lor:

Dean would only ever do this when he's a spirit, my little germophobe

Lor:

shudders

nopenopenope

Mace:

Sammy's relieved reaction is adorable

Lor:

YES

that gives me the SHIVERS even though we already KNOW that's what's happening

Mace:

"you can't kill death" HAHAHAHAHA

Oh Dean, honey

Lor:

lolololololol

Mace:

yeah, this is a pretty great episode

Lor:

YEP

spirit!Dean framed in the tubes supporting his body

Mace:

yeah cool

Lor:

"thanks for not giving up on me, Sammy" sobs

"you know, you read the most interesting things" THUD

Mace:

Lor:

omg that shiver when she touches him

Mace:

yeah

the yellow eyes are so gross. sort of milky and just EW

Lor:

right?

"we were just starting to be brothers again" oooof

Mace:

"we were just starting to be brothers again" omg Sam

Lor:

YES

uh, he was in a car accident

how is that a warrior's death?

Mace:

well the enemy did stage the crash...

Lor:

okay, I’ll allow it

poor Tessa. Doin’ some of her best work

Mace:

HA!

Lor:

why does John do this? because he thinks Dean will have a better chance of helping Sam not turn evil than he does?

or is it bc he's afraid someone's gonna have to kill Sam to stop that and he's gonna leave that mess for Dean cause he can't do it himself?

or... wait. I guess originally he wasn't planning on bargaining with his own life

nevermind

pay attention, Lor

Mace:

Hm. I think he thinks it's what a father is supposed to do and it's heroic so that fits with what he's actually willing to do

Lor:

Dean's "what are you doing that for?" like he was getting okay with the idea and then he got scared

Mace:

YES THERE IS AN ANGEL WATCHING OVER HIM

Lor:

THERE IS

Mace:

"well that's specific"

YOU TELL HIM SAMMY

Lor:

lol

YES TELL HIM

Mace:

that cryptic shit is so tired

Lor:

yep

Sammy, you tell him, then take your brother and get away from him

Mace:

YES

Lor:

THAT IS NOT A POSITIVE MEMORY FOR DEAN, JOHN

CORRECT

Mace:

YUP

it's too little too late, but at least it's something, I guess?

Lor:

"it this really you talking?" OMG

Mace:

RIGHT?!

"why are you saying this stuff?" = "that sounds like a goodbye" and omg Dean Winchester you sad little muffin

Lor:

OMG YOU'RE RIGHT

EVERYONE DIES ON HIM and they just KEPT DOING IT instead of FINISHING THE STORY

Mace:

admission of tender feelings is always followed by loss for him and that's so flipping tragic

Lor:

YEP

[after the episode ended:]

Lor:

(the part of me that has a PhD in creative writing is INCANDESCENTLY peeved at the ABJECT failure of storytelling that was the finale. like, other parts of me are sad and hurt and other squishy ow feelings, but that bit? wants to THROW DOWN)

Mace:

AGREED. I am hurt for the characters but I am LIVID at the shitty writing

Lor:

EXACTLY

it's just especially galling that they had something pretty excellent set up and some awesome parallels right THERE. and just... nonsense. Tragic blither that ignored fifteen years of character development and themes

Mace:

YUP. It seems almost spitefully done. Like, fuck you and your fancy story arcs and show development maturity, I want to revert back to the macho bullshit This Show Is Only About The Boys nonsense and fuck all if it doesn’t even make logical sense.

Lor:

Ug YEP

And the thing is, if they wanted to kill off Dean in a stupid mundane way and have the whole show really just be an interlude in Sam's life before he ended up doing pretty much just what he would have otherwise (I think this always would have been a dumb ending, but if they ACTIVELY WANTED THAT), they could have set up S15 in a way that made that WORK as an ending. Something with inevitability and fate and God/Chuck and no longer being the heroes and etc BUT THEY DIDN'T DO THAT EITHER

Mace:

NOPE

in every way possible that last ep feels like a shitty writer went rogue

Lor:

Yep

It feels like the shitty first draft of a workshop story by a third-year undergrad who thinks tragedy and fatalism are automatically substantive and Art

Mace:

Yes. Who also feels threatened by the more talented women in the room and listens to Led Zeppelin because he knows he’s supposed to think they’re cool. And doesn’t actually understand why

Lor:

SNORK

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