4x02: Are You There, God. It's Me, Dean Winchester

[elleflies]

I tried to IM regala_electra this morning to get date details and she refused to talk to me until I'd watched SPN. I think she's just trying to find ways to keep me from letting SPN eps pile up till I end up over at her house watching 10 episodes (that I have not seen before) at a go.

At this point, I'm sure all the DW people on my flist are rolling their eyes. I need something to keep me entertained until Christmas! And this show has pretties!

I decided to mix up my commentary a bit this time. this time, it's illustrated! That's right, I went through and screencaped that sucker!

So without any further ado:



SPN time! YAY!

• This is a very pressing question that needs answering: does it count as a fanvid if the show is making it? Because so far, we are two for two on the explanatory fanvids.
  
  Okay, can we get on with the show now? Good Gravy.
  
  NOW. finally.
  
  
• Snoring. Ugh. I would never be able to sleep through that sound. I'd have to murder somebody. Maybe the spirits will murder her because they couldn't stand the snoring? And I know it's the Three Stooges. I just... HATE that sound.
  
  
• I like this chick. Of course, she's a goner going by what happened to the last chick I liked. Yup, goner. At least the last chick can still claim to be alive, even though she's currently sans eyeballs.
  
  
• Ah, so Dean did tell Sam! Look Sam, Dean's being HONEST. Isn't that an amazing concept! I'm all agog!
  
  And Dean's poor little atheist heart can't handle it. *squishes* It's okay, we love you anyways.
  
  
• And Bobby, you are awesome. He so knows how to handle them. I love the whole: "Air lift your ass out of the hot box" And just in case we didn't get it the first time. Here's a handy illustration:
  
  
• Wow, Sam, your enthusiasm makes me want to smack you.
  
  
• "Why me" OH DEAN. "If there is a God out there, why does he care about me?!" Because he needs you for when Sam goes EVIL. *roots for Evil Sam*
  
  OH DEAN. God wants you to strap on your party hat. OH DEAN.
  
  Dean really can't see his own value. Dean put so much into Sam and so much into being what his father wanted, doing what his father wanted that he can no longer see beyond that. He values himself in terms of other people. He needs to be there for Sam, he needed to be there for his dad. He needs to help other people, save them. And now God singled him out for some purpose and Dean can't see why he is special enough for someone else to save him.
  
  
• OH BOBBY.
  
  
• And then there was pie!
  
  
• Oh, here comes that not being honest thing we were talking about, Sam you big fat liar. And look at the demon spazz out. HA!
  
  Oh look, Ruby. Lurking about and stalking Sam. No wonder he hangs out with her, she's ALWAYS there. I do love that Castiel has her freaked. Even the demons don't know much. That's awesome.
  
  For every episode that Ruby is in, I think there should be more Castiel. If I have to sit through her acting, I want to sit through the awesomeness that is Misha.
  
  I can haz Misha now?
  
  
  
  I was bringing this point up to regala_electra the other day: so far in Supernatural canon we know that demons are people who have gone to hell and have become so twisted and corrupt that they are human no longer. They aren't fallen angels (although there could be demons that were fallen angels but so far the canon hasn't given any evidence otherwise). I want to know if Angels are the demonic equivalent of the bogey man and just how aware Demons are of them. Were they an actual threat or just scary stories demons share around the campfires of hell?
  
  How REAL are Angels to demons.
  
  
• Sam forgot the pie. OF COURSE he did, because he's a dishonest thing that lies like a liar.
  
  
• Sam really needs to go evil just so there will be no more emo. I'm tired of the furrowed brow of concern.
  
  See, furrowed brow plus emo. No wonder the demons want Sam to be evil. At this point, I WANT Sam to be evil.
  
  
• How big a secret was Dean's death? The hunter community seems like a small one and I'm sure news travels fast. A hunter being taken out because of a deal and the fact that so many people knew about the deal... wouldn't they all know pretty damn quick? Especially with Sam out there on his own for so long without his brother? Wouldn't Dean coming back from the grave raise some eyebrows especially with Dean making phone calls? I mean, granted, the people are DEAD. But still! How did they explain this without every hunter in the region making an attempt to track him down and send him back to hell?
  
  
• Uh oh, They're coming for Sam. Hendrickson!!!!! I Miss You! You were so awesome there at the end!
  
