The level of restraint and diplomacy Dean displayed throughout the episode was truly remarkable. Dean is the most experienced hunter on the planet and more than capable of judging for himself if someone is ready to hunt or not, yet he carefully avoided anything that might seem like he was undermining Sam’s authority.
co-parenting done right oh my god
like it didn’t hit me until now that he was making sure that he didn’t just undermine sam’s authority as 1/3 of the dads in their little family and not just as a leader
oh my god i love him
FURTHER THOUGHTS THAT HIT ME
and it didn’t hit me that he wasn’t just calling sam because sam somehow ended up being the bunker hunters’ leader. it was also because that’s what you do when you parent a kid with someone. and if there’s one thing dean knows that he swears he sucks at, it’s parenting.
ALSO sam isn’t just asserting his authority all over the place. they talk about it like EQUALS. AS IVE BEEN WANTING FOR THEM ALL ALONG.
and even when sam isn’t there, he still makes sure that dean has family, has someone familiar and close to him to look after him.
The level of restraint and diplomacy Dean displayed throughout the episode was truly remarkable. Dean is the most experienced hunter on the planet and more than capable of judging for himself if someone is ready to hunt or not, yet he carefully avoided anything that might seem like he was undermining Sam’s authority.
co-parenting done right oh my god
like it didn’t hit me until now that he was making sure that he didn’t just undermine sam’s authority as 1/3 of the dads in their little family and not just as a leader
Some have already seen my red color study meta for 14.06, and it was definitely the most jarring of our themes due to the natural “stop” effect and hazard warning that comes with red to the human brain, much less how saturated it was. It started as trims, highlights, and small props before evolving into wardrobe and then overbearing lighting on one of our story effects.
Again, I emphasize. I very, very rarely get into color metas because I honestly feel they are vastly abused and set people up for misreadings and disappointments, finding addiction in finding the specific wall color or coffee mug of their choice to evoke a sentiment from a series of skewed fandom-saturated talking points and in the end, everybody bickers.
However, Richard Speight Jr executed phenomenal awareness of human psychology in what he was addressing in this episode. Red is not the only color he used to the point over over-saturation. The other cardinal colors, yellow and blue, were in thick application all around, from props, wardrobe, to lighting just the same, sometimes going so far as to directly lens flare for a color only to offset it with another impacting light later on.
I’m not calling on any-old fandom pillar of meta on this. I’m talking the pure psychology by which Richard Speight Jr decided to communicate and impact the general audience. No specific character assignments, none of that. Just pure color psychology for cinematography.
I SHOULD BE SLEEPING BUT I HAD A THOUGHT AND NOW IT WONT LEAVE
so i was shutting down some negativity with a positive qt about this summary:
and i was being very “hey these bonds need a shot at forming too” (because they do and sam&cas deserve some bro time that isn’t centered around OMG WE NEED TO SAVE DEAN) when it dawned on me:
mary was paired up with sam when they split up and they talked about bobby and how she finds it hard to get him to open up cause walls
and what was she wearing?
and who ELSE do we know wears a tan coat, hmm?
me when i connected the dots
ME AN HOUR LATER AFTER IT PROCESSED:
YALL
like imagine
cas and sam are in the car driving home. sam checks in with cas, just seeing how he’s doing emotionally cause that’s sam for ya. cas tries to use the winchester f word but half way through the syllable opens up about how he wishes dean would just talk to him about his trauma and let down his walls
and sam tells him the same thing he told his mother: that if he cares about him, and he knows cas does, he’d try to get past that wall.
i’m a freakin endgame-positive shipper and i’m gobsmacked at how freaking obvious they’re being
God I don’t like speculating too positively just in case cos I get accused of winding up the fandom but there’s a real opportunity there. I mean it just makes sense at this point. I don’t even hope for or expect it all but just Cas lamenting Dean’s walls would be epic.
It’s Bucklemming so either it’ll not happen at all or it’ll be a literal spade to the face… let’s see! Let’s not forget too that season 13 started off with a similar massive bang (and season 12 was quite strong too) then petered off massively so who knows, it could also just fizzle out. Let’s see and fingers crossed it doesn’t tho 😉
Also, @tinkdw, I don’t know how this relates but I’m pretty sure that at SDCC Eugenie said she wrote lines for Cas for this episode that she really liked?? Now, this is Eugenie so this could mean everything and nothing, and I still don’t trust her in any way, but they did step up their game for 14×02 and I’m hoping that by that she means good character development lines (though I find it hard to believe Dabb would give some kind of reveal, as subtle as it might be, to Bucklemming, unless he is guiding them somehow).
Still, the Cas stuff in 14×02 was SO GOOD I can’t help but be excited about Sam and Cas finally partnering up on a case!
yeah @tinkdw i don’t want to get my hopes up either it’s just that one purposeful wardrobe choice and pairing… it’s still just so blatant, no matter what cas and sam end up discussing, that my brain just can’t let that go
i can trust what eugenie says as far as i can throw her, but i believe that it was @intelligentshipper that mentioned she writes some good cas stuff so we’ll see!
also the fact that they’re using the buddy system is the cutest.
(and this is honestly just teeny giggle worthy i thought of because when using the buddy system, dean and cas aren’t paired up LOOOL)
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