I had the blood thought, too, and then decided that while this is the Do That Show, it's not quite that Do That.

might have been tiggy. I could easily have been mistaken because most of the time I was a grinning fool.

heh. me too, Austin. meeeeeee too.

Yes, Austin, the reassurance was meant for you. When do you watch? Are you on west coast time?

I think I have some chocolate ice cream in the freezer. That makes everything better. I've already lasted two days on my diet, it was time for a cheat.

Chocolate absolutely makes everything better. Always.

How can he be so cool and others in his circle be so not cool? I guess that is a dumb question. It's pretty easy to have a jackass friend.

Well, to try and placate myself I watched the latest episode of Blood Ties. Is it just me or does Christina Cox have spectacular boobs? She keeps wearing these shirts (sweaters) that are distracting me from the hotness of Henry. Something isn't right with that picture.

Are you on west coast time?

That's the ridiculous part. I'm Central time, but the KU game trumped Supernatural. It wasn't even an important game. Just local so they are showing SPN in about 30 minutes.

So what was the title of the Buffy episode where she strengthened her resolve and then decapitated the Übervamp with barbed wire? "Showtime"?

wow, that was an exciting little thing to turn into at the end of smallville. Mayhaps I should have been watching. Julian?!?!

yay, the Jesus guy in the previouslies. Okay, i'm going for the ice cream and a blanket.

I think so, Matt.

Wait, Mercedes McNab vamp was Mercedes McNab?!

*checks IMDB*

Damn. She needs to pay her plastic surgeon a late-night visit. And WOW this episode had a lot of footage for "Women's Work 2", didn't it?

I'm sure there were plot holes and techical glitches and socio-political incorrectnesses, and you know what? I don't bloody care.

There was nothing about this ep that I didn't love. I thought Harmony (Mercedes) completely sold the character's belief that she'd taken a drug and wasn't coming down from it. The slow reluctant conviction that it was something far worse was well done, I thought. Plus it was fun to see her again.

I've loved Gordon Walker--even with all the social and racial baggage he brought--as a character, even as I had a visceral dislike of him. He's the character I loved to hate. Brown inhabited Walker, gave him a wonderful solidity, and I'm going to miss him. I'd have loved to keep him as a recurring nemesis, because I think he's just that strong. And, you know, maybe one day we'd have gotten to the shirtless part.

But the confrontation! The talk! The throwdown between the brothers! Meat, finally, after a lengthy wait and enough evasion to be more than annoying. Both actors shone, these are the characters I know and have been waiting to see since M7. JP knocked Sam's appeal out of the park. He's getting more across by doing a lot less. And JA's response was similarly restrained, soft, gentle. Considering the deadly import of the subject and the emotions involved, this is a wonderfully toned-down way to play this out, and it makes me so happy I'm giddy to see it.

Handing over the wrench to Sam, passing the torch, heartbreaking. Sam understanding and accepting, just as wrenching. And then Dean sitting down so as not to hover. And still, still Dean: "Put your shoulder into it."

Oh boys. Oh show.