spn - 513 - the song remains the same

[retro_eidas]

Oh damn I needed that.

• Warrant's "Cherry Pie". Oh God. Dean-Sam-Cas aren't the only ones time traveling. That sent me right back to junior high homecoming with the Jersey high aquanet hair and fashionably ripped Skid Row t-shirts. *facepalm* Which is scary since that makes me think my junior high experience = Dean's subconscious, though not as many strippers, or surprise!angels, in junior high as I recall.
  
  
• Though we know Dean's only got one angel cherry pie in his life and it sure as hell ain't Anna.
  
  
• I have to admit, I did sort of LOL at the extent of Dean's reaction to the supposed big angsty discovery of Castiel betraying Anna was basically, "What? Really?" Then a few minutes later, after Cas likely explained things (which they didn't bother to show us, cuz, you know, not all that important. We already know what happened and it was clear Cas really didn't have much choice), he's right back on Cas' side. We didn't even see him waver in his loyalty to Cas. I was LOLing as that group of Cas-haters out there were certain that would be one of those things Dean would discover about Cas that would make him hate Cas forever. Maybe Dean might react differently to discovering it was Cas who let Sam out of the panic room, but there goes one not-so-ticking time bomb of Dean/Cas friendship implosion.
  
  
• Cas called Sam his friend. Awww Tho if Sammy and Cas are at the friend-level, that obviously makes Dean/Cas married, right?
  
  
• Tiny font only partially joking... honeymoon suite, Dean? Really? Dean so copped a feel before he dropped Cas off.
  
  
• So I was unsurprisingly totally wrong about Anna getting dragged to Hell. But she did burn. I figured she wasn't going to skip out on the holy fire hammer this time, not after threatening the mater and pater familias of Show.
  
  
• Oh yeah, the Winchester family is epic. I especially loved the juxtaposition of fierce warrior (human) Mary vs. (angel) Anna. Mary while she was pregnant with Dean no less (as if he couldn't get more de facto heroine of the story). Positive feminine vs. Negative feminine. Which leaves me somewhat chagrined that Michael took out Anna in the end and not Mary, but my guess he will have to bow to Mary's sons before the end. I guess she will get the last laugh.
  
  
• I have to concur, Matt Cohen was pretty hot as Michael. I think an improvement on the acting too since ITB, tho he didn't get to do much in that, which I now realize was a damn shame.
  
  
• This ep also stuck it's thumb in the Winchester family angst pie and pulled out the Christmas plum. Dean-Mary and Sam-John? Gorgeous and heartbreaking and perfect. Why isn't every episode like this?
  
  
• Also o.O at the people who were annoyed Dean forgot about Cas in the whole Michael convo and ensuing DeLorean fingers. Y'all, if Dean told Michael about Cas, he'd have smote him like he did Anna. Michael's clearly company man through and through, he'd have totally nuked a rogue angel if he discovered one was around.
  
  
• Ok, so there wasn't a lot of Cas in this one and that was sad-making, but what was there I loved since it was all Team Free Will being all Superfriendsy.
  

Next week: Dionysian orgy gone terribly wrong.... or perhaps terribly right, depending on one's POV. I'm certain I was seeing things (I don't think nekkid sexin man was quite tan enough), but does Sammy get nekkid next week (and more rough Sam sexin)?

Also, it was much clearer on the tv box, but this cap...

...does things to me. Dean with the bottle to his mouth and Cas looking right at him all broody bedroom eyes in the background like he's about to pounce.

Comments

[elvisglasses5.livejournal.com]

if Dean told Michael about Cas, he'd have smote him like he did Anna. Michael's clearly company man through and through, he'd have totally nuked a rogue angel if he discovered one was around.

MTE. I desperately wanted Michael to turn out to be the lone non-dick in heaven -- since I'm hoping Cas will ultimately be rewarded for his pro-Winchester actions -- but Dean could never have taken that risk for Cas to be smitten/smoten/smote while passed out from all the smexing in the honeymoon suite.

This ep pretty much rocked. And love the cap for next week! Hope we get to see Cas tap that ass bottle too...

[eido.livejournal.com]

I desperately wanted Michael to turn out to be the lone non-dick in heaven

I'm still hanging on to a shred of hope here because he didn't seem like total dick, just way, WAY too blindly devout to The Plan. Tho if Daddy's greater truth or whatnot revealed itself (humans are indeed superior due to free will), I'd hope Michael would make a turnaround and join Team Free Will and unlearn what he has learned. *grasps at those straws*

Tho very awesome the angel general with the whole hardline approach to The Plan took young daddy!Winchester's form. He who latter years took hardline approach to The Plan of killing Azazel/avenging Mary. It was hard, but Dean did learn to tell his daddy to frak off eventually, with respect.

since I'm hoping Cas will ultimately be rewarded for his pro-Winchester actions

I know they're miserable, thankless heroes in a crapsack world, but I've got to believe this. Cas has given up so much for them and they're like his only friends real family ever. He's got to get some boon out of this whole debacle.

while passed out from all the smexing in the honeymoon suite.

We won't even have to ask for the fic, will we?

Hope we get to see Cas tap that ass bottle too...

Speaking of more fic we won't even have to ask for.