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.

They just have to make there be consequences--like consequences of his death (Angels), consequences of Sam being in the Cage resulted in half a season of no Sam or cleaning up after Godstiel--you have to close some doors at some times, but I think they've been pretty good at having the season ender take up to half a season to clean up.

But it's a show about Sam and Dean, and even more about Dean, so I'd doubt we'd lose him for more than the 1/2 season we lost Sam, or the time we were working with Gadreel.

He's separated from his knife, so he won't want to go on the jaunts, they know how to save his demon ass--the only thing they don't know about is getting the MOC off. That might start and be an ongoing consequence, albeit one with mostly our Dean.

Did anyone else squeal at the leather jacket? I actually rewound to make sure it was an actual John-leather jacket.

I don't know if my DCBB art was successful--the author was nice--but no one has commented on it that doesn't know me.

Then again, I haven't commented on any other art, and there's little that I want to comment on, of the stories I've read. There's some stuff out there I'd have to brace myself and smile if I were the author.

I had a SPN viewing party with two of my former students and their cousin. Usually Dan and I watch it together, so we backtracked the last 2 eps of Season 9 (which G hadn't seen) and then the first two of Season 10. I'd forgotten how FUN it was to watch a show with more than one fan!

We had cocktails and Chinese and nummy TJ's snacks, and everyone screamed and chattered about context, history and discrepancies in plot, and whether Chuck is God, and it was SO MUCH FUN. Like young Buffistas in my living room. We geeked it up from 8 to 2 am.

I can't believe my former students are 25 and 26, though. Time doth flit; oh, shit.

ETA: Did anyone else squeal at the leather jacket? I actually rewound to make sure it was an actual John-leather jacket.

ita, Gabby squealed and shouted, "Evil Dean is wearing The Jacket!" last night, so, yeah.

Wasn;t that babby!Dean from a pre-series flashback where he killed the Marine's dad?

I had to rebut someone on IO9 who said "Finally we get revenge and it's for something that happened offscreen?

I'm assuming they skipped the season 6 opener.

Me, I like the idea that killing happens offscreen too. Maybe it's a fanfic thing.

SGA peeps, is Lester Zelenka from SGA?

Yes, the very same.

Aw. And he mispronounced a word in the incantation as T'auri (sp?) - cute! Though, I guess that's more Goa'uld than Wraith, but whatever. Still cute.

Oh, my word - the little skull bottle stopper.