Supernatural 4x15: Death Takes a Holiday
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meg_tdjOne of my favourite episodes ever. :D
Honestly, I don't get why wounds didn't bleed. You'd think souls would still leave the body and/or wounds would do what wounds do, they just wouldn't be escorted to the afterlife. But whatever, the whole episode is so fantastic that I can easily overlook that.
Some of the reasons why this ep is outrageously awesome, in no particular order -
1. Dean was still stinging from the things Sam said to him in 4x14. I LOVE that it wasn't swept under the rug. Sam was pretending it never happened and overcompensating by being overly cheerful, but while that's usually the kind of thing Dean does as well, this time... not so much. He had this weird absent look through the whole ep, like he'd pretty much got his wish not to feel anything anymore. And since he wasn't stepping up, it was like Sam kept trying to take charge (like telling him to get his food to go), which just rubbed in the whole "you're weak" thing (hence Dean keeping on chewing), and... oh, Dean. :(
2. PAMELA. Her death scene was so tragic and moving, yet still in keeping with her awesomeness and kickbutt attitude. She was so great, helping the boys out even though it was the last thing she wanted to do, staying so cool when that demon was in the room, and saying those final words to Sam about what he's been doing. Oh, Pamela. You tried. :(
3. Sam's triple life. There's the side of him he showed to Dean - the "I'm not keeping secrets, I'm as innocent as a child" side. Then there's the side that popped up whenever Dean looked away - the guilty "I wish I COULD tell you, Dean" side. And my personal favourite - the "Throw demons against trees/walls and rip 'em out with my FIST!" side, woohoo!! Loved that new style of exorcism-by-brain. So much cooler than the lift-hand-and-close-eyes style, IMO. :P
4. The House reference. Made. My. Year.
5. Ghost training!!! They were having SO MUCH FUN until the rock salt, heh.
6. TESSA!!! Awesome to see her again. I love her, she's so indifferent to everything but her job, yet she's also compassionate somehow. Fine line, but the actress is great at walking it.
7. The scene between Sam and Cole. It was gorgeously shot, for starters, and also heartbreaking from the kid's perspective, but the thing that strikes me the most is how easily Sam lied to the poor kid. He really wasn't kidding when he said he'd say anything he had to. I don't think he particularly enjoyed it, but it just hits me sometimes how pre-law he is. ;)
8. HOODIE!!! Hello, gorgeous...
9. They're not overall fave scenes or anything, but Dean's talks with Tessa. He was so depressed, talking about having a hole inside him ever since the car accident because he should have gone with her, he should have died... but the one thing keeping him going now was that the angels gave him a second chance. AND THEN TESSA MADE HIM QUESTION IT. Maaaaan. He just keeps getting hit with all these fresh new reasons to hate himself and want to die, you know?
10. CASTIEL. His cute little "Guess again" was yet another reason for me to adore this guy, LOL. And he had the best line ever in this ep - "Because whatever I ask, you seem to do the exact opposite." Hahahaha!!! So TRUE! And as I always say, he is the only being in the universe who could successfully mimic Bobby. Even the Trickster didn't have a sufficient amount of awesome to pull it off. ;)
11.
12. Alastair just keeps getting creepier and creepier. Christopher Heyerdahl!
13. Sam trying to get Dean to accept that he isn't normal. Perhaps because Sam has started to embrace it himself?
14. Have I mentioned that Sam can fling demons around now? The whole scene in the graveyard was AWESOME. When he says "You have no idea" I get chills every time. :D
15. And of course, the tribute to Kim Manners at the end. :(
Randomness -
*Pretty sure Cole's street was the same one used in Houses of the Holy, just shot from a slightly different angle.
*I think this was the third time Sam was referred to as Haley Joel, and the first time it was someone other than Dean calling him that.
Quotes -
Jenkins: Now, you two said you were bloggers?
Sam: Yes, sir, flooredbythelord.com.
Dean: All of God's glory, fit to blog.
Jenkins: I had this feeling, like angels are watching over me. I wouldn't expect you guys to understand.
Dean: Well, we'll just have to try.
Dean: So, what, the local reaper's on strike? Playing the back 9? I don't know, Sam.
Sam: Well, then let's talk to somebody who might.
Dean: Well, last I checked, Huggy Bear ain't available.
Sam: No, dude, the kid.
Dean: The kid? The kid's a doornail.
Sam: Exactly. Look, if he's the last person to die around here, then maybe he's seen something. We should talk to him.
Dean: *laughs* I love how matter-of-fact you are about that. Strange lives.
Sam: How you doin'?
Dean: I'm in pain, that's how I'm doing. I think I have a concussion.
Sam: You want some aspirin?
Dean: No thanks, House.
Dean: Sam, do me a favour? You're gonna keep your little secrets, and I can't really stop you, but just don't treat me like an idiot, okay?
