Spin off!

Best backdoor pilot ever!

Overall really liked it, it felt like an old-school early seasons episode. And unlike the backdoor pilots of recent years (wish I was confident this actually was one, though), I wasn't wishing they'd skip to the Sam & Dean parts whenever they weren't on screen.

This is the fifth time Jody has come across supernatural creatures run amok without a Winchester or Bobby connection. I think the brothers ought to stay in Sioux Falls for a while and give her the full training course, complete with her own copy of John's journal and whatever would be useful from Bobby's library.

I just had a very sad thought. How tragic that Bobby never got to explore the MoL library. I would love to have seen him ensconced in a library chair with a glass of good scotch and a stack of pristine tomes.

I never associate Bobby with the good hooch. That's Rufus to me.

I'm imagining John holding up his journal (seriously, there's only one???) and squinting at the library behind them.

Frankly I'm disappointed that Dean isn't interested in transwolves.

Well, some of that Men of Letters prose can make any subject a bit of a slog.

Love Sheriff Donna - her and Jody Mills were great together.

Just read this quote in a story:

Sam sat at the front desk of Winchester Iron and greeted the members with a polite smile as they swiped their cards though the reader at the entrance. He smiled extra hard at the pretty girls, with a grin that hopefully communicated how sorry he was that he was gigantic, and that deep down he was very sweet.

It's teen!Sam and I can totally see it.

Finally! Confirmation on Jimmy Novak's fate.

stupid tv antenna, just went out at the end of the ep. It's been aggrevatingly shaky all evening and now it just cut out completely.

Confirmation on Jimmy Novak's fate.

Yes! And it was the confirmation I wanted/believed in too. I am so narratively relieved, and I stick out my tongue at the people who said Dean/Cas was rape because Jimmy was stuck in there getting unwillingly fucked. It's such an easy thing to head canon around, and hundreds of stories are now Kripked.

Which makes me wonder--there must have been fans with the username impala67 one place or another. They must have been so chuffed.

I was bored with the Rowena part of the story, because it felt like nothing happened. But I really did like the Claire part of it, as well as Dean going OTT (the difference between killing Randy and not killing Randy) and not being able to lie about it.

Precog dreams, though? Huh.

I hope the resolution to the Mark of Cain involves Cain. I liked him and his story.

Yeah, more Timothy Omundson (I always want to write Ombudsman) is always good in my book.

I liked the Claire story, too, and the actor who played her. Or, how the actor played her, I guess? Anyway, I enjoyed.

Oh, Dean.