WHERE IS THE BALTHAZAR/CASTIEL, DAMMIT?

Give a girl a chance. Sheesh.

I want an animated icon of Cas doing the air quotes RIGHT NOW, myself. I could watch that forever.

I am disappointed in fandom...disappointed, I tell you.

Okay, not that disappointed. Still, want more fic.

It's interesting that some of the BB's have incorporated spoilers from season 6 into their premises. However, I think I've liked maybe 2, but not enough to reread or bookmark. I'll give fandom some time to get their act together on all the opportunities The Third Man gave them, however. Like, a week.

Mmm. My bet is totally on something I wrong with Sam; possession, eviltude, I don't know what. But it ain't no, "Oh, this is just how I reacted to Hell differently."

I just read someone throwing around the theory that maybe Sam came back without a soul, and that one of the story arcs this season will be the search to regain it. (I can just see them now, looking for whatever tree - a mighty redwood, no doubt - is housing Sam's soul.)

Will having no soul make him act differently, like Bobby or that kid?

By "that kid" you mean the antiChrist? Wasn't his name Jesse? Anyway, Sam has been acting differently, no one disagrees about that. It's just a matter of figuring out why.

Bobby didn't act differently sans soul. Not that I discount Sam missing his as an interesting possibility. I just don't see it as the source for the difference in behaviour.

When did Bobby not have a soul?

No, I meant Aaron in that episode. So far the people we've been shown who've traded away their souls acted reasonably normally.

Maybe Sam didn't have a bad time in Hell. Maybe he had a good Boy King Hosting Luci time in Hell. So he's feeling a bit above it all back here on Earth.

I wonder about Adam. A throwaway line would be nice.

Also--the assumption that they don't have to ring up Cas anymore and tell him their location...are they both sigiled up? Are they psychically telling him where they are when they reach out for him?

Where has his vessel been chilling all this while? Is it Anna style? I mean, while he was existing as a multi-deminsional wavelength of celestial intent.

I have actually given up any hope that we will ever get anythiing definitive on Jimmy and his body. I'm resigning myself to the strategy of writers saying as little as possible so they have don't run into that pesky problem of concrete facts that would limit the story of the week they want to tell. I get it. I don't like it, but I get it.

That said, I want to know, definitively and concretely:
-did Cas remove his handprint when he healed Dean in Stull, with his new and improved powers?
-did Cas remove the sigils on Dean's ribs (and, why --same goes for the above)
-Is Jimmy dead? and how long has Jimmy been dead? and is that Jimmy's actual body?

I want to know these things, but, if I'm honest, I don't expect to be satisfied on any front. I expect them to be all dropped like a knife without a bungee cord.