Did he have the scholar's kid holed up in the same place the Winchesters exorcised him four years ago? If so, there might have been a Devil's trap already handy there from when they had the demon contained previously.

Dean and Jeffrey were there the whole time. I thought Sam or the witch had painted it somewhere not the main room. Like, another room, or around a corner.

Tonight's the (first?) night Misha is on Ringer, if anyone wants to watch or record.

Good looking out, Amy! I think I'll be keeping an eye out for kind youtube posters to compile his scenes. I couldn't get through more than twenty minutes of that show (although I though SMG was great when she wasn't forced to spout dialogue).

I was just searching for something on my TV, and noticed that Supernatural is scheduled for Thursday ("Slice Girls") and Friday ("Season 7, Time for a Wedding") this week.

It's so weird-I keep seeing the discussion on IO9 of "Well, I finally started watching Supernatural, but it kinda sucks. When does it stop sucking?" "Well, the first two seasons are a bit rough, but it picks up around season three and seasons four and five are brilliant."

Which, you know, is good. Because my reflexive response is usually "Well, if you've made it 1/3 through the first season and you don't like the characters enough to be hooked, maybe it's not your show."

I don't understand these other people. Objectively and academically, I get that there was a shift in S4, and I get that it was a shift that turned people off. I also get that some people (often fangirls and sometimes shippers) love Castiel like nothing that came before. But if you didn't like them in S1 enough to be sucked in, if you really disliked the MOTW more than you like the Winchesters, I don't understand how you like the show.

Confusing.

Show doesn't return until the 16th, now.

Here's the trailer that ran after last week's ep: [link] . I almost feel like Mejiaing it, because there's so little, and it seems so disparate. Here's what I can tell, in no particular order:

• A kid listens to an old style record player
• The same kid makes a stabbing motion
• Ballerina
• Sam is wheeled through a poorly lit corridor in a hospital gurney and clothes
• Someone with Jimmy Novak's face wheels to face the camera

20 seconds. A month. Motherfuckers.

Wait, what? I thought it was coming back on March 7?

Is that the same trailer? I don't remember half of that! But I was still reeling from Lucifer's cackle when the credits rolled, so.

But if you didn't like them in S1 enough to be sucked in, if you really disliked the MOTW more than you like the Winchesters, I don't understand how you like the show.

Yeah, I give any show a few episodes, maybe five if I'm feeling generous or there's a lot of pretty, and if it doesn't hook me, I'm out. Why anyone keeps watching, waiting for a show to be something else, or please them in some way that the show doesn't seem inclined to deliver, is beyond me.

I thought it was coming back on March 7?

It was the 9th. But now the 16th.

I just rewatched the trailer at the end of the ep, and it's all the same stuff, yeah.

Why anyone keeps watching, waiting for a show to be something else

And half a season is a lot! I'd have bugged out long by then. And I watch a lot of television.

But, mostly, I think there's enough about the beginning of the show that's still so very true about even now, that I can't see hating the first and liking the last (although I can see growing apart from it).

For me, it's still two orphaned boys who have very little but each other, fighting to do good in a world that has treated them really badly.

I'm not exactly rational when it comes to Winchesters, though, so my objectivity is sort of questionable.