#Colt MacCarthy

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My last Punch Out oc, Colt MacCarthy!

He never grew out of his cowboy phase. He also runs a farm! :]

Struggling to really write anything without going wild, I have too much lore for him yet struggle to put into words lol ;_;

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StackedNatural Day 166: 1x21, 7x20, 11x19, 12x19

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April 27, 2022

1x21: Salvation

Written by: Sera Gamble & Raelle Tucker

Directed by: Robert Singer

Original air date: April 27, 2006

Plot Synopsis:

Meg turns to killing John's friends in order to get the Colt. Sam and Dean stakeout the Demon's next target; a family with a six month old baby showing signs of special abilities. John heads off alone to confront Meg.

Features:

A hunter priest, Sam’s guilt complex, John learning about Sam’s visions, a call from Meg, lots of throat-slitting, the demons calling John’s bluff, Sam missing his shot on the yellow-eyed demon. 

My Thoughts:

Stacked wobbles back and forth between being a chore and being super fun, but we’re in finale territory now babey, and that means episodes are on a quality upswing. 

I love Meg 1.0, she really kills is with the line between flirtatious and threatening, she steals every scene she’s in. The opening scene and the meeting with John in particular are awesome. 

One thing I really miss about the first few seasons are Sam’s visions - they’re such a great plot point, they really set him up as fundamentally different from other people and it adds a lot of tension between him and Dean. Also, I love his sweet puppy dog eyes any time he has a vision and gets concerned about the person he sees in danger. 

Do NOT come for me on this but John Winchester is a badass in this episode. The holy water move is great. It’s very obvious that he loves his kids, but like I’ve mentioned in other posts, that doesn’t necessarily make him a good father. He wants Dean to have a home, but he isn’t capable of providing one for him. He wants Sam to go to college, but he kicked him out and cut contact when he did. 

Dean saying that this revenge quest isn’t worth dying for is the fundamental difference between him and his family. I like following Moriah with this episode - because when the chips were down, he did throw away a chance at revenge that would kill himself and Jack. 

Notable Lines:

“The other day I met this man. A nice guy, you know? We had a really good chat, sort of like this....then I slit his throat and ripped his heart out through his chest. Does that make me a bad person?”

“Call you? Are you kidding me? Dad, I called you from Lawrence, all right? Sam called you when I was dying. I mean, getting you on the phone? I got a better chance of winning the lottery.”

“I want to stop losing people we love. I want you to go to school, I want Dean to have a home. I want....I want Mary alive. It's just....I just want this to be over.”

“That's funny, John. We're going to strip the skin from your bones, but that was funny.”

“If hunting this demon means getting yourself killed then I hope we never find the damn thing.”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 9.5

IMdB Rating: 8.9

7x20: The Girl With the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo

Written by: Robbie Thompson

Directed by: John MacCarthy

Original air date: April 27, 2012

Plot Synopsis:

Sam and Dean discover that Frank's hard drive, containing everything on the leviathans, is now in Dick's company building. To retrieve it, they ask for help from one of the employees, a young computer hacker.

Features:

Another visit from Bobby, a slaughterhouse for human cattle, Charlie walking on sunshine, Sucrocorp, nerds bonding, Bobby sneaking into Richard Roman Enterprises, Charlie’s Leia D&D tattoo, Dean flirting Charlie’s way out of trouble, Sam and Dean diving through glass, a fight between a ghost and a leviathan, a successful heist.

My Thoughts:

This is hands down the best Charlie episode. I still think she’s fun in later episodes, but she’s in a perfect niche in this episode that they try to spread from rather than digging deeper into what makes her extremely skilled. In this one she’s scared but still brave, extremely smart and tenacious, and thinks well on her feet. I love a hacker with a heart of gold. 

The directing on this episode is also extremely fun, and it fits well with the heist style. They’ve tried to do a heist episode since, with The Scorpion and the Frog, but it fell flat. Of course we have the ICONIC scene of Dean flirting with the security guard via Charlie. The fact that she specifically says she can’t flirt with him because she isn’t into men and then Dean very competently flirts with him… I can’t believe they maintained that he was heterosexual for a full 8 years after that. 

Notable Lines:

“If you can't score at a reproductive rights function, then you simply cannot score.”

“15 minutes ain't a lot of time.” “She said if it took longer to hack his desktop, then she deserved to be eaten.”

“He's not my type.” “You're gonna have to play through that.” “As in he's not a girl.” “Oh, oh. Pretend he has boobs.”

