'Do You Believe in Miracles?' -- SPN 9x23

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So, Dean is a demon now ... ::sigh:: Cuz no one saw that one coming. Kripke'd yet again. Show is nothing if not something that will give you exactly what you expect (over and over and over again).

The thing that bothered me about the story that Crowley was telling about the legend of how Cain first turned into a demon was that he said that he had used the First Blade on himself, and that the mark wouldn't let him go after that. The way that the writing made it sound, it sounded as though Dean would have had to've also used the First Blade to kill himself if the Mark of Cain was going to properly bring him back from the dead (and turn him into a demon) ... but the fact that he actually got shanked by an angel should have made it so that he died. He wouldn't have gone upward (not only cuz they haven't explicitly said that the doorway is open now (and unless it's said, I'm not going to assume that it is), but also cuz he's got the Mark of Cain ... which would have to keep him out of Heaven even if he was otherwise able to go there), so he probably would have found himself back in Hell again. He would have become a demon after awhile (probably a bit more quickly than he did last time, since he's already got the scaring on his soul from the last time, and the fact that he's got the Mark (which would probably make him something special once he got down there)), but I have a hard time believing that the Mark would have pulled him back and turned him into Super Demon after Crowley's story ... the logic of it just didn't sit well with me (since there wasn't really much of it from what I saw).

Cas not killing Metatron ... I can understand why he didn't (taking a stand to be a better "man" and all), but it was an incredibly stupid move on his part. At some point in the future, I can see Metatron figuring out a way to get himself out of his cell, and once he does, he's going to be coming after Cas and the boys like whoa. They really need to start throwing a shit ton of books at him stat. They probably won't find a whole hell of a lot of them that he hasn't read yet, but they can always hope that he'll be entertained enough by those that they bring him (even if he probably has read them before) that he won't be thinking about trying to get revenge on the people who stopped him from being the new God.

And honestly, since this show isn't above going all deus ex machine all over the place, I half expected to see Chuck show up at the last second and save everybody from Metatron (having him say something along the lines of WTAF, Metatron?), and I'm glad that they didn't do that (I'm still disgruntled by the fact that Chuck is supposed to be God).

I'm hoping more than anything that next season will be the last, and that both of the boys will die ... and stay dead (without any kind of fine print that will get them out of it ... like a deal with a Crossroads Demon, or an angel (gripping them tight and pulling them from Perdition)). Show is getting tired (and has been for quite some time now), and I would like to be able to see them both die for realsies before I give up completely on the whole thing.

'Stairway to Heaven' -- SPN 9x22

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I'm not even going to lie ... I'm not sure how much longer that I'm going to be able to stick around with this show. I know that there's only one more episode left in this season, and that there's possibly only one more season after this one ... but I really don't know if I'm going to be able to make it through next season (and it would be even more iffy if I would be able to get through any seasons after that). I'm really hoping that the show ends next season, cuz it's lost all of the mojo that it once had, and I've only been watching out of habit for the past three or four seasons. And I don't expect that next season is going to get any better (or give me a reason to stick around). If past is prologue, next season is going to be even worse than this season (since it has been getting exponentially worse every season).

I guess that I forgot to do a review of last week's episode, which should probably show just how much I'm getting over this show. I didn't even notice until right now, when I went to double check the episode number.

It wasn't at all a surprise that it was Metatron using other people to undermine everything that Cas had been trying to do (whether or not he had been doing it of his own volition, or had been doing it cuz of some crazy string pulling that Metatron had been doing through his play writing). But it was at least good to know that Cas didn't seem to have all of the God complex that he had a few seasons ago ... even if I still don't like the idea of him being a leader of other angels (since there is still the possibility of him doing that sort of thing again). And it's a really good thing that he didn't have the Gabriel Trumpet a few seasons ago, otherwise everyone would have been fucked when it came to him taking over (the boys wouldn't have had all that much to work with since he hadn't been on their side back then).

I really wish that the First Blade would get lost in the ocean forever, and that no one would ever be able to find it ever again. While I did like what the writers had done with Cain (which was a switch to what they had normally been doing with characters), I didn't like the idea of bringing in another super weapon then, and I like it even less now. It's way too much of a quick fix to stuff, and they've already proven that they're going to be ham handed with the way that they deal with how it's messing about with Dean's mind.

'Bloodlines' -- SPN 9x20

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Aaaaaaaaand, here's a spin-off that I'm not going to be checking out when it officially airs. It seemed a little to much like just another one of those CW shows that's on the air now (more specifically, "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Originals"). I wasn't at all thrilled with the premise behind the spin-off, and it really came down to this episode as to whether or not I would even give it a shot, but since I was beyond not impressed, I'm not going to waste my time on something that struck me as being another emo teen show.

