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.spn 5.04; or, this is just what I needed after today
DAY OF INSANITY. It was not in the proper spirit of rumspringa. Fortunately there was Bones, and SPN at the end of it.
THE VOICE SAYS I'M ALMOST OUT OF MINUTES.
That will never not be awesome, I'm sorry.
I'm not sure how to write this episode up, because parts of me are all FLAILY SQUEE FLAILY SQUEE!!!!!! and other parts are quietly happy, and still other parts are kind of sad. So it's kind of hard to get a read on all of this. So, I guess I'll take it in order:
My one serious reservation with this episode was that it was pretty easy to call why Dean was transported to the future in the first place: because Zach wants to teach him a lesson, and of course the lesson doesn't go as planned: that the lesson Dean ends up taking away from the whole excursion is that he needs Sam, and Sam needs him. But I will say, though, that Dean struggling with what Zachariah was offering--the chance to end it before Lucifer can take Sam as a vessel--... I liked that a lot. God, Jensen Ackles does silent torment so very well, and I admit I thought for a moment he would try to make a deal, say, give him a year or six months to kill the devil on his own, and then if that doesn't work, Michael can have him.
And we got what I knew we were going to get out of this episode:boys back together again. That is the quietly happy part of me speaking. I knew we weren't going to have an entire season with the two of them split up (and if you thought that... WHY?), but this was a great way to get them back in the Impala together.
Meanwhile, the FLAILY SQUEE FLAILY SQUEE segment of my personality would like to register its approval of the following: the voice says I'm almost out of minutes, the utterly hilarious lonesome bird sound as poor Cas stands there on the side of the road (AND STANDS THERE FOR FOUR HOURS OH CAS PLEASE GET A HOBBY LIKE WATCHING DEAN SLEEP ♥♥♥), PINK SATINY UNDERWEAR, scruffy bendy future!Cas* and his minions, and sneaky badass Cas snaking Dean right out from underneath Zachariah's oily thumb, and also ALSO:
We had an appointment.
Don't ever change.
AND CAS'S FOND SMILE, LIKE HE WON'T. I just loved that, Dean realizing he likes Cas with all his stick-up-his-ass attitude, hell's-angel-on-a-moped weirdness, and needs that around.
The asterisk is for the kind of sad part of me... Which was what happens in five years. There's an element of horror, because you do not joke about President Palin (YOU JUST DON'T, OKAY?). Dean who is so busted up he can't recognize himself, who's been pushed to that place where he'd always sworn he'd never go: sacrificing friends. Cas who stayed and lost everything, including Dean--hey, I like your past self, god, my heart kind of broke, hearing that, that they're still together but Cas has gone so far from what he had been as well--and who hasn't adjusted to being human at all.
Lucifer... I've decided to feel bad for him and want to smack him at the same time. You don't take out your daddy complex on other people, jerk.
And lastly: Chuck with the toilet paper ♥
Oh, and two Deans in a room? That was hot.
With the pink underwear.
And the touching at the end. And the boys being together.
Yes to all of it.
Further ruminations:
Future!Cas explaining how he lost his mojo is interesting in light of what he says to Bobby in 5.02, that the angel needs to have some kind of connection to Heaven in order to have full access to their powers. Once that's cut off, they sort of... dwindle. Oh, Cas :( That would make, come to think of it, a tremendously sad fic, day by day Cas realizing what's happening to him. He still (god this also makes me happy-sad) knows Dean, knows he's not Dean-of-his-time just by looking at him. (Oh and yeah, Cas being the first person Dean seeks out! LOVE.) I think I'm going to go be wibbly and conflicted and sad now.
Also, that future can't happen. I can appreciate it conceptually, because hey, it's canon apocafic, but dammit... I don't want canon to turn out that way for the boys, for Sam to be that despairing he says yes to Lucifer, for Cas to be lost, and for Dean to be so broken and trying to keep people together. HEART CANNOT HANDLE IT.
Okay, possibly all the implications are depressing me too much. I'm going to have to think about SamnDean being SamnDean again, and next week, which looks bizarre. And Cas, and his mysterious cell phone voice, which is love.
