Welcome to “Ah, We’ve Entered the Shitty Campbell Relatives Portion of the Show: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!
Up today, s6e1: Exile on Main St.
Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.
[and we begin:]
It’s been months now since Sammy got sucked down into Lucy’s cage and Dean is trying to settle into a normal life with Lisa and Ben, but those artsy black-and-white memories of hunting with Sam just won’t let him be. And then he thinks maybe something SUPERNATURAL is going on in his neighborhood, so he puts on his Hunter Hat and starts sniffing around. AND THEN Yellow Eyes sneaks up on him in his garage, but wait, it’s not really YE because it’s all hallucinations, or so Sammy tells him as he, too, pops up out of nowhere alive! and not in Hell! Turns out, he’s been back pretty much the entire time, but just hasn’t told Dean because he wanted his brother to have a chance at a normal life. Dean is, unshockingly, pissed and hurt and smad. Even more so when he learns that Bobby knew all along that Sam was back. But wait, there’s more! Sam has been hunting and has replaced his brother with other relatives: the Campbells, namely Gramps (who is also back from the dead for some reason) and some cousins. And they all suck. Like, they’re the worst. Anyway, so the hallucinations were caused by some djinn out for revenge from when Dean ganked one of their kind, so Dean moves Lisa and Ben to Bobby’s house while he, Sam, and their shitty relations go a-huntin’. Dean feels rusty and nearly makes a rookie mistake, but Sam wants him back in the game anyway, so Dean says bye to his attempt at normal life and together he and Sam get Season 6 rolling.
Mace:
black and white. so DRAMA
Lor:
AAALL THE DRAMA
Mace:
“IT WAS THE HEEEEAT OF THE MOMENT"
Lor:
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
OMG his FACE
Mace:
YES
Lor:
"yeah, I'm good" uh HUH
Mace:
I mean, I wouldn’t mind waking up to that.
Lor:
CORRECT
WHY IS HE NOT A MECHANIC
Mace:
RIGHT?!
(because he’s a christ figure so must be a carpenter)
Lor:
(OMG YES)
I do love the cuts back and forth from this life to the other, though
Mace:
YES
Lor:
omg checking the locks with his nightcap then checking on Ben
Mace:
YES
Lor:
"believe me I know" HA!
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
god LOOK at him
Mace:
PEST CONTROL
Lor:
LOLOLOLOL
Mace:
THAT EPISODE
Lor:
his feet up on the RUNGS
HAAAAHAHAH
"you have no idea what's in some people's walls"
Mace:
adorable
correct, Dean, they do
Lor:
YEP
"who knew" LOLOL
that jacket looks adorable on him
Mace:
it does. but, I mean, all jackets on that dude
Lor:
yeah he's pretty much not capable of making anything look bad
Lor:
Lisa is not my fav but I do love that she can read him so well
NOT that that was terribly subtle
Mace:
YEP
Lor:
the windchimes are kinda creepy but really cool
Mace:
Agreed!
Sid, cool it
I think Sid has a lil crush
Lor:
seriously, Sid
"did you almost shoot a Yorkie?"
he's so squirmy
Mace:
HAHAHA
this feels like Dean is the Normal Guy in a cold open
Lor:
RIGHT?
I was JUST thinking that!
he looks so LITTLE
Mace:
HE DOES
WHY the inside of the arm, Sam. Just.. WHY
oh god the way he says Sammy
Lor:
RIGHT?
YAAAS
his dumb adorable tucked-in shirts ruffles him up a little
Mace:
right?! the tuck is just wrong on him
Lor:
"wait, weeks?" HIS VOICE OMG dies
Mace:
dick move, Sam
Lor:
right?
wrong, Sammo. he does deserve it and he does want it but not like that. no salad for you
Mace:
snork
Ugh. here comes gramps
gross
Lor:
right? Samuel bleeeeeee
"you have delicate features for a hunter" FUCK YOU, GWEN. he's perfect and you shut your mouth
Mace:
yeah she sucks
Lor:
I don't think third cousins would be in the same generation? [Ed. They would be. I looked at a CHART]
LYING LIARS
Mace:
Oh, I have no clue. I don’t understand that nonsense
HAHAHAHA
Lor:
"No more doornails coming out of those doors?" DEAN WINCHESTER I LOVE YOU AND YOUR IDIOLECT
Mace:
YES
Lor:
poor Lisa has moved houses like 8,000 times in 3 years
Mace:
right?
“dammit” HAHAHAHA
Lor:
RIGHT?
"if you're here, something's wrong" oh, Bobby
Mace:
yeah
Lor:
"TV's broken but there's plenty of Reader's Digest"
Mace:
classy
“you knew?” hoo boy
Lor:
"don't touch the decor, okay? assume it's all loaded" I love him
he reminds me so much of some of my older male relatives
oooooof
come here, Dean, hon, you need a hug
Mace:
yep
Lor:
"but you were out, Dean" "do I look out to you?"
Mace:
“do I look out to you” oh, honey, that’s an entirely different conversation
Lor:
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
"something always does"
ooof
Mace:
LIKE a dad? JUST ADMIT THAT HE’S THE FATHER
Lor:
RIGHT?!!!
Mace:
I mean, I know Dean isn’t in love with her. He’s already met Cas
Lor:
"leave it to the professionals" OH DUDE YOU JUST MADE SO MANY ENEMIES
CORRECT
"it's almost like I'm a professional"
Mace:
HAHAHAHA YAS
hit her, Dean. just hit her
Lor:
omg Samuel enjoys putting his younger relatives at each other's throats kicks him so hard
Mace:
YES
Lor:
okay, Sam, I love you, and we know what's up but FUCK OFF
"call me a soccer mom"
Mace:
(well, golf is dumb)
Lor:
(I mean, yes. also I don't buy that Dean plays it. he's in a softball league)
(and so is Sid. they don't play golf)
Mace:
(yep)
also, Samuel does NOT use words like exsanguinated
Lor:
What idiot let a vamp on the Mayflower?
HAAHAHAH NOPE
"maybe not the best time for golf"
Mace:
UGH
Lor:
I HATE HIM SO HARD
Mace:
YEP
Lor:
aaaand Dean has clocked the only dude worth talking to in this lot
Mace:
YES
Lor:
"you remember it?"
