Robin’s Rambles: Supernatural 10.05 “Fan Fiction”

Wasn’t that wonderful? I loved so many things about it! I give it a solid 10.

All the SPN beginnings!

Baby’s engine looks brand new.

“We got work to do…!”

Supernatural, the Musical. Bobby! Mary on the ceiling! All those FBI badges! “Classic rock”, protests Dean.

BM scene. “Standing too close”, Dean exclaims. Subtext. Lol!

Sam plays with the tech stuff.

Space in Supernatural? Dean becomes a chick? Dean reveals the true Winchester history, but the author laughs–she hates it. Bad fan fiction!

Destiel subtext. Sex. “Deestiel. Samstiel?” Sam speculates. No case here. Missing teacher isn’t missing… “Casdean?”

Another girl is taken–dragged off by a scarecrow. Now there’s a case! A flower is a clue in both cases. Maggie was trying to get the show shut down, a scarecrow took her.

“It’s all real”, the Winchesters introduce, but the girls don’t believe them; they’re more like Rufus and Bobby.

Tulpa? Sam doubts it. He thinks it’s something else. Dean burns the stupid-looking prop scarecrow anyway. “It’s Calliope”, says Sam, and she must die. They must go on with the show and kill her before she eats the author.

While Sam rounds up stakes, Dean calms Marie down. He says she must believe in her play so they can kill Calliope. Marie vows to do so, for Sam, who is sweet, brave and selfless. She puts on her Sam wig, as she is now writer, director and actor. She’s gonna “Barbra Streisand this bitch!”

Show night! Dean sees the appearance of the amulet, the necklace that shows the brotherly love between the Winchesters.

They all agree they love Supernatural, but when Sam asks where Chuck is, Marie says she hates when authors intrude on the narrative and she hates the meta stories. The brothers agree (ironic, since this entire 200th ep is all meta, all the time).

Dean gives a pep talk, urging all to bring Marie’s vision to life—“kick it in the ass!” (for Kim Manners, sniffle). They whoa, hands up with the “Ghostfacers” cheer.

The play goes on, confusion reigning as real and false supernatural creatures vie for stage time. Dean enjoys the songs and sways his head to the music. Then he realizes Sam is gone.

Sam awakens to find himself imprisoned in the school basement with the kidnapped teacher and student. Calliope repels Sam against the wall and tells him he’s going to miss the big show.

As Cas sings a plaintive song about Dean, the real Dean tells Marie to keep the show going until Calliope comes for her. The audience is enjoying the play.

Calliope tells Sam she’s going to devour him and Dean–BEFORE the show, which she hates, ends.

StageSam sings a song about a single man tear. Then a real scarecrow threatens the actors. Dean attacks. There is a fight onstage between them while the singing goes on. Stabbing!

“Why Supernatural?” Sam asks Calliope. Everything, she says–Life, death, resurrection, redemption, but above all, family–and toe-tapping music. It’s epic–and that is my bag of tea. The student slams a book on Calliope’s head while Sam kept her occupied.

“No chick flick moments!” yells Marie, stabbing the scarecrow with a stake. At the same moment, Sam stabs Calliope with a stake. Both explode. The front rows of the theater are showered with blue-gray fluid; the audience gives a standing ovation.  Sam and his group are also splashed in blue-gray too.

Maeve advises Sam to cut his hair; he’d make a pretty good Dean. Lol!

Dean urges Marie to keep writing. He tells her that seeing the story from her point of view has been educational. She hands him the amulet and says he never should have thrown it away. Dean assures her he doesn’t need a symbol to remind him how he feels about his brother. “Just take it, jerk”, she says. “Bitch” he retaliates.

The brothers watch the “BM scene” and decide it’s time to go back on the road. They even get teary as the cast sings “Carry On Wayward Son”. One of the singers, they remind the brothers, is Adam, the third brother still trapped in the cage with Lucifer.

Sam and Dean tear off in the Impala, on the road again. I think we won’t be seeing the bunker again for a long time, if ever. Dean hangs the amulet from the rearview mirror, eliciting a throat lump from me and probably others.

Marie got a surprise visitor at the end of the play– Chuck! He picked up the author’s ticket and dubbed her play “not bad.”

No questions this week. I just want to know, do you agree? If so, why? If not, why not?