EP STARTS WITH CHUCK VOICE AND SAM ASKING GOD FOR HELP DOES IT GET ANY BETTER
they love cas. aw
UM???? UM??? I LOVE THIS EPISODE??
matt bab u tried so hard to act like this wasn’t a thing that was really a thing
THERE’S NO MORE SECRETS. i love this episode. i want to marry this episode
CAS SAID IT THO CAS SAID WEREPIRE (see, that is the difference between loving someone like a sibling and loving someone as a partner. as a sibling you will never give them the satisfaction)
this fucking call with cas oh my god this is hilarious
this is like watching an ep from s3-5 omg
this has been disgusting amounts of entertaining i literally have nothing to say
i am in awe. that was executed so well. it was like all my favorite parts of a fic. or what i like about spn. holy crap
CAS SAID IT THO CAS SAID WEREPIRE (see, that is the difference between loving someone like a sibling and loving someone as a partner. as a sibling you will never give them the satisfaction)
I thought the same! I knew he was going to say it where Sam wasn’t! :’)
So, let’s talk about the clever use of negative space in the episode:
Castiel doesn’t understand how “orange correlates with black in a way that’s new”. Dean immediately understands what Castiel is referring to, he gets the reference although the association would not be obvious to people unfamiliar with the show Orange Is The New Black.
Dean tells Castiel that everyone has binge watched on Netflix, although he doesn’t admit to binge watching the show OITNB specifically.
When Castiel calls again, Dean asks Cas to tell him something that doesn’t involve chicks in prison. This indicates that Dean knows what the story of OITNB is, has likely watched it.
Sam, now in the car with them but having missed the previous conversation, doesn’t make the connection between “chicks in prison” and OITNB, but instead seems to assume on past precedent that it’s some kind of lesbian porn thing. He laughs derisively at his brother and says “Bet you thought you’d never say that out loud”. Sam assumes that Dean is making a reference to objectifying pornography because that’s what he expects his brother to do.
Previously in the episode, Dean raised his eyebrows at Sam’s hook-up being named Piper (a bisexual character from the show OITNB) as though it amused him, whereas Sam made nothing of it. Sam hasn’t watched the show. But Dean has.
Sam is missing context here. Just like the audience is missing the context on what happened inside the Road House during the night Dean spent there. Robbie Thompson continues in the grand tradition of the polysemic storytelling the show has been engaged with since its inception.
Dean has watched a show about women, featuring a bisexual main character, with a massive queer following, but because Sam is lacking context, his brother continues to interpret Dean’s character through his own bias.
honestly the fact that this episode brought up dean being with someone who is also a hunter & then having him go through a case with cas on the phone & contrasting all of sam x other women flirting and dean x cas on the phone together is making me? ??? ? question ? everything????
omg that was what I was saying! It was like a perfect setup for future destiel but I’m so afraid to hope. I really am, but omg, so perfect. So perfect. Especially if they’ve decided this is the last season, which I wouldn’t be surprised if they announce that at midseason.
AND Dean never actually answered Sam’s question, he deflected both times Sam asked it.
Sam knows, and Dean knows, and Sam knows that Dean knows, and vice versa. EVERYBODY KNOWS. *watches everyone slowly tapdance toward the edge of the stage with it*
The last time the show was so clear about a romantic set-up was in season five when the were setting up Dean x Lisa (“You ever think that you’d want something like that? Wife, rugrats, the whole nine?”). I’d been hoping against hope for something similar and we got it, whooo!
Yep. And there was no mention of “wife” this time. Every term Sam used was gender neutral. “Someone.” He knows Dean wants “someone.”
Another instance of Dean not answering Sam was when Sam called the car home at the end. That’s not what Dean considers home anymore. His home is where there’s someone waiting for him to come back.
This may have been one of the best Supernatural episodes ever and yet I honestly can’t tell you what it was truly about. The Winchester bros bonding and loving each other? Dean’s creative monster naming? The impala? Hella Destiel? I don’t know but I loved it.
And now we have yet another example of an episode where Sam is paired with a woman (romantically) and Dean is paired with a man (in this case Cas on the phone).
honestly the fact that this episode brought up dean being with someone who is also a hunter & then having him go through a case with cas on the phone & contrasting all of sam x other women flirting and dean x cas on the phone together is making me? ??? ? question ? everything????
omg that was what I was saying! It was like a perfect setup for future destiel but I’m so afraid to hope. I really am, but omg, so perfect. So perfect. Especially if they’ve decided this is the last season, which I wouldn’t be surprised if they announce that at midseason.
AND Dean never actually answered Sam’s question, he deflected both times Sam asked it.
Sam knows, and Dean knows, and Sam knows that Dean knows, and vice versa. EVERYBODY KNOWS. *watches everyone slowly tapdance toward the edge of the stage with it*
Not to mention, Sam used gender-neutral wording, didn’t he? “Someone” instead of “a girl/woman”.
