Watching Sam, Interrupted this morning. I have heard people debate Dean's comments about Babar the Elephant and the 50 drinks comment. But why assume he is a reliable narrator here? Yes, telling the truth got them admitted, but neither comment came off as the truth. The not having children's books comments felt like an excuse to cover using Dr. Babar as part of their cover. And the 50 drinks felt like Dean showing off and exagerrating.

At least that is my take on it.

What's showing off about 50 drinks? It sounds like a sad, frank thing, like everything else he said to his fictional therapist. In fact, I'm assuming that what he said to her was probably the most honest he's been all season, and that's probably the point of her fake existence.

As for stuff he says to maintain a cover, I consider that completely different--he doesn't say he never had children's books, by the way. What he does do is quote Fletch.

Why did I *just* now do the math? That's seven drinks a day, plus one. God.

While I do think Dean is more honest with his fictional therapist, I also felt like he was letting his inner fears form his remarks to her. Being responsible for every life on the planet, 50 drinks a week, and so on.

Dean's confessions to the the fictional therapist are basically that he feels like he alone has to save the world, that he sleeps 3-4 hours a week, that he drinks around 50 drinks a week to get that much sleep and has never had a long term relationship.

They all sounded like things he believes about himself. I don't see where that much drinking counts as a fear or showing off. Combined with the amount we do get to see him drink (like the detritus in Dark Side of the Moon) I don't see any rationale for unreliable narrator, especially since it seems pretty simple to accept everything else--or do you think he was lying about the rest too?

It just seems Occam's razorish for me.

I doubt he counts every drink every day. But I think he was being honest with the therapist, and "fifty drinks a week" sounds like the kind of estimate he'd give when he knows he's drinking a hell of a lot on a daily basis just to sleep, with or without nightmares.

When I watched the episode, I thought he was exaggerating but now I'm not so sure.

Yay show day!

I still don't buy why Jimmy was attracted to Dean, why he wouldn't go home, or all in all what happened between them.

That made absolutely no sense AT ALL. Jimmy could have fulfilled his purpose of opening the door to Dean admitting his feelings for Cas and knowing that they were returned in a completely platonic way, and also learned how to be a hunter in preparation of returning to his family able to protect them.

*headdesk*

eta I just had to, skimmed the rest of DoaH, sooooo bad, that was ridunkulous.

SHOW DAY!!!

I could see the 50 drinks a week not being a hyperbole if the majority of it was light beer mixed in with hard liquor. I can also see the hyperbole mixed in with the other truths if he really doesn't know the number, but knows it's A LOT/TOO MUCH.

fanvid rec: [link] "Cosmic Love" by affablyevil. Team Free Will (also kinda D/C).

New anime trailer. I've looked, but I haven't listened. Looks COOL. I'm very psyched.

Is Mo Ryan doing episode recaps anywhere this season?

Elsewhere I read a suggestion that Sampa had been raised from Hell, and that's where he was taking his suggestions from. Hmmph. Why would he go to hell? I don't want Mary's father to have been hellbound. I think I'd prefer rogue angels. They're pretty bad themselves. But at least he'd have been in Heaven.

From what we saw of Samuel, if he went to hell, there's not really a hunter that won't. And that's not a structure I want to watch. So I think Samuel went to heaven.

Now I have no idea what came back or if that's really Samuel. But I think gramps went to heaven when he was killed.

Show night!