Mace:
OOOF
Lor:
right?
haaahahaha the way he goes over that fence
Mace:
meh, it's just sid
YES
Lor:
LOLOLOLOLOL
Mace:
pretty hot
Lor:
YES
it's Sam with the steel chair!
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
I enjoy the implication that Dean is still so haunted by Azazel and is afraid he'll come for his wife and kid like he did to John
Mace:
YEP
Lor:
"I wouldn't even think to try" oooooof
Mace:
yeeeah
Lor:
oh man, the rejection of Baby
he should be SO suspicious
Mace:
he really should but he’s too busy being hurt
Lor:
RIGHT?
Mace:
he does keep his yard nice though
Lor:
HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
he is welcome to come work on mine any time he likes
Welcome to “Sam and Dean are Just Steps on the Bossman’s Ladder: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!
Up today, s4e17: It’s a Terrible Life
Dean Smith works a middle-management white-collar job at Sandover Bridge and Iron, and Sam Wesson is a grunt in the IT department there. Sam thinks something about this life is wrong, and when he runs into Dean he could swear they’ve met before. But Dean brushes him off until employees start dying real weird in the company. When Dean witnesses an IT tech stab himself in the throat during a panic attack over filling out a form incorrectly, he accepts that Sam might be on to something. The two work together to research the company and the deaths, eventually realizing the ghost of the company’s founder is compelling workers to kill themselves if they don’t give Sandover their all. Smith and Wesson dispatch the ghost (after finding some helpful tips online from the Ghostfacers), and eventually Dean’s boss reveals that he is actually Zachariah, an angel who arranged this little interlude for Dean to help him remember that he is and always will be a hunter at heart. Dean doesn’t take kindly to this interference from the angels and promises that one day he’ll stab Zachariah in his face.
Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.
[and we begin:]
Lor: bounces I love this one
Mace:
it is a good one
he looks so ridiculous in that shirt and tie
Lor:
and I love that this show is like "ep 16: torture, hero almost killed by a demon who tortured him in hell for 30 years. ep 17: alternate universe shenanigans"
mmm. someone should maybe take him out of them
Mace:
they like to mess with us
Lor:
yep
Mace:
LOR.
Lor:
wot?
innocent
Mace:
simmer down
Lor:
NEVER
Mace:
omg this guy plays such a hilarious weirdo on Psych
Lor:
Zachariah?
Mace:
yeah
Lor:
omg Dean Smith. you do not need to lose any weight. eat a cookie
kill a ghost
Mace:
HA
Lor:
LOL Sam's face
Mace:
SAM IN THAT POLO
Lor:
YES
even Dean Smith makes "no homo" jokes when no one else brought that up pets him go to therapy, baby
Mace:
it’s crazy to me that Sam is uncomfortable in this fake life but Dean suspects nothing
YEP
Lor:
DID YOU TRY TURNING IT OFF AND THEN ON
yeah it is WEIRD
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
but it fits with his "I can fit in anywhere thing"
Mace:
hm. I wonder if it’s more “I’m so unhappy in the life my daddy forced me into” thing
Lor:
oh definitely
Mace:
my god he FITS in that shirt
Lor:
YAAAS
he should really stop being work buddies with this asshole
Mace:
(omg I am seriously wearing almost EXACTLY that other dude’s outfit right now)
Lor:
HAAAAHAHAHAHA I LOVE IT
poor Sam doesn't fit in his cubicle
Mace:
graphic t with ratty flannel over
Lor:
it is the BEST outfit
Mace:
oh Sammy, sweets, I’ll nap with you
Lor:
MACE
simmer down
Mace:
I love how he does NOT fit into that cubicle
Lor:
YES
Mace:
Dean’s profile. just DAMN, son
Lor:
YAAAAAS
they made him extra pretty this ep and I love that they bothered
Mace:
he cleans up super nice
Lor:
Dean, you know you have some vampire romance novels under your perfectly made bed
Mace:
SNORK
“you overshare”
HAHAHA
Lor:
the tiny montages of the workplace mundanities
Mace:
YEP
“I hope they spank me” this boy is naughty
Lor:
LOL
look, we've all been where he is. no evil ghost needed
Mace:
HA
Lor:
EW
Mace:
oh GROSS
SHOULDERS
Lor:
YAS
omg Dean's pretty pretty face. his LIPS
Mace:
RIGHT?!
Lor:
omg Sam and Dean are both researching it and asking the same questions on their own. i love it
Mace:
YES
“did you shave?!”
Lor:
lol
"the dash-Rs"
Mace:
“hey, guy”
Lor:
omg his back in those suspenders
Mace:
right?
omg EW
Lor:
RIGHT?
i always forget this one has some serious ew horror moments
poor Dean so shook
Mace:
but not as shook as a normal person, which is kind of awesome
Lor:
the way his voice kinda fails on "neck"
YES
I love the way he just totally took charge with Ian (even though it didn't work)
Mace:
why did he bring his bag?
yeah
Lor:
security laptop. it makes him feel safe
Mace:
emotional support laptop
Lor:
YES
"NOT NATURAL"
Mace:
HA
Lor:
"no that would be nuts" HAAAAAHHAHAHAHA poking fun at their own show history
Mace:
SNORK
Lor:
"some skills I happen to have"
Mace:
okay settle down, Taken
Lor:
I admire from afar
Mace:
Dean’s arms in that shirt
Lor:
HEY. SETTLE DOWN
Mace:
“right?!” BOYS
Lor:
"I am dying to check this out." "Right?" YES
Mace:
SNORK! Look, I’m always like this. It’s weirder when you do it
Lor:
LOLOLOLOL
Fair enough
Mace:
your desire to trot at any given moment is, like, lukewarm
Lor:
at best
Mace:
which is, of course, completely cool - PUN INTENDED - I’m just saying that when you bump it up to hot-trotting, it’s just different
Lor:
LOLOLOL
I get it
Mace:
whereas my trotting enthusiasm always runs at toasty, minimum
Lor:
except for the GIANT BOWL OF APPLES
eat a food, Dean, I beg you
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
LOL toasty trots
DON'T BE A SNOB DEAN SMITH
Mace:
right?!
(also, their NAMES)
Lor:
your daddy raised you better'n that
Mace:
did he, though?
