14x09 Discussion Post - "The Spear"

[dorkilysoulless]

So hey! Mid-season finale! How's everybody doing?

Comments

[cathyw]

They finally hit the alcohol-grade feels emergency.

I mean, it was crystal clear that - starting from the moment Michael remembered Garth - every last event that transpired on screen is something Michael planned, wanted, or allowed to happen. (Hell, I'm not 100% certain Ketch didn't sell them out too; he generally works for the highest bidder and "I won't obliterate you where you stand" is a pretty high bid.) And yet I kept holding on to hope that they'd find some hole in the plan. And they didn't.

(Kind of like the S9 finale? Even without Jensen's crack about "it'll be an eye-opener" I had concluded about 5 minutes after he got the Mark of Cain that Dean was going to be a Knight of Hell by the end of the season... knowing it was coming didn't make it any better.)

Meanwhile the whole episode my brain was screaming at me about how Kansas City was where Dean went to End!Verse... and about how a whole city of hundreds of thousands of people being attacked by/transformed into monsters is going to be the kind of thing the population won't be able to gloss over? if there are news reports about Kansas City being "zoned infected" in the upcoming episode I'm going to expire on the spot.

[lizbobjones]

I forgot that was the endverse city! Oh noooooooooo.

[cathyw]

as I watch (and rewatch, and rewatch, because it's awesome even knowing what's coming) the scene in which Ode to Joy begins to play, I realize the circumstances are even not entirely unlike End!Dean going to confront Lucifer. Through time and effort, they've got the one thing in the universe that they think can harm him... so now it's time for the suicide mission into the archangel's headquarters.

When all is said and done... one brother is being worn by an archangel, the weapon is useless, Kansas City will soon be a monster-infested wasteland, and Sam has no reason to believe Michael will let any of them walk out of there alive.

[lizbobjones]

thanks, I hate it :)

And of course the whole thing was a set up by the angels to teach Dean a lesson to break his will to make him more possess-able by Michael

:))))

[li_izumi]

"Whatever you do, you will always end up here. Whatever choices you make, whatever details you alter, we will always end up—here."

[nemmica]

This is terrible and I love it.

[treefrogie84]

omg yes. that. because they're in *kansas city* and we will always end up here and *runs screaming*