I need an icon of the impala with a yellow crayon on it.

Perkins, I might be able to help you some. I put together a Willow-Xander yellow crayon icon way back when, and I may still have the pieces.

When fandoms collide...

I love how many complete stranger's comments use the term yellow crayon like everyone knows exactly what it means.

Perkins, I might be able to help you some. I put together a Willow-Xander yellow crayon icon way back when, and I may still have the pieces.

YAY

I'm still amazed at the Sam/Lucifer mirror-conversation. I don't know if it was Jared's expressions, but when he was Lucifer, he was beautiful. Like, physically beautiful. Yet when he was Sam, there was something less, I don't know, his hair was flatter? He seemed, like, puffier? The camera angles? Or just the emotions he was expressing was enough to physically transform in a stronger yet subtler way than make-up could. It was weird, yet awesome.

The tears in Dean's eyes when the worst happens and Lucifer beats Sam and disappears is just wretched. OMG the pain.

Also, thanks to whomever for that wonderful link on the meta for the show.

I'm rewatching because I want so much to love this and understand this, and that has helped a few issues.

Someone at TwoP posted a hilarious comment about Chuck/Kripke/God, something along the lines of how awesome it was for Kripke to lovingly embrace his God-complex.

Speaking of, I guess that's now an instance of, well, not unreliable narrator, but, erm, misinformed narrator wrt the amulet being a God-finder? I can dig that, even if I thought it was more valuable as a symbol of brotherly love. Now I'm having a vision of Sam having recovered the necklace, and put it over the rearview mirror or something, and then having that part of the Impala-coloured crayon moment. Some possibly stretched idea of finding God in everything and everyone and therefore having the God-finder mixed in with the love and family of the Winchesters. But that would probably have taken away from the moment and made it less than it was. Just streaming here, don't mind me.

Question: Did Chuck say the angels were keeping the local of the showdown topsecret and then in the same breath say it was in Stull Cemetary?

Nebermind. I somehow twice missed the "But I saw it anyway".

I found this linked a few places: Stull Cemetery. Apparently it has its own urban legend attached to it and "is a place that some claim is one of the "seven gateways to hell." "

I just read that's why Kripke had the boys born there.

I've been thinking from Dean's reaction, that he thought Cas could come back too. Or maybe it was that he wasn't worried about Cas' soul. It was different when Lucifer broke Bobby's neck. Boy went crazy.

I don't know when Castiel showed back up and Dean was kneeling over the rings, if Dean could even feel surprise at that moment. He looked (and I would expect him to be) pretty numb at that moment.

I'm wondering how much time has passed from the graveyard to the last scene. Because Dean was magically healed it could be as soon as that night. But with them settled in at dinner, it could be much much longer.

The tears in Dean's eyes when the worst happens and Lucifer beats Sam and disappears is just wretched. OMG the pain.

Yes. Very much. That moment (ouch) and when he says he's not going to let Sam die alone are two of the most painful moments of the series for me.

Chuck saying that every part of Dean wanted to die or find Sam, was right up there also.

I know not many people are crazy about Lisa, but I liked the actors touch of rocking Dean gently as they stood there in the doorway. It's very subtle but they are swaying. It's sweet.

I bet there is a MASSIVE hunt for an actor to play Ben going on this summer. They have very clumsily not shown him for the past three Lisa appearances and last night had a stand in. Too bad Colin Ford doesn't have a brother who is as good as Colin is.

Would have been nice to have a few shots of Colin!Sam in the car during the montage. Not necessary, but just nice.

I'm definitely enjoying the episode a whole lot more now. Now knowing what to expect and not being tired and post-horrific-job-evaluation-gone-so-wrong-that-it-makes-me-question-my-value-as-a-human-being. The gollum scene still seems to have pacing issues and a bit of come-to-the-point-please for me. But Adam seems more adequate, and I'm not laughing when Cas esplodes.

Also, I still adore the Chuck narrative. It's just so . . . comforting. Like, I'm sure I've seen something similar before, and so the association is nostalgic and beautiful at its best. Like October Skies or Sea Biscuit or something.