“She’s kinda like the little sister I never wanted.”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 9.7

IMdB Rating: 9.1

11x19: The Chitters

Written by: Nancy Won

Directed by: Eduardo Sánchez

Original air date: April 27, 2016

Plot Synopsis:

Sam and Dean are visiting a small town in Colorado where people are mysteriously disappearing every 27 years. While they are investigating, the boys encounter a pair of hunters seeking revenge on the monster causing the disappearances.

Features:

A naked green-eyed monster, a generational curse, the hottest sheriff in the series, parasitic cicada spirits, Jesse and Cesar, philosophical debates over revenge, some light body horror, beheading with a shovel, hunters making it to the finish line. 

My Thoughts:

This episode had everything I like in a good monster of the week episode: a cool new monster, interesting and empathetic secondary characters, moments with big Sibling Energy, and a thematic link to the overarching or upcoming plot. Plus, gay hunters! The only thing that actually disappointed me is we didn’t even get to see Jesse and Cesar kiss. 

I do think that the transitionary stage of the monster, when they just stand in the woods and shake, is scarier than the full transformation stage where they jump you in an alley. I wish the alley scene had been filmed at night to preserve a little of the mystery, but whatever.

The first scene with the cold open helps drive home that Dean’s motivating factor this season really is Cas and not Amara. Despite his “connection” with her, he’s staying up all night trying to figure out how to kill her so he can get Cas back. 

I really like Jesse and Cesar - so often when other hunters are introduced to the boys the moral of the episode is that they can’t be trusted - think of Gordon and Lee. I was so scared that one or both of them was going to be killed, but they actually got their happy ending. Plus if they settled down in New Mexico and spend most of their hunting years in that area then I can very neatly fit them in DTA as part of Alpha, so love that for me. 

There was a lot of emotional intelligence in the writing of this episode. Not just Jesse’s grief, but the old sheriff's as well, not to mention Dean and Cesar’s conversation about revenge and closure, which reminds us of Mary and neatly seeds her return at the end of the season. Dean got his revenge, and it didn’t fix him, and soon he’ll get Mary back, and that won’t fix him either. And then Dean and Sam make the decision not to ask them to help when they would have, because they deserve to retire. (It does make me wanna riot about Dean not getting to retire with his partner, but that’s not this episode’s fault.)

Notable Lines:

“Dude, I was eighteen.” “Sinner.” “It was college. It was probably oregano anyways.”

“when someone loses someone when they’re young. It never heals over.” “No, it doesn’t.”

“And the insane thing is, how many hunters have you seen over the years get their revenge? [...] And they are never fixed, are they?”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 9.2

IMdB Rating: 7.7

12x19: The Future

Written by: Robert Berens & Meredith Glynn

Directed by: Amanda Tapping

Original air date: April 27, 2017

Plot Synopsis:

Sam comes up with a way to stop Lucifer's baby, but Castiel has something else in mind for Kelly. Dean is furious when he finds out someone stole the Colt.

Features:

A big suicide TW, Cas finally returning to the bunker, Thee Mixtape, fetus Jack saving Kelly’s life, Dagon’s parenting plan, Cas stealing the Colt and then Kelly, cas googling how to fix his truck, Cas feeling Jack kick, Kelly stealing the Impala, Dagon destroying the Colt, Cas switching to Jack’s team. 

My Thoughts:

I need to repent my sins, because the last time I watched this @weedsinavacantlot was dragging me back into the show kicking and screaming and I was in full irony mode. I can’t believe I missed how much this episode absolutely fucking rules. 

First of all, Amanda Tapping as a director my beloved. There are a lot of great shots - obviously the entire mix tape scene, the broken arm healing, Cas feeling Jack kick - but one I didn’t remember was Kelly looking at herself in the cracked mirror before attempting suicide, and the cracks cutting her face out of the image so that all the remains of her reflection is her stomach. Gorgeous symbolism. 

And the mixtape scene…. Boy oh boy. There are so many reasons to call that romantic, but suffice to say that Ledd Zepplin was what Mary and John first bonded over, which we learned about at the beginning of this very season. And then Cas steals the Colt not to hurt Dean, but to prevent him from getting innocent blood on his hands, to prevent his guilt, and to give him a win. AND we get the intimately framed shot of Dean shoving cas against a wall this episode, thank you Amanda.

When Cas and Kelly were talking after stealing the Impala and she said that he would have faith, I got shivers remembering 1x12 Faith.

This episode loses 0.1 points for cutting the visions that Jack shows Cas and thus not showing us post-orgasmic Dean thanking Cas.

Notable Lines:

“Dean, I just keep failing. Again and again. [...] And I just wanted I needed to come back here with a win for you. For myself.”

