#spnwin 1x02

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THE WINCHESTERS | 1.02 Teach Your Children Well

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The Winchesters 1x02 // Teach Your Children Well 

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Dean’s VOs in The Winchesters (season one!)

(LISTEN ALONG WITH AUDIO HERE)

Dean episode 1: 

( Ten Years After's "I'd Love to Change the World" ) ♪ ♪ 

March 23, 1972. The day Dad came home from the war, and the day he met Mom. Now I know this story might sound familiar, but I'm gonna put the pieces together in a way that just might surprise you. And in order to do that, I have to start all the way at the beginning. 

[END OF EPISODE]

What they didn't know is that the Akrida weren't just a threat to Earth, but to all of existence. Now, like I told you, there's gonna be some surprises. Hell, I'm still trying to find all the puzzle pieces myself. But I'll explain everything. And until then, I'll keep picking the music. 

♪ ♪ Spread them wide ♪ ♪ Rich or poor ♪ ♪ Them and us ♪ ♪ Stop the war ♪ 

Dean episode 2: 

( punchy, percussive music ) ♪ ♪  The ties that bind a family together can be complicated. Parents raise you, teach you what's right and wrong, and in some instances, how to kill monsters. But no matter who you are, there comes a time when you have to break from them and make your own way. And if you're not careful, things can get pretty ugly. 

Dean episode 3: 

( dramatic music ) ♪ ♪ ( screams ) ( sizzling ) ( growling )  There's no map to being a hunter. No playbook. You gotta follow your gut. But that can only take you so far. Truth is, you can't do it all on your own. You need other people to help guide the way... Your friends, your family. Otherwise you just end up lost. 

Dean episode 4: 

( eerie music ) ♪ ♪  Fighting the battle between good and evil isn't easy, especially when the first monster you have to face is the one inside yourself. ( soft dramatic music ) 

Dean episode 5: 

( dramatic music ) ♪ ♪ Spending a lifetime of hunting monsters takes its toll. There comes the time when you gotta let out that pain inside you. If you don't, it'll eat you alive. 

Dean episode 6: 

(Lata) I am centered. I am at peace. I create my own path, and I walk in it fearlessly. (end Lata)

Hunting has a way of changing a person. After a while, right, wrong, good, evil, they all start to look the same. And then it makes you start to wonder, "Who's really the monster here--them or me?" 

[END OF EPISODE]

Hunting's not for everyone. You have to be strong, stay sharp, make tough decisions, and it's not easy, But then again, the righteous things never are. 

Dean episode 7: 

( birds chirping ) Comes a time in every hunt when the fightin' starts. And the difference between winning and losing isn't whether you have the holy water, the wooden stake, or the silver bullet. It's whether you've got the grit to get the job done. (Mary on radio)

Dean episode 8:

(John Moran’s “Rebel”) ♪ ♪ Being a hunter, it means living a life of sacrifice-- not a lot of room for dreams. But you open your heart and get a little lucky, you'll find you gain more than you lose. ♪ ♪

Dean episode 9:

( mellow bluesy music ) ♪ ♪ This isn't how I saw things going when I pushed over that first domino. Thing is, I've had more than a few dances with free will and fate, but as my dad used to say, "Fate is what you make it."

Dean episode 10:

Hunting and happy endings don't usually mix, so when you get your chance, you got to ask yourself, "How far will I go to get it?"

Dean episode 11:

Being a Hunter means always being on the move, No matter how hard you plan, no matter how hard you work, at a certain point, we all run out of road. It's what we do with those crossroads that defines us.

Dean episode 12:

♪ ♪ ( carnival music resumes ) ♪ ♪ ( giggling manically ) ♪ ♪ ( shrill giggling ) ( whispering voices ) ( strange sounds ) 🤡🤡🤡

Hunting's a dishonest business. You gotta lie all the time about who you are and what you do. But the hardest lies aren't the ones you tell other people. They're the ones you tell yourself.

(Mary to John) Another day looking for this mystery man and still nothing. It's like this guy's a ghost. (End Mary to John).

Dean episode 13:

*RECORD SCRATCH* HE’S HERE!!!!! We’re going in universe baby.

(Opening scene, dramatic music ) ♪ ♪ 

Dean: John Winchester. 

