Why does it take Sam 7 HOURS to find that fucking 3 trees spot? And only run into 1 beastie?

And I would LOVE to write a scholarly essay on heroism. I was just laying in bed thinking about the heroic journey this AM (as one does.)

Goddamn evil hand. (Can't write much, can't feel right hand, v. annoying.)

This episode really was a sort of soap bubble -- really pretty! and then poof. It all falls apart.

I feel guilty, too -- as soon as I saw the writers' names, my heart sank, and I hate to be prejudiced from the jump, but ... I am when it comes to them.

I'm sick of the absurd shortcuts, too -- Crowley told a demon to find Kevin, so we have to assume she did, even though we're not shown how, and despite that fact that the kid is warded into that boat on double secret industrial strength probation.

Why does it take Sam 7 HOURS to find that fucking 3 trees spot?

Why shouldn't it? It took Dean a year to find Cas and then find the portal. Look at how much Sam accomplished in a very short time.

Crowley told a demon to find Kevin, so we have to assume she did, even though we're not shown how

He said he found Kevin through his mother--he tortured and killed her. But why they didn't/couldn't find Mrs. Tran before is unclear. Why she's not in the batcave is unclear, even if Kevin needs isolation (for a task of this size, why not give him the batcave and go back to their normal pattern?).

I just turned on the TV and baby Sam is talking to Linda Blair, and it's weird how many things came rushing back without the whole picture--his hand in a cast, Dean's outfit, Dana Shulps, but the most notable thing was the soothing voice Sam uses. I don't feel like we've heard that recently. When did he stop that?

He said he found Kevin through his mother--he tortured and killed her.

Oh, right. But still! We're not shown how Mrs. Tran was found, and I was assuming she was as well hidden as Kevin was, since Crowley knew about her.

Why she's not in the batcave is unclear, even if Kevin needs isolation (for a task of this size, why not give him the batcave and go back to their normal pattern?).

I'd have to go back and check, but I think Kevin was established on Garth's boat before Sam and Dean were given the keys to the batcave. Still, it doesn't make a lot of sense not to pack everyone up and put them there.

the soothing voice Sam uses. I don't feel like we've heard that recently. When did he stop that?

He used it with Dean, talking about Benny! Or *a* soothing voice, anyway.

I went back and rewatched that scene, and now I'm wondering--it doesn't seem like the same "We are very sorry for your loss, ma'am, but maybe you can help us clear something up?" voice--but is that the voice he normally uses to calm Dean? I'm thinking that's a Voice too.

Um ... More research is clearly required.

I swear he used the "soothing victims" voice this season, though. I have to look at the episode list.

Ah, research. Or obsession. Whichever way you want to look at it.

I guess it's odd to describe an episode that ends with Benny dead, Mrs Tran apparently dead, Kevin screaming in pain, Naomi being oily, and Cas missing as *tidy*, but...it kinda was. What they had to do should have been EPIC, but it was ridiculously pat by comparison.

We don't know Benny's dead for sure! Apparently I'm starting Meg and Benny Fan Clubs any time now.

Oily is a perfect word for Naomi.

And ... looking at the episode list, maybe Hunter Heroici? Possibly Southern Comfort, Bitten, or Heartache, for soothing voice? I'd have to rewatch, though.

We know Benny is dead for sure--we don't know if he's dead for good. I love the semantic games...

My dash seems aflutter with 8.22 stuff, which I'd thought had been filmed already, but I guess that was just people excited by the script? This picture of Castiel is making folks asquee because he is carrying beer and the idea that he is carrying Dean's favourite beer and...I don't even know if that exists. I thought they changed from episode to episode.

I think Dean's favorite beer is ... beer , honestly.

We know Benny is dead for sure--we don't know if he's dead for good.

Okay, too much sinus meds this week, clearly. I forgot that Dean beheaded him, and when it happened it had not occurred to me that it was going to. Death is so fucking fluid in this universe!