#spn 1.10

[daddario]

Sam and Dean lacking personal space in every episode - 10/327

[heller-meta-of-the-day]

March 10th

Asylum (1.10) Scarecrow (1.11)

Do hellers stretch before they do all this reaching? I hope so, otherwise they might pull something.

Back in the day, hotels provided ashtrays. It doesn't mean that Dean was smoking. He was probably using it as a paperweight.

It’s a continuity error but I’ll forgive it for the strategic positioning of the ashtray. Translation: I know it doesn't make sense, but it HELPS PROVE MY POINT, so I've use it.

Jerry Wanek and Kim Manners weren't saying or implying anything.

[spn20rewatch]

Season 1, Episode 10: Asylum (October 31st)

Sam and Dean are trapped in an abandoned asylum with a ghost who causes extreme rage in its victims. -Super-wiki

Originally aired on: November 22nd, 2005

Written by Richard Hatem, directed by Guy Norman Bee.

Fun fact: The asylum shots are filmed in Riverview Hospital, a site which is used a few other times through the run of the show. Also, this is our first holiday episode! Happy Halloween 🎃

[zmediaoutlet]

spn20rewatch, 1.10: "Do we need to talk about this?"

Possession is the bread-and-butter of Supernatural. Whether it's demons or ghosts or just real bad vibes, seems like there's always something willing to creep into a host like rot and start in on cracking foundations. A favorite line is that demons, in particular, always lie unless they're telling the truth, and really it seems to be that the possessions in general trend toward: what would hurt most? What if it's a truth that could be excused as a lie, but at a deep level there's a truth there that can't ever be told because it would break everything apart?

Asylum is part of a critical episode run in season 1 that reveals tons of details about the Winchester family -- how they operate, the roles they have and what's expected of them, etc., but more importantly how they'll operate into the future. Sam and Dean are brothers and they love each other, but even with their immediate return to a kind of young bro-bantz partnership in the early episode of s1, they aren't truly partners yet in a way that will actually be functional through to the future. There are some old resentments here that haven't been exorcised; more importantly, there's some testing of the relationship that hasn't been done. It's one thing to settle back into your old patterns of boys yoked together and working for your dad -- it's another when that yoke is shattered, and you have to choose what to do about that. Bugs to Home to Asylum to Scarecrow to Faith will really test Sam and Dean and make them into the hunting partners they'll need to be in order to survive what'll come.

Unfortunately, Asylum is the nadir of that testing. Ellicot's insidious work inflates anger and makes people violent and turns things as dark as can be -- but, actually, we don't get any real indication that he makes people feel or say things they don't actually mean. They're just things that have been put away or smoothed over, because saying them would be too awful. Later, soulless!Sam will operate in a similar way to how "Asylum"!Sam operates now -- the filters over the worst hardest truths are just gone, and everyone in his path gets to take them at full force. Dean gets the brunt of it here, first with rock salt to the chest and then with much, much more painful words to follow. He's under no illusions that Sam doesn't mean what he's saying, as we can tell from how flatly he takes Sam's non-apology at the end of the episode. He knows Sam doesn't respect him for being "daddy's good little soldier," and we see from other examples (notably in s3) that Dean doesn't even respect himself for that -- why would Sam feel any differently. It hurts either way, though, especially when we think of a line of dialogue from much, much later -- I thought you'd tell me to get lost, or get dead.

SAM: That's the difference between you and me. I have a mind of my own. I'm not pathetic, like you. DEAN: So what are you gonna do, huh? Are you gonna kill me? [...] SAM pulls the trigger.

Always a delight to have your worst fears be realized. But it's the kind of thing that's needed, structurally, so that when a break happens the bone can be reset cleanly and heal up strong -- which they'll get, eventually. It's just not very much fun, in the meantime.

[justpadaleckisackles]

Sam and Dean in every episode: 1x10 ➡️ Asylum

[spngeorg]

1.10 Asylum

Hello again! Join me on an adventure in being eminently frustrated with Sam!

I mean, I feel for him, I get his frustration, but this feels like the first time he's ever really been confronted with the position that Dean's been in since he was four regarding John. He just lacks any sort of coping mechanism for dealing with it...

(unless you’re someone who totally relates to Sam in this episode, because honestly I am entirely baffled... I’m eager to understand, if that’s possible)

Links referenced in this weeks’ episode include (as usual) the Superwiki page for this episode (the link to the actual script can be found at the very bottom of that page, below the link to the transcript)

The link to the specific meta post I referenced in the episode

and the general link to my tag for this episode.

Listen now on AnchorFM, or wherever you enjoy podcasts :)

[sammyblep]

ICONIC Sammy moment. The lighting. The context. The dialogue. The arful blook and the big brown jacket. s1e10 you WON with this moment

[audi-nos-bitch]

1.10 Asylum