Shaving People, Punting Things: "Onward"

[cathyw]

"Onward" (Watch on YouTube)

This seems to take footage from the next two or three episodes, so I will poke at it behind a cut for spoilers...



The rattling door does a good job keeping up tension in the video. The crew is so good at that. I still think when they put out the first one of these it was because they were frustrated about how terrible the official promos had been...

I... still don't care about Nick. Maybe being written by someone other than Buckleming might make me care about him a little more? so far they have not given me a reason to. (Is he collecting heads in jars? ick.)

I do care very much about that bar fight. Mostly because I had forgotten over hiatus that that bar is in Dean's head and (based on when Cas and Sam were possessed) is supposed to be his happy place to some extent? So if I go overanalyzing the set decoration...

• It's called Rocky's. Rocky is, of course, the "squirrel" in "Moose and Squirrel". Rocky was also the origin of a quote that was almost thrown away back in 14x01: "It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you get hit and still get back up." If that isn't the most Dean thing ever I don't know what is - especially since Michael seemed to think he had dealt Dean an emotional blow he wouldn't get back up from.


• He has a lot of bottles on the bar but a lot seem to be duplicates?


• He's got a video game that involves target shooting. Keeping in hunting practice? (Related: is he imagining vampires to fight? who else patronizes Rocky's?)


• He's got a Texan Star beer logo neon, in its lovely bisexual-pride colors - that being the same beer that was being delivered by the Cupid in 8x23 and the one "Steve" signed for in 9x06.


• He's also got a Tom's Tequila logo neon. I think we've seen it before but I don't know where?


• I'm a little surprised there isn't an El Sol neon, it would seem to fit (i.e. "Something here isn't what it seems").

The image of Mary sitting at the table doing maintenance on her guns reminds me of when we saw teenage Mary doing the same thing with her parents in season 4... but what did that pumpkin ever do to her, huh?

And a couple questions...

• What is in the cabinet that we are watching from the inside of as someone opens the door? It almost looks like a mask or a helmet?


• What is Dean welding?


• Why is he bringing out The Red Shirt of Bad Life Decisions (the Demon!Dean shirt)? Nothing good could possibly come from anything going on when he's wearing that shirt.