The truth is important, I used to think.

no but literally season 1 is all about how these guys are socialized to be liars and frauds, and there's genuine effort put in to show them gaining people's trust and coming up with elaborate lies and scams and just being extremely manipulative on an intimate, interpersonal level with victims and their families. it's uncomfortable! it's confrontational! like in Faith how they clash with the culty religious group they're infiltrating, or in Skin when sam lies to an actual friend of his from college and there are real repercussions for everyone involved. the entire structure of early spn makes you feel that they're outsiders whose social skills are tailored toward blindsiding people 'for their own good' and running away from whatever real damage they leave in their wake. you can feel that dean especially isn't wired to form actual relationships with people other than his dad or his brother because absolutely everything he puts out into the world is an elaborate mirage. ~pretending to be the fbi~ in every single episode in later seasons isn't just boring and repetitive, it's also incredibly impersonal. It's detached and rote and it makes the entire vigilante schtick so fucking toothless. half the time they just skip over the fake badges and cajoling completely and cut right to the inside of the morgue. you could make them the real fbi at that point and it wouldn't make a difference. like it's literally just x files.

cas is an excellent frame of reference for this because when he tags along on a hunt in s5 and it doesn't go well, it's an extremely straightforward case of "he doesn't even know ABOUT lying! he doesn't know TO lie!" Like, cut to them already inside the building, and then Cas starts raving about demons because he doesn't get that there's this thing called "lying," and that's the joke. It's an absolute rubber-mallet approach to writing the scene. And later on they'll literally have him flash an upside-down badge that says "agent beyonce" on it and it still gets him to where he needs to be because at this point in the show, the con becomes a given. It's no longer an integral part of the characters or the process or the story. All of the intricacies of lying to a person happen off-screen. Whereas like. Imagine cas tagging along on a hunt in season 1. Imagine cas pretending to be a priest at that one girl's funeral in Bloody Mary. Imagine cas on the plane in Phantom Traveller, or at the crime scene on the bridge in Phantom Traveller. The clash would be absolutely catastrophic because these are episodes where there's actually some level of charisma and nuance to what sam and dean have to do in order to charm/ply/flatter/guilt the people around them into giving them they want. It's a task that they have to carry out and sometimes they even fail. Anyway I miss that shit.

obsessed with the gap in how regular human beings talk about breaking bad and how tumblr talks about it. i am never watching that, best of wishes for jesse in his transition though

when i write a samdean horror fic canon divergent from 3.15 doc benton ep......then u will see

wowww okay unfollowing now! i was a huge fan of his cannibal dinner parties and artistic displays of his victim’s corpses, i had no idea he was dating one of his patients

sam’s first words on the show ever his first line in the pilot the first thing he ever says on the cw’s supernatural is “do i have to?” and for 15 years the answer is just yes you have to, yes you have to, yes you have to, you do not get a choice, you might think you get a choice but you don’t, yes you have to. i’m fine

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