There's a knife in my parents' kitchen that is always referred to as Uncle Walter's knife. Uncle Walter was old when I was a kid, he gave the knife to my dad before I was born, my niece and nephew never met him and probably have very little idea who he was, but that will always be Uncle Walter's knife.

I can see the Impala being Dean's Baby, but John's car.

This ep had a lot of John referencing, even from Castiel, who was reading his journal. And I could also imagine that, even though we see the car as Dean's, that they still view it as their dad's, and whether that's true or not, I kind of liked that this ep embraced pieces of the past as par for the course (unless it really is foreshadowing the return of Sir - "hey, remember that guy, from seasons 1 and 2? That dude who was really important to the boys?").

If it's been John's car all this time, 10 years later is really late to mention it for the first time, don't you think? It's been referred to as Dean's car plenty of times in the interim.

The best I can do with that is call it a late reveal.

that they still view it as their dad's

Then wouldn't Dean have not called it his car this whole time? Or Sam would have called it John's before?

I mean, I get why John was talked about then, but I do think "Oh, this whole time they've called it Dean's car they were thinking of it as John's" is more wanky than "Hey, they needed to bring up John again in the conversation right here." That makes sense.

It's also a vintage car. It might seem a little more understandable to someone asking to point out that it had been in the family for most of its life. At that point, it also might have been easier for Sam to be thinking of it as Dad's car if thinking about Dean was too painful.

it also might have been easier for Sam to be thinking of it as Dad's car if thinking about Dean was too painful

That's about the only thing that makes sense to me. For a while there, I was thinking he wasn't going to mention Dean at all, and that was going to be the tip that something was wrong with the scenario. Especially when the topic of loss was on the table, and he didn't say "Look, asshole, she's not the only who suffered the death of a loved one, so let us both fumble this out best we can, giving some small peace to each other, huh?"

However, the thing which he finally triggered on--I'm assuming that Mr. Amelia was using his knife? And that's how Dean had opened the bottles at the start of the episode? Because "Hey, my brother used to open my beer for me" isn't much of a segue, but up to that point I had not thought of Dean as having a particular way of doing that now that the ring is history.

I could go back and look, but that would mean me watching every drinking scene, and you might never hear from me again.

Amelia's dad opened the beers with his ring. And Sam stumbled over the words. "My, uh. My brother used to do that."

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I stand corrected. Or, you know, sit, as the case may be.

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She's gotten a lot better at faces. I can spot her Dean and Cas from a mile out, but her Bobby and Sam show great improvement. Never mind the focus of the picture.

I...I thought last week was the midseason finale. I even wish it was, because I don't think I can like this week as much as either of the last two (stats, life, you know--general pessimism) and I'd love to have gone out on either of those highs.

So when I saw the preview again I actually felt nervous before I felt happy there was more Show. That's sad. I've liked this season so far. It was weird.

And *now* I'm extra sad that we have to wait a month afterwards.

So I'm trying to distract myself from guessing about Benny tomorrow--two things--does he violate Dean's trust, and is this his last appearance this season?

Oh--I'll go for three--is Dean hiding something Amy Pondish?