DEAN: Don't Yo Sammy, No, Not Lucifer Rising, I Swear To GSAM: What Was The Phrase Chuck Used On Page

DEAN: Don't yo— Sammy, no, not Lucifer Rising, I swear to g— SAM: What was the phrase Chuck used on page 244 when Cas - and I quote - pinned you 'to the wall like a frozen butterfly in the face of the unflinching hurricane, staring steadily into Dean's eyes past the warm pressure of Castiel's large, smothering hand'...? DEAN: I'm gonna kill you. SAM: With his 'piercing blue gaze'. Oh, oh, here it is! DEAN: Don't you da— SAM: 'Dean's. Dangerously. Incipient. B-O-N-E-R' !!! DEAN: Grr! SAM: ARGH!

[Brief but intense brotherly scuffle over the hood of the Impala and into the ditch, which ends with the increasingly rare self-publish paperback of Supernatural: Lucifer Rising torn in half and one brother secretly nursing his left testicle for three days.]

sam goes back to his bitchy roots and instead of continuing an argument with dean he just breaks out the canon supernatural books and reads dean's internal monologue about cas aloud to them both

“It’s a shame that I’ve missed… so much. I wish I could’ve raised you… and taught you, father to son.”

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Why the SPN mixtape scene from 12x19 is screenwriting gold, and should be taught to the next generations of screenwriters everywhere - analysis

20 seconds. Two lines of dialogue, three gestures, a couple more camera angles. Episode 19, season 12 of a genre TV show “Supernatural”. A single strike of screenwriting and cinematic genius. The mixtape scene.

Robert Berens and Meredith Glynn, I bow before you.

This scene should be used as an example for future screenwriters how you can put maximum of meaning into minimal time and dialogue. Should be analyzed and taught at universities everywhere, how to achieve the most using the least. How to write for TV, where you only have less than an hour to built something spectacular.

WOW.

Let’s just peel off all the layers of these 20 seconds of footage and these 13 words. 13 WORDS.

(Cas knocks, Dean doesn’t say anything. Cas opens the door, apologizes for disturbing Dean in his room, and then takes a cassette tape out of his left inside coat pocket, and puts it on the desk, while tapping the label on it that says “Deans (sic!) top 13 Zepp traxx”.)

Cas: Um, I just wanted to return this.

Dean: It’s a gift. You keep those.

13 tracks. 13 words. The future. So number thirteen is important for the future. I mean, are you trying to tell us something here, writers?

(Dean takes the tape, oustreches his arm, and gives it back to Cas. We see Cas’ hand grabbing the tape, and taking it back.)

That tiny scene is ENORMOUS from the perspective of the narrative and the characterization. Let’s see what we can get out of it. (Prepare yourself: it’s gonna be long. Damn, how much meta can you write based on 20 seconds of television and two lines of dialogue?) (Hint: A lot.)

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