Aside from the part where Sam does not look like Scully at all, the big thing that bugged me about last night's episode is that nobody went into a research-gasm and found the phrase "Jerusalem Syndrome."

(Because I am completely sure that is what the X-Files would have done.)

...Sail, you didn't like the Vancouver stories? But...but...but the funny! And the gay!

I may go back at some time and look them over again, it's possible I gave up too quick on them. I felt the first book just bogged down too much in the middle and when that happens I end up putting the book down and never picking it up again.

I find Tony a little easier to identify with than Vicky.

See, I'm just the reverse, so, yeah, I like the Blood series better. I do like your casting choices for the Smoke books, though. I'd watch that, too.

Jerusalem syndrome?

I have to admit that for Route 666 I was more astonished at how badly whatsherface acts (she now curses the 4400 with her presence) to notice bad mathiness.

Jane Espenson signed to Eureka.

This news is made of AWSOME!

Last night's SPN bored me. I felt like I've been through this back in my X-Files days with episodes like "Revelations," which, frankly, did it better. And maybe it's because I wasn't paying attention to the canon in the first season, but has there been *any* hints that any of the boys were religious? The reveal that Sam prayed every day kind of felt asspully to me.

The Magic Finger bit amused me though. Mostly because it reminded me of "Bad Blood."

I thought that the magic finger bit was excellent but (for some reason) what really made me laugh was Sam saying, "I'm laughing on the inside," when Dean made some comment about the guy who got murdered in that house with Christmas decoration angel.

I thought that the praying fit in pretty well with what their early family life was probably like.

I am busy fanwanking in my head re: Sam and prayer. It think it's likely that John would have taken the boys to church as they moved around, as an easy way to slip into a community. Instant network. And in some places, what church you go to is the first question you ask new people.

I can see how Dean was old enough to be angry, to question, and to be as practical as John would be about it, whereas nobody told Sammy they were only there for the gossip and the holy water.

Jerusalem Syndrome: [link]

The Wikipedia article informs me that XF did reference this phenomenon (It's basically, religious-themed delusions coming on in somebody you didn't expect to be delusional, upon arriving in a location of intense religious history -- basically, Jerusalem, and not the shopping malls thereof.)

But I suspect that SPN doesn't have interest in the weird for its own sake so much as an interest in things that need killin'.

Besides, homocidal racist TRUCK.

GHOST truck, even.

'Suela, Plei, may I, please?

The reveal that Sam prayed every day kind of felt asspully to me.

Me, too. Sure, Sam was in college at the beginning of the series, but this is making it sound like they'd been separated their whole lives, and not just the four years of college, so how would Dean be expected to know that Sam prayed? Or that he had any kind of religious bent? That they hadn't talked about this kind of stuff over the years? Just not believable to me. I'm not super close with my brother, but we've talked about this stuff over the years, I know where he stands. I know for the sake of the Sammy angst, the writers have to show us just how worried Sam is he's going straight to hell, do not pass go, and he's looking for the get out of jail free card. It made me feel like the writers were looking for a free ride for this episode, too. Not one of my favorites by far, but fun for the beginning. I'm waiting for Dean/magic fingers fic.