#spn12.08

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what a serve

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so this whole thing is... weird, to say the least. it's very contradictory to the possession lore we've been working with up to now, where possession necessitates that the entity gets inside the host's noggin. even at the beginning of this season, possession is treated as almost a fusing of the two entities, and when the bearded demon in 12.01 talks about his time possessing a 14-year-old girl he slips into a very personal tangent that implies he himself went through puberty and reacted to the world in the same way his host would have.

and i would excuse this on the grounds that angelic possession works differently, except there's evidence against that too. lucifer knows sam's memories from his time possessing him; gadreel says he's known sam through their time together, enough to understand his shame and weakness. at the same time, angels like hannah don't seem to have any awareness of their host's thoughts or memories, since she didn't know who her host's husband was when he confronted her.

so the question here is: how the fuck does angelic possession work? the only thing i can think of is that sam is somehow special in how his vessel works, which is bizarre and insanely contrived and i really don't like that explanation, but it's the only one i can come up with. like why would lucifer be able to see sam's memories but not vince vincente or jeff the president? i think the most annoying thing about it is that being consistent about these mechanics wouldn't even affect the plot in any way. they literally didn't have to do this.

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i want to speak to whoever made this map

california is red

new york is red

louisiana is blue

tennessee is blue

why are there only three blue states and two of them are in the bible belt and one of them is fucking TENNESSEE

oh to live in the liberal haven of the cw supernatural's tennessee

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also 12.08 mentioning "unprecedented drought conditions" has just reminded me but um. if season 5 implies that releasing lucifer from his cage on its own essentially triggers the apocalypse then. wouldn't cas letting him out of the cage have triggered the apocalypse again (ignoring for this argument's sake that the darkness is treated as apocalypse 2.0)? so is lucifer being out of the cage a third apocalypse, or does it not count because he's not summoning the horsemen? and if it doesn't count, why wouldn't have stopping the horsemen in season 5 ended the apocalypse? is the apocalypse rather defined by the battle between michael and lucifer than the world-ending conditions lucifer's aura brings to the earth? what's going on here actually?

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WHAT. THE ACTUAL. FUCK.

Well, it wasn’t as bad as “Bugs.”

That’s pretty much all I got for this episode.