What Bev said.

All this talk of werepigs, very distasteful. Hmph.

That second clip really is chilling. Go JA with the Texas, too. Mrph.

I watched the second clip again. I still need to rewatch this week and process and stuff, but damn. I'm frothing for next week. JA looks cold hard badassed.

This morning is In The Beginning. I'm thinking I'll clip a half hour off the beginning of my work day instead of the end and watch this puppy through.

I approve of that plan.

I need to rewatch last night, too, but S. is still ... obtaining it for me.

Mitch Pileggi was fantastic as Samuel, *and* as the YED. There's a lot of Dean in his mannerisms and his speech.

I really enjoyed last night's episode, most especially for Jim Beaver's performance, though I felt vaguely discomfited by the real life loss of his wife.

Speaking of hard badass Dean, he was fierce last night. I loved that he stood there watching Bobby's house, and then later wasn't willing to go save the town over leaving Bobby. Except for the fact that he happily sent Sam off with no back-up, which seemed slightly out of character, he chooses to protect the ones he loves over the larger numbers. Sam killing the sheriff's son again, was so sad, and so evocative of Heart. Poor Sammy.

I'm struck, pre-rewatch, by the town's accepting melancholy. They definitely knew something was up, they had to know it couldn't end well, but they were so willing to pretend things were normal the sheriff called the doctor when her dead son spiked a 111° fever. They were just going to keep going.

Yeah, even Bobby, who really did know better, just went along with it.

I wish they had thrown in a line or two about there being some kind of spell or compulsion involved.

Sam killing the sheriff's son was awful, and very much a callback to Heart for me.

I think in terms of next week's episode, outside of the meta of JDM not having time to appear, Mom is the one both boys would want to see. She was the one they missed; she was the Sam never even got to know. Dad, on the other hand, was with them until two years ago. I think "home" and "Mom's cooking" etc. are more the fantasy heaven they might dream of than getting to hash out demon deals and bad choices with Dad.

I wish they had thrown in a line or two about there being some kind of spell or compulsion involved.

I like the desperate sadness and the informal collusion this way, actually. It makes me think of how Lucifer gains hold, not through overt misdirection or magickery, just through human wants.