In order to save costs, the 101 Dalmatians production team thought up an inventive way to animate the vehicles seen in the movie. Instead of drawing the vehicle frame by frame the conventional way, a cardboard model was filmed, as effects animators moved it around in front of the camera. Note the black lines that define all edges.
Frames from this live-action footage were xeroxed on to cels before being painted in the ink & paint apartment. The same process was used later on for Edgar’s motorcycle in The Aristocats.
I was just
scrolling down my dashboard as usual when I came upon this post by @adoringjensen.
The moment I saw it, I couldn’t help remembering season 7 and all the pain Dean
went through. That’s probably why I decided to write this post about Dean’s
mental state in season 7.
Dean is
allergic to feelings. He always tries to hide what he feels and what makes him
vulnerable. In season 7, since Cas turned into Godstiel, Dean wasn’t OK. He
felt helpless. The only thing he could do was to work on baby, fix the car…
that’s what he could do. He said that
in 7×01. A huge part of the episode showed us Dean working on the car while
listening to reports of what Cas was doing as god. Dean was so hurt. In fact, there was a moment when he told Sam:
“Cas is never coming back. He’s lied to us, he
used us, he cracked your gourd like it was nothing. No more talk. We have spent
enough on him.”
That was the
episode where Dean started drinking. I laugh every time I remember that some
people have said Dean’s drinking was caused by Bobby’s death. There’s nothing
worse than someone who doesn’t want to see what’s right in front of them.
In 7×01, Bobby
was still very much alive. There were two things that made Dean start drinking:
Sam’s hallucinations and Cas’ betrayal. Dean’s drinking might have just gotten worse after
Bobby’s death, but it all started in 7×01. We saw it when Sam found Dean
drinking and told him:
“You want some coffee with that?”
What was
Dean’s answer? “It’s 6:00 p.m. somewhere.”
It was
probably early in the morning and Dean was already drinking. That wasn’t Dean’s
typical behavior because if it had been, Sam wouldn’t have noticed the
difference and said something about it. In fact, Sam knew that Cas’ betrayal
had affected Dean more than anything. That’s why when Dean asked him why he
lied about the hallucinations, Sam said:
“You got a lot of pretty severe crap swinging
your way lately, and – and I thought –what? I thought why burst the one good
bubble you had left?”
What was the
severe crap swinging Dean’s way lately? The only thing that had happened was
related to Cas. We know that Cas was godstiel not for just a couple of days.
Dean fixed the Impala and I don’t think he would have managed to do it in one
or two days. Sam had seen Dean working on the car for days. Sam knew his
brother so well that he understood his mood was affected by the “severe crap”
happening to him. That’s why he didn’t want to tell him about the
hallucinations to avoid making things even worse.
Poor Dean
was hitting rock bottom. He even told Sam:
“You know
how I’m gonna deal? I’m gonna stuff my piehole, I’m gonna drink, and I’m gonna
watch some Asian cartoon porn and act like the world’s about to explode because
it is.”
It was Sam the
one who reached to Cas. Dean had already lost hope; he thought Cas was gone. However,
when Cas showed up and asked for help, when he was trying to make amends and
show regret, when he almost died, Dean still worried about him. Dean still
called his name and thought that “maybe angels don’t need to breathe.”
When Cas
woke up and told Dean he would find some way to redeem himself, Dean didn’t
tell him that wasn’t possible. He just said, “All right, well, one thing at a time. Come on. Let’s get you out of
here. Come on.” Despite the hurt and the pain, Dean was willing to give Cas
another chance.
When the
Leviathans took control over Cas, it kills me to remember that Cas had told
Dean and Bobby to run. Dean asked Bobby to run and get Sam, but he didn’t try
to leave. He wanted to stay and see if he could help Cas, though it was too
late at that point.
Don’t even
get me started on 7×02. That episode was almost the death of me. The moment
Dean saw Cas get into that river, the moment he took Cas’ trench coat out of
the river and said “So he’s gone” and then folded the coat and decided to keep
it. He decided to keep something that belonged to someone who had lied to him and hurt his brother.
