I suspect if I write a review it won't make her day.

Isn't that how everyone expects the show to end?

But I don't want Baby to die!

Does Catholic school teach a) time moves differently in heaven and b) any part of their religion is usefully represented by a show on the CW? ANY show?

(Since the show seems to show time moves differently when you're not on earth, why not cite that as your source?)

Julie-- that seems to be the sort of slave fic that I can't handle. The sort that do start to look remotely similar to the valuation of slaves who came over in the Middle Passage, as demonstrated by any of the characters we're not meant to despise. And I don't care if the character arc is that they see the error of their ways in the end, they'd pretty much need to sacrifice their lives for the Abolitionist cause early in chapter 2, and there can be no sex with a slave because it's the kind of non con that I can't fictionalise, no matter how loudly I tell myself it's just a story. Some things it's hard to make distance from.

Stacked up some more posts in the John Is A Hero tumblr. I can't believe how few fics I'm now encountering where Cas has a flavour. I swear--I didn't go back and read old stories when I started that tumblr--the first 20 or so was what I was reading at the time. So why has that angle dried up? I read a high percentage of eerything that gets posted to deancastiel and whatever floats up with that tag on AO3--it seems that more fic is from Castiel's POV now, thereby removing that description option.

But why would a fandom or a set of shippers shift the predominant POV of their stories? I can't work that out. Maybe I'll ask in the fic thread too.

It gets worse: the character arc looked like it was shaping up to be not Dean and Sam realizing that slavery is bad, m'kay, but oh, slavery is fine if they're born into it. But the HORROR of free American citizens being sold into slavery, how UNJUST!

Watching reruns, and it's the baby shapeshifter episode. Yeah, still irked over the treatment of Dean and babies and completely ignoring what a four/five year old Dean had to do to possibly take care of baby Sammy. On one hand, yeah, we don't know at what point John kinda gave up as a dad and focused on being a hunter, and what point Dean had to become a mom. Maybe it was post-diapers phase, or maybe he was so young that he doesn't remember the diaper changing. And yet, it seems too important too have him forget.

Giving Dean Sammy to carry out of the burning house was an emergency thing, though. No one is asking a four-year-old, or even a five-year-old, to change an infant's diapers. They're not going to have the fine motor control, or the self-discipline. We know Dean did a lot for Sam when they were both children, but I can't believe it went that far.

Which makes me wonder, what is a feasible timeline for Dean to have started taking over care of Sammy? I don't know kids, so this is like venturing into the rules of D&D for me. I know for some of you info like this is a given and taken for granted, but I have not a clue what is realistic.

Yeah, the point at which 5 year old Dean is a deft diaper-changer is the point at which I'm mad at John for fucking over his kids way too much. I can imagine a five year old Dean being an expert Sam-soother, but he was a few years away from babysitting and feeding, etc. I'm sure Sam was potty trained before Dean had sole responsibility for him for any length of time.

Actually, a five-year-old could give a baby a bottle, but that's just sitting still, and Sam would have been burping on his own by then. Otherwise, what ita said. In the shtriga episode (which I can never remember the name of), Sam is fourish, making Dean eight-almost-nine, and that fits.

I would never leave a preschooler with an eight-year-old, even a mature one, and certainly not with a loaded rifle in the house, but they did a good job of showing that Dean to be world-weary enough and indoctrinated well enough to do it ... almost. A kid that age who isn't afraid of being on his own is definitely going to get bored and itchy, so it's sort of a double-edged sword.

Sorry--feeding in my head involved preparing the meal. I've seen 18 month old babies bottle-feed other babies.

Here and I was thinking that my problems with this ep were that it was the first one I've seen with ads and on the crappy CW app. I still think that's some of it for me. I don't like where the ep left me, but I still have faith at this point that the writers will make it ok over the season, and hopefully give more clues soon.