Supernatural

[annundriel]

Supernatural - "Free to Be You and Me"

- Nice opening montage with Sam and Dean.

- Fun with pop culture: "Eat it, Twilight!" Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel (twice). Thelma and Louise (and Castiel's poor confused face).

- Personal space issues!

- "Because you're the only one who will help me." Aw, CASTIEL.

I really liked this scene between Dean and Castiel. And, y'know, a small part of that is because I feel a tiny bit vindicated about the fic I posted yesterday. I really wanted to explore Castiel's character there. Since I started writing it before "Good God, Y'all" aired and then wanted to incorporate that episode's events, part of that exploration turned into "How do I go from Castiel angry with Dean about losing everything to Castiel and Dean in this more intimate relationship?"

Well, what does Castiel have now? He has his believe that God is alive and out there and he has Dean. Of course he's going to turn to Dean. And of course Dean's going to help him.

I was just...happy to see it acknowledged so clearly on the show.

- Driving there instead of...whatever it is angels do to people. Teleporting? And then Dean fixing Castiel's tie and collar. D'aww. Castiel being all...not quite right. When the promo pictures came out, I showed them to Mom and asked her, "So does this mean they'll play Good Cop/Off-Putting Cop?" And they totally did.

Only, y'know, not on purpose.

- Castiel rides with Dean. When he could just, poof!, meet him wherever. Nice.

- I like how Dean keeps asking Castiel questions about how things will turn out, like he's looking for maybe something not filled with Doom, and Castiel just keeps giving him honest answers chocked full of it. Like Dean being worse off than Raphael's vessel if Michael possesses him.

Is that only archangel possession? Because Jimmy seemed fine.

- Poor Sam. The guy just cannot get a break. Totally called Jess being Lucifer. After all, he appeared to Nick in the form of Nick's dead wife.

- DEAN: Where have you been?
CASTIEL: Jerusalem.
DEAN: Oh, how was it?
CASTIEL: Arid.

I laughed.

- Maybe Castiel is just trying to one-up Dean with the negativity. Like the whole, "like trapping a hurricane with a butterfly net" thing and Castiel just going for, "No, it's harder."

- Castiel telling Dean he has a chance of survival, Dean realizing Castiel is a dead man and asking about his plans. "I thought I'd sit here quietly."

- And THEN. WELL. Women. There was NECK RUBBING. And very uncomfortable Cas. And Dean determined to get him laid because, as Dean says, "There are two things that I know for certain. One, Bert and Ernie are gay. Two, you are not gonna die a virgin. Not on my watch."

And then of course we, conveniently, do not actually see the rest of the night.

- CASTIEL: This is a den of iniquity.
DEAN: ...iniquity is one of the perks.

- The part where the hooker screamed? That would be the part where I covered my face and went, "Oh, please don't let this be horrible and embarrassing!"

- "It's been a long time since I laughed that hard." Aw, DEAN. You think you're hiding your pain, but it's slipping out the edges.

What I really liked about this scene, was Castiel's face in the alley. Especially the way he looks at Dean when he claps Castiel on the shoulder and then they both move around the car. There is fondness and happiness there, maybe some amusement. He likes making Dean laugh.

And for me that's totally tied in with why we don't see the rest of the night. (That and the fact that it's on the CW and not, y'know, FX.)

- I was IMing with sdrohc_ratiug while watching and when it got to Castiel calling Raphael to them (and swearing!) all I had was: Dean is SO TURNED ON RIGHT NOW.

- "We're tired. We just want it to be over. We want...paradise."

- CASTIEL: ...but today you're my little bitch...
DEAN: What he said.

Swearing! Picking it up from Dean, I'm sure. Makes me feel better about certain writing choices I've made recently.

- "I'm really good...especially without my brother." Really, Dean? Really? Sure you are.

- "I've had more fun in the last 24 hours with you...and you're not that much fun." Aw. Dean, just admit that Castiel amuses the pants off of you.

I, uh, actually didn't mean any funny business with that. But funny business works, too. ;)

- SAM: There is reason for hope.
JESS/LUCIFER: No Sam, there isn't.

- So what, we are going to get a knock-down-drag-out fight between Sam/Dean Lucifer/Michael by the end of the season?

- I really feel for Sam and I'm sorry I don't have more to say about him. Because I love him, I do, and he's trying. But it's like everything is against him and he just keeps getting knocked down.


I don't know if I should continue with the fic I already have started, or start something new. Probably both.