WHY?
Bobby knew
Dean was not OK. That’s why he was trying to get Dean to talk about how he
felt, but Dean kept saying he was fine. Bobby didn’t buy that crap, though. Notice what was number 1 in Bobby’s list of what he thought was troubling Dean:
“Of course. Yeah. You just lost one of the best
friends you ever had, your brother’s in the bell jar, and Purgatory’s most
wanted are surfing the sewer lines, but yeah, yeah, I get it. You’re – you’re
fine.”
Time passed
by and Dean was still very much affected by what happened to Cas. If you
remember episode 7×05, Dean was having nightmares. But what was the first thing he saw? Cas going into that river!! He
also dreamt about Sam’s hallucinations and killing Sam’s monster-friend Amy
(which was simply Dean’s subconscious saying that he couldn’t trust anything
that wasn’t human… though it’s interesting that he didn’t try to kill Cas in
7×17 when he returned despite Cas having killed so many people; in
fact, he even defended Cas when he felt regret for the death toll he had caused
in heaven and on earth).
Dean was not
OK during the whole season, but he didn’t want to talk about it because that’s
what he always does. Denial. But now that I finally get to talk about episode 7×09, it’s
remarkable that Dean finally said what was bothering him because he was drugged. He
admitted that what had been making him feel terrible was what happened with/to
Cas. He didn’t mention Sam’s hallucinations, and Bobby was still alive. But Dean
said:
“I’m fine! I – I actually feel great. The best
I’ve felt in a couple months. Cas? Black goo? I don’t even care anymore. And
you know what’s even better? I don’t care that I don’t care. I just want my
damn slammer back.”
Poor Dean.
Both Sam and Bobby knew that Dean wasn’t OK. That’s why they even discussed it
before Bobby’s death.
Sam: So,
you think he’s okay? Bobby: Yeah, he’s all right. Sam: Good. So you don’t worry
about him?
Bobby: What
do you mean? Before the Turducken?
Sam: Yeah.
Yeah, I kind of mean more like, uh… more like ever since my head broke… and
we lost Cas. I mean, you ever feel like he’s – he’s going through the same
motions but he’s not the same Dean, you know?
So Dean
himself told us that he wasn’t OK because of Cas. But why was that? We got the
answer thanks to Ben Edlund’s amazing subtext in 7×15.
Jeffrey was
a Dean parallel and his connection with his demon was a parallel to Dean’s
connection with Cas. So what do you think it meant when Jeffrey said this?
“I just
started to drink and drift, and I got lost. Had some kind of mental break.”
First we
thought he was talking about surviving being possessed, but it wasn’t
like that because later Jeffrey explained:
“Did you
ever think that maybe I loved being possessed? Did you? I loved the connection,
the power. And I loved him.Love of my
life, actually. I was nothing before he found me – a shadow too scared to
do what I was brought here to do. Too timid to live up to my true potential. […]
He’s the one who saved me. And you sent him to Hell.”
Jeffrey
even tried to explain Dean further:
“I watched you
torture an innocent man to get out a demon. Pretty charged situation…
revealing. You guys talked about a lot, showed a lot of character. God… you
were so desperate to fix the world back then. It kills you… that people keep
getting hurt… and you just can’t stop it. Or I should say… it’s killed you,
shouldn’t I? […] Hey. I was there. I was
depressed, Dean, because he was gone. I was a wreck, an emotional shell, a
drunk. I was suicidal. […] I realized I was nothing without my demon. Then
I decided I have to get him back.”
Please, for
god’s sake tell me how is it even possible for someone not to see the
parallels? What did Dean decide in 7×17 (two episodes later) when Cas came
back? He decided that he had to get his angel back, so he gave him back his
trench coat –the one that Dean had kept, no matter how many times they had to
change cars that year. Why didn’t he just leave the trench coat in the Impala?
Nope, Dean was carrying Cas’ trench coat everywhere because Cas was gone and Dean was depressed; he was
a wreck, an emotional shell, a drunk.
