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!

See, whereas I was all "Dean's gonna ask someone else to suicide for Sam, isn't he? AND THEY WILL DO IT." How is Dean every going to learn he's crazy if the world keeps bowing to his neurotic co-dependency? I wonder if I have to up my sibling game now that my sister has seen this (luckily Merle in Walking Dead is still a douche). It's also funny when I have to explain why Dean is right about stuff, when she's trying to tell me Sam is right. I don't think we've both tapped into sibling issues so strongly in the same show before. Movies, maybe, but not TV.

She does think that Sam's anger wasn't played hard enough in S5--I do think that after Sam, Interrupted that they were better about it, but it kind of came out of nowhere for that.

Man, I'm gonna miss Benny, and how Jensen's accent goes all southern in scenes with him. I'm a little pissed at Sam that it took his own skin on the line to come around about him, instead of believing in Dean's faith and trust in him(it's not like Dean has a track record for putting his faith in bad people. Gordon lasted all of an episode).

But man, this ep was way too rushed. Sooo many things that went unexplained or happened in too quick a time-frame that seemed to negate the epic proportions of previous similar attempts in regards to getting into Hell, out of Hell, out of Purgatory.

I was so sure that Dean would attempt to contact Cas about getting Sam and the innocent soul out of Hell.

I'm curious about Kevin, and whether Crowley has him or not, because the windows that Crowley supposedly blew out were intact when Sam and Dean cased the boat at the end.

I'm assuming that if Crowley can project his voice into Kevin's head and make it past wards and devil's traps, etc, and though to tidy up, there are even mundane explanations for getting a glazier in and fixing the windows.

I just like the Mark Sheppardservice less and less.