I have a lot of unanswered questions (like how was the special kids thing supposed to fit in with the Righteous Man prophecy anyway), but I don't think they properly answer your question, Amy. Dean killing Zach fits right in, since it seems to flow from killing The Whore, but just never got explained in addition to his eyes having been open and shit.

Okay, so I can't work out what I want to do for my list. Write synopses? Make a bullet point list? A table? Motherfucker.

I mean, I could do this:

01x01: Pilot
Dean reappears in Sam's life after 2 (4) years and pulls him out of his Stanford life to track down their father who's suddenly gone missing. The trail leads them to a Woman in White preying on unfaithful men. Sam returns to Stanford, but his girlfriend Jessica is killed in a fire on the ceiling of their shared apartment the same way his mother died when he was 6 months old, and Dean rescues him from the flames. They go back on the road.
Monster: Woman In White
Location(s): Stanford, Jericho
Writer: Eric Kripke

But I'd be there forever. I dunno.

Thinking about it, I decided it's the little inconsistencies that bug me most. Stuff like Stanford, even though Kripke admitted he just wasn't thinking. But also stuff like Sam being surprised in the pilot that Dean was working solo cases, when we learn in The Kids Are All Right that Dean was off on his own while Sam and John were working a case.

The big things that bug are leaving Jesse the antichrist kid as a hanging thread, Dean killing the Whore and Zachariah, and the special kids thing.

I realize I have no idea what I want from an eighth season other than boys being boys, and a decent big bad.

But I'd be there forever. I dunno.

Well, you know, idle hands ...

"Things Sam didn't know" is probably a decent category. I realise it's a narrative shortcut, but, seriously. He's not an idiot.

I think I will start out with episode titles and keywords and maybe writers. That will hold me off. I realise I don't have synopses off the top of my head for all episodes like that (what's wrong with me??? I mean, because I seriously feel like I should be able to write a paragraph for every episode of the entire series, even if I have to look up the spelling of the monster, location, and writer.)

Ooh, I bet I could write a paragraph for each episode. As if that's what I need to spend my time doing.

I'm fine with an 8th season, but I'd like the world to not be at stake.

Ugh, I just went and wrote four more paragraphs, but I'm not sure of my facts. I realise I'm getting anal about the weirdest things--how did they get the job? What had the monster done before they showed up?

These things are not important in a one paragraph summary.

Okay, some are paragraphs, some are keywords, some are blank--feel free to toss paragraph summaries my way, Amy.

It is, you know, writing, which is good for you.

You're starting at the beginning, right?

This is harder than I thought. Here are the first two I did:

1.02: Working together now that Sam’s girlfriend is dead, Sam and Dean take a case John suggests, and find themselves in Blackwater Ridge facing down a wendigo.

1.03: Investigating strange drownings, Sam and Dean work with a little boy traumatized by his father’s death who may hold the clues to the case.

Yeah. I've only put in the grid for S1, but I've randomly synopsised eps. I did 1-4 and Route 666. Also Bugs if you count "Who the fuck knows, seriously?" which you might not, for reasons.

eta: Oh, don't worry about giving it away. I'm thinking of summarising, not teasing the eps. But I've been inconsistent. Like way moreso than you were.

The ghost of a long-drowned boy starts to kill the family members of the people responsible for his death. Dean forms a bond with a temporarily mute boy mourning his father and helps bring him out of his shell.

Ya know.

Yeah, I think I'm thinking too much "cover copy" and not really useful for this purpose. It's a hard habit to break.

I have succumbed to watching My Bloody Valentine on SyFy, because I resist Jensen in the Hoodie of Angst.