supernatural s8e3 heartache (w. brad buckner, eugenie ross-leming)
another jackles directed episode. hold on to your butts.
oh boy they're in minneapolis, i lived there for 8 years? 7? *trying to calculate the year based on my oldest being 3.5 when we moved....* ok yes, 7. anyway. lake! no wait, river. wait, that's actually the minneapolis skyline. i worked downtown for a while. did you know the mississippi river goes through minneapolis? (i did not before i moved there)
cool thing about minneapolis?? skyways! enclosed walkways between buildings downtown so you don't have to go outside because it's fucking cold in the winter: The Minneapolis Skyway System is the largest contiguous system of enclosed, second-level bridges in the world—composed of 9.5 miles of pathways connecting 80 city blocks. all right. weird. getting nostalgic. MOVING ON
oh babes with the orange faces, again. i am so sorry.
SAM
[slowly] Farmers' market. [He holds up the apple.] Organic. What? I had a year off. I took the time to enjoy the good things.
DEAN
While avoiding doing what we actually do.
SAM
Wow, Dean, does it make you feel that much better every time you say it?
DEAN
All right, man, look, I get it. You took a year off to do yoga and play the lute, whatever, but I'm back. Okay, we're back, which means that we walk and kill monsters at the same time. We'll find Kevin. But in the meantime, do we ignore stuff like this? Or are innocent people supposed to die so that you can shop for produce?
i so do not like this conflict. putting all this weird shit on sam, taking the year off from hunting and settling down because he thought dean was dead, that's fine! whatever! maybe that's in character maybe not, i dunno! but having him totally fail kevin.. maybe you could argue without dean he stops caring about anyone? but i don't think it's that deep :p (also the whole girlfriend dog situation)
so i think they wrote sam into a shitty situation. i think dean is being extra asshole-ish about it. i'm mad at everyone in this scenario
DEAN
All right, case is coming together. Things are coming together, man. You and me. It is all good. [SAM doesn’t respond.] Hey.
SAM
What?
DEAN
What are you thinking about, organic tomatoes?
SAM
Uh, I'm not thinking about anything.
DEAN
I don't know about you, but this last year has given me a new perspective.
SAM
I hear you. Believe me.
DEAN
I know where I'm at my best, and that is right here, driving down crazy street next to you.
oh, dean. why'd they set you up like this. (lol also it sounds like he smacks sam's leg when he says right here *pat*)
SAM
Makes sense.
DEAN
Yes, it does.
SAM
Or... maybe you don't need me. I mean, maybe you're at your best hacking and slicing your way through all the world's crap alone, not having to explain yourself to anybody.
DEAN
Yeah, that makes sense, seeing as I have so many other brothers I can talk to about this stuff.
SAM
Look, I'm not saying I'm bailing on you. I'm just saying make room for the possibility that we want different things. I mean, I want my time to count for something.
DEAN
So, what we do doesn't count?
what year is this, i feel like we've been down this road enough. i can come up with good justifications but i don't think again the show is doing the work to support that.
DEAN
Well, this is gonna singe your axons.
what?
pretty!
SAM
So, everybody knows about Brick's football career, obviously, but no one knows much about his personal life. Was he ever married?
MRS HOLMES
Just to the game. He gave it everything he had. It's a difficult life.
LOLLL she made him do the sad thinky thoughts how this parallels my life and i can never get married either if i stay married to the job ;( ;( i am so over this plotline lol
looks like we're back to the old desktop again (s8e1 for comparison)
DEAN
Uh, oh, got another e-mail here, too. This one is for you. From a university. Answering questions about admissions.
SAM
Just something I'm looking into. An option.
DEAN
You're seriously talking about hanging it up?
SAM
I'm not talking about anything, Dean. I'm just looking at options.
my heart hurt with that one. having no privacy, including email, really sucks. i was in an abusive situation for years where my partner could read my email. that said, sam knows it's shared, he knows dean could very well see it. and well. hurts dean sam wants to leave again. so now i'm hurt by proxy while also being mad at the contrivances of the plot. bah.
DEAN
Maybe she moved into Brick's room after he died. Or...
DEAN looks at the bed.
SAM
Oh. Thanks, Dean. Now that image is permanently etched into my retinas.
did the supernatural fraternal incest subtext-bordering-on-text show just make a joke about incest
oh no. get someone better at photoshop, please, it's dick all over again 😭 (looks like we're back to the new desktop)
that's some kind of situation he got himself in
did dean need to almost get his heart ripped out for sammy to learn some lesson about his brother needing him? (nope) *insert imaginary future arguments of "well why don't you just go hunt with benny"*
SAM
Dean, listen, when this is over – when we close up shop on Kevin and the tablet – I'm done. I mean that.
DEAN
No, you don't.
SAM
Dean, the year that I took off, I had something I've never had. A normal life. I mean, I got to see what that felt like. I want that. I had that.
DEAN
I think that's just how you feel right now.
continue to hate this lalala
um. okayyyyy
s3e10 dream a little dream of me (dean's dream of lisa)
and he's tearing up over the memory. all right. crisis of faith at the altar of dean.
HAH actually it's like that awful nonsense lisa braeden said, about how the past year was the best of her life - meanwhile dean said he was falling apart and miserable (she deserved better writing) -- except in this case, dean died (presumably) and sam moved on and it ~WAS (apparently) THE BEST YEAR OF HIS LIFE~ (he also deserves better writing)
good luck getting down here to my deep thoughts when you gotta wade past a glowing review of minneapolis minnesota first
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