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Rewatching Red Sky at Morning

Welcome to “Stinks Like Seaman Spirit: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!

 Up today, s3e6: Red Sky at Morning

 In a coastal city in New England, people are drowning on dry land. Sam and Dean aren’t the dumb brothers, so they think that’s kind of odd. With the help of both Bella, who is in town to steal something and sell it (of course), and a grabby old lady who has the hots for Sam, the boys figure out that a sailor hanged on an old sailing ship is responsible for the strange deaths. In the course of trying to dispatch him, they have to get all dolled up and pretend to be rich at a charity function, think on their feet, and save Bella from the ghost. They learn that Bella has committed murder, though she won’t tell them anything about the circumstances, and Sam and Dean do a nice rendition of the fraught brothers over Dean’s continuing refusal to care about his impending death and sentence to hell.

 Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.

 [and we begin:]

 Mace:

 public water fountain = ew

 Lor:

 GHOST SHIP

 CORRECT

 Mace:

 YAS

Lor:

 "Happy Purim" Sammy

 Mace:

 SNORK

 Dean sounds like a dad here

“something you wanna tell me?"

 Lor:

 YEP

 Sam's little nod

 Mace:

 YES

 Mace:

BACK OFF MY STRINGBEAN, KALE

 omg DEAN’S LITTLE COUGH

 Lor:

 "Alex and us, we're like this" the way he just goes with it

 Mace:

 YES

 Lor:

 OH NO don't touch Sammy like that

 YES HIS COUGH

 Mace:

 YES

 Lor:

 "weirdo dryland drownings"

 Mace:

 snork

 Lor:

 "where's my car?"

 Mace:

 oh Dean

 Lor:

 omg Dean, baby, breathe

 Mace:

 Sammy, don’t tell him to calm down

 Lor:

 RIGHT?

 Mace:

 SMARTY SAMMY

 Lor:

 YES

 Mace:

 omg Dean imagining her in that scenario

 Lor:

 YES

 is she... wearing any clothes under that coat?

 Mace:

 possibly not

 Lor:

 "not in public"

 Mace:

 Sam gives SUCH good annoyed face

 Lor:

 YES

 Mace:

 i would need to provoke that as often as possible

 Lor:

 YAAAS

 DON'T REACH INTO THE TUB

 Mace:

 DO NOT STICK YOUR ARM IN THAT WATER DUMMY

YAS

 Lor:

 lololol

 I love the way Bella and the boys keep sticking it to each other

 Mace:

 YES

i think they’re each fascinated with the other

 Lor:

 YEP

 "I don't know. your daddy give you enough?"

THEY HAVE EACH OTHER PEGGED

 Mace:

 oh MAN, the daddy hugs thing hurts BOTH of them in ways the other doesn’t realize

 YAS

 Lor:

 YES

 watch your mouth, man

 Mace:

 poor Baby

 Lor:

 right?

gettin' stole, bein' insulted

 Mace:

 yep

 “that can’t be good"

that’s a professional opinion right there

 Lor:

 yep

he knows not good when he sees it

 Mace:

 he sure does

 Lor:

 ghost is getting sloppy. you REALLY can't drown in a car on land

 Mace:

 SNORK

I don’t think he cares

 Lor:

 LOL

 I love that it's Dean who can't sit normal in a chair but it's JARED who can't sit normal in a chair

 Mace:

 is this the first time they’ve stayed in a not-motel?

 Lor:

 I think so

 Mace:

omg YAS

 Lor:

 "aren't you a sharp tack" yes, Bella, yes, he is

 DEAN WINCHESTER

 Mace:

 DEAN WINCHESTER

 Lor:

 hahahahaha

 Mace:

 HAHAHAHA

 pretty sure a hand of glory is always a man’s no? so that’s interesting

 Lor:

 iiiiiinteresting

 "what are you, a woman?"

