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I hope ita is ok. If I ended a post that way, par for the course. ita trailing off like that worries me a bit.

I'm pretty sure that's just a typo, Gar. I wouldn't worry.

And, wow, seeing Samantha Smith play Eve really showcased how bland and awful Julia Maxwell is.

Ha ha ha, seriously. I hadn't had too much of a problem with her, but when she was called on to say more than a phrase or a sentence, she didn't really bring it.

Let's talk about how Bobby looks at unrelenting carnage in a bar and deduces that everyone died of a fever. WHAT.

I copy and pasted that post together (it was going to be serial), and wasn't paying attention to whether or not I'd actually finished typing.

CAS LIVES IN HIS ASS.

It does need to be, uh, asscapped, doesn't it?

So did Cas pop up like that deliberately given what Dean had just said, or was he going for the sniffing-the-nape-of-the-neck-after-being-apart-too-long thing?

Hasn't Cas always had the tendency to pop up right behind Dean? We've just never seen in from that angle, pervy-style in it's full glory.

Rewatching Caged Heat: Whatever Cas' alliance with Crowley, Crowley isn't (obviously) on Cas' side. He was more than willing to kill them, and i would think that Cas showing up with the bones was huge improvisation on Cas' part, and Crowley was either game enough to play along, or their alliance, most probably, was so tenuous that Crowley truly thought he'd be roasted. All in all, I still like, extremely. For all that I've been wracking my brains about Cas' regrettable things, lying to the Winchesters is the most regrettable thing I can think of that means anything. And it's beautiful in it's shades-of-grey, greater-good, big-picture trappings.

Whoa! I finally got to watch. So Crowley is working for Cas if he said, "I'm tired of cleaning up your messes?"

It was nice to see Cas come back into his terrifying power again.

I had to rewind most of Mary!Eve because I was so giddy over seeing Samantha Smith that I kept losing track of what she was saying. Yeah, yeah, you're not Mary and you are evil, but, omgitsoriginalmarysquee!!!

I think that it's pretty fixed that I love John, Dean, Sam and her no matter what. In the times that SS has been on the show, has she played actual Mary any time other than the pilot and then when she consumed the evil spirit in Home? Other than that has it always been a trick?

Does Dean's Djinn dream in What Is and What Should Never Be count as a trick? That seemed like the real Mary to me.

I wanted it to be the real Mary, but it was what the Djinn was projecting into Dean's mind. She may have been memories that were realistic, but unfortunately not Mary.

I like to think she was like that all the times that we couldn't see her on camera though.

In the times that SS has been on the show, has she played actual Mary any time other than the pilot and then when she consumed the evil spirit in Home? Other than that has it always been a trick?

Wow, I just checked and Samantha Smith has popped up on 7 episodes now. I hadn't realized it had been so many:

s1.01 - Pilot
s1.09 - Home
s2.20 - What Is and What Should Never Be
s2.21 - All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1
s4.21 - When the Levee Breaks
s5.16 - Dark Side of the Moon
s6.19 - Mommy Dearest

As Theresa says, in WIAWSNB the Mary that we see is what the Djinn was projecting (as evidenced by her encouraging Dean to stay there in fantasy land, and therefore die). The Mary that Azazel shows Sam in the flashback during AHBL part I might be an accurate reflection, we don't know; what we do know is that Azazel would be showing Sam images that would be the most likely to incite Sam's anger.

The Mary in WtLB (oh just break my heart, why don't you?) is the product of Sam's grief and hallucinations. The Mary of DSofM (go ahead and stomp that sucker flat) is the manipulation of Zachariah. And then what we see in MD is projected by Eve.

So yeah, I think it's safe to say we haven't seen SS as the real Mary since Home. Of course we've seen Young Mary since then.