Supernatural: Galaxy Brain
March 16, 2020 7:57 PM - Season 15, Episode 12 - Subscribe
Sam and Dean respond to a frantic call and assist in an extraordinary and heartbreaking rescue.
EW recap: Billie reveals Sam and Dean's destiny
TV Fanatic recap - The goodbye tour continues as the series tries to wrap loose ends by revisiting as many fan-favorite characters as possible.
Den of Geek - Sam and Dean work together to get an alternate universe wrong righted and team up with Sheriff Jody on Supernatural.
EW recap: Billie reveals Sam and Dean's destiny
TV Fanatic recap - The goodbye tour continues as the series tries to wrap loose ends by revisiting as many fan-favorite characters as possible.
Den of Geek - Sam and Dean work together to get an alternate universe wrong righted and team up with Sheriff Jody on Supernatural.
Maya? You mean Kaia? I'm glad they didn't kill her off, as so many female characters have suffered on this show. And the revisit didn't feel too farfetched since we just saw Dark Kaia last season, and after they convinced her to give them the spear and then it got destroyed we haven't heard from her. It was about time she came around asking for it back.
I don't think it's a stretch that Chuck is that bad. He's petty and selfish and immature and was only benevolent to his favorite characters. And when he's less immature, he's basically just an asshole, like what he did with the Radio Shed kid. Telling him "you'll be fine" is not him lying out of cowardice, it's him just being a dick. We saw this side of him when he was berated by Amara before she left him trapped on Earth-Prime.
I'm not sure if Billie is on the side of the Winchesters more than she's on the side of the books, and the books say the Winchesters help her kill God. But yeah, she probably knows this will involve their deaths and isn't showing them all the cards.
I'm pretty excited to see how they end this. At least it's one thing to look forward to every week instead of the pandemic.
posted by numaner at 1:54 PM on March 18, 2020 [1 favorite]
I don't think it's a stretch that Chuck is that bad. He's petty and selfish and immature and was only benevolent to his favorite characters. And when he's less immature, he's basically just an asshole, like what he did with the Radio Shed kid. Telling him "you'll be fine" is not him lying out of cowardice, it's him just being a dick. We saw this side of him when he was berated by Amara before she left him trapped on Earth-Prime.
I'm not sure if Billie is on the side of the Winchesters more than she's on the side of the books, and the books say the Winchesters help her kill God. But yeah, she probably knows this will involve their deaths and isn't showing them all the cards.
I'm pretty excited to see how they end this. At least it's one thing to look forward to every week instead of the pandemic.
posted by numaner at 1:54 PM on March 18, 2020 [1 favorite]
Kaia, yeah. That's how much of an impression the poor kid made on me. Again, she felt like a character with a big sprawling story that we only glimpsed.
I feel like, until recently, Chuck's villainy was still kind of hazy. Like, when he poofed away Becky's family, he told her they weren't dead. It was like, even as he did frightening things, they were still mitigating the horror, taking pains to make him seem not totally evil. And now he's casually blowing up planets! I can believe he'd get here but I feel like the escalation was a little fast.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:03 PM on March 18, 2020
I feel like, until recently, Chuck's villainy was still kind of hazy. Like, when he poofed away Becky's family, he told her they weren't dead. It was like, even as he did frightening things, they were still mitigating the horror, taking pains to make him seem not totally evil. And now he's casually blowing up planets! I can believe he'd get here but I feel like the escalation was a little fast.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:03 PM on March 18, 2020
Quotes
Jody: [stands over a dead cow, looking at the blood with a flashlight.] Oh, yikes. [Jody's phone rings and she stands up to answer it, moving away from the cow.] Oh. Hey, Alex.
Alex: Lasagna's getting cold.
Jody: Yeah. Who made it… you or Patience?
Alex: I did. It’s vegan.
Jody: You know, actually, tonight, I’m grateful for that. I assumed we had a monster on our hands, but it’s looking like human-on-animal cruelty. Poor Bessie was clubbed to death.
Alex: That’s sick.
Jody: Yeah. Keep the lasagna in the oven.
Merle: One measly life on the line, and you're ready to risk it all? That's not just dumb. That's Winchester dumb.
Dean: Hey!
Dean: How do you feel 'bout this?
