#britmol

12x01 “Keep Calm and Carry On” // 12x14 “The Raid” Loose Companion Piece to This Post

For which I got appropriately tipsy - though not on a Moscow Mule

THE YAY:

Oh, Sammy wants to go to Hogwarts so bad!

I want a spin-off about hunter monks! (still better than Bloodlines)

Fucking FINALLY they mention Garth and other friendly monsters

The great British Bake off … priceless

Mick killing a kid is dark as fucking Vantablack, but thank Chuck the Winchesters were appropriately pissed off. And please, give me more Dean talking about how the world is more than black and white! He’s grown so much.

THAT PRETTY RECKLESS SONG! OMG I LOVE IT!

I’m glad they’re showing negative consequences of the Britmols attempts at monster-genocide. Because, you know, that’s really fucking evil.

Jody is Claire’s MOTHER okay I’m legit in tears now

THE NAY:

No teenage girl has a contact “Bae” without any emojis. It simply isn’t done.

How could they rob us of the sight of Dean enjoying his 3 Star hotel pool?

Claire being angry and rude made sense when they first introduced her. Now it’s getting a little tiresome.

WHY DOES MICK GET ANOTHER CHANCE? He didn’t just mess up, he has a fundamentally flawed and dangerous worldview!

THE UM, OKAY?

Mick has “World class repression”. That’s right Dean. You call that kettle black.

Sam seriously has a podcast about the protestant reformation?

First the Rowena impression, now the bear… I’m sensing a missed opportunity as a voice actor for Dean

Dean has been wearing lots of black lately… What could it mean?

I am now 90% sure that Mick is gonna defect from the Britmol

Hey dear!

I think that may be a pivotal revelation that the writers may keep off for a bit still as it would make a perfect opportunity to truly and completely cause the rift between Dean and Sam and Mary to get even wider and possibly send Dean over the edge and cut ties with them.

The narrative so far has been framing everything surrounding the BritMoL and disagreement and betrayal existing between the Winchesters in a way that only makes sense to be resolved by Dean not conforming to anything the BritMoL do, but sticks to his own guns. Everything else would not just be terribly out of character for Dean, it would also make literally no sense storyline wise. The ending scene of last episode spoke volumes in that regard. Imo the current set up only makes sense to be resolved in proving Dean right in a multitude of things that will happen further down the line regarding who and how the BritMoL are. Sadly enough though, I think Sam and Mary may only see how right Dean was all along when Dean pays a horrible and painful price for their misplaced trust in the wrong people.

Hey dear!

Well that is an excellent thought. I really liked Bela and would absolutely love it if the writers decided to at least name drop her or something, because indeed it would fit very well into the current narrative and also to the BritMoL as an organisation as such. I am fairly certain that they won’t bring her back literally as Lauren Cohan is probably way too busy with “The Walking Dead” and possibly also out of their pay grade, but flashbacks could definitely work or even just when her name would come up in conversation. Bela after all was directly connected to the Colt. So it could be interesting if the BritMoL were like “we were promised that gun years ago when we had made a trade with one Bela Talbot, but she disappeared”. Could well be that Bela made deals with them with occult objects and the like - I can definitely see that working for both sides. But when it came to the Colt, Bela may have realized it could be her only way out and therefore called off the deal with the Brits.

And since Dean in 12x19 seems to be furious about the Colt being stolen (which is very likely due to Mary or Ketch - or hell, maybe even Sam lent it to them without talking about it with Dean) one definitely remembers that time the Colt was stolen from them before and that, well, was Bela. :)

9x04 “Slumber Party” The Ultimate Chess Match Between Good and Evil

Posted as part of the Series “Of Blood, Bone and Darkness”: A Carver Era Rewatch Hiatus Meta-Series

This is probably one of the best set ups and parallels to the MoC arc imo. This opening scene in which one young MoL raves about his craft and describes them to be the last “true beacon of light” and the bunker as the epicenter of the “ultimate chess match between good and evil” is just beautifully connecting to S11 when Dean as an MoL legacy by absorbing thousands of souls to take down Amara becomes a “beacon of light” and just a couple of episode prior was described to be the fitting human equivalent to “chess match between good and evil”: the “firewall between light and darkness”.