THE VOICE SAYS I'M ALMOST OUT OF MINUTES.
That will never not be awesome, I'm sorry.
I'm not sure how to write this episode up, because parts of me are all FLAILY SQUEE FLAILY SQUEE!!!!!! and other parts are quietly happy, and still other parts are kind of sad. So it's kind of hard to get a read on all of this. So, I guess I'll take it in order:
My one serious reservation with this episode was that it was pretty easy to call why Dean was transported to the future in the first place: because Zach wants to teach him a lesson, and of course the lesson doesn't go as planned: that the lesson Dean ends up taking away from the whole excursion is that he needs Sam, and Sam needs him. But I will say, though, that Dean struggling with what Zachariah was offering--the chance to end it before Lucifer can take Sam as a vessel--... I liked that a lot. God, Jensen Ackles does silent torment so very well, and I admit I thought for a moment he would try to make a deal, say, give him a year or six months to kill the devil on his own, and then if that doesn't work, Michael can have him.
And we got what I knew we were going to get out of this episode:boys back together again. That is the quietly happy part of me speaking. I knew we weren't going to have an entire season with the two of them split up (and if you thought that... WHY?), but this was a great way to get them back in the Impala together.
Meanwhile, the FLAILY SQUEE FLAILY SQUEE segment of my personality would like to register its approval of the following: the voice says I'm almost out of minutes, the utterly hilarious lonesome bird sound as poor Cas stands there on the side of the road (AND STANDS THERE FOR FOUR HOURS OH CAS PLEASE GET A HOBBY LIKE WATCHING DEAN SLEEP ♥♥♥), PINK SATINY UNDERWEAR, scruffy bendy future!Cas* and his minions, and sneaky badass Cas snaking Dean right out from underneath Zachariah's oily thumb, and also ALSO:
We had an appointment.
Don't ever change.
AND CAS'S FOND SMILE, LIKE HE WON'T. I just loved that, Dean realizing he likes Cas with all his stick-up-his-ass attitude, hell's-angel-on-a-moped weirdness, and needs that around.
The asterisk is for the kind of sad part of me... Which was what happens in five years. There's an element of horror, because you do not joke about President Palin (YOU JUST DON'T, OKAY?). Dean who is so busted up he can't recognize himself, who's been pushed to that place where he'd always sworn he'd never go: sacrificing friends. Cas who stayed and lost everything, including Dean--hey, I like your past self, god, my heart kind of broke, hearing that, that they're still together but Cas has gone so far from what he had been as well--and who hasn't adjusted to being human at all.
Lucifer... I've decided to feel bad for him and want to smack him at the same time. You don't take out your daddy complex on other people, jerk.
And lastly: Chuck with the toilet paper ♥
Oh, and two Deans in a room? That was hot.
With the pink underwear.
And the touching at the end. And the boys being together.
Yes to all of it.
Further ruminations:
Future!Cas explaining how he lost his mojo is interesting in light of what he says to Bobby in 5.02, that the angel needs to have some kind of connection to Heaven in order to have full access to their powers. Once that's cut off, they sort of... dwindle. Oh, Cas :( That would make, come to think of it, a tremendously sad fic, day by day Cas realizing what's happening to him. He still (god this also makes me happy-sad) knows Dean, knows he's not Dean-of-his-time just by looking at him. (Oh and yeah, Cas being the first person Dean seeks out! LOVE.) I think I'm going to go be wibbly and conflicted and sad now.
Also, that future can't happen. I can appreciate it conceptually, because hey, it's canon apocafic, but dammit... I don't want canon to turn out that way for the boys, for Sam to be that despairing he says yes to Lucifer, for Cas to be lost, and for Dean to be so broken and trying to keep people together. HEART CANNOT HANDLE IT.
Okay, possibly all the implications are depressing me too much. I'm going to have to think about SamnDean being SamnDean again, and next week, which looks bizarre. And Cas, and his mysterious cell phone voice, which is love.
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