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.

I may have to go back and look at Boys Helping Boys again. That sure was cute.

I started on a Bridesmaids D/C fusion, and...it's just an amalgam of things I don't like. Cherrypicking canon changes (Brady survives and is exorcised--how? Jo lives but Ellen doesn't--how? Sam isn't tormented in Hell, he just plays Monopoly--seriously??), removing supernatural threats from the world, having an SO force someone to AA, marrying one of the boys and moving one of them to a different city. I knew there was going to be jealous!Dean, which I don't love, but can handle, because that's the freaking premise, but with so much other stuff...no, don't think so.

The guy who gave me the picture of the knife said that my co-workers should suck all the souls from Purgatory to protect themselves from me. OMG, closet fucking fan! I can't believe it!

7x17 spawned *so* many fixit/sexytimes codas. More than any ep recently with Cas in. Interesting.

About that ep--did you guys think that Meg was staying there *not* as part of a plan with Dean? I'd assumed that was precisely the working with demons that Dean was defending to Sam as they got into the car. But I read a decent amount of fic/meta where she was there without Winchester knowledge for her own predatory reasons.

I just do not think the Winchesters would be laid-back about leaving Meg with free rein to whisper in Cas's ear whenever she wants if they knew. Best-case scenario she'd probably be snarking on and tormenting someone they care about when he's in a psychologically vulnerable state; worst-case scenario she puts in the time to brainwash him into executing a jailbreak from the Cage and the sacrifices of all their loved ones are in vain when Apocalypse 3.0 ramps up.

I just do not think the Winchesters would be laid-back about leaving Meg with free rein to whisper in Cas's ear whenever she wants if they knew

But they do know. Dean called Meg for an update on Cas's status. This is, I assume, the mutually assured destruction to which Dean referred. They need someone to watch and protect Cas, and she needs them to not kill her.

ita !, I'm with you. I thought it was a plan, and read the MAD line the same way.

Re: the Pacer [link]

Party on.