Hey anon!

I refuse to believe that they don’t have some ulterior motives tbh, simply because it would make the BritMoL even more boring and one dimensional than they sadly already are. I could imagine that partially their ulterior motives haven’t been foreshadowed or explored or hinted at more may be due to the writers not having been sure where they wanted to go when they started the season and only made a definite decision some point down the line (though that would be very bad planning tbh, so I rather not think that is the case, but who knows).

That said in general the SPN seasons are structured in a way that in the episodes 17-20 roughly some big plot thing is going down that looks like it wraps up one storyline that was a big theme, but only to emphasize that it actually wasn’t the big theme of the season, so that in the final stretch of episodes the true big bad and issue is revealed. S9 has been very clear in that regard for example, because killing Abaddon was never the main concern and killing her neither, but it was Dean and his transformation that was the focal point.

So I continued my “desperate to find something in this season that may miraculously turn my feelings on it around”-rewatch of S12 and last episode for that was 12x04 “American Nightmare”. At the time when the episode aired the story seemed like a textbook story focused on Sam and his past as a kid with psychic abilities, but if we truly assume that further down the line at some point this season the BritMoL may label Dean as a “rogue” that needs to be taken care of/defused/reformed or whatever else, it sure sends out some very troubling possibilities (I have to admit though given the BTS pics of the episodes it doesn’t seem as if Dean is separated from the rest, that may not have to mean anything, because the BritMoL could try and assert their control over Dean in other ways, but if they truly go down the road of torture/mind control/brainwashing as talked about the past couple of days, I think will rather be part of the season finale’s cliffhanger and not so much topic of the current season).

The key aspect of this episode was that Magda was “dead” to the world and in a way also to her family due them resenting her abilities that they thought unbearable and in need of reformation. They were - and especially the mother - of the mind that that could be brought on through self torture and praying. In her mind they kept Magda locked up and made society believe she died in order to protect the rest of the world from her. The whole family knew about that secret. All of them played along. Neither father nor brother intervened when Magda was made to beat herself up (literally), but considered her “to be their burden” and their “cross to bear” . Seriously, this episode was so freaking horrifying on so many levels back then, but if one draws possible parallels to what may lie ahead for Dean, it’s honestly truly something that would make any character to participate in such actions absolutely irredeemable - which is why I don’t think the show would go there, BUT for the sake of throwing ideas around have a couple of thoughts on it anyway.

Magda’s mother in conversation with Sam is talking about how God “showed them a better way” completely incapable of seeing her own actions as what they are: gruesome, disgusting and absolutely inexcusable. Magda’s mother in this regard almost can be considered to have brainwashed herself into believing her own twisted story. And this is where I kind of see possible parallels to Mary and possibly even Sam, most of all however to the BritMoL with their elitist view on on the hunting community and thinking they know best and their methods are the right ones. Because Mary too has been talking about the BritMoL and how they “show them a better way” . It seems even though she must deep down know that the BritMoL are shady as hell, she is desperate to believe the lie and motto they sell, to the point none of them even needs to manipulate her, but Mary does the brainwashing herself, because she wants the BritMoL to be right so very much. Similarly Sam is open to tag along with that, because he actually is afraid of losing Mary and therefore swallows the shit they sell and then even goes as far as manipulating Dean to work for the BritMoL without his knowledge. His “give me some time”” to Mick is all kinds of unnerving when you think of it as a strategy - basically emotional blackmail - to use Dean’s wish of his family to be together against him and in that regard completely ignore Dean’s doubts and dislikes of working with the BritMoL.