SPN Georg

A season finale that really runs as part one of a two-parter. I had to firmly sort the events of this one out of the events of 7.01, and mostly succeeded, I hope.

Poor Sam has to put himself back together after Cas breaks his wall in a desperate last-ditch attempt to go through with his awful plan. Somewhere along the line, this power grab stopped being About Saving Dean and morphed into something truly awful. And all the while Our Guys have NO idea what Cas's actual goal in his determination to defeat Raphael actually is! They don't understand what Raphael in power in heaven would mean for them very specifically! Resuming the apocalypse, forcing Lucifer and Michael into Sam and Dean, and the end of everything on earth!

I will never be over the fact that if Cas had just shared that tiny fragment of information with them from the start, Sam and Dean both would've been all about helping Cas defeat Raphael, whatever that ended up looking like. But heck, they never even had a chance. And now, Cas has no idea why all his friends are "betraying" him, because he's so single-minded in his goal of busting open Purgatory like a cold one and drinking down the boys... like... without that One Key Detail, it sounds like an insane plan! And it even sounds like an insane plan to folks who DO know what Raphael plans to do (like Balthazar!). So really.. this is just a mountain of frustration and sadness and The Consequences Of Their Own Actions. And it all lands on Cas right here... :(

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Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series

Flee or Die (my wailing summary of s6)

My rewatch notes from July 2017

Things really start falling apart... Cas's plans are breaking down, Bobby's chasing leads from H.P. Lovecraft, and Dean's chasing the demons who went after Lisa and Ben, and makes terrible choices as a result. It's just Bad Decisions Day all around!

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Sera introduces 6.21 and 6.22

Extended promo clip for 6.21 and 6.22

My reply to an anon in April 2019 about why Dean had Lisa and Ben’s memories wiped

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (post 1) (post 2) (post 3)

This week: Studies in new levels of crippling emotional pain! That's right, we've arrived at The Agonies! I really don't believe I have to work hard to introduce this one, so I'll yammer about the caption i put on the graphic this week: big plans for that fish.

Yes, Cas is the fish. Way down the line, he's just got so much fish and fishing imagery attached to him, that really this one does feel like a little fishy just flopping up out of the water for the first time and testing out what free will is all about. Unfortunately pretty much everything goes sideways for him.

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Video of Ben Edlund talking about directing at Paleyfest

(there’s a large number of interviews with Edlund, Misha, and Mark S. linked at the bottom of the Superwiki page for this one, in the interest of character count limitations on Spotify, I’m not linking them all here lol, but please have this one titled “Castiel’s Betrayal is going to hurt Dean deeply”)

Synopsis of The Man Who Would Be King 1975( film)

Probably important for this episode even more than usual, Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series. there are… a lot of parts this week, and I didn’t bother trying to figure out if they have a correct order, and the numbers are just to differentiate the links. so here goes, good luck! (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6) (part 7) (okay does everyone understand this episode is about Cas doing all of this For Dean)

The CW Promo video (notable for Cas’s lines being cut to a pleading “STOP ME!”)

Hello everyone, this is your captain speaking. If you look out the left side of the plane, you can watch Castiel's carefully constructed plans begin to unravel in catastrophic fashion! Because by the end of this episode, he's reaching the point of no return. He's got maybe one more chance to take it all back after the events of this episode, but we all know he's passed that emotional point of no return months and months ago (when he walked away from Dean raking leaves *insert a bajillion sobbing emojis here*).

So we get Dean's own humanity working against him, but also working for him. And he gets to be a Jefferson Starship for a hot minute. And we see Cas willing to sacrifice his own "humanity" to do what he believes he needs to do to save everyone else (and especially Dean).

It's all just sad.

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Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (part one) (part two) (part three) (part four) (and i just realized I borked the order, read them in reverse for a chronological experience lol)

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CW Promo

We get yet another peek at the undercurrent of season 6, the bigger picture of what's really going on with Cas. And again, it's one of those things you can't notice until you know the full trick of the season. But on rewatch, it's so much more heartbreaking when you know what's coming.

I also really do think this is where Dean's fascination with cowboys and the wild west moves from loving movies about it to actually taking an interest in the real history of it all. Kinda hard not to when you're immersed in all that authenticity! Plus I really love his coat.

We also get a little more of the backstory of the Colt. I honestly wish I could watch the conversation between Samuel Colt and Elkins, considering 140-odd years later we find the gun in possession of a guy named Daniel Elkins, a renowned vampire hunter. I... would honestly love to hear the story of the Colt and the Elkins family, and how they became the guardians of this weapon that was so entirely foundational to the entire narrative. Alas, that's left to our collective imagination... What I do have, is:

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My tag (with lots of posts comparing this one to much later Dabb Era plot arcs, for obvious reasons)

Storyboards for the gunfight scene

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are in Love series installments for this episode: (part 1) (part 2, which is the big neon sign to the bigger plot of s6 i mentioned hidden in this episode for those who know enough to see it)

Video of the Bonanza opening title sequence on which this episode’s special title card was based

Ennio Morricone’s The Ecstasy of Gold scene from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, not for any particular reason, but because I enjoy the tumblr post about it :’D (okay, the music in this episode is all a nod to Ennio Morricone and old Spaghetti Westerns in general, so enjoy the gay little run for three and a half minutes uninterrupted)

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CW Promo video

For an episode that feels very much like a throwaway MotW romp of silliness on a first watch of the series, this one sure does have some much stronger implications buried in it when you know what's coming three episodes down the road...

