The only issue I see is the sloppy way they've handled the vessel issue. Anna was the sole occupant of her human body. Gabe... who knows who his vessel was, and even if the wimmin he'd been screwing around with were willing humans, whammied, or false constructs, he still was a highly sexual being (I don't think it was all just show).

Pffft. Gabriel was in disguise. I never gave him serious consideration as an angel till Hammer of the Gods. God/human I have much less trouble with as a concept. Angels have always been asexual in my thinking. They'd have to lose their angelosity to gain the equipment to do the job.

Sort of like the Little Mermaid.

I never gave him serious consideration as an angel till Hammer of the Gods.

You ignored Changing Channels? And didn't even flash back to his total randiness in Tall Tales?

I mean, I understand that the concept is quease-making on a level of incest for you, but unlike incest, Show seems to accept it just fine. Castiel just said he'd not wanted to have sex, not that it was outrageous for an angel, and Gabriel was pretty obsessed with it.

Angels have always been asexual in my thinking.

Bu they have been petty, mean, vengeful, and selfish? I guess I just don't get drawing the line at sex. An expression of love and/or pleasure seems a lot less dubious to me than an angel who wants to move up the chain of command, for instance, and is willing to sacrifice billions of human lives to do it.

Up until the end of Changing Channels, he was the Trickster, Loki, god of mischief. Angel-seeming wasn't retroactive for me, I wasn't even sure I bought the reveal. He didn't appear having re-assumed his angelic mantle until Hammer of the Gods. He's always been the Trickster, and was that until Hammer of the Gods, where the only sexual interaction he had was with another god.

I look at Uriel, at Anna post-grace, at Michael in both vessels, even at Lucifer in The End, and none of them have an iota of humanity, let alone sex about them. Castiel is the same, whether riding Claire or Jimmy. They're just too alien a being. Sex with a human--with any being--is unthinkable. Castiel was becoming more humanized, and the squick had completely disappeared in The End. But there was no angel left--he was by then almost completely human. Zachariah is repulsive, but even when he was attempting to gross Sam and Dean out by coming on to his version of Mary, he wasn't remotely sexual, it was a perversion of the human perception of sex.

Misha is completely adorable, and Castiel is an intriguing and compelling character. I get that people want to get pretty boys together, and most of the time I'm all there. But for me personally, I just don't see the slash potential with angels. I realize I'm probably a minority of one.

On a different topic, bets on who Sampa was talking to?

• New character?
• Angel?
• Demon?
• Human?

Bets on how long he stays on the show? Past halfway through the season?

He's always been the Trickster, and was that until Hammer of the Gods, where the only sexual interaction he had was with another god.

You do get that you're wedging canon into that asexuality you prefer, right? Because even if it's a retcon, Gabe's sexuality in Tall Tales is on the record.

I like "Sampa". Did you just invent it?

I want Sampa (best name EVER!) to be talking to Crowley.

Ooh, Crowley. Best idea I've heard yet.

If I work at it I can blunt my instinctive squick to canon angel sex? It's a concept.