  
• Kill him Hendrickson! Be awesome! make this the Dean and Bobby show! Damn, Dean, why'd you have to do that for?
  
  I... may have some issues.
  
  
• I'm so glad they have more of Bobby in this show. More Bobby is NEVER a bad thing. (More Castiel now puh-lease?)
  
  
• To butt in on the whole Dean and Sam being responsible for Hendrickson's death... Technically Hendrickson put himself in that position by being so one minded about chasing Sam and Dean down. It comes down to certain points of view: were they responsible? On the one hand yes, on the other no.
  
  
• Bobby had better still be alive! He probably is, because Bobby is awesome.
  
  Bobby, you got shanghaied by two little girls. Your awesome is looking a bit tarnished.
  
  
• Of course Dean's ghost would be a hot chick. Oh my god, MEG!!!
  
  I like that he's being confronted by the dead person the demon possessed. Lately they've been very gung-ho about killing the body as well as the demon without really seeming to care that saving people might involve trying to save the person the demon is inhabiting. Which is why the knife and the colt are things I'm really not too fond of as a solution to the problem. And this could turn into a big long thing about how Sam's using his powers for good, which he is: Now. But I don't think that will turn out to be a very good solution in the end either. Thank you SPN writers for acknowledging this stuff!
  
  They really didn't think. Rock on Meg. Oh bullshit, you knew there was someone else in there Dean. Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit. I call bullshit on you.
  
  Gotta give Meg credit though, she picked the one person who would honestly agree with everything she is saying and take it to heart. Dean is so very good at guilt and blaming himself.
  
  
• No little creepy children! Don't kill Bobby!
  
  Bobby, you can have your awesome back now.
  
  
• Bobby is so scarily prepared for everything. It's like a bomb shelter against demons. So when Armageddon comes, it will be the demons, the cockroaches and Bobby.
  
  And geez, Bobby's weekends off sound like TONS of fun. Rock on Bobby! (oh, hey. Look at that, Dean agrees with me. I knew there was a reason why I liked Dean!)
  
  
• Dean has very very good God related questions that seem to be common for atheists. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why doesn't God protect us? Why isn't God more involved? Where the hell is God? Who is this God Person anyways? I was having another conversation with regala_electra (we convoed the hell out of 4x01) about how it's hard to do God's will when God is seeing the BIG picture and you're a participant in only a bit of it, how things can look vastly unjust and unfair when you're in the midst of what you're working towards. Even when you don't know what that is because you're just a foot soldier and not a General. Dean doesn't know why he was dragged out of hell, he doesn't know what God wants, all he knows is that he was brought back for a purpose and I'm thinking it's going to be a damn hard one.
  
  
• Revelations in the Bible is just for tourists. Bobby's version of Revelations is for locals.
  
  And holy crap, this season is going to rock! The Apocalypse. eeeeeeeeee! *flappyhands*
  
  
• Dean would consider expensive gas as apocalyptic. Can you imagine how much gas the Impala guzzles? At 5 dollars a pop I'd be crying uncle too. Granted, in Germany it's 3-4 euro per Liter. Does this mean the apocalypse reached Europe before the states. It would explain SO MUCH.
  
  
• The Star Trek Experience closed Dean, you'll have to console yourself with gambling, alcohol and hookers. Although I'm sure if you paid a hooker enough she'd be willing to do it Klingon-style...
  
  
• God Bobby, you are so wonderfully snarky.
  
  
• Vincent! I love it when my shows collide. I also love the Vancouver Casting Pool SO MUCH. (for those going "hunh?" the guy that plays Ronald plays a character called Vincent in Eureka)
  
  
• Dean, study at the feet of Bobby. For he is awesome and not only does he know things, but he acts on those things. And Dean learned his lesson. Good Boy. *pets*
  
  
• Bobby has hemlock, wormwood and opium in his kitchen. That's a hell of a lot of hallucinogenics you're keeping in that drawer Bobby! Of course, if he wants to make his own Absinthe he's all set. Moonshine Absinthe?
  
  
• Meg rocks. "What you're doing with that Demon, Ruby?" Rock on woman! Just because Ruby is helping doesn't make her a good guy, and I am extremely dubious as to why Ruby is helping. I personally think she's after the same thing as the YED but is doing it in a much more underhanded, manipulative way. Dean is so very black and white and Sam likes to live in a world with shades of grey. He can overlook the fact that Ruby has possessed who knows how many young women and is running their bodies ragged and causing who knows how much grief for their families just so he can further his own little demon killing cause. By saving people, people who are not possessed by Ruby, since she gets a pass by helping him.
  