John: Sir, can I help you? 

Dean: This is for you. 

John: Where did you get this? Who are--  [...] One ticket for Lawrence, Kansas. 

Ticket lady: Okay.

BOBBY, IT’S FREAKIN’ BOBBY!!!: We're not supposed to meddle with things, ya idjit!

Dean: You always said if I was gonna be stupid, I might as well be smart about it. 

Bobby: Yeah, that does sound about like me. We're not even supposed to be here. 

Dean: Come on, the letter was meant for him. I just, uh, you know, gave it a nudge. 

Bobby: You keep an eye on things here. I'm gonna get the damn cavalry. 

Dean: How you gonna do that? 

Bobby: I got no freaking idea. One last hunt, huh? 

Dean: One last hunt. ♪ ♪

[Insert finale including lots of chat about the ‘ruggedly handsome' mystery man here. For Akrida!Queen exposition science: You're here to talk about the man with no name...he was digging around in things that should have stayed buried. ... The Akrida. You see, our mysterious friend isn't from around here. There's only so much he could do. His hands were tied. Credit where it's due... he did manage to stay ahead of me for a while, but... I can assure you that he's not going to be a problem anymore. ... Well, there's this portal. You see--I'm sure you've heard of it. It's not quite up to code yet, but I managed to pry it open just enough to toss a certain someone and his car into it. No human can survive that gateway, so his body will be torn to shreds for centuries. Anyway, this, um... this old journal... it's all that's left of him.]

Back to the end of the show:

( electricity crackling ) ( engine revving ) ( engine revving ) ( dramatic music )  ♪ ♪ 

John: Mary! ... How did you guys survive? 

Dean (gestures at Baby): She kept Mary safe... me too. Of course, there's not a lot that can tear me apart. I'm already dead. I was stuck in the world between worlds, so I stayed close to that portal, and as soon as I saw baby come through, I hopped in and grabbed the wheel. 

Samuel: So who are you? 

Dean: I'm a Hunter, just like you. But I'm not from this Earth. 

Ada: And how did you get here? 

Dean: When I died, I made it to heaven. And she was waiting for me. So I went for a drive, and then I took a little detour. 

Latika: Through the multiverse. (Dean points ‘bingo’.)

Carlos: S-so what were you looking for? 

Dean: That's a good question, Carlos. I was looking for my family. See, I come from a long line of Hunters. I guess I was hoping that somewhere out there was an Earth that had a version where my family had a shot at a happy ending. When I was driving, I caught wind of the Akrida. Turns out that they were one of Chuck's last creations. 

Millie: Who's Chuck? 

Dean: God. It's a long story, but, uh... basically, he's a real dick. He left the Akrida behind to wipe out all of existence in case he failed. Well... he failed. Eventually the Akrida were going to make their way to my world, and I got family there, so I couldn't let that happen. 

John: T-the letter, why did you-- 

Dean: I took my little detour. The rules were simple. Don't mess with anything. Well... I gave it a little nudge. Thought it might need a little help. Looks like it worked out pretty well. So now that the Akrida are gone, you all can choose your own destiny. You can write your own story. 

Jack: And you can get back to yours. 

Dean: It's all right. It's all right. They're--they're with me. This is Bobby. That's Jack. They're family. Excuse me. You okay? 

Bobby: I told you I'd figure it out. Didn't say I wouldn't get us in more trouble. Look at 'em. Man, this is all kinds of weird... seeing Samuel with a full head of hair. 

Dean: Right? ( chuckles )

Jack (~~or is he?~~): Dean. 

Dean: Yeah. No, I know. I know, Jack. 

Jack: When I restored things, I wanted mankind to make their own fate. That meant no interference from on high, anywhere... no exceptions. 

Dean: I couldn't let our world get destroyed. Sam's still down there, okay? He deserves a good, long life. Hell, they all do. ( indistinct chatter ) So, if you want to cast me out of heaven... so be it. 

Bobby: If we're taking a vote, I'd say you give the guy another chance. 

Jack: There's always another case with you Hunters... even in death. Well... if you're going to meddle in things, finish what you started. After this... it's time to get around to the... "there'll be peace when you are done"... part of the song.