 GOD I LOVE THIS REVEAL DOWN THE STAIRS

 Mace:

 I LOVE that he’s the one making an entrance and she’s in the Male Gaze position

 Lor:

 "we should really have angry sex" YES YOU SHOULD

 Mace:

 YES YOU SHOULD

 Lor:

 YESYESYES

 Mace:

 “don’t objectify me” DEAN

 Lor:

 "don't objectify me"

he's actually uncomfortable

it's such a NICE little piece of characterization

 Mace:

 YES because in that one little moment he realizes, I believe, that this happens to him a lot in myriad ways

 Lor:

 YES

 OMG Dean and the gum

 Mace:

 but the little smile on the way out is that he doesn’t... ming

 *mind

 Lor:

 YEP

 Mace:

 typo - he CLEARLY mings often

 BACK OFF MY STRINGBEAN, BITCH

 Lor:

 SNORK

 Mace:

 my GOD he looks good

 Lor:

 RIGHT? leave him alone

 Mace:

 all three of them do

 Lor:

 "this is easier and it's a lot more entertaining"

Dean

 Mace:

 my bi self is happy in this ep

 Lor:

 YAAAS

 Mace:

 omg DEAN’s gleeful grin

 Lor:

 YES

 Bella's décolletage is stunning

 Mace:

 IT SO FLIPPING IS

and her hair looks so good

 Lor:

 YEP

 Mace:

 and there’s something about the precise way she speaks

 DEAN

 Lor:

 "no sir" "no?"

 YES

 I love how he just goes with it

  aw she FLUSTERS him

 "very Oscar Wilde"

 Mace:

 YES

 Lor:

 and him trying to figure out what that means

 Mace:

 his LOOK BACK at her

 Lor:

 (headcanon: when he gets a chance, he looks up Oscar Wilde and then he has a LOT of INTERESTING reading material)

 Mace:

 YES

 Lor:

 STOP FONDLING PEOPLE WITHOUT CONSENT GERT

 Mace:

 RIGHT?!

 she is so clever!

 Lor:

 YES

 gooood taking the handkerchief out of his breast pocket and shaking it out

 Mace:

 YES

 “okayokayokay” poor Sam

 Lor:

 yeah

 "you stink like sex" DEAN

 Mace:

 “you stink like sex” DEAN WINCHESTER

 HAHAHA

 Lor:

 lololol

 "Mrs. Who?"

 Mace:

 HAHAHA

he’ll look that up later, too

 Lor:

 YEP

he enjoys the atmosphere of that one but it's not NEARLY as INTERESTING

 Mace:

 HAHAHA YEP

 Lor:

 "you not us"

 omg Dean's face. so betraaaaayed

 Mace:

 SNORK such a snark

 Lor:

 YES

 Mace:

 a nautical fury i love it

 Lor:

 "was it daddy?" ooooh, Dean

 YES

I LOVE ship stuff

 Mace:

 YEP

 Lor:

 they are so JUDGEY. they have such strong moral compasses, even if a lot of people might not understand or share them

 Mace:

 yeah

 Sam zipping his coat up

 Lor:

 did he... say castiel?

 YES

 Mace:

 DID HE JUST SAY CASTIEL?!

 Lor:

 hahahahahahahaha

I'm pretty sure he did

 Mace:

 HAHAHAHA

 Lor:

 which is funny because I'm pretty sure that actual angel is Cassiel

 Mace:

 HA interesting

 Lor:

 oooo the creaking of the masts

 Mace:

 I love that boy, but GOD his Latin pronunciation is shit awful

 Lor:

 they are all so pretty all wet

 Mace:

 oh man, that’s such a COOL effect

 YAAASSS

 Lor:

 LOLOLOLOL you'll help him get better at it

 Mace:

 YES

 Lor:

 "you're so damaged" "takes one to know one"

 Mace:

 “you’re so damaged” that is one of the few moments where I don’t like Dean very much

 Lor:

 yeah. not very kind

 "I guess I would have done the same thing"? you DID

 Mace:

 and they will again. and again.

 Lor:

 YEP

 "please stop worrying about me" oooof

 Mace:

 yeah, not possible, Sam

 Lor:

 "I want you to give a crap that you're dying"

 keep trying, Sammy, keep trying

 Mace:

 oh BOYS

 Lor:

 YES

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spn rewatch | wendigo

I’m gonna be real upfront right now. This episode scared the piss out of me when I first saw it. I’m sorry but a crazy fast, perfect hunter who can move faster than you can blink and eats human flesh to survive and can mimic a person’s voice to lure you to them?! I WAS TERRIFIED! It didn’t help that I had just moved into our new house, which is on five acres of land with about four of those acres being nothing but woods. But, for real, I know some of the effects aren’t as good as they could be by today’s standards but I actually loved and was terrified of this episode the first time I saw it, which kind of amped up the scary factor from the pilot for me. 

Okay, here we go. 

