kat_lair | SPN 2.19 Folsom Prison Blues and 2.20 What Is And What Should Never Be (Reply)

Yes, I know it’s the season finale tonight and I can practically free the ecstatic trembling of the fandom against my skin. I, however, am still a bit behind.

*attempts to catch up*

Dean and Sam in prison? About 58949820 of my kinkiest plot bunnies start with that very same scenario…

SPN 2.19 Folsom Prison Blues

Creepy spirit being released from the cell… And hey, it’s Jeff Kober as Randall! The guy’s been all over, but mainly I remember him as the dark-magic dealer in Buffy.

Dude! The obnoxious guard gets it!

Oh their little synchronised glances…

No episode where they boys are forced to kneel can be entirely bad…

“I call this look my blue steel.”
AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA oh Dean, you are still the prettiest.

Seeing John Shiban’s name as the writer raises my expectations… Why yes, I am a bit of a geek, why do you ask?

“I think I’m adorable.”
Yes you are.

And Henrikson (Henderson? For the love of god I hope someone would articulate his name properly) is back! Awesome!!!

Of course their defender is a hot woman. Wouldn’t do to have it any other way.

And the boys in chains. Oh man this is looking to be a good one… *letches*

“Don’t worry Sam, I promise I won’t trade you for smokes.”
*dies a little*
Three things: 1. So it’s pretty much canon that Dean smokes, at least casually. 2. Dean is so Sam’s bitch and not the other way around. 3. This is like a cliché fic without the sex so far.

Ahahaaa, omg Sam’s little swallow at the sight of his cellmate! Priceless.

The conversation the guys have in the line, all low voices and intensity, is just very… uhm, intimate. And makes me picture all sorts of other intimate situations they would be using those voices in…

Oh man, Dean is going all protective. That is just… hot.

HOLY JESUS, DEAN IS FIGTING FOR SAM??? Are we sure this is an actual episode and not a fanfic come alive? No seriously. This is possibly the best thing ever.

Creepy little-Hitler of a guard clearly gets his jollies from pointing his stick at people’s faces.
Also: so that’s why Simon couldn’t come to the Atlantis. He was busy guarding haunted prisons. Who knew.

HOLY CRAP! I jumped like a scared bunny at the evil-eyed ghost!

Randall is great.

Dean’s hustling inmates? Not perhaps the smartest thing to do…
Btw, is this the first time in canon we actually see him do anything like that? Hustling, I mean; cards, pool…?

Dean doesn’t exactly agree that he doesn’t smoke there…

Sam: I got a plan
Dean: That’s the Sammy I know! Come on man, you’re like Clint Eastwood from Escape from Alcatraz.
Sam: The problem is that even if we’re going to find something, how are we going to burn it. We don’t have any accelerant.
Dean: Good thing I’m like James Garner from Great Escape
Me: sooooooooo much love

Dean’s picking a fight with the big guy “They’re just donuts. They’re not love.”
*dies*

Oohh, it’s a distraction! Stealth!Sam is sexy!

Dean and Tiny are bonding… but wait, the ghost is female and therefore can’t be the guy they though it would be!

Oh noes! Not Tiny!

The Defender woman gets Dean’s full-on soulful look of heroism and caves.

Holy shit! Sam grabbing Dean and Dean pushing him back? Uhm, hot!
HA! And orchestrated! The guard is Deacon! Didn’t see that one coming at all!

Is the Defender going to give them up?

Oh no, not Deacon!
Whew!

Hee! I knew it, she gave the cops a wrong cemetery name!

Sam: Thought we were screwed before…
Dean: Yeah, yeah, I know. We got to go deep time.
Fgakfeagjlkgrgkjag I can’t even… They’re effectively going to be even more isolated and alone, just the two of them…

Overall: This episode hit so many of my kinks in this fandom, it isn’t even funny: Prison. Dean fighting for Sam (still can’t get over that). Genuinely creepy MOTW. Continuity (Henriksen, previous jobs catching up with them, John’s old buddies). Several intimate talks between the boys. Dean hustling. And of course the whole “us against the world” thing that just got reconfirmed and underlined several times over. Absolute loved it.

Despite staying away from spoilers, I knew enough to expect glorious amounts of ANGST from the next episode...

SPN 2.20 What Is And What Should Never Be

Yay for continuity! Double yay for paranoia!

Genie in a bottle? Oh man, don’t tell me, Dean is going to blurt out some half-assed wish that will actually come true?

Should have gone to pick up Sam first…

Wait. Why is Dean’s knife already bloody?
Also: I love the little resigned sigh and stilling of his body there just before he snaps around ready to fight

So… this is the life he could have had?

And… *wibble* I see now why everyone was going Oh Dean at this episode because… his face when he sees the picture. I… I may have teared up quite spectacularly there. That was some prime acting from Jensen there.

By the time Dean got to the house and Mary I was bawling openly. I should have known better than to watch this when premenstrual…

Dean: Say you had a wish… that you never even said aloud.
*whimpers brokenly*

But Dean still sees spirits?

Dean’s mowing the lawn?? Badly I might add.
The garden gnome is creepy.
Also: fantastic music choice.

It’s prep-school!Sammy!
I want Jessica’s hair.

Dean: How did I end up with such a cool chick?
Carmen: I just got really low standards
Heee, okay she’s kind of cool.

And Dean’s beaming happiness at Sam’s normal life and engagement to Jessica…
*swallows a lump the size of a potato*

Oooh, spirit-girl intrudes on the perfect moment

Then the whole scene with Sam…” since when do you call me Sammy … We don’t talk outside holidays … We don’t have anything in common … I’ve never been hunting in my life”
Dean’s face! *broken sobs*

Is he willing to trade his Sam for all this?

Notice how Dean’s (Jensen’s?) kissing has improved considerably?
Carmen is officially cool.

Okay so all the people Sam and Dean have helped where without any saviours in this reality? Say it with me: Oh Dean.

And the scene at John’s grave? I can’t even talk about that. Just leave me to my pain.

I love how they’ve re-visited the scene from the pilot. A lot.

Omg the au!Sam is sticking by his brother!
Ahahaa, formal admittance of the fact that “bitch and jerk” are terms of affection

Omg, so Dean is really hanging in a warehouse getting his blood sucked out?
He is, and I totally clocked on to that at least five seconds before he did! *feels smug*

The whole rest of the episode can indeed be adequately summed up with a whimpery Oh Dean.

Verdict: Loved the premise and acting was superb all around. And yes. This broke me into pieces. Especially because despite them not getting on in this reality, Dean would have stayed behind because at least Sam was happy, if it had actually been a reality and not just a hallucination brought on by the Jin. The whole conversation in the end with the LOOK OF LOVE OMG and how Dean is finally letting Sam be the strong one for a change and opening up to him…

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And this seems like a good time celebrate the fact that Supernatural got approved for a third season of emotional porn and more BROYAY than you can shake a stick at. w00t!