#2.11

[theshipdiaries]

the hand holding at the hospital IM FUCKING DYING IT KILLS ME EVERY TIME I CANT DO THIS! THE WAY HE CARESSES HER HAND WITH HIS FINGER WHILE SHE DOES THE SAME???? They were soothing each other... I CANT and the way after his initial surprise of her holding his hand HE grips it tighter???? I CANT

(yes I made this into it's own post)

[totaltraumacomic]

The Chris McLean Redemption Tour

[thefrsers]

requested by @ashmarie1687: Jamie + praying over Claire in 2.11 and 7.03

[rheefamilysource]

THE WALKING DEAD (2010–2022) ↳ season 2 episode 11

[scoobydoodean]

And is "Dean looking at Sam like he's some kind of sideshow freak" in the room with us now? | 3.16, 1.06, 1.14, 2.05, 2.10, 2.11, 2.14

[spacedean]

DEAN WINCHESTER in one random episode per day ‣ 14/327 2.11 PLAYTHINGS

[maddiebuckleycentral]

Maddie Buckley in 9-1-1 ↪ New Beginnings 2.11

[dailybuckleysiblings]

Is that what this is about? I'm thriving? And you can't handle it. I'm great. Oh, you're doing great, but you're still sleeping in my dining room. By the way, what happened to earthquake girl? Your trash talk sucks.

Maddie & Evan Buckley in 9-1-1 ↪ New Beginnings 2.11

[theflyindutchwoman]

↬ TIM BRADFORD + Arms Appreciation Post (for @northern-neighbor)

[dailyabbottelementary]

Can I at least tell the story about that one time when I was spitting game to Emily?

[lemon-lyman]

THE WEST WING ❋ 2.11 'The Leadership Breakfast'

[theshipdiaries]

Idk why this scene makes me so emotional. Her walking in and softly taking him in. How much it saddens her to see him in that state again. A direct parallel to the first time she met him only this time he means everything to her. He is cuffed to the bed all beaten, cut up and bruised and in his most vulnerable state, asleep, and she just takes a chair and sits by his side until he wakes up. She is NOT gonna leave him.

And let's not forget that after they talk HE FALLS ASLEEP AGAIN. And she is RIGHT THERE when he wakes up again. he felt so comfortable with her that he just..dossed off. And ofc the shirt she wears which makes her look like she literally has wings meaning she is his angel looking over him. ALSO she knew about his fight with billy which means THEY KEPT IN TOUCH OFF SCREEN🤧

[chucksource]

[joshdonnas]

This is a Very Serious Show™ about politics.

2x11 | THE LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST The West Wing

[baublekute]

Valerie Rose Barrère

Custom Caliburn v2.11

[scoobydoodean]

Season 2 Sam spends the first four episodes of season 2 scared that Dean is going off the deep end. He knows his brother is not grieving their father in the way he expects by 2.02. By 2.04 he knows Dean thinks he should be dead. By 2.09, Dean plans to off himself imminently.

All of this concerns Sam. Sam keeps insisting Dean tell him what's wrong. He keeps insisting Dean is not okay and that Dean needs to open up. He keeps telling Dean he can help. Sam can carry part of the load. Sam cares.

(2.04, 2.09)

Then he finds out why his brother is depressed and contemplating suicide. John told Dean he had to save Sam—it was all on him—and if Dean couldn't, he's gotta kill Sam.

Of course Sam is gonna have feelings about that. It's a horrible fucked up thing to hear your dad said about you. It's awful and horrible and Sam has every right to be upset and freaked out and he has every right to be mad that Dean couldn't bring himself to repeat what was said for so many weeks.

That said. My guy. Spends the rest of the season. Regurgitating John's words back at Dean. The words that made Dean want to kill himself.

Because Sam knows Dean will not do this. He knows Dean will not kill him. He knows that from the very first episode he finds out. He knows Dean will not kill him with such confidence that he jokes about it in the same episode where he finds out.

But after 2.10... Sam starts to get scared. He isn't scared of what Dean will do to him. He's scared of what Dean won't do.

He's scared Dean will never be able to bring himself to kill Sam—to do what's necessary. So Sam needs to find a way to make Dean follow through on John's dying wish. So he gets drunk in the next episode—in 2.11. And he plays out Dean's conversation with John from 2.01.

(2.01, 2.11)

Then he follows it up the next morning, basically saying, "It doesn't matter that I was drunk and grabbing you and wouldn't let go and that you didn't mean it and only promised to placate me (something I clearly know otherwise I wouldn't bring the conversation up again). You made a promise. Are you going to make yourself a liar now? Are you going to lie to me?"

(2.11)

The problem is, this doesn't work. Dean isn't going to be coerced into a promise, and the ramifications of breaking this "promise" for Dean are so much smaller than the fall out on keeping the "promise" it's not even funny.

Meg tries to make Dean think that Sam's gone off the deep end in 2.14—tries to hold him to the "promise" he made—also tacks on a promise Dean never made to John either on top—trying to guilt him into executing his own brother.

Sam gets his body back, and at the end of the episode... he pounces.

(2.14)

"Are you going to be able to do this? It's your job. Dad told you to. You have to. It was an order."

(2.11)

You're a hunter. It's your job. Sometimes the job is ugly. But it's what you were meant to do.

GORDON This isn't personal. I'm not a killer, Dean. I'm a hunter. And your brother's fair game.

(2.10)

(2.10)

And Sam... Maybe he is this ruthless himself. Maybe he isn't demanding something of Dean that he wouldn't be willing to do himself (at least not at this point in time).

(2.17)

Dean doesn't want to do what Sam can. He can't.

2.17 is named "Heart" because it's about werewolves who eat hearts. But it's also about the show's fracturing narrative heart facing his own impending demise... because Dean's heart will rupture in two if he follows through with Sam and John's wishes—that he become Sam's executioner.

The embrace of death at his own hand seems ever sweeter—ever more deserved—ever softer and kinder than dying the way Sam and John are asking him to without even seeing it.

(2.20)

Death is the light at the end of the tunnel that absolves Dean of Sam and John's expectations. It's the way he makes their family's mistakes right—how he takes his body that's supposed to have given out 12 episodes into season 1 and then again in 2.01 and makes himself the sacrifice he was supposed to be—already was—always has been.

SAM So, what, now I live and you die? DEAN That's the general idea, yeah. SAM Yeah, well, you're a hypocrite, Dean. How did you feel when Dad sold his soul for you? 'Cause I was there. I remember. You were twisted, and broken. And now you go and do the same thing. To me. What you did was selfish. DEAN Yeah, you're right. It was selfish. But I'm okay with that. SAM I'm not. DEAN Tough. After everything I've done for this family, I think I'm entitled. Truth is, I'm tired, Sam. I don't know, it's like there's a, a light at the end of the tunnel. SAM It's hellfire, Dean. DEAN Whatever. You're alive, I feel good – for the first time in a long time.

(3.01)