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audio of hannibal stabbing will (without music): super hannigram version

these are the special feature commentary tracks for supernatural seasons 1-9! (there are none for s3 because of the writers’ strike of 2007, alas)

1.01 - Pilot (Eric Kripke, David Nutter, Peter Johnson) 1.04 - Phantom Traveler (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles) 2.01 - In My Time of Dying (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Kim Manners, Cyrus Yavneh) 2.20 - What Is and What Should Never Be (Eric Kripke) 2.21 - All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 (Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble, Bob Singer) 4.03 - In the Beginning (Eric Kripke, Jeremy Carver) 4.21 - When the Levee Breaks (Robert Singer, Sera Gamble) 4.22 - Lucifer Rising (Eric Kripke) 5.04 - The End (Eric Kripke, Bob Singer, Ben Edlund) 6.09 - Clap Your Hands If You Believe… (Sera Gamble, Bob Singer, Ben Edlund) 6.15 - The French Mistake (Sera Gamble, Bob Singer, Ben Edlund) 7.06 - Slash Fiction (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles) 7.10 - Death’s Door (Jim Beaver, Steven Williams) 7.23 - Survival of the Fittest (Sera Gamble, Bob Singer) 8.08 - Hunteri Heroci (Andrew Dabb, Todd Aronauer) 8.12 - As Time Goes By (Bob Singer, Jeremy Carver, Adam Glass) 8.13 - Everybody Hates Hitler (Phil Sgriccia, Ben Edlund) 9.16 - Blade Runners (Mark Sheppard, Brad Buckner, Eugenie Ross-Leming) 9.17 - Mother’s Little Helper (Misha Collins, Adam Glass) 9.20 - Bloodlines (Bob Singer, Andrew Dabb, Jeremy Carver)

SAM

YOUR LEGS

ARE A HAZARD TO YOURSELF AND OTHERS

step 1: cool story idea!!

step 2: how can we make this as SAD AS POSSIBLE

what if Sam had boykinged up and taken over Hell and then destroyed it from within with his law skills

digging up all the ancient rules and exploiting loopholes to screw up the system until none of the demons can get anything done

“whoops, looks like that contract violated clause 92b, guess she gets to keep her soul after all”

“excuse me but have you filed the paperwork for this eternal torment here”

I may not be able to carry the burden that comes along with these trials, but I can carry you.

this is a list of petty complaints about supernatural

the way dean looks at sam throughout the pilot

like nothing could make him happier than having his little brother with him again and he’s terrified sam’s about to leave again at any second

pLEASE

what if part of why sam embraced the powers when dean was dead was because he hoped it would taint him enough to send him to hell so he could see his brother again someday

They fight crime.

what if sam’s college friends made fun of him for being the guy who never knew what was going on with current events, and he’d laugh it off and say he was too busy to keep up with the news

but really he avoided newspapers and the news channel because he felt so guilty every time he didn’t follow up on stories about mysterious disappearances or strange deaths

Sam’s voice snapping Dean out of the Mark-of-Cain-induced rage, with the BGM removed.  well, sort of, there’s still a sort of humming noise that’s also on the “center” dialogue track, but I think that actually makes it cooler

When Ash is talking about individual heavens he says his is “Ash land” and Sam and Dean have “Winchester land.” Not Sam land and Dean land, Winchester land, as in, one heaven.  

Ash said that everyone gets their own heaven and that people “can’t leave their own private Idaho’s.” When Sam asks Ash if the Roadhouse is his heaven, he responds with “Yep, my own personal.” Ash goes on to say he can leave his heaven because he’s “not like most people” otherwise, it is impossible to get into someone else’s heaven. The only other exception is soulmates, who share one heaven. 

When he says this, Sam and Dean don’t make these expressions for no fucking reason. They don’t even try contesting it, there is no hint of doubt or incredulity. Even when they’re at odds with each other, they know what they have isn’t your average brotherly relationship. They wouldn’t just die for each other, they would knowingly spend eternity in hell to protect their brother. They are perfectly aware of what they mean to each other and it makes perfect sense to them that they’re soulmates, they know they’re a special case.

Furthermore, Dean had no trouble walking in on Sam’s memory of that Thanksgiving when he was eleven. There was no great battle or ritual he had to perform to get in. He didn’t use any “special skills” to hack into Sam’s memory the way Ash would have. Sharing a heaven doesn’t necessarily mean they arrive at the same place (they didn’t die at the same time either), or share all the exact same memories (they are two different people, after all), just that their heavens are one, they can walk through each other’s memories interchangeably. Sam was part of Dean’s heaven with the fireworks in that field the same way Dean was part of Sam’s heaven with the field trip they took to the Botanical Gardens, where they find Joshua.

If you’re worried about the lack of Dean in Sam’s memories then you’re forgetting Zachariah. Zachariah is a powerful angel who chased them all around their heaven, a place no other humans or angels are supposed to get to them (you’ll note that even Castiel had a hard time reaching the boys in their heaven). He’s manipulated them before with the voicemail in 4.22 and he was willing to do anything in his power to break the brothers up in order to get Dean to say yes. He was in their heaven, he manipulated a version of Mary into telling Dean she never loved him, he gave her yellow eyes like Azazel, etc. Clearly he was manipulating themin order to try and shake Dean’s faith, not unlike what he did in 5.04, where he showed Dean a complete alternate universe to try and coerce him into being Michael’s vessel.

Lastly, it doesn’t matter if you think they are soulmates or not because Sam and Dean clearly believe they are. In 6.01, when Dean wakes up and thinks he’s dead he says “So I’m dead? This is heaven?” when he sees Sam. This shows that Dean believes he’ll be reunited with Sam when he dies, and Sam doesn’t contest it. 

Another minor instance is in 7.08 when Dean first insists Becky should ask his permission if she wants to marry Sam and then at the end of the episode he says “Oh, you mean she wasn’t your soulmate?” indicating once again that Dean believes what they have is more than just a brotherly bond.

Also don’t forget in 4.22, when Cas is arguing that Dean should let the apocalypse happen:

Castiel basically confirms that Sam and Dean will be together in heaven when they die.  In DSotM itself:

and later:

Again, Cas knows that Sam and Dean share a heaven and would find each other on the road.  I think it’s also significant that they see the road as the same thing - although they have some differing memories in Heaven, the path intersecting them is shared.  Same with the Garden:

Everyone sees the Garden differently, but it’s the same for both of them.

As for the question of whether Zachariah was manipulating their experience in heaven, I think it could go either way and we’ll never know for sure.  The moment they leave the Roadhouse, despite Ash’s efforts to shake the angels, they walk immediately into a scene created by Zachariah, complete with a fake Mary under his control.  So he clearly has the ability to manipulate the space of Heaven, and considering his previous tricks with It’s a Terrible Life, Lucifer Rising, and The End, it’s plausible that his chasing them around the woods was just for show and he was influencing the manifestations of Sam’s heaven the whole time, picking out memories that would drive Dean away from him.  But I think it’s also possible that Zach had nothing to do with it and it was just a case of Sam’s headspace at this point in the story.  To recap - he felt responsible for starting the apocalypse, he had Satan trying to get in his body to finish the job of ending the world, and almost everyone he’d ever cared for had died violently.  Can you blame him for feeling nostalgic for the the few times in his life he managed to get a little normalcy?  Either way, it doesn’t invalidate them as soulmates, especially since we only saw a handful of memories out of what would have been an eternity of afterlife together.