supernatural s7e10 death's door (w. sera gamble)
"dick is coming." *cut to "the rise of dick" graphic* i literally facepalmed. "he's making the doctor eat himself" you know. these leviathans, the special effects are so bad. this is supposed to be a sad bobby episode, quit snarkin.
i like bobby but i don't really have any emotional attachment to him either, i just can't seem to connect with jim beaver. and this feels like an honoring the special character we're killing off type episode. we'll see if they manage to get any tears out from me (if they do it'll be almost definitely via the boys' feelings)
BOBBY No, listen to me, Rufus. I’m gonna die! RUFUS Oh, now that’s a realistic view of the mortality rate on a ghost hunt. RUFUS is holding an EMF reader, which lights up and makes noises. RUFUS Whoa, whoa, Nellie, red line. All right, baby boy, here we go.
(see now there's an actor i can connect with! i'm glad we have this excuse to bring rufus back)
obligatory comment that this reaper is young and cute. winchester and co get the fresh ones, apparently
RUFUS I'll be a prima ballerina. Wait, wait, Bobby. Are you trying to tell me I'm just one of your better memories?
♥️
BOBBY You're coming with me, Rufus. RUFUS What? BOBBY I need my partner on this. Please.
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BOBBY So, you're telling me that the way out was through your worst memory? RUFUS It's an important door, Bobby.
so er uh WAIT
the magicians s4e5 escape from the happy place
this is like the magicians episode s4e5 (periodic reminder sera was showrunner there too) escape from the happy place! eliot has to go through his worst memories to find the door to talk to quentin while he's possessed by the monster! lol
CHARLTON There's a door somewhere. Hidden deep in a forgotten remembrance.
ELIOT Huh. So just my most repressed and traumatic memory.
that's just. so funny. because that's the episode that really attracted a bunch of people to the fandom because it's where queliot became like.. canon with a possible future, as opposed to something that happened in the past (in a time loop). oh and hey i made some dumb parallels/comparatives thing with the smith/wesson spn episode and that episode here and i painted the queliot kiss from that ep to
all right. back to the spn. not telling your wife you don't want kids when you knew she did? not cool, bobby.
speaking of not cool. that startled me badly and poked that DV trigger. wanna show manly idiot grief exploding in aggression, do it not right next to a person's head. have him turn around and hit something. ugh.
DEAN He's not gonna die. SAM He might. DEAN Sam. SAM Dean, listen – we need to brace ourselves. DEAN Why? SAM Because it's real. DEAN What do you want to do? You want to hug and – and say we made it through it when Dad died? We've been through enough.
dean handling this as well as i expected. gotta lean on each other, man. don't leave sam alone with his satan-vision.
BOBBY (on phone) No, we didn't shoot rifles, as a matter of fact. We threw a ball around. He's a kid, John. They both are. They're entitled. Yeah, I know I ain't their dad.
you know i'm always here for john winchester shade.
BOBBY’S FATHER Good. You break everything you touch. BOBBY Uh-huh. Well, as fate would have it, I adopted two boys, and they grew up great. They grew up heroes. So you can go to hell!
nice to hear bobby's proud of them. his best memory being movie night with the boys bickering did get to me.
tw cancer / parental death under the cut