By the time we learn Crowley loaned 50k souls to smack down Raphael before the events of s6 that we've witnessed to this point, I think we forget that this whole wild plan in THIS episode was specifically engineered to manufacture... 50k new souls. It almost feels as if this was a last-ditch attempt for Cas to try and "fix" things, to get out of that deal, to pay Crowley back and walk away. But it failed. It only puts Sam and Dean in more direct danger, and he abandons it as quickly and messily as he began.

IT'S A TRAGEDY. And on a first watch, you can't possibly understand it. Which is why we do this! For the pain! :D

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

My rewatch notes from April 2017

The CW Promo video

Yes, the title is Agatha Christie, and the themes are kind of similar in a general sense... a bunch of people all enticed to the same location and everyone ends up dead. Well..., not entirely everyone. Their true "host" for these events is still walking around (Eve) and Sam, Dean, and Bobby all live to fight another day. But everyone else? Eh... not so much.

Khan worm monster gets squished though, which... ew lol.

But as I say in the recording, overall in the big scheme of things, while we do finally learn little bit more about Eve, this one ends up feeling rather sad and pointless in the bigger scheme of things. And I just find that a little disappointing.

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CW Promo video

We're also into the final hours of the @spnscripthunt fundraiser and raffle in support of World Central Kitchen, and we're still nearly a thousand dollars shy of our original goal. You have a chance to win one of up to 30 Supernatural scripts autographed by the cast (one entry for every $10 donated! details at the link for all of this), but you only have until Midnight Eastern Time on Saturday night to donate!

I realized after i finished editing this one that I didn’t even talk about the title of this one. It’s a reference to a very specific fourth wall break in cinema history. From my second favorite movie released the year I was born, Blazing Saddles. I’ll link to a post with the video clip from the end of the film below though.

For anyone who doesn’t know the film though, it’s a western. It’s a dang silly Mel Brooks western, too, with a lot of social commentary (heavily rooted in when it was made… 1974…). And at the end of the movie, at the climax of action, we… cut to an exterior shot of a film studio, and then move into a studio where they’re shooting a big old-timey song and dance number (think Fred Astaire’s backup dancers sort of deal), dozens of flamboyant men in tuxedos singing about “doing the French Mistake” when a director calls cut because someone was out of step. The director himself them proceeds to show the dancers how simple it is (and the flamboyant director refers to the dancers as “Sissy Marys” and “faggots” in his grumpy orders… but then proceeds to throw out his hands, stick out his tush, hands on his hips, give them a push… finishing by accidentally kneeling down in a fountain…

then as the dancers try again from the top, they’ve just begun when… the cast of Blazing Saddles literally comes crashing *through the wall*. Just knock out a whole wall of their set and keep right on fighting. The director desperately tries to call cut, but one of the cowboy characters runs up to him and says nah I’m working for Mel Brooks! like that’s supposed to give him permission to run roughshod over another film, too.

Which… seems plausible, because one of the top-hatted dancers likes the idea of this, yells COME ON, GIRLS to the other (again, all male) dancers, and run right into the cowboy brawl. And it all turns irrevocably gay. All the cowboys paired up with dancers and making love not war.

So I needed to at least make note of that somewhere. :’D

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The Blazing Saddles reference post, with video

s15 meta rewatch notes (less than 300 words… a very succinct post)

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Interview with Sera Gamble

a one minute long promo video that is entirely worth your time to watch… go do that right this second before you hit play on the podcast… no really please do 

Do I have to describe this one? >.>

Haunted kidney, Baby is a sex doll, and this is about as far from a win as the Winchesters ever get.

Dean's relationship with Lisa is firmly and officially over. Sam Sams, and pretty much everyone else dies, so... wheee? >.>

In better news, this is officially the shortest episode of the SPN Georg podcast to date, so there's that...

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my rewatch notes from July 2019

my rewatch notes from April 2017

shameless self-promotion of my own fanfic because this episode includes a flash of Dean’s phone screen, with a selfie of his feet propped up in the motel room from 6.09 and a link to the fic in question, (specifically the second installment in the series and beyond, but here have the whole thing lol) mostly because i feel bad y’all had to endure the haunted kidney

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Splinter unit call sheet and sides (script pages)

CW Promo video

Yes, I had to watch it again, despite Sam's specific struggles in this episode being a source of... let's call it personal emotional distress for me. So I'm gonna talk lightly about it as much as possible.

I also am super creeped by the concept of the spider people, so... winning all around for me I guess. >.>

In far better news, this episode has our only full draft script from season six! We've got the green draft, which you can read in its entirety at the link below. This was the very first script that I personally bought, long before the Script Hunt server was established, and started us on the long strange journey of collecting as many as possible.

Which brings me to two additional points this week:

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The Full Green Draft Script

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CW Promo video