I was surprised how much bump was showing at the PCAs. I'm used to searching for the baby. There must have been either an understanding of silence, or they're not famous enough for it to "break".

I think the beading/spangles on Danneel's dress also made the bump more visible than it would have been otherwise.

Also, aw! Amy Sherman-Palladino is still fond!

AVC: Liza Weil, who played Paris on Gilmore Girls, shows up on Bunheads in these next few episodes. It seems like you’re working your way pretty near the top of that show’s cast—what other Gilmore Girls crossovers are you hoping for as the show goes on?

ASP: Well, I tried to see Jared Padalecki in between Supernatural moments, but it didn’t quite work out. He had to go back to Canada too soon. There’s a few out there I’d like to get on it. I was dying to write for Liza again. I just missed her. Liza is comedy gold. Her instincts are perfect. Perfect! I just love her, and I’m so excited that she’s back in our world. We’re slowly but surely making the rounds. I want them all back. I want to work with all of them again.

I've been out of the loop for a day or two, so I'm just coming to the costume spoilers. YOU GUYS!!!! Have you seen Dean's outfit for some unspecified reason/episode? I feel like there's a keylogger in my brain: [link]

And I know that an artist or two cougheuclasecough might feel a bit Kripked right now.

Does anyone know of any good fic that focusses on someone who suffers from the Winchesters' normal modes of operation--gets their car stolen, their credit jacked, etc?

I traipsed through AO3 D/C the other day, saving everything over 10K words that was complete that had been posted in the past week or so, and...good lord. I have learnt to stay away from NaNoWriMo efforts, because holy word padding, Batman! There is no distinction between valuable things to describe (actions, extra adjectives) and just...stuff. Also, boring with crap characterisation, but I was without internet connection, and that's all I had to read.

I did find a D/C that's almost too in love with itself, but it has the benefits of being written by someone who regards English as a tool to be used to an end, and also ropes in a number of religious ideas that Show never will. Plus Garth/Linda. Which Show shouldn't. When you hit a fic that says

'Blah blah blah.' Bibi's teeth were white.

'Blah blah blah.' Bibi said to the hunters and the angel and the girl that were in the same room that he was at that time, although some of them were thinking of leaving.

it's quite a relief.

ita, I'm pretty sure that's Dean in next week's episode, LARP and the Real Girl.

That's a little bit disappointing, Morgana. I was looking for some righteous Lancelot.

Huh. I wonder if a Round Table AU exists and is compatible with my tendencies.

So....did we lose everyone? Why is a torrenting West Coaster the only one here to talk?

I have to say--Sam with a chick and Cas shotgun is my worst nightmare fic, and it didn't half hurt to see it get Kripked. But, you know--in the end they chose family/.

Jesus Christ--Jared continues to be an amazing specimen of the species. That "paint me like you paint your French girls" lounging just about killed me. But, no, still anti-Amelia. I guess she does exist for real, and there's no glamour, since she showed up alone to the motel.

Speaking of showing up to the motel, I love how Sam completely didn't expect Dean, which led me to guess, along with the tenor, that he never said where he was. Maybe he checked in as Wedge Antilles, though.

I'm gonna lay down internet money on the back half featuring Benny going Soylent again, but managing to take himself out (second vote is Sam taking him out in front of Dean). But that was a great breakup they had.

Cas, Cas broke my heart. Watching Naomi play him up and down the 180--it seems like she orders things he would do, and then the thing he would absolutely not do. I dig that she might have a fair mission, to avoid the angels being locked into heaven (season finale locks the door, and it all depends on what Misha wants to do next year--Cas gets locked away, and they don't see him again (until 1/2 way through S9, when they work out how to undo the thing that was so absolute the season before), or he is on this side of the door, and must pilgrimage to learn the ways of humans, to live among them, and he's also a pacifist (but not kooky), and we don't see him again until he gets into trouble 1/2 way through...you get the picture.

Carver? Call me!

I guess you go to hiatus in a moment of stress, but this episode feels like a much better pausing point--they're back to empty, and they have to work out a different way to achieve what they set as their goal at the start of the season, as well as puzzle out this new mystery of the haemolacriatic angel.

I guess you go to hiatus in a moment of stress, but this episode feels like a much better pausing point

I've seen it posited elsewhere that this was originally meant to have been the last episode before the hellatus.

I'm gonna lay down internet money on the back half featuring Benny going Soylent again

I think so, too.

Also, who else can tell Sera's not writing for the show anymore? Sam and Amelia had sex and all we got was Sam shirtless. Which doesn't at all suck, to be clear, but some manhandling and biting would have been nice.

I liked the way the end was framed -- it wasn't just Sam making a choice, it was Dean, too, breaking up with Benny. They're definitely not yet SamandDean again, but they might be on the way back at some point.

Cas telling Dean, "I'm helping people," was so heartbreaking in light of what Naomi had him doing. Also? I found Crowley really boring last night. MS didn't have any of his usual evil sparkle.

I found Crowley less entertaining, but I'm willing to trade that for monomaniacally evil in a heartbeat, so I'm content with his behaviour.

I found the moment where Dean saves Sam and Sam thanks him to be where they both realise they do this. That this is important, and that it's the two of them, and Cas can show up occasionally too, and somehow they need to work the logistics out by the end of the episode.

It was pretty obvious that Sam wasn't going back to the hotel room, but I did wonder if it would be a choice to simply not go, or a "I have to do this thing right now" decision. I do feel it was the former--more a "I have to do this thing" period decision.

And Dean breaking up with Benny was pretty much all about Sam. Because if he was solo or had Cas in tow, he could probably drop by for coffee when the urges got too strong even while searching for tablets. But he can't do that without putting stress on his relationship with Sam, and in the end this is why no matter how many times Benny used the word, he was not a brother substitute. Bobby and Cas are family. "Thank you for showing me the way out of Purgatory" would be a big thing in our lives, but compared to what Winchesters do for their own, it's more like a walk in the park.

He doesn't want to fight anymore, poor noodle.

I don't recall--we didn't see that Sam knows he broke it off with Benben, right? Because there was a modicum of mystery about whether Dean was alone or not watching the match, right?

I notice no hard liquor this episode, but it seemed that Sam and Dean had either a beer or a weapon in their hands through most of the episode.

I'm seeing people hypothesise that Crowley was an angel because he had an angel blade at some time, but they are clearly things that can be held and kept, right? It's just angels who manifest them (although I'm not quite sure where Sam was keeping his while they were walking through the warehouse--also, maybe a quieter way to blot out the sigils?) but Crowley could totally have held on to one he found.

I'm curious about what Crowley used to bind Samandriel, and where he learnt it. Did he know that while he was working with Cas?

I love this animated GIF from the ep: [link]