My favourite SPN beard.

Man, it would be great if Sam came back with a beard next season because he'd been living that rough.

Poll: How long before Sam and Dean meet up again--show minutes or even episodes? I'm going to be a twitching mess if we make it to the halfway point of ep 1 and they've not seen each other yet, but then again, I do watch the show in order to twitch and mess.

Oh yes. JDM's perpetual beardedness when he's not filming is one my favorite things ever.

For dramatic effect, I'm going to say ... the very last shot of the first episode.

I do watch the show in order to twitch and mess.

I was going to say.

Speaking of ... JDM is going to be on Craig Ferguson tonight. Rowr.

JDM's conversations with Craig are always great fun -they seem to really connect and let themselves be silly

Edit to add that I'd love to see Jared on Craig's show - JP would be hyperactive, Craig would encourage and add to it and no one would remember to cut to the commercial break

Poll: How long before Sam and Dean meet up again--show minutes or even episodes?

I don't know what to expect, but I want episodes. From my faulty memory, they've not been separated, in our eyes, for more than two episodes. Correct me if I'm wrong.

S1 they split and reunited within the same ep "Scarecrow"

S2 We've got "All Hell Breaks Loose Pt. 1", and they are reunited, albeit briefly by the end (Sam's death being an inconvenient obstacle), and are back together by the beginning of part 2.

S3 there's Mystery Spot, with Dean temporarily dead for the second half of the ep, but back by the end.

S4 they are reunited fairly quickly after Dean's resurrection, split up at the end of "When the Levee Breaks", and reunite at the end of "Lucifer Rising", which are back to back episodes, so that's an eps worth of time.

S5 they part ways at the end of the second ep, "Good God, Y'all" and are back together by the end of the fourth episode "The End" --this is the longest they've been parted onscreen, that's the two eps worth of being parted.

So, in my opinion, they need to up the pain and the mess. At least, at least, three episodes before they're hugging. There can be glimpses and hallucinations and dreams before the epic hugging. But what I do Not want is Dean and Sam together inexplicably with a lot of untold backstory. I want the pain of the separation tenfold, explicitly.

Also, Jared has the sweetest eyes. Like, soulful and kind and made of puppy dogs and sunshine.

But s'pose they don't hug, Julie. Would it still be worth the torture?

In my head, Sam is choosing to be not be in Dean's life, and if he chooses that for a long time I want Dean to beat the crap out of him.

Multiple episodes? I will fan-die. Just die.

Wait--in your scenario Dean and Castiel reunite before Dean & Sam?

JDM and Craig Ferguson are adorable together. Also adorkable.

But s'pose they don't hug, Julie. Would it still be worth the torture?

ita, I suppose only time will tell. I mean, in my head, in the interim there are lots of phantom meetings and dreams and nightmares of what-could-be. I just think that they have to up the duration of separation at this point. We survived two eps. This time, after everything, if not three full ones, then at least two and a half. I guess I'm thinking that, after following up on something so big, to enter into something more intimate, the angst and wallowing needs to be a bit More. But, Yes (worth the torture, they've always been kinda gentle with the separation, imho).

In my scenario, idk. I'm thinking of Cas as kind of a link between them two. Neither fully with one or the other, but prodding and pushing until they get to that point. Because even if there's no epic mission, they're Cas' friends, and he wants them to be whole, so he's acting as an instrument of fate on their behalves, leading them towards each other while one holds back and the other flounders.

I like this a lot, Julie.