I think you mean Bobby raised him better
Lor:
(YES I am kissing whoever decided to give them OTHER gun names platonically on the head)
Mace:
(HA)
Lor:
Bobby is his dad in the universe, that's what I meant
Mace:
omgomgomg
Lor:
HAAAAHAHAHAHA GHOSTFACERS
"instructional videos"
Mace:
GHOSTFACERS
I forgot they were in here!
Lor:
THIS IS LIKE THE BEST JOKE that they learn how from them who they hate who learned it from them
I LOVE IT kicks feet in glee
Mace:
YESYESYES
Lor:
nrrrrrf Dean's dumb buttondown tucked into his dumb dress slacks
Mace:
YES
“yeah now sucks"
Lor:
his portfolio is in the sewer. poor rich baby
Mace:
HA
Lor:
"useless douchebags the Winchesters"
"possibly all states"
Mace:
HAHAHAHA
Lor:
and Dean's face at the idea of digging up bodies
Mace:
YES
omg Dean hiding
Lor:
YES
oh man another super gross bit coming
Mace:
UGH
“…what?” SAM
Lor:
YES
eeeeeeeeew
Mace:
EWEWEWEW
poor Bean
Lor:
poor sammy
"take the stairs"
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
aw Dean's little swallow
Mace:
YES
Lor:
"I have no idea"
Mace:
oh boys
Lor:
hey! stop throwing my Dean around into things!
ooo the teamwork
Mace:
YES
Lor:
I love that Sam immediately clocks that the way to help Dean is not to help him but to dispatch the ghost
Mace:
YES
so smart
“that was amazing!”
Lor:
HE HAS A FIRST AID KIT IN HIS OFFICE
pets him
Mace:
yeah
“how would we live?”
HEALTH INSURANCE
Lor:
"you don't wanna go fighting ghosts without any health insurance" I LOVE HIM
YES
Mace:
I LOVE that Sam instinctively knows who he is
HE WENT TO STANFORD
Lor:
YES
RIGHT?!
And his family is Bobby, Ellen, and Jo
Mace:
well, Bobby at least
“you don’t know me, pal” ooof
Lor:
"you should go" sigh
YAS SAM
Mace:
YAS SAMMY DO IT
Lor:
GOD HIS ARMS
Mace:
YES
he BENT the poker MY GOD
Lor:
YES
Dean, hold out for your own angel
Mace:
HA
Lor:
gross
Mace:
yeah
Lor:
THE WAY THE COLOR DROPS OUT
Mace:
OMG YES
Lor:
"my GOD am I hungry"
Mace:
HAHAHA YES
Lor:
trots in with a bag of cheeseburgers and fries and pie
Mace:
HA
Lor:
"gross. no thank you"
Mace:
“gross” HAHAHAHA
Lor:
lololol Dean
ass clowns in monkey suits
Mace:
how did they not realize how he would respond to this?
Lor:
his idiolect! I cannot
RIGHT?
Cas coulda told them. No way they ran this by him
Mace:
nope
daddy issues
he’s not wrong there
Lor:
"I will stab you in your face" AND HE DOES
Mace:
HAHAHAHA
Lor:
his face journey after "fornicate with women" is something else
look, Dean, I'm here to tell you you can hunt and still have the lattes
Mace:
HAHAHA YES
and fuck all of them for doing all this to Sammy too but not bothering to explain
Lor:
RIGHT?
Mace:
and HE’S THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY PASSED THE STUPID TEST
Lor:
like Sam goes from "my brother is beat to hell in a hospital bed" to being mind fucked and then no one bothers to tell him what's up
RIGHT?
Mace:
so mean. he needs comforting.
Lor:
I think we've talked before about how if they'd given Dean a life HE MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE HAD, like running his own auto shop, restoring cars, with either Cassie or Cas, he would have STAYED THERE FOREVER
Welcome to “Adam is the New Dawn Summers: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!
Up today, s4e19: Jump the Shark
The boys answer a call on their dad’s old cell phone, and the caller claims to be John’s son. FRAUGHT. They go to meet him, Sam ready to see what’s what, Dean *certain* that this is some monster laying a trap. But all signs point to Adam really being John’s son and therefore the boys’ younger half brother. Adam’s mother has disappeared, and while Sam and Dean try to find out what happened to her, the three brothers have all manner of moments of strife and snipe and hurt and grump. (Dean is especially grump.) Turns out, whoops, that Adam IS a monster (a ghoul) laying a trap, but the ghoul has taken the form of the real Adam, who is very dead but was also very much Sam and Dean’s brother. Ooof.
Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.
[and we begin:]
Lor:
oh fuck off, John
jeez, Dean
Mace:
sammy brushing his teeth is hot don't ask me why i don’t make the rules
Lor:
"but I'm hungry now" me and Dean are the saaaaame person
LOL it is adorable
Mace:
HA
Lor:
omg Sam also has mouthwash
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
our poor boys
Mace:
yeah
dean is PISSED
Lor:
yep
and underneath his anger iceburg is a whoooole lot of hurt
Mace:
yeah
don't just throw the silverware on the floor, Dean, you’re better than that
Lor:
right?
I will forgive him a lot right now, but still
Mace:
poor Adam
Lor:
yeah
"a car fell on him" DEAN
Mace:
“a car fell on him”
you’re being a turd
Lor, slap him upside real quick
Lor:
yep. we've crossed over into "no pie for you"
nah he enjoys that. and then I get all....
Mace:
yeah right, you would never
Lor:
yeah, I wouldn't. not enough that he'd feel it
Mace:
i meant deprive him of pie
Lor:
oh that.
I meeeean. maybe for a minute or two
what diner has real silver on the table?
Mace:
Lor. we just watched Dean switch them out and throw the diner’s stuff on the floor
get your head in the game
Lor:
oh yeah! I was... distracted
oh Dean, honey
Mace:
oh man, Dean. poor thing.
his head is near asploding
Lor:
yep
and his heart
Mace:
admit it, Dean, your dad was a DICK
Lor:
as if he could hate John more AND dammit he'd thought the man had run out of ways to hurt him
YEP
oh DEAN. he needs a hug. maybe he should pray to Cas
Mace:
that’s the problem - i don’t think he does hate john and he really needs to
Lor:
well not enough anyway
Mace:
he hates himself for not being a better son instead of blaming john for being a shit father
Lor:
sloppy, John, getting your pic in the paper. terrible hunter
oooof YEP
Mace:
so this is going right into the I Must Be a Shitty Son because He Loved This Kid More
Lor:
ooooof
see, he needs pie
lololol Dean
stop throwing scissors!
