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.

I read some major "how dare you queerbait me???" tweets to the creative crew, and I don't remember who Chad Kennedy is (lazy to look it up), but he approves scripts and said if Destiel came across his desk he wouldn't object to it.

And people are complaining about queerbaiting and Destiel being "sunk" and bullshit like that that makes me wonder how hard old-school Wincesters must be laughing now. They were acting like petulant children, like fish that flung themselves on the hook and pouted when they didn't get reeled up, and frankly like they don't deserve nice things, like a wonderful relationship that it can be a lot of fun to read things into.

I wasn't thrilled about April turning out to be a mercenary reaper walking around in a person suit (none of what they're doing with reapers this year gibes with what we saw from Tessa and the other examples in earlier seasons), but they handled her and Cas hooking up pretty well IMHO.

I'm wondering, are we really meant to assume that Daphne never did anything with her husband after fishing him out of the river? Or did the show's writers forget about her as completely as the characters seem to have?

I hate what they have done with the mercenary reapers this season and last. Doesn't match and throws me out of the episode. But I'm not going to start sending hate mail.

I was saying to Stephen today, because "Faith" was on this morning, that they've never been consistent with that mythology. With a lot of mythology, actually, but with reapers especially.

I'm wondering, are we really meant to assume that Daphne never did anything with her husband after fishing him out of the river?

I was always surprised that when Cas was Cas again (albeit looney tunes!Cas) he didn't want to make amends to her something.

And in my head, I decided she was completely devout, too, and looked at him as a miracle sent from God, so she considered herself more of his caretaker than his wife. Or something.

The only interesting conversations anyone had with Chad involved him saying that reapers were angels, which...WHEN??? Someone else said so in a discussion I had a couple weeks ago, so I'm extra confused--they said that Death had a cohort of angels, and major confusion.

But if Word of God agrees...they still, at best, retconned awkwardly.

I decided she was completely devout, too, and looked at him as a miracle sent from God, so she considered herself more of his caretaker than his wife.

Yeah, me too. I mean, she was the sort who'd accept a gift from god of an amnesiac healer, but was nice enough not to sex him up (and probably was still in possession of her v-card). However, that's probably massively head-only canon, on recollection. They said very little.

I really would have much preferred if instead of that whole "Emmanuel" thing, they'd instead had Cas found by Amelia Novak who assumed he was an amnesiac Jimmy. It would have avoided much of the religious loon WTFery, made use of an existing character, and been a bit more poignant when his memory was restored rather than just having her dropped like complete nonentity.