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3. 'A Supernatural Christmas' end scene.
Funnily, this is not really a favourite episode of mine. As I was telling Toni, 'Dead in the Water' is, but none of my top ten favourite scenes came from that episode, while a scene from this episode landed on my Top Three!
To me, the end scene here more than made up for the rather lack-lustre episode ( to me ). This came right after the flashback scene where young!Sam gave his brother the amulet as a Christmas gift.
I LOVE it when the camera pans directly to Dean's amulet here, a direct reference to another time, another place, another Christmas.
Ta-da! Sam looks a bit nervous whilst Dean looks on in wonderment. That Sam would do this, when earlier on Sam had said "If you want to have Christmas, knock yourself out. Just don't involve me.". It hurts me when Sam said that, though Dean's face was unreadable.
Sam : "It's Christmas!" - his face all expectant.
Dean : "What made you change your mind?"
Sam didn't answer, handed Dean an egg-nog instead.
Gift times! Dean gives Sam a skin mag and a shaving cream ( I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere about the shaving cream. Maybe Dean's teasing Sam about not having to shave as often as Dean does - hence Sam's a girl? ). Dean loves Sam's gifts to him - "Fuel for me and fuel for my baby." Classic line, that.
"Merry Christmas, bro." Lovelovelove that. I think that's the only time Dean ever calls Sam "bro".
Sam : "Hey, Dean. Should we watch the game?"
Dean : "Absolutely."
What a lovely, homey scene this is, Sam and Dean watching the games, drinking egg-nogs *MELTS* Slight Wincesty observation - Sam's arm across the back of the sofa looks ... inviting ...
With the Impala watching over her boys. Note that their room is number 12. They seem to love the number 12, our boys. They had room number 12 in 'Tall Tales' and their room in 'Jus In Belo' would be number 12, too.
Is it just me, or did Sam and Dean looked rather awkward around each other in that scene? Not the bad kind of awkward though, but the good, fumbling-we've-never-done-this kind of awkward. It's so cute the way they stole glances at each other! And just think of the effort Sam took to decorate the room while Dean went to get the beer. And the gifts - Sam wrapped his in a piece of newspaper, just the way he did years ago when he gave Dean the amulet, with Dean's a little better in brown paper. The adage that it's the thought that counts has never rung truer than it was with the boys here.
Dean's face was pure happiness, as was Sam's. And that last shot before the credit runs is pure Perfection. This scene gives me the warmest and fuzziest feeling, ever. I love it so very, very much. And
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i_o_r_h_a_e_l wrote a gorgeous drabble to that scene here.Four : Two
Caps from here and here.
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Date: 2008-09-15 10:31 am (UTC)All i can sya is just repeat myself - awesome scene and very poignant for understanding their r-ship.
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Date: 2008-09-15 11:14 am (UTC)"'Dead in the Water' is, but none of my top ten favourite scenes came from that episode, while a scene from this episode landed on my Top Three!"
It's interesting that you say this, because I was the same. I got to the end of my list thinking, where is Dead in the Water? Yet there were scenes from episodes that I wouldn't consider favourite episodes...
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Date: 2008-09-15 02:04 pm (UTC)I was trying to figure out the shaving cream, and it could be as simple as Dean had noticed Sam was running low, so that was the thoughtful gift, and the skin mags were the gag gift. But I wish they'd explained it a little more.
I read recently that Jared did add quite a bit of "kick" to the eggnog Jensen was going to drink, so Dean's reaction was pretty realistic.
The whole thing is so sweet, and of course, Sam doesn't know how to say, "I love you and I'm going to miss you, and I can't stand the thought." And Dean's not going to help him say it, not even a little! Oh, boys. You're such...boys. And Winchesters. But yeah, this is probably about as close as they ever get to a "normal" evening at home.
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Date: 2008-09-15 02:15 pm (UTC)Omg, seriously? Because that's so awesome, and just like something Jared would do. I noticed that Jensen did look a bit surprised, but he carried on, ever the proffesional. I wonder how he got back to Jared :D
"I love you and I'm going to miss you, and I can't stand the thought."
It was said, only not out loud. Boys ... they speak without speaking
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Date: 2008-09-15 02:34 pm (UTC)Despite the scenes we see on the gag reels, of all the times they end up cracking each other up, I wonder how many times one of them does something the other isn't expecting, prank or not, and the other just carries on? I admit, seems more likely for Jared to do something unexpected, and Jensen to try to keep going. But then there's the "I miss your musk" thing and that was all Jensen! But you know, they could have a whole hour of gag reel stuff, and I wouldn't mind! I'm sure there's a lot they don't show us, and maybe some of it is actually boring, but if it's the boys, I'd watch it anyway. I mean, I'd watch them reading the newspaper, you know?
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Date: 2008-09-15 03:03 pm (UTC)I'd watch them doing their laundry!
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Date: 2008-09-15 02:52 pm (UTC)Poor Jensen. Jared keeps surprising him. Remember, Jensen is very hard to break and I wonder if Jared ever tried to kiss him. I can see the scene now:
Director: Action!
Jared: *smooch*
Jensen: Huh?....dude, wtf?! *hisses* We're not at home!
Director: Cut!
Jared: Gotcha! *laughs*
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Date: 2008-09-15 03:05 pm (UTC)And Jensen would be so pissy at Jared the rest of the day because of that!!
:D
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Date: 2008-09-15 05:16 pm (UTC)Just imagining the beginning of the song makes me all teary. Their last Christmas, oh dear. *sobs*
And - :O Thank you for the mention of the fic! *jumps you*
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Date: 2008-09-16 05:45 am (UTC)I cannot wait for the new series this week, except I am a little worried that the whole tone of the boys relationship will have irrefutably changed, and we may never quite have the same camaraderie between them 5hat we had before. I feel that the experience they had both endured will have changed them forever!!
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Date: 2008-09-17 02:14 pm (UTC)*flails*
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Date: 2008-09-17 02:57 pm (UTC)*imagines Dean shuddering*
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:03 pm (UTC)*smishes you*