Wish We'd Seen More Of This Sort Of Practical Hiccup In Their Adventures Over The Years. There's Very

Wish we'd seen more of this sort of practical hiccup in their adventures over the years. There's very little that either of the brothers can't or won't gamely attempt in the name of getting the monster, and they're both competent at their work, but every Hero needs their kryptonite. Dean perpetually crossing and recrossing a vast continent by road because he's not comfortable on a plane was a great gag.

Okay. So we're getting on the plane, we need to find that demon and exorcise it. I'll get the tickets. You get whatever you can out of the trunk. Whatever that will make it through the security. Meet me back here in five minutes.

I... I can't with this episode. Even if I get past the extreme Cas 'n' Sam whump, I still can't.

I'm not sure what I expected to see the next time we saw Cas after breaking free from Naomi's mind control, after that devastating scene with Dean in the crypt, after touching the actual Word of God and getting all glowy.

Cas looking exhausted and sickly but retaining enough good grace to chat pleasantly with the waitress while drinking endless cups of coffee, politely ordering food he doesn't need to eat, hiding in plain sight in a neverending series of cookie-cutter fast-food restaurants he chose to confuse the birdsyeye gaze of Heaven was not it.

Naomi slaughtering a restaurant full of humans to make him stop running was not it.

Cas saying "Bite me" to Naomi without messing up the delivery was not it.

Cas sticking that huge lump of rock inside his own body to conceal and protect it (then getting it ripped out again) was not it.

Cas hardcore digging an angel-killing bullet out of his gut with his fingertips while being interrogated, then manually shoving it in his brother angel's eye was not it.

Cas ending up asking Dean and Sam to help him because he was so badly injured by the end was not it.

I watched this about a month ago now and I still can't even thoughts. Nope. And don't even get me started on hermit!Metatron and his stories and the Sam hurt/comfort fever crazies, or Crowley being singlehandedly smarter than the combined forces of Heaven.

"Uh, been on the road a long time, huh?" ↳ 8.21 - THE GREAT ESCAPIST

This whole episode deserves essays written about it, books written about it, both as a pivotal moment in Supernatural's evolution and as an episode of network television at its finest, but my brain stopped working because Christopher Heyerdahl.

4 / ∞ — oh, buddy, it’s only monday

Hi, I'm Nym

She/her. Old-skool fangirl. Fanfiction writer on AO3.

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About Nym

Lifelong fannish for sci/fantasy media, mainly TV. Fanfiction is my main passion, so I'm into character analysis and meta. My fanfiction tends to be introspective, angsty, and smutty/'shippy in a character-rich sort of way.

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Back on Tumblr after a long break, because I finally got my act together and watched Supernatural, so I can't get spoilered for it any more!

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I'm currently giddy/blogging about Doctor Who, the Good Omens TV adaptation, Supernatural, which I just watched for the first time, the Marvel MCU, and Once Upon a Time. I never stop loving my older fandoms, though.

Earlier fandoms: Robin of Sherwood, Beauty and the Beast (TV series), Blake's 7, Quantum Leap, Back to the Future, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Highlander: The Series, VR.5, Petshop of Horrors, The Tomorrow People, Star Wars, Star Trek(s), Stargate(s), more Doctor Who.

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