As Dean
himself said in 7×17 when talking to Emmanuel about Cas:
“Honestly,
I-I-I don’t know if he is dead. I just know that this… whole thing couldn’t
be messier. You know, I used to be able to just shake this stuff off. You know,
whatever it was. It might take me some time, but… I always could. What Cas
did… I just can’t – I don’t know why.”
Dean is a
very complex character. He was suffering because he had lost the love of his
life, but until that point, he hadn’t understood it yet. That’s why my headcanon
is that he finally began to understand it when he was in Purgatory, when he
decided that leaving Purgatory without Cas wasn’t worth the pain, when he made
it his mission to get his angel back, just as Jeffrey did with his demon.
So… yeah.
Sorry for all this rumbling. I just get very emotional every time I think about
season 7 and Dean’s love for Cas.
Yesss, I love all of
this. Especially the call out to “Repo Man,” which was SUCH a
Dean/Cas episode for not having mentioned Cas even once.
The only thing I’ll
add to this is that I think at least a bit of the “severe crap”
that Sam was referring to had to be related to Lisa and Ben. They
represented the normal life that Dean just couldn’t be a part of, and
the decision Dean made to completely remove himself from their lives
– and more specifically HOW he was removing himself – was really
morally questionable. Sam started to call him out on it, but stopped…
and he didn’t stop when Dean threatened to break his nose; he stopped
when he saw the tears in Dean’s eyes.
But even with that
it’s still incredibly easy to reconcile everything said here, because
Dean’s eyes started shining when he was thankingCas
for healing Lisa, which Cas had done without Dean asking. But then
Dean put Castiel’s “I do everything that you ask” statement to
the test by asking Cas to remove himself from Lisa and Ben’s
memories. Cas confirms to Dean that yes, he really does do everything
that Dean asks, he does always come when Dean calls, and he is Dean’s
friend.
Which just makes everything that follows even more severe and more crappy. ❤
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He’s engraved in stone in the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC – back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For younger folks, it’s a bit of trivia that is an intrinsic part of American history and legend.
Anyone born between 1913 to about 1950, is very familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known….but everybody seemed to get into it. It was the fad of its time!
At the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
So who was Kilroy?
In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, “Speak to America,” sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy….now a larger-than-life legend of just-ended World War II….offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article.
Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts, had credible and verifiable evidence of his identity.
“Kilroy” was a 46-year old shipyard worker during World War II (1941-1945) who worked as a quality assurance checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts (a major shipbuilder for the United States Navy for a century until the 1980s).
His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. (Rivets held ships together before the advent of modern welding techniques.) Riveters were on piece work wages….so they got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk (similar to crayon), so the rivets wouldn’t be counted more than once.
A warship hull with rivets
When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would surreptitiously erase the mark. Later, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters!
One day Kilroy’s boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about unusually high wages being “earned” by riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on.
The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn’t lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added ”KILROY WAS HERE!“ in king-sized letters next to the check….and eventually added the sketch of the guy with the long nose peering over the fence….and that became part of the Kilroy message.
Kilroy’s original shipyard inspection “trademark” during World War II
Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks.
Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With World War II on in full swing, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn’t time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy’s inspection “trademark” was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced.
His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over the European and the Pacific war zones.
Before war’s end, “Kilroy” had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo.
To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had “been there first.” As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.
As the World War II wore on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI’s there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!
In 1945, as World War II was ending, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Allied leaders Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference. It’s first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), “Who is Kilroy?”
To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car….which he
attached to the Kilroy home and used to provide living quarters for six of the family’s nine children….thereby solving what had become an acute housing crisis for the Kilroys.
The new addition to the Kilroy family home.
* * * *
And the tradition continues into the 21st century…
In 2011 outside the now-late-Osama Bin Laden’s hideaway house in
>>Note: The Kilroy graffiti on the southwest wall of the Bin Laden compound pictured above was real (not digitally altered with Microsoft Paint, as postulated by some). The entire compound was leveled in 2012 for redevelopment by a Pakistani company as an amusement park….and to avoid it becoming a shrine to Bin Laden’s nefarious memory.
