I lurves the angels, but I don't see them, as a manifistation halfway through the series thus far, as being "roots".

I'm only irritated at the semantics, not what is canon throughout all the seasons.

Brothers, urban legends, Yellow Eyes, that I see as "roots".

At least as far as I use the metaphor, the roots are the underpinnings that sustain the story--like foundations, but with the extra oomph of nourishment.

So it doesn't, to me, have to be the beginning. But it is one of the core parts of the mythos, and developing the core mythos took four seasons. I don't think there's any virtue or inherent benefit to the narrative to consider only S1 as the basis on which everything else is built--in fact, the scattered urban legends of different cultures lacks a coherency which I think a show definitely needs by season 8. Urban legends don't hold together, and Yellow Eyes didn't even have a good plan in season 1.

So I'm not mad because that's what they're returning to, and I'm not mad because that's not what "roots" mean--if you take the term literally, you do have roots younger than visible parts of the plant-as the plant grows bigger, it needs more roots to sustain it.

I'd turn that boy human stat.

I hope they don't do that before the end of the series. I don't think he's interesting enough a recurring character for that. What's he going to do? Hang out with Garth? Do the chores at the Batcave? An angel with other business, or problems that angels can't solve works better for me than adding another human to the story. The idea that the supernatural isn't just what they fight, but it's an integral enough part of the world that it's on their side again I find valuable to the richness of the stories. And uses Misha better too.

I just stumbled across some really well drawn genderbent TFW (http://gingerhaole.tumblr.com/tagged/genderbend), but I realise I don't understand why Samantha and Deanna are usually both tomboys. Why doesn't either of their masculinity get transformed to femininity? I can see narrative reasons for Deanna to be boyish, but why isn't Samantha wearing a blouse instead of a flannel shirt? You can still gank ghosts in a blouse.

Canonically, though, why would Sam not hug Cas? Is Cas so other that he's unhuggable, even when Sam feels he's responsible for saving him from the Cage (he did know that then, right?)?

That's not very nice.

Are we talking about pre-"Apointment in Samarra" or post-? Before I can see Sam just not bothering, after I wouldn't think he'd regard Cas as too other for friendly affection. Though being in a snit over a recent reminder that he likes Dean better strikes me as entirely plausible.

oh, boys!

Christian Campbell's eyes show so little white, every time the camera pans to him I think momentarily that he's possessed.

Me, too! His eyes are kind of freaky.

Also, the guy playing his concerned friend Spencer has been recycled -- he played the young husband at the beginning of Provenance.

Yeah, a detective is sure going to talk about a murder case going cold when there have been 4 serial murders in the space of a month, one of them as recent as a couple of days ago. Police departments pull cases like that due to manpower shortages all the time.

I really think the witch's head should have blown off as soon as he tapped into Sam and Dean's psyches.