Episode 4.01 Lazarus Rising

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HERE WE GO! We all know what this one is. This is the one where the destiel starts!

and some other stuff happens, but come on folks... WE GET CAS NOW! Watching him grow into the person we will know at the end of the series is an absolutely glorious journey I’m thrilled to talk about with everyone now. :D

As promised in the podcast, I have a lot more reference posts for folks to read this week, and I hope at least some of it feels worth it to y’all.

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode, which is 23 pages long lol (told y’all this was a big one, I wasn’t kidding) so I picked a few posts I feel are most foundational to how I think about and discuss this episode:

• Lizbob’s Hellatus Rewatch post for this episode, from 2015
• some Handprint notes
• notes on the gas station and the magazine rack
• my 2017 rewatch notes
• a bit on the metaphysics of Cas resurrecting Dean
• old but excellent meta on Castiel’s arc through about s9 or so...
• a short and sweet thought about destiel
• an entry from Lizbob’s Dean And Cas Are In Love meta series
• how the heck did they end up in Pontiac, Illinois?
• some thoughts on Sam and Ruby
• The art of Retcon Continuity: fitting Azazel into the larger narrative now
• The extended barn scene (no music, totally different feel to it)

The Three Day DeanCasVersary Post on tumblr (and a slightly outdated version on ao3...

We also have casting sides for Castiel, casting sides for “Kristy,” aka Ruby, and casting sides for Pamela, in addition to the call sheet/shooting pages for Pamela. And I can’t recommend enough doing a compare/contrast between the casting and shooting pages of the exact same scene.

I think that’s enough words to leave everyone with, so I’ll leave off my usual rambling summary. :D

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