I spent several happy minutes staring at the gifs and this is the best I can come up with:
As far as I can tell the table is actually pretty narrow but they all manage to sit ~1-2 ft from each other: Cas can’t get in the shot with Dean but he also has to lean considerably far over to get into Charlie’s space.
Unfortunately as wide as Dean’s knees spread I don’t think he was plausibly bumping against Cas’s leg under the table. 😛
Thank you science side of tumblr.
This is probably just for my own amusement by this point, but regarding my bemused note “how long is this table?” I was just rewatching 9×13 as you do and there’s a lovely depressing shot of the whole kitchen right before the end:
The table is revealed to seat six (eight??) people and as far as I can tell has the weirdest stools ever? You kinda straddle them and I don’t even know, do they move around or something? I can see why they never normally sit in the kitchen. That table is weird.
At this point I barely care about the hows and whys of the Last Supper seating arrangement, I just want to know more about this table.
Anyway at one point in the scene Sam sits on the second stool in on his side (his same seat as the Last Supper as far as I could tell), and Dean’s on the corner stool (Cas’s stool) but he’s properly at the table unlike how Cas was kind of obviously on the corner. If you are desperately trying to focus on the melodrama for serious highly relevant purposes but actually find your brain drifting when Sam is talking, you can see Charlie’s stool is skewed off to the side in opposition to Dean’s seat in this scene (I’m now certain these things rotate):
I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t build a table with a corner chair as a permanent feature so I figure Sam’s stupid 10 mile long legs mean that stool is always kicked out to the side anyway, and … metaphoric of him creating his own distance?? Anyway it explains how Charlie was so much on the corner/basically sitting at the head of the table instead of on the same side as Sam if the stools rotate.
I feel like I probably should have absorbed something more in this scene aside from bafflement at the table, but all the Winchester drama flew over my head and I’m just like “LOOK AT THIS FUCKING TABLE.”
Oooh furniture. *claps hands* Google “swing stools” and you’ll get a lot of similar-looking items. Apparently these were common in 1920s factory lunch rooms.
Those are some fancy swing stools. I like the ones with sort of bendy arms. 😀 They still look wildly uncomfortable though. The MoL were not messing around with things like encouraging people to slouch.
There’s a better shot in the opening of Captives which makes me more convinced it’s an 8 person table and therefore the Last Supper was an unnecessarily crowded clump of people all crammed on one end of the table. Someone’s straightened all the stools out so you can see them properly if you screw with the brightness:
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