Yesterday I was blessed with the opportunity to watch 5.16, "Dark Side of the Moon," on TNT. The scene near the end, where the angel Joshua tells the Winchesters that God knows what's going on and isn't going to do anything and wants them to stop bugging him… well, it hits harder in light of what we learn about Chuck at the end of s14, doesn't it? At the time I thought Joshua was describing a God-the-clockmaker role, a God who just wanted to let his creation run on its own. But now we know that Chuck wasn't just declining to fix things for the Winchesters. He was actively setting them up and enjoying the drama. And yes, I'm sure the writers weren't thinking about how things would play out nine seasons later when they wrote that scene. It's just nice that the Continuity Fairy gave us this unintentional gift.





Other amazing things about this episode include: Dean having to watch Sam get shot, "I Wuv Hugz," Sam's kicked-puppy face, and "I'm dead"/"Condolences."

Another thing that struck me was how hard Pamela tried to get Dean to accept that if he let Michael use him as a vessel, the inevitable deaths of thousands (millions?) of people wasn't anything to be concerned about.

I know that Michael wants to take you out for a test drive… {snip} What happens if you play ball with them? Worst case.

A lot of people die.

And then they come here. Is that really so bad? Look. Maybe… you don't have to fight it so hard. That's all I'm trying to say.

And immediately after that conversation, Ash finds a "short cut to the Garden" that, oddly enough, opens right into the old Lawrence house where they'll be caught by Zachariah.

So I wondered why we ever thought any of this was real. Why we didn't all decide Pamela and Ash were both fabrications created by Zachariah. And then I realized that I had already come to this conclusion, and had ficced it. But where? It's not on my LJ anywhere. I think I posted it in the comments to someone else's post. Probably kalliel; I think she's the only one whose comments I abused in that particular manner. But I found it in my files, and I present it to you now. I don't know when I wrote it, but I see it was probably right after we met Joshua 2.0 in s14. Apparently it was in response to some discussion about Sam and Dean being soulmates with a shared Heaven:

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Now that you've seen this, you're infected. Please put this on your journal as a warning to way to infect others. Let's see how quickly it spreads to the entire Supernatural community.

As I said in the comments earlier, S5 is kind of uneven to me. Some of the best episodes (IMHO) of the series are in here, but I imagine watching The End, and being completely blown away, and then next week you get… Fallen Idols? Paris Hilton? Seriously? Or watching Sam Interrupted, with the boys being committed to a mental hospital because they’re telling the truth, and Dean’s real actual details about his life being the signs of some serious mental health issues, and drugged Sam booping Dean’s nose? All of which is kind of wonderful? And then next week you get Swap Meat. Talk about whiplash.

Anyway. There are many wonderful episodes in this season, and now we need to pick the one we like to rewatch the most. (Note that this doesn’t mean your favorite episode. Some people, for example, love Swan Song but can’t bear to rewatch it.)

And the finalists are…

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stir_of_echoes was kind enough to make GIFs for part of Sympathy for the Devil (5.01) for me. (Go. Look. It is awesome and heartbreaking.) And it turns out I have a lot of thoughts about this. To me, it is one of the saddest scenes in the entire series. And that’s saying a lot.



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