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spngeorg · 1 year
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Episode 98: 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon
We finally get to explore the Great Gig in the Sky... Heaven, as it were. I could talk about this episode for hours. Days, even. But what is Time. (and yes, I considered just assembling this entire post out of song titles and lyrics from the album, but I figured that would give us all Brain Damage... fine, I’ll stop now)
We finally get a peek behind the curtain, but what are we actually being shown? Who’s actually doing the “showing,” and what agendas (including Chuck’s) are influencing what Sam and Dean experience there?
Plus Dean and Cas both take major blows to their confidence in having any hope of defeating Lucifer and stopping the apocalypse. God has always been a dick, honestly. Sam... is still desperately clinging to hope, for now. Things are looking pretty grim all around, though.
I talked long enough in the episode, so here have some links:
The Superwiki page
My Tag for the episode
My cosmology of the spn universe tag
my tag for Heaven (and hell, purgatory, and the empty)
my tag for soulmates (mercifully briefer than the previous two lol)
filming locations map
the Network Draft script
an interview with Thunderbird Dinwiddie (Pamela)
Listen now on AnchorFM, or wherever you enjoy podcasts!
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deancasforcutie · 10 months
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the way spn is positively ENTRENCHED in queer cinema history
(see captions for context)
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ardentpoop · 3 months
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for real going to cry thinking abt sam and bones
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scoobydoodean · 1 month
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Everybody leaves you, Dean. You noticed? Mommy. Daddy. Even Sam. You ever ask yourself why? Maybe it’s not them. Maybe, it’s you.
(5.16 "Dark Side of the Moon")
Just. A quick post on this, because I think that some fans, right along with Dean during this interaction, have been tricked into believing that this is true. They have been tricked by this dialogue into believing that Dean is a clingy, overly needy person who pushes every single person he loves away by needing too much or just by being too much in general.
This is not true.
Mary didn't leave because her four year old was a burden, and if she had, that wouldn't have been Dean's fault at four years old. Mary died because she made a demon deal before she even had kids.
John didn't leave because Dean was a burden. John's absences from Dean (AND SAM's) life happened because of John's issues—because he coped with trauma through vengeance and lost sight of his family until the end, when his last act was to sacrifice himself to save Dean's life.
Recognizing that Mary and John leaving Dean had nothing to do with Dean being a burden in real life, the idea that Dean is always being left behind and that him always being the common denominator implicates him breaks down.
Dean and Sam's relationship is a particularly complicated one—made so by multiple deaths, parentification in childhood, childhood neglect, and terrifying apocalyptic destinies. To make Sam running away at 12 or going to school about Dean being the problem is to vastly undersell the conflict Sam had with John. In fact, even with Sam clashes with Dean directly in the early seasons, he is usually using Dean as a stand in for a fight he can't have with their father—and we see the actual blow up occur between father and son in 1.20. Strife between Sam and Dean about living in each other's pockets also isn't one-sided when that kind of strife rears its head. In fact, Dean was the one relieved to be away from Sam a little earlier in the season, from 5.02 to the end of 5.04. Dean called his family chains in 5.03 and was very directly referring to Sam.
There's good and bad among Sam and Dean's feelings about each other, but we know from 5.22 "Swan Song" that the idea sold in 5.16 "Dark Side of the Moon"—that Sam doesn't have happy memories with Dean—is a flat out lie. Happy memories with Dean are literally what breaks Lucifer's control over Sam's body, flipping a switch in Sam's head as memory after memory of being on the road with Dean rushes fondly through Sam's mind.
Zachariah leads Sam and Dean through heaven like rats in a maze. He knew where they were the entire time they were in heaven. Sam and Dean were lead to believe they could hide, but Zachariah always knew where they were. He popped up in certain areas to drive them from one place to another, in a loop through memories selling the story Zachariah wanted to sell.
