Didn't we have a Balthazar already (demon inside Jack) ? I may be misremembering.

I'd give it a B, too, Cindy. Sam's logic seems okay for now -- I mean, Chuck did say it was the end of the story -- but I can see how deciding that now is going to come back to bite them.

The hint of evil!Sam was intriguing. I'm not sure if it's intriguing in a good or bad way yet, though.

I'll just remember to skip a post by you before I've watched. It's okay.

So, I can see where the opening song seemed like a good idea but it didn't really work for me and that's kind of how I feel about the whole episode. Maybe what they are doing will grow on me.

I think Sam has a decent working hypothesis. Even if he's wrong, it's probably best for them to act as if he's right, you know? Pretty much Team Free Will's only option.

I do not like the demon-in-Jack thing at all. Everyone is accepting his help way too easily, for one thing, and I am just tired of snarky demonic sidekicks. If he turns out to be Michael trying to get his hands on the Colt or something I may come around, but as it stands now I am not pleased.

Sam's injury is potentially interesting. I liked the first glimpses of Bloody Mary and the Woman in White and even the scary clown, but they didn't feel right as we saw more of them and I don't know why.

So, I have some catching up to do since I think I'm behind 3 seasons at least. What if I just started watching this season now -- would I be too lost?

I think you'd be ok jumping in now. There's some dialog explaining the current situation, probably enough.

Excellent, thanks.

I will admit up front that my loathing for the Buckner/Ross-Leming writing team is pretty much hotter than a thousand suns from hell, but that episode seemed egregiously bad to me.

Possibly I was in a bad mood. But ghosts doing bureaucracy was just stupid. And I know they wanted to keep the Jack actor, but I'm over that storyline already. AND I hated the Rowena/Ketch nonsense, but it seems like that writing team always needs to get some kind of romance/sex into every episode they write.

I don't even know what to think about Chuck and Amara (except I kind of like Amara now), and I didn't understand in the first episode that Sam's wound and Chuck's were, like, reverberating or whatever. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE SAM GOD, FOR REAL.

Basically, bah humbug. And I really hope it gets better from here.

I kinda forgot there was an episode this past week until I saw your post, Amy. So I'm not going in with the best expectations. But I'm already annoyed (about 15 minutes in) that they don't have a good cover story for people who go back into town and disappear. Why don't they just say they broke quarantine (or whatever they are calling it) and the benzene got 'em?

Kevin! I can forgive a lot for Kevin

But he had not much to do. Sadface. Is his mom still alive? I can't remember

That was sadly lacking in competency porn all around. I do enjoy Amara. I do not enjoy Ketch and Rowena and even less if they are KetchandRowena.

One town full of ghosts, even all the ghosts in hell or whatever, seems pretty low stakes for going head to head with God. And we have seen the "our lives are predetermined" crisis before.

And, come on, last week Sam runs out of ammo and this week Dean does? Do better, writers.