Why, oh, why couldn't they have done what I had originally heard that they were going to do and have the spin-off be in the Old West (and possibly involve Samuel Colt)? That would have made for a much better show IMO.

'Alex Annie Alexis Ann' -- SPN 9x19

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While I do enjoy me some Jody, this episode was so over the top boring, I'm not sure how it made it onto the air ... or how it managed to make it on when it's so close to the end of the season. It would seem that there are more important things for the boys to be taking care of right now, like (IDK?) the First Blade ... or the fact that Cas is now using the Gabriel Trumpet cuz Metatron is piloting him like he's a fucking marionette.

And the story that was going on with this episode was kind of stupid and pointless (especially when you consider the fact of all of the more important things that are going on). So, now we have it established that vampires really do have feelings (even though some of them may lie and say that they don't), and they morn the loss of people that they knew when they were still alive ... and Jody is now able to be a mom again ... to a girl who is going to be fighting against Stockholm Syndrome for probably the rest of her life.

Speaking of homegirl, I have a hard time believing that she could go from being the one who got "her family" food, to being so close to getting back to being a decent human being at the end of the episode. Even if she was having doubts about the things that she was doing, she was still completely indoctrinated into their family (and their lifestyle), and it wouldn't have been that easy for her to come out of that and start acting like she was a real girl again. She straight out told Jody at the end that she didn't want to disappoint Mama again, so it seems like it should have a little bit harder for her to pull herself away from what her life had been for so many years (and towards what it would be like for anyone who had never known that monsters are real).

But like I said, it seemed like an excuse to give Jody a family again after what the writers had put her through since she had first been introduced into Show. And if that is what was going on, I don't see why it couldn't have waiting until there weren't other (more pressing) things that the boys really needed to take care of.

'Meta Fiction' -- SPN 9x18

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I was so insanely happy when I saw Gabriel show up in this episode ... and so very sad when I realized that he really was dead after all (and it wasn't just another one of his tricks that Lu had been able to gank him). I would have loved it if he had come back for reals, since there needs to be a whole lot more of the trickster around. Why must the writers yank me around like that, instead of giving me exactly what I want? It would make things so much better if they would understand what it is that I would love for them to do, and if they did that.

Yet another super device introduced into the mythos of the show. So, now we have the Gabriel Trumpet out there, and everyone now knows exactly how to get it started and get everyone together using it. It still annoys me that they continually add things that are Super Weapons or Super Devices (especially lately) for either the boys (almost exclusively of the hunters), Metatron, or Crowley to use (or attempt to use). I think that I would have liked it much better if only Gabriel was able to use the Gabriel Trumpet. I mean, hell, his name is part of the device itself, so it would kind of make sense that only really he would be able to use it ... or at least, he's only able to use it easily. It seemed far too easy for everyone else to be able to create and use the Trumpet (far more easy than I thought that it should have been for them ... everyone seemed to understand and get the ingredients for it as though it were no big deal, and it seemed like it should have been kind of a big deal. Sure, it would have meant a little more build up, and not as much pay off, but the way that it was done felt like they didn't have to work for it).

I also didn't dig the idea that Cas ended up being so willing to use the Trumpet to get other angels to come to him so that he could lead them in the battle that Metatron wants him to be a part of. I get the feeling that he's being manipulated by Metatron (that the "play" that he was writing actually changed who Cas was as a person), and it made me feel icky that it was so easy for him to do that. Sure, he claims that he's God now, but Cas claimed he was God at one point as well, and things weren't that easy for him. Things seems to be far too easy for Metatron when it comes to taking over and using God-powers. Sure, he knows what was on the different tablets, but I don't get the feeling that there is a God Tablet (cuz that would be stupid); and it seems like it should be harder for him to become all powerful (or even as powerful as he seems to have become). The fact that he started off in the secretarial pool makes it seem to me that if he went too far in trying to access power (or use power), it might do him more harm than good (kind of the way it did to Cas when he tried to take in a billion leviathan). If Metatron had been an archangel, I might believe it that he might be able to do some things that were on the more crazy impressive side (but the fact that he started off at the secretarial pool would insinuate that he's a run of the mill angel as far as capability for using insane amounts of power).

Maybe there was something in the tablets that would let him know how to not burn out? It's possible, but I would really rather that they tell us that without us having to possibly assume that something like that was there (cuz that's kind of what it feels like we have to do right now).

