Lolz I remember I edited the supernatural fandom wiki page for this episode to include drake vs kendrick in the trivia but it got changed back in a few weeks
Best characterization of Death in TV or Movies ever and Ill stand by it. Julian Richings is by all accounts a totally unassuming and not very physically imposing person, But, there is never a time when he's speaking where you're not compelled to listen to every word. This character is what people unconsciously think of when they try to conceptualize Death as an entity. Calm and astute, but his words carry a ton of weight and purpose and with the tiniest shade of malice. Absolutely perfect cast and character
i love how sam at first trying to move but when dean his elder brother scolded and said him to sit quitely and answer cas then sam be like okay brother no more resistent.
Just talking to Dean versus Sam you can see the difference. Jean is more hardened and doesn’t want to except some stuff but Sam would’ve accepted his own loses. When death talks to Dean I can’t help but feel there’s a level of trying open the eyes of ‘don’t throw your life away so easily because it’s more valuable then you can do ever know or understand.’
This scene actually shows that Death actually does have empathy. He sympathizes with Dean here because he knows how much he values innocent lives other than his own. I mean he got a lethal injection just to talk to him about getting his brother’s soul back. Death wanted him to understand how impermanent ALL life was including his. He did it because he actually liked Dean. He certainly wouldn’t bother with anyone or anything that has no interest to him. Dean was so determined to fix everything except himself that Death decided to give him something that would keep him on his mission to protect the world.
I think it's rather clever that Death would enjoy cheap junkfood, given that cheap junkfood causes heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, the leading causes of, well, Death.
I always LOVED how no matter how tough or dangerous the monster was Dean always lipped off at them and was brave. But as soon as Death shows up from time-to-time he is timid, stammering and with his head down.
fun fact, in Back To The Future Part 3, when marty comes out of the bathroom in the cowboy outfit, on the wall there's posters for this and Tarantula, which both are clint eastwoods first movies
"Heavier than it looks" This right here is why death gets so much respect. Not only is he pretty much omnipotent, but he's seen it all. Every rape death, every war death, every death from an abusive household, every mugging, every drowning, every torture. He's seen every single one of them. Its why he's so emotionally numb and...calm. Nothing phases him when he's seen ALL of humanity's evil since time was even a thing. Imo Dean got off easy with the little girl with the sickness. Imagine if Death gave him one where a child was in an abusive household and he couldn't do anything but watch. It would break him mentally. Death never rigged Dean's test. Absolutely none of us would be able to pass it
Yeah, Dean spouts off "it was rigged from the beginning" and honestly he's right. But it's not Death who did the rigging. It was humanity that did it. So Dean gets to see behind the curtain for a day and with barely a glance he doesn't quite understand that this wasn't Death rigging it against him. If anything, Death was being nice and picking a day where not a lot of bad happened.
I used to think Death did rig it to teach Dean a lesson, but it does occur to me that Death wouldn't have to deny it because Dean couldn't do anything about it anyway. I now think it's more that Death knew Dean would try to stop it and fuck up, but had faith that Dean would then learn his lesson and fix it. Not rigging the test, just knowing the likely outcome because Dean fixing it in the end after learning his lesson WAS the test.
Actually, Dean could have gotten involved in an abusive household scene and messed up the order even more. The rule wasn’t he couldn’t interact with people, the rule is that while wearing that ring, when he touches someone they died right? So girl getting beaten by the dad, and Dean touches the dad and kills him. Then girl ends up in foster care, and the next parent is even worse. Sexual abuse, not feeding her, things can always get worse. Just ask anyone who’s lived in foster care.
I love when they come up with a non-stop barrage of references in response to one sequence. Just like with the credits to MITCHELL: "It's Bigfoot!" "It's the Wrathful Buddha!"
the thing is, sam doesn't have a soul, meaning he doesn't have the same emotions he did when he DID have one. so, while cas taking off his belt and sam thinking about.. uhh.. THAT, he was a bit shocked but he wasn't completely against the idea. whereas the sam WITH a soul would've freaked out. you're welcome, fujoshis
I videotaped this episode off UHF TV in 1996. A young Latina sat on our couch and watched it. She enjoyed it. She wished Trumpy was real. Eli Roth must be a fan of Susana Bequer. He put her in Hostel Part II(2006).
This episode is the whole reason why Death is one of my all time favorite characters. I hated when Billie replaced him mostly because I found her more controlling and annoying 😂
always loved this scene for a plethora of reasons. not the least of which is we get to see Dean genuinely cowed and intimidated. Not knocking Dean at all, i mean it IS Death. just that he has faced so much danger and death with such fearlessness that seeing him like this is a stark contrast to his normal, "i don't care who or what you are, screw you" type of attitude. the living embodiment of death, one of the extreme few able to genuinely humble Dean. that alone is a feat lol
Cas did that full aware that he didn't have a soul to begin with....I mean he did take him out of hell so He was the angel who " gripped him tight and raised him from perdition" So he knew all this already....
