But I am glad the show dealt with it quickly

Really quickly -- there was no mention of precisely HOW he managed to avoid going boom!, or how they reunited. (Well, obviously Bobby got them out of the hospital, but how did they learn he was alive? All the juicy emotional stuff?) But there's only so much stuff that can be jammed into one episode, I guess, and they needed to leave room for the molten cheese at the end, so that part of the exposition was left out.

Not only is this an adorable tweet/photo [link] but i realized just now Jared's profile pic is Jensen.

(yes, I am posting about SPN at 3am. Upside to insomnia, I guess.)

So, what Matt, you're thinking that Bobby is a Leviathan now? Because if he was, he wouldn't have snuck Sam out of the hospital, he'd've killed him right then.

Oh, I don't think he really is. Show would have dropped a hint or two if he were a monster wearing a Bobby suit now. Just playing Devil's advocate.

I think Dean was right to kill Amy. While she'd finished killing for now, I have no doubt that innocent people would have died the next time her gradeschool-age kid got a case of the sniffles. It would have been kinder to kill the kid too (presumably he's now going to starve, as it seems unlikely Amy taught him to hunt), but I can see Dean not being able to bring himself to.

I was waiting for Dean to gank the kid too, and cringing in horror. And then he didn't and it felt wrong, like a job half done. I think Amy was more of a danger than, say, Meredith, in that eventually she wouldn't be able to control herself somewhere down the line because she had a kid that needed her to kill for him. The fact that she was a mother, with a mother's instinct to save her kid no matter the cost to others, was a recipe for badness.

I think Sam was wrong for believing Amy, seeing as he caught her midhunt. She was going after a living person, not a corpse in the morgue. See, bashing Sam's head led to memory loss!

how did they learn he was alive?

We saw Dean learn Bobby was alive.

Count me among the people that thinks there's something off kilter about Bobby. I don't think he's a Leviathon, but briefly I thought he was a joint hallucination.

I think it could have been as simple as his stuff ended up on the cutting room floor for time, but the bits that survived he was behaving strangely (to me). And I still want to know what happened to (between) him and the sheriff.

That last bit with Dean also felt off. I get that he believes ganking her was the right thing to do, but I also think he would have offed the kid. Having not killed him, I think it was very out of character for him to be so callous to a child, even a monster child. Even if that kid wasn't going to kill, I think he will now. He'll have to without mortician mom and a ready supply of corpses.

I love the idea that we're not at the top of the food chain. It's still slaughter, just different beasts.

All the Sam pieces were great, especially young Sam. Damn, that kid can act. He is one to watch. Jewel Staite's part was small, and that's fine, I'd forgotten how grating her voice is. The young Amy was awesome!

In that photo Jared just posted, Jensen looks almost S1 young.

I dunno. I buy Dean not ganking the kid. It's the middle ground between him being soft on kids and hard on monsters.

Quick scan of tumblr, and the people I follow hate it, and think that it's Dean character assassination. I'm not sure why...because he lied to Sam? Because he killed Amy?

Interesting that they ended up at a place of Rufus's. I had kinda expected the Campbell's stronghold.

In that photo Jared just posted, Jensen looks almost S1 young.

Took me a minute to realize they look weird because they're still dressed in Sam and Dean clothes.

It's the middle ground between him being soft on kids and hard on monsters.

Being soft on kids doesn't really work with leaving a kid orphaned and alone, especially when he knows he's monster!different, and not exactly going to be able to hack normal life in a foster family.

Being soft on kids doesn't really work with leaving a kid orphaned and alone, especially when he knows he's monster!

That's why I'm calling it a middle ground. He won't kill him because he's a kid who hasn't killed anyone (I think if he had been a murdered, Dean would have killed him), but he won't go so far as to aid and abet a monster.

It's sort of like how they won't kill witches.

Kitsune. Nice slipping in of a Japanese monster there, without any actual Asian people.

Being soft on kids doesn't really work with leaving a kid orphaned and alone, especially when he knows he's monster!different, and not exactly going to be able to hack normal life in a foster family.

This. It felt sloppy and cruel. I'm sure this is what the Dean character assassination fuss is about.