The Seven Deadlies could have been the season's Big Bad, for sure. The nasty little family pushing buttons and wreaking chaos all over the place, until the boys finally worked up to a showdown. Because, even in Envy's monologue, they *are* the root of all evil, the gateway, as it were, to the horrible things humans do.

And it would have played nicely into the boys' conflicts this season, Dean's selfishness, Sam's pride, etc.

Ah well. I'm assuming the big showdown will be however they decide Sam can get Dean out of his deal, probably at the last minute, with lots of extra!drama and angst, instead.

Pride wasn't in the devil's trap. He looked up before stepping into it.

And then he cracked it.

BTW, stalker chick using that knife? Just killing folks - not SOP, right? Suggests some Gordon like crackedness.

Seriously, sumi. I couldn't believe that. No regard for the humans they were possessing. I do like a good throat-slashing, but still!

Yeah, particularly in retrospect, since Bobby was able to redeem some of them. The others certainly could have been, too.

Did anyone think that Tamara killed the human she exorcised the demon from? There was just a little look from Bobby when she said "He didn't make it." that made me wonder. Like, was he seeing her grim determination in the face of ugliness? Or was he seeing her lie in vengeance?

Maybe a certain homicidal craziness is one of the side effects of hunting.

Did anyone think that Tamara killed the human she exorcised the demon from?

I... don't know that she killed him herself, but she certainly wasn't sad that the human host didn't survive.

I took Tamara's "He didn't make it" as her not even trying to save whatever-the-human's-name-was, not specifically as her killing him. Which, just a shade of difference, but still something she might rationalize.

Stalker Chick with the knife, yeah -- no prisoners there. And that's another thing -- what's the deal with the knife? And why did it kill them, and where did the demons inside go when it did? That's one thing I've never been clear on -- did they go back to hell? Was the demon itself killed?

Even with John in Devil's Trap -- he's telling Sam to shoot him while he's got YED inside, but what then? Even in AHBL II, when Stan dies, the demon sort of goes off in its normal black cloud, yes? But why is it then *dead* and not free to possess some other body?

I'm turning out to like/need consistent rules more than I thought.

Clearly that was a magic knife - like the Colt maybe but just not known to the guys.

I'd assume that there have been a lot more knives and swords available to powerful demon-hunting occultists through the ages than revolvers, so the fact that someone besides Samuel Colt managed to create a demon-killing weapon doesn't really surprise me. The effect of those knife kills looked the same as the aftermath of the Colt bullets, so I think it meant actual destruction of the demons rather than banishment to Hell. Which means that we could still see a return of Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and either Greed or Sloth (was it the latter that Bobby trapped?)

It's like that Sarah Jessica Parker perfume ad gone wrong.

There's a version of that ad that went right?