If there's no season 6, I think one or more of the boys dies. If there is one...well, someone has to die, and I think fanservice points to Misha over Jim, shallowly. He's been all over the UK as the face of the show.

I would be truly impressed if Show kept him in the wheelchair.

Show is many things. Not often that sort of truly impressive.

I repeat

lalalalalalala

Castiel hater.

Just this once, everyone should live.

Well, everyone who's not already dead.

I love Simon Said because I love Andy to bits. He's endearing, and I was sad and angry at his ultimate departure. There's also what's been fodder for some good vids, with Dean's uber-focus on Sam's unraveling: the hand on Sam's back as the camera moves to include Sam, then falling away as Dean's included in the shot, catching and easing Sam to the ground, and stopping and racing around the car to get to Sam during painful visions. I liked Dean's babbling confession under Andy's directive to "tell the truth," too, since Dean's usually working at obfuscatng what's actually going on in his head.

There's looking back and knowing what's ahead for them is so much worse than this. But at the time, what they were going through was wrenching, both for them and for the viewer.

Plus, knowing now that JP was looped on painkillers throughout shooting the ep is kind of fun.

knowing now that JP was looped on painkillers throughout shooting the ep is kind of fun

I was wondering about the timing of it. Did he break his hand during the filming of the previous episode and they just had him go castless until this one? OUCH.

I was a bit disengaged, so I missed the actual physical contact. It probably won't be still available for restore when I get home.

Sam's "I'm the weak link, aren't I?" thing is way entrenched, isn't it? I can see how some people might be yelling for him to get over it, but it's not like he hasn't been handed tons of evidence. Still, it made me think of him still asking in "The Song Remains The Same" if he might still give in and say yes. I wonder--how much did Dean tell him about "The End"? Does he know that Dean wanted to give in?

Plus, knowing now that JP was looped on painkillers throughout shooting the ep is kind of fun.

Where'd you hear that? Poor noodle.

Sam's "I'm the weak link, aren't I?" thing is way entrenched, isn't it?

I think it goes back even further than Dean telling him what their father said about him going darkside, blah blah (which hasn't happened in the reruns yet). I think even in terms of Jessica's death, and him ignoring his dreams, really screwed him up.

Where'd you hear that? Poor noodle.

S2 dvd commentary, I think.

Sam's "I'm the weak link, aren't I?" thing is way entrenched, isn't it?

I think he has a lot of undeserved guilt about leaving "the life". Jessica's death was a consequence he takes completely on himself, and really, while consequences do follow him, it isn't really his fault. And I wish at some point he would deal with that reality.

But then, no angst, no story, no show.

Castiel hater.

Nu uh. But he's one of those that dies and comes back.

Bobby, not so much.