Dean to John: Listen, um... b-before I go... I want to give you two something. My dad... he, uh... Kept a Hunter's journal, looked just like this. I lived my whole life by that damn thing. Well, this is my Hunter's journal. So if you're gonna stay in this game... This will help guide you through it. 

John: Thank you. 

Dean to Mary: I know you're thinking about quitting Hunting. Believe me, I understand. But you need to do me one favor. Keep an eye out for a yellow-eyed demon. And if you even catch a hint of that son of a bitch... I need you to use this. 

Mary: Your family... did you ever find a version where they had a shot of a happy ending? 

Dean: I think I did. 

John: You never told us your name. 

Dean: Hetfield... James Hetfield. (Hetfield is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, co-founder, and a primary songwriter of heavy metal band Metallica.)

( Nick Drake's "One of These Things First" ) ♪ ♪ (Dean, Bobby and Jack vanish with baby). 

Transcripts from: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewforum.php?f=1550

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I want to find Samuel, I do, but I’m used to being the only one on stage, you know?

Carlos Cervantez in Teach Your Children Well (1x02): Best of SPN WIN Gals and Nonbinary Pals [7/?]

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Dean Winchester: “I’ll keep picking the music.”

The music:

Hair, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors?  These are all Broadway musicals.  

Flashback to season 10.  Dean teases Sam for being a theater kid, for liking Oklahoma! and Andrew Lloyd Webber, bopping his head along to the tunes only when he thought no one was watching.  But now?  Broadway songs and references are peppered throughout the story unabashedly, without a hint of sarcasm behind which Dean can hide for cover.  

In an episode about breaking from what your parents wanted and finding your own path, Dean picks his own kind of music.  He chooses camp and pizzaz and sunshine.  He chooses an art form where even the coolest dude must open up his heart to the audience.  This is me, too, he says.  This is me. 

[darkmisstressofunknown]

Jensen, Danneel, Robbie 🤝 Us

[minalblood]

Ep 2 is here now and I gotta say, the fact that Lata just finds all things monster fascinating is my fav thing cuz that is just me. Her playing with the jaw of the zombie was adorable and I wish i could've done the same. Carlos finding it disturbing just added to the charm of the whole scene.

Millie immediately yelling at John before he even got the chance to exit the car was oof, big oof. Mainly cuz it reminded me of my own mother's control tendencies. And because of that, I also tend to try and understand her point: admittedly John could've died and she wouldn't have know anything til after the fact. I get that fear, especially after the 2 years of no contact and likely a not good break before that with John at war. But fuck if she didn't just make it way harder for John to ever try bridging that gap or learning actual skills on dealing with conplex shit like that because she was just unreasonable about it all and taking it out on him. And the fact that La Tunda is actually calm when talking to John later is sooo interesting. I can't say she was nicer than Millie, cuz she wasn't but it def counts as another of those [insert crowley here saying :so my demons were too polite?] moments. I just found it all soo interesting and I have to add thay sadly her story at the end of the episode where she tells John about her and Henry's dealing with arguements doesnt actually help her case too much because of how she reacted initially. All thay teaches John is that he can take out his fear on others and then smooth it over with an "ull understand when ure older/had kids/been through similar shit" she is somply not constructive at all. But it a bit of an improvement because she, i believe, meant it as an explanation and apology despite it sounding as an excuse to me.

John being clearly not a pro at hunting or even just the type of fighting style hunting requires (and especially with a group of hunters) sent me. It's soo good. And it just makes me think of SPN!John learning to hunt and with the trauma of Mary's death it suddenly seems like even more reasons he didn't engage with a hunter's network. He just isn't a team player in that sense, he's too hyperfocused on his own fight that he loses sight of anyone else, and more than that, he had to have learned to adjust the fighting style he'd known to something that would work for hunting. It was basically ego and refusal to change, surpise surprise. TW!John tho keeps trying even after he fucks up, and while Im sure the constatly getting splashed with monster guts isnt fun, he doesn't have the same hang ups about not being perceived as indestructible. He essentially rolls with the punches and learns and is allowed to have flaws on display. Its not the pedestal SPN!John is put and puts himself on.