And if Metatron really does have that much power, I don't understand why he doesn't just rewrite everything so that everything works his way and the way that he wants it to. Sure, he's said that he wants the boys to scurry around and try to stop him, but the hubris of that is infuriating and stupid (and wasn't there a point when we all decided that hubris + God-like power was cliché and not something that we should be doing, cuz of how over-done it is). And the more powerful that the writers make Metatron, the more impossible it seems that it would be for the boys to get rid of him and get the world back to normal. I almost get the feeling that the writers are starting to paint themselves into a corner with him, and I hope that they have some out when it comes to him and his defeat (but I'm not going to hold my breath. I have feeling that whatever they're going to do will probably end up being something that will be kind of stupid).

'Mother's Little Helper' -- SPN 9x17

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The return of Henry Winchester, and now we find out how exactly Abaddon first possessed Red. I guess that it's interesting that she decided that she would have let herself become possessed by a Knight of Hell cuz of love? I'm not sure that that would have been at all interesting as far as the progression of the mythos of Show if we didn't also take into account the fact that love first turned Cain into a demon (and into the first Knight of Hell, and the trainer of the other Knights). The only thing that really makes it interesting to me is the idea of what could possibly end the Knights. Sure, we have the First Blade, and that's really going to be what it is that kills both Abaddon and Cain, but I think that it would actually be much more interesting if it were love that had been the thing that had killed (or ended) the both of them (since that's what first turned Cain into a demon, and what allowed Josie to become possessed). It would certainly would have made a much more interesting dynamic to the story as a whole.

I kind of wanted Sam to tell the ex-nun that he was Henry's grandson, and I'm not entirely sure why he wouldn't have. I almost got the feeling that he thought that she wouldn't have believed him if he told her the truth, but I don't think that that's what they were really going for (since I don't see why she wouldn't have believed him after what she had seen ... and seeing as how she seemed to understand who he was after the fact).

I want to know what it is that Crowley has going on, since he certainly has something planned (something in which he is trying to manipulate Dean into doing). I really want to believe that it is something more than making sure that Dean kills Abaddon (and doesn't kill him), since that seems too obvious a thing to happen ... since that's what they've been working for already anyway. I want it to be something much more sneaky and underhanded (which may lead into the final season), but I have a feeling that since we're dealing with Show here, we're going to end up getting Kripke'd (even though he hasn't actually been working on Show for three and a half seasons). So, I'm not going to hold my breath that there's going to be anything more important or exciting going on.

Also, how is it that Dean was so tricked by a demon pretending to be a hunter. Wouldn't he have known when someone was pretending to be one of them, instead of actually being one of them? The guy seemed a little bit too obvious about what he was about to do ... and ignored Dean a little too much (for someone who was hanging out with the King of Hell) for him to have not become suspicious about what was going on. I suppose that we are meant to forgive him for that seeing as how he has been so focused on trying to figure out how to find Abaddon, and it has maybe given him brain-fever enough to make him miss things that he may have normally noticed.

So, Abaddon has been trying to create her own army by stealing people's souls. I suppose that's kind of an interesting development. It seems that the boys are going to need to do more than just try to find Abaddon by going over and over the same records that they've been going over for the past month. Seems like they should be getting other hunters in on the job, if for nothing else so that they could try to find the captured souls so that they could be freed ... but I don't see that happening anytime during this season.

'Blade Runners' -- SPN 9x16

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So, now we finally have an idea of what happened with Crowley, but I am wondering what it is with this show and it's thing with making blood something that is an addictive drug. It doesn't make any kind of sense to me. The whole thing with Sam being addicted to "demon blood" when demons don't have any blood (since they're nothing more than black smoke, and he was doing nothing more than drinking human blood) made no sense. Crowley being addicted to human blood makes just as much sense as that, since (as a demon and not being in possession of an actual body ... you know what I mean ... he's using someone else's body and doesn't have one of his own) there's no way that blood would be able to effect his system (since it doesn't do anything to the system of the person that he is possessing ... at least not in that manner. The most that it would do would be to make the body that he's using sick in some way, whether it makes him throw up, or it gave him some sort of disease like AIDS). And if Crowley was really addicted to blood as though it were some sort of drug, he seemed to get over his addiction rather quickly ... like within a day or two. It was so fast, it made me wonder if he was really addicted at all, or if it was some kind of elaborate ruse on his part ... but I'm not sure that the writers were thinking of that (since they don't seem to be thinking of that sor to of thing), so I'm left thinking that they really were trying to keep going with the whole "blood is an addictive drug" idiocy. So, I'm struck again with wanting to shake the fuck out of the writers for not thinking these things through.

But at least we now know what happened with the First Blade, although it seems rather convenient that it just happened to make it to someone who had been kicked out of the Men of Letters clubhouse for being extra crazy ... and extra convenient that it made it to him just before the boys had started looking for it. Convenient to the point of being trite and unbelievable. It seemed a little too much like the writers were wanting to add some sort of full episode that involved what happened with Crowley and what happened with the First Blade, but what we got was completely unsatisfactory.

