someone come cry with me about how this mirrors Dean’s dream about John teaching him how to drive where there were no monsters and they were just a regular family and he’s actually teaching Jack and breaking the toxic mirror of John and how he raised them as hunters because I can’t stop crying
It’s like I’m you!
No, it’s not.
“the sharp knife of a short life”
yeah it’s the lyrics to if i die young SHUT UP
(analysis behind the cut)
they’re not just talking about dean. they’re talking about each other. they’re talking about sam.
you know, honestly i don’t think sam really thought that was going to happen when they took jack in. he’d be a good mentor, a good role model, maybe be like an uncle figure. he knew he would teach him and guide him as well as keep him safe, but i think he thought it’d be like when he helps out claire.
somewhere along the way, jack became not just cas’s son. he became his, too. he became a son to all of team free will.
sam talking to cas about them having lost people before…. he wasn’t just talking about dean. he’s also talking about himself. “why does this hurt more than when everyone else died? why can’t i compartmentalize my emotions like the other times?” sam is trying to understand why he’s hurting this much as well.
as cas points out, losing your child suddenly is vastly different than losing a parent or a close friend. it’s unnatural. especially when that child has only been alive for such a short time.
so yeah i know some people choose to call sam jack’s uncle and i know they don’t mean anything by it (some have a reason i can empathize with), but i really think personally that “uncle” really doesn’t describe sam and jack’s relationship. it doesn’t really feel like it adequetely covers the depths of sam’s love for jack.
(on a side note, this whole episode made me think of a line from john q)
I have an entire gag reel headcanon about this episode, starting with Misha having to deliver the line “he’s taking it hard” to Jared, and that taking about 2 times before they got enough to edit together.
Then, the seeming J2M crack at the end when they all looked relieved when Jack seemed OK at first,
but on closer inspection it seriously looks like mild J2M recovery giggles between them, how much do you want to bet that was cut around after Jack fell down Jared dropped “he’s taking it hard”
Poor Misha having to deliver the line to jared about Dean taking it hard
I NEED THE BLOOPER REEL, NOW.
HEY SPN EDITORS MAYBE A CHRISTMAS PRESENT??? WEVE BEEN GOOD, WE SWEAR
i’m over here actually having mostly enjoyed 14×07 without having to mock or degrade anyone over parts i didn’t/to raise my faves up and yet meanwhile, people on my twitter tl and in tptb’s mentions are yelling at each other and yelling at tptb and i’m really really annoyed and want everyone to STOP IT
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.
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