* * * *
A personal note….
My Dad’s trademark signature on cards, letters and notes to my sisters and I for the first 50 or so years of our lives (until we lost him to cancer) was to add the image of “Kilroy” at the end. We kids never ceased to get a thrill out of this….even as we evolved into adulthood.
To this day, the “Kilroy” image brings back a vivid image of my awesome Dad into my head….and my heart!
Dad: This one’s for you!
OMG I’m so glad to know this backstory.
I heard Kilroy had the first Tumblr account!
Just to add! In the UK, the long-nosed man looking over a wall was known as “Mr Chad” or “The Goon”, and is reckoned to predate the appearance of “Kilroy Was Here”. The drawing in the UK was generally accompanied by the phrase “Wot, no sugar?” or references to other items that were affected by rationing or shortages.
It’s not entirely clear how the drawing came about but it seems to have its origin in electrical symbols. Some have posited that it was adapted from the Greek symbol for “Omega”, which represents electrical resistance; others have theorised that it’s based on the symbol for alternating current, or a diagram of an RLC circuit arranged to create a band-stop filter. Several places have claimed ownership of the drawing but no conclusive origin seems to have been found.
The “Wot, no…?” slogan fell out of fashion once rationing became a thing of the past and “Kilroy Was Here” took its place. It’s unclear how the Mr Chad character became conflated with Kilroy – my guess is that he saw it somewhere and was attracted to the simplicity of it, in much the same way that we all like drawing that S shape on our school books.
In essence, what we have here is a pre-internet meme, which has crossed borders and developed a life of its own, with origins as mysterious and random as many other memes throughout history – both online and offline.
Jared talks about how they watched the fight last night (Mayweather v McGregor) and Jensen has a taste bud for beer now so…Jensen: Just one taste bud lol.
Jensen to Jared: You didn’t even know how to shave when we started [filming Supernatural].
Fan asks what the bad idea was (referring to the video Jensen posted of him and Jared on his Instagram on Friday night x). J2: Nope. The boys are laughing hysterically and won’t answer until they leave the country because of legal ramifications lol.
Jared does an angel imitation.
Jared has had some time off this year.
The Padackles family – Gen, Danneel and the kids – had a sleepover last night and they are all doing fine.
Gen and Danneel to J2: “We’re in the wine cellar!”
Jensen: We have an awesome new target for pranks this season… (likely referring to new regular Alexander Calvert lol).
Jared enjoyed when they pied Misha in the face.
Jensen grabs fuzz off Jared’s chin. Jared: That was magical. I’ll never wash my chin again. Jensen: You don’t already 😛
Shenanigans onstage.
The boys take a shared phone call. It was a call from the fam so they answered to make sure they were okay.
Jensen: Harry Styles is not a real name.
Jared: I’m good at my job. Damn right you are!
If there were no copyright issues, what would be the series finale fight song? Jared: The End by The Doors. Jensen: It’s Raining Men.
Jared: He and and I have finally agreed on what we want the show’s future to be.
J2 also want a giant watch party for the last episode.
Jensen says he wants Eric Kripke back for the last episode in some capacity.
Jared: A drone crashed on my balcony. Jensen: Yeah, can I have that back…
Jensen: The writers trust us to know these characters better than anyone. Nobody cares about protecting and keeping Dean and Sam authentic more than he [Jared] and I.
Jared: There’s a real sense of responsibility. Did I do Sam justice, Dean justice? He and I have learned to be fluid and to be true to our characters.
In The French Mistake, J2 did not want to play the real Jared and Jensen.
pining is 100000% the most important aspect of pre-relationship fic for me. good-natured whole-hearted pining filled with lovelorn gazing and chest aching and fluttering touches, that’s my top priority. i was put on this earth to watch characters suffer over the profundity of their love for another person. unrequited love is why god made me. characters finding out that their feelings are reciprocated after long months/years of suffering is why the universe was assembled from nothingness. amen.
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