Jensen Ackles is having so much fun playing bad. And I agree with Amy. Smoking. hot.

I can't wait until Dean throws it in Sam's face that Sam told Dean that he would have let Dean go, and now that the shoe's on the other foot, he won't let Dean go. (side note - the look on Dean's face in that scene -- amazing work by Jensen Ackles)

JA was really outstanding. The whole scene with ... whoever that hunter Marine guy is, that was incredible.

And the scene with Sam! And the look on his face at the end! They're killing me.

Crowley is the breakup queen, I swear. He'll be doodling Dean's name soon, probably in the flesh of some random victim.

I do need Sam to look whole and healthy again. Enough beating up poor Sammy.

Crowley is the breakup queen, I swear. He'll be doodling Dean's name soon, probably in the flesh of some random victim.

He'll probably kill the wife just because he blames her for Dean leaving him.

MostlyEvil!Dean is hotter than hell. No pun intended. He is rockin' the evil.

I am shallow, but god DAMN.

Hey Strix, if loving MostlyEvil!Dean is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

My sister in BadBAD boy Dean oost!

I am wanting to wrap Sam in warm blankets and feed him soup and chocolate chip cookies, and then have comforting sex. And then perhaps sex that will make him forget his problems for a while. Or at least feed him up some, because damn he is looking wrecked.

And yes, JA looks as though he's having a whole lot of fun playing Demon!Dean.

I think the hot factor is partially from demon!Dean smiling and smirking so darned much. JA is transformed when he smiles. Le sigh.

I was severely nervous when Crowley was demanding payment for giving up Dean's location to Sam. Metatron: plz to go away. I notice how they keep failing to mention what Cas' fate is on his current declining trajectory. Is it because they don't know yet (the writers)? Or??

Random irrelevant musing: this ep made me wonder about demon healing abilities. Average demons are wearing someone else's body that can survive injuries while being worn, but when abandoned, those cumulative injuries are still there. Obviously Dean is healing himself, but it is also his only body/vessel. So is it because he's a special demon snowflake because of the Mark of Cain? Or were all other demons, with their body-hopping ability, just careless and wasteful, but could have healed the bodies fully if they wanted to? Which of course they wouldn't want to, being demons and all.

Ruby was able to repair some pretty serious harm to her first body, but it remained dead after she departed. Healing the physical harm from a mortal wound might not be enough to restore the host to life, although the demon can keep the body animated afterwards.

Hmm... Okay, this might not follow, as in still a bit sleep deprived, but this leads me to wondering about any damage demon!Dean might sustain and any consequences when/if he becomes human again. Meta, to me, says no consequences (which then says to me: bring in Ultimate Dean Whymoage!) but also possibly speaks of delayed peril for Dean if he gets fucked up with the Mark and that carrying over to him becoming fully human again.

And I'm kind of annoyed that I'm thinking of Dean's demonisity as temporary, because it's like the next seasons "Dean in Hell" or "Dean in Purgatory" or "Sam in Hell" --just a seasonal hurdle to get past before we return to the status quid pro quo of brotherhood. Whereas if it were, say, Angel, I'd fully believe Dean as we knew him was dead and gone and we had to deal with Illyria.

But I guess that id an inherent danger of a sow revolving around two codependent leads.