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ratherastory ([personal profile] ratherastory) wrote2010-04-02 01:26 pm

One day late: 5.16

I was at work last night and didn't get to watch. So now I am, and here's my usual caps-locky, incoherent episode reaction post.

Ooh! The amulet is back in play! Maybe. According to the recap, anyway. It's about freaking time.

Roy and Walt, huh? I really want to know how they got the drop on Sam and Dean and managed to remove the gun from under Dean's pillow without their noticing.

"When I come back, I'm going to be pissed."

Huh. Looks like death no longer frightens the Winchesters at all. I wonder what they'll do when they no longer have archangels ready to bring them back to life with a click of their fingers. :P

Dean waking up in the Impala reminds me a lot of "Dream A Little Dream." Anyone else?

(Hasn't the show already used "Knocking On Heaven's Door" in another episode? I'm almost 100% sure they have)


LITTLE SAMMY!

OH GOD I AM ABOUT TO DIE OF CUTE! DAMN YOU, SHOW, I AM NOT THREE MINUTES IN AND YOU ARE MAKING ME TEAR UP!

Hee! Cas is talking through the Impala's radio. *snort* "Condolences." Oh, Cas.

Go on, Dean. Follow the yellow brick road.

Woah. Sam, that is freaky. You're being groped by an eleven-year-old, for one. Weeeeeeird. Love Dean's smirk.

Oh, Sammy. It's true, though. It's NOT the road to Heaven that's paved with good intentions. "I've done a few things." Nice euphemism. :P

"Sky Mall." *snerk*

"A bucket of extra crispy and Dad passed out on the couch." Oh, boys. *cries* They need a better Thanksgiving than that. Tell me someone has fanficced them having a nice Thanksgiving somewhere? (Actually, I think [livejournal.com profile] sandymg might have. I seem to recall a story floating around last November.

ACK! Cas in the TV! Very Poltergeist. Hee! Dean thinks so too. "Carol Ann." Hee!

"Don't go into the light!" *snerk*

Oh, God, another angel. Must be Thursday. Joshua, huh? Talks To God. Sounds like a phony Native American name.

Cranky!Cas is kind of amusing, actually.

Hah! Dean wants to hit the yellow bricks as well.

Oh, Sam. Please stop looking like a kicked puppy, you're breaking my heart.

"Finding a road in a closet is pretty much the most normal thing to happen to us today." Oy. I don't think so, Dean.

Hey, what's that?

Matchbox cars! Awwww! Woah. Very trippy.

AWWW! DEAN WUVS HUGS!

Oh, no! Not fear bringing in Mom. *stabs self through heart*

Oh, Sammy. You don't get memories of Mommy. She can't see you.

AUGH! *MORE STABBING SELF THROUGH HEART*

Urgh. Sam, you need to be less insightful. Dean really has been cleaning up Dad's messes for a long time.

Aaaaand, trust Sam's happy memory to be a shitty one for Dean. "Stay." Oh, Sam. *cries*

DAMMIT! I wanted to see that famous argument between Sam and John. Poor Dean, but poor freaking Sammy, too.

*dies*

Zachariah is fucking hilarious. "Out-of-the-box thinking." BWAH!


AAAAAASH! *SHRIEKS WITH JOY*

I AM SO FUCKING HAPPY TO SEE YOU AGAIN! Oh, God, and the Roadhouse!

"My congregation's number 1 snake handler." Awesome.

Disneyland without all the anti-Semitism. Genius.

Soulmates. Awwwwkward!

Apparently Ash can heaven-hop. That's pretty freaking cool. Trust him to spend the afterlife drinking with famous people.

"You boys die more than anyone I have ever met." Too true. It's kind of become a joke at this point, much as I love the show otherwise. "Windexed your brain."

Oh, Ellen and Jo. *weeps some more*

No sign of Mary and John. Of course.

Mystery person?

PAMELA!!!!!!!

*jumps for joy*

Pamela is pitching for Michael's team? Oof. Oh, Pamela, I'm so disappointed. I liked you, you were an independent spirit.

Hey, at least she's still watching Sam's ass... and she kisses Dean? WTF?

Shortcut to the garden. Shortcuts are never a good plan.

See? Told you. They ended up back home. I think the shortcut went bad. Oh, CRAP. Definitely bad.

AAAAAAAH! MARY, DON'T SAY THAT! HOLY CRAP WITH THE YELLOW EYES AND BAAAAAD! DEAN, SHE DOESN'T MEAN IT! NO ONE'S LEAVING YOU ON PURPOSE!

Hey, angel goons.

EWWWW! ZACH YOU GET YOUR FILTHY PAWS OFF MARY!

Ah, I see. Sam and Dean screwed up your promotion plan, did they Zach? Yeah, it's personal, I get it. That's 'cause you're pretty pathetic.

"I'm petty. HEE!"

