Three Men and a Baby, quester.

Bwah! Fingerful of liquor in the mouth.

Dean really is adorable with Bobby John.

And for everyone who was keeping track of the drinking shots, he's drinking here too.

I have to say, the Ben actor isn't making me wish the Child Catcher would come get him either. Surly awkward years are a lot more palatable than Mini-Dean yelling ROCK ON! and making with the horned finger gestures.

Oh this family is just too creepy for words. Of course Dean isn't really helping matters, but they are freaking creepy.

It's the T-2000 Shifter!!

crap, my nap only just ended. Damn it all.

I'm waiting for Scott to get back from bringing Ben & friends home from the movies, so I haven't watched tonight's episodes, yet. I just wanted to comment on some of the Dean/Alcohol conversation from the past week.

If I thought Dean was an alcoholic, I wouldn't call him (or anyone) post-alcoholic, because once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. There's no "post". But there is "recovered", meaning clean and sober.

Actually, clean and sober people would characterize themselves is "recovering" and "in recovering" because there's no cure for the disease, there's only treatment (which is sobriety and whatever other help [12 steps, therapy, whatever works] that applies).

I think by fictional diagnosis qualifications, Dean has had a drinking problem, and probably continues to drink too much. Trying to map that onto real world specific diagnoses will likely fail, because...fiction.

ITA ita. Some alcoholics seem born, and others are made. They're made through alcohol abuse. Dean has certainly shown a pattern of alcohol abuse. Whether or not he's addicted, I can't say. We haven't seen those signs onscreen, but it doesn't mean he's not living them. For the past however long though, Dean's drinking and reasons for it, have been less than healthy.

Like I said, I know plenty of people who habitually have a beer every night with dinner, etc. So maybe I just know a lot of heavy drinkers? It just didn't strike me as problematic at all.

These days, I might qualify as a heavy drinker, given the amount of wine I consume. I think a lot of these comments (okay, at least mine) are being made with the context of last season firmly in mind, and the idea that it must mean something that the writers chose to have Dean carrying around a glass of booze when he was closing up for the night.

I probably sound cranky, but I'm feeling pretty lonely in my enjoyment of the episode, and my anticipation for the season.

I *really* liked the premiere and am DYING for Scott to get back so I can watch tonight's episode. You are definitely not alone, Amy, and I have cake. Okay, I have Jaffa Cakes -- which are cookies for tax purposes but are really cakes.

I just realized where I know Corin Nemec from -- he was Harold in the TV adaptation of The Stand, and totally geeky/creepy in love with Molly Ringwald. Heh.

Oh, thank you!

Okay, Scott's home. Time for this week. *poof*

I'm scrolling through the CW station hoping for repeats, and instead am mocked with "Two & a Half Men" reruns.

Repeatedly.