do you watch General Hospital, sarameg? the guy playing Balthazar was(maybe is) Jax's brother, Jerry.

i'm really not feeling this season at all. i can't even say that it's something i have to watch live or even the same night. *sigh* i miss my show.

Thank you Morgana! I was so surprised to see the actor playing Bathazar. He's the other Universe agent that was working with Fauxlivia on Fringe, too. Very confusing for me.

I'm glad Sam's got his soul back. I was not a fan of Robo-Sam.

I do not understand why Dean took off the ring. Dean has had to do a lot worse than take the soul of a guy drunk driving. Yes, I know he was upset with the 12-year-old, but how much death has Dean seen? Why get upset about the girl now, a girl who was terminal (and not, say, kidnapped and abused or something like that).

As far as Sam, I get that if you don't feel, you might be afraid of feeling and how fucked up you might get when you are ensouled (esp. under the circumstances), but is killing Bobby the appropriate recourse? I was so uncomfortable with the Sam/Bobby stuff.

I do not understand why Dean took off the ring. Dean has had to do a lot worse than take the soul of a guy drunk driving.

Because the guy wasn't supposed to die, and taking off the ring made Dean corporeal, which meant he could grab the wheel and save him.

Because deep down Dean knows that ever since Sam traded his death for another's things have been fucked. It's nice, in a weird, fucked up way, to see the consequences of trading life and death play out. It's almost like things have been deliberately fucked since Houses of the Holy. All that pain and misery following Dean.

sure, but since they've been to heaven and learned they have been saved several times, doesn't that take the sting out of it a bit?

Because the guy wasn't supposed to die, and taking off the ring made Dean corporeal, which meant he could grab the wheel and save him.

Right. but I don't understand why he didn't just take the little girl after the first death that was off schedule. Why didn't he immediately claim the little girl?

I don't get what was happening while Dean had the ring, or why Death made a point of saying it was nice to take off the ring from time to time, after it had been off since last season.

I don't understand why he didn't just take the little girl after the first death that was off schedule. Why didn't he immediately claim the little girl?

He would have ended up in the car taking the ring off anyway and losing the bet, assuming he'd rushed. He wanted to stop more deaths by stopping the drunk driving accident first, and then come back and kill the girl later.

I'm pissed Bobby went downstairs too. I'm going to have to assume he had worked out just what Sam had done, and was confirming it, not that he seriously thought Sam was still down there, because he would have been toast so much sooner that way.

I also buy Sam taking Bobby out in his own place. Once you get past the traps, this is RoboSam. He doesn't stay tied up, he doesn't stay knocked out, he doesn't stop. He was gonna win, unless Bobby locked himself up. And even then.

I'm glad the soul went back in before hiatus, and I'm glad it went back in non-con with chances of barrier fail. That way we don't have to deal with unhandlable PTSD right away, but there's immediate angst, as well as hovering threat. So I'm good with that.

I like that RoboSam brought up the fact that he's an entity, and that he's not the Sam Dean cares about. They could have done more with that.

Loved having Death and Tessa back both.

why Death made a point of saying it was nice to take off the ring from time to time, after it had been off since last season.

I think he meant a) it had been nice for him to have it off for this period (for him, it's a second or two) and b) wasn't it nice, Dean, to take it off?