Nicole! HEY YOU!!!

In this particular episode, given Kripke's feelings about Twilight, the caged girls didn't bother me a bit. Seemed metaphorically logical, given the plot, as well as the meta of what Twilight is about, at base.

I forgot to mention how much I loved the old bank set. So very corporate, you know? Really perfect for this iteration of vampires and their plans.

Not yaye?

it was implied.

i'm hoping that next week we really, truly get answers for Sam's behaviour. to be honest, i'm kind of tired of ambiguous Sam and the brothers being kept apart emotionally or physically. want brothers show back.

I don't find Sam ambiguous anymore. Confusing, yes? With an unknown history and motivation, yes. But not ambiguous. Something's definitely wrong with him. Ambiguous, for me, was wondering when he hugged Dean what was up with his face.

But I get that ambiguity varies.

I laughed my ass off at the large parts of the episode, honestly. Was this a Sera one?

The homage to The Hunger pretty much had me.

It was Kripke! And some guy named Brett Matthews, who used to be an assistant of Joss's, and wrote a comic with him bridging the gap between Firefly and Serenity.

Does The Hunger open with "Bela Lugosi's Dead"?

I sort of thought they were still human and they were trying to torture them / brain wash them / compel them. If the caged women were actually vamped? I ... just don't even.

All the girls in the cages passed out too when they were receiving those visions from above. But not all the girls were in cages; there was a female vampire free and writing the bad emo poetry internet chat to ensnare more of them. Maybe the cages were to keep the Bella wannabe recruits from dramatically walking out in the sunlight or decapitating themselves by accident?

want brothers show back.

This. I'm all for dragging this out for the drama, but next week better be the beginning of resolution and getting our Sammy back. I miss the brothers badly.

I guess I always feel like this *is* the brothers, though. Even in S1, their relationship was far from perfect. Sure, there was more trust between them, and they worked together easier, but at the very beginning they were still working that part out.

I don't want this dragged out, but I don't mind seeing all the variations and new dynamics, either. People grow and change, and I expect them to, as well. Either with circumstance or age or whatever.

YWinchesterMV, of course.

there was a female vampire free and writing the bad emo poetry internet chat to ensnare more of them.

She wasn't exactly free - a male vamp was standing over her and I'm pretty sure she got put back in a cage. That said, it was 8 new recruits in a week, I'm willing to handwve the cages as SOP for new vamps that Dean sidestepped by getting taken away by Sam and presumed staked. Recruiter!Vamp hadn't been told what to do with him and struck me as also pretty new; Dean didn't behave like an erratic new recruit, so it didn't occur to him to lock him up.

t /wave