Throwback Thursday: Dean H/C Highlights from S4 - "The Forgotten Foursome"

[kalliel]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, Throwback Thursday-ers! This week's kind of a grab bag, S4 style. I tried to pick out a few of my favorite "forgotten," random, "wait, that happened?" moments of Dean H/C. Well, mostly H, but it's Sam to the rescue in half of them, so there's that! That's C, right??

In other, but related, news: 1) Wow, S4 is great. 2) And weird as hell. 3) Was it Halloween all year long in this season? I'M PRETTY SURE IT WAS. ALL THE HALLOWEEN EPISODES. Cannibals, the undead, immortal witches, immortal magicians, monster movie shapeshifters, and even feral children locked in the basement of an abandoned farmhouse.

No, but seriously, I'm pretty sure it was legitimately October for like, nearly half the season.

Also, bonus laryngitis!Jensen this season, because being an actor sucks. XP I tried to look up more specific info for you guys, but I wasn't super successful. (My search did land me on SneezeFetishForum.Org, though, if that's up your alley!)

4x02 "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester"
-pain
-supernatural injury
-guilt complex (which isn't a tag, but maybe it should be)

Henricksen is great, Dean's pained expression is great, and the last exchange in this clip is the greatest:

SAM: Are you okay?
DEAN: No!

And then Sam helping him off the ground, awww. <3333

4x05 "Monster Movie"
-altered state
-drugs/drugged
-dizziness
-fainting

I have two favorite parts in this clip--that moment, right when Jamie starts acting a little strange, and there's that instant where Dean catches on, then starts to register the same feeling in himself. BE STILL MY HEART. And then the part where he tries to fight the Roofie Lady/Shapeshifter, but ends up needing to steady himself against the table instead. GUH. Altered states. <3

OMG WAIT IS 4x05 THE EPISODE WITH OKTOBERFEST AND THE BIG PRETZEL? D: Must return to that at a later point. I love the big pretzel. :(

4x07 "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"
-hell/post-hell issues
-PTSD

Short one, which actually does get a decent amount of play in Dean H/C fandom, but as it's one of two Dean H/C scenes in the entire episode, if it didn't get mention here I can't imagine when else I'd clip it. XD (The other one is just Dean being thrown into a wall, which happens so often it could probably be a post in itself if I got really ambitious.) I love how minute his outward reaction is, yet how unsettling even that manages to be. Especially his continuing, unmasked (pun unintended) discomfort when Sam takes up the conversation again.

4x12 "Criss Angel is a Douchebag"
-asphyxiation
-cough/coughing
-rather, attempted hanging

Bonus screencaps! Apologies for their shittiness; I have neither the skill nor the technology to make nice ones. :(((






I was reminded of this when I was looking through that deanwinchestergifs blog I linked the other day. I'd totally forgotten this scene!!! The closest thing I could remember was Sam being choked by an evil lamp in 1x09 (also a great scene). But this scene is amazing and deserves to be remembered.

The best part is when Dean finally gets let down, and he hits the ground and just kind of lurches sideways, gulping air. MY FAVORITE. THIS WHOLE POST IS MY FAVORITE.

Clip explications are less analytic, more squee this week, because it's Halloween, man!

Do you have fond memories of these scenes? Or a favorite out of them? Are they actually not forgotten and totally ever-present in your heart? Inquiring minds want to know!

Also, keep an eye out this weekend, when we'll be announcing hoodie_time's upcoming event!

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[kalliel]

I knoooooow right aaaaahhhhhhhh!