And can we just mention Dean's reaction to holding the First Blade? Jensen's constant, rippling lip curl while it was in his hand looked stupid. I understand what they were going for (trying to insinuate the rage that they want to say that Cain had to have while he was using it), but it didn't look like what I think that they were going for. Besides which, I'm not sure that they would want to go for rage when Dean was using the Blade, because of what they've established with canon. Sure, if they were actually going with canon of the Bible, I can see them having Dean a giant, green rage monster, but the fact that they have twisted the canon of the Bible and made their own (where Cain didn't actually kill Able because he was jealous, but because he loved his brother and wanted to make sure that Lucifer was unable to turn him), I don't think that rage would be the emotion that would be the only the that would be there. It seems to me that there should be something of love that colors the actions of whoever uses the Blade, since love is what sent Cain down the path he ended up going down. Sure, anger would be there as well ... he would have had to've become angry with what Lucifer did and all of the things he had been asked to do, but there had to be a subtle coloring of love in there as well (at least, that's the way it seems to me).

I'm glad that Crowley took the Blade away from the boys. They seem to have acquired a few too many Super Weapons (the Colt, Ruby's knife, an angel blade, all of the junk that they have in the bunker ...), and to give them just one more Super Weapon ... it still seems unlikely to me that they would have gained so many; there have to be other people who have gained Super Weapons. They aren't the only hunters around. And even if they're special (being the "perfect" vessels for Lucifer and Michael), we still don't know exactly what makes them special ... the writers have still not explained what it is that makes certain people capable of being vessels for angels. It has to be something in their DNA, but what it can be ... I would really like to know. I previously thought that it might be because they were descendants of angels, but when Cas killed the one Nephelim, the way they explained things when she was around, it seemed like he would have recognized if the boys were descendants of angels (or if that was something that was a requisite for someone being a vessel). But really, seeing as how angels are really only spiritual beings (and aren't actually physical beings), it doesn't seem possible for there to be Nephelim in the first place (what with them needing to have physical bodies to be able to have sex and pass on DNA, and since they would only be able to possess a human, it would be the human's DNA which would be passed on, not theirs'). Oh, the curse of the INTJ brain that makes me want to make sense of this sort of thing.

'#THINMAN' -- SPN 9x15

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I have to admit that after watching this episode, I've been struck with the desire to use #THINMAN on pretty much everything now ... but especially on things that have nothing to do with anything. This isn't to say that the stuff that happened in the episode wasn't completely tired, cuz it was.

What made the tiredness of this episode kind of worse than what the others have been recently is that not only are we now getting all of the same old stuff from Sam and Dean that we have always been getting, but now we're getting it from the Ghostfacers as well. So, now, the stupidity has grown so large and over-bloated that it has started eating itself. If there was anything that needed to be given to us as in micro, it wouldn't be the boys' inability to let things go.

I was also rather disappointed that this one didn't turn out to be a real ghost. Sure, my brain went right back to the "Hell House" episode (and the Tulpa that was used to create Mordechai Murdoch), and if they had done something similar to #THINMAN as they did with Mordechai, I'm sure that I would have been bitching about that (and how the writers were doing the same thing with this ghost as they did with the one that was there when we first met with the Ghostfacers). The writers of Show just can't win with me, and that's a fact. lol But at least I'm aware of it, right?

There were a couple of things that bothered me about this episode. It kind of bothers me that Harry and Ed are constantly saying each other's names when they're speaking to each other. At some point, wouldn't you stop saying someone's name if you're speaking directly to them, and there's no one else in on the conversation (and really, no one else even around you)? The fact that they keep doing it gets kind of annoying after a while, but maybe the writers have the do it cuz the two of them are overly dramatic and giant douches ... and they have the impression that this is what giant douches do when they're talking to each other? Maybe ... I don't know.

The other thing was the way that #THINMAN moved. When the girl at the beginning of the episode was in her room (I can't remember her name right now, and I don't really feel like going to look for it), she saw #THINMAN standing right behind her; then, she went into the closet (cuz that's what you do when there's a crazy in the house with you ... you don't try to get out of the room, or out of the house, you go into the closet with the flimsy doors that will keep the crazy out), and #THINMAN was standing behind and to the right of her. I call bullshit on that. There's no way that dude that was pretending to be #THINMAN would have been able to get in there and behind her without her noticing that he was there ... not unless she was incredibly stupid. Yes, yes, I realize that this is one of the instances in which Andreth would have been reminding me that this is genre television, and I shouldn't be expecting too much out of it making sense, but hot damn it would be nice to have.

