Ah, I suspected this might have been written by Team Nepotism when the ghostly psychopomp that could follow Dean and Sam invisibly on the spirit plane and vanish at will stayed solid and clomped around after them until he was caught like a common mugger. Nice to know their talent for never thinking out implications or reading up on the show's own mythology hasn't deserted them.

Aw, Dean is gonna be so proud.

Unless, you know, April kills Cas.

Also, Dean didn't get the It's A Wonderful Life reference?

They're not completely consistent with his pop culture knowledge. Someone who makes Lord of the Rings references and has watched Star Trek would have some idea who Lovecraft was. But I will handwave it, because it is Dean, and lo, he is lovely.

Ah, I suspected this might have been written by Team Nepotism

I'm pretty sure there's been sex in every episode they've written, too.

I.....actually fell asleep. Usually it's not a hardship to rewatch an episode, but I think I shall fast-forward to the 45-minute mark and catch the last 15 minutes. There wasn't anything there that caught and held my attention, obviously.

I'm honestly debating whether I should just skip this duo's episodes from now on. I think I'd enjoy the series better without subjecting myself to them.

Gotta say, I am not loving the repeated Deus ex Sammy.

Dean is very pretty though.

Yeah, they need to rein Zeke in more. I want a physical sense of peril. I want to wonder how they're going to get out of this.

However, sending Cas away is a pretty textbook divide and conquer move, and I'd think it's something certainly worth talking about--the three of them while Sam is asleep.

I thought it a decent episode for no monster of the week-basically establishing shots with the mirror to last week's episode--establishing the major players and how not playing around they are, with more ingenuity than brawn or straightforward brains on the parts of our heroes.

I may have to avoid SPN tumblr fandom for longer. Yes, Castiel likes sex with girls. I guess if you were hoping he'd at worst pine asexually, this would be disappointing, but did you EXPECT that? He's behind on manhood rituals right now, and sex is one of those.

we wouldn't get all those riveting shots of street vendors grilling meat and hot dogs as he wanders by.

Or the tattoo. Or the sex. Or the peril. Or the learning (more) about urinating, et al. Or about doing lawnwork (it was leaves Dean was cleaning up when Cas decided to work with Crowley instead, but still) and earning his keep.

I'm not actually willing to give back seeing Cas learn to navigate North America without his two sexy crutches. He's back from the masterclass, but he engaged in the meanwhile, and that's why I like him so much.

Petite Madame is putting together a phonebook of SPN artists: [link] Send her an ask if you want to be listed and you're not yet. She's collating hand drawn (traditional or digital) and photo manip artists, and she's also filing the types of art (I submitted myself as D/C, gen, rarepairs, which I think is fair and in okay order).

And, while I'm running off at the keyboard, I'll actually spare some pixels--I don't know which is less rude--linking to a post I made about the ep on another board, or copying some of the comments. But I want to share with y'all, and the IO9 post has screencaps, so...if you're interested in the voluble version: [link]

Osric Chau standing up for the writers: [link]

I guess there were a whole of unhappy people after last night.