But the painting girl and the boy from After School Special had hair that needed to be destroyed. The Hookman wasn't a part of his body. So I'm figuring the boys actually did the impossible and trashed all the Bobby DNA, we have at least one...two! Molly was cremated, wasn't she, and held on purely out of love in Roadkill?

Okay, Bobby could be either of those--attached to the flask like Hook, or just love like Molly.

I wish they'd referred to either of those cases instead of having Garth reel off examples that were new to us.

Anyone notice that the preview's date said April 20th? I am PISSED.

Oh, and a very loud Bobby squee from me! I've missed him so much. Isn't it just like Show to be so much fun, then sucker punch you with a heartbreak at the end.

Damn you, Sera Gamble.

Because Sam didn't have the flask?

Good point! But then why couldn't he answer when Dean asked him to, at least with a physical sign?

I was sort of assuming some kind of DNA was in the flask, even if it was just ... really old backwash inside it? Alcohol can't kill DNA, right? Or ... isn't the casing sort of leathery? He could have bled on it at some point.

There was no DNA from Mary Winchester in Home, but she was around until she took the poltergeist out.

We've seen a lot canonically of benevolent spirits without DNA. Molly the wife looking for her husband, the prostitute ghost in The Usual Suspects, the inmate spirits in Asylum. Bobby's just taken up that same sense of unfinished business. With his knowledge of the supernatural, his sense of purpose, and his strong love for the boys, he's sticking around. He couldn't leave them to deal with Dick and company. It's his connection to the boys that can be looked at as DNA of a sort.

It's his connection to the boys that can be looked at as DNA of a sort.

Aw! I like this explanation.

I said that! Sure, I didn't pick them pretty words, but I kinda said that.

Hmmph.

Sorry -- I'm not fully caffeinated yet. And yes, I know what time it is on the East Coast.

Sorry ita ! Must go back and read again. Very weird and strangely wonderful week, so I'm not all here. ;-)

And I'm still steamed that it appears there's no new show for another three weeks.

I surprised myself by liking Garth this ep. Competence (and competence that doesn't come at the expense of the Winchester's intelligence) is key. And his sock puppet was awesome (even though I was a little irked because Dean was the go-to little kid guy!).

The end was weird, the way Dean let himself be convinced that it wasn't Bobby's ghost. Those were weak arguments. At the least, maybe they should be freaking out that Dean has developed powers, because the idea that the shojo, who was standing in another direction, moved the sword accidentally into her opponents grasp? Stretch.

I did read scaramouche's new story. Almost didn't, the summary and warnings made me askeered. But it was good, and intense and different, and because the characters were the way they were, made the existence of the warnings seem neglible, when all was said and read.

Just skimmed a bad fic based on some story called Hush Hush. It seemed not only to be English as a Second Language, but lacking in any knowledge of sentence structure, and the use of the thesaurus for EVERY WORD.

My favourite line:

The consecutive scamper of integers being smacked onto the cordless phone peeved Dean.