I thought Gordon was replacing John as a father figure?

I thought Gordon was replacing John as a father figure?

If anything, yes. Dean seemed to be looking to him for approval, and a bit of camaraderie, but of the sort I bet he wished he could have had with his father, by earning his respect. Not the "in each others pockets" "finish each others sentences" sort of things that I would peg Sam-replacing as.

I don't model all of Dean's relationships as "like Sam" or "like sex" and the IO9 review seemed to be assuming there was just one template, because those two were the same.

Here's a test to see if your feels need to go back to the shop (I typed ship...) for retuning: [link]

I am not watching the same show as IO9, clearly.

Also they need to proof their stories. Apparently when I disagree with someone, I am more likely to bitchily notice they used the wrong name occasionally.

I noticed that! They said Sam somewhere where they meant ... someone else I don't remember now, but not Sam.

They meant Dean. Unless Sam was in Purgatory and homoerotically fighting monsters.

I still feel on Fridays that I should be going home for Show.

The whole Sam back story is intriguing to me. Sam and Amelia apparently moved out of the motel and into a house in 8x01, and as others have pointed out, someone's watching the house.

In the hotel, Sam fixed her sink. "800 limes" blew up her disposal. She drinks. (Perhaps not a lot, but two beer bottles and a glass of cut up limes on the coffee table.) So while Sam was "concerned" and not stalking, I have to wonder why he was studying her Vet school transcripts.

The fact that we're not seeing what Sam did prior to Dog makes me wonder, too. Was Sam wandering around directionless and lost? No angels to help. No Bobby. No clue where Dean went or where to begin looking for him. No canon to suggest that the hunting community knew about Leviathan or that Purgatory even existed, let alone what happens when you're standing near the Big Kahuna when it gets a blood-soaked nun's bone jammed in its neck. Crowley gone and liking that Sam is now utterly alone. Was hitting the dog the slap in the face that snapped Sam out of his fugue?

OOC or not for Sam, I'm well and truly hooked by what's happening for both boys.

I feel like we're seeing both boys with PTSD and different coping mechanisms. Which, excellent! I like that.

So do you want their stories not to show up at all?

Yes. I want to never see their annoying and inevitably twee names and summaries that are filled with spelling errors and manage to, in a few words of description, be more OOC than even the usual crappy story.

Also, I want to set them on fire with my mind, but barring that, I'd settle for never seeing their fucking mental excrement again.

I may, possibly, have issues with some writers.

Still waiting for power and cable to come back so I can watch this last ep. I am left trying to find some good fic to read on my iPhone.

DCBB is disappointing the heck out of me with fic that I refuse to read. Either it's gender swap, End!verse, major character death (I'm still haunted by that one I read willingly) way too freaking long, or some other point in the summary or warnings that is an absolute deal breaker for me, or I'm just not in the mood for another teenage angst HS fic. And I'm deeply afraid of the Calvin and Hobbes fic where apparently Cas eats kids or something.

I was surprisingly enraptured by the one where Dean is a puma for 98% of the fic and was sad it was so quickly.

The one where Dean is cursed to have need of an angel fall in love with him devolved into rather pedestrian mapping, almost scene for scene and with little new input, of Show canon, and the curse didn't seem all that bad, or urgent, set as it was in season three.