SPN Georg

CHARLIE!

That's all I need to say, right? Oh, we also get the plot set in place for the rest of the season, with the awesome heist they pull on Dick's Brick. Dean gets to be both a lil geeky AND a lil queer. And Bobby goes terrifyingly close to vengeful. So much happening, and we're at least now pointing directly toward the season finale, so borax ahoy!

LINKS!

The Superwiki page

My tag

scene analysis of the flirting split screen

my rewatch notes from July 2019

an interesting discussion of queer subtext

more on the flirting scene

dean vs harry potter (he’s so right)

the origin of my dean is bi tag

It's another one of those episodes I always used to forget existed until it came back around on the loop again. Yeah, we get some weird Bucklemming-flavored ghost lore, but it proves at least interesting in context with Bobby's ghost. Because we also finally get to see Bobby's ghost again, right along with Sam and Dean, with the reminder of the mytharc happening elsewhere feels like a throaway line in this episode.

But this one is worth watching, and we can find enjoyment, especially in meeting the hunter Annie, and reuniting with Bobby. Because after this week we'll run headlong into a cascade of mytharc leading up to the season finale. We can enjoy one last little deviation from that plot.

LINKS!

The Superwiki page

My tag

Also, I've finally started importing all my past scripts into Ao3, in case anyone is interested in reading them. Partial notes/intro scripts begin with 3.13 Ghostfacers, and full scripts begin with Chapter 82, Episode 138 - 7.12 Time After Time. I'll be adding scripts weekly when podcast episodes drop, since now that I write them out in full, they might actually be interesting to read. Maybe. If you're really super nerdy about this show like I am. :'D

We officially have a Gross of SpnGeorg! wheee!

I sincerely appreciate Garth as a person, and as a friend to Sam and Dean. If anyone could've made them feel even a little bit better about the universe after last week, it was Mr. Fizzles Garth.

I also appreciate the expansion of the supernatural universe, especially through the medium of Beer Brands. We talk about beer in Supernatural having meta relevance (think El Sol, Kingdom, and Schultz, for starters), so the genesis of an entirely new category of beer brands (the trendy independent brewery that makes beers that dean ends up enjoying unironically) is fascinating to me personally. I love anything that expands the spn universe like this!

Also filed under things I love about this episode: Dean gets to be the sober one, and for once in his life, it works against him, especially after a season where his excessive and growing alcohol intake had been a lowkey running theme.

LINKS!

The Superwiki page

My tag

My rewatch notes from July 2019

A liveblog chat with Lizbob from July 2017

A Tidy Metaphor for Performing Dean, and Sam’s recurring inability to really understand his brother

Do I need to introduce this one? Really? We're all here for the return of Cas, and a massive turning point in the structure and narrative of the series. There's just so much good here, even if Cas gets shoved back in a box at the end of the episode. At least he's ~there~ again.

So much changes after this point, but first and foremost, Dean reclaims just a tiny shred of hope. And in season seven, that's huge.

LINKS!

The Superwiki page (in addition to all the usual great stuff, scroll to the bottom for LOTS of links to PR

My tag (far more robust than most other s7 episodes lolol)

The Studio and Network Draft script

thevioletcaptain’s post about DaphnE AlleN

My rewatch notes from October 2019

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

Shipper Zero discusses the song choice of Turn Into Earth

Aah, shipper Zero again…

A long collaborative post about Daphne

there’s so much more in my tag, though, so please if you have an hour to kill, think about scrolling through :)

Yes, things locked in boxes unwittingly released to wreak havoc and ruin lives. Again. Still kinda shocked at how many times Sam and Dean still attempt to lock things up to solve their problems after all the escaped things they've had to round up and deal with over the years.

We also get a lot of innuendo and queercoding for Dean, and Sam's decompensating fast now that that he can't stuff his hallucinations back in their box with the scar button on his hand. We also finally begin to learn some of what the Leviathans have been planning. And while they may be practically invincible and invulnerable, they're also apparently largely... not all that competent as a whole.

Okay, I think I'm pas de done for now, so let's have some LINKS!

The Superwiki page

My tag

And I guess that’s all for this week, which is probably for the best. Next week is gonna be A Lot.

Does this make Dean the dog again? Also, a very good reminder that antipossession symbol tattoos are a thing in this universe, and maybe it would've been a good thing for them to have shared with a heck of a lot more people than they did, you know?

