I did ask around when the news first surfaced that he was directing #1 if they meant he was directing the first one filmed or the first one aired, and folks over at IO9 assured me it was 8E01 in question, but...he's a decent director, but this is a season opener...it seemed a bit much to put on him.

I need to ask Colin how actors are paid for an episode they direct. Do they just get their actor pay and the standard going rate for a director, or is there like a cast and crew happy meal discount?

but there's also a witch named Thessaly in The Sandman apparently

And she's a badass. I love Thessaly, and someday I want to make a blank book that has the same cover as what she's reading in The Kindly Ones arc. ("When Real Things Happen To Imaginary People".)

Mo Ryan posted a thinky piece about her feelings concerning the entirety of season 7; she's not a happy camper.

Another bit of fanon I hate: Castiel's chapped lips. How is that hot?

His lips do look chapped in many shots, though. I think that was a response to the visual (I am totally over the freckle near his nipple--that really never needed to be mentioned, and makes me have creepy feels).

I had a massive brain fart yesterday watching Show. My notes said we'd gotten up to After School Special, so I cued us up to the episode after A Very Supernatural Christmas.

Bon said she couldn't remember how far we'd gotten (May!), but she did work out that we were in the wrong season...dur.

However, watching S4 is still hard. I feel like mummy and daddy are fighting. And it really makes me still want to punch some fic writers in the face, because they didn't seem to give Sam his due benefit of the doubt when writing the rift between them. He wasn't actually a bad guy. He was an arrogant guy, trying to do good. It's the first time he really has to deal with growing up, growing out of the youngest son spot (Stanford wasn't growing--it was leaving) and he's dealing with both the loss of his brother and gaining some significant powers, the payoff for the confusion of earlier seasons.

And Dean thought he'd come back from Hell unfit for the task too--the difference was, I think, that he intended them both to fix it, whereas Sam (having gotten used to this world on his own, and with Ruby's influence) thought he'd fix it by himself.

And Ruby is really not in it as much as I remembered. Sex and Violence through The Monster At The End Of This Book are pretty light on her.

Give bon props--she got Smith and Wesson right off the bat, and I know I didn't put that together until the end of the episode at the earliest. And then realising that was a swap for Winchester took a little longer still.

She's well attuned for Wincest-generating moments, and it's funny where she's seeing them, and I'm only getting as far as bisexual Dean.

In terms of impact, I think TMATEOTB got the most in-episode reactions for her. Me, I was back in the nostalgia of the mindfuck that was at the time. Kripke, Kripke, Kripke.

And, interestingly enough, by the end of the episode she asked "Who's Carver?" I hadn't realised she was paying enough attention to the crew to have noticed Edlund, but then again, he has Buffyverse credits, so I guess he sticks. I forgot to tell her about Sera Siege.

Who's Sera Siege?

Misha might have chapped lips, and Dean might notice them, but not because they're sexy. It's like saying someone has a constantly runny nose.

Runny nose worked in When Harry Met Sally, FWIW. Which reminds me...I swear I was reading a fusion of that. But I don't remember if it finished.

Sera Siege is the (not onscreen) name of Carver Edlund's publisher. I meant to tell her it wasn't just the guys getting the portmanteau love.

Seriously? I didn't know that.

I hated When Harry Met Sally.

Yerp! They mentioned it in interviews or cons or summat.

OMG, I love When Harry Met Sally. It was probably the first and last time I liked Meg Ryan in anything, and I liked it a lot. It was (literally) on repeat in the background in many of my Montreal memories.

Oh, and demons clearly pop into and out of the area in just those episodes. I don't think it's an if, or reserved for crossroad demons. Alistair does it, and maybe Lilith. She seemed like she popped in, but then she smoked out. Less smitable that way? Abandoning the face they know her by?