That's not really accurate. Methadone has a really long half-life and it's most commonly taken orally. Once it's in the bloodstream it doesn't really matter how it got there - the difference between shooting up and drinking is the difference between how fast it hits, not how long it lasts.

It's been weirding me out the entire time how the blood from Ruby's host body can have magical mystical properties, though. I accept it because, magic, but it so doesn't make sense to me.

well, we've seen oral transmission of supernatural powers via blood a lot in the series, though, so I figure it's par for the course. I mean, vampires just have a bad case of Evil Mono.

Supernatural is all about death, loss, and love. Yeah, there are other ways for characters to come of age, but not many that are fitting for the genre.

I accept it because, magic, but it so doesn't make sense to me.

Yeah, this. I keep having to remind myself, "Um, NOT REAL," so. And the point of the demon blood drinking gets across anyway.

Yeah, there are other ways for characters to come of age, but not many that are fitting for the genre.

Yeah. It's not that I don't think it's possible to be an adult without your parents dying, but this is SPN, and they go for the archtypal stuff, not prosaic day-to-day change. Star Wars on backroads, you know?

I do agree that the theme of trust is not accidental, and that the only way for the Winchesters to survive is for them to relearn how to do that.

If all this conjecture is true, at some point the car will have to die as well.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

NO KILLING THE CAR.

::sniff::

But the car comes back, and not even wrong.

I had a sudden image of the car being destroyed and being revived as a Pinto ....

And people call me evil.

Clearly, she'd come back a hybrid.