Mary's bullheadedness is absolutely fantastic in an extremely frustrating way. She is so fixated on getting through the case as fast as possible so she can get back to finding her dad that I actually got some season 1 Sam vibes from her this episode. I will say I find it soo interesting we got a John focus, cuz we all know the Cambells aren't that off for La Tunda to go for. Carlos giving her a pep talk about it and also admonishing her for her behaviour is def deserved and just top notch friendship tbh. As is the Cabaret gag with Mary, Carlos and Lata. It shows in a small but important way that these 3 def have a history and it's a long and intricate one. And u see even more later after John gets taken. It's in the way they talk to each other even in a high stress situation. Also Mary ackowledging she fucked up and thanking Caelos at the end... ughhhh I love growth.

Ada get to show off a bit more in this one, her scrying was genuinely sooo good, like this episode does a fantastic job of making you ask yourself what is actually up with Ada, whats her deal?? Because on the one hand, she recognized the flower off the top of her head and helped Lata instantly, on the other hand the way the scrying was shot was almost unnearving. And im not sure if it's cuz spn got me/us used to seeing scrying done by villains or as a subterfuge tactic or what, but yea, it added another air of mystery to Ada. And then u you have her conversation with Millie which has a hell of a ripple effect cuz I genuinely believe it's that converation that led to her actually trying with John at the end a bit. It's not solving anything broken there yet, but it does help. And adding ehat we know of about Ada's past to this makes me cry cuz shes just trying to prevent Millie from making the same mistake she had basically.

Carlos was more mediator this episode. Between the Lata and Carlos show (as per usual their friendship is everything to me) and seeing the complexity of that relationship as it stands and their dynamic with each other, to lecturing Mary on her behaviour, to just being highly competent at the job overall. Like they might not have done too much in the foreground, but damn if it wasn't a shitton of background work there. You can tell here that for all the "Im a solo act " bravado, Carlos is actually very much a team player and it's due to the emotional inteligence they have thats on full display here, in their usual jokey manner of course, that thats the case.

Aaaannd we get the 1st mention of Betty in this. I won't touch on that in this one but I like Betty a lot.

The end of this episode is my fav thing. Because it's pizza and joking and hanging out beside having the plot move forward once Ada brings up what shes been up to this episode. And still the focus isn't on the demon memories, but on them bonding. Uhhhh I love it.

We also have the 1st glimpse of the Akrida and if you were skulking around here when the show was airing in autumn u know I think the Akrida are adorable and I want a plushy with them. So the pure joy the shot of who we now know is likely Roxy with all them little critters around gave me cannot be overstated.

This ep def is much better paced than the Pilot, and also just lays clear the main there of this show, which is intergenerational trauma. It literally slaps u with it, it's front and centre and will continue to be shown in its many varried forms as the show progressed and I fucking love it for that because ultimately that is what Dean is doing here, beside once more saving the world. He is like i said, woeking through his own intergenerational trauma through these young versions of his parents that haven't yet had more trauma pilled onto them.

Stay tuned for ep 3 whenever I find the time to rewatch it!

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The Child is the Father of the Man - Teach Your Children Well SPNWin 1x02 (The Winchesters)

You can tell Showalter directed this episode, because it’s filled with gorgeous shots of light and shadow, like this one of Mary above, and this one below of the Winchesters’ Garage:

This young Mary is so much like Dean; searching for her hunter Dad, behaving like her Dad in spite of herself; his way, or the high-way, the Campbell way, as Lata says.  

In the first image, above, you can see “C3″ on the wall beind her, military short-hand for “Command, Control, Communication”, as she orders her Scooby-Gang about.  

But, this version of Mary later apologises to her friends for bossing them around, and for not listening, when Lata proves right that they’re not dealing with a shapeshifter, as Mary had insisted, but with La Tunda, eater of disobedient children, who appears to troubled youth as their punishing parent figure and feeds on their life-force. 

This young John and Mary, like Sam and Dean, Sam and Cas, seem to have a lot of conversations as they’re driving. Mary is the driver, John rides shotgun; symbolic of the fact that she is the leader, in this world of hunting:

But their conversations are emotionally supportive of one another; unlike the many angry silences or arguments in the Impala in Supernatural.

John and his mother reconcile, in this episode, despite their earlier fight, and she promises never to let him leave again without telling him she loves him (some Destiel echoes in there), And look at the sign on the garage wall, watching over this conversation - doesn’t it look like a pair of angel wings?

