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Rewatch of Supernatural 2022

Season 13

When I finished rewatching season 12 I wasn’t sure if I’d find season 13 better or worse…
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Rewatch of Supernatural 2022

Season 12

I’m back to my Supernatural season reviews after 3 months off to move from Chicago to North Carolina and celebrate the holidays in my new home! And my New Year’s resolution is to finish my SPN rewatch before my daughter has her baby next month! So on to season 12…
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Title: Thor's Hammer (and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction)
Author: borgmama1of5
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: None

Word Count: 467
Beta:
sandymg
AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26955184
Summary: Of course the fans loved seeing Sam with Thor's Hammer in the montage of hunts Mrs. Butters steered them toward. But I wanted to know what the heck they were hunting that required that much firepower...


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I rewatched all 13 episodes of season 15 Saturday to prepare for October 8, and had some thoughts, mainly that there are some good episodes and good parts of episodes but there is so much wasted screen time and non-logical action that I’m struggling with dread over what the writers are doing to the last 7 episodes…

So sharing my thoughts after watching till 4:30 am…

So sharing my thoughts after watching till 4:30 am… )
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So [livejournal.com profile] hells_half_acre did her rewatch of 'Lebanon' and it reminded me of the question I had when the episode aired.

John had arrived from 2003, two years before the pilot. Sam and Dean clearly gave him a recap of what had happened--here is John's summary: "So I went out taking out Yellow Eyes?...So you saved the world?" Dean: "More than once." John: "Then it's all true. God, the Devil, you boys smack in the middle. Now you live in a secret bunker with an angel and Lucifer's kid." The must have mentioned God and the Darkness because later Dean says that if John doesn't go back to the past  "...without everything we did--with God, the Darkness..." Mary won't exist.

So just how much did they edit what John missed?

They got the Colt
John was possessed by Yellow Eyes
Dean almost died in the car crash in the aftermath
John made a deal to save Dean
YED revealed Sam had been fed demon blood in a plot to make Sam free Lucifer
Sam was killed by another demon-blood-fed child
Dean made a deal for Sam's life
Dean went to Hell
The angel Castiel rescued him
Sam accidentally  freed Lucifer (because he was manipulated by a demon and drinking demon blood--pretty sure that was edited out of what John was told)
Michael and Lucifer wanted Dean and Sam to be their vessels to start the Apocalypse
Sam jumped in the Cage with Lucifer to prevent it
Sam came back from the Cage soulless, but Death resouled him
Castiel let the Leviathans out of Purgatory
In getting rid of them, Dean ended up in Puragtory for a year
Grandpa Henry traveled through time and died helping them fight a Knight of Hell, Abaddon (So John's dad didn't really abandon him)
BTW Henry Winchester was a member of a secret society, The Men of Letters
They ended up in the bunker because Sam and Dean are legacies from Henry, and John should have been one too instead of a hunter
Dean ended up with the Mark of Cain and died fighting the angel Metatron who was trying to take over Heaven
But because he had the MOC Dean became a demon
Sam cured him but in doing so released the Darkness
Who is really God's sister, Amara
God helped them fight her but then God and his sister made up
But Lucifer got out of the Cage, came back to earth, and impregnated a woman named Kelly Kline
Her son Jack is half angel, half human, but he's just a kid and Sam and Dean and Cas are raising him
They ended up traveling to an alternate universe where they'd never been born and the Apocalypse happened, and they brought back some hunters from that world
And Michael from that world possessed Dean but they're working on how to get rid of him

(Clearly they never got around to telling John about Mary before she waltzed in.)

But what I really want to know is how did they shade John's death to make it sound like he killed Yellow Eyes?

Best I can think of is: "Well, Dad, we got the Colt from Daniel Elkins and there was a showdown with Yellow Eyes...but you didn't make it..." which only leaves a little bit out...

I'd sure love to hear the whole conversation between the three of them...
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My 2020 SummerGen story
Title:
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Author: borgmama1of5

Recipient: [livejournal.com profile] bagelcat
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Sam/Jess

Word Count: 2600
Rating: PG
Beta:
[livejournal.com profile] sandymg
Warnings: domestic abuse
AO3 Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26418565

Author's Notes: Thanks to my ever-dependable beta and brainstorming partner who gave me the idea for the twist. Title is a quote from Andre Malraux, author of “Man’s Fate.” Bagelcat, I realize Sam might not be quite as badass as sometimes, but there are mitigating circumstances…

Summary: Growing up, Sam learned it wasn’t worth the effort to make friends when you were going to be gone in a few weeks. Starting his third year at Stanford, Sam has an apartment, a girlfriend, and friendly neighbors…

Sam's 3rd year at Stanford )
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I finally realized what this last season of Supernatural feels like...if you've watched Star Trek Next Gen or later--

You're in the holodeck in an opulent garden. Not only is it visually stunning, but the texture of the ground underfoot and the plants you touch, the scents, the breeze--all combine to convince you that you are in this astounding place. You walk around in it for hours, immersed in the illusion.

After a while (5 seasons or so) you start to notice there are now tiny glitches--barely perceptible moments where the feel of something is just a little off, or when you take a step something flickers and you are taking that step a second time. But you ignore them and keep walking, still lost in the overall astonishment of this holodeck creation.

Now and then you pass a tree and see an incongruity--a snowman, for instance, but it vanishes as you take another look and maybe it was your imagination, you tell yourself.

The longer you stay you start to see patches where the illusion fades momentarily and you can see the gridlines of the holodeck through the flora. At first the faintness solidifies quickly when you notice it, but eventually (say around season 12) the thin patches remain once you spot them.

And they are getting bigger. But you look away from them because you want to keep the beauty of the illusion going.

