Scenes I Love . . .
"Hell House" (cont.)
In the next scene we learn that Ed and Harry aren’t, in fact, streaming their website out of their mom’s basement as Dean supposed, so he did them an injustice there. They’re operating from a campervan in a trailer park, so that’s much better, right? 😉
We learn that Harry has been spooked by his close encounter with an actual spirit, so Ed is trying to bolster his morale with the promise that “this is our ticket to the big time right here. Fame, money, sex . . .”
OK, I confess. I thought that was funny 😆
“Be brave,” Ed says. “WWBD. What Would Buffy Do. huh?”
I was also amused to see Supernatural taking a swipe at its nineties predecessor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that spawned SPN and all the noughties shows like it.
They’re interrupted by a knock on the door that turns out to be Sam and Dean with a cunning plan to sell them a new story about Mordechai with the expectation that they’ll broadcast it on their website. So, now we have the brothers purposefully crafting the rumour mill into something they can use to kill the tulpa. Hence the brothers act as conscious authors of the story, who take existing narratives and mould them to their own purpose – as opposed to hack writers who trot out old tropes and cliches unconsciously and without authorial intention. This is a theme that will become especially important in Kripke’s final season and, here, we see foreshadowed the moment in season 5 when Sam and Dean consciously hijack the narrative that the angels and demons have been blindly following and use it to defeat destiny and write their own story.
😁
The brothers grab a bite at a local diner while they wait for the story to be uploaded and the new version to start spreading. Dean is entertaining himself by pulling a string to make the fisherman laugh. Sam, it seems, is not so entertained.
Like an attention seeking toddler Dean, of course, pulls the string again and Sam grabs it and gives him bitch-face #203, the death glare of doom.
However, we presently learn that Sam’s grumpy act is actually a cunning mask. In reality, he is inwardly smirking because he knows his brother is about to fall prey to his pre-prepared prank.
And then he crowns his victory by pulling the cord himself and accompanying the fishermen with his own joyous peal of laughter.
Something else you can still enjoy is the classic Supernatural fan meme that used this episode to parody the old Mastercard commercial. I found a copy of it on Pinterest:
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/for-everything-else-there-is-credit-card-fraud--599471400374676891/
😆
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In the next scene we learn that Ed and Harry aren’t, in fact, streaming their website out of their mom’s basement as Dean supposed, so he did them an injustice there. They’re operating from a campervan in a trailer park, so that’s much better, right? 😉
We learn that Harry has been spooked by his close encounter with an actual spirit, so Ed is trying to bolster his morale with the promise that “this is our ticket to the big time right here. Fame, money, sex . . .”
OK, I confess. I thought that was funny 😆
“Be brave,” Ed says. “WWBD. What Would Buffy Do. huh?”
I was also amused to see Supernatural taking a swipe at its nineties predecessor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that spawned SPN and all the noughties shows like it.
They’re interrupted by a knock on the door that turns out to be Sam and Dean with a cunning plan to sell them a new story about Mordechai with the expectation that they’ll broadcast it on their website. So, now we have the brothers purposefully crafting the rumour mill into something they can use to kill the tulpa. Hence the brothers act as conscious authors of the story, who take existing narratives and mould them to their own purpose – as opposed to hack writers who trot out old tropes and cliches unconsciously and without authorial intention. This is a theme that will become especially important in Kripke’s final season and, here, we see foreshadowed the moment in season 5 when Sam and Dean consciously hijack the narrative that the angels and demons have been blindly following and use it to defeat destiny and write their own story.
S5E04 “The End”
The brothers subtly drop the idea of the new Mordechai story into Ed and Harry’s consciousness then walk away. I especially love Sam’s surreptitious little grin as the hellhound boys bite:
😁
The brothers grab a bite at a local diner while they wait for the story to be uploaded and the new version to start spreading. Dean is entertaining himself by pulling a string to make the fisherman laugh. Sam, it seems, is not so entertained.
Like an attention seeking toddler Dean, of course, pulls the string again and Sam grabs it and gives him bitch-face #203, the death glare of doom.
However, we presently learn that Sam’s grumpy act is actually a cunning mask. In reality, he is inwardly smirking because he knows his brother is about to fall prey to his pre-prepared prank.
And then he crowns his victory by pulling the cord himself and accompanying the fishermen with his own joyous peal of laughter.
The beauty of the full unfettered Sammy laugh. Enjoy it while ye may . . .
Something else you can still enjoy is the classic Supernatural fan meme that used this episode to parody the old Mastercard commercial. I found a copy of it on Pinterest:
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/for-everything-else-there-is-credit-card-fraud--599471400374676891/
😆
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