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Welcome to another episode, it's time to feel Sad and Angry... sangry? That's right, Bobby dies.

Sam is sad, but struggling hard to maintain his grip on reality, and it hurts him deeply that he can't fully mourn Bobby. I mean, we can't see it here, but just imagine how horrible the Hallucifer in his head could be in this situation. His beloved father figure dying could've proved nightmare fuel for Hallucifer.

And Dean is just furious about it, but hey, at least he's feeling something other than the nihilistic depression? He finally had a specific, direct target for all that pain, and it's one Mr. Dick Roman, Leviathan.

Do they have any idea how to actually kill him? Well, no. But that doesn't matter to Dean's anger.

And then Bobby (and Rufus! how awesome is it to see Rufus again, even in this horrible circumstance). I think nearly everyone is still mad about Bobby. :'D

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The Superwiki page

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Rewatch notes from July 2019

Rewatch notes from July 2017

Can you guess when I joined GISHWHES for the first time? Aah, nostalgia for Team AngrySandwich! So clearly I enjoy this episode (at least until the last two minutes...) :'D

Dean finally gets a little respite from his feelings via the aforementioned sandwich, only for realty to crash back down on him ten times as hard. And he and Sam each have a heartfelt conversation with Bobby, before the aforementioned last two minutes.

But before that, we have an awful lot of fun... A return to the mytharc and Dick Roman and a glimpse at the sinister larger plans the Leviathans are carrying out while the narrative strips Sam and Dean of everything they love... even the simple things like "electricity" and "running water."

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The Superwiki page

My tag (only 3 pages and half of them are gifs, so really here’s my rewatch notes from July 2017)

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series

The fic I can remember off the top of my head where I sneaked Ranger Rick in: Around the World in 24 Days, technically part 5 of the Tumblr Anonymous ‘verse (aka Project Beyonce). It’s over 101k, rated M, and destiel, based on the Amazing Race. I made Rick one of the easter egg cameramen, so it’s not like he’s got a big part. But never pass up a chance to plug your own work! :D

And here we finally get an episode that gets right to the heart of Dean's fears. He's just trying so hard to be a Good Brother. To respect Sam's wishes, to let him make his own decisions about his life, and not only does Sam STILL think Dean is being judgmental and controlling when he tries to save Sam from what is very obviously a terrible situation from the outside, Sam resents him for it the entire time (well, until he snaps out of the love potion spell anyway...)

It's a very specific (and really skeevy) way to show us in small scale how Dean is feeling about Sam and his larger season issues about the Hallucifering, and being concerned that Sam really doesn't have as much agency in all of this as he's trying to convince Dean that he does. Because boy is Sam making some weak choices...

Plus, who can really hate Guy the demon?

I mean, thank heck Dabb gets to bring Becky back in s15 for some redemption after this one, but this one also highlights just how much Chuck's hand is stuck to everything in the story. Always good to keep that in mind during a rewatch.

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The Superwiki page

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My rewatch notes from July 2019 (if you only read one thing, etc. etc.)

 Lizbob’s excellent meta about Book Fandom vs Show Fandom

Because I can, even if I think I linked this one way back in 1.04, have a fic where I bring back Guy the demon for a short bit… The Terminal Job (24k words, rated M, case fic, destiel)

I do really enjoy this one, even if a lot of the fandom doesn't. I do enjoy Dean finally getting to feel at least a little relief, justifying his actions and turning at least a little of that back around on Sam.

It's a bit of an unconventional case, and I always enjoy those. And the character growth is incredibly on point considering this is the only episode these two writers ever did. They'd definitely been taking notes.

And since it's Thanksgiving, I'll just let the episode stand on its own this week. It's a good one to just sit back, relax, and enjoy some pie with. :)

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The Superwiki page

My tag (only 3 pages of posts, lots of versions of the Virile Manifestation of the Divine gif set mixed in with some good meaty Dean meta! It’s worth wading through a bit…)

My rewatch notes from May 2017

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series

My fic, It's Lily Dale, 14k of destiel wacky case fic about truth and lies, and Sam getting accidentally cursed in Lily Dale. Rated T.

Welcome to the show, Robbie Thompson!

Do... do we need more hype than that for this week's episode? If so, we get more Jody Mills! We get Sam, Dean, and Bobby having to confront their gooey leviathan duplicates, we meet Frank, we get a little trip down memory lane to some early s1 cases, Baby goes into her s7 lockdown and we begin the journey of POS cars. But we also get a breakthrough on dealing with leviathan in general. They're highly allergic to borax. So saddle up your mule team and let's enjoy the ride!

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The Superwiki page

My tag for this episode

Filming locations map

My rewatch notes from July 2019

I won’t post this for every Robbie episode, but here’s an interview with him discussing every episode he wrote for Supernatural

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas Are In Love series, about the All Out Of Love scene

Bucklemming is back, and for them this one is actually pretty enjoyable, so I'll take it. Plus you can't be mad about Spike and Cordelia as feuding witches.

