And I finally figured out that Ed (the guy who explained that the first victim was absolutely, most definitely bitten by A Vampyre, and who was playing the organ later when Sam snuck up on him) was also Norman on two episodes of "Blood Ties."

That's why he looked familiar. I miss Blood Ties. It was much better than True Blood.

I just saw Monster Movie. Of all the old film techniques used, my absolute fave is the tiny slash of light across the eyes. Love it!

My fav was the kaleidoscope like view of the bar glass to show Dean had been drugged. Heh.

I loved the kaleidoscope effect too.

Closing iris fade to black was the one I loved.

So many classics from which to choose. You could have a camera technique history lesson from this episode. Kripke? Are you doing a seminar somewhere and thought PowerPoint would be too boring?

Well, as someone who has no appreciation for classic monster flicks, I found the episode just okay, and slightly predictable. But I respect the effort. And enjoyed the scooter and pizza.

So did shapeshifter die? Or are we getting another Dracula ambiguity? ( See Buffy S6 E1.)

Jamie shot him with silver bullets. Bye-bye shifter.

I never understood why Dracula kept coming back.

But then I never understood why the Master had bones, either.

Ah, so the silver bullets do it for good. I was confused because of Shape!Drac's death scene which was apparently monster movie-esque but not Supernatural-esque.

Outside the story, I was okay with all the shooting elements being homage-ic. But inside the story, I assumed all the monster movie qualities were a creation of the shapeshifter. It seemed a stretch that he'd be able to die in his character as well. I guess that's my one big nitpick, the shapeshifter should have died as one would die in the Supernatural world, without theatrics, just cold and dead. (It would have been cool if the color washed in at the same moment...)