“Your child could bring the universe to its knees.” “Or lift it to its feet.”

“His power, his soul surged through me, and it was good. Pure. I feel- I know he is good.”

“He chose you, Castiel. [...] You asked me who would protect him, guide him when I'm gone. I know now. It's you.”

“I wish I had your faith.” “You will.”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 9.9

IMdB Rating: 8.2

In Conclusion: EXTREMELY STRONG STACK TODAY, Y’ALL. I get stressed about 4-ep days because I have to work and commute and take care of my dog but this one was a straight up pleasure. 

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Finally got around to using the relationship chart for my three ocs!

I'll only write for the ones that isn't just "they know each other/are friends" cuz my ass can't think of anything for some of these.

Yap marathon under cut!

Apologies in advance for the cringe lol

Mattie Clyde

Glass Joe

Mattie is honestly impressed with how much Joe is able to keep going despite it all. He admires him to a good degree. He almost sees a glimpse of himself in there, a self that didn't give up when he was younger.

Bald Bull

Where do I even start? Bald Bull hates Mattie's guts well because the guy is like a fly to him. Annoying and no matter what it always comes back. Mattie's an interviewer, it was bound to happen. Mattie on the other hand fears the Bald Bull. Yes, he does want an interview, he knows he's not going to get Bull on his talk show, with the Bald Bull. He was very persistent at first, but the fear has gotten to him slightly.

Super Macho Man

With Mattie's insistence on giving attention to boxers, and Macho's love for it, it was inevitable that these two would become friends. Then those feelings developed into something more. Neither has said anything to the other: Mattie thinks he's out of Macho's league and also is a coward, and Macho just thinks Mattie isn't interested in him. (Someone needs to shove them in a room and tell them to talk it out lmao)

Carmen

Gossip buddies!! They love to just get together and talk about the wildest thing they saw/happened since they last met up. Also Carmen is an ear for Mattie to yap to, and ask for advice (love advice specifically hehe)

Referee

Mattie loves being a slight menace to the referee. While not in the way that some of the boxers do, but a more subtle way. The Ref is more annoyed by him than anything else. They do have a running joke of making bets on which boxer will win when matches happen, Mattie won't admit how many times he lost.

Jest

Glass Joe

Jest is very intrigued by Joe's resilience yet fragility. He also probably broke the man's hand the first time they shook hands. Joe on the other hand, does enjoy Jest's company, but is kind of terrified of him. He's a robot! Literal metal, and easily took him out when they had their match. He's got to be careful around Jest just incase, he doesn't want to break something outside of the ring.

King Hippo

Jest at first was very avoidant of King Hippo. Not from intimidation of his appearance, but because his a king. Royalty. Jest isn't too good with, and fond of, royalty. It reminded him of the one thing he was once made for and failed at. At some point Jest had tried to finally talk to Hippo, make a joke and all. He expected not much, a sigh or maybe a frown, or even a comment. Laughter was the bottom on his list. He had actually entertained someone, royalty non the less. He then tended to gravitate to Hippo and before long they formed a friendship.

Aran Ryan

Jest at first really tolerated Aran, even with the cheating. Then came the pranks. Aran was quick with figure out how gullible Jest is. Even with all the knowledge Jest has he's very easy to persuade and trick. Which has led to Jest being the scape goat for failed pranks, and victim to them. Jest really hasn't been able to trust Aran for a while now, he's done with listening to him even if Aran sees this as harmless play.

Soda Popinski

With Jest being a robot, there needed to be someone who could do in-depth check ups on him. Why not send him to those scientist that are involved with Popinski? They could probably work with him, even fork over a few dollars just incase. Well, the scientist agreed and soon Jest was in a lab about to be poked and prodded. This was about one of the only time he became very hostile and freaked out, he hates being looked inside especially random people. Which led to some inconvenient wrestling with Popinski and being held until the check up was over. Which led to Jest hanging out with Popinski. Which led to a friendship, and then a crush developed. Love still confuses Jest and he's scared to act on it. Popinski sees Jest a good company and has a slight feelings to but has a more relaxed outlook on it.

Mr. Sandman

Jest is content with his placement in the World Circuit mainly of fear of fighting Sandman. He hasn't even tried. Even if he is a robot, metal and steel. He can't help but feel terrified. Sandman holds a confidence and intimidation that Jest just can't shake off. He also can't get the idea that Sandman will hit him once in the head and he's head will spring out like a jack in a box.