It would also be nice if this was the last episode with the Ghostfacers. I will completely admit to being amused by them via season one, but by their second appearance they were already getting rather tiresome. But perhaps there is hope now that they have become nothing more than a trope of the boys' feelings for each other.

'Captives' -- SPN 9x14

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On one level, I was glad to get some kind of closure with Kevin (especially considering how the writers went about killing him off), and I was glad to find out that Mama Tran was really alive (like I always thought that she was), and I was glad to have Kevin yell at the boys for being complete idiots, but ... this episode was wrapped up a little too nicely in some ways. Yes, I realize that I complain if they go too far one way, and I complain if they go too far the other way, but the thing of it is that I've just gotten so tired of this show ... and I can't walk away at this point (I've been in too long). In my head, Kevin and his mom have gone off to live a quiet life together, where they will never be bothered again (cuz Kevin is dead and no longer the prophet, and there's no reason for anyone to bother them anymore), and that's just a little too much of the good things happening to them for me. THIS SHOW IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALL ABOUT THE PAINS!!

But I guess the boys have enough of the pains for everyone, right? And I guess that Sam has reason to be butthurt with Dean ... and Dean is the king of trying to pretend like everything is ok, when it's really not. But damn, I would love it if the two of them would just get over their stuff already, cuz it's beyond old at this point.

I don't see why people aren't more curious about where Crowley is (fandom may be, but I don't venture into that place since it's dark and scary in there). It seems like they should be more worried about the fact that he has jumped ship and is probably planning something ... of course, that would be par for the course with him, except for the fact that he's probably found the first blade at this point. Even if he wouldn't be able to use it the way that he would want to, I don't see him not trying to do something with it before he comes to Dean and throws the thing at his feet (probably all bent out of shape over the fact that it wouldn't work for him the way that he wanted it to).

I get the feeling that the writers probably aren't going to bring him back with the first blade until the end of the season, however, and it will probably coincide with Cas meeting up with Metatron and Gadreel. It would probably be too much to hope for that the meetings would happen in the same place and Dean would be able to use the first blade on Metatron (and Sam use it on Gadreel, even if the guy is more of a schmuck than evil). Doing that would at least get rid of Metatron once and for all, and I won't be sad to see him go (especially since he isn't the culmination of awesome that I was hoping that he would be).

And despite the fact that it would probably be more awesome than I would be able to handle, I'm not holding my breath on being able to encounter Cain again. He was far too much awesome for this show to keep coming back to (the writers are far too happy with rehashing the same old sucky drivel that they've been giving to us for years to come back to something that was a gem in mountain of mediocrity).

'Sharp Teeth' -- SPN 9x12

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I do appreciate the use of Ragnarök in this episode (especially with it happening on February 22, 2014 ... oh, I have a feeling that I'm going to have a great time on that day), but two things:

1) It's Fenrir ... not Fenris. Sure, Encyclopedia Mythica does show "Fenris" as an alternate spelling, but I have never seen that spelling actually used (whether that's in any of the dorky places that I've gone to do a little bit of academic research, or when actually reading things that have been written by people that currently follow any of the variations of Germanic Neo-Paganism, and yes, there are different "denominations").

2) Where the hell is Mjölnir? We know that the boys were in position of it at one point, and that Sam even used it (even though that would have been completely impossible for him to do without the gloves and belt that are necessary for even Thor to use it). So, where is it? I suppose that we can headcanon that it's inside the bunker somewhere (warded so that angels, demons, and Norse gods can't try to snatch it. And I would have loved to've seen them drive the Impala with it in the trunk, having the tail end of the car dragging as they went, but what with Show's redconning folklore and mythology in such a way that doesn't always look like they did their research, I don't think that would have happened), but for all we know, they just left it where they found it ... which would have been a stupid, rookie move on their part.

But both of those things being said, I do like the idea of Fenrir being a god to werewolves/lycanthropes. Who else would werewolves worship but a wolf? And it makes it even better that he's one of Loki's kids. Never mind that he's not actually a god, but just a super wolf that's the son of two Frost Giants; but the fact that he's supposed to take out Odin (amongst others) does make him rather formidable.

I'm not really getting the change in Dean in this episode. He's kind of gone back to the character that he was in the first couple of seasons (the shoot first guy). But after the whole thing with Benny, he really seemed to have changed, and realized that not all the monsters are really bad. Sure, he thought that something hinky was going on (and the fact that Garth is so gullible probably didn't help), but he went in wanting to kill things before he realized that there as anything going on. Maybe he was feeling protective of Garth? But that wasn't really established. Or maybe he's still kind of reeling from what's happened between him and Sam ... that might be the more likely.

