I'm still bouncing over the John news--they probably figured they couldn't keep it secret another week. EeeeeE!

That said, I have to exhale in relief that the scene with Sammy screaming "Letmeoutletmeout, ohgodletmeOUT!" wasn't actually in tonight's show. Just watching it on the CW site made my heart hurt. Yeah, you can beat up Winchesters all you want, but no way should Sam EVER scream like that.

I've got to say that, though I really enjoyed it, I'm almost a little disappointed that it wasn't more scary! I mean, there were a couple of "ooh, booga booga!" moments, but even the birthday scene wasn't really that creepy.

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I was really worried from the clips on the website that they couldn't carry the humour. The serious was also unexpectedly good. I guess my expectations were so low that I just had a good time.

However, my expectations based completely on the preview shown is so freakin' high for next week.

Okay, that was fun! A nice blend of the humorous and the serious. What has become their normal amount of gore was dispensed. None in a way I found overly gorey tonight. And we get John! Next week! John!

I enjoyed the ep, but the beginning sans Sam and Dean carried on for too long, and I'll echo the sentiment that after the long break from the show, this is not what I'd want to come back to. Maybe if it had been next weeks ep I would have appreciated it better?

I liked it because I didn't have to try to pump up to an artificial level of "Oh, noooees!" so quickly. Gave me just enough Sam and Dean to enjoy, a reminder of Dean's fate and just a good ghost huntery classic story. Next week will be soon enough to try and peg the "Boys!" meter.

Hmm. I found that mostly fun, not particularly deep, and a bit dodgy with regards to the sacrifice of Corbett. Who I think is the first gay male we've actually seen on the show, if I'm not mistaken. Pity he had to die in order to save everyone else, even the guy who found his love distasteful. Pity the only other gay character we've seen, the lesbian in AHBL1, also died.

Oh, Edlund. I bet you think you're being coy.

Show, if you make frequent homophobic jokes, and then when you have a gay characters, kill them off immediately, that doesn't actually say a lot for your attitude about people who don't share your heterosexuality.

And yet despite that, Sam and Dean didn't make any tasteless homophobic jokes, and Maggie survived and was a bit snarky (I'm trying to ignore the "oh I'm scared please kiss me" business), and Sam and Dean were smart in the end. If a bit unkind to these well-meaning amateurs.

I enjoyed the ep, but the beginning sans Sam and Dean carried on for too long

Yeah, I was getting really impatient, but once they arrived on the scene, I got a kick out of seeing them from Ghostfacers POV.

Hey, did anyone else see this cat macro? (On thread topic, I swear!)

Hee.

Stupid baseball. I wish that the game had been rained out - but nnoooo they just had enough delays that the show started so late that I . . . okay, this is where when I'm tired I get stupid. I had my tivo set up to record 90 minutes beyond the scheduled time. Would have gotten Smallville AND SPN fine BUT I was thinking 90 minutes total so went up the next level - which was show plus 3 hours. So, last night's show takes up 4 hours of space. I'm so tired.

I got up and watched this morning: I LOVED the boys' entrance. I'm thinking that they have fewer shows they're spending more $$$ on music. Excellent.

I loved the little skulls when the boys swore. The Hellhounds in tuxes reminded me of Andrew and his Masterpiece Theatre thing. The dude with the bodies having the birthday party in the bomb shelter was nicely creepy.

And the promo was totally made of Squee!