The Referee

The Ref doesn't get paid enough for this. Before the WVBA decided to send Jest off for a bit, they had put the responsibility of Jest's maintenance onto the Ref. Was he qualified to do this? Nope. It was annoyed at first, especially with how defiant Jest was with the check up. Then Jest started to ask questions, the ref was one of the first people he met. Jest started to see the Ref as a familiar figure. Someone to rely on. The Ref isn't too sure about any of it, really doesn't get paid enough for this, but he does see Jest in a slight familiar since.

Colt MacCarthy

(I haven't made a post about this oc at all. Honestly he's the most uncreative out of the three, but I love him too dearly.)

Bear Hugger

Fishin' buddies :] besides that they share recipes with each other and cook.

Don Flamenco & Carmen

(Ok so this one's a long story that I gotta make short) So, Colt and Don had gotten close during the TD when Don and Carmen had broken up. At the time Colt had started to develop feelings for Don. Then Don and Carmen got back together. Colt, not wanting to ruin the two's relationship, started to pull away. He continued to hang out with them from a distance, almost clueless as to why they were so insistent on wanting to be near him. Don and Carmen had to spell it out for him he was that unaware and distant. But in the end they ended up in a relationship.

Aran Ryan

Colt tries his best to be honest in the ring, so when he went up against Aran he was thrown in a loop. He'd never met someone so willing to cheat, and really only for the thrill of it. It did bother him, but that didn't stop him from forming a rivalry with Aran. Some bickering, tussling, and in the end they shake on it and leave.

Super Macho Man

Colt has been unable to win against Macho and its safe to bet that he'll be there for a while. Which had led to these two becoming unlikely friends, and obvious rivals. They bicker verbal a lot, all bark no bite. Yet in the end they can set aside their rivalry for moments of just hanging out, usually some form of beach activity. (Colt has definitely somehow buried Macho in the sand to where only his head was sticking out)

Congrats!!

You got to the end!

(Honestly I felt like this writing it the whole time)

so uh yeah, thank you for reading all of this! :] and if you got questions, very fair if you do lol, then just ask!

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StackedNatural Day 127: 12x14

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March 2, 2022

12x14: The Raid

Written by: Robert Berens

Directed by: John MacCarthy

Original air date: March 2, 2017

Plot Synopsis:

Mary and the British Men of Letters have a chance to take out a nest of Vampires, but the alpha-vamp turns the tables on them.

Features:

Mary’s fight with her boys, Sam playing peacemaker, the BMoL sales pitch, the Alpha Vampire, Dean being a hypocrite, the invasion of the BMoL base, the colt is back.

My Thoughts:

In terms of the British Men of Letters, this isn’t a terrible episode. The actual raid part of the episode is fun, and I think Sam gets some actually interesting characterization for once.

My real problem with the BMoL is not the concept, its major parts of the execution. We didn’t really get any explanation for Toni Bevell going rogue and torturing Sam in the first episode of this season. It’s painfully obvious that it was a plot device so that the boys wouldn’t trust the BMoL at first and it could be a point of conflict throughout the season. If there had been more to her character, some backstory that made her want to torture Sam and use trying to get intel as a cover, it would be a believable issue. As it is it just calls into question the methods of the entire organization, a question that will not be resolved as far as I remember.

They’re also setting up a moral quandary of what makes a monster monstrous that they fail to follow through on. Supernatural does this a lot, but the BMoL plot is rife with the potential for it. The main difference between the British and the American hunters is that the British exterminate and supernatural threat before it has a chance to kill, while Americans typically do it after, meaning of course that there’s a potential for people who were turned against their will to be killed even if they never would have acted on monstrous impulses. The Garths of the world and the grey areas do not exist to the British. There’s also the potential to comment on colonialism and imperialism but I’m actually glad they didn’t try because the odds of that going disastrously are very high.

The last and biggest problem I have with the BMoL plot is that Ketch is in the running for my least favourite character of all time. They spent so long trying to build him up as an imposing character (RIP Magda) and then he looks like a thumb with bad hand tattoos and he lifts his pinky up while he drinks scotch. He was born and raised in Saskatchewan, if you were curious about his accent being so generic as to barely qualify for British. It’s like they just said “posh” and then he never interrogated it any further.

I was so mad that Dean let him in so they could drink scotch. I know the man’s an alcoholic but there’s no reason on Earth he shouldn’t have slammed the door on Ketch’s fingers and looked in the basement for another bottle. It makes no sense that in an episode with all the reasons he’s pissed at the BMoL that that tactic would work to get them talking.

Notable Lines:

“We're your sons, and you've been gone. Our whole lives, you've been gone.”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 6.9

IMdB Rating: 8.5

In Conclusion: This one actually isn’t that bad it just put into words all the reasons this plotline failed.

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