So as if we needed to further cement that this is taking place in glorious 2005, you’ve got two guys playing games on their Nintendo DS’s (RIP pre-Glee Cory Monteith, the only person who could’ve competed with Jared vertically) and then Tommy recording a video on his Blackberry, somehow magically having it perfectly level with his face despite not being able to see the screen as he records. Like seriously that’s the supernatural activity they should be investigating.

Okay but so some of the wendio effects later in the episode are not so great but in this first scene, I think they made some pretty solid choices of just relying on the whole concept of “less is more” and giving mostly scary sounds and rustling trees and making you more afraid of what could be in the forest than creating a scary visual to throw at you right off the bat. Solid scary intro scene. 

The cemetery scene. Totally classic shoutout to Carrie. I had just gotten into Stephen King when I started watching Supernatural (honestly I was delving into all kinds of horror themed things at the time) and I’d seen Carrie for the first time not too long before this. Which means not only was I super scared by the jump scare (because I’m still jumpy as fuck to this day), I was also SUPER proud of myself for knowing what they were trying to reference there. I definitely thought I was cool for getting that one. Now, not so much. But the scene still makes me jump. 

I really do like the ways they’re kind of trying to establish how the brothers care for each other. Like you know right off the bat in the pilot that their relationship is rough at best and that there’s some pretty obvious toxic masculinity on Dean’s part at least but like you can still see that Dean’s concerned. He’s got his own way of showing it but he’s worried about his little brother. 

Side note: just remember that they both had a seriously messed up childhood and the fact that either of them are as close to normal as they are is impressive. Like I think all things considered, they’re pretty well adjusted. Kind of. 

This episode is kind of outside the norm compared to future episodes with how Sam and Dean both handle the case when they first get to town. The fact that Sam just wants to go straight to the coordinates John left them while Dean’s the one saying “maybe we should do a little research first” is bizarro. But it also kind of helps show just where Sam’s mind is at at this point. He’s not coming to this as a hunter taking on a case, he’s a man with a vendetta and the next step he needs to take is finding John. He’s fueled by anger and grief and guilt and that kind of reflects when he seems less concerned about what’s going on in the woods and more interested in just getting out there ASAP.

Okay, just like they couldn’t pass as US Marshals, the guys seriously do not look like park rangers at all. Like you guys aren’t even trying come on. And good on Haley for being suspicious even if she did seem to buy into their story for a bit. 

BABY HAN SOLO! 

I totally did not realize that was Alden Ehrenreich playing Ben until I saw his name on screen at the beginning of the episode. He looks so so so young in this ohmygod. Also think I’ll need to keep a list of like all the crazy celeb cameos of people who got famous after being on the show. Or were already famous but I totally forgot popped up. 

For our next super underrated guest star scene of the series, Shaw - the old man who’s parents were taken by a “grizzly” back when he was a kiddo in 1959. 

Like seriously, it’s one scene but Donnelly Rhodes (RIP) does an amazing job with the scene and like it kind of leaves me with chills whenever he says that whatever it was didn’t break down the door but unlocked it. Like that’s still hella spooky to me. Also, I still don’t totally understand why the wendigo left him behind. Like you’d think for a monster that is going to have a big ass meal before hibernation would want as much meat as possible. Like yeah a little kid wouldn’t much but he’d be something right?

Also that’s a gnarly scar like how did he survive that.

So Dean talks about it being possibly a skinwalker or a black dog but like looking into what those both actually are I honestly don’t understand why he would think that based on what they know about the attacks. Like black dogs are death omens and skinwalkers wouldn’t be able to do the kind of damage that’s being done considering everyone’s just like “oh it’s a grizzly”. So like I dunno, I guess this might’ve been the writers tossing out references to other creatures to make it sound like Dean knows a bunch but like neither of those would be my first guesses for this case.

Kind of just like “early installment weirdness” but whatever. It’s not a big deal, just me nitpicking.

Okay so Roy is kind of a jackass but like he knows what he’s doing for the most part and he totally doesn’t buy the guys story about beng park rangers for one minute. So like I can respect that. And like if it would’ve been an actual animal attacking people, he might’ve survived but oh well. 

I do like that Haley just goes ahead and calls bullshit on the park rangers story before they even go on their adventure but Dean’s whole “it's probably the most honest I've ever been with a woman...ever.” is just kind of cringey. 

So all the traipsing through the woods and the “I’m smarter than you” staredown between Roy and Sam is not super interesting but I do like that 1 - we get to see Sam being angry and being emotional in a more volatile way because that’s not often the case as the show goes on - and 2 - we get our iconic line of “saving people, hunting things, the family business” and the whole idea that they’re not supposed to meet up with John but do the jobs he doesn’t have time for while he’s hunting for the demon that killed Mary. 