Sam: What? Dean, I'm not keeping secrets.
Dean: Mmhmm. Whatever.
Sam: What are we gonna do, just swing in and save the friendly neighbourhood reaper?
Dean: You got a better idea, I'm all ears.
Sam: Dean, reapers are invisible. The only people that can see them are the dead and the dying.
Dean: Well, if ghosts are the only ones that can see 'em...
Sam: Yeah?
Dean: Then we become ghosts.
Sam: You do have a concussion.
Dean: Sounds crazy, I know.
Sam: It IS crazy. *pause* How?
Sam: Well, Pamela, you're a sight for sore eyes.
Pamela: Aw, that's sweet, Grumpy. What do you say to deaf people?
Pamela: Which one of you brainiacs came up with astral projection?
Dean: Yo.
Pamela: Of course. Chachi.
Dean: *mouths* Chachi?
Sam: *shrugs*
Pamela: I'm sick of being hauled back into your angel-demon, Soc-Greaser crap.
Dean: Well, look, I'd love to be kicking back with a cold one watching Judge Judy, too.
Pamela: Nice. More blind jokes?
Dean: You know what I mean.
Pamela: Tell me something, geniuses. Even if you do break into the veil, and you find the reaper, how are you gonna save it?
Dean: With style and class.
Dean: Oh, I am so feeling up Demi Moore.
Pamela: *whispers in Sam's ear* You have got a great ass.
Sam: *laughs*
Dean: What did she say? What did she say?
Sam: *smirks*
Dean: *sticks his arm through Sam's chest*
Sam: *glares*
Dean: Am I making you uncomfortable?
Sam: Get out of me.
Dean: You're such a prude.
Sam: This isn't gonna be easy to hear, but... you're dead. You're a spirit. Us, too.
Cole: Yeah. Thanks, Haley Joel, I know I'm dead.
Tessa: You don't remember me?
Dean: Honestly, if I had a nickel for every time I heard a girl say that...
Sam: You might wanna ease up on the flying soccer balls.
Tessa: I'll tell ya, life is funny.
Dean: What do you mean?
Tessa: You and me, together again.
Dean: Are you... are you makin' a move on me?
Tessa: You're the one that got away, Dean. You'd be surprised how little that happens to me.
Dean: How the hell are we supposed to fight that?
Sam: I don't know. Learn some ghost moves?
Dean: By tonight? Yeah, sure, I'll meet you back at Mr. Miyagi's.
Cole: Who's Mr. Miyagi?
Dean: Dude! You are so Amityville!
Cole: *socks Sam in the stomach* See? If you wanna hit something, you just gotta get mad.
Sam: Yeah. Got it.
Cole: *to Dean* Now you try. Hit me.
Dean: Um, I think I'll stick to just pickin' on somebody my own size.
Cole: *slaps his face*
Sam: *laughs*
Dean: Ow.
Cole: *to Sam* Hit me as hard as you can.
Sam: Dude, I'm not gonna do Fight Club with a 12-year-old.
Cole: *punches him*
Sam: Alright. Cut it out.
Cole: Make me! *takes another swing, Sam blocks it, Cole disappears and reappears behind them*
Dean: Whoa. Whoa, you gotta teach us that!
Alastair: Rock salt's not so much fun anymore, is it?
Sam: Go to hell.
Alastair: Oh, if only I could, but they just keep sending me back up to this Arctic craphole.
Pamela: I know you're here. What's the matter, you reeking son of a bitch? You afraid of a skirt?
Pamela: *laughing*
Sam: What's so funny?
Pamela: I can't die! Not in this town. Look. *her wound isn't bleeding*
Sam: Pamela...
Pamela: Quit your worrying, Grumpy. How 'bout you make me a drink, huh?
Sam: You need a doctor.
Pamela: Make me a drink, Sam.
Alastair: You can't run, Dean. Not from me. I'm inside that angsty little noggin' o' yours.
Dean: What the hell?
Castiel: Guess again.
Dean: You were here the whole time?
Castiel: Enough of it.
Dean: Well, thanks for your help with the rock salt.
Dean: If you want our help, why the hell didn't you just ask?
Castiel: Because whatever I ask, you seem to do the exact opposite.
Sam: Pamela... I'm so sorry.
Pamela: Stop.
Sam: You don't deserve this.
Pamela: Yeah, I don't. I told you, I didn't want anything to do with this. Do me a favour? Tell that bastard Bobby Singer to go to hell for ever introducing me to you two in the first place. *coughs*
Dean: Take it easy, Pamela. If it's any consolation, you're going to a better place.
Pamela: You're lying. But what the hell, right? Everybody's gotta go sometime. *waves Sam closer* Come here. *whispers* I know what you did to that demon, Sam. I can feel what's inside of you. If you think you have good intentions... think again.
