ratherastory | 6.05 Episode reaction.

You know the drill by now, yes? Below the cut are spoilers and a lot of capslocking. :)

Ooh, Gordon flashback! Oh, wait, no. Vampire flashback. The Campbells apparently are going to be making an appearance here. Woo, Lenore!

And not-quite-right!Sam. Awesome.

Goth bar.

*rock out*

"Bella Lugosi is dead!"

She's wearing a plaid flannel shirt in a goth bar. Hunter gear?

Oh, dude, is that meant to look like who I think it looks like?

KRISTEN?!?

OH SHOW TELL ME YOU DIDN'T!

She's totally a hunter. She's leading him on because she knows what he is. At least, I hope so.

"Clumsiest person ever." Suuuure.

SPN YOU TOTALLY DID! IF HE SPARKLES IN THE SUNSHINE I AM NOT SURE WHAT THAT WILL DO TO ME.

Creepy, CREEPY vampire!

Um, weird way of proving you're a vampire.

Dude, is she offering herself to him? PLEASE let her be a hunter! Even if she's 17.

"I'm going to show you my world." OMG, gag.

BWAH! ROBERT!

Damn.

I was SO hoping she would turn out to be a hunter. Oh well. Random victim of the week is dead.

Aww, I love how Dean is always on the phone with his family at the beginning of the episodes. *hearts* And his little smiles. *hearts more*

That's a weird smile, Sammy.

"Girls are hard." PREACH IT, SIR!

BAHAHAHAAAAAA! Goth shrine to the glory of sparkly vampires!

"These aren't vampires, man. These are douchebags."

"Yeah."

OH WE ALL AGREE THERE, SHOW!

"That's just uncomfortable." Oh, Sam!

"He's watching her sleep. How is that not rape-y?" YES! THANK YOU!

ROMERO!

"This is a national bestseller. How is that possible?"

"It's a freaking nightmare." Yes, yes it is.

How many 't's in Pattinson. LOL

Writing bad poetry. The new way to lure victims into letting you drink their blood. If blood were my main form of sustenance, I would totally do that.

Stealing from blood banks? What is the world coming to? Ew, that's a lot of blood.

Hey, it's Samuel. What's with the barbed wire?

"Find the nest, figure it out." Real useful there, Samuel.

Dean, maybe not so loud with the snark.

Is it wrong that I find some of these chicks hot? They're meant to be jailbait-age.

Nice evasion to Dean's question there, Sam.

LOL Two of them. And yay Show for putting obvious homosexuality on the air!

Ah, yes. Let's split up and follow the fuglies into creepy basement-type places. That can't POSSIBLY go wrong.

Oh, DAMN, Sam! That was cold. *whistles*

Cheesy come-on lines! This is clearly a fake-out.

"Are you wearing glitter?" *dies*

"Use a condom!" *dies more*

Oh, Dean. Never change.

"You're pretty." YES, RANDOM VAMPIRE, HE IS! VERY VERY PRETTY!

Oh, ouch.

SAM! DO SOMETHING! AAAAH! FUCK, QUIT STARING AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HE SAT BACK AND LET IT HAPPEN AND THIS CAN'T POSSIBLY BE RIGHT!

OH MY GOD PLEASE LET SOMETHING ELSE BE DIFFERENT ABOUT THE VAMPIRES BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER ENJOYED THE DEAN-AS-VAMPIRE TROPE IN FIC!

*flails*

I need alcohol now.

Oh, Dean. *wibbles anxiously*

Oh, NEAT! Dean can tell Sam's heart is beating normally.

"How's it feel?"

Interesting. This might go back to that whole Sam's-lacking-something theory we were entertaining before in someone else's LJ.

"Vampires pee." LOL

Aww, Dean. He has fangs. Poor bunny. *pets him*

ACK! DEAN IS GONE!

AAAAAAAH! NO WATCHING LISA WHILE SHE SLEEPS! YOU SAID YOURSELF IT WAS RAPEY!

Oh, he's giving her yet another goodbye speech. You couldn't have done this over the phone?

Oh, bunny, don't cry, sweetheart. *cries along with him*

EEEEEEEEP!

OH, THANK GOD HE'S GOING.

GAH! Of course it wouldn't suffice to scare Lisa. Hurting Ben is going to be a serious setback in their relationship.

NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME, SAMUEL, TO COOK UP A SOLUTION!

OH THANK GOD!

Grandfather's journal! Wow.

Oh great. A bad trip. Just what Dean needs.

"Dude, you reek. You're like a walking hamburger." Hee!

I love how Samuel is carrying a syringe of dead man's blood. Tools of the trade, dude.

YES, SAM, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?

OH LORD.

And an Alpha Vampire. Why am I not surprised?