I don’t think I really realized why John would leave them coordinates and the journal when he didn’t plan on actually meeting up with them when I watched this as a kid. I just kind of shrugged it off as like a necessary plot device for the show to progress, didn’t really see it as anything with a deeper meaning. And I think it’s fair that you can’t read too much into after an episode and a half because there’s so much that we don’t know yet about the boys and John and their story and all of that. But like looking at it with the knowledge of their lives and everything, it’s a lot heavier moment to me. Maybe I’m just reading too much into it. 

Okay so the rest of the episode is just encounter monster, piss off monster, get kidnapped by monster, track monster, kill monster. Kind of standard, not super exciting like there’s not a lot to talk about. Dean with his molotov cocktails is kind of fantastic. 

The trail of M&Ms is fun and yes better than breadcrumbs. Sam immediately becoming invested in killing the monster once Dean’s been taken gives me all kinds of feels because I love when these two go into protective brother mode. And Dean all banged up with bruises and cuts and dirt is a look I probably shouldn’t like as much as I do but that’s a conversation for another day. 

The wendigo does look a little cheesy when you get better glimpses of it because early 00s special effects so it’s definitely for the best they keep things pretty shadowy for the end of the episode. Not the worst looking monster of season one and still scary enough, to me at least. 

So this is the episode that seems to start the trend that if there’s a girl involved and her life gets saved by the Winchesters, one of them is going to flirt with her and get some kind of physical affection before they leave town. It doesn’t happen every episode but it happens enough that 26 year old me is rolling my eyes. 14 year old me had no issues with Sam and Dean getting smooches because look at them. But now I’m kind of like this seems a little unnecessary but whatever. It’s not the worst instance and all in all, I actually really liked Haley. I liked the whole Collins family. They were some solid guest characters and I feel like the scenes where Sam and Dean are interacting with them individually does a good job of kind of fleshing out their characters a bit more. It gives a chance for some necessary exposition without feeling too forced. 

All in all, solid episode. Scary monster, intensified my fear of the woods, gave some good scenes, iconic lines. Does it have some cheesy moments? Yes. Is it the best episode of the series? No. Does it still scare me when I watch it? 100%.

BODY COUNT: 3 humans (Brad, Gary, Roy); 1 wendigo (our first corporeal monster - also like I’m curious about who the wendigo was before it changed, like how long has it been in the wilderness, how did it wind up at Blackwater Ridge, how it wound up this far west)

RATING: 7.5/10 - yep, I’ll say it. I think this episode is better than the pilot. Not by much but the characters feel a little closer to who they become throughout season one and I feel like you get a better feel for them than we did in the pilot. Also the wendigo scares me more than Sarah Shahi in a sexy nightgown I’m just saying.  

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Rewatching Malleus Maleficarum

Welcome to "The Nice and Accurate Protests of Dean Winchester, Witchfinder General: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog" with Lor and Mace!

  Up today, s3e9: Malleus Maleficarum

    The boys stumble onto a coven of suburban housewife witches, who are using their power to become president of the PTA or some ridiculous nonsense. Dean's not happy with the job because he hates witches because they're messy, and to be honest he's not all wrong - there some seriously gross stuff going on, including teeth falling out and maggots in hamburgers. So yeah, ew. It turns out, though, that one of the witches isn't a witch at all, but a demon. Fake Wifey Witch Demon slams Sam and Dean up against a wall while revealing Ruby's interesting past. Then Ruby does some revealing of her own, telling Dean that all demons are humans who've had the humanity tortured out of them in hell and that's what he has to look forward to once he's been hellhound dragged down there. Dean's...not happy about this either, but isn't quite ready to open up about it to Sammy. Which is, of course, SHOCKING.

  Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.

 [and we begin:]

  Mace:

Oooh, the witches one!

  Lor:

YES

  Mace:

  Dean won’t be happy

  Lor:

he will not

Lor:

is this the one where he almost walks into a dead rabbit?

  Mace:

she… keeps her toothbrush in the original box?

  Mace:

  I think so?

  Lor:

they are so rich they use a new one every time

  Mace:

  Ooof, too soon for me

  Lor:

AAAAAUUUGGGH TEETH

AGAIN

  Mace:

  HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

two eps in a row!

  Lor:

holds you

  Mace:

So rude.