Mace:
omg the spazzing
Lor:
(course, maybe he's doing it on purpose to protect Sammy from having to go down there)
Mace:
(maybe)
Lor:
(I can never decide which I think it is)
Mace:
EWEWEW
Lor:
ick
oooo you clean that gun, Dean, you clean it good
Mace:
HA
Lor:
I mean. Dean is
just not for a JOB
Mace:
yeah
oh Sam
always steps up with the logic
Jesus, Dean, sitting as far away as he can
Lor:
"nobody just says okay"
YEP
Mace:
Dean. It’s not HIS fault.
Lor:
nope
Dean is SUCH a whirl of emotions
Lor:
omg both of them yelling "no" at little brother
Mace:
YES
“welcome to the family”
AHAHAHA
poor Sammy
Lor:
poor Sammy. welcome to being the middle kid, Sam
Mace:
Somehow he’s always been the middle kid
Lor:
HA!
YES
(do you remember how this goes?)
Mace:
(i do not)
Lor:
(oh HO. very good, then)
Mace:
(well, I mean, Adam ends up as Michael, if that’s what you mean)
Lor:
(that is not what I mean)
Mace:
I love that little bracelet on Sam’s wrist
Lor:
it COULD have been over if the writers hadn't dropped the ball all the way to the center of the earth at the end
YES
Mace:
YUP
Lor:
nnnnnggggg Dean crouching by the car
Mace:
is he wearing…italian boots?
Lor:
he is wearing SOME kind of very special boots that he did NOT buy at Macy's, that's for sure
pets him
this is why you never park over top of shit
Mace:
Ha!
Lor:
lol poor Bobby. "MORE of you snot nosed Winchesters to look after? I'm gonna resurrect your son of bitch father so I can shoot him myself"
Mace:
AHAHAHA YES
oh WAIT I THINK I REMEMBER NOW WHAT HAPPENS
OOOOOO
Lor:
LOL
Mace:
Dean is STRUGGLING with stuff
Lor:
he REALLY is
Mace:
wants to hate the kid but also wants to protect him
Lor:
YEP
Mace:
Big Brother pull is strong with this one
Lor:
yep
oh Sam
Mace:
“i think it’s too late for us"
oh DEAN WINCHESTER
they are beautiful boys, but DAMN they are messed up
Lor:
they REALLY are
"well then I'll look again"
Mace:
stubborn
Lor:
his little hufflepuff heart can't handle not caretaking his little brother
Mace:
ha!
“sloppy Joe” DEAN WINCHESTER NO
Lor:
lol I love that he makes his quips when there's no one to hear them though
Mace:
I prefer when he says “son of a bitch"
Lor:
ditto
oooof Dean
Mace:
yeah
oh he’s got his thinking cap on
Lor:
lol
EW
Mace:
agreed
EWEWEW
STOP CUTTING MY STRINGBEAN
Lor:
RIGHT?
ooof Dean you can stop now
Mace:
Jesus, Dean.
Lor:
you probably wanna raise them higher than that too Sam
Welcome to “I Saw Sammy Ganking Pagan Gods: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!
Up today, s3e8: A Very Supernatural Christmas
Once upon a balmy Michigan December, something in a red suit is coming down chimneys and hauling people away. Sam and Dean are on bad Santa’s case, and while they’re at it, Dean is angling for a proper Christmas celebration while Sam is dragging his feet hard at the idea. They visit a sketchy Christmas wonderland, go caroling (they don’t know the words, bless them), and have a beautiful brother moment where they discuss why they each feel as they do about the coming holiday. (Spoiler alert: it’s because it’s gonna be Dean’s last Christmas.) Turns out pseudo-Krampus is a pair of pagan gods masquerading as a middle-aged couple named Edward and Madge, and after a hilarious (and disgusting) torture scene, the boys dispatch them with their own festive decorations. Throughout the episode are interspersed flashbacks to the Christmas when Sam learned the truth about why John is never around, Dean tried to create Christmas for his brother through theft, and Sam gave Dean the amulet that he now never takes off. The final scene of the episode sees present-day Sam giving Dean the best Christmas he can, complete with tree, presents, eggnog, and a football game on the TV while outside snow finally drifts down on Baby.
Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.
[and we begin:]
Lor:
Christmas with the boys! bounces
Mace:
YAAAAS!
it looks like there’s a bowl of potatoes on the table
Lor:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Mace:
festive
Lor:
I was wondering what those were! Oranges?
Mace:
apples, I think?
Lor:
THE TITLE CARD
Mace:
YAS
“up on the rooftop demon seeeeed"
oooh, fix that collar, Sam
Lor:
mrrrrrg Dean in his suit and with his riiiiing
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
LORD those suits are nicely tailored in the shoulders
Mace:
POPPED COLLAR
Lor:
YES
Mace:
YES
Lor:
DEAN you know you've watched Mary Poppins, stop it
Mace:
YEP
Lor:
"yeah, that's crazy." "yeah."
Mace:
HAHAHA
Mace:
SAM SAID LORE EVERYONE DRINK
Lor:
YAAAAS
Mace:
HE SAID IT AGAIN DRIIIINK
Lor:
"santa doesn't have a brother."
Mace:
snork
Lor:
chugs water
"who's childhood are you talking about?"
oooooof
boys
Mace:
“not exactly hallmark memories” dude, those were the best memories Dean has
Lor:
YEP
"a pony" SASSY BABY SAM
Mace:
YAS
learnt it from his brother!dad
Lor:
YES
"because everywhere we go, they get sick of your face" haaaaahahahaha
Mace:
SNORK Jesus, Dean
Lor:
so perfectly twelve
Mace:
YES
Lor:
DRINK AGAIN
Mace:
LORE! DRINK!
HAHAHAHA
Lor:
LOLOLOLOLOL
Mace:
“we only came here to watch” HAHAHA
Lor:
Dean's little head shake
Mace:
“ew"
HAHAHAHAHA
Dean’s laugh!
