I regret Rufus's death, but I think it was well done. So I don't think he was wasted except as a colloquialism. Not in the Supernatural universe.

I think Bobby and Rufus had a surface-level version of what Dean claimed at the end of the episode. They had to do life or death stuff together, and they trusted each other with their lives, but there was that thing. And Rufus was still mad. But that didn't mean Rufus didn't trust Bobby from here on in, and that he didn't have a reasonably good time with him.

Secondary, and tertiary, characters are fine, and I love it when they're nicely fleshed out, but in this kind of show, you have to keep focus. It's not ER where you can have endless characters and storylines floating around.

I felt his death was essentially gilding the lily... we'd already had the shocking deaths of two supporting characters in the episode, one sympathetic and one who'd been fairly important to the Winchesters (more so than Rufus, actually). I think that should have sufficed.

What I didn't like was how they staged his death. It had to be part of a narrative trick to fake us out about whether Bobby was dead. It had a whiff off "Don't worry, only Rufus died."

Random bits from the Jus In Bello convention so far:

• Misha's mother had his brother hid weed in his underpants
• Misha got arrested in a bank robbery for being in the wrong place at the wrong time (reading a book on the roof)

Misha's going to need to write a comprehensive memoir one day, I think.

I think Misha's mom might be as entertaining as her son.

His brother was five at the time.

Misha becomes more and more plausible.

His brother was five at the time.

Okay, that's a little fucked up.

Well, at least he wasn't complicit?

I got nothing. It's more harmless than the ball of hash my first boyfriend ate when he was a toddler.