Supernatural
“The One You’ve Been Waiting For”
November 10, 2016
THEN
NOW
Sam comes back to the Bunker after an early morning grocery run. Is Dean feeling scrambled or fried? Dean doesn’t look up from his laptop. He says he’s not that hungry. Sam is like, I’m sorry have we met? He pops the lid on the pastry box. How about pie?
Sweet Chuck, Sam remembered the pie!
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“American Nightmare”
November 3, 2016
THEN: “You must be one of us. One of the psychics. We’re all a part of something.”
NOW
The church bells ring. Sunlight streams through the stained glass windows. A small group of parishioners offer their morning devotions. A woman stands in the back of the sanctuary, framed by the open doors. She walks slowly down the center aisle. Blood pours from the puncture wounds in her feet. There are matching marks on her palms. A woman praying in a pew screams as she passes by.
Supernatural
“The Foundry”
October 27, 2016
THEN: “You were good at this, weren’t you?”
NOW
Two hipsters who should spend more time studying horror movies and less time on their Yelp reviews and man buns walk into an abandoned house. Natalie follows the sound of a crying baby to a back bedroom. A crib sits in the empty room. A bare lightbulb flickers above it. She folds back the blanket but there’s no baby. Just a creepy, horrible doll.
The couple try to flee but the door slams shut, trapping them inside the room.
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“Mamma Mia”
October 20, 2016
THEN: “Screw. You.”
NOW
Sam is having the sexy times with Lady Cardboard and I just threw up in my mouth a little.
It’s a spell induced hallucination. Another attack on Sam’s mind designed to gather information. You know, if Lady Cardboard does end up being Sam’s love interest, the upside is it will give his Peen of Death a chance to do us all a solid.
The spell begins to wear off. Sam comes to back in the chair in the middle of the cellar.
“So … was it good for you?”
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“Keep Calm and Carry On”
October 13, 2016
“You gave me what I needed most. I want to do the same for you.”
NOW
Dean and Mary stare at each other. She’s wary and confused. He’s stunned. He approaches her and hesitantly asks if she’s really … real? He slowly reaches out a hand to touch her, to make sure she’s solid and not a ghost. In a blink, Mary has him face down on the ground in an arm lock with her bare foot on his neck.
Supernatural
“Alpha and Omega”
May 25, 2016
THE ROAD SO FAR
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and Earth’s foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended;
And saved the sum of things for pay.
NOW
Chuck’s body falls to the floor with a thud.
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“We Happy Few”
May 18, 2016
THEN: “Two players. Two sides. One is light. One is dark.”
NOW
The Chuck and Cascifer reunion isn’t going well. Chuck just wants to let bygones be and move on. Cascifer isn’t ready to let go of the hurt of being discarded or his anger that Dad likes his new family better. He’s also decided that the fight against the Darkness isn’t bigger than family.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Team Amara. Go Amara.”
Cascifer is acting like a snotty teen, right down to locking himself in Sam’s room and blasting angry music. “This is like the worst episode of Full House ever.” Dean isn’t wrong, and it’s only the first of many elements in this episode that I don’t care for. Lucifer has lost his menace, and without it, he just seems small. He’s an angel. He’s the Morningstar. But he feels too human here, and I don’t like it.
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“All in the Family”
May 11, 2016
THEN: “This isn’t her story. It’s mine.”
NOW
Sam and Dean gawp in confusion at the guy who looks like a writer of middling genre fiction/prophet of the Lord, but who the Samulet is telling them is actually God himself.
Chuck smiles fondly at them. He says he’s happy to fill in the blanks, but maybe they should go someplace where they can sit … Dean cuts him off. They’re not going anywhere. How do they even know he’s really Chuck …
*Finger snap of the Lord*
Continue reading “‘Supernatural’: Between light and darkness”
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“Don’t Call Me Shurley”
May 4, 2016
THEN: “He knows … He just doesn’t think it’s his problem.”
NOW
Metatron is rattling around in the bottom of a dumpster. Finally he comes up yahtzee with a fairly unsullied half of a half of a pastrami on rye. He opens his mouth to wolf it down – but stops. The dog is looking at him. I’m going to call him Scraps. Scraps is Sam’s puppy dog eyes made actual dog. Metatron is powerless against him.
The fallen scribe tosses the hunk of lunch meat to Scraps. A fond smile steals across Metatron’s face, and then it’s back down to the dumpster’s depths. He wrestles with the garbage before finally shouting, “I GIVE UP!”