I think Dean loved Lisa in general at the start of things, because that's who I think of him as. A guy who loves people who haven't done anything wrong to him yet, because he is a nice guy. I mean, she hit only positive criteria when you're going down the checkboxes.

Not in a soul-sharing bondy sort of way, or anything. And the fact that he didn't interact with her on an extended basis made it easy. Then she just kept being cool, and then he actually got to know the Lisaness of her, and he could grow to love that. But the bing bang boom love stuff I read stories of? Nah, just don't buy that, and I'm glad they never tried to sell it.

Watch them do it in the three remaining episodes!

You know what? It was like an arranged marriage and they kind of grew to love each other. . . but with reservations.

OMG, I am so close to loving this, but why would they write that under Gabe? Makes NO SENSE. My finger hovers over the favourite button...

Still, the execution is awesome.

Is that supposed to be Enochian under some of them?

I don't know -- I can see them understanding him a lot better after his last two appearances, and sort of retroactively appreciating his angst and his sense of humor. I don't think Dean ever held as much against him as Sam did, and Sam could be sort of Stockholmed into gratitude that he gave Dean *back* in the end.

I'm mostly trying to convince myself how it could work without any icky slashy vibe.

Actively miss him, though? Want his strength in battle, be sad he died in their fight, I get. Miss his company? HE KILLED DEAN 100 TIMES. I don't think they're necessarily at the point of sharing beer.

Not without work.

Sorry, I randomly read a fic where Gabe appears to Sam to share his bed every night platonically and eventually they get together, so I'm having some major Gabe disconnect right now.

Just because *we* like him, you know?

I can't see actively missing him, but missing the idea of him? As you said, sad he died in their fight?

I could get behind, like, Gabriel and Chuck maybe. But Gabriel and either brother? NO.

I'm trying to imagine Dean pencilling in anywhere that he misses Castiel. Might as well doodle Mrs. Dean AngelOfGod in the margins of John's journal.

Suffer that missing on the inside, boyos!

I give up! The schmoop has killed me. I can never schmoop again. Why schmoop? It's been schmooped. CDL took the D/C, and she uberschmooped it.

Triple posting! Grr.

Breakdown for the BB is up:

Sam/Dean: 59
Dean/Castiel: 13
SPN Het: 4
SPN Gen: 22
SPN Femslash: 2
Other SPN Pairings: 17

Jared/Jensen: 116
RPS Gen: 3
Other RPS pairings: 8

That is a LOT of J2. Hells bells. And more gen than D/C? ::sniff:: I'm so spoilt. I could be primarily a femmeslasher. That would suck.

I think the femmeslashers tend to pick fandoms where there are female characters to slash. Have two named women besides Ellen and Jo ever appeared onscreen simultaneously?