If you did not think Batcave when they turned the lights on, you have no soul.

Dean in the "dead man robe" was priceless.

I really love everything about this new twist. It's miles away from where they started, but it still fits, in my mind. And it's a more interesting direction than another apocalypse, another big bad, blah blah.

Plus, I can't get the Campbell/Winchester thing out of my head now, and it really is true. Sam with his books and note cards, Dean with his whiskey and his feet up. I love it.

I loved the boys in the Batcave.

And I agree: this was a really good and interesting way to expand the verse.

God, I forgot! HAL LINDEN! I love him.

I panicked for a second when Dean put the beers back--but the went for the hard stuff. A-okay with me.

I have to go to bed!

So more tomorrow. Enjoyed, liked, and damn if Carver isn't Putting Things Into Canon left right and center, and also the word/concept "legacy" is about to be my "Handsome man! Saved me from the monsters!"

I get it They have a legacy. People who are just coming through have a legacy...legacy.

Also, Sam got his geek panties wet there. I think he's a bit Amelia who? Surely she can come visit, I AM SAVING THE WORLD WITH THE LETTERS (OF WHICH I AM A MAN).

So, cool.

One odd thing I wish they hadn't edited past--showing Aaron write his name on the slip in Hebrew would have been sweet as all hell.

And now I have to edit my tumblr post where I called him by the actor's name...

OH AND HE HAS A GAY THING, AND NOT ALL THAT DISTURBED BY THE GAY OF IT--I expect to see everyone's Bisexual!Dean position papers updated by the morning.

That was definitely a super-enjoyable episode. They even had Sam lampshade my one nitpick! (What, someone's been paying the utility bills on a bunker that's been abandoned for decades?)

Dean's appreciation of all the luxuries makes me really want to see him go undercover as someone's kept man for a hunt. Maybe Gertrude Case could guest star again?

So, of course the gay thing. While people (the Feathers For Castiel people in this isntance)crow about the complete appropriate nature of telling the writers and directors how they want the story to go, there were these tweets:

So Sad what your doing to DW character. The woman loving BA hunter is reduced to this now?

813 had such huge potential not sure what your doing to DW but it sucks. Your mucking around with his sexuality now. SAD!

I think it's amazing how the perfectly normal appalled response to this gets pulled through this filter, though:

Guys, seriously - whether you ship or don’t ship and whether you stan for bi Dean or you don’t, this is legit disgusting and let’s all please just show support for the direction the things are going, because it’s could be hella important and it means a lot, at least to me personally. Yeah? : )

It's not quite on the level of "English people can get gay married now??/ Yay John/Sherlock!!!!" fans who seemed pretty unclear on where the bill was in the process, and maybe also that there are real people for whom this will actually make a difference to their lives.

This was a pretty lampshadey episode. Where's the power come from? The water? Where are the recurring characters who will not appear this episode and how do we feel about that? etc. To which: props for running down the checklist.

I wonder if the "I survived the Holocaust and here is my continuing fight against the shadowy Nazi evil" plotline will be retired anytime ever, or what it will mutate into when it's officially too late for there to be any survivors in the current timeline.

So the key's Mordor *and* the treasures it unlocks are in the same place? I'm a bit confused. Disappointed by a literal key, but accepting that and moving on--what were the instructions/directions that Larry gave Sam? To go to those coordinates, fine--but what is the action that renders the key inaccessible from everyone forever?

And unless I misunderstood part of the motivations last week, shouldn't those two locations be on opposite poles?

I also really enjoyed this SPN. My only thought is peripheral. When I realized this was going to be Golem themed, my mind jumped to "A Golem, a clay man - like Gumby. Hey - Gumby was a Golem. A wee badly sculpted Golem. That explains a lot." Which says absolutely nothing about the episode but ....

I've now got a yen for xover SPN/Gumby crack fic where Gumby is a Golem...