#prequel things

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can y’all do me a favor and reblog or reply to this post if you’re on the positivity train at the moment for the winchesters prequel? i wanna follow some positive blogs

*this applies to folks who are cautiously optimistic 

**this doesn’t mean you can’t be critical if it airs and things are done badly, just at the moment, before things take off, you’re actually interested. 

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people are talking about how a mindwipe is such a lazy option for John not knowing Mary is a hunter, and I AGREE, and i am also 98% sure it's not going to be a mindwipe - at least, not between 1972 and 1973. So while we don't know if the show is going to do the 4.03/1973, this whole post is gonna assume that they are.

Though the idea of John going through repeated mindwipes is hilarious, it is kind of lazy, and Robbie Thompson, our FRIEND, isn't lazy. He's fun, he's innovative, he likes a loophole. So I found one for him.

Why do we assume that in 1973 John doesn't know Mary's a hunter? I allowed myself to puruse the episode. The only evidence I can find that might imply that is Mary saying:

MARY Okay, wait. There's things you don't know about me, John.

SUSPICIOUS! Is what I would say if I haven't read the summary for SPNWIN, which says:

But secrets run deep for both the Winchesters and Campbells

Secrets run deep? Deeper than hunting, mayhaps? This isn't the only thing that leads me to believe there will be no mindwipe between the years, for example we have no actual proof that John doesn't know about hunting. Him being confused about Dean asking about sulfur and cold spots might just be because this random stranger that may or may not be stalking him is asking him weird questions. During the diner conversation with Mary, he just offers to talk to Mary's dad about their relationship. Samuel implies during the dinner with Dean that he thinks John is a civilian, which could just be the cover Mary and John used because John is a Men of Letters and they're notorious for not liking hunters. And that's basically it for John not knowing about hunting things. There's actually a scene that leads me to believe Robbie might incorporate:

MARY runs up to JOHN and throws herself into his arms.

JOHN Hey, you – you okay?

MARY You promised you'd take me away.

JOHN Of course I did.

MARY Do it now.

Mary in the prequel wants out. She wants to leave the life. Maybe John promises to take her out of it? Come on, it'd be cute. See the country together.

Then again, I have no idea what's going to happen. Jensen said it'd be twists and turns to arrive at something instead of using the straight road. I'm excited.

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my brain for [mumblegrumble] years: john winchester not nice man. no no. meanie pants. flashback john very nice. friend shaped. but john not nice. 

me now: i wanna pinch his cheeks and tell him to have a lovely sunshiney day

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Re, the journal post: The s8 ep where Sam tells Dean to write it in his journal happens to be THEE Robbie Thompson ep, Goodbye Stranger. My eyebrow is raised and I am nodding along.

HAAAAA OMG you're right!

and they put the samulet on the mirror like they did in Fan Fiction [that one was fake but still]

robbie you delightful little man

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We're not John and Mary made to fall in love because Angels/Cherubs?

I hope to god Jensen hasn't forgotten about that

just given how he's talked about this thus far

and just knowing how robbie is with unconventional storytelling

i don't think it's lost on him tbh

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I’ve seen the Robbie Instagram post but I can’t add to spoiler sheet until I get home later which won’t be a few hours.

But for anyone insterested, he posted this sunrise picture with a sus caption. Likely he’s down in Louisiana for filming!

He doesn’t post much on Instagram lol

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i can’t wait to see this cast on our TVs help 

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Sounds like we're getting Men of Letters lore in The Winchesters!! OMG, what if they find the Bunker but can't get in? The synopsis makes it sound like there are SO MANY ways to pull in old cast/recurring characters. I'm so excited!

i'M SO EXCITED YESSSSSS

i love the MoL focus too like, because i feel like in spn prime it still wasn't FULLY explored to its full extent.

idk if they'd be able to get back into the bunker since no one was in there pre-spn i think since the MoL shut down but I'm sure they had other locations xDDD

but yeah oh my god there are several characters i think that can make a come back:

young missouri, young bobby, young rufus, gabriel, balthazar, rowena, crowley — basically anyone who's had a vessel but we don't know when they got it.

cas canonically shows up in two flashback episodes even if he's comatose for one of them but who's to say he doesn't pop in from time to time on other occasions? it's hard bc he got his vessel that we know him now in season 4 right as he's about to go get dean i think so that window of opportunity is harder

but hell even if cas has another vessel in the prequel i'd be fine with it it's still characters kjawelkfjawelk

for sure anna and uriel though they seem to have different vessels in 1972 but we know anna and uriel know each other bc of the second flashback episode sooooOOOOOOOOOO

there are so many things my god I'm so excited