At this point (season 15) you see places where the the image of the beautiful garden has simply disappeared and the harsh lines of the holodeck stand out to remind you this was pretend all along. You carefully walk a path that keeps you in the garden but while your feet stay in the illusion, everywhere you look you see bigger patches of the grid's reality.

You know that very soon the last of the garden will be gone. You wish the whole thing had simply vanished in one fell swoop so that the image left in your mind would only be of the initial perfection, but sadly the distorted picture will also be remembered when you recall your walk.

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I was trying to explain to myself why it feels sad this year when you see things in an episode that are clearly the writers going 'Dean needs to not have his phone so he doesn't race back to the bunker. Have the bar girl collect it'  and then dash off to write the fun/dramatic scene they want to get to without taking time to think through a logical way for Dean to be incommunicado because they are just focused on the big parts of the episode, having forgotten that it was the solid grounding of the details that made the show work in the beginning.
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...that I am more sad about the end of Supernatural announcement than I am about the fact that my divorce was finalized 2 days ago?

Fortunately one of my friends could explain: "You were ready for one and not the other."
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Title: Freeport, Illinois
Creator: [livejournal.com profile] borgmama1of5
Recipient: [livejournal.com profile] ammcj062
Rating: PG for language
Word Count: 9300
Warnings: none
Beta: [livejournal.com profile] sandymg
Summary: June, 1998. John has left Sam and Dean in a small Illinois town while he is working. Two teenage boys, not much money, and time to kill…
Author's Notes at end

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16109837

Freeport, Illinois )
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 Day 2 of SeaCon--again, details in the panels may not be in sequence...


To the panels... )

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For my daughter Adrienne's Christmas and birthday present I got Gold tickets for the two of us to go to the Seattle Supernatural Con. Caveat--My recollection of the panels are not necessarily in the exact order of the questions.

Sharing my experience for your enjoyment! )
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This Saturday I finally had time to start my rewatch of season 12 on the dvds.

I started around 4 pm Saturday...and finished up at 4:30 am Monday morning...while I did take a sleep break Saturday night, on Sunday I didn't want to stop and watched 13 episodes straight...and I'm going to call off work today (and after I get some sleep I have to do all the Sunday chores I skipped like laundry and dishes...)

But you guys won't tell my boss why I called in sick, will you?  :)

Overall review of the season when watched as a whole--uneven.

I actually thought Mary's story of estrangement was the most coherent plotline of the season and the part I enjoyed rewatching the most. I know many people thought her character was ruined, but her 'not fitting' was played from the start and carried through to a great payoff in Dean's scene in Mary's head...and then had such a tragic ending--though I think all of us expected Mary would not survive the season...

Mick and Ketch were interesting characters, and I enjoyed watching their arcs, but the BMoL plot never made sense from Lady Toni's initial pointless torture interrogation of Sam, and the bit of Mick's backstory where he had to kill his friend was so unbelievably heavy-handed in an effort to show how evil the organization was...subtlety, writers, is so much more effective!

Cas was all over the place as was the Lucifer's baby storyline...Giving us a plot where the solution is to kill an unborn baby was a nasty place to spend so much time...I wish they would have gone with the solution of Cas taking her up to heaven via the sandbox, mostly because I don't have any confidence in the writers being able to make a decent season's story about Lucifer's son choosing between good and evil...
The Lucifer/Crowley story felt like more rehash of the previous year, and the reversal of the wards on Lucifer's body so he could control Crowley made no sense whatsoever. I honestly don't know what there would be for Crowley to do in season 13 if he had survived. (I also honestly think Cas has outlived his dramatic usefulness on the show...he was mostly an inept character who kept doing the wrong thing all season and having big emoting scenes that felt so out of left field...)

We got a few very good stand-alone episodes and a really good next-to-last episode While I enjoyed the Sam-and-Dean prison break episode a lot, it actually didn't feel like an episode of Supernatural. Don't get me wrong, it was excellent to see the boys be super smart fighters...and I can't put my finger on why it felt out of place--I'll be interested if anyone else has a similar reaction.

We got a lot of really unpleasant, very strong personality villains this year, not as many well-fleshed out minor characters, although I did enjoy the doomed hunter Wally. And what they did to the witch twins just broke my heart--that was a tough episode to rewatch (and I wonder if Sam and Dean will ever run into Max again and see what he did--and have to fix it???)

Sam and Dean were the most united of any season ever...and they both seem to have started to embrace the idea that they are heroes rather than dwelling on their screw-ups. Dean especially seemed to have gotten past his existential angst about not saving everyone. Since wanting them to mature enough to not be angsting all the time has been one of my wishes, I should be happy, right? Except Jensen does such a heart-rending angst I kinda missed it, which is why I appreciated the conflict between him and Mary giving him something to feel bad about. Sam, on the other hand--well, his new-found maturity is incredibly hot...

So that's my snapshot review after my 2-day binge. Going to text my boss that I'm not coming to work and then heading off to bed...
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Title: For Obvious Reasons
Author: borgmama1of5
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 1025
Genre: Gen
Spoilers: Through 12.13 'Family Feud’
Disclaimer: Sadly, Supernatural belongs to Kripke & co.  I would take much better care of them…
Summary: Mary drops a bombshell about what she's been doing
It feels like his mother just punched him in the stomach. )

AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/9935654
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Title: ...And Throw Away the Key
Author: [livejournal.com profile] borgmama1of5
Genre: Gen
Wordcount: 1200
Beta: [livejournal.com profile] sandymg Thank you for being so quick!
Disclaimer: Not mine, just trying to fix things...
Summary: Missing scene for 11.22--In the middle of the battle with Amara, Chuck drops the bombshell that Sam will be the new bearer of the Mark. As Dean starts to protest, Sam says, "God and I talked about this." I needed to hear that conversation.

AO3 link )

"Sam, we need to talk." )

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