She did seem pretty fond of the hooch, what with that huge bottle she cracked out of her desk drawer to loosen Sam up.

OK, that makes sense. She wants to follow sex with drinking. Really, if you think about, it makes a lot more sense than the usual order. Sober sex followed by getting drunk offers maximum enjoyment of both pleasures.

I had my suspicions about the "FBI agent" right when Dean said that he didn't know feds could be so cool. I figured either he was the siren or the dreams of slash fans were about to come true.

I thought it would have been cool if the siren could be killed by an injection of oxytocin.

I figured either he was the siren or the dreams of slash fans were about to come true.

I figured it was the FBI guy because he was playing into being everything Dean ever wanted, his "dream person." Lovng the car, loving the music, the total guy bonding thing. Just because it had always been girls for the others, well, Dean as we know has always been about Sam.

I had the best Secret Santa package. Not only did I have incredible Seattle treats from meara, but she got Plei to write a bonus Supernatural story!!! [link]

Oh, Mary. Oh, John. Oh, Plei! So very very good. Thanks for letting meara include it.

That's a beautiful story.

Take a look at the bag of a Hoodoo practicioner found on LJ. Lots of familiar names of things in there.

Yay!

Technically, I owe you two more, but then family ate me. They may randomly turn up at the site (I'll let you know if/when that happens.)

wolfpup gives good vids. scroll down to the bottom of the page for the newest vid.

Oh ouch. That was really hurty.

Okay.... I love Bobby as much as the next person, but they're really overusing him as the sweep-in-with-the rescue/plan/vital piece of information guy.

It didn't bother me because it wasn't some arcane out-of-nowhere thing like the Japanese (even though I like the story about how that came around). It was Bobby being common sense Bobby. I don't know that it's become apparent to him yet how off their game the boys are but given the situation him checking up on things further didn't seem over the top.

Sam and Dean are NOT okay. So much anger. So much distance between them.

Oh god yes. I don't think we've seen Sam express all this before, though some of it is apparent in his actions. To this degree, anyway. But we know how full of shit Dean is when he said he didn't mean any of that, so.

Count me as another who was not bugged by Bobby saving the day. I thought it was set up in the episode that he had been called for help. It also makes sense to me that they would have used him as a resource (loved that he was apparently reading the information about the Siren in the original Greek). I also liked the phone bank; it goes a long way towards explaining how Sam and Dean--hell, many hunters--have gotten away with some of their masquerades as effectively as they have.

(And is it wrong of me that I want to see a fanfic that has Bobby comparing notes with Barbara Gordon?)

I thought it was an interesting twist that the Siren didn't only feed off of romantic devotion. Having one victim off a parent rather than a mate did go a long way towards making me buy that the Siren could feed off the brothers turning against each other. And speaking of that turning against...

While I liked the intensity of the fight, and I liked how not okay the boys were after it was all over, I am still up in the air as to how to interpret Sam's part in the fight. On the surface of things, Dean's anger seems a lot more legitimate than Sam's. After all, Dean got on Sam for actively deceiving him, while Sam seems to be upset that his brother is having a rough time with PTSD after forty years of literal hell. Taken that way, Sam comes across as the guiltier party.

After thinking about it for a while, however, I'm wondering if what we were hearing (as I think someone mentioned upthread) is Sam's bitter disappointment that the brother he got back isn't exactly the brother he used to have. Add that to the fact that the two of them were actively trying to hurt each other, and that could explain what Sam said. Of course, if he really wanted to hurt Dean, he might have said something about not being okay with Dean's actions in Hell.

Then again, there's always the possibility that I'm overthinking this, and what we heard Sam say was all that the writers could come up for him to say.