I guess I'm hoping it will come up soon? I didn't expect a whole mourning montage, because Frank is not Bobby, but it is a little weird that he didn't get a passing mention in last week's episode.

Yeah, I figured he might have at least come up from a practical point of view--unless I missed a mention of him when Dean was looking for help for Sam--did he get mentioned then?

I don't think so.

I don't remember specifically - are we sure it was Frank's blood and guts strewn about? I mean, he is pretty paranoid. Would't be surprised to see he'd faked his own death. Not that the boys would necessarily think so, so, yeah, a mention would not have gone amiss.

But, again, I can't remember whether there was something telling us it was definitely Frank. If so, carry on.

I think, though, we're supposed to assume Frank is paranoid enough that no one should have known where that trailer was aside from Sam and Dean. So if the blood's *not* his, and he's gone, they needed to make that clear (and I think they would have).

Nothing said it was Frank, but I think we (and the boys) were supposed to infer that until proven otherwise. Whether or not it was a fatal amount of blood, remains to be seen. Dean's last words were "Not good."

In that ep, Sam's shown driving a pretty new-looking pickup. So far it seems that Sam will steal newish cars, and Dean sticks to stealing old ones, no matter how cheesy they are. Because what in hell was he driving last week?

A Pacer! Awesomely ugly first cousin to a Gremlin! One of the most reviled cars ever, and one I always wanted, by the way. It's the '70s version of the Edsel.

Poor Dean. Come to Mummy. I will make it all better...

I'm amazed that Jared even fit in that car, for real.

I was just reading DJ Quall's IMdB page -- he modeled for Calvin Klein and Prada, and I wonder if that means it was more runway work than print. He's also a cancer survivor!

Frank:

I'm bad or the show failed, but I didn't note or miss Frank's absence one jot.

He's been a plot device in a way I never felt about Bobby, even in Bobby's beginning. The boys (and therefore me) don't have the emotional connection or shared history, and Bobby was just more loveable even with the image of him chasing John off his porch with a shotgun. So this is one of those connundrums where I tsk Show for not following through on Frank's apparent demise, but also couldn't care less if they never do.

Digression: rereading Boys Helping Boys, which got moved to AO3, and all those timestamps got sorted into one long fic with the original, with bonus sex! I like that it's now one cohesive story, instead of trying sort where their headspace is at in a given scene/timestamp.

There was also a good post 7x17 fic that answered the weirdness I felt over Emanuel being married to Daphne over only a few months of knowing her. I found it extra weird with him being an amnesiac, like I'd think you'd need extra time to figure out that there wasn't another life out there waiting for you. This fic posited that their marriage was a sham of convenience, but there was still a sexual relationship that developed, and it was totally plausible to me. It's not the sexytimes that I object to, just the idea that it was a legitimate marriage.