I, personally, was totally creeped out by a sex worker who seemed to be offering free sex on a return trip and maybe was leaving without pay. Because it's a business transaction for her too.

Yeah, that raised my hackles a bit.

I love Cas trying to maintain his faith in the face of betrayals around him

Anyone else see this Castiel heading toward the sex & drugs cult leader version even faster? Because if he keeps getting disappointed like this, it's going to happen.

I did like Sam having something of his own.

I've been bothered for a long time by his lack of possessions. Neither of the guys really has much to call his own, and for Sam I realize it's because of the fire in Palo Alto, but for the last 5 years all he's owned has been a laptop and a knife, more or less. Dean (prior to this season, anyway) didn't have a lot, but he's at least been more grounded in Winchester history what with the Impala (the family car), the music tapes (we were told they were John's taste in music, weren't we?), the leather jacket (John's jacket), and the amulet (the gift from Sam). But Sam's list seems particularly meager. I know him having his own car couldn't last for meta reasons; it was necessary for the show to get the two of them back into one car. But I really did like the thought of him having his own piece of independence. As I mentioned once before, in the world of the Winchesters, having your own car is practically moving into your own apartment.

Some of my feelings about belongings and lack thereof is no doubt influenced by my own tendency to attach sentimental feelings to inanimate objects, and I know they wouldn't have the luxury of doing anything like that. But still.... essentially, he lives out of a duffle bag, and I thought the car gave him a tiny little bit more room to expand, I suppose.

Some of my feelings about belongings and lack thereof is no doubt influenced by my own tendency to attach sentimental feelings to inanimate objects, and I know they wouldn't have the luxury of doing anything like that.

Which is part of why Amy's fic about Whiskey the toy bunny completely gutted me.

I need a link to that. It was spoilery for promos when it was linked and I was all abstain girl. But I really meant to mark it and read it. Sadly I lost it somewhere. Want Whiskey.

I liked Sam having a place (car) of his own, too, fitted up the way he liked it.

I did like that Dean *had* to "make room. I picked up some stuff along the way (and I'm not ditching it with my car)".

Of course Dean most likely hung onto Sam's weapons: his automatic and his shottie and his blades. Sam would have had to collect from nothing, although he did have an excellent mental checklist of what he'd need. Having access to his old stuff--will he still feel any connection to it, or has all sentimentality been burned away, I wonder?

As to weapons, during our headlong rewatch, H picked up on the fact that Dean was using Jo's shotgun after Abandon Hope.

You may not like it

True. But it seems TPTB don't have a problem with it, so I guess I really can't kvetch.

It's pretty damned sad that after a year of house living Dean can fit his life back into a car pretty simply too. But I'm going to assume he's left stuff behind at Lisa's, like the golf clubs, etc.

I can't lie. I'm a bit anti-growth for the both of them, and like them overlapping in the Impala again, although it does give Dean an edge. I'd like Sam's time without him to give him more independence, but not at the cost of their bond.

Which is why I was extremely tickled at Dean telling Cas that he had to treat Sam like he treated him. That's my entire vision of the Dean/Cas relationship--profound bond or no, Sam is priority #1.

What Whiskey Won't Cure. It wasn't really spoilery for anything other than the existence of Ben and Lisa.

I want to see the Colt and Ruby's knife again. Would Dean have held onto two such valuable things over a year of not hunting? Or would he have left them with Bobby?

Anyone else see this Castiel heading toward the sex & drugs cult leader version even faster?

I can see the potential of something similar happening, but I don't think he'll abdicate easily. I'd really love to see a canon story of his Fall handled more clearly and fully. In "The End" it wasn't his choice, and it was the angels abandoning Earth that really did him in, the final nail in his angelic coffin. But now we have Balthazar to contrast against. So I think, if anything other than Cas steadfastly fighting for what he believes in happens, it shouldn't be a slow fade like before, or a deliberate turning of his back while remaining an angel like sexy sexy Gabriel Balthazar.

But, dude is seriously stressed out already, something's gotta give.

goes back to staring at screencaps of shirtless Sam

dude is seriously stressed out already, something's gotta give.

Like his virginity!

Like his virginity!

I had thinky thoughts, but that made me snort tea up my nose.

Yes please.

Handprint: Reading elsewhere, a point was made that Dean's bare shoulders were in a dream. So until we having waking evidence, it's still there, damnit.