I just realized I was distracted this morning and didn’t write up anything about today’s episodes on the TNT loop. I watched them, but only sorta out of the corner of my eye while busy with other stuff... >.>
2.05 Simon Said is pretty interesting considering the anon I replied to this morning, come to think of it...
https://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/185365763840/1-is-dabb-a-black-mirror-fan-cause-14x20
in which I mention 14.15 as an example of this level of mind control. I was gonna write something up about the differences between the Special Children whose mothers died in their nurseries and the ones whose mothers survived to raised them, but eep that’s going down a “neither here nor there” tangent. Just think about it though... maybe y’all will pick up the horrifying implications of what I realized. >.>
BUT. We had mind control, distinct from manipulation of one’s environs to effect change in the behavior or reactions of the people within those altered environs. Which is what I was getting at in that linked ask.
2.06 No Exit... yeah a serial killer ghost case, but more interesting for demonstrating just how unlike Dean (especially) and Sam are from John. Learning how John had felt responsible for getting Bill Harvelle killed year ago, and why Sam and Dean never knew about the Harvelles or the Roadhouse or likely most of the rest of the hunters and their culture out there is interesting in itself. Again, another weird, subtle parallel between Chuck and John, manipulating the environment to nudge Sam and Dean (in this case specifically) into isolation, controlling the information they received by cutting off other avenues for them to discover things on their own, and placing their reliance almost wholly on John himself.
2.07 The Usual Suspects: DANASHULPS. Garbled messages from beyond they have to decipher, a decoy ghost who wasn’t killing people but trying her best to warn people of the wolf in sheep’s clothing actually doing the killings. Dean is literally legally “un-killed” in this episode, after having been declared dead after 1.06. I wonder what anyone thought of this, and if anyone bothered to go back and do a proper autopsy on the “Dean Winchester” shapeshifter that was declared dead. Because he was quite convincingly deceased there.
But even more interesting to me is the level at which we learn that Dean and Sam’s lifetime of hunting together has prepared them for this sort of situation. They are pissed but unshaken at getting arrested and separated for questioning. Their shorthand in knowing exactly what the other will do, and Sam’s ability to understand not only Dean’s note, but that after the fact Dean was able to tell Detective Ballard exactly how to find Sam, because they do have these backup plans in place for practically any eventuality. This is what Team Free Will looks like when they stand together, when they’re all on the same page and not fractured and divided by trying to protect each other, or spare each other’s feelings.
Hopefully this is the sort of united front TFW (and I’m including Team Free Empty and even Rowena in this now) will present in the face of whatever Chuck is gonna be throwing their way.