  Mace:

leans in

  Mace:

  EWEWEWEW

  Lor:

SO GROSS

  Mace:

  but would that really kill her?

  Lor:

i wouldn't think so?

  Mace:

  stupid witches

  Lor:

mmmm Dean looking PRETTY

  Mace:

YAS

  Mace:

  SO IS SAMMY

  Lor:

"I dunno. I was under his sink"

  Mace:

“awww gross"

  Mace:

  poor Dean

  Lor:

YES

  Lor:

awww, rain on their shoulders

  Mace:

  YES

  Lor:

"I hate witches"

  Lor:

"it's downright unsanitary" pets him

  Lor:

he likes things CLEAN

  Mace:

“some craggy old Blair bitch in the woods"

  Mace:

  HE DOES

  Lor:

LOL

  Lor:

the first rule of book club...

  Mace:

  HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

oh GROSS

  Mace:

oh GROSS

  Mace:

  SNORK

  Lor:

LOLOLOL

  Lor:

oh man I forgot just HOW MUCH gross there is in this ep

  Mace:

YEP

  Mace:

good thing she got all dolled up in her lingerie for this.

  Mace:

  not creepy at all, lady

  Lor:

right?

  Lor:

so easy to get worm guts out of silk

  Lor:

it's just practical, really

  Mace:

HAHAHA

  Mace:

  EEEEEWWWWW

  Lor:

EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEW

  Lor:

"you'd be a doornail right now" HIS IDIOLECT

  Mace:

YEP

  Mace:

  He watched the muppets version every year

  Lor:

YES

  Lor:

"that's a curveball"

  Mace:

HA

  Mace:

  I love the shot through the bottom of the table

  Lor:

YES

  Lor:

HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA DEAN

  Mace:

  FREAKIN WITCHES

  Lor:

YAAAS

  Mace:

“poor little guy"

  Mace:

  omg DEAN

  Lor:

"why's the rabbit always gotta get screwed in the deal? poor little guy"

  Lor:

YES

  Lor:

holds him

  Mace:

  witch on witch violence

  Lor:

the FLIP PHONES. the way they SHUT THEM

  Mace:

YEP

  Mace:

  yeah, Ron, take your misogyny elsewhere

  Lor:

right?

  Lor:

"people don't just spit out their teeth all of a sudden" "uh-mm"

  Mace:

  these ladies are CREEPY

  Lor:

RIGHT?

  Lor:

I was gonna say, "you're a little dicky, Ron, but maybe run? like, don't come back here"

  Mace:

  SNORK

  Lor:

"getting these herbs to grow out of season like this" SAMMY

  Lor:

he's so SMART

  Mace:

Bachman and Turner I LOVE IT

  Mace:

  YES HE IS

  Lor:

YES

  Mace:

  he would SO have an herb garden at the bunker

  Lor:

YES

  Lor:

"but she was an Episcopalian" hahahahaha

  Mace:

  SNORK

  Lor:

"would you like me to spell it for you?" "i'll get by, thanks"

  Mace:

  why would she say her name like that? I mean, just SAY you’re a witch and get it over with

  Lor:

LOOK, LADY. don't be a jerk to Dean

  Lor:

LOL

  Lor:

it's like she thinks it should mean something to him

  Mace:

yeah

  Mace:

  but it just comes off awkward

  Lor:

yeah

  Lor:

and Dean recognizes all those plants

  Lor:

THEY ARE SO SMART

  Mace:

  they are

  Lor:

hahahahaha Sammy saying her name the way she did

  Mace:

YAS

  Mace:

  such snark

  Lor:

"stopped like STOPPED?"

  Mace:

  this whole moral code switching between the two of them is so interesting

  Lor:

his gun don't jam and HIS BABY DON'T STALL

  Mace:

  and also sort of confusing

  Lor:

right?

  Mace:

  omg his “HAHAHAHA right."

  Lor:

yeah

  Lor:

YES

  Lor:

"you mean besides you?"

  Mace:

“put a leash on your brother”

  Mace:

  ooooo

  Lor:

"put a leash on your brother Sam if you want to keep him"

  Lor:

YES

  Lor:

and Dean's FACE

  Mace:

  Dean, slow your roll on the bitch and skank language pls

  Lor:

seriously

  Lor:

we need to have a little talk with him

  Mace:

  we do

  Lor:

mmmm the little snaps on Sam's shirt

  Mace:

  YAS

  Lor:

Dean washes his face!

