Dean

would absofuckinglutely give the shovel talk. it would be the most stereotypically dad mode shovel talk, but like. with extremely convincing detail.

just like. "look at me, Chad. Chad, do you know what happens to the human body when you expose it to potassium hydroxide?"

only very, very slightly toned down from this energy:If somebody stole the Impala, what would you do? - S...

Jack

fully gave the shovel talk to fucking Lucifer in abraxas lmao

it was simultaneously not very intimidating but also extremely passionate

and then ended it with "So. That's- that's pretty much it. I'll kill you, and... stuff. Okay, good talk." which kind of undermined his energy a little

but he got the point across

Sandor

Wouldn't say shit, he'd just stand there. Very loudly. He'd very loudly and pointedly stand there, making direct eye contact, looking like he'd fucking straight up just murder a man.

The communication would be crystal clear.

omg i love jack's shovel talk to lucifer. <3_<3 i only really think of shovel talks as being like ...to someone the person is dating but you could in fact give it to anyone!

also, because i can: bucky, jesse swanson, and eliot (if you can still summon him from the ether; i know he's not on the "ask" list, i just love him)

(man, i need to redo my muselist)

Bucky

Would not give a talk. Sort of like Sandor, he would instead stand right behind the person he's shovel talking on behalf of, with his arms folded across his chest — particularly the metal one — glaring at them as a warning. the difference between them being

he would quip out some dark one-liner shit like "Try not to fall down the stairs, Mike... we'd hate to see you have an accident..."

Jesse

would smile very charmingly, clap someone on the shoulder, look them in the eyes and cheerfully inform them, "If you hurt her, I will find you" pat pat them and walk away.

Eliot

on behalf of someone like margo or like... almost any fierce bitch he's friends with, would say something like

"Oh, I don't need to. She'll do it herself, and she'll be much more creative about it. I saw her turn a hotdog inside out with her mind once. Good luck~"

LOVE these. (And then Jesse would also destroy them in song. I mean what.)
I can almost hear the ‘oh~I don’t need to” in Hale’s cadence, haha

(Margo WOULD, too. Ugh, I think SO OFTEN about playing a Magicians character, now that my rage at the writers over the last season is like...a manageable simmer and I can get back to enjoying the parts I loved so much. but I almost like them all TOO much? I’d be so self conscious about getting the voice.)

i still need to watch the final season, i never managed to get there and every time i try i drop the ball lmao but i love that show a lot

I meaaan I don’t personally think there’s anything wrong per se with just pretending it ends at s4e12/an alt ending to e13 BUT I have shows I haven’t finished and it always bothers me so I get it

I love it too (with my obvious bias excluded) -- I think that’s why I’m SO judgy: the first few seasons are SO good, the characters are so good...

u right but also my big ship is penny23/julia and i hear they finally get together in that so it'll be worth for me lol

Ahh yeah you’ll enjoy that part! They’re probably the ONLY ones who get a satisfying ship out of the show lol

i have heard the bad spoilers for a lot of folks and it's very disappointing

Yeah I also just like. Feel bad for the actors, Hale especially tbh, bc before/into s4 he and Jason were interviewed a LOT about Quentin and Eliot and he was clearly happy to be playing out this slow burn kind of thing that also reveals a lot of growth for Eliot (and Quentin!), as a queer guy. and then like ....oh well!

yeahhhhhhhh they just

straight up ripped that shit away and did hale dirty

add him to the list of "send your gays to superhell" i think he's an honorary member

YEP
I know she wasn’t still working on SPN at gays in superhell but I feel like somehow Sera Gamble has to do with this lol

i will fucking always be down to blame sera gamble for anything wrong with supernatural

i had to watch season seven live, as it was airing, with my own two eyes, every week

i will never forgive

Hahaha GOD. I’m prettty sure that was the season I tapped out

most people did and i cannot blame them

however

it means they missed season 8 which imo is one of the beast seaons of the show

(after 4 and 5 obviously)

i call it season gr8

You’re the one with the ‘start at s7’ theory (or after?) right? I feel like that probably IS true bc then you aren’t expecting it to be early supernatural

I have to look up now what was going on in which season

nope

i am the start at s4 theory

start at s4 and then guide folks through all the eps in s6 and s7 to skip, there are many

that are wholly not important and not good and drag it out so long you're likely to quit; you just gotta kinda power through those with only the plot relevant eps or the 1 or 2 that are worth it

and then you're kinda good for a while, and then around s11 through half of s14 you start skipping... quite a lot again

Oh no Plurk is clearly skipping comments here. Time to quit and reopen. Sorry if I’ve been making no sense

Ahh start at s4, it is you who I was remembering but not what season it was. But that makes MORE sense logistically, and also still kinda holds true for people who really liked early supernatural and got worn out (or just weren’t ready for) the long god game

though I feel like I might’ve survived to s8 via your method even starting at the beginning lol

Like, if I KNEW the whole thing was going to change and also to just hit fast forward on a lot of shit, I think i’dve gotten there. But DAMN. Also the summaries I found are via someone asking Reddit for paragraph season summaries and they’re kind of hilarious

when i started at abraxas we kicked up an Spn group watch with a good chunk of people and with this method and the grace of the good lord almighty we did manage to get them through all the way to the end

it took a fuckin age, but we did it

that’s an accomplishment! just in number of hours! lol

when the show finally ended I was like ‘it’s been on HOW long- how OLD am I? What - there must be a mistake here somewhere’

truly a shambling beast of spare parts and disdain by the end