Sam: Feels like we're taking a big, probably stupid, risk. Feels good. Disobeying cosmic entities, doing the, uh... dumb, right thing? Feels like we're back.
Kaia: [describing the "real" world] This place is... cold. I don't understand it. I don't know how to move through it. So I just find empty spaces and I hide. This world doesn't want me. And I'm done with it.
Trivia
This episode marks the first time Castiel and Jack interact with Jody in person, and the first time Jody has been to the Men of Letters bunker.
Radio Shed is a nod to the old American electronics chain Radio Shack.
The Radio Shed is meant to be in Utah. Both cars outside have Utah license plates.
This is the second time Robert Berens and Meredith Glynn collaborated to write an episode, with "The Future" (ep. 12.9) being their first collaboration.
Billie reveals that no being, not even God, can see their books in Death's Reading Room unless she lets them.
God's comment about "failed spin-offs" in his beginning speech is a reference to the failed spin-off Wayward Sisters that was to focus on Jody and the girls that she has taken in throughout the series.
When Chuck is talking to the Radio Shed employee in the final scene, you can see over the top of the set into the sound stage.
posted by orange swan at 10:05 AM on May 10, 2022
Jody: [stands over a dead cow, looking at the blood with a flashlight.] Oh, yikes. [Jody's phone rings and she stands up to answer it, moving away from the cow.] Oh. Hey, Alex.
Alex: Lasagna's getting cold.
Jody: Yeah. Who made it… you or Patience?
Alex: I did. It’s vegan.
Jody: You know, actually, tonight, I’m grateful for that. I assumed we had a monster on our hands, but it’s looking like human-on-animal cruelty. Poor Bessie was clubbed to death.
Alex: That’s sick.
Jody: Yeah. Keep the lasagna in the oven.
Merle: One measly life on the line, and you're ready to risk it all? That's not just dumb. That's Winchester dumb.
Dean: Hey!
Dean: How do you feel 'bout this?
Sam: Feels like we're taking a big, probably stupid, risk. Feels good. Disobeying cosmic entities, doing the, uh... dumb, right thing? Feels like we're back.
Kaia: [describing the "real" world] This place is... cold. I don't understand it. I don't know how to move through it. So I just find empty spaces and I hide. This world doesn't want me. And I'm done with it.
Trivia
This episode marks the first time Castiel and Jack interact with Jody in person, and the first time Jody has been to the Men of Letters bunker.
Radio Shed is a nod to the old American electronics chain Radio Shack.
The Radio Shed is meant to be in Utah. Both cars outside have Utah license plates.
This is the second time Robert Berens and Meredith Glynn collaborated to write an episode, with "The Future" (ep. 12.9) being their first collaboration.
Billie reveals that no being, not even God, can see their books in Death's Reading Room unless she lets them.
God's comment about "failed spin-offs" in his beginning speech is a reference to the failed spin-off Wayward Sisters that was to focus on Jody and the girls that she has taken in throughout the series.
When Chuck is talking to the Radio Shed employee in the final scene, you can see over the top of the set into the sound stage.
posted by orange swan at 10:05 AM on May 10, 2022
Alt-Kaia killed a cow to get Jody's attention, and found adjusting to a comparatively functional world worse than dying in her own imploding universe. Girl's not right in the head.
posted by orange swan at 10:06 AM on May 10, 2022
posted by orange swan at 10:06 AM on May 10, 2022
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It seems like they're going full-evil with Chuck. It feels a little forced to me, like blowing up worlds while he sips a Slurpee doesn't quite fit the affable, sad sack guy we always knew. It's not that I can't believe he'd ever get this bad, more that the transition seems a bit abrupt. Him gently telling the Radio Shed kid he'd be fine and then flattening the place with a meteor was just... weird. I guess Chuck didn't have the stones to look the kid in the eyes and tell him his world was doomed?
It seems the people who were saying Billie would eventually be on the side of the Winchesters were right. I'm really surprised about that, since it seemed like the show was really selling her as a sinister character. I still won't be surprised if she betrays them before the finale, though.
We're back to Jack ostensibly having no soul while he spends a lot of time fretting about doing the right thing. And it doesn't seem to be an abstract thought experiment to him, he really wants to be good. Here he was ready to fuck everything up to save one girl, because he felt guilty. A lot of folks with souls aren't as nice as Jack is without one!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 10:41 PM on March 17, 2020