Dean's guilt is still getting the better of them, and Sam is pushing way too hard trying to make Dean talk about his feelings. I'm sure that won't lead to a catastrophic personal situation for them... This episode is pretty good at pointing out some of the foundations of Performing Dean, though, so credit where that's due. And for a guy that wants his brother to open up, Sam can get pretty snarky and judgmental in the few moments that Dean actually does. It doesn't give Dean a lot of incentive to actually show his feelings.

Especially when half those feelings are worry over Sam (even if this episode doesn't really show it much, we shouldn't forget he's still hallucifering it up in there), half are worry and turmoil over the nebulous situation they've found themselves in (the leviathan, having lost Cas, having lost Bobby's house as a home base, etc.), and half are just plain old guilt. (yes that's three halves, Dean has a LOT of feelings, okay?)

LINKS!

The Superwiki page (with loads of links to outside media and promo stuff)

My tag

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series focusing on Dean’s nightmare

This episode is here seemingly only to flog us with the fact that Dean Is Not Doing Well. Sam may have bounced back guilt-free and performatively coping with his hallucifering, but when Dean gets a second to breathe he just dives head-first into feeling trauma, guilt, and loss. And that's a super terrible combo platter on a good day.

And this is not a good day... >.>

Yes I get a little grumpy with Sam, and Dean, and this whole stupid situation. At least Osiris has cool decor, I guess.

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The Superwiki page

My tag

Filming locations map

My rewatch notes from July 2017

My rewatch notes from May 2017 (aah, the good old days when the tnt loop took less than 3 months)

The trick to this one is to see everyone's perspective, or you end up hating someone in short order, and that is not what we're here for... >.>

While I like to stick to the watsonian perspective when I talk about the show, and I do in the episode, I want to mention the doylist perspective here for just a second. This one really feels like the assignment was "have Dean cross a line to show just how poorly he's coping" since so much of the first two episodes were about Sam's lack of touch with reality and the couple attempts they made to poke at Dean's mental state through everything were dismissed as unimportant in the face of the rest of their problems, even though it was clear that was a bald-faced lie at the time.

So this feels like an overcorrection on that front, using the unfortunate sequence of events and kind of almost glossing over Sam's Hallucifering, or showing us from Dean's perspective just how subtle it can look, as he does Mostly Okay from what WE see after the initial disconnect from reality in this episode. Yet it has Dean going so far off the rails that he's choosing murder as the safety net of protecting Sam from himself... and of course this will come back to bite him a lot, even into next season. And that I do get into during the episode.

But the writing choices here just lead to some of the emotional unevenness of the early part of s7, and I do find that mildly annoying. >.>

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The Superwiki page (with additional links to interviews with Jensen about filming, under the Minutiae section)

My tag

Filming locations map

The Production Draft script, Blue Revisions, and Pink Revisions, plus the Second Unit Call Sheet

And boy is it ever cruel! The subtitle there refers to the plot climax of this one, but also to season seven as a whole. The entire thing is built on pain being the key to reality, and doesn't that just suck! Like, massively! It sucks for Sam, it sucks for Dean, and it sucks for all of us! But we shall endure. :'D

We lose Cas right at the start, and then Dean carries his coat away like a widow leaving a soldier's funeral with a flag, and that sets the stage for his grief and guilt for the first long segment of the season. Meanwhile, Sam's just not coping well with his smashed walls and resurfacing Hell trauma, and using Dean's technique of repressing and denying is really, really not working for him.

So, bring on the pain and losses and gooey jerks who are this season's Big Bad-- a metaphor for capitalism. Wheee.

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The Superwiki page (with loads of bts photos from director Guy Bee)

My tag

Filming locations map

Commentary from Serge Ladouceur

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (part 1) (part 2)

Promo clip 1, Promo clip 2 (that has that sort of corporate ad vibe s7 plays into…) (for the record, this is the last time I'll include promo clips here, since they're all linked from the Superwiki page if you're interested... I'm trying to save word count for posting purposes, and we'll see how that goes!

Questions, concerns, comments? Contact me here on tumblr (through the inbox or dm's, I'm around a lot), on Bluesky, on discord as mittensmorgul, or via email at mittensmorgul @ gmail. :)

Same as the old boss... (won't get fooled again... *screaming*)

Welcome to season seven, where they could've done something truly great but instead did this... We could've had a season of Godstiel, trying to save Cas from himself and Leviathan Possession, but no. Though the specific *way* they screwed this up becomes the foundation for the relationship between Dean and Cas for the rest of the series, so at least we have that.

And isn't it a LOT easier to watch s7 knowing that going in? I think so!

Plus Death is in this one, and I adore that guy. At least as much as I really don't like Lucifer-- even this imaginary version currently plaguing poor Sam.

At least we have one more episode with Cas, even if he's really going through it. And I'm gonna spend a lot of s7 referencing s15. Partly because Chuck seemed really enamored with the Leviathan as a monster, but also because it feels very relevant to Chuck's Favorite Story in a lot of ways.

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The Superwiki page

My tag

filming locations map

Promo for Season 7 #1, Promo #2, Promo #3, Webclip

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love Series: (yeah this one’s A Series Of Pain!) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

Since I mentioned it in the podcast, the list of all the creative insults Crowley used