SPN - 7.11

[feliciakw]

Dean breaks my heart.

Jensen has a beautiful smile, and Dean breaks my heart.

Also, I can totally understand the actress playing the teen having such a huge crush on Jensen (she's tweeted about working with him). Lucky, lucky girl.

And we get a tidbit of one of Dean's hunts while Sam was in school! \o/ Fic, please. (Also, I assume that this means that Dean has killed at least one, if not two, vetala.)

Geo noted with interest that the ep was directed by the director of Somewhere in Time. And Jaws 2. And a ton of TV dating back to the '70s.

I'm sure there will be more to write about when I come to terms/process the heartbreakage.

Because Dean breaks my heart.

Though next week's fedora might help.

Comments

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't know anything about Chronos showing up in the next ep (spoiler-allergic am I). Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember glimpsing something about him showing up sometime this season, but that pretty much nixes my Cas theory of time travel.

I hope it's not Bobby, though. Besides that, Bobby finished his unfinished business, and no doubt the boys cremated him within those first couple of weeks.

But you know what else feeds into the wibbly-wobbly time? Dean saying that Sam was at Stanford a couple years ago. Now, I thought it was just a figure of speech. And Dean's personal/mental timeline is forty years longer than his physical timeline. But there's something going on, methinks.

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

I'm well known for being COMPLETELY wrong in my guesses about things - but I'm thinking we'll see Misha come back as Completely!Crazy!BigBossLeviathan, wearing Jimmy's meatsuit - and all of his clothing except the coat. It popped into my head this morning that he could have faked his "death" in the reservoir, and floated the coat back to shore to throw the boys off the track.

Also could be, we'll see the final wisps of Cas some back somewhere around the season finale to battle the Levis. I'm thinking ghost!Bobby could show up then, too. At least, that's what I'm hoping. In spite of all the shrieking and chest-beating around the fandom, if Show restored Castiel (in ANY way other than sending him off to Heaven, never to be seen again), I'd start throwing things at the TV. The show's about SAM AND DEAN. If John doesn't get to come back (although I know that's largely due to personal/political issues), then Castiel doesn't either, unless it's a small bit to accomplish something specific (a la AHBL II).

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

I am very much in agreement that Misha will probably return as the Big Bad, and that Dick Roman is a lieutenant. I think the weird time-y stuff could be Cas trying to make contact, but I'm not sure I expect him to actually show up in person.

I'd like to see Bobby return not as a ghost per se, but in Dean's dreams. Messages through dreams and psychics is what I'm thinking.

I'm not particularly gung-ho on Cas returning; I would like him to get back to Heaven, or as you say to accomplish something specific.

Right now, I'm just kind of holding on for the ride, with no uber-strong opinions about much of anything except to follow the boys' story. You know?

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

Bobby and Ellen could team up to help the boys from The Other Side of the Veil! We already know she's still hanging around...

I watched "Back to the Future II" yesterday, and it struck me how Dean basically dumped Cas in the motel room for 5 days (even though he was trashed and bleeding), then set off with Sam without a second thought. For Dean, it was all about saving his parents. Where's the fabled Profound Bond with Cas at that point? I imagine if I looked, I could find any number of other examples. Now, I know people latch onto what works for them, but to me, for Dean it's always been about family. Cas was a buddy who worked alongside him, a kind of Sam-substitute when he needed one, and yes, I know the word "family" has been bandied about, but if you lined up Sam and Cas and told Dean to choose, there wouldn't even be a contest.

I just watched 7.11 again, and what struck me was the odd shift in tone with the cherrypicker scene. In the rest of the episode, Dean is very capable and determined. But in that one scene, we revert to "Yellow Fever" Dean, who's all stupid and panicked for no good reason. We've seen him drive a cement truck. He's worn "costumes" any number of times. If I've got one gripe about this episode, it's the jamming-in of Dumb Dean because "OMG, funny Dean is funny!"

Really, it would have been funnier (more in-character funny) if Frank was running the controls and flinging Dean all over the place, with Dean being aware of the dangers of being around high voltage power lines.