Honestly, I don't get why wounds didn't bleed. You'd think souls would still leave the body and/or wounds would do what wounds do, they just wouldn't be escorted to the afterlife. But whatever, the whole episode is so fantastic that I can easily overlook that.
Some of the reasons why this ep is outrageously awesome, in no particular order -
1. Dean was still stinging from the things Sam said to him in 4x14. I LOVE that it wasn't swept under the rug. Sam was pretending it never happened and overcompensating by being overly cheerful, but while that's usually the kind of thing Dean does as well, this time... not so much. He had this weird absent look through the whole ep, like he'd pretty much got his wish not to feel anything anymore. And since he wasn't stepping up, it was like Sam kept trying to take charge (like telling him to get his food to go), which just rubbed in the whole "you're weak" thing (hence Dean keeping on chewing), and... oh, Dean. :(
2. PAMELA. Her death scene was so tragic and moving, yet still in keeping with her awesomeness and kickbutt attitude. She was so great, helping the boys out even though it was the last thing she wanted to do, staying so cool when that demon was in the room, and saying those final words to Sam about what he's been doing. Oh, Pamela. You tried. :(
3. Sam's triple life. There's the side of him he showed to Dean - the "I'm not keeping secrets, I'm as innocent as a child" side. Then there's the side that popped up whenever Dean looked away - the guilty "I wish I COULD tell you, Dean" side. And my personal favourite - the "Throw demons against trees/walls and rip 'em out with my FIST!" side, woohoo!! Loved that new style of exorcism-by-brain. So much cooler than the lift-hand-and-close-eyes style, IMO. :P
4. The House reference. Made. My. Year.
5. Ghost training!!! They were having SO MUCH FUN until the rock salt, heh.
6. TESSA!!! Awesome to see her again. I love her, she's so indifferent to everything but her job, yet she's also compassionate somehow. Fine line, but the actress is great at walking it.
7. The scene between Sam and Cole. It was gorgeously shot, for starters, and also heartbreaking from the kid's perspective, but the thing that strikes me the most is how easily Sam lied to the poor kid. He really wasn't kidding when he said he'd say anything he had to. I don't think he particularly enjoyed it, but it just hits me sometimes how pre-law he is. ;)
8. HOODIE!!! Hello, gorgeous...
9. They're not overall fave scenes or anything, but Dean's talks with Tessa. He was so depressed, talking about having a hole inside him ever since the car accident because he should have gone with her, he should have died... but the one thing keeping him going now was that the angels gave him a second chance. AND THEN TESSA MADE HIM QUESTION IT. Maaaaan. He just keeps getting hit with all these fresh new reasons to hate himself and want to die, you know?
10. CASTIEL. His cute little "Guess again" was yet another reason for me to adore this guy, LOL. And he had the best line ever in this ep - "Because whatever I ask, you seem to do the exact opposite." Hahahaha!!! So TRUE! And as I always say, he is the only being in the universe who could successfully mimic Bobby. Even the Trickster didn't have a sufficient amount of awesome to pull it off. ;)
11.
12. Alastair just keeps getting creepier and creepier. Christopher Heyerdahl!
13. Sam trying to get Dean to accept that he isn't normal. Perhaps because Sam has started to embrace it himself?
14. Have I mentioned that Sam can fling demons around now? The whole scene in the graveyard was AWESOME. When he says "You have no idea" I get chills every time. :D
15. And of course, the tribute to Kim Manners at the end. :(
Randomness -
*Pretty sure Cole's street was the same one used in Houses of the Holy, just shot from a slightly different angle.
*I think this was the third time Sam was referred to as Haley Joel, and the first time it was someone other than Dean calling him that.
Quotes -
Jenkins: Now, you two said you were bloggers?
Sam: Yes, sir, flooredbythelord.com.
Dean: All of God's glory, fit to blog.
Jenkins: I had this feeling, like angels are watching over me. I wouldn't expect you guys to understand.
Dean: Well, we'll just have to try.
Dean: So, what, the local reaper's on strike? Playing the back 9? I don't know, Sam.
Sam: Well, then let's talk to somebody who might.
Dean: Well, last I checked, Huggy Bear ain't available.
Sam: No, dude, the kid.
Dean: The kid? The kid's a doornail.
Sam: Exactly. Look, if he's the last person to die around here, then maybe he's seen something. We should talk to him.
Dean: *laughs* I love how matter-of-fact you are about that. Strange lives.
Sam: How you doin'?
Dean: I'm in pain, that's how I'm doing. I think I have a concussion.
Sam: You want some aspirin?
Dean: No thanks, House.
Dean: Sam, do me a favour? You're gonna keep your little secrets, and I can't really stop you, but just don't treat me like an idiot, okay?