The lessons which came so hard to Dean because of his childhood trauma (listening not bossing, more open emotional communication, saying “sorry”, saying “I love you”) are finding resolutions, involving much greater emotional literacy, amongst these kids (and between John and his Mum). 

The Hippie Commune leader, Clyde, was wearing a triskelion which the camera zooms in on, and the Scooby Gang discuss as a symbol of “transformation”:

It’s almost as if Narrator-Dean is re-writing the story of his parents, to provide them with a security and emotional warmth (despite their own traumas and parent-issues) which they lacked in Universe One (Supernatural). 

The triskelion is also a trinity - in SPN One’s Biblical universe that would be - the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

Chuck was the author and sometimes the overtly in-story narrator of the SPN One universe, eventually (perhaps, although, perhaps not, given the shitty 15x20 ending, which had Chuck’s bad writing all over it) replaced by his son, Jack. 

Is Dean the Holy Ghost in the machine of this Supernatural AU, The Winchesters? Taking on a god-like function as the story-teller? 

But unlike Chuck, Dean is not a cruel and capricious God, toying with his characters for his own amusement. 

It’s as if Dean is teaching his own parents, how to be better equipped and more secure. The child, Narrator-Dean, has somehow become the parent of his own parents, and is attempting, like the Crosby, Stills and Nash song of the epiisode title, to “teach the children well”. 

Perhaps this narrative has been designed as a healing journey, for John and Mary, and for us, the traumatised SPN audience...

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

The circle’s over Barry! Time to relax!

I love this show so much!! I’m absolutely in love with how it looks, how it’s written, how it’s acted, and all of the characters.

I can’t believe how this episode made so much happen - its own plot, the callbacks to the main show, summarizing the theme of Supernatural in a nutshell and telling us that it remembers exactly what it is supposed to do, promising where this show is headed, everyone being cute...

This episode basically feels like the makers of the show gently taking our face in their hands and looking us in the eyes and telling us that they got us.

(I’m here for the breaking of the circle and overcoming the trauma from parenting, so yeah, I definitely feel like they got me. They told me nice and clear.)

I’ll never get used to hearing Dean’s voice without my heart stopping for a bit, though.

[castielscarma]

Just a quick thought about 1x01 and 1x02 of the Winchesters. I don't really know what's going on still lol except some Akrida monsters wanting to destroy everything and our beloved Dean is narrating as we see young Mary and John. But something is off... I mean... I see all the parallels with Dean. Like, that monster in episode 2 ( >.> I need to google her name again) is imo basically a mirror for John and Dean's lived experience with him when Dean himself was a kid. And we get the background with John and how he was in Vietnam and that he has stuff that he's going through, and how that affects him still now. But he's much more.... adjusted and more mellow than I pictured him to be lol. I also note all the people <3 (I love Latika, Carlos) that surround Mary and John. It seems that the hunter community is much more.... a community than in Supernatural. We know that, it's pointed out in Supernatural too, and that Dean and Sam's stance and life is kind of an anomaly, (at least in regards to the community aspect), probably due to John keeping them out. And to know that John does that, when he so far in the Winchesters has used that community and really found family for help, and strength and purpose is... bad. So... I'm still kind of narrowing my eyes at John and how he acts. Honestly, the best thing I could explain it as is that sometimes I get an AU feeling (not in the sense that, oh Jensen fucked up and doesn't know the Spn Universe, he does) but that these are not quite the same Mary and John we know from Dean's and Sam's supernatural world.

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Look at how cute they all are 🥺

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THE WINCHESTERS | 1.02 Teach Your Children Well

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The Winchesters 1x02 // Teach Your Children Well

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not mary calling it a 'stupid dress' while in a white dress like the one she died in

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

I brewed a potion to tap into my subconscious so I could access the echo of any remaining portion of the demon that possessed me.

Ada Monroe in The Winchesters Pilot and Teach Your Children Well (1x01 and 1x02): Best of SPN WIN Gals and Nonbinary Pals [9 / ?]

[disasterbijedi]

“I took it out on you when I couldn’t take it out on him” oh god that’s exactly what he does to dean. He doesn’t actually learn from this