  Mace:

YES

  Mace:

  those jeans really show off Dean’s adorable bowed legs

  Lor:

Dean's all worried about Sam wanting to kill people

  Lor:

YAAAAS

  Mace:

YEP

  Mace:

  poor Dean has a tummy ache

  Lor:

oooof Sammy

  Lor:

he DOES

  Mace:

  “into you” OOOOF

  Lor:

RIGHT?!

  Mace:

  and the tears in Sammy’s eyes

  Lor:

except Dean is a marshmallow on the inside

  Mace:

  with knives, apparently

  Lor:

I like it a little too much when he's hurting

  Lor:

HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH OMG

  Mace:

YEP

  Mace:

quit. calling. her. bitch. Dean.

  Mace:

  HAHAHAHA OMG RUBY

  Lor:

LOLOL YAS

  Mace:

  I don’t like that I’m pre-quoting her

  Lor:

it's like the only time she gets any points

  Lor:

LOLOLOLOL

  Mace:

HAHAHAHA

  Mace:

  “you’re the short bus”

  Lor:

"you're the shortbus" omg Dean

  Mace:

HAHAHAHAHA

  Mace:

“nice dick work"

  Mace:

  HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

"nice dick work, Magnum" LOLOLOL

  Mace:

  the women’s synchronized gasp

  Lor:

YES

  Lor:

yeah RENEE

                        Mace:

  HAHAHA

  Lor:

"just who did you think you were praying to?" like RIGHT? it's working so what did they think was happening?

  Mace:

  RIGHT?! Dummies.

  Lor:

"you're not our messiah. we don't believe in you"

  Mace:

  I BELIEVE IN YOU SAMMY

  Lor:

ME TOO SAMMY

  Lor:

I mean, I can see him, he's right there

  Mace:

  SNORK

  Lor:

way to save the day, Dean, baby

  Mace:

  HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

Dean mouthing "told you so" haaaaahahahahaha

  Mace:

  right? Now’s not really the time, Dean

  Lor:

right?

  Lor:

but what if they die an it was his only chaaaance?

  Mace:

  HA! true

  Lor:

Abbot and Costello hahahaha

  Lor:

OMG I NEED to see Sam and Dean do who's on first

  Mace:

snork

  Mace:

YES

  Mace:

  hm, I think it would be better with Dean and Cas

  Lor:

OMG YES

  Lor:

DANG Dean, once woulda done, hon

  Mace:

oh Dean, once was prolly enough

  Mace:

  HAHAHA OMG

  Lor:

HAAAAHAHAHAHA

  Mace:

  and now Sam’s washing his face!

  Lor:

yep

  Lor:

ooooof Dean

  Mace:

  yeah

  Lor:

oooof he's trying to joke

  Mace:

  yeah

  Lor:

omg his little nod when she says there's no way to save him

  Mace:

  yeah

  Lor:

he really DOESN'T think he deserves to be saved

  Mace:

yeah

  Mace:

  oooof

                     Lor:

right?

  Lor:

this must have been WILD to watch live

  Mace:

YES

[watchingspn-blog]

okay a couple more notes on the pilot because I still have Thoughts™ on things but you’re telling me that this dweeb

with his fucking polo buttoned ALL THE WAY is dating a super cute goth princess like Amy 

and decides to cheat on her with the first random hitchhiking girl in a nightgown he comes across? like I get Sarah Shahi is gorgeous and I would totes get with her if I could but COME ON TROY! 

AMY IS A TOTAL CATCH and I really don’t have a ton of sympathy with him. like honestly the pilot didn’t really do a good job of giving you a particularly sympathetic victim and like I can kind of understand Constance’s motives up until she starts attacking Sam. I’m not saying she was a good person blah blah blah but she was at least kind of sympathetic to a degree. 

side note: I totally hope these two got together and got married once Amy stopped wondering if Troy was ever coming home.

[castielss]

mystiquesdestiny >> spookydeans

I changed the URL for the spooky season, same old me different URL

Tagging some mutuals

@nojumping @stellarmichelle @sebastiandragosteamea @jarpadandjensens @angelsradios @steeve-harrington @watchingspn @starllords @waywarddaughter95 @ackles-got-snackles

[azrielrose]

Great, so this is what, the fourth week in a row for the ‘knock Sam out’ trope?  

[cantwebeseventeen]

Almost done with Season 3 of Supernatural! Five more episodes! Finally! Man, I've loved these last two seasons. Also Mystery Spot is my official favorite episode.

