Tag: spn 8×23

filleretive:

So, we talk all the time about the cupid’s bow and arrows in “Sacrifice.” But apparently “I’m So Blue” by Katie Thompson was playing in the bar as Dean and Cas discuss Cas’ imminent return to Heaven? (I’m probably late to the party, here, but I just learned about this in the process of making a separate post about Supernatural’s sound design.)

“I’m So Blue” (Katie Thompson)
I’m so blue without you, thought our love was true
Then you found someone new
You loved me so but let me go
Now I’ll never know how our love would grow
Waiting, watching the stars above us
Hoping that I could win back your love
I’m so blue with without you, thought our love was true
Then you found someone new
Waiting, watching the stars above us
Hoping that I could win back your love
I’m so blue without you, thought our love was true
Then you found someone new
Thought our love was true
Then you found someone new

I know it’s very quiet; I could barely hear it. But it’s much easier to hear if you know what to listen for; the song lyrics and dialogue line up roughly as follows:

What show’ve you been watching? [instrumental]
Talk to me. Are you sure about this? I mean, it’s one thing me and Sammy slamming the gates to the pit, but you… You’re, you’re boarding up Heaven. [Waiting, watching the stars above us]
And you’re locking the door behind you. [Hoping]
Yeah. I know. [That I could win back your loooo—]
You did a lot of damage up there, man. [—oooove]
You think they’re just gonna let that slide? [I’m so blue]
Do you mean do I think they’ll kill me? Yeah, they might. [Without you]
So this is it? [Thought our love was true]
E.T. goes home. [But you found someone new]

At this point, Gail enters the bar, and the song carries over to the beginning of Rod and Dwight’s meet-cute. The song ends around the moment Dwight says, “Rod rides a stool here most days.” Gallery’s “It’s So Nice to Be With You” begins to play instead, and it blatantly establishes the romance between Rod and Dwight.

So they play a song about lovers separating and pining over footage of Dean and Cas’ conversation about Cas leaving for Heaven, and then they juxtapose that with a song about lovers being together playing over footage of Rod and Dwight falling in love? And we’re supposed to interpret that sound design choice as an attempt to code Dean and Cas as platonic how, exactly?