Supernatural 13x20 Full Reaction!

You know, at this point, the question, “What am I watching?” seems pretty standard stuff with this show. Yes, how you described: Kind of haunting, kind of sad, kind of sweet, (and whatever you want to call Gabriel’s shenanigans,) that sums up this episode. Gabriel was wearing many hats in this one. Not too much to say that you didn’t. Heart does take a hit from the teachable moments that Jack went through. Knew you wouldn’t love Kevin’s death. Likewise, knew it would get you when he talked about his mom. You said it well of Jack’s youth, combined with his power level, you get the overconfidence. Heavy subjects contrasting with Gabriel’s shit. Good recall with the Odinson stuff. Damn, you were fast with clocking the Loki of it all. They do tip you off with the Norse mythology. It is very you to clock more based on the color scheme, so that’s fun. More on that in a sec. Gabriel goes to the boys, fills them in. We both had strong reactions to Dean reminding Gabriel about the porn stars part of the story, and the subsequent rewind to include said porn stars. Love your own reaction and comment saying “Unnecessary.” at that part. The way Dean gets lost in it with that stupid smile and his disappointed look when Sam says skip to the end, at this point I just want to choke Dean by the throat until he’s either blue in the face, or he gets his priorities sorted, whichever comes first. Sweet it is, the pride you have in Dean for his assessment on the revenge business. Good notes as well about how the boys get called out for having been in the revenge business, and are saying what they said to Gabriel about it, like with Rowena calling them out for going to great lengths to bring family back. Loki came to play, and distracting it is that he doesn’t look like Matt Damon. His words do seem to rouse something in Gabriel as he joins the team up. Though he never does say “No tricks.”, good catch. Leads to the talk the boys had. Good on Sam for calling Dean out how they didn’t really talk about Sam being benched in the last visit to Apocalypse land. Dean brings up the old trauma and says he can’t lose his little brother. The general sentiment, I get it. There is the flip side of Sam doesn’t want to lose Dean. Losing his big brother isn’t something he wants to go through. As I’m the little brother myself, I get it how Dean’s saying if one of them dies first, it needs to be him, as the pain from losing Sam would be too much. I’ve been aware of the general feeling of that which is why I can’t be the first to die between my brother and myself. Oddly sweet then that Sam makes the declaration that if it happens, they go together. As to you showing tremendous trust in the Supernatural fandom to open up as you did, I applaud the bravery. The OCD battles are never easy to talk about. I’ve had my share. You’ve spoken before how reactions being off the cuff can get put through the OCD wringer. I get that, and reiterate how I’ve done live theatre, and even with the rehearsal, the OCD still kicks up a fuss. The more specific point of worrying about forgetting something from many seasons ago, I fully get that one too. Though memory of stuff is strong, there are times when you have that, “Who’s that again?” thing, or something similar. This show being as long as it is, and how many years you’ve been at it, it makes sense that the fear is strong. In this case, you did have the good memory. And as you say, it says how far you’ve come when you say that if this was 2023 or 2024, the OCD would have caused a spiral, where as here, though you say the OCD was felt, it was nothing to the level of what it could have been. Very glad to hear the progress made. And I get the bad years. Summer of 2022, the OCD went to town something fierce, particularly as a lot of that year was processing 2021, which was probably the worst year of my life thus far. January seems to be a strong month of bad OCD for me as the month’s been full of it. Same as you said, you learn to live with the OCD. As our dear Mr. Monk is fond of saying, “It’s a gift. And a curse.” Never does go away. The shit that’s in our heads with that is never something that ever fully gets better, or at least in my case, it’s never fully getting better. In your case, I’m just appreciative of what you shared, and again, I applaud the bravery to open up. Thank you for all that you said, Jess.

Thomas Corp