As much as I love Denny, I don't want to find out that Izzy is insane.
I'm guessing you missed the entire third season of the show, in which she was BATSHIT CRAZY? Hallucinations do not seem the less likely possibility to me.
I'm torn on the empty vessel for Ruby thing. On the one hand, it seems like fanservice on a meta level, and has the vibe of Sam "taming" her like Major Nelson did with Jeannie or Darren Stevens tried to do with Samantha. On the other hand, Ruby is sarcastic and petulant enough that it kind of makes sense for her to go go to extreme lengths so she can give him the "Are you satisfied now?!?" treatment walking in the door.
I thought Sam's initial protest to Ruby's come-on was genuine -- "You're a
demon!"
But at the same time, I thought he caved (partly) because he's giving her, and has been giving her, the same benefit of the doubt he wants for himself. He's got demon blood, yes, but he's trying to do good. Ruby is a demon, but she's been helping him, she saved his life once already, etc.
Okay, I'm rewatching, and I think I'm back to the fuzzy time math.
Six month ago: The CRD tells Sam "You don't look too good. I guess burying your brother is no fun" (or something like that), suggesting that this is something that just happened.
Next scene, still six months ago by the caption, and Sam is wearing the same clothes he was with the CRD, Ruby shows up wearing the blonde.
I don't see the line from the CRD as indicating that he just got back from digging a shallow grave, and boy are his arms tired, though. Recent, yes, just done, no.
But then wouldn't CRD have said "life without your brother" or something?
You've got to let it flow over you!
I really didn't have a problem with it. But then I always sort of approximate dates and times.
I just assumed he couldn't take it anymore a week or so after Dean died, and that's when he went to the crossroads. And if Ruby was in hell for a week or so, that's at least a year or something, which seems like plenty of time for a fast-talker like her to make a deal with Lilith.
I don't even know that that means, but yes!
you have to ask Plei--I think it's a comic book thing
When Jason Todd, Robin II, aka The Dead Robin, the one the Joker beat to death with a tire iron, the one with the creepy case-filled uniform dedicated to him in the Batcave, came back from the grave (all growed up and somewhat wrong), the eventual explanation was that Superboy Prime, in his efforts to break through dimensional barriers, had PUNCHED A HOLE IN REALITY, this causing all kinds of continuity changes.
And while some may view this as the most boneheaded, dumb-ass part of Infinite Crisis, I myself view it as the most utterly hilarious and effective explanation for EVERYTHING.
