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walk-on parts in the war
PILOT: LOL WAT IS DIS MOOSIC. The music is the only difference as far as I can tell. How does this work, was this meant to be any kind of final draft at all, or was the music just a slapdash placemarker for less lolzy music to be put in later? Sam's walking Dean to the car after he breaks into the apartment, and there are ~ORCHESTRAL STRINGS in the background. Sam and Jess make out to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", and the young man picks up the white lady to "99 Problems". CUTE, GUYS. Speaking of which, how YOUNG they look! Dean's eyes were like superbig.
MOST INTERESTING THOUGH, is when Sam is at that Halloween party in the beginning, and his friend said something like, "Why doesn't your family know about your pre-law successes?" and Sam replied, "Because, we're not exactly the Bradys."
:-O There he is! There's Brady! And his apparently close-knit family! What, he's totally one of those dudes that goes by his last name. Speaking of demonic possession, right:
THE RAPTURE: Was Amelia already possessed by the time they left the house?! WHEN DID SHE GET POSSESSED. WAS IT BEFORE AFTER HER GOODBYE HEARTBREAK WITH JIMMY? It's gotta be before, right, because soon after the men left, she was whaling on Claire. So AMELIA NEVER REALLY GOT TO SAY GOODBYE AT ALL. The entire time in the car, the demon was laughing at her. Her mouth is saying "I'm not going anywhere without you, Jimmy" and the demon is saying how she'll kill him nice and slow, Claire too, and asks Amelia if she knows just how much blood there is in a human body, if she'd like to see. ARGH. FOR A YEAR NOW, Amelia has been trying to get her life back on track, A YEAR, and then Jimmy comes back and holy shit and then HOLY SHIT, and the next thing she knows her husband is dying. The next thing she knows, her husband is no longer her husband and walking out of her life all over again. fjdslfsd FUCK. NOVAKS. ARGH. CAS, YOU GIANT DOUCHE. NO CLOSURE FOR ANYONE EVERRRRRRR.
Jimmy's "Can I see her?" will never not break me. ;___;
Does that mean it's... maybe it's time, maybe it's time for a mini-picspam of the collateral damage we call the Novaks?
D: #1 -- THE HUG
D: #2 -- CLAIRE USING THE COAT FOR A BLANKET
D: #3 -- POST-DEMONIC SHOWDOWN MOTHER(??)-DAUGHTER MOMENT
D: #4 -- "WE'LL CROSS THAT BRIDGE WHEN WE GET TO IT."
D: #5 -- "TAKE CARE OF YOUR MOM."
D: #6 -- TTYL, d00dz!
D: #7 -- Castiel has no time for little girls doubled over in shock.
D: #8 -- THE NEXT THING SHE KNOWS
Okay off to do stuff for real this time.
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Jess and Sam before the party: unaired, Green Day, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, "I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known", which is, uh, not Stanford Sam. Aired, Ginger, Gasoline, "I'm gonna fly high, I'm gonna fall fall fall", which is much more in keeping with Sam's character.
At the party: unaired, 50 Cent, Disco Inferno. Pings my racism and sexism buttons all to hell. Aired, Classic, What Cha Gonna Do. Can't find lyrics for the whole song but the parts in the episode don't ping anything objectionable.
When whatshisface stops for Constance: unaired, Jay-Z, 99 Problems. Anything's better than that. Can't say I like Eagles of Death Metal, Speaking in Tongues, which is what aired, but it's so much better than 99 Problems. (Why the hell didn't the show name ep ninety-nine 99 Luftballons? "Panic bells, it's red alert, something here from somewhere else", "call the troops out in a hurry, this is what we've waited for, this is it, boys, this is war", it's thematically appropriate and not fucking misogynistic!)
At the gas station: unaired, ZZ Top, La Grange, the song's about a brothel. Aired, Allman Brothers, Ramblin' Man, which is so very Dean.
With the tapes: unaired, Metallica, Enter Sandman. Woulda been nice to have that, but aired, AC/DC, "back in black, I hit the sack, been too long, I'm glad to be back, yes I'm let loose from the noose that's kept me hanging about", and I'm very strongly of the opinion that it isn't hunting Sam was running from. It never was. He loves hunting. What he hates is feeling like his life's not his own. And at this point in the series, that feeling's all tied up in John. And some with Dean, but that's whenever Dean sides with John—I'm also of the opinion that Sam was completely blindsided when Dean sided with John over Stanford, because however much Dean mocks Sam about schoolwork, it's entirely because of Dean that Sam was good enough to get into Stanford. So Sam's back on the road, there's a hunt just ahead, it's entirely his choice, and John's nowhere in sight. The lyrics of Back in Black seem entirely apropos. Enter Sandman...I love the song, I'm sure Dean loves the song, I'm sure Sam doesn't hate the song, but the lyrics don't fit the situation.
When Dean and Sam are talking about going to Colorado vs going to Palo Alto, it's AC/DC, Highway to Hell, both times. Which supports my above theory, because check this out:
DEAN
Sounds charming. How far?
MUSIC
Don't need reason
SAM
About six hundred miles.
MUSIC
Don't need rhyme
DEAN
Hey, if we shag ass we could make it by morning.
MUSIC
Ain't nothing I would rather do
SAM looks at him, hesitating.
SAM
Dean, I, um...
Sam wants to go hunting with Dean. He's got Jess (and the Stanford Law interview and a GPA to maintain and probably a job as a bouncer at one of the local bars), and that's compelling reason to go back to Stanford, but there's nothing he'd rather do than go hunting with Dean.
And I need to fix that wiki page, I know where in the ep My Cheatin' Ways plays, but I don't know what was there in the unaired pilot. (And My Cheatin' Ways is instrumental anyway.)
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Interestingly I was watching Vampire Diaries, which came before SPN, yeah? And in one episode they were playing 'When the Levee Breaks' and I was like XDDDD. I wanna say the songs SPN chose in the aired pilot were less cheesy and not so pandering or lazy, but strictly speaking I don't know if this is true ahaha. It's just that I associate SPN with a certain type of music, so watching the unaired pilot with its dramatic strings and Jay-Z and Green Day just made me go lolwut.
I'm very strongly of the opinion that it isn't hunting Sam was running from. It never was. He loves hunting. What he hates is feeling like his life's not his own.
I agree with this a lot. I like the bit of fanon where Sam went on a couple of hunts by himself in Stanford because he couldn't help himself, he couldn't just sit by and let that werewolf eat people when he knew he could do something about it.