  "How many innocent bodies has Ruby burned through for kicks? How many girls just like me? And you don't send her back to hell?"
  
  So, this girl isn't important enough to save? Simply because a demon matters more? What this demon can do for Sam is more important than a girl who's life is being frittered away by a creature that doesn't even care?
  
  
• Hendrickson and Dean. Back together again. What did you do to Dean? I mean, there was no chest ripping open action but there was hand in the chest action. So, what did he do?
  
  
• Dudes, there go your salt lines...
  
  
• I wonder if they have any hearing problems? It wouldn't be uncommon as they're around firearms so much, and those guns going off at close range in an enclosed space like that can't be good for your ears. Then again, most of my experience is with handguns and semi-auto's. I've never fired a shotgun before so I don't know how different they would be.
  
  
• BOBBY!!!!!!!!! YOU'D BETTER BE OKAY BOBBY BECAUSE YOU ARE AWESOME!
  
  
• Castiel time now?
  
  OH YAY IT IS CASTIEL TIME NOW!!!! *clappyhands*
  
  
• "Fluffy wings, halo's, you know, Michael Landon" I don't think this Angel does that stuff Dean.
  
  
• "Angels are Warriors of God. I'm a soldier." That line and how he presents himself to Dean just makes me think of the <ahref="http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael.html">Archangel Michael write up on Badass of the Week. There is no room for babies or Victoria's Secret models in this world!
  
  
• 66 Seals being broken by Lilith. I was wondering what she was up to. Granted, considering how creepy she acts, I really wasn't too keen on finding out. I was thinking for a moment that maybe Lilith was masquerading as Ruby but now I really don't think so. Lilith has bigger fish to fry, although I do think Ruby is not the ally Sam thinks she is. I think she's Lilith's flunky.
  
  
• Luscifer walks free. DUDE. Luscifer is so real. DUDE. DUDE.
  
  
• "Why do you think we're here walking among you now for the first time in 2000 years?"
  
  I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THAT. Angels SO became a scary story for demons because they took a sabbatical. God had people to do his business, it wasn't necessary for any Old Testament smiting or heavenly choirs. There were human hunters to take care of humanish demons, but Luscifer is a bit beyond mortal man so here comes God's Warriors.
  
  
• "We've arrived" Does that mean there are more of you? Yes, that is what it means!
  
  
• "There's a bigger picture here." LOOK REG, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS!! "I dragged you out of hell, I can throw you back in" Castiel is such a badass.
  
  
• Look, here's Dean being HONEST Sam. You should go look up the word "honesty" in the Dictionary.
  
  Here Sam, I'll look it up for you:
  
  Honesty: –noun, plural -ties.
  1. the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
  2. truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness.
  3. freedom from deceit or fraud.
  
  Now isn't there something you should share with your brother?
  
  Hi Rina's issues. Rearing their ugly head once again.

Comments

[veracity]

I know why Dean's been dragged out of hell, duh. It's not hard. He's supposed to kill Sam dead and make the rest of the world cheer. And I don't even watch the damn show anymore.

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they have any hearing problems? It wouldn't be uncommon as they're around firearms so much, and those guns going off at close range in an enclosed space like that can't be good for your ears.

This is something I have wanted to see on TV and in movies for years! My dad was a cop for 30 years, and is 90% deaf in his right ear from firing guns. It's really noticeable too. He really can't hear you if you're standing on his right. He has to sleep on his right side because if he sleeps on the left, he can't hear his alarm clock go off. But I guess everyone on TV has magical ears, because I've never heard any mention of hearing loss.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

I go out shooting on a regular basis. The first time I went I didn't have my ear plugs in correctly and spent half the day hearing half of what anyone said. Thankfully, it went away but I've been very good about the ear plugs ever since. I've found many soldiers have similar problems, just on a more permanent level. So many guys are coming back with craptastic hearing because of how many bangs have gone off in their general vicinity.

And then there's Sam and Dean, with their super magic ears. Although Dean experiencing some hearing loss might explain why he cranks the stereo up so high (besides the excuse of simple male testosterone)