No, I know, I'm just wondering why Show went there. Especially the white eyes. Also, they could have as easily made her a teenage girl, if they wanted the non-threatening air.

Micole on LJ points out that making her a child gives her even LESS power, because girl-children are the ultimate powerless human.

Either that or little girls are just creepy, which they are in horror-movie-land. I saw Poltergeist.

That was awesome. Issues, schmissues.

Although I really wanted Victor to become a Hunter.

See, that's what I keep saying. (About Victor, that is.)

Issues, schmissues.

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I'm sorry? You want to expand on that?

I try not to let issues hinder my enjoyment of the show, which was particularly awesome and entertaining tonight. Henriksen was a good character, and I'm sad that he's dead, but I don't think the fact that he's black means he gets to survive an exploding police station. Lilith is a demon who appears in multiple mythologies, and Supernatural pulls from existing mythology when building its own; I admit it's a highly charged name. I knew immediately that people would (understandably) have problems with it, but I hate that it detracts from a pretty awesome episode (and I don't generally think Supernatural is this awesome!).

I was disappointed. Haven't read other opinions yet but I'm tired of the scary little child thing and find Ruby to be useless - and I had thought that the character was interesting.

Now wondering if Bella isn't somehow related to the possessed child. PO'ed that I can't spec about Bella to my SPN buddy because she hates the character so much.

Also - can't believe that we have 2 months for another episode.

Also, I'm really pissed off that they killed Hendrickson. . . and did you guys notice that all 3 Hendrickson episodes were sieges of some sort? What's up with that?

And the thing about Ruby that's wrong is that she is EVIL and she uses evil and I think that you can't fight a war against evil by starting off with an evil act. (So, I'm saying that Dean was right - although he didn't articulate it that way.)

I also think that it would have been much, much better to have "Mystery Spot" after "Jus in Bello" because I feel like it clarifies the Trickster's motivation better. You can really see that Sam needed to be cluesticked to prevent him from going to the evil act in that pragmatic way.

Issues, schmissues.

There are ways to have an opinion that are nicer than this, though.

Yeah, I totally agree [on the boys could not have done the sacrifice]. If our boys went for the sacrifice they would have lost to goal to make the strategy. And it looked to me like the trickster was on Ruby's side of that argument. Sam was ready to make the sacrifice, because he'd already made that choice in the tricksterverse.

Given the particular issues the show has it was really problematic of them to make it a virgin sacrifice. In part they handled it well, with Dean having trouble believing that any would choose to live without sex. On purpose. But then the rest of the episode he kept talking about how they were not going to sacrifice any virgins. So if she'd slept with the lead drummer of the local garage band in high school, sacrificing her would not have been quite as bad? (Though to be fair, Dean wouldn't have sacrificed anyone including Hendrickson.) I'm trying to decide if the whole "virgin" thing was still another example of the shows issues, or a case where the show actually did own its issues.