Episode 7.02 Hello, Cruel World

And boy is it ever cruel! The subtitle there refers to the plot climax of this one, but also to season seven as a whole. The entire thing is built on pain being the key to reality, and doesn't that just suck! Like, massively! It sucks for Sam, it sucks for Dean, and it sucks for all of us! But we shall endure. :'D

We lose Cas right at the start, and then Dean carries his coat away like a widow leaving a soldier's funeral with a flag, and that sets the stage for his grief and guilt for the first long segment of the season. Meanwhile, Sam's just not coping well with his smashed walls and resurfacing Hell trauma, and using Dean's technique of repressing and denying is really, really not working for him.

So, bring on the pain and losses and gooey jerks who are this season's Big Bad-- a metaphor for capitalism. Wheee.

LINKS!

The Superwiki page (with loads of bts photos from director Guy Bee)

My tag

Filming locations map

Commentary from Serge Ladouceur

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (part 1) (part 2)

Promo clip 1, Promo clip 2 (that has that sort of corporate ad vibe s7 plays into…) (for the record, this is the last time I'll include promo clips here, since they're all linked from the Superwiki page if you're interested... I'm trying to save word count for posting purposes, and we'll see how that goes!

Questions, concerns, comments? Contact me here on tumblr (through the inbox or dm's, I'm around a lot), on Bluesky, on discord as mittensmorgul, or via email at mittensmorgul @ gmail. :)

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