Fan Video of the Week: Supernatural Reflections 13.08 “The Scorpion and the Frog”

“Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.” ― Jenna Dewan

A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks the scorpion why, the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so.

With that lesson I offer you the word for this article, “essence“, and this next video.

 

Sam&Dean~Fix You {+13×08}//Supernatural//Winchesters by: MysticSwan

 

Fix You by Coldplay

When you try your best, but you don’t succeed

When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below

When you’re too in love to let it go
But if you never try you’ll never know
Just what you’re worth

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down your face

When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

 

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead singer and pianist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL). After they formed under the name Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as drummer and backing vocalist, completing the lineup. Creative director and former manager Phil Harvey is often referred to as the fifth member by the band.[3] The band renamed themselves “Coldplay” in 1998, before recording and releasing three EPs: Safety in 1998 and Brothers & Sisters and The Blue Room in 1999. The Blue Room was their first release on a major label, after signing to Parlophone.

 

Coldplay achieved worldwide fame with the release of the song “Yellow” in 2000, followed in the same year by their debut album Parachutes, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. The band’s second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), was released to critical acclaim and won awards including NME’s Album of the Year. Their next release, X&Y, the best-selling album worldwide in 2005, received mostly positive reviews, though some critics felt it was inferior to its predecessor. Their fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), was produced by Brian Eno and released to largely positive reviews, earning several Grammy Award nominations and wins at the 51st Grammy Awards. In October 2011, Coldplay released their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto, which topped the charts in over 34 countries, was the UK’s best-selling rock album of 2011, and received mixed to positive reviews. In May 2014, they released their sixth album, Ghost Stories, which also received mixed to positive reviews and topped several national album charts. In December 2015, the band released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, which reached the top two in most major markets, but received generally mixed reviews.

 

Coldplay have won 85 awards from 252 nominations throughout their career, including nine Brit Awards, six MTV Video Music Awards, seven MTV Europe Music Awards and seven Grammy Awards from 32 nominations. They have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Three albums, Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head, and X&Y, are among the best-selling albums in UK chart history. In December 2009, Rolling Stone readers voted the group the fourth-best artist of the 2000s. Coldplay have supported various social and political causes, such as Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair campaign and Amnesty International. They have also performed at charity projects including Band Aid 20, Live 8, Global Citizen Festival, Sound Relief, Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, One Love Manchester, The Secret Policeman’s Ball, Sport Relief and the UK Teenage Cancer Trust.

 

Quotes

Barthamus: I’m a crossroads demon, Sam. After Crowley’s promotion to King of Hell, the crossroads demon. Helping people is what I do, my raison d’etre.

 

Dean: All right, well, I’ve seen this movie a thousand times. Some asshat too fancy to get his hands dirty plans a job, swears it’ll all go smooth, and it does… until bang! And everything goes screaming off the rails, and it’s our asses.
Sam: Dean…
Dean: You know he’s gonna screw us over first chance he gets.
Sam: Not if we screw him over first. Listen, we want that spell, right? I mean, we need that spell. We definitely don’t want Asmodeus getting his hands on it. So let’s do this, have him hand over the other half of the spell…
Dean: And then?
Sam: And then, like you said… We kill him.

 

Dean: You okay?.
Sam: Yeah, not really. Not exactly the best day, you know?
Dean: Well, it’s not the worst. We did save somebody. That felt good.
Sam: Yeah. Yeah, it did. But… back to square one with Jack.
Dean: We’ll figure something else out. And if that doesn’t work, then we’ll move on to the next, and then whatever’s after that. We just keep working, ’cause it’s what we do.
Sam: It feels really good to hear you talk like that again.
Dean: I’ll drink to that.

 

Music

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Trivia and Minutiae

One of the paintings the demon can be seen passing by in the museum is St. Jerome and the Angel of the Judgment.

 

Dean: There was supposed to be a safe, not some Dollar Store Indiana Jones crap.
In the Indiana Jones movies, the titular hero often faces elaborate puzzles which must be solved in order for him to reach his goal. Indiana is also famously afraid of snakes.

 

The building used for the front of the Cambridge Museum is The Permanent, an event space in Vancouver. The interior set was previously used as an abandoned bank inhabited by Boris’ vampire nest in 6.05 Live Free or Twihard and a bank robbed by Dr. Dwight Mahoney in 8.08 Hunteri Heroici.

 

References

 

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Cover art by: Alice @Alice_Mars_Mann, Her Instagram

 

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