#10x13: halt & catch fire

[cockworkangels]

what did you post dean

[monstermoviedean]

it's interesting because dean isn't giving up. he's not done fighting. he's just done fighting for himself. he wants to spend whatever time he has left helping people and doing as much good as he can, not searching for a hypothetical way to help himself. but from sam's perspective, dean not fighting for himself is the same as giving up. but dean's whole thing is that it isn't about him. he doesn't want the false hope, but even more than that he doesn't want sam to have that false hope. he doesn't want sam to have to bear the burden of saving him.

[mlobsters]

supernatural s10e13 halt & catch fire (w. eric charmelo, nicole snyder)

maybe i should rewatch halt and catch fire. i watched it as it aired so it's been a minute. lee pace as a very messy bisexual disaster in the early pc industry through to internet times. and mackenzie davis was amazing. really well done show. i recall the first season was a little too hard on the mad men-esque feel but really got into its own stride in subsequent seasons (it was airing on amc at the end of mad men's run which was mid 2014 and this spn ep aired feb 2015. the phrase itself is an old computing term). anyway!

is the mark making him ogle the college girls too? cmon

DEAN And Trini is? SAM Ah, you have to excuse my partner. When it comes to technology, he’s a little behind. Uh…he just learned how to poke on Facebook. JANET Uh, um, Trini is the nav app we were using. It – It’s like a talking map. You’re Gen X. Right.

well, addressing the age difference of it all LOL. i think of dean/jensen as my age but he is technically 1 (2) years older than me. i'm in the no-man's land of 1980 which is claimed by neither gen x or millenial or both, depending who you ask. not for nothing, we had all this new tech stuff come in when we were young and we're not known to be technically unsavvy :P (though the earlier you get things can be different) but also like. since he and i are kind of on that cusp age of generations, i don't think it would be necessarily super obvious to this girl that he is? dear lord. what will i overthink next

SAM So – so what’s a thing? DEAN You know, the truck thing. You honor the deceased by driving their truck. Sam, they wrote a whole country song about it. Why don’t you Google it?

it's such an old, easy, dumb joke but dean being so smug over telling sam to google something made me laugh

DEAN Alright, so big brother didn’t get along with little brother, was pissed that he was driving his baby. I get it. SAM What are you saying? If you died and I drove your car, you��d kill me? DEAN If you stunk her up with tacquitos, probably.

what do you mean, IF? dean HAS died and you DID drive his car :P

cackling. didn't they have a lamp cord do this in s1 to sam?

spn s1e9 home

SAM So, what? You think we’re dealing with a “Ghost in the Machine”? DEAN Maybe. But if it is the same ghost, I mean, they usually anchor themselves to a place or a thing. How is this one jumping from one machine to the next?

was gonna mention the xfiles episodes (s1e7 ghost in the machine and s5e11 kill switch [the one written by william gibson]), which ghost in the machine i mentioned previously because spn s2e5 had an actor in that episode! and i did i hiky for kill switch when i was rewatching xf. but i'm trying to stop rambling. unsuccessfully 🫠

so this seems more like a kill switch situation vs ghost in the machine (evil building software vs ai on the internet killing people) 🤪

SAM It doesn’t matter. Now I’m going through her deleted files. DEAN You can do that? SAM Yeah. DEAN Hmm. SAM I mean, nothing ever really gets deleted from the Internet. You knew that, right? DEAN Yeah.

implied embarrassing (porn? tumblr poetry? DATING PROFILES?) dean winchester content out there somewhere. thinking about what could even embarrass dean (who currently is eating more sloppily than my kids do)

DELILAH It’s pretty crazy to obsess over someone you’ve never met. DEAN It’s not that crazy. The truth is, I can relate. DELILAH Really? DEAN I have made more mistakes than I can count. Ones that haunt me day and night. DELILAH So… how do you deal? DEAN Whiskey. Denial. I do my best to make things right, whatever that may be. For you, maybe it’s…maybe it’s coming clean. You know, finding a way to ask for forgiveness. But not breaking the bank at your local florist. I mean…real forgiveness. You can’t just bury stuff like this. You got to deal with it.

