"If only I knew when to stop."

[llywela]

Because I absolutely cannot twist my brain around this episode any longer - herein find recap :-)

And, um, this one got really long again. I just couldn't stop talking, and found my thought process derailing itself off at tangents at regular intervals. Also, there is a vast surfeit of images in there, because...family!!

Must try to scale back a little next time!

Okay, so here it is: many, many pages wherein I ramble on about Dean sleeping, Sam sneaking and Castiel creeping, potential future confrontations and the fate of Castiel's holy tax accountant host, Young John's Jessica to Mary's Sam, Castiel's unhelpful vagueness, the brain-twistiness of time travel, the Campbell family and hunting, inherited personality quirks, pre-Internet research, more brain-twistiness of time travel, why The Family Business should be a spin-off show, Dean's priorities, Azazel, Mary's choice and the fate to which she doomed her family, pre-destination versus free will, secrets and evasion, and much more besides.

To read the recap, click the link below:

"What, are you allergic to straight answers, you son of a bitch?"

Screencaps found at Screencap Paradise and oxoniensis

Comments

[percysowner.livejournal.com]

This is a great recap of the episode. One of the things I look forward to every week is your take on what has happeed.
Just to prove my age

The Impala's licence plate is wrong. It is C-45P4 – it should be KAZ 2Y5. Now, when the licence plate was wrong in What Is And What Should Never Be, that was just one of a number of tiny clues that Dean's experience in that episode was a dream, rather than reality. In this instance, I wonder if there is some other reason it would have been changed in the 35 years that elapse between the events of this episode and the Pilot. Did John, perhaps, change the plates when he went on the run with the boys, after Mary's death? Or did US vehicle registration go through some kind of overhaul between 1973 and 2005?

I owned cars during that period. In Ohio, at least, when you renewed your license plates, you got new plates. If you were willing to pay extra you could keep the same number. If you were cheap, like I was, you got whatever number happened to come up. The idea of keeping the plate and just attaching a little sticker showing the year came much later. So John may well have had several different license plate numbers until he got the one we know so well

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, useful cultural information that allows me to understand! Thanks!

I know nothing about cars, whatsoever. On either side of the Atlantic.