I just saw that! I was totally going to send one! Heh.

I've got to admit, even I am tempted to send Misha a SASE.

And from waaaay back:

(uh, that's TFW+Gabe sexing)

I'm sickly and slow right now. Gabe? Who is Gabe? Because I'm pretty sure ita isn't in bandom, so my knee-jerk assumption of Gabe Saporta has to be wrong.

Gabriel, babe, aka the Trickster.

(She's on NyQuil. It's okay.)

Oh! Right, and I should have remembered that. Wow, NyQuil really does screw up my brain. Good to know.

I'm pretty sure purgatory is a fairly Catholic concept, and as far as I know monsters (i.e. the wicked, the evil, any who egregiously are not in God's grace) would go straight to hell.

We know that vampires and those shifters who turned into dogs started out as human, and various other things might also. Perhaps Purgatory is needed to purify them from the influence of whatever curse turned them into monsters?

Depending on exactly how the cage operates, it's possible Lucifer and Michael aren't able to inflict any added torment on Sam. We know that just getting communication through to Azazel from within the cage was extremely difficult and required just the right circumstances. What we don't know is whether that's because it safely contains all the power of its prisoner and prevents him/them from affecting the world at large, or because it nullifies the power of anything locked in it. In the latter scenario, the archangels might have been limited to whining at their respective vessels.

Some of the more mystical sects in Judaism have a view of Gehenna that makes it a sort of purgatory. An analogy used is a great laundry where your soul is boiled and beaten and wrung until all the sin washes out. Maybe some sins are so bad that they never wash out, and those souls are eternally damned stuck in spin cycle forever. (Or maybe everyone gets clean after enough time has passed.) Most or all get reborn once the sin is out, and get to keep trying keep being laundered and reborn until they get a life right and make heaven. But being laundered is painful and , well, hellish. I think of it as a sort of super-therapy where you can't lie to yourself or therapist, and have to face to full consequences of everything you have done, and the full moral weight of all your actions and intentions. Effective but very very painful. And after you go through all that work, you have to forget what you've learned and try to do right just with however your soul has changed without being able to take any of that hard won self-knowledge with you.

One thing that I've been noticing, as Dean has been surrounded by the soulless and the naive, is that he is coming out with some very definitive views that feel new. And yeah, they're off the cuff, and I can't help think "he'd make a great dad". Answering all those awkward questions and responding to all those random surprise awkward moments that need a dispensation of wisdom. He's never felt more like a parent to me than in this season, whatever it's (numerous) flaws. I mean, having the answers (even if they're wrong) to questions that a normal person would never have to encounter (like what to do when a loved one is abducted and the surviving loved one is horny and bored and soulless).

How did Meg get the knife, again?

Also, we don't know where the Colt is, do we?

During my X-files education, I just watched an episode introducing Special Agent Manners. Most of his dialogue was obscured with bleep. Heh.

Presumably Meg took Ruby's knife off the guys when her minions had them tied up.

I think we haven't seen the Colt since Dean shot Lucifer with it.