Serenity Valley nursing home? How has nobody remarked on that?

Over here we worried it was a portent and were much relieved when it wasn't. There was mutual shouting of "woo yeah!" when Cas came through in the clinch.

We also noticed that Death was once an undertaker on "Slings and Arrows"

I love that Dean reaches for his crotch when Pestilence says "syphillis".

But what I really truly love is Castiel's sigh and heavenward glance when Dean finishes "...human."

And Bobby, while I don't think losing the use of your legs equates to an angel losing every other part of him, I appreciate you smacking him verbally upside the head.

TWoP is cracking my shit up (or is that nervous laughter?). I'm in the character threads. It's frightening.

I haven't been back there in a while. I'm scared. What are they doing?

I just woke up to fanfic in my head. It was the line "Sam realised he wasn't losing Dean, just saving him." Well, maybe not fanfic. Maybe just explanation for how he's thinking right now.

Dean apparently has been stripped of all agency and purpose and gutted and made useless. It's all "Sam Sam Sam!" Also, apparently, Dean never having been possessed is a sign of disrespect. Also, he's the yellow crayon. The show is over and there's no point in watching the finale next week, because it's obvious that Dean will have absolutely no role to play in ending the apocalypse.

And this is all in the Jensen thread.

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Now, Heaven said that Dean would be the one to end it. Did they mean that as a way to get Michael into him, or does he have a task to pull off?

If that's yellow crayon, I'm totally okay. Sam pulled Dean's head out of his ass a few episodes ago and saved more than a few lives. But if it was a trufax prediction, I would have expected more for him to do.

That's the only reason I'm wrinkling my nose. Both boys don't have to have their hand on the trigger. They can trade off on doing big things.

Complaining here's too much Sam...they need to tot up screen time and self-derisive speeches. They really should watch Fringe instead next week and save themselves the pain.

And while I'm thinking of Sam and the screentime, how hot was he in that warehouse? And why does he have Dean's gun?

Hey, do you think the amulet will come back, or are we done with that phase?

Random observation (which delighted me): Cas said he was found on a "shrimping boat off Delacroix," and a line from Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue" is "working for a while on a fishing boat outside of Delacroix." Sera's a Dylan fan!

I can't see Dean being the yellow crayon. I also can't see anything when I close my eyes but his faaaaaace from the previews. DEAN.

Sam was super hot in the warehouse. Calm, focused, ginormous, DELICIOUS.

I want the amulet back, if only for sentimental purposes and brotherly bonding.

And Bobby, while I don't think losing the use of your legs equates to an angel losing every other part of him, I appreciate you smacking him verbally upside the head.

I figured he was speaking as someone who'd just bartered his soul away for the cause, not as someone in a wheelchair.

I disagree, Matt -- he was responding to Cas saying he was "useless," and the reference to "pining for the varsity days" makes me think he definitely meant younger, stronger, able.

I am still eager to see all this apocalypse stuff climax. I cannot imagine how it will end without more death, likely Bobby now that he's walking again.

I peaked my head in both LJ and TWoP and the Dean girl screaming sent me running. Their reaction is terrifying and loud.

My heart broke when Sammy claimed to be the least of them and I wished Dean had done more to dispel that notion before Crowley walked up. I hope Sam's sacrifice is met with Dean's faith in him rather than continued resistance and doubt. I confess to being a little tired of the defective Sam "there's a "darkness" in him" storyline. I also feel like they've been playing up his anger a little awkwardly and I have trouble thinking of Sam as anything other than a gentle genius giant despite Padalecki's very adept scary HE-MAN routine.

I deeply loved the last scene with Bobby and Dean, not just because Dean was so.damn.pretty but also because Bobby got to the heart of Dean's resistance, he doesn't want to give Sammy up.

I saw shades of future Cas in that hospital bed. He was absolutely the comedy win for the night and thank God he's there or the show would leave me writhing in a pit of despair for them all. Oh heck, who am I kidding, I'm still writhing.

ETA: What's a yellow crayon?