Sam: What? Dean, I'm not keeping secrets.
Dean: Mmhmm. Whatever.
Sam: What are we gonna do, just swing in and save the friendly neighbourhood reaper?
Dean: You got a better idea, I'm all ears.
Sam: Dean, reapers are invisible. The only people that can see them are the dead and the dying.
Dean: Well, if ghosts are the only ones that can see 'em...
Sam: Yeah?
Dean: Then we become ghosts.
Sam: You do have a concussion.
Dean: Sounds crazy, I know.
Sam: It IS crazy. *pause* How?
Sam: Well, Pamela, you're a sight for sore eyes.
Pamela: Aw, that's sweet, Grumpy. What do you say to deaf people?
Pamela: Which one of you brainiacs came up with astral projection?
Dean: Yo.
Pamela: Of course. Chachi.
Dean: *mouths* Chachi?
Sam: *shrugs*
Pamela: I'm sick of being hauled back into your angel-demon, Soc-Greaser crap.
Dean: Well, look, I'd love to be kicking back with a cold one watching Judge Judy, too.
Pamela: Nice. More blind jokes?
Dean: You know what I mean.
Pamela: Tell me something, geniuses. Even if you do break into the veil, and you find the reaper, how are you gonna save it?
Dean: With style and class.
Dean: Oh, I am so feeling up Demi Moore.
Pamela: *whispers in Sam's ear* You have got a great ass.
Sam: *laughs*
Dean: What did she say? What did she say?
Sam: *smirks*
Dean: *sticks his arm through Sam's chest*
Sam: *glares*
Dean: Am I making you uncomfortable?
Sam: Get out of me.
Dean: You're such a prude.
Sam: This isn't gonna be easy to hear, but... you're dead. You're a spirit. Us, too.
Cole: Yeah. Thanks, Haley Joel, I know I'm dead.
Tessa: You don't remember me?
Dean: Honestly, if I had a nickel for every time I heard a girl say that...
Sam: You might wanna ease up on the flying soccer balls.
Tessa: I'll tell ya, life is funny.
Dean: What do you mean?
Tessa: You and me, together again.
Dean: Are you... are you makin' a move on me?
Tessa: You're the one that got away, Dean. You'd be surprised how little that happens to me.
Dean: How the hell are we supposed to fight that?
Sam: I don't know. Learn some ghost moves?
Dean: By tonight? Yeah, sure, I'll meet you back at Mr. Miyagi's.
Cole: Who's Mr. Miyagi?
Dean: Dude! You are so Amityville!
Cole: *socks Sam in the stomach* See? If you wanna hit something, you just gotta get mad.
Sam: Yeah. Got it.
Cole: *to Dean* Now you try. Hit me.
Dean: Um, I think I'll stick to just pickin' on somebody my own size.
Cole: *slaps his face*
Sam: *laughs*
Dean: Ow.
Cole: *to Sam* Hit me as hard as you can.
Sam: Dude, I'm not gonna do Fight Club with a 12-year-old.
Cole: *punches him*
Sam: Alright. Cut it out.
Cole: Make me! *takes another swing, Sam blocks it, Cole disappears and reappears behind them*
Dean: Whoa. Whoa, you gotta teach us that!
Alastair: Rock salt's not so much fun anymore, is it?
Sam: Go to hell.
Alastair: Oh, if only I could, but they just keep sending me back up to this Arctic craphole.
Pamela: I know you're here. What's the matter, you reeking son of a bitch? You afraid of a skirt?
Pamela: *laughing*
Sam: What's so funny?
Pamela: I can't die! Not in this town. Look. *her wound isn't bleeding*
Sam: Pamela...
Pamela: Quit your worrying, Grumpy. How 'bout you make me a drink, huh?
Sam: You need a doctor.
Pamela: Make me a drink, Sam.
Alastair: You can't run, Dean. Not from me. I'm inside that angsty little noggin' o' yours.
Dean: What the hell?
Castiel: Guess again.
Dean: You were here the whole time?
Castiel: Enough of it.
Dean: Well, thanks for your help with the rock salt.
Dean: If you want our help, why the hell didn't you just ask?
Castiel: Because whatever I ask, you seem to do the exact opposite.
Sam: Pamela... I'm so sorry.
Pamela: Stop.
Sam: You don't deserve this.
Pamela: Yeah, I don't. I told you, I didn't want anything to do with this. Do me a favour? Tell that bastard Bobby Singer to go to hell for ever introducing me to you two in the first place. *coughs*
Dean: Take it easy, Pamela. If it's any consolation, you're going to a better place.
Pamela: You're lying. But what the hell, right? Everybody's gotta go sometime. *waves Sam closer* Come here. *whispers* I know what you did to that demon, Sam. I can feel what's inside of you. If you think you have good intentions... think again.