Also, some very interesting parallels through the MotW, a guy who went to extraordinary measures to bring back the demon (angel?) because he was in love with him. Two episodes before Cas comes back...

LINKS!

The Superwiki page (including links to minutiae and trivia about the episode, transcripts, promo clips, etc. as usual… I stopped adding all those things separately a while back, so every once in a while I like to remind folks how much interesting info is on the Superwiki page for every episode!)

My tag

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series

A life well-lived comes from the structured pursuit of meaningful happiness. (rewatch notes from January 2018)

My rewatch notes from May 2017

I love this episode. After half a season of beating on Dean emotionally, while all of Sam's crazy fit under the Hallucifer umbrella he could control with the button on his hand, Sam finally gets some horror from the outside.

From clowns.

I mean, Dean has to face some baggage from his childhood, as well, but it's not as dramatic as Sam getting pounded on by maniac clowns. Plus we get an actual (magically created, anyway) unicorn!

This whole episode just feels like a reprieve from their otherwise unrelenting series of losses, and we really needed the break right about now...

LINKS!

The Superwiki Page

My Tag

My Rewatch Notes from July 2019

Lizbob’s notes on Sam and Dean characterization that use this episode as one example

My fic Dean’s Days Off (14k, fluff, destiel) exploring what I always felt Dean was up to when he dumped Sam off at places like Plucky’s for a few hours

More Dean Posting

Even More Dean Posting

My rewatch notes from March 2016

Lizbob’s rewatch notes (long, but worth the read, because we might be the two largest appreciators of this episode in the world lol)

Oh, bucklemming with their fast-growing monster babies... only they foisted this one off on Dean. To me, this one has always felt like a ham-fisted attempt to balance out the Amy Pond storyline from earlier this season, that just makes it all the more unbalanced.

Sam might think the scales are balanced now, but mostly because he's not exactly in touch with reality himself here... or at the very least not seeing Dean clearly. This is the part of s7 where the writers seemed to forget Sam was constantly hallucifering all over the place, but that makes a hell of a lot more sense when we do remember that while watching.

LINKS!

The Superwiki Page

My tag (only two pages of posts!)

The People’s Choice Pantsless Promo video

My rewatch notes from July 2019 (mostly about Sam and Dean and their main conflict throughout s6 and s7, really… and Sam’s dependence on his Magic Anti-Hallucination Button to the exclusion of actually perceiving reality unless it fits with his personal understanding of it. Plus, proof there can be good stuff even in egregious bucklemming episodes… Seriously, if you only click one link here, make it this one.)

My Complaint™ about the handprint disappearing

Time travel, and Dean gets to meet a personal hero in the flesh, while Sam and Jody have to save his ass from 1944. I love watching them all work at the same problem from opposite directions, and are able to make everything come together in the end. Plus who can resist Dean in that suit? Or resist just how much Dean loves that suit? Plus he's absolutely brilliant throughout this one (thank you Robbie Thompson, yet again!), and brilliantly queercoded. I could talk about this one for ages, but I already did...

Fine, just enjoy this one. I know we all will.

LINKS!

The Superwiki Page

My tag

My Dean is a Genius post from July 2020

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (yes, the same one as for the last few episodes)

Lizbob’s post about the final deleted scene from this episode

My rewatch notes from May 2017

My post about Sam and Dean’s Rochambeau history

Sam and Dean each try to cope with Bobby's death and honor him in their own way-- Sam by helping a young girl asking for Bobby's assistance, and Dean by obsessively trying to decode the numbers Bobby died to give them. It's all not particularly healthy, but they all learn something by the end.

Sam learns that Vetalas usually hunt in pairs, and Dean learns that if he doesn't want to quit, to walk away from hunting entirely, he should convince himself he'll be fine until the end of the week and then paste on a smile and be a professional. Thanks for that helpful advice, Frank!

Have I mentioned I kinda love that guy? I mean... the advice itself is kinda horrifying, but it reveals new hidden depths in Frank. Plus we meet Krissy and her dad, who I always wish had been truly able to free themselves from hunting. But this is Supernatural, so you know how that goes...

LINKS!

The Superwiki page

My tag

My rewatch notes from May 2017 (where two is better than one)

A reminder of lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series post from 7.09 (which will also be relevant in 7.12)

My rewatch notes from July 2019