In My Mind A Huge Part Of Sam And Dean’s Dynamic At The Beginning Of Season One Is Like.

Jensen trying (and failing) to not laugh

Jensen Ackles | VegasCon 2015 [x]

While I've revisited eps to make gifs, I haven't done an attentive rewatch in many years. So, I rewatched the pilot. The boys look so young 👶😄. There's a ghost story, or maybe there are two ghost stories. One is the obvious, the woman in white. The other is Sam being haunted by his past, with Dean like a link to an older era. He pulls back the curtain to an American Gothic horror tale, with his vintage car, and vintage cassette tapes, and vintage persona. Sam is the modern young man, about to head to the future, but just when he thought he was out...

I wouldn't say Dean pulled him back in. That gentle tug wasn't enough to do it, in fact. Dean has bravado, but is surprisingly soft-spoken and tentative in the way he watches for Sam's reactions like a hawk. Even when he pushes Sam on the bridge, his eyes are wide and hurt, and his hushed, "Don't talk about her like that" is not so much angry as it is a plea.

Sam seems completely self assured. He's worldly, smart, decisive. I feel as viewers we're following him from the respectable suburban world to the bad place. With John leaving a vacuum behind him, literally the empty motel room, both boys seem to fill that space -- Sam immediately connecting with John's research, while Dean dons the mantle of John's protective coat. Pleasing metaphors of inheritance.

Speaking of inheritance, Jessica's death in the same manner that killed his mother is what pulls Sam back in. He's now on the same path as John. He's the one who commands the "we" in "We got work to do." Another pleasing story parallel.

Dean is the older brother, but I'm always struck that at this stage he's almost delicate. The eyelashes, the bracelets, the too big jacket. He's positioned in this trope as the bad boy, yet Jensen always has an inherent good guy quality. He's so funny, but it's like a vaudeville act. He's insanely charming and devil-may-care, but you get the sense he's also down on his luck. He's odd and fun and intriguing.

The desaturation and shadows of the cinematography never get old. J2 are beautiful and immediately as watchable as Mulder and Scully. There are some stunning women and recognizable character actors. Of course some of it seems dated, now even more retro than intended lol, yet the Americana parts are mythic and hold up as a motif. Bonus points for including a public library for research. They're searching for a shade of a father; they can't go home, there be ghosts; home is an empty husk of trauma. Still love this pilot.

2019-2022 (my Supernatural era)

TW: Blood

I am always tempted to carry a portable speaker and blare heavy metal or devotional music based on what they would be most annoyed by, making sure to be right next to them so they can't hear their stupid shit.

my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

I'm sorry because I wish I had something more interesting to say but I just feel a giant hole inside me. Sam and Dean's bond is one of the most moving that I have ever seen in a piece of media and I'm not smart enough to articulate how many things it makes me feel. And I don't mean it in a romantic way at all,it's just so deeply touching that it feels wrong to define it in any way. I am never ever going to emotionally recover from that flashback sequence

And so weird that Misha was thrown around and got fluids all over him, Jared however was so clever that he superglued himself to the floor so He did not get thrown where he was outside the bathroom. This is true, you can still see that plane has a pair of very large shoes stuck outside the bathroom door /s

Hang on, what did misha say about Jared again?? That moron...

Misha previously told two stories:

He forgot to lock the door on the plane bathroom and Jared opened it and took a picture, so he flushed Jared's phone (told on IOU with Rosenbaum).

He was on a different plane in the bathroom when there was some turbulence and it got ... messy (told at an earlier convention).

This past weekend, he conflated those two incidents and further changed the details so that while he was in the bathroom, Jared somehow convinced the pilot to do a zero gravity dive to take a picture of him covered in fluids. That is ... insane. Both because he already told those stories and the internet is forever so it's obvious he's full of shit, and because no pilot would ever fucking do that even IF Jared would ask because it is insanely dangerous.

Here's a link to a reblog of the previous post with links to videos of both the previous stories and the bullshit he said this weekend: [X].

Have a fantastic Sunday guys 🌻🐝

Jensen Ackles | JIBCon 2015

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