[watchingspn-blog]

Way back in October 2006, little thirteen year old me was introduced to a show that would be my main obsession for several years. A show featuring two hunktastic brothers, super cool muscle cars, and lots of spooky creatures. That show was Supernatural. My best friend at the time came over one night with a VHS tape (yes that was still a thing) that had the episode “Everybody Loves a Clown” recorded on it. We watched it with all the lights out, huddled under blankets and pretending like we weren’t totally freaked out by that fucked up clown.

Cut to 2019 and it’s the end of an era. And somewhere along the line I just completely lost track of Supernatural and all it’s crazy adventures. But I still like spooky stuff and I still have a massive crush on the Winchesters so what do I decide to do with my nonexistent free time?

Watch all 307 episodes leading up and try to catch up in time to at least be able to watch the finale when it airs. So wish me luck and tune in for my nonsensical ramblings about everything as I go.

[watchingspn-blog]

spn rewatch | the woman in white (pilot)

Okay so I can safely say I’ve seen the pilot episode at least half a dozen times, if not more. I got season one on DVD for my 14th birthday (which I 100% binged with my BFF at the time to the point where we were beyond exhausted for my actual birthday festivities the next day) and would watch over and over in the days before Netflix. So for me the first couple of seasons are way more familiar to me than the later seasons. Especially since at some point after I started college when I didn’t have as easy access to television and streaming services weren’t quite what they are today I fell off the bandwagon. Pretty much everything I know about the show from mid-season eight onwards comes from gif sets on Tumblr and the occasional Facebook posts. Which brings me to this rewatch/first time viewing. 

It’s easily been at least three or four years since I’ve watched the pilot but it’s still so familiar to me which I feel like says a lot for the show. Or just says that I was way too obsessed with this show as a teenager. But anyway, here we go.

First of all, I don’t know about anyone else but I’m honestly a little weirded out by seeing JDM looking younger and not having a beard. Like it’s strange to me and I don’t know how to feel about it and I’m glad this is the only scene where he looks like this. The beard does him wonders in all walks of life and I’m glad it’s a look he’s stuck with in just about everything he’s in these days. (Also you can totally see one of JDM’s tattoos under the sleeve of his t-shirt and it just makes me want to headcanon John with a couple tattoos from his time in the service despite looking so clean cut when they have the flashbacks with Matt Cohen.)

Secondly, I want to know when they came up with the backstory that Mary was a hunter and came from a family of hunters and that she’d been in that life before she settled down with John. Because I feel like if that backstory had been mapped out before the pilot her reactions when she woke up to the baby monitor would be more suspicious. But that could also be me just being too picky. Like it’s totally valid that Mary, just waking up didn’t pick up on the static or the flickering lights. I just want to know if they’d had her history in mind when this started or if that came up later once they’d developed the story and characters more. 

Okay, so I don’t have any major attachments to Jess, mainly because we just don’t spend enough time with her. She’s got a whole three (?) scenes where she’s mostly delegated to the supportive girlfriend who’s also over-sexualized. Like they seriously chose to introduce a female character and have all of her outfits be revealing to the point where other characters are commenting on it before killing her. Like I have no issues with female characters wearing whatever the fuck they want, there’s nothing wrong with that. But it wasn’t given any more depth than “here’s this sexual object for our audience to look at” and that’s what bugs me. But I am glad that they showed her being genuinely concerned when Sam is packing like wanting to make sure he’s okay and make sure he’s not doing something reckless for people who’ve actively avoided being in his life over the last few years. She’s incredibly supportive of Sam and it makes me happy that he had that in his life even if I do hate that it was taken away in a horribly gruesome way.

Adrianne Palicki is just ridiculously talented and deserves way more recognition than she’s gotten over the years. 

Now, I’m gonna be real. I was a Dean girl from the get go. I loved me a smartass bad boy when I was thirteen and I was head over heels for Jensen Ackles from the first time I saw this show (probably because I’d never seen him anything else before but I already knew Jared as Dean from Gilmore Girls who wasn’t my favorite as a middle schooler). It also probably doesn’t hurt that I saw an episode of season two as my first intro to the show instead of the pilot. Because honestly, watching his first scene as a 26 year old, he doesn’t come off in the best light. Between breaking into Sam’s apartment, their whole tussle in the dark living room, and then him hitting on Jess right in front of Sam, he’s kind of an ass. Which yes, Dean is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. All of these characters are fucked up, especially after fourteen seasons and counting. But this just doesn’t line up with how Dean is in the rest of season one even, I feel like. 

