I'm completely unspoiled so this is all guesswork, but I'm going to say Sam's right, killing Lillith will prevent the last seal from being broken *and* eliminate demonkind as a threat--or bind them in league with the angels. Dean is being groomed by whatever's running the angel choir *to* break it and bring about Armageddon, pit angel and human against each other, winner takes all. Dean's the key. Sam has to stop him, if humankind and the world is going to be saved. Castiel has to decide which side he's on.
Ooooh Beverly, I LIKE the way your brain works. That puts both Dean and Sam in positions of importance, it twists the current appearance that Dean is doing the right thing, and it means Castiel is in even more of a lynch-pin position. Spicy.
Good googlymooglies, when the hell did Padalecki get to be that good an actor? Frankly? He had Ackles beat all to hell this week.
Totally blew me away. This was a real tour de force for Padalecki.
I was sure worried there for a minute with the shotgun. Tivo almost went into the freezer.
explodes from frustration.
And Bobby lives, dammit.
I TOLD YOU.
(Yes, I took a break from the editing test to watch the episode.)
Sam Smith is post-baby and nursing. Her face is fuller, and her middle is a little wider than it was in the pilot. She's aged a few years since then, too. But that was Mom.
Aha! I was trying to decide if it was bad botox or pregnancy/baby puffy.
(That distracted me, until I decided I could handwave for hallucination.)
Bobby still has another week to die!
Loved that each boy is being used and twisted here, and while neither completely trusts the side that's twisting, neither distrusts them enough, because they don't trust each other.
As for Dean... Dean spent 10 of his years in Hell turning into something he wasn't. I think trying to stop what he thinks will happen to Sam has a hell of a lot to do with that.
Wow, that was Sam Smith? Just the delivery felt different to me.
When Katie was Ruby, she would have played that like "Gee, that's really too bad you and your brother aren't all huggy these days. I'm heartbroken. Yeah, that's the ticket." polishes fingernails
And then ordered french fries. I miss that continuity. The potatuity.
... Now I want fries. Bother.