that old chestnut of opening up to a rando because their plotline mirrors enough the conflict that the boys are going through and they can't talk to anyone else about it

so, dean, my love. is this what you're doing, dealing?

also gonna skip over that whole shaky concept of the wifi business. keep on suspending that disbelief, nic. wireless speakers and wifi on an antenna tower (??), it's all the same. it's just waves in the air, man. i am a leaf on the wind 🍃

DEAN Yeah. Looks like. I think I’m gonna follow his lead, too. SAM What do you mean? DEAN My peace is helping people. Working cases. That’s all I want to do. SAM Is this about the Mark? DEAN I’m done trying to find a cure, Sammy. SAM Dean, Cas is so close. DEAN To what? We don’t even know if there is a cure. So far, we’ve got nothing. We have found nothing at the Men of Letters library. Metatron may or may not know something. And maybe Cas is on to something with Cain. SAM Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Nothing is guaranteed, Dean. So what? We can’t just stop fighting. DEAN Yes, we can. SAM So, this is it? Y-you’re just gonna – you’re just gonna give up. DEAN No. No, I’m not just gonna give up. I appreciate the effort, okay? I do. But the answer is not out there. It’s with me. I need to be the one calling the shots here, okay? I can’t keep waking up every morning with this false hope. I got to know where I stand. Otherwise, I’m gonna lose my freakin’ mind. So I’m gonna fight it til I can’t fight it anymore. And when all is said and done… I’ll go down swinging.

sam and i both getting a little panicked i think (seeing sam start breathing fast surely affects me) but hey they got a few tears out of me, feels like an accomplishment (compared to early seasons i was regularly crying my way through the show). nothing like dean being a realist but also accepting that this thing is going to kill him. i get the false hope thing, and why it's untenable. and maybe that is the best plan, to fully accept in his heart of hearts it's not gonna get fixed. and then when they figure out how to fix it, he can run with it. but it's shades of that old passive self destructive dean who doesn't value his own life (or see how him not valuing his life affects sam)

[bvtchcas]

Season 10

[seasononesam]

Stackednatural- 193/327

Halt & Catch Fire (10x13) February 10th, 2015

[humandisorderincarnatedean]

this is not a statement on the quality of these episodes btw. this is just about which one of these is the least distinctive and memorable to you

[missjackil]

Supernatural Battle of the Episodes!

Fan Fiction came out victorious in a good match against About a Boy! Only 2 more wins and Fan Fiction gets retired to The Hall of Fame! I think today, it can take it a little easy in this next round! Who is it today Chuck?!

Chuck: Today's battle is against Halt & Catch Fire - Sam and Dean investigate mysterious deaths among college students through their electronics.

[violentdelightsproductions]

Dean Winchester Appreciation Week!

Fav’ quote

1x01 - “Pilot” 1x02 - “Wendigo” 1x03 - “Dead In The Water” 2x07 - “The Usual Suspects” 2x20 - “What Is And What Should Never Be” 3x12 - “Jus In Bello” 5x04 - “The End” 5x17 - “99 Problems” 10x13 - “Halt & Catch Fire” 12x11 - “Regarding Dean”

@aborddelimpala ♥

[dailyspnpolls]

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[cockworkangels]

cas discovered riverboat gambling

[monstermoviedean]

sam you asked charlie to delete the supernatural books from the internet and got mad when she couldn't

[shinelikethunder]

siege: wrote 4x07 it's the great pumpkin, sam winchester (with eric kripke), 4x12 criss angel is a douchebag, 4x18 the monster at the end of this book, 5x05 fallen idols, 5x12 swap meat, 5x17 99 problems

dabb & loflin: wrote 4x06 yellow fever, 4x13 after school special, 4x19 jump the shark, 5x06 i believe the children are our future, 5x11 sam interrupted, 5x16 dark side of the moon, 5x19 hammer of the gods, 6x04 weekend at bobby's, 6x07 family matters, 6x13 unforgiven, 6x18 frontierland, 7x03 the girl next door, 7x08 season seven time for a wedding, 7x14 plucky pennywhistle's magic menagerie, 7x22 there will be blood, 8x02 what's up, tiger mommy?