Having Sam reference Ichabod Crane when trying to find Garth, I'm not sure that that would have happened if "Sleepy Hollow" hadn't become so popular (and since the fanbase of that show is probably largely made up of people who also watch SPN ...). But then, the writers on Show have consistently shown that they are at least partially aware of the crazy things that the fanbase is up to, so that was probably a bit of fanservice on their part.

I am glad that Sam saw the Mark of Cain and that Dean was forced to come clean with what had happened. I'm so very tired of there being lies between them all the time, and it would be nice if they were honest with each other for a while. But speaking of the Mark of Cain ... I wonder just how long it's going to take Crowley to find the First Blade. I don't want it to be too quickly, since that would seem unrealistic (which, I realize that this isn't a realistic show, but still), but I also don't want it to be right before they need it in the finale or something. That would just be dumb.

'First Born' -- SPN 9x11

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Timothy Omundson was amazing. AMAZING!! I completely loved him as Cain (and loved the inclusion of twisty Cain & Abel story). And I was kind of embarrassed by just how long it took me to remember what else I had seen him in before (as in Eli from "Xena," the psychic from Starship Trooper, and a really horrible Disney film that I'm not going to admit to watching), but when I went looking for his IMDB page, and I had a serious case of facepalm, and an "oh, yeah, duh."

I think that this may be the twisty of the religious stories that I may like the best ... mostly it may come from it not completely sucking (like so many other of the twistings that they've done), and just how well Timothy Omundson did with the character. I did rather enjoy the idea of Cain just being tired of everything and not wanting to get involved with everything much more than I like the idea of Metatron hiding out on Earth all this time. In a way, the two of them were doing kind of the same thing (in that they were hiding, cuz they didn't want to have people come looking for them, and they just wanted to be left alone), but the reasons behind what they were doing struck me as being very different (where one was tired of all of the killing and hate and the war, and the other was hiding out cuz he was too afraid to poke his head out).

I even like the twist despite the fact that the writers were very obviously putting in a parallel between the brothers (wherein Cain = Dean and Abel = Sam). I'm not a fan of one-to-one correlations or allegory, and typically this sort of thing would annoy me for the tiredness of what they keep trying to do with the brothers (since it's the same thing that they've been doing for years), but I'll admit again that a big part of the pass that they got on this episode had to do with the acting of the guest star, and the way that he was able to portray just how weary Cain was of the fighting. I probably shouldn't be so sympathetic toward a demon, but I am (after all, he was a complete woobie, and he needed to have a bit of a snuggle).

As far as Dean getting the Mark of Cain (and being able to use the First Blade to be able to kill Abaddon), I suspect that no good is going to come of that, and it strikes me as just one more way in which the Winchester boys are willing to throw themselves into Hell for no reason whatsoever. And the fact that now have it (cuz I'm sure that Crowley is going to be able to grab it out of the bottom of the ocean), it feels like we're getting just one more thing that is a super weapon (like Ruby's knife, the Colt, or the Angel Blades), and the fact that we're getting one more super weapon is getting really old (and feels a whole lot like they're cheating. Don't have a way to kill a super unkillable demon? Invent a new weapon that will do the job).

So, yeah, overall, the episode gets a pass cuz of the guest star, but not for the new weapon.

'Road Trip' -- SPN 9x10

The more that this show goes on, the more that I wish that something would just happen that would make sure that it never comes back again. Never. It still had it's problems in the beginning, but I'm going to stand by my previous assertions that this series was its best in seasons one and two, and it's gotten progressively shittier as time has gone by. That was the only time when Show felt like the writers knew what the hell they were doing, and ever since then, they haven't known what the hell is happening (or have any real idea of where to go with the next season, let alone the next episode).

What makes it even more tired is that there tropes that the writers seem bent on doing every single season as though the whole world depends on it happening (like one of the boys dying and going to Hell (or the Lu's cage) at the end of each season, the two of them not talking about the things that are pissing them off, getting so pissed off with each other that they finally end up having a fight around mid-season (sometimes with their fists, sometimes with their words ... which aren't many, let's be honest), and one of them ends up bailing on the other after the fight). It's getting tired and old ... as though the writers don't care anymore, and that makes me not want to care anymore.

And the idea that could make this all better for me (or at least somewhat better for me), is if I try to headcanon the show and say that one or both of them is dead, and everything that we're seeing in show is them continuing to play out these scenes, believing that they are real. I think either way that I try to headcanon this, it's going to rest on this being the delusion of Dean, but I can see this going one of two ways.

