I think ita lives for Tempting Distractions (tm). At least that is one link I'm not to worried about clicking.

Working from home today so I turned on SPN, but I didn't pay as much attention to this episode as I usually give the boys. There are pieces of it I like, but overall, it bugs.

For example: The Benders. But then we got Deputy Hudak. And the "I pretty much saved him from a fire" speech. And Dean's acrobatic under-the-gun handcuff lockpicking. Sam's smile when Dean finds him.

Route 666. Uh. Okay, shirtless Dean. And all those behind the scenes photos of their understudies stunt doubles, and Dean catching snowflakes on his tongue, and Kim Manners directing while Jared sasquatches behind him. See? Gold among the dross.

BUT I WANT TO KNOW!!! EVERYBODY DO IT!

Yeah, I'm pining for the distractions right now. I'm waiting for a co-worker to become available for the next big task off my to do list.

To be fair, I thought I could just list favourites for S2. I had no idea I liked as much of it as much as I did. It's shorter for me to just list what I didn't like. Need DVDs stat. I'm ready to rewatch. And I don't remember if I put all of Papa John's episodes on my S1 list, but I kinda meant to and was trying not to be excessive.

I don't know why the illusion of control means so much to me.

Wasn't this one of the episodes that Chuck apologises for, along with Route 666?

Oh, and I've been wondering about a couple points in the canon timeline--when do the boys get the anti-possession tattoos, and when do we find out John had been a mechanic?

Anti-possession tattoos were supposedly after Born Under a Bad Sign, sometime after the last shirtless scene before Jus in Belo.

We find out John co-owned the garage with Mike in Home.

This is one of the eps Chuck apologizes for. And the boys get the tattoos off-screen right before Jus In Bello.

I'm trying to remember when we learn that he was a mechanic -- has to be in S1's Home, when they go to the garage where he used to work.

Thanks. I totally missed that in Home.

So the tats happened that completely offscreen? And then Dean goes and gets another one after being rehymenated.

I think we're supposed to believe Castiel left it there, because it's there when he looks in the mirror in Lazarus Rising.

it's there when he looks in the mirror in Lazarus Rising.

Well, that's awful nice of him, but it means I need to go looking for screenshots.

Oh, well.

No, the rehymenation didn't affect the tattoo. When he pulls his shirt up in the gas station, you can see the tat's still there.

I'm watching Salvation right now. I popped the disk in to watch the Special Features, but the episodes called louder.