No posts? Sadface.

So much happened! And it went so fast.

Also, DEAN. SAM. CAS.

"The Misadventures of Crowley and Squirrel" did crack me up.

Well, I accidentally posted something in Boxed Set, but it wasn't all that special, so I didn't repost.

Lots of questions raised, so I'm in. Everyone is looking good. Even poor, grace-depleted Cas. Dean and Crowley is... I'm not sure. Dean singing karaoke was a hoot. Lonely Sam at the beginning was sad. Dean's matter of fact (breezy, even), "I'm going to find you, and I'm going to kill you," was very Dean and kind of awesome.

Going to need a rewatch. First impression is good. So much.

I, for one, am so very glad for the invention of the DVR.

I just keep thinking, Wow, this board was predicated on a bunch of people on a news site talking about 1 genre show -- were there really any other genre shows that were urban fantasy, and not space-related running at the time of Buffy? -- and now there's this embarrassment of riches of geekdom on TV. D and I have a schedule set up: Sleepy Hollow on Mondays, SPN and SHIELD on Tues, AHS on Wed, Constantine on Fridays (when it premieires) Dr Who (and Outlander for me, when it comes back) on Saturdays.

I haven't watched this much TV in my LIFE than I have in the last 4 years.

Anyway, tangent done.

So...Dean's basic personality seems intact, with extra added callousness and violence. He's crueler, more stripped away, but he doesn't seem completely 100% EVIL to me. And the bond with Sam is still there, I think. He doesn't want it to be, but the existence of the note itself -- "Sammy let me go" -- argues for its existence.

Crowley had some great lines, and the karaoke Dean was hilarious.

Who the FUCK is quasi-Hunter Sam-kidnapper guy? It sounds like he had beef with Dean before he turned demon, and NOW he shows up to throw a bolt in the works. Hrm.

Also, Jesse posted this essay about two sisters and their relationship and its parallels to Dean and Sam from The Toast, and damn, it's good: [link]

I read that essay, and loved it.

I think Crowley's line about doing "extraordinary things with triplets" and "treasuring their Flickr albums" was his funniest.

I expected the "jerk/bitch" to bother me more, but it didn't, really.

The Flickr album line had me howling.

"Does the tin man have a steel willy" was pretty good, too.

I like Carver, and I love how much he loves the show, but I think season openers are too much pressure for him -- his are always a little muddy for me. Like in this one, I was happy to see Castiel, but the scenes with him and Hannah (aside from Cas's heartbreaking words about chaos and "human things") were sort of boring.

Although, that could also just be the angel storyline. I'm really bored with it. Cas becoming more human, on the other hand (although preferably not dying), would be a lot more interesting to me.

Finally watching. So far: Dean's hair is fantastic, will never ever be a fan of karaoke, even for laughs, and, Why is Castiel the only angel that they need to track down those two rogues? Especially as obviously sick as he is?

Lastly: Pat Benatar, rock on!

So...Dean's basic personality seems intact, with extra added callousness and violence. He's crueler, more stripped away, but he doesn't seem completely 100% EVIL to me.

I rewatched, and I think from the argument Dean and Crowley had after Dean realized Crowley had been tossing lower-level demons his way just so Dean could kill a few every now and then, that Dean actually isn't a demon yet. Which confuses me, because I though that's what the black eyes meant.

Crowley: If it wasn't for me throwing demons your way, what do you think would happen? The Mark needs to be sated. Otherwise...

Dean: Otherwise I turn into a demon. Yeah, yeah, I sort of got that six weeks ago.

I took that to mean -- the "I sort of got that six weeks ago" -- to mean he is a demon, he did turn into one.

I thought it was very confusing in the episode, and I read an interview with Carver -- I can't remember where now -- that said this is Crowley's way to keep the demon sort of under control? That if he doesn't have things to kill regularly, he would go more feral, I guess? It seemed unclear even in the interview, but I think since we've seen black eyes twice, he is a demon now.

I think. ;-)