1) He never made it out of Hell between seasons three and four, so he had to come up with something to protect his mind. His answer? An angel (the very kind of being that his mother told him was watching over him when he was a child) pulled him out of the Pit, and he's been doing whatever he can to live up to the quest that his father gave to him when he was four: protect Sammy. Except, since he's still in Hell, a bit of the despair and brimstone creep into his dreams; so, things aren't as good between him and Sam as they were in seasons one and two (and at this point, those are looking like the good ol' days. Anyone remember the prank war? Yeah, me, too), and since he's in the Pit, he isn't able to have any real character growth, and things between him and Sam are in this never ending loop of bitterness, death (of them and the people that they love), and suck. It's that, or this is all part of how the demons have decided that they're going to torture him; make him think that he's managed to escape from them, only to find that his relationship with Sam can never go back to what it was before. That's why it feels like the seasons are repeating themselves.

2) He had a psychotic break sometime after the fire killed Mary, and since then, he's been trying to come to terms with watching the house burn down and knowing that she was inside (something that wasn't helped by John). So, he's been trying to come to terms with the fact that she's gone, and that's why he keeps coming back to his parents when they were young, trying to warn her of what was about to happen so that his life could go back to the way that it should have been, or else living out his life as though she were really alive (like with the first Djinn episode). Maybe the probably came down to the fact that he started the fire, cuz he was four and no one was watching him, and he was playing with a lighter (or matches, or whatever). And he was inside Sam's room when he did it (maybe he had gotten up to get a drink and wandered into his brother's room, cuz Sam made some noise), which led to a mountain of guilt and an imperative that he Must Always Protect Sammy.

That's it. Headcanoned.

It's not going to make me not want to reach through the TV and smack someone (whether the actors or the writers), but it will maybe at least help my brain from becoming a gooey mess on the wall.

'Holy Terror' -- SPN 9x09

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Fuck you, Show. Why do you keep taking people away from me? LEAVE THE SECONDARY CHARACTERS ALONE!! I don't know why the writers of Show keep wanting to hurt me, but they do. They want to rip out my insides, and instead of walking away from the abusive relationship like any rational person would, I keep coming back and telling them that I would like to have another.

The feels are threatening to destroy me. I didn't expect that I would have such feels over the guy, but I do, and I want something awful to happen to Gadriel ... something awful bad like whoa.

However, I will say that I did let out a slight squee when it was reveled that we have actually been dealing with Gadriel all of this time, but that comes from the fact that I have used Gadriel in the first book of the series that I'm currently writing (and it was kind of cool to see someone else use him as well).

That being said, I do not like the fact that he was being used by Metatron to do his dirty work (now that he's not able to use Cas anymore), cuz now that we know a little bit more about what's going on with Gadriel, it seems like he's actually not a bad guy (and that he's being manipulated by Metatron to do his evil bidding). I get the feeling that he wouldn't have done what he did, and he wouldn't be doing anything else in the near future cuz of Metatron if he wasn't so desperate for the other angels to forgive him for what he thinks that he did. It's a bogus wrap, since it seems to me that he was destined to fail, but he's been carrying this weight on his shoulders for all of these years, and Metatron is completely using that to his advantage (cuz he's a bastard).

I would love, love, love if Cas was able to take back what Gadriel did, but I doubt that it's going to happen. There's already been so much of that this season that I have the feeling that the writers are going to make this one stick just to make it that much more gut wrenching (which makes me hate and love them). But now that it has happened, I want to know who is going to take Kevin's place, and if s/he is going to be someone who is going to be down with the Winchesters. It was kind of luck (in a way) that Kevin became an honorary Winchester (both in his mind and in their minds), but that doesn't mean that it's going to happen that way with someone else.

And you know what else, this would also be kind of a perfect time for them to actually explore what the hell happened with Chuck. Cas mentioned it once last season (it was last season, right?), and it hasn't been mentioned since. I'm really surprised that it hasn't bothered them at all, since they were buddies with him, and they know something would have had to've happened to him for Kevin to get tapped for his duties.

Also, speaking of Cas ... him taking Theo's grace and becoming an angel again ... you know what I would absolutely love? If we come to find out that angels can only ever really function with their own grace, and if they take someone else's, it's not only like trying to make something fit inside a container that is too small and the wrong size, it will eventually lead to angel goo all over all of the walls. I want this to only be a temporary fix, and he will eventually have to get back his own grace from Metatron to be right and whole (and a real boy).