Lor:
"thanks a lot, Dean. thanks for that"
YES
Lor:
"that was Ripple"
Mace:
I love the parallels between adult boys and boy boys
Lor:
YES
Sam drank all the coffee and then later in the flashback Dean gives Sammy the end of the cereal! I never picked up on that one before [Ed: that’s a different episode, of course. But still!]
Mace:
OMG YAS
omg the bong
Lor:
"mr gung-ho christmas might have to blow away santa"
YES
Mace:
YES
Lor:
THE SINGING
Mace:
“jingle my bells"
Lor:
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Mace:
AND THEY DON’T KNOW THE WORDS
Lor:
THEY DON'T KNOW THE WORDS
Mace:
hilarious and tragic
Lor:
YEP
and then this immediate switch to the beautiful version of the song and the big Christmas living room set up
Mace:
and all these versions of the perfect christmas (both the houses where people get attacked and the pagan gods’ house) look beautiful but are awful, but then at the end Sam & Dean get an on-the-surface shitty christmas that is way more wholesome
YES
Lor:
YESYESYES
Dean's FACE when Sam asks about the wreath
Mace:
Dean’s confused face at the wreath question
YAS
Lor:
and he wants to try to back Sam up but he's got NOTHING
Mace:
YES
my god those SUITS
Lor:
"I know. I was just testing you" pets him
YES
"that we're morons"
Mace:
oh Dean, your pants are on fire
LORE! DRIIINK!!
Lor:
lolololololol
Mace:
SING IT, SAMMY
Lor:
"what will you tell me next? Easter bunny's Jewish?" hush, Dean, you love that Sam knows all these things
Mace:
YES
Lor:
"we were playing Jenga over at the Walshes the other night"
Mace:
“it was yummy”
HAHAHAHA
Lor:
Dean playing on the thing where people are assuming they're gay, I cannot
Mace:
YEP
Lor:
"I sell a lot of wreaths, guys"
Mace:
SNORK
Lor:
"people pay a buttload for this crap"
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
oh Dean
Mace:
yeah, and I love you Sam, but THINK. This is his last Christmas
Lor:
RIGHT?
bc Sam refuses to accept that, I think
Mace:
yeah
oh Sammy.
Lor:
the way Sam's voice breaks on "dead"
Mace:
BOYS. FRAUGHT
Lor:
YES
Mace:
YES
Lor:
the way they just sit there
Mace:
YEP
Lor:
is John's journal thinner than it is later? that's an awesome detail
Mace:
“are monsters real?” and the parallel to losing your Santa innocence
it IS
Lor:
YES
"we have the coolest dad in the world" oh, Dean
Mace:
yeeeeah
Lor:
oh baby Winchesters. it is exactly like that
Mace:
YEP
Jesus, how did they grow up as functioning adults at all?!
Lor:
RIGHT?
it's because Dean is an astounding human
and Bobby
Mace:
YEP
“oh fudge!”
Lor:
YES
awww, Dean wants some peanut brittle
Mace:
aw, let him have some peanut brittle
Lor:
RIGHT?
Sammy's always harshing Dean's desire to take sweets from strangers
Mace:
he IS
stupid salads
Lor:
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
"see? plastic!"
I luff him
Mace:
snork!
ewewewewew
Lor:
(don't lots of people have good locks on their interior basement doors? because there's likely a shitty door to the outside down there that doesn't lock good? or at all?)
Mace:
(hm. possibly?)
Lor:
see, if you comment on irrelevant things at length, you can not look at the ew
Mace:
HAHAHAHA
Lor:
stop hurting their heads! that's where all the knowledge and humor lives!
"I guess we're dealing with mr and mrs god. nice to know"
Mace:
YES
Lor:
"don't get all wet"
I love these two
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
"i guess we'll just have to cancel the sacrifice"
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
they DO look darling. but hands off, Madge
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
"times have changed!"
"this Jesus character"
Mace:
“this Jesus character”
YAS
Lor:
YES
Mace:
omg the WINK
Lor:
YES
"oh my goodness me! someone owes a nickel to the swear jar"
Mace:
“I’LL FUDGING KILL YOU”
I LOVE HIM
Lor:
"if you fudging touch me again, I'll fudging kill ya!" "very good"
YES
NOPE
Mace:
NOPENOPENOPENOPE
Lor:
the fingernail NOPENOPENOPE
Mace:
CORRECT
oh god, I’m still cringing
Lor:
YEP
and it gets worse
TEETH
"sweet Peter on a popsicle stick"
Merry Christmas, Sam
Mace:
HAHAHA
this is too soon. i’m having a tooth pulled in a couple of weeks
Lor:
"somebody gonna get that?" HIS COMEDIC TIMING JENSEN
ooooooof
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
tsk tsk tsk, you left Winchesters unattended
Mace:
yep. big mistake
Lor:
YEP
using all that "perfect" house stuff as weapons. the big hutch, the perfect tree
Mace:
they’re gonna be so sappy-sticky when they get home...
YES
Lor:
YEP
they should pick up some baking soda on the way home
Mace:
yep
Lor:
Dean's like full body eye roll at Sam's "merry christmas"
Mace:
HAHAHA YES
oh god, Dean.
you’ve got too much on those little shoulders
Lor:
Dean as Santa Claus/Dean as father
YOU DO
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
oh Dean. disappointed that the presents don't actually work for Sam
Mace:
YEP
also, FUCK YOU, JOHN
Lor:
RIGHT?
"no. no, that's for Dad" over the present
Mace:
YES
Lor:
Dean's not allowed to have things
Mace:
and Sam choosing Dean over John
Lor:
YES
Mace:
this right here is the pivotal moment for Sam
Lor:
and Dean still wearing it all these years later
YES
Mace:
YAASSS
omg their FACES
Lor:
SAM'S DECORATING
Mace:
Sam hopeful, Dean’s astonishment
Lor:
YES
the eggnog is too strong for him I can't
Mace:
YES
Dean’s delight that he got presents
Lor:
YES
and Dean CARES if Sam is happy with those last-second presents
Mace:
and so does SAM I CANNOT
Lor:
YEP
Mace:
you can’t tell me that they don’t keep those silly presents FOREVER
Lor:
YEP
Mace:
oh god, they’re both about to cry
BOYS
Lor:
(I also love that Sam's presents to Dean are better than Dean's presents to Sam both in the present and the past)
YES
Mace:
YES
Lor:
that face Dean makes with the drink
THIS SHOOOOOOOT
Mace:
YES
Lor:
through the window. snow. lights. BABY IS WITH THEM
Welcome to “Dean Dreams of Jeannie and Mowing and Dead Moms, Oh My!: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!