Like Dean telling Jess that she’s way out of Sam’s league is one thing. I expect nothing less from him. But then him just being creepy and ogling her is just uncomfortable to watch now. 

Also the lighting budget for the entire first season is just horrendous. It’s like they wanted to show that they were scary and edgy but really it just meant I couldn’t make out what was happening in any scene that didn’t take place in broad daylight. 

Okay, on to the spooks. Having a woman in white for the first MOTW (monster of the week) was kind of cool to me because it was something I actually knew about before the show, thanks to reading any and every book on ghosts my school library had to offer. And Sarah Shahi is super gorgeous. Like hot damn. And as cheesy as some of the effects are in the earlier episodes, I actually like the way that she kind of flickers in and out along the side of the road as Troy’s driving up and then the way you don’t actually see her in the passenger seat when it shows her getting in. None of the effects are too crazy over the top (at least not until the very end of the episode when she finally goes home and has that weird as fuck death scene with her creepy kids) and it works.

As a thirteen year old, I thought it was totally believable that Sam and Dean could be US marshals and the local cops were just being jerks. As a twenty-six year old, the idea that those two could pass as any kind of law enforcement other than like maybe a couple of rookie cops is ridiculous. I’m the same age that Dean was at the start of the show and I’ve got people assuming I’m still in high school. I couldn’t get past the crime scene tape for anything. But I guess if you’re confident enough and tall enough, anything’s possible. Also as if they didn’t already look hella conspicuous, they act like a couple of five year olds with all their stomping and smacking, like no wonder the cops were suspicious. 

Also can we take a moment to appreciate the awesome mid-2000s goth look Amy and her friend are rocking? Because it’s fantastic and I’m here for it. Also kudos to them for being the only women to make it to the end of the episode alive. 

I never really thought about it when I was younger but it’s not surprising that Sam isn’t as gung ho about hunting down the demon that killed Mary like John and Dean are. His memories of Mary are entirely built on stories and pictures and not from anything he actually remembers himself. And like it’s totally valid for him to want to get away from the hunter lifestyle and follow a different path instead of just killing monsters and running credit card scams for the rest of his life. 

All I can think about when they break into the room John was renting is that gif of Charlie from Always Sunny with all the papers and strings on the walls. 

One of the better aspects of Supernatural, in my opinion, are the actors they get to randomly guest star on the show. And not necessarily big names (although those can be fun) but like the ones that you’ve never seen anywhere else. Because the guy who plays Joseph Welch is fantastic in his one scene on screen. There’s so much emotion there as he’s talking about a clearly sensitive subject and being able to show the grief and also some of the guilt over being unfaithful. It’s a fantastic scene so like major shoutout to Steve Railsback for being awesome.

The whole showdown with Constance’s ghost is kind of like mediocre compared to future fights. Like it’s a pretty quick scene and the effects once they actually get her to the house to face her creepy children are kind of the worst. Like they used their whole special effects budget doing that flickering thing in her first scene and had to settle for this instead. Also like yes they stopped her and she won’t be able to kidnap and kill skeezy men in the future but like I feel kind of bad for Amy and Troy’s family because they’re just left with zero closure whatsoever. Like I never thought about it but there are a lot of people over the years where it’s like yes we stopped the monster but those families never actually know what happened to their loved ones. 

Okay, I get that it’s supposed to be a serious, intense scene, and the first time I saw it - yes it was shocking and heartbreaking and terrifying but the effects for Jess’s appearance on the ceiling are just bad. She doesn’t look like a person, she looks like a mannequin. And I’m still annoyed that they brought her in and showed how much her and Sam loved and cared for each other only to kill her horribly at the end of the episode. It’s just frustrating. And honestly this should’ve warned all of us that pretty much no female character is safe on this show. None of them. 

The “we’ve got work to do” at the end is still hella iconic. Like there’s a couple of lines that still give me that little excitement I got when I first watched it and that’s one of them. I love it. 

BODY COUNT: 3 humans (Mary Winchester, Troy Squire, Jessica Moore), 1 ghost (Constance Welch - do her kids count too? They didn’t really show up until was time for Constance to like melt into the floor all creepy like)

RATING: 7/10 - the effects are kind of garbage and there’s some stuff that hasn’t aged well but I still think this is one of the better pilots I’ve seen as far as getting you hooked into the story and characters.