'Rock and a Hard Place' -- SPN 9x08

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The more that we have something to do with Ezekiel, the more that I think that there's something really wrong with him. I know that he says that Sam isn't ready to hear that he has an angel living inside of him, and maybe he has some special beat on what Sam is and isn't ready to hear (cuz he can hear Sam's thoughts, or something), but the fact that he got in the way of Dean finally telling him what is going on made me not like him even more. I am quite sure that Sam isn't going to be ok with what's been happening since the end of last season, but he should know what's going on ... especially if there is something wrong with him now (seeing as how he says that he can't "charge his battery" anymore. That could be nothing (as in it taking longer for Ezekiel to make him feel ok after doing stuff), or it could be really important (like Ezekiel is trying to zap all of the power away from Sam and leave him as nothing more than a husk on the ground of some truck stop somewhere). And the more time that goes on, the more I keep thinking that they need to get rid of Ezekiel. Pronto. Despite of how badly Sam might be doing, cuz I think that it'll be better to get rid of him sooner (rather than later). This whole thing with him using Sam as a suit is going to end badly; I'm sure of it. And it won't just be bad for Sam either. It's going to be bad for the entire gang. Maybe not for Crowley, since I have the feeling that he's a survivor, and he'll be able to use whatever mess falls down around him to his own advantage.

And having Dean get someone to break her vow of chastity ... come. on. Isn't that trope a little bit tired by now. Yes, we realize that Dean is a complete horndog, but we also know that he is completely capable of being the loyal boyfriend. Can we at least keep a little bit of the loyal boyfriend in there, since the boys have seemed to swap the places that they had when we first met them? To keep running that into the ground that Dean will make a pass at anything with boobs is beyond old at this point (and I would love to see it die off ... but I will also admit that that may be just me and my desire for some actual plot).

Also, I can understand them bringing in Zeus, Artemis, Prometheus, and Osiris ... but Vesta? She isn't exactly one of the big name pagan gods, and it would almost seem like the writers were scraping the barrel a bit to bring her on board. The others (from the Greek/Roman or Egyptian pantheons) were at least relevant for the overall story arch, but bringing in the goddess of the hearth and virginity ... not so much (especially when they only focused on the virginity part of it). If the writers had decided that they wanted to do something with Vesta in relation to the fact that the boys have now found a place that is their home, after never really having a home before the bunker, that would have made more sense; even more so if they also put into play the fact that Dean made such a big deal to Kevin that they're all family now (and no one gets left behind), and then, Dean kicked Cas out cuz Ezekiel is a possessive freak.

I don't know so much anymore why I keep watching this show, but it's like a bad habit that I can't quite shake off yet.

'Bad Boys' -- SPN 9x07

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Soooo ... Dean went to live in a boys' home for a couple of months (and it was the best time of his life). Oooookay. If that had been the case before three seconds ago, I don't see why he would have been such a Debbie Downer on Sam for running away (any of the times that he has), when he should then have an idea of how nice it could be not having to live the life of a hunter ... and he supposedly knew it before he started playing house with Ben and Lisa. Sure, he went back to the life cuz of the unhealthy relationship that he has with his family, and the fact that he always feels like he needs to take care of Sam, but that doesn't mean that he shouldn't have known what it was like to not have that whole life hanging over his head for a little while (and that doesn't mean that he had to be a dick about the whole thing).

Yeah, I realize that this whole thing is my INTJ brain trying to make sense of genre television, where there really is no sense, but I can't help wanting it to!! It would be great if there was any kind of consistency within the seasons (especially the seasons since Kripke left. I never would have thought that I would be saying good things about Kripke (seeing as how he always struck me as being somewhat of a baby), but at least there was some kind of consistency when it came to the first five seasons ... something that has been lost since he left. But then, back then, there at least seemed to be something of a goal (first with YED, and then, with Lucifer). But then, this season has pretty much run off the rails, so it's not as though I'm completely surprised about the fact that I want the episodes to be something that I can wrap my hands around the shoulders of so that I can shake the hell out of them.

I'm also kind of surprised that Sam seemed to naïve about where Dean was at that point, seeing as how he has been in the hunter's life all of his life, and he knows how his dad operated (as well as the fact that Dean was always a good little soldier when they were younger (and would have done anything that Papa had told him to, even lie to Sam)). He has always been billed as the smart one, so it would seem like he should have been able to notice the signs of Papa and Dean trying to pull a fast one over on him; he didn't always seem to notice it when they were kids, but then, at some point in his tween years, he seemed to grow out of trusting everything that was told to him. And he doesn't seem to be pushing too much into what Dean is keeping from him right now, but I'm handwaving that as maybe Ezekiel is keeping his suspicions from coming to the surface (and getting him to scream at Dean that he knows that there's something going on, and he better tell him what it is, damn it).

Speaking of Sam and Ezekiel (and figuring out that he's possessed by an angel), when exactly are we going to have Sam start to figure out that there is something going on? I mean, really? Come. on. In previous seasons, he would have already started throwing all kinds of bitchface at Dean by now.

'Heaven Can't Wait' -- SPN 9x06

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The writers are getting even more sloppy with this ... not that I'm really surprised, since they've seemed to be sloppy pretty much