Wait a sec.

Maybe the Smoke Monster on Lost is this demon!

Well, is there a difference? Smoke that can bend its way around corners and smoke that can give itself nice sharp edges to seem like a solid object is all just plain Freaky Smoke to me.

To me there is. If the smoke defaults to a humanoid shape, the idea of gender seems much more intuitively applicable. However, even if it does not, I have no problem with amorphous beings having gender, although I do understand that others do.

What I found myself questioning was Dean activating the GPS in Sam's phone, after Sam knocked him unconscious. If Dean could do that from the hotel lobby, and he found Sam in Duluth, why couldn't Dean have done that at the beginning of the episode to locate Sam when Sam was missing for an entire week? (I know, plot purposes, plot purposes. But for it to not work at the beginning, and then work thirty minutes later, that bothered me.)

Also, I want to apologize for the mangling of verb tenses in the paragraph above. Migraine medications and composition: two great tastes that don't really don't go together.

But for it to not work at the beginning, and then work thirty minutes later, that bothered me.

Ummmm, possibly Sam disappeared leaving his phone behind in his other jeans? On mute, so Dean never heard it ringing when he called it? *hands waving across America*

didn't Dean say something about Sam's phone going straight to voicemail when he called? indicating that the phone was turned off. GPS couldn't be activated in that case, right? of course, i could be misremembering and he just said he got his voicemail.

Y'know, I never really disliked Jo until now, when she asked Dean that question.

Which question was that?

didn't Dean say something about Sam's phone going straight to voicemail when he called? indicating that the phone was turned off. GPS couldn't be activated in that case, right? of course, i could be misremembering and he just said he got his voicemail.

Dean said he was getting nothing but voicemail, but I can't remember if he said it was ringing or not first. But yeah, if the phones off, it can't be tracked. (Or least that's what Veronica Mars taught me.)

Which question was that?

"He's possessed?" (That may be a bit of a paraphrase, but I think that's the question that's being referenced. I give Dean credit for not just bitch-slapping her upside the haid.)

And that was particularly stupid of Jo, since at the beginning of her bondage scene, she said rather emphatically that "You're not Sam."

"He's possessed?" (That may be a bit of a paraphrase, but I think that's the question that's being referenced. I give Dean credit for not just bitch-slapping her upside the haid.)

I had big problems with how Jo was written this ep, but oddly, that wasn't one of them, because I paired it with the "It's holy water, you demonic son of a bitch" (or whatever the exact phrase was) as rather clunky exposition in case people weren't getting what was going on.

Yeah, I have maybe watched too many vampire shows, but the hissing and the smoking and the screaming made it pretty clear it wasn't Fresca. And he wasn't human.

I didn't know about the bit where Dean said it would hurt the demon but not hurt Sam? Does that have canonical precedence? That the host is separate from the demon in that way?

I'm still fairly new to this show, so...

I guess, that the smoking wasn't Sam's skin burning but the demonic essence inside of him.