That's actually pretty appropriate, given the ep title.

Back to the Daphne thing (groans all around), I think the fascination for me is why, from a narrative point, say that they are married? And then do nothing beyond her two minutes of screen time? To say "married" is to allude to something a lot more complicated than "friends", or "comrades in Gods Army", where the platonic part is implied, sex may be a part of it, but mostly I could see "God set Emmanuelle on my path" and the two of them forging a life together. Still complicated and mysterious in the sense of all that we didn't see. But for it to be "marriage" . . . that involves a lot of emotions that seem rushed in the timespan given. And, again I question the meta: why choose that over the other? Is there a narrative purpose? Is there a narrative purpose that is logical and valid? Is it a shorthand for something I'm too obtuse to see? Because I really don't see Daphne returning in Season 8 (and if she does, with how she was cast aside so easily this season, I might be grumpy).

And that seems to be a pattern with me and Show: they do something with a character that makes me unhappy. So, damage done. Which makes me not want them to try and retcon it or fix it some way, which basically means that I prefer them to sweep their (IMO) mistakes under the rug and pretend they never happened, because addressing them at such a later date would just exacerbate the wrongness of the first instance, and now I am enabling (theoretically, since of course my whims have no bearing on the writing of Show) bad storytelling. This is all subjective, of course.

Yet, I still love it.

I think Dean was driving a Camero or some such.

That's at the end, right? My memory had been that they had separate cars while they were in town...

The car visible as they stand by the water at the start is an old two-seater (I'm crap at the types, but it makes me think of a Firebird. It has those holes in the bonnet.) And that's the same car they take to the police station, and put the cursed shoes into...it's what they drive to the tea kettle woman...then Dean gets into it and drives away, and Sam heads around the corner, presumably to steal the pickup we see him driving later, and they made the pragmatic call not to tow the UHAUL with the old car, I'm guessing.

So I'm sticking to my thesis (until I get contradicted) that Dean's pretty methodical about the cars he steals, and Sam couldn't care less.

As far as Emmanuel being married, I supposed that was pretty much a "you'd never guess!" and a "he did what? What's happened to him??" above and beyond what simple amnesia gets you. That makes it sound like he has a life, with connections to people--almost like he'd made it out, the way the boys try and hook up for each other, but once it happens to Cas there is no hesitation before yanking him back into a world of demons and angels.

He almost won, man! But, it would have been short-lived, so it's a good thing Dean needed to use him when he did.

The pickup probably has a hitch.

Dean's pretty methodical about the cars he steals

I'm thinking that apart from his love for classic cars (although the Pacer in Party On, Garth threw me), he chooses cars with engines and parts he can easily hot wire, diagnose problems with, and fix. Newer cars requiring computer chips and motherboards would be problematic for him mechanically-speaking. And they're plastic. He's adorably snobbish about that point.

But do you think he bothers fixing what he steals? Or just dumps it and go for another 1970s something?

I did get a vibe of "You don't deserve this car" when they showed him stealing the one with all that litter inside, but he is likely stealing for people who are drawn to old cars...though, generally, they're not in the best of condition. Maybe that is the subtext--he's taking them from people who aren't acting responsibly towards old cars, meanwhile he can't drive Baby because of some nasty monsters.

Quick! Someone write the fanfic where he fixes up all the cars he steals and somehow gets them back to their owners (bringing them to the cops' attention?) with a sternly worded note, verging on threat.

I'm kinda confused. I'm reading a D/C where Dean is married to Lisa, and the author--I don't know if she's ever met people, you know?

Dean is mad at Lisa because she's pressing him with questions after he stayed out a whole weekend (which involved kissing and cuddling with Cas, although that's as far as they got)--I'm not sure why the text is supporting this, because it's not like it's portraying it as unreasonable.

And there's all sorts of "if he wants the marriage to survive" and "he'd rather it were Castiel kissing him" that has me totally confused about anyone's motivation. The *normal* fic thing would be Dean going home to Lisa and somehow ruining that relationship, if not calling it off purposefully.

But this author, so far, seems to be encouraging the prospect of him staying married and just cheating on her.

How could he promise to be there for Castiel if he was stuck with Lisa? Dean felt like he was betraying two people instead of one with his promise, he was cheating Lisa with Castiel, but on the other hand he was cheating Castiel with Lisa too. It seemed like a vicious cycle and there was no way out of it unless another one of the relationships were to end, but that was not something Dean wanted, at least not at the moment.

Like, how is that not exceptionally douchey behaviour? Generally when a fic warns for infidelity, they just have the teeniest overlap of relationships *or* they play to that kink, but this one is very ho hum about the whole thing.

God, I have to exercise better quality control. It's not like I haven't been reading it for a few months now, with the update frequency being what it is.

That is such a terrible fic. I thought that maybe there would be longing looks and both of them pretending to just be friends, and Dean angsting. But the fact that it's being written like he's not already in some affair, even when it was just acknowledged emotions, put me off. I skimmed this last chapter just to get the hightlights, and I think I'm done. But it might be a train wreck that I'll continue to skim.

I'm waiting for someone to translate season 6-7 Dean & Castiel into a human AU, and how that might play. I think it'd still have to have supernatural elements to cover the personality changes/possessions.

I bet you could do a United States of Terra fusion with Castiel's various states of mind/being represented as the alters of someone suffering DID.