Up today, s2,e20: What Is and What Should Never Be
Dean is driving around alone while Sammy is researching lore on djinns. Sammy has Dean scoping out an area where he thinks the djinn might be hiding and taking victims. When Dean enters an abandoned warehouse, he’s attacked by a djinn and then wakes up in an apartment in Lawrence next to a beautiful woman named Carmen. The boys’ mom is alive, their dad died recently in his sleep, Sam is in law school, and Dean is a mechanic dating Carmen, a respectable nurse. But Sam and Dean are practically estranged, and since none of the Winchesters have ever been hunting things and saving people, a whole lot of people are dead who should have lived. It’s Dean’s version of a lovely life, conjured for him by the djinn, and he has to fight his desire for a normal life to get out of it.
Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.
[and we begin:]
Mace:
chicks DO dig the danger vibe
Lor:
YES WE DO
Lor:
omg Dean and his TV habits. 60s SITCOMS. I love him
Mace:
YAS
he dreams of Jeannie
Lor:
YEAH HE DOES
I had a brief crush on the dude on that show as a kid
Mace:
HAHAHAHA awesome
I always wanted to BE her
i loved her little lamp pad
Lor:
ooo NICE
i had a crush on Samantha from Bewitched though
the horror movie on TV
THE NECKLACE AND NO SHIRT
Mace:
NICE
YES and YAAASSS
Lor:
and it's not the samulet. because of course it isn't
Mace:
omg Sam’s little smile on the phone
of course it isn't
Lor:
YES
and the closing the law book when he was doing lore research before
Mace:
YES
Lor:
the kind of grimace in the kill
*kiss. omg
Mace:
HAHAHA OMG
Lor:
oh Dean. this bit kills me
AND THE HORN
Mace:
yeah
Lor:
"I don't know" and his voice
Mace:
I wonder, do other djinn victims fight the illusion like this/are they aware something’s not right, or is it just Dean
Lor:
oooo interesting question
Mace:
ANGEL(s) ARE WATCHING OVER YOU, DEAN
Lor:
YEAH THEY ARE
Mace:
“you’re beautiful” DEAD
DEAN WINCHESTER, YOU NUGGET
Lor:
YES
he's such a sweetheart
Mace:
YES
Lor:
her "excuse me"
Mace:
yeah
Lor:
omg my little touch-starved muffin
Mace:
RIGHT?!
Lor:
"no no I don't think they can really do it"
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
he should be more excited
Mace:
i think he’s...concerned
Lor:
well, fair
"everybody keeps asking me that but uh... no"
Mace:
YES
Lor:
pets him
Mace:
“we’re civilians"
Lor:
YES
Dean, honey, I'm gonna need you to pay more attention to things in the road, just generally
Mace:
snork
Mace:
omg his delight at mowing the lawn
Lor:
the look she gives him "what is with this one?"
YES
and the music!
and he's bad at it
I love it
Mace:
that this is part of his perfect world is so flipping SAD
Lor:
YES
Mace:
his wants are so simple yet so unattainable
Lor:
YES
he just wants to have a cold beer on the step after mowing the lawn
Mace:
YES
Lor:
he is SO HAPPY for everyone else
Mace:
YES
“I’ve just got low standards” HAHAHA
she’s saucy
Lor:
YES
oh Dean. your self-esteem, hon. maybe an angel could come along and tell you how awesome you are
Mace:
I need to know how much of this is the djinn and how much of it is the force of Dean’s will and his self-doubt skewing the illusion the djinn is trying to give him
Lor:
YES
"so... respectable"
Mace:
YES
Lor:
I wanna know what the necklace IS
Mace:
oooh yeah
Lor:
"why's it my job to save these people? why do I have to be some kind of hero?"
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
god the silent crying
Mace:
he’s Odysseus and Aeneas wrapped up in a SNACK BOX
YES
Lor:
HAAAAAHAHAHA snack box omg
Mace:
takes a bow
Lor:
wow that bit is an echo from the pilot when Dean first comes into Sam's apartment. I don't think I ever realized that before
"Sam, I'm sorry."
gaaaaaah
Mace:
yep and YEP
Lor:
"you're supposed to say jerk" ooof
Mace:
“what are you calling me a bitch for?"
HAHAHAHA
YES
Lor:
YES
I love how casual he is about taking the phone and throwing it out the window
Mace:
“oh, that’s hilarious"
YES
Lor:
"we're not in Kansas anymore" DEAN I LUFF YOU
Mace:
YES
have we talked about the theory that you can’t go more than a week without hearing or seeing a reference to the wizard of oz?
Lor:
what NO?!
Mace:
this guy I went to grad school with posed the theory and it’s true. or at least it was 20 years ago
Lor:
iiiiinteresting
now I have to keep notes, of course
Mace:
we used to shout out “REFERENCE” every time we saw or heard one, which generally was more than once a week
Lor:
NICE
Mace:
I super love this version of the djinn
Lor:
YES
he is cool and CREEEPY
Mace:
YES
and a creative interpretation of the myths
Lor:
"this is real? you're not crazy?"
YES
Mace:
this is where I go a bit cross-eyed, though: HOW is he here and in the illusion at the same time?!
or does that gets explained and I just don’t remember
Lor:
I don't get how this works though. how can he be DREAMING and also be where this is actually happening? or is he slightly waking up and seeing her and then working it into the dream?
Lor:
HAAAAHAHAHA OMG MACE
Mace:
HAHAHAHAH OMG LOR
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Lor:
lololololololol
oh look, Dean's explaining it to us
Mace:
HA
Lor:
"like 90% sure"
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
"it's still better than anything you had"
gaaaaah
AND he still mostly gives the good things to other people
Mace:
YES
Lor:
"get some rest"
does a little jig and sings a little song that goes "fuck 327"
Mace:
YAAASSS
REFERENCE!
