It has nothing to do with Doctor Who. The kitsune Sam wouldn't kill, remember? Played by Staite? Surely you guys haven't forgotten already? There was enough complaining happening here.

Was her name Amy Pond? I only remembered Amy. Sorry.

I have no idea how I feel, other than WOUND THE FUCK UP.

Okay--I have some words.

This ep left me wound the fuck up.

I do have to say, Dean and Sam argue like people who have each other's hooks and they like to pull them tight. Fuck brotherly banter and fighting like a well-oiled team. They just went at each other's buttons with piledrivers.

Because, seriously--Dean was plenty cagey and daring Benny to disappoint him. THAT'S DEAN. But he will also throw Stanford in Sam's face (well, maybe Purgatory now) before saying "If Benny's killing again, that's on me, and I'll take him out." It's what he means, it could end the argument, but...yup. That damned lede. Buried behind all sorts of fraternal resentment.

I do like them being so close that we romanticise the crap out of it isn't puppies and unicorn farts. But Demian and Barnes were still right.

The Amelia message was FUCKED UP. If I were Sam, I'd be storing up a fuck of a punch on that one. Yeah, you gotta take your adversaries out before they reach the battlefield, especially if it's one you can't fight full on. But you don't have to rip their heart out and make them panic and hope and shit--and I bet there's no little throwing his "well you're not together now" relationship in his face here too.

Amelia being real disappoints the fuck out of me, sadly, but it all hinges on what happens now--Sam taking himself out of the picture I don't disagree with. They're married. If she tries to find you, then sure--hook up. But do get all the way out of town in the meanwhile. Even save a couple lives in the meanwhile.

They did make me hate Martin by the end, but I totally projected either Benny dying or him turning Elizabeth (at many times in the ep) so I don't know what I really saw. Benny takes out Martin (self defense, but still) traumatises Elizabeth and goes the deep underground Dean recommended?

How do they get past the various betrayals an the death of Martin? How do they even get into the same place?

And, Dean, tracking down every girl Sam looks at is kinda creepy. Where is Sarah Blake?

Oh, and why write these words for Sam: "Maybe I'm going to hell for saying this?" Why in anyone's name would a Winchester ever say that casually? It sounded so weird to me.

I'm still thinking of Dean's car..Sam's called it Dean's car before. So what changed *now* (over the year) to make it John's car again? Because it's too close to him being gone and you not trying to find him? Whenever Dean was given the car is irrelevant. Neither of them have called it John's before S8, 9.5 years in, and they have both called it Dean's. This is the discrepancy, and as such I think it should have in narrative justification but I just can't find anything that holds together. Just meta pacing.

Did Sam show poor judgement in picking Martin for lookout? Does not seem like a "get well" job to me.

Wasn't Sam ambivalent? Maybe he wanted to kill Benny.

I don't think they expected Martin to get all that gung ho. I mean, I think Sam and Dean were both in pretty similar places, but they were not going to admit that to each other. Dean's a cagey son of a bitch...his boyfriend landed in his lap, and he was suspicious as fuck. Sam is somewhere between believing Amy Pond went the right way and the wrong way, and both ways are conducive to kill Benny at the slightest evidence. But even as he said they'd killed on less--they're also investigators, detectives, and they work shit until they have an answer.

Also, for fuck's sake, LENORE.

Lordie.

Anyway--IO9 had a post asking for the sexiest monsters of the last 30 years, and my answer was very predictable, but Annalee is cracking me up because I have no idea what she means other than "Clearly right thinking."

Because that much is obvious.

Amelia being real disappoints the fuck out of me, sadly

I think we were supposed to assume Amelia was always an actual person -- we saw Sam "not stalking" her on the internet. It was the nature of the relationship I wondered about, and now I really wonder why the vaseline-smeared lens and the dreamy colors in those scenes. Their life wasn't *that* perfect.

I don't know enough about this stuff to be sure, but Dean setting up a fake text message from Amelia seems iffy. I mean, the whole thing seems iffy (to me, the non-tech person), but also that Dean knew how to do it. I also found the idea that Sam saw the text and *immediately drove away* without even telling Martin was up really hard to believe. He's not Pavlov's dog.

When Dean called Martin and he was walking down the road alone, his whole demeanor was so different, I thought that either Desmond or Benny had turned him. Especially since when Benny actually showed up, all his bravado and new hard edge disappeared.

I'm pretty sure Elizabeth was the mom who tried to drive her kid into the lake in The Kids Are All Right, but she's not listed on IMdB yet.

I don't know how I feel about this episode, but I like the direction Cas is going to take them based on the preview.

Maybe Sam wanted to remember it as perfect. . . you know as a way to torture himself.

I mean, the whole thing seems iffy (to me, the non-tech person), but also that Dean knew how to do it

He's been hacking into networks and using phone apps with hunting. Never mind just the general shifty nature of the gig--why not this guy? All the trick is described as is "swapping Amelia's phone out with a burner", so it's not even on the level of the forcing GPS tracking on, for instance, that we've seen before. It's just theft. (I also do figure the boys have some familiarity with cloning SIMs and phones, etc, just because they're juggling so many and counterfeiting so much--but this wasn't a technical thing--he either has her phone or her SIM card).

I was perfectly okay with the idea that Amelia had been created out of whole cloth and therefore Sam would do things like think of google stalking her. It doesn't have to be Lucifer's effort to be all-enveloping in a Supernatural world.

There being a real Amelia that he knows (clearly) makes the idea that any of that was false *way* creepier, because now he's the kind of guy you get a restraining order on. Lurking outside the window with a cocked gun isn't helping any.

I'm assuming Dean still believes Sam chose Amelia over him, so the idea that he'd drop everything and go back to this real life he described so wistfully--they haven't cleared that hurdle in their arguments yet (and won't if they keep arguing adjacent to the issues, but, hey--siblings and button pressing--one thing it's not is implausible, that's for sure), so I can see him making that assumption,

Why that's true? I'm not sure--but if Sam is recalling real memories and saccharine coating them like this, either the Supernatural writers don't know what love/romance looks like onscreen. or Sam's fucking nuts. Sam, thinking he gave Amelia the space to *really* decide she wants him--and now she reaches out to him? Hot damn. He hasn't loved anyone since Jess. She did "save" him from rescuing Dean, which seemed to be a link he needed breaking. And he's been zoning out on her for weeks.