#spn 15.04

[rainbow-motors]

[mittensmorgul]

meta's discussing 15.04 atomic monsters tonight, and i had rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead playing on the teevee, just because it happened to be on, and i have now fully decompensated into mentally rewriting s15 this way.

(and then... fixing it, because heck... just from the title you know going in this movie does not have a cheerful ending you know? lol. but still...my brain hurts in a terrible, wonderful way about this)

[heller-meta-of-the-day]

June 13th

Atomic Monsters (15.04) The Trap (15.09)

LMAO, Cass wasn't even IN 15.04, just his funko. And if I recall, there were a lot of WHERE'S CASS posts in the episode tag. But NOW the episode is about him and how much Dean "misses" him. 🤣🤣

Dean being a 'mess' in 15.09 made no sense, then again, most destiel meta is just a pile of bullshit to begin with.

[foxthefanboi]

15x04 - Atomic Monsters

[thefandomsinhalor]

Chuck: people like monsters.

Becky: nah. People prefer reading about real stuff. Like laundry.

Me: well. She’s really calling all of us on our shit lol.

[jennsens]

Dramatique

[bowleggedean]

Jensen about the episode he directed (x)

[flyingfish1]

fun with casting (and narrative callbacks)

The actors who played the parents of Billy the vampire in 15x04 “Atomic Monsters” – Anne Marie DeLuise and Andrew Airlie – also played the parents of Matt the bug enthusiast in 1x08 “Bugs”:

The show has of course reused supporting actors before (even actors specifically from that episode – the actor who played Matt in “Bugs” came back to play Samandriel) but they don’t usually do things quite like this. They don’t usually have two actors who have previously acted together return to act together again. And to portray the same type of relationship that they portrayed the first time. It makes the reuse of actors more noticeable than it usually is. It’s fun.

And, I think, it’s also a subtle little continuation of the “back and to the future” theme that this season has established for itself – all the callbacks to season one that emphasize where our guys have been and how far they’ve come since start of the show.

During “Bugs,” Sam and Dean both firmly identified with Matt, the child. They both projected some of their own issues with John onto Matt’s strained relationship with his dad. They interacted mainly with him, they connected with him, and they gave him advice based on their own relationships with their father. But now, in “Atomic Monsters,” Sam and Dean are identifying with the parents themselves. They connect emotionally with Mr. and Mrs. Whitfield in a way that they never do with their son Billy. Sam and Dean (together with Cas) have become parents themselves now, to Jack, and they’ve gone through a similar terrible experience of dealing with a child who’s become monstrous and dangerous. It’s an interesting opportunity to reflect on the ways their viewpoints have changed over the years.