It's very thinky. Lots of parallels and mirrors and more looking at where the differences between Sam and Dean are really rooted, which does seem to me to go more and more back to the thing Mely said on LJ last week about Dean still somewhere being that little kid who lost his mother and his home and his life as he knew it to the demon. She was talking about his ability to connect to the various little kids and to Ronald, but I think it also leads to things like his willful and angry disbelief. Where Sam, who was essentially born, rather than thrust, into the chaos is the one who seeks out things like a normal life with normal rules, which would appear to include the notion that there's good to balance out the evil that they see.

So, I'm sad that Chloe and Jimmy broke up.

That was so annoying. I had been pleased that they were playing Jimmy as totally cool with Clark and not jealous, and then suddenly in this episode he gets all jealous and bah.

I wonder what's up with Lana's mysterious pregnancy. Is she having an alien baby? I hope she's having an alien baby. I hope it kills her.

She's been impregnated with Demon Spawn!

Or possibly some sort of meteor-rock enhanced baby.

Jilli kind of rolled her eyes at me for it, but... but... homemade tools! Suits! Airplane fear! Awesome brotherly interaction!

Oh, there was great character interaction, but the main plot didn't do much for me. See also "Bugs" and "Route 666".

Since I stayed at home feeling very unwell, we watched a LOT of episodes today. We're caught up through "Shadows". Overall, I like the show. I still don't think I'm going to go all Firewall of Flail over it, but it's fun. Even if I do spend a lot of time muttering about (a) Sam, Dean, or both do something completely boneheaded; and (b) my own knowledge of folklore and folk magic taking me out of the stories ("That's not what you'd use for banishing that sort of thing! Waitaminute, that's not the usual way those sorts of hauntings go!")

Or possibly some sort of meteor-rock enhanced baby.

I seriously wondered if Lex had used a Kryptonite condom.

We're caught up through "Shadows". Overall, I like the show. I still don't think I'm going to go all Firewall of Flail over it, but it's fun.

The LIP WIBBLE! When he calls John's cell in "Home"! How can you not flail??? Are you made of human parts???

I mean, err. Yes. Nice and fun! I envy the flail immunity, actually. Episodes that are thinky, but less flaily, like tonight's and No Exit, provide me with a breather, but it's been three viewings now for Nightshifter, and while I now own a copy of Styx's Renegade, I still can't type up my thoughts for the flailing.

See also "Bugs" and "Route 666"

These are generally regarded as two of the weakest episodes. I like what Route 666 tells us about Dean, but it's the episode that made me decide that simple math was hard for our poor show creators.

Besides, homocidal racist TRUCK.

that simple math was hard for our poor show creators.

Wait, I missed the math fiasco.

Besides, homocidal racist TRUCK.

People keep saying that, but in the end, it wasn't really a racist truck, right? That wasn't its actual motivation, I mean.

GHOST truck, even!

Man, good times, good times.

I'm a little surprised at the number of people (in LJ) who seem to feel that prayer could go unnoticed, but I suspect that's because when I pray (which is less often than once I did), I'm the talk-in-the-head sort.

I've been stuck on long airplane and car rides with my (atheist) family, and prayer (which would have been remarked on with horror) went right under that radar.

Wait, I missed the math fiasco.

If you assume Cassie's around Dean's age (so, born circa 1979), her parents getting married in 1962 or there abouts seems like kind of a stretch.

I've mentally fanwanked this into something along the lines of They Were Very Young When They Married And Had Many Sad Fertility Related Issues Before Their One Child Was Born.