It just strikes me as Dean's only way of relating -- if it were his last night on earth, minus the arrival of hell hounds, it's certainly what he would be doing.

I'm also not sure it's completely foreign for an angel to want some of things humans experience -- that's why Anna fell, after all.

But yes, I don't think it should be played out like Animal House, and I (mostly) don't believe it will be.

I'm leaning toward the idea that they go out with the intention of partying and they're interrupted by violence. After all, if they're going to perform some big ritual at sunrise, someone might want to try to stop them before they can.

Also, you should just never try to do important rituals when you're hung over. No good can come of it.

I think I can handle meta in a comedy (like Psych) better than I can in a drama. On Supernatural, the meta tends to give me hives, and I shout at the screen "oh, my god, STOP DOING THAT."

Ditto here. Even when it's done with affection like on Angel and this show, direct acknowledgement of fandom makes me wince. Whereas I can watch the absolute geekiest comic shop Batman debate scenes of Big Bang Theory and happily shout "I KNOW THAT GUY!"

Even when it's done with affection like on Angel and this show, direct acknowledgement of fandom makes me wince.

Given the degree to which this fandom sometimes tries to force its way into the reality of the people involved with the show, there's a part of me that feels like turnabout is fair play. But of course, there's probably not a whole lot of overlap between the segments of fandom wincing at the meta and the segment leaping from stairwells.

And that's leaving aside the potential effect on the show itself. I do wish they'd let it go already.

Must admit, I sort of laughed my ass off, while flailing, when I caught the sneak peep a few days ago.

I mean - we knew that this plotline was in the works, so in terms of wince wince wince there was nothing new, afaic, but in terms of Holy Crap, This Is The Slashiest Thing Ever including bonus and utterly unexpected Dean slashing Sesame Street Characters (Yes, Dean is now officially, canonically a slasher) I did rather a lot of flailing.

I think this has the potential to be absolutely spork-in-the-eyeball ghastly, but I'm working on the assumption that it will all be fine.

Also, I do love Misha's delivery.

And, seriously - trying NOT to read Castiel's sudden awkwardness as slashadelic, when he's just shown up at Dean's place with a tub of oil and the intention of spending the last night of his life with Dean, for whom he got himself killed and gave up everything he loved, valued and believed in...well, I don't know how NOT to see that as slashtastic. I have no idea. I mean, even if Castiel were to go and shag some chick - which, good lord, the prospect of the angel casually going to a prostitute for sex just horrifies me on so many levels, because it's belittling and demeaning to both parties - well, even then, I would still totally see it as All About Dean. And I don't even mean that in a wants-to-jump-Dean's-bones way (neccesarily). Just in a following-Dean-like-a-hopelessly-besotted-puppy way.

But I'm assuming that Something Else Will Occur.

Agreed that Jimmy is pining for the fjords. I think the last we'll ever see of him is that tooth the prophet Chuck pulled out of his hair .

Given that we've seen Dean in early seasons occasionally push Sam to "seed the clouds", I see Castiel's innocence (and a wee bit of prudishness) as maybe a bit of a replacement for the old Sam. To me, I sense Dean perhaps missing Sam a little bit here.

Oddly enough, I wonder if for Jimmy, being killed and separated from Castiel was a blessing. After all, last we saw of him, he was facing up to an eternity of riding shotgun in his own body.

I'm with you on that, Anne, which is why I can't feel too badly about it. Though it would be nice if someone acknowledged it. (Assuming we're not all on the wrong track here, but I really don't think we are.)

Me three. I love Jimmy to pieces - he broke my wee heart, bless him, and I can't say that it was exactly a happy situation for him. But, yeah - acknowledgment would be good.