Lor:
Iiiiii might REALLY like it when he's sick-looking
YAS
Mace:
HAHAHA YES
Lor:
ouch, Sammy, your head DANG
Mace:
always with the head
Lor:
yeah
Sam gets hit in the head, Dean gets sexually assaulted
there is SUCH a paper in there somewhere
Mace:
YES
Lor:
oooof Carmen is a beer ad
oh Dean
Sam is wearing that shirt I love
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
"yeah lucky me"
Mace:
OOOF
Lor:
"I wanted to stay. I wanted to stay so bad" gaaaaaah
Mace:
AAAAAAAAAA
Lor:
"it's worth it" and then the look on Dean's faaaaaaaace
Welcome to “Monster Chassis and Past Cassies: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!
Up today, s1e13: Route 666.
Stephen King's Christine, but make it Sam and Dean. The spirit of a racist a-hole is possessing his old monster truck and killing the people who had a hand in killing him years ago. One of the victims is the dad of one of Dean's old girlfriends, who calls him for help. Dean struggles with his leftover feelings for Cassie (No, seriously, her name is Cassie. I mean.) while Sammy throws all sorts of silent shade Deanward for it. The dramatic conclusion involves Sam putting Baby in potential danger and Dean getting fair-to-middling pissed about it.
Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.
[and we begin:]
Lor:
oooo, no Jensen saying "previously on Supernatural"
this is one of my favorite episodes that isn't very good bounces
Mace:
interesting! (I love that you notice always and I never think to pay attention)
Lor:
(lol. if it were Jared, you'd pay attention, admit it)
Mace:
(probably not, actually. I'm not very observant)
and this is one of the creepiest for me because when I was a kiddo I was terrified that trucks and semis would come to life and chase me down
Lor:
RIGHT?
like, a lot of fans seem to think this one is just cheesy but it LEGIT scared the pants offa me the first time
and honestly, it still kinda does. the REVVING?!
Mace:
exactly
man, the lot of fans must be jaded in some kind of way that we just aren't
poor dears
bless their hearts
Lor:
that thing weighs TONS and you can't even punch it on its snoot!
Mace:
are you...equating a truck to a shark?
Lor:
maybe?
at least I didn't suggest it was pastry...
awww, Dean, come on, go to Pennsylvania
"friend that's not new"
Mace:
oh right! This one is Dean Had a Girlfriend
Lor:
YES
Mace:
and I will NEVER get over that her name is CASsie
Lor:
RIGHT?
ATHENS OHIO
Mace:
WOOT
Lor:
(it is a CRIME that they never actually set an episdoe there)
Mace:
yeah
"this chick in Ohio" now hold on a minute, Sammy
Lor:
RIGHT?
THE FIRST RULE OF WINCHESTER CLUB IS THAT YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT WINCHESTER CLUB
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
I do kind of enjoy his indignation, though
Mace:
ah, we're still in Girls Wearing Too-Small Blazers times
Lor:
GOSH she's pretty
Mace:
SHE IS
Lor:
"hey, Cassie" HIS FACE
Mace:
yep
Lor:
omg Sammy's little smirk
Mace:
Sammy's little SMILE
Lor:
YAAAS
Lor:
okay, painfully 2005 or not, her outfit looks GOOD ON HER
Mace:
she'd look amazing in anything, to be fair
Lor:
well. yeah
Dean's little "hmmph”
Mace:
she looks familiar so I just looked her up and she's in a last-season ep of Buffy
because of course she is
Lor:
oooooo
Mace:
UGH CREEPY
THE REVVING
Lor:
okay, seriously it FREAKS ME OUT
Mace:
YES
it's honestly related to the attraction of helmeted dudes like The Stig or the Mandalorian, except in this case instead of super-hot it's super-terrifying
Lor:
oooo, interesting
the way Dean's eyes track to this dude when she brings up racism
Mace:
YES
SUITS
DED
Lor:
YES they are too adorable in those suits
YOU GUYS NEVER REALLY LOOK AT EACH OTHER AT THE SAME TIME
Mace:
well because they can't actually communicate well
Lor:
SNORK
I just enjoy the way this is gonna repeat again with Cas
Mace:
YEP
omg Dean needs so much help with that tie
Lor:
lolol
I VOLUNTEER
Mace:
somehow I knew you would
Lor:
I can't IMAGINE how you would figure that
Mace:
I know, right? Just a sixth sense I have
Lor:
LOL
Mace:
it's impressive, really
Lor:
SNORK it is. good job. well done, you
the way these two dudes look at each other when he says "a time when this town wasn't too friendly to all its citizens"
Mace:
Ha! yeah, it's like the writers are winkwink nudgenudging us: Hey, look at us dealing wiTH RACE
Lor:
HA!
yeah
Mace:
SAMMY
DEAN: "get in the car"
Lor:
"oh wow. she dumped you"
YES
Mace:
Sammy is floored and it's hilarious
Lor:
YES
Lor:
wraps Dean in a blanket
Mace:
wow that shirt on her...I may be slightly ded
Lor:
RIGHT?
the way it is EXACTLY the right amount of too small
Mace:
YES
Lor:
the LEANING
Mace:
ooof the framing of that shot with the two of them leaning on opposite sides of the doorway
Lor:
YES
Mace:
"we'll keep it strictly business" YEAH RIGHT, DEAN
Lor:
oh Dean, you are RADIATING pain, you little jerk. just TALK TO HER
Mace:
ope, there it is. JOHN.
