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.

because the characters were the way they were, made the existence of the warnings seem neglible, when all was said and read

Yeah, pretty much. BDSM with no safe words. Non con, with the understanding that it's the only either of them will get off, so it had better be as non con as possible with no explicit understanding that this is actually con for them.

Very intense. And, because of the tight non-omniscient PoV with a pretty unreliable Castiel there (could he have more goggles on?), I didn't feel bothered by the slavery set up, since there wasn't enough reality there to disturb me, as it might otherwise have.

I really liked that tight focus, and the feeling with which information was doled out that took what I'm sure was intended to be PWPish (it's a kink meme fill) and made it more interesting, if not ultimately substantive.

If nothing else, Garth has entered a song onto the SPN soundtrack that I *never* saw coming, and its mere existence (and replay, AND replay) made me laugh to tears. I love how completely assured he is for being the visible opposite of everything Sam and Dean appear to be--and he's no doubt more healthy and happy too.

However, I can't wrap my brain around how tiny he is. He's got little sparrow bones. How do they not break every encounter out? Like throw him into anything, Garth's party is off.

I'd be curious to meet the actor in real life. I have an actor/comedian friend (Scott Faulconbridge) who grumpily made peace with the fact that the best he was ever going to do onscreen was wacky next door neighboor. With the Apatowesque surge of movies, well, he's too old for that, but he might have been able exploit something like that, but when you're coming up around Colin and John Moore, no one singles you our for the romantic lead and asks you to take your shirt off.

But DJ Qualls had a modelling stint. I need to make more than that. Matthew Gray Gubler's startled me for a hot second, but he's standing next to Shemar Moore and Thomas Gibson for a living. It didn't take much context shifting to see not only as attractive (which I always had), but as clothes-horse, manipulable, exploitable beauty.

Still not seeing that for DJ. Talk about dressing your model in clothes the average shopper cannot possibly wear. I mean, I look at a picture like this, which in MGG-land would explain precisely why--it's gently lit, distractions are stripped away, and there's a quiet and intimate expression on his face. Also, likely makeup. But I'm not getting the urge to do more than art shots. Not modelling modelling.

Back to the topic at hand--I can see that the idea Dean has powers is furthest from their minds. He's *so* not that, it'd be way more of a revelation than being haunted by someone who'd had a hunter's wake, not to mention rejected even more violently than Dean himself. Sometimes you lend credence to weak explanations because you're scared of the reality, and I think Dean is terrified here, and Sam actually feels he researched it, because he's approaching-it-head-on-guy, even while he was there's-not-room-up-here-for-both-of-us guy.

It would have been interesting if Lucifer had said anything about it. Make it creepy, make us wonder if he's actually an entity with his own knowledge, or he's just re-presenting Sam's knowledge from a different angle so he could fuck with him more. But, that's back on the infinite budget and unlimited availability for all cast plan, and I don't have enough signatures on it yet.

Soon, though. Soon. At least by season 11.

Maybe Dean is the go-to-kid guy for boys? Have we seen him girl-whispering? I can see him having little experience with them, not having been one, related to one where it counted, and being anywhere long enough to build up a varied group of social peers. Also, I imagine he sees (continued...)