glass: wrote 6x02 two and a half men, 6x08 all dogs go to heaven, 6x12 like a virgin, 6x19 mommy dearest, 7x04 defending your life, 7x11 adventures in babysitting, 7x18 party on, garth, 8x06 southern comfort, 8x12 as time goes by, 8x18 freaks and geeks, 9x12 sharp teeth, 9x17 mother's little helper, 10x04 paper moon, 10x12 about a boy

charmelo & snyder: wrote 6x06 you can't handle the truth, 6x14 mannequin 3: the reckoning, 6x17 my heart will go on, 9x05 dog dean afternoon, 9x13 the purge, 10x06 ask jeeves, 10x13 halt & catch fire, 11x07 plush, 11x13 love hurts

matthews: wrote 6x05 live free or twi-hard, 6x10 caged heat, 6x16 and then there were none

[dean-isms]

“You know, this might be a ‘Shocker’ situation.”

Reference: Shocker

Episode: 10x13 “Halt & Catch Fire”

Writer: Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder

Spoken To: Sam Winchester

Media Type: Movie

Timeframe: 1989

Description: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

FUN FACT! The serial killer in this movie is played by Mitch Pileggi, a.k.a. our very own Samuel Campbell!

[unhinged-jackles]

SPN Best Episode per Season

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[self-loathing-angel-of-thursday2]

Beautiful Spouse’s Rewatch Thoughts SPN 10x13 Halt & Catch Fire

“Whose license plate is that? It looks fake. How many letters are there? 8? I think you can only have 7 so I think it’s fake” “Ok to drive how? Drinking? If so, how is she so happy for tacos after asking that question?” “Is this the um from the cast and crew why you shouldn’t drink and drive? Thanks for the ad spot?” “Just east of the Mississippi? That’s a lot of surface area. Even if we just look at one foot beyond the river, it’s hundreds of miles long” “How would they know when to exactly pull out their badges?” “They must be all out of eyedrops. Her eyes are really red” “I don’t get it” A man and his truck is a big deal

“So he’s possessing the truck now. I dont understand this at all” “What if he needed another match for later? Better have another book of matches around” “Did they really just pay some guy to burn a truck down in a junkyard?” “Look at the tits on that one. Jesus” “Fuck Facebook man It’s awful” “what’s with the pound signs” “See when the computer gets a mind of it’s own, you smash it” “Of course you unplug it and it dies”

“What’s 810. I don’t get it. Is that the time the truck exploded?” “that’s a weird one” “Going to go after the hunted in cyber space’ “She’s got really dry lips” “That’s a lot of ice cream to go” “better stop driving on dirt roads man” “hell yeah brother” “I don’t think the shitty electrical in that goddamn frat house can support that. Like in order to do that with audio, you’d need tens of thousands of of watts” “guilty” “social media is so fucked’ “That’d be pretty easily survivable if everyone had a seatbelt on. Oh never mind” “whoa jackass drove away. Nice” “yeah because you fkn murdered some guy” “yo mama” “Yes the green light flashing outside the thing. Of course” “nice little surefire” “This is where you make an AI generated image of Dean Winchester floating down the nile with a sign that says “Deal with It”” “Ah yes. Wifi” “Yes. Wifi tower” “Ah yes. All the routers. The multitudes of them” “just burn down the wifi tower man” “Oh you fucked it up now” “That’s her expensive homework shit man” “Oh yes. Nice. The parents are going to love that” “You put salt lines and stuff down” “ah yes” “this would have been nice to earlier. Goddamn” “she shakes her head a lot. I don’t know how I feel about that” “their backsplash is fkn awful” “couldn’t you just lock yourself in a small iron cage. Like not big enough for 2” “is that why people put iron bars on their windows so ghosts can’t come it?” “what a weird plot device” “that’s some good video quality for 1 bar of 4G man. Holy shit” “I don’t think she would have done that. It seems unrealistic” “burning down the wifi tower? I suppose the ghost is dead so you don’t have to” “Or is she going to hit on the widow now?” “what did they call this part of the show?” The brotherly moment. The BM

“Does it exist in every episode?”

“That was a lot of music for the end of the episode”