SHOW I AM SERIOUSLY NOT IMPRESSED WITH THIS NEW VERSION OF SAM. PLEASE TO BE BRINGING BACK THE REAL SAM, NOW, KTHXBAI!

LOL

BROFIST OF VAMPIRELY COOPERATION! *snerk*

"First chance I get I'll show you myself." Oh, Dean. You and your double-entendres.

RECRUITERS! I love it! They pick nice-looking boys to lure in the girls.

Oh, hey, it's Kristen! She doesn't look too happy about her lot in life.

Oh, so this guy is middle-management.

*dies* Oh, Dean, the private tour!

OW OW OW OWWW!

DUDE THE SKYLIGHT IS TALKING TO THE VAMPIRE! WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?

I guess this is the bad trip Samuel was talking about before? Maybe?

I'm confused.

HEY THE SKYLIGHT IS TALKING AGAIN.

RUN, DEAN, RUN!

Oh, Robert, you're an idiot, even for a vampire. It's the pretty ones who die young.

What the hell was that? Every vampire lapses into a weird dreamy coma for a minute and then it all goes back to normal?

Oh, now Sam & Samuel show up.

Hey, vampire on the roof of the car. We go through more windows this way...

How is Dean not exhausted from beheading all those vampires? He hasn't eaten all day?

Where's the talking skylight?

Ooh, lurking!vampire. They're good at lurking. It's part of their idiom.

Hey, Big Bear Vampire. Here to conveniently provide Dean with a drop of your blood, presumably after you've made Dean hurt very prettily some more.

At this point, I wouldn't want Sam behind me with a machete. Just sayin'.

"Looks like your brother has some Campbell in him after all."

FUCK YOU, SAMUEL! THAT IS ALL WINCHESTER!

Oh, man. Dean... *cringes*

SAM YOU ARE CREEPING ME OUT!

And this is Dean's THIRD yiddish phrase in SPN. I wonder what's up with that?

Eww, very black puke.

This is not NEARLY as pretty as it could be.

And, naturally, Dean now remembers that Sam stood by and did nothing while he got himself turned. Cue MANPAIN.

Hey, the pretty is back!

And the angst has tripled!

Sam really needs a better wardrobe. The flannel does nothing for him.

Wow, Sam. What happened to "Hi, Dean, how are you feeling?"

THE ALPHA VAMPIRE IS BUILDING AN ARMY. HOLY CRAP!

Oh, great. Hunters don't scare the vampires anymore. GAH!

And, oh, yeah. Lisa. CRAP.

Dean's life sucks. Again.

Oh, ouch. Sam, YOU ARE LYING TO DEAN'S FACE. AGAIN. DID WE LEARN NOTHING IN SEASON 4?

SHOW, PLEASE GIVE US SAM BACK, OKAY? THIS IS NOT COOL!

AAAAAAAAAAAH!

*flaps unhappily*

JE NE SUIS PAS D'ACCORD!

DEAR SHOW, PLEASE TO BE FIXING THIS, ALREADY! TWO SEASONS OF ANGST AND THE BROTHERS NOT TRUSTING EACH OTHER WAS ENOUGH!

***FURTHER SPOILERS FOR THE NEXT EPISODE'S PREVIEW PAST THIS LINE***

AWW, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I DON'T WANT THEM TO FIGHT ANYMORE!

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*flails at you and show whilst sending somewhat homicidal "want normal Sammy back" mind rays towards SPN writing crew*

Love the triple angst!!! It's my Preciousssssssssssssssssss
Sam just stood there and let iy happen. It was funny that Gramps questioned Sam on using Dean as bait. So there's even more there than what we thought. I'll have more later. Still taking it all in.
Wow! Holy Freakin' Wow!

I need alcohol now.

I STARTED BEFORE THE EPISODE, CONTINUED THROUGH IT, AND AM NOW STILL DRINKING.

RESOLUTION, CRAP, I NEEDS ME SOME TO THIS ~SAM~ STUFF. UGH, BLERG, HANDS

JE NE SUIS PAS D'ACCORD, AUSSI!

So far, I could explain every little bit of Sams behaviour away with stuff he went through, but this today - this really creeped me out.
Risking Dean's life like this? That is NOT Sammy. Something is seriously wrong. I guess, we all suspect something soul-related in one way or the other?
But yeah, they better have a real good solution for this.
*wants Sammy back*

If I have to sit through an entire season of this, I am going to retire to a cottage by the beach and write the AU where Sam is a disciple of John Newman and is being tempted by Rome and Dean is his low church brother trying to win him back.

Oh, god. That's the best reason I've heard yet for them to turn this season around!

Come on, finally, finally Sam's sideburns would fit right in and contribute to his universe. He and Keble could exchange sideburn sculpting tips.