Ooh, mysterious wise old black man. I'm guessing that's Joshua.

"That whole —wrath— thing." Awesome.

So, Deux Ex Machina, eh?

Funny how the Garden looks like the Biodome. Ah, it's the Cleveland Botanical Gardens.

Knew it was Joshua.

GOD'S ON EARTH! Now that's the first piece of good news we've had in two years!

Ooh, official confirmation of the plane, bringing back Castiel and everything! It was God! Woohoo! Although, God, dude, HOW IS THE ANGELS DISOBEYING YOU NOT YOUR PROBLEM?

Oh, Dean. Another deadbeat Dad, indeed. *weeps*

No brain-windexing this time. Figures. It would be a mercy. :(

SAM, HONEY, STOP ASKING PEOPLE IF THEY'RE ALL RIGHT! YOU'LL NEVER LIKE THE ANSWER.

And now they have to break Cas' heart.

Oh. Oh, Cas. I want to hug him so very very hard and never let go.

It's not worthless, Cas. It's worth a lot to Dean.

Please tell me Sam's not the only one who still wants to try, here. Please.

DEAN! WHAT THE FUCK! YOU JUST THREW OUT THE AMULET SAM GAVE YOU HOLY CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Oh, God. Sammy.

*cries forever*


DAMN YOU, KRIPKE! WHEN THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO FIX WHAT YOU BROKE?!?!?

[identity profile] lassiterfics.livejournal.com 2010-04-02 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The Winchesters are gonna take death so lightly when it really comes for them. They're not gonna understand. Like, this is why they're not afraid to sacrifice themselves all the time. It's like death is something that happens to other people.

Yeah what episode did they use Knocking on Heaven's Door in? It could be a purposeful callback. And as cute as little Sammy and Dean shooting off fireworks are, it mostly just BROKE MY GODDAMN HEART that this is all Dean wants in life. AND THEN LATER WHEN ALL SAM WANTS IN LIFE IS NO DEAN, APPARENTLY. Excepting that moment when the camera lingered awkwardly on the Winchesters at ~*soulmates*~.

Ash turned heaven into The Matrix, basically. Oh Ash. And Zach is the perfect magnificent bastard, and tossing the amulet is the PERFECT TWIST OF THE KNIFE JFkldjslkfjds.

That was some rough sex, show.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2010-04-02 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The Winchesters really need to start taking death seriously again. I think even the viewers are starting to get jaded about it. :P

"Knocking on Heaven's Door" is driving me NUTS! I'm going to have to re-watch the series again now. Guh. I KNOW they've already used it, really briefly.

Dean broke my heart, but mostly because he doesn't understand Sam and apparently never has. Sam doesn't want a life without Dean, he wants a life in which his choices, his destiny, is still his own.

I love Ash with so much love and I AM BEYOND HAPPY THAT HE CAME BACK FOR THIS! I also love that he turned Heaven into the Matrix.

I also love to hate Zach. He is a truly magnificent bastard. :D

I AM DEAD AFTER DEAN TOSSED THE AMULET. THROW SAM'S LOVE IN THE GARBAGE, WHY DON'T YOU?

Show has apparently left us rode hard and hung up wet.

[identity profile] 27-jaredjensen.livejournal.com 2010-04-02 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Wasn't "Knocking on HEaven's Door" in House of the Holy (2.13)? I'd have to go back and watch to be sure...

And when Dean threw the amulet in the garbage!! I freaking cried. Because he thinks Sam doesn't love him, because the memories where he left were Sam's best memories. Come on, Dean! You have to realize Sam wasn't doing it to get away from you!! SAM STILL LOVES YOU, YOU'RE HIS BROTHER. DON'T THROW THE NECKLACE AWAY! Didn't you see the look on Sams face? No, you were too busy THROWING THE DAMN NECKLACE AWAY.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2010-04-03 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you're right, it was "Houses of the Holy." I wonder if there's a parallel somewhere in there, or if Show just forgot it already used that song. ;)


I want to take Dean and shake him until he sees sense.

*weeps some more*

[identity profile] lassiterfics.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Dean broke my heart, but mostly because he doesn't understand Sam and apparently never has.
fjkdlsf thissss. There's a lot of talk in fic about Sam and Dean being what each other knows best, but I'm actually kind of pleased with this rift. It feels... realistic? 'Cos it's easier for Dean to just believe that they orbit around each other when they don't. And like, maybe Sam isn't even a planet. Loving each other best/most doesn't always translate to knowing each other best.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. Dean keeps going on about how well he knows Sam, but he really doesn't. Sam at least doesn't delude himself about knowing his brother.

Especially in Season 4, Dean repeats often how well he knows Sam. "Are you kidding me? What don't I know about that kid?" from 4.01, which, given the demon-blood thing, is really ironic.

Like you said: they love each other best, but love doesn't translate automatically into knowledge and understanding.