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?
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.
Dean growling is the "new" new black, pass it on.
How exactly does Crowley know how to vacuum the grace-energy out of an angel and transplant it into another? That doesn't seem like something that would be common knowledge, particularly among demons. (I assumed Cas learned how by watching Metatron do it to him.)
Crowley knows everything! At least that seems to be prevailing handwavium when it comes to him.
I saw who had written the episode and my heart sank (Buckner/Ross-Leming) but I was pleasantly surprised. Still not sure what Crowley's flashbacks to his time with Dean were all about, aside from a really sappy way to remind us how broken up he is, but I loved the Sam and Dean interaction at the end. Jensen was fantastic.
I think they must also be using a lot of hairspray on Sam, because Jared's hair was so immobile, it was a little weird.
One of my silly thoughts was that Sam should set up a catheter and inject the blood like saline in a big bag, instead of individual injections, but that's not as dramatic, I suppose.
This ep made me think of the fic tag "Crowley hurts or helps".
Speaking of, does this mean that Hannah no longer needs Cas' help to hunt the rogue angels? Which, I'm still unclear as to why it was important, and why Hannah couldn't do it with some other angel. Please let it be that she was lying. But I'm still stuck on "her best hope is the dying dude"!!? So I hope that sweet Hannah has an ulterior motive other than necking with Cas. (And I do enjoy the actress' portrayal of awkwardness and humanity, it really does seem alien to her).