Sam stood there and watched and Dean knows it. Sam knew about the cure and didn't tell Dean, and Samuel knows that. Figure it out boys! Something's really wrong with Sammy. If it is Sammy.

Loved the Twilight snark.

And evil!Dean just DOES it for me. Taking out the whole nest? Oh, yeah.

And Samuel? "I guess your brother's got some Campbell in him after all."??? That's pure Winchester, you jackass.

Personally, I am okay with this. If we get a reason for and a reversal of, notright!Sam.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

*dies happy*

EVERYTHING IS WRONG. SO WRONG.

Samuel called Sam out on his "Wtf-ery" which... confuses my brain. Because I REALLY don't like Samuel but it was hard for me to think about how much I disliked him when he was saying what I was thinking. XD

On the one hand... I am so VERY upset by what Sam did... and yet on the other, when I saw the preview for next week... it looks like they're really going into a "Hell screwed Sam up on a beyond fundamental level" area, which, i've gotta say... I'm actually really pleased with. I was frankly kind of nonplussed by how minor Dean's post-hell angst was (and the fact that there weren't more MENTAL BREAK DOWNS and COMPLETELY CHANGED WORLD VIEWS).

Still - SHOW. MAKE THEM BROTHERS AGAIN. PLEASE.

I'm amused by how similar our reaction posts are on some points. AND OMG, RIGHT, THE TRIP SHOULD TOTALLY HAVE BEEN WAY PRETTIER.

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HE SAT BACK AND LET IT HAPPEN AND THIS CAN'T POSSIBLY BE RIGHT!

So Sam (with whom something is definitely wrong and I'm still going with the 'Sam came back without his soul' theory) stood by and watched Dean get vamped to enable him to infiltrate the nest BUT Samuel didn't know about this and doesn't look as though he would have been in favour of it. So Samuel remains dodgy with his phone calls and collecting of specimens, but not as dodgy as Sam - and with a lot more family feeling.

Okay, this is what I'm going for:

Sam came back without his soul, which is being held be someone who (see Balthasar) knows the values of souls

OR

Lucifer (or some other being from The Cage) has been hitching a ride in Sam

AND

Samuel is dodgy with his collecting of monsters, but not because he's on the monsters side. He's collecting them for someone who will dissect and study them in a creepy Buffy-Initiative-type way.

But yay for Show pointing out how appalling the messages the Twilight series gives girls are. The end product is girls being caged until they're compliant. This is what happens when you tell seventeen-year-old girls it's romantic to be stalked.

>>"OH MY GOD PLEASE LET SOMETHING ELSE BE DIFFERENT ABOUT THE VAMPIRES BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER ENJOYED THE DEAN-AS-VAMPIRE TROPE IN FIC!"

Me either! i was completely dreading this episode for that reason! But it was okay. (maybe because of all the kicking ass? And less you know, kind of porn-y h/c + wangsting?)

>>FUCK YOU, SAMUEL! THAT IS ALL WINCHESTER!

I was thinking the same thing! I was like, "Please. Like we've ever seen YOU GUYS on a roaring rampage. That's totally a John thing. You are only good at two things: sucking and dying (but I love you anyway, Possibly!Shady!Grandpa!)"

The brother stuff actually didn't bother me because I think there's something actually, literally wrong with Sam this time. Not, oh, he's keeping secrets and making bad decisions. This time, he's evil, not high. It's kind of refreshing. It's not that they have relationship issues, he's just evil! See? Or, it's not that there is pointless conflict between them in order to generate angst, he's just evil! It actually feels kinda novel.

I want to find out why he's evil. And then they can work on fixing it, and hopefully it's an actual problem with an actual solution. (No offense meant to the Power of Love, but it's rarely used well. It's such a cop out most of the time.)

This Sam-shaped mandroid? I don't like it. Although I find it interesting that Grandpa doesn't approve of it either. I think Dean and Samuel need to get on the same page and find a way to get Sammy back.

I wanted Kristen to be a hunter too. Or the Slayer. Y'know, whatever. (So, so badly.)

Incidentally, I only recall Dean saying "Dayenu"--what was the third phrase?

In 'No Exit.'

'Mazel Tov, you've found your first spirit." To Jo. :)

Oh yeah!

I totally knew that.

Yeah. Totally.

SHOW I AM SERIOUSLY NOT IMPRESSED WITH THIS NEW VERSION OF SAM. PLEASE TO BE BRINGING BACK THE REAL SAM, NOW, KTHXBAI!

FUCK YOU, SAMUEL! THAT IS ALL WINCHESTER!

*flaps unhappily*

You are in my head. And apparently NEITHER of us is all that pleased with this Sam-Is-A-Heartless-Asshat version of our boy.

*grumbles and curses*

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