The rules in a nutshell:
- pick a screencap or two (or more), write a meta
- post meta in a new entry (here or link to your lj), use lj-cuts and warn for spoilers if necessary
- use "The Visual Story at a Glance: Death's Door (7x10)" in the subject line when you post the meta; if you want to post the meta for an episode before the prompt is up, go right ahead, just change the title to fit the episode. :)
These episode prompts are our spin on the traditional meta by examining how the characters' journey and plot are visually reflected in the show. The idea is to generate a visual summary for each episode, something that one can flip though and get a sense of the major themes and plot points using pictures as the foundation as well as (hopefully) generate discussion and give everyone something new to look at. With permission, posts may be incorporated into our community project: The Viewer's Guide.
Using screencaps as ammunition, discuss how you think the visual material reinforces character development/motivation and/or the plot for a single episode. Feel free to take the character angle or the plot angle or both. Which specific components discussed are up to you. How long or short your entry is also at your discretion (but if you want to go full-on "meta and multi-screencap" we definitely won't complain). Because everyone will likely have different opinions and pick different caps, the possibilities are unlimited. Therefore, there's no limit to how many people can contribute. There's no need to claim a prompt; post the resulting meta in a separate entry no matter the size. We only ask that you please place the following title "The Visual Story at a Glance: Death's Door (7x10)" in the subject line of your meta. This along with the separate entries will help keep meta organized and easily searchable/archiveable. Feel free to post at your journal and link here or post directly to this community. The prompts will be open indefinitely.
Go forth and enjoy the pretty pictures and think thinky thoughts. We look forward to hearing what you have to say.
You can find screen caps for 7x10 here:
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December 5 2011, 23:19:57 UTC 5 months ago
There was a lot of soft light used in Bobby's memories. And it started to get more blurred/glowing toward the end as the memories started to fade. Even the boys looked a little translucent even before they disappeared.
Loved the part where the doctors started working on Bobby and lit this bright light that colored the curtain almost golden and then we cut to Bobby's memory where he torches the bones and the light is almost the same color. Almost like the happenings of the real world bleed through.
And then there were shots done with reflections that gave an extra boost to the unreal and soft feeling of the ep.
The final picks for now are the Bob Singer specials: big and pretty shots that are like pieces of art. I would write sonnets to the one with Dean in the hallway, but since I'm not a poet, I'll write meta in the nearest possible future.
I swear, the more I go through my caps, the more I notice awesome things about this ep. \o/
December 6 2011, 01:13:49 UTC 5 months ago
Here's the one from that hallway that is taking over my imagination.
It shows Dean's blurry reflection just where he lands his punch. Similarly, Dean pounds on his own image before Dick rolls down the window.
December 11 2011, 00:08:21 UTC 5 months ago
Those caps are a good call! I wonder how much Dean blames himself for Bobby.
December 11 2011, 04:17:57 UTC 5 months ago
I hope RL eases up and allows you to post before long. Your ideas usually give me a good start for organizing my thoughts and this episode keeps swirling around in my head (and heart!).
December 13 2011, 08:29:31 UTC 5 months ago
I know, right?! He's also showing the same kind of intensity in denying the possibility that Bobby's dead as he did in 1x21 when Meg tried to tell him that John's dead ("He's not dead! He can't be.").
I'm hoping that I'm posting the meta (at the very latest) next week. In addition to RL, I just keep getting more ideas as I'm writing and hanging out here in the comm. :)
December 6 2011, 04:09:54 UTC 5 months ago
December 11 2011, 00:15:20 UTC 5 months ago
The transition between Bobby's memories and the real world where Rufus was about to bust the crypt and then the image cut to the swinging doors in the hospital was very symbolic!
December 6 2011, 16:59:15 UTC 5 months ago
They used blinds and door frames to create a feel of closed in and trapped. I like how they shot footage of the organ donor guy through a window with blinds.
Another image I really like Bobby keeping the solution to the reaper problem in a book like so many of the rest of his answers have come from. It kind of sums up his main roll as a hunter.
And just because -
December 11 2011, 00:55:53 UTC 5 months ago
The blinds were really effective that way. I sort of want to compare those shots with the one of Dean looking out of a window with blinds in 2x01 when Tessa the reaper was giving Dean the big schpiel about how he had done his part in the fight (can't put the cap up at this time). And now that I think about it, that isn't the only thing I'd like to compare between 2x01 and this episode.
Bobby. \o/
December 11 2011, 04:00:47 UTC 5 months ago
Anyway, I saw a web in the design which seems like a trap cutting off progress. That takes me immediately to 6.13 Unforgiven and Sam facing distressing missing memories. Beyond that (and because I'm never satisfied until I've gone a step too far) I connect webs to season one and the dreamcatcher in the Impala's trunk and the window at Missouri Mosely's
December 11 2011, 04:18:53 UTC 5 months ago
December 11 2011, 04:29:56 UTC 5 months ago
December 13 2011, 08:43:34 UTC 5 months ago
WEBS. WALLS. \o/ Oooo, I need to watch the ep to see if there are other themes that tie this into S6. But if we're thinking webs, then wouldn't Dean be the one here to spin it? Maybe meaning that he's the predator and the leviathans should really watch out.
December 11 2011, 04:13:14 UTC 5 months ago
I'm going to have to go back to 2.01. I know there were blinds in there. Plus it's a good excuse to watch that ep again. It's one of my favorites.
I'm really looking forward to seeing where the rest of the season goes.
December 13 2011, 08:58:59 UTC 5 months ago
2x01 is one of my favorites, too. There were lots of blinds and there was Dean trapped in a plane of existence that wasn't quite ours and there was a reaper and there were exit signs that Dean avoids whereas Bobby's really looking for doors.
I can't wait to see what show has in store for us! So far, the boys have been hunted rather than doing the hunting, so it'd be awesome if this piece of intel that Bobby delivered turned things back into the way they should be.