He pushed them away from the happy memories Sam has with Dean (as seen in "Swan Song") and toward memories where Sam was away from their family (two of which specifically represented escape from John) to sell the narrative that Sam doesn't care about Dean. Zachariah tries to sell this narrative because 5.04 "The End" culminated in Dean feeling he and Sam were both stronger together than apart. Zachariah is deliberately trying to break Dean's belief in that family bond to drive him away from his family and toward despair. He wants Dean to stop believing that he could ever be enough to keep Sam from saying "Yes". Zachariah wants Dean to see himself as disposable because Zachariah wants Dean to make himself a disposable vessel. Zachariah wants Dean to feel completely unloved and alone.
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lower-the-volume · 8 months
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dark side of the moon
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trinityghoul · 2 months
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you guys were not kidding: when supernatural is good it's so good
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dragonardhill · 2 years
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Winchester Brothers >> DSOTM 5.16 || SPNNostalgia week
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archangelsammy · 1 year
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sam and dean / spn 5.16 dark side of the moon / spn 2.21 all hell breaks loose part one / spn 10.23 my brother's keeper / spn 2.22 all hell breaks loose part two / spn 10.23 my brother's keeper / after abel, dante émile
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becauseofthebowties · 2 years
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5.16 - Dark Side of the Moon • SPN Time Stamp Roulette (36/?) •
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My favourite SPN episodes: 1/? (in no order)
5.16 - Dark Side Of The Moon
"This ain’t the first time you've been here. I mean, you boys die more than anyone I’ve ever met."
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castiellesbian · 1 year
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Cathryn Humphris:
1.20 Dead Man's Blood (with John Shiban)
2.07 The Usual Suspects
2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign
3.05 Bedtime Stories
3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me (with Sera Gamble)
4.04 Metamorphosis
4.14 Sex and Violence
Andrew Dabb (episodes co-written with Loflin are labeled with*):
4.06 Yellow Fever*
4.13 After School Special*
4.19 Jump the Shark*
5.06 I Believe the Children Are Our Future*
5.11 Sam, Interrupted*
5.16 Dark Side of the Moon*
5.19 Hammer of the Gods*
6.04 Weekend at Bobby's*
6.07 Family Matters*
6.13 Unforgiven*
6.18 Frontierland*
7.03 The Girl Next Door*
7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding!*
7.14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie*
7.22 There Will Be Blood*
8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?*
8.08 Hunteri Heroici
8.14 Trial and Error
8.22 Clip Show
9.02 Devil May Care
9.10 Road Trip
9.20 Bloodlines
9.22 Stairway to Heaven
10.02 Reichenbach
10.09 The Things We Left Behind
10.17 Inside Man
10.22 The Prisoner
11.02 Form and Void
11.10 The Devil in the Details
11.15 Beyond the Mat (with John Bring)
11.17 Red Meat (with Robert Berens)
11.23 Alpha and Omega
12.01 Keep Calm and Carry On
12.09 First Blood
12.23 All Along the Watchtower
13.01 Lost and Found
13.10 Wayward Sisters (with Robert Berens)
13.15 A Most Holy Man (with Robert Singer)
13.23 Let the Good Times Roll
14.01 Stranger in a Strange Land
14.13 Lebanon (with Meredith Glynn)
14.20 Moriah
15.01 Back and to the Future
15.10 The Heroes' Journey
15.20 Carry On
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winchestergifs · 2 years
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SPN Time Stamp Roulette 5.16 ⏯ DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
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ardentpoop · 3 months
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scoobydoodean · 1 month
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5.16 the squabble about Flagstaff isn’t about Sam running off at the end of the day. It’s about Sam saying,
“I never thought about it like that”.
It’s about the selfishness of refusing to see how your actions affect another person. Fondly remembering running away for two weeks when you were 12, never rethinking in your adulthood what the consequences were or could have been or how it affected the people in your life who you claim to care about.
“I thought you were dead. And when Dad came home…”
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idontwikeit · 3 years
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Son of the morning, banished from grace, you are forgiven. Profane thing, ashes on the earth, you are redeemed. Outcast, fallen angel, you are loved. You are forgiven. You are redeemed. You are loved. -The Exorcist (2016-2017)
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peach-coke · 3 years
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➤ Supernatural | Sam & Dean Graphic Challenge Day Eleven || Bunker or Motel-Rooms
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