Lor:
YEP
Mace:
fuck you, John
Lor:
"I didn't mean to hurt you." "well, you did"
Mace:
okay so this is the first actual realistic scene between Dean and any female because it actually ends with the woman saying "fuck it" and attack-kissing him
Lor:
haahahahaha YES
Lor:
AND she throws him on the bed and climbs on. GET IT, CASSIE
Mace:
everyone else shows extremely unrealistic self-control around that boy
Mace:
YAS
Lor:
SNORK
Mace:
oh, right, there's a haunted demon truck in this episode
Lor:
LOLOLOLOLOL
Lor:
yeah, apparently
Lor:
the NECKLACE WITH NO SHIRT
Mace:
YES
"my dad's work" UGH, DEAN, JUST STOP
(wow, the dialogue here is actually pretty awful. I mean, I don't really care, but still, it's not quality)
Lor:
Yeah
and it's a shame because this is some of the most vulnerable Dean ever is
Mace:
HAHAHA SAMMY
Lor:
YES SAM is unsifferable about it I LOVE IT
Mace:
yeah
oh, yes, I love it when Sammy gets unsifferable
so hot, that unsifferableness
Lor:
LOOK. it's not my fault I'm distracted by gestures at TV and can't type good
Mace:
snork
Lor:
lookit Sammy's really awesome notebook
Mace:
wow. that's some smooth misdirection there, Lor
Lor:
LOLOLOLOL
Mace:
UGH
CREEEEEPY
Lor:
IT MAKES MY SKIN CRAWL
Mace:
RIGHT?!
HOW could you think this wasn't scary?!
Lor:
NO IDEA
that's it, cassie, shut those blinds. that'll help
Mace:
HAHAHAHA
Sammy making tea. Now THAT. IS. HOT.
Lor:
YES
Mace:
Excuse me while I go to my happy place
Lor:
lol
I also love that Dean and Cassie have sex one time and suddenly they are attached at the hip whenever they're in the same space. it's adorable
Mace:
YES
I was just thinking that the people-staging in this ep is good - Sammy is always off to the side, divided from Dean and Cassie
Lor:
YEP
Mace:
making Dean/Cassie a definite couple
Lor:
YEP
and it is EXACTLY how they stage SO MUCH of Dean and Cas and Sam later
Mace:
YEP
Sammy's HEY GUYS CHECK THIS OUT horrible timing
Lor:
LOL
oh Dean
what this actress does with her hands during this bit is a wondeful, effective bit of business
Mace:
OMG I was just about to say that I want to tie her hands behind her back because her fluttering is driving me BANANAS
Lor:
HAAAAHAHAHAHA
Mace:
it feels like over-acting to me. the idea is good but I think she overdoes it
Lor:
huh. interesting. it feels so real to me
Mace:
LADY PUT YOUR HANDS DOWN
Lor:
LOLOLOLOLOL pats you
Mace:
"occasionally I miss boring"
Oh Sammy, you poor double-outsider, I love you
Lor:
YES
"I miss conversations that didn't start with 'this killer truck'"
Mace:
"don't go getting all authoritative on me" WHAT, Girl you don't know what's good
Lor:
"don't leave the house please?" DEAN
Mace:
Dean, pls do get all authoritative with me any damn time you like
Lor:
maybe she'd rather go all authoritative on him
I mean, YES, co-sign, but
Mace:
Ha! Yes, she did make that clear when she threw him on the bed
Lor:
see?
Mace:
and we both know Dean wouldn't object
Lor:
he would NOT
Mace:
how has there not been a Stephen King reference yet?
Lor:
right?
Mace:
(or maybe there has and I've missed it)
Lor:
maybe. I also have not noticed it if it's been there
Mace:
I'm nervous for Baby here
Lor:
RIGHT?
you DID NOT just tap Baby's bumper
now it is on
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
did that look like there was a clutch? I swear that looks like there was a clutch, which there should not be
Mace:
sorry i didn't notice a clutch
Lor:
s'okay
I just swear he's using both feet to stop, and I don't know why
Mace:
the truck just sitting there is way creepier even than when it's running someone down
Lor:
YES
"maybe? MAYBE?"
Mace:
HAHAHA
Lor:
"I'm gonna kill him"
Mace:
SAMMY HAHAHA
Lor:
YES
Lor:
oooof, Dean
Mace:
yeah
gosh, I like her
Lor:
RIGHT?
Lor:
I wish they had brought her back instead of Lisa
THE WAY DEAN DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION
and hides his eyes. and isn't driving
Mace:
FUCK YOU 327
Lor:
RIGHT?!!!!
[after the episode ended:]
Lor:
...and I don't have anything against Lisa, honestly, but it would have made so much more SENSE
Mace:
hm, maybe? But I do like that Lisa and the kiddo represent a more suburban standard Normal Life idea than Cassie would, especially since Cassie already knows his secret and seems like she would fit right into the monster-fighting life pretty easily if she so chose
you need that bigger gap between Dean's monster-hunting life and Lisa's Normal Life to get the tension
Lor:
ooo, fair. I meant it would make more sense from the woman's perspective though. like, WHY does Lisa just let this former one-night stand move in with her and her kid for a year? there would be so much more of a foundation for Cassie
Mace:
Look, clearly Lisa doesn't make great life choices
and, well, LOOKIT HIM.
Lor:
HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Mace:
I wouldn't exactly turn him away from the door...
Lor:
you are telling me that you would let a PTSD-ridden alcoholic monster-hunting disaster move in with you and [your son]?
x
Mace:
if he looked like Dean?
and if he gave me The Wink?
Lor:
lol
you know what, I take it back... I think this episode is pretty good actually. its handling of racism is maybe a little hamfisted but not... any more than any other episode? so, like, that IS a problem, but
Mace:
I agree. Overall it is a solid episode, despite that hamfistyness and despite the awkward writing at times. Very creepy Monster-of-the-Week, and good interactions between Dean and Sam
Lor:
yep
and the stuff with Cassie is important Dean-development that we haven’t really had yet. he's a big softie under there
Mace:
and despite the awkward way the rest of the ep talks about race, Cassie is a strong black woman who DOESN'T DIE
Lor:
YES
and she has her OWN LIFE and does not give it up for the white boy at the center of the story
Mace:
EXACTLY YES
you know, I could go for a Cassie spin-off, to be honest
Lor:
YAS
Mace:
she doesn't even have to start fighting monsters. weird shit could happen sort of on the edges and she'd be all NBD I'm living my best life over here
Lor:
YES
and there's this like one episode SEVERAL seasons in where Dean and Cas and Sam show up for like ONE scene but in that ONE scene, she clocks Dean and Cas and the scene is 90% nothing but Cassie making knowing comments at them with her whole chest
and she takes Cas aside and whispers to him about the attacking and throwing on the bed
Mace:
HAHAHAHA
OH GOD WAIT: the whole show is all the side characters somehow trickling in and out of her life, no mention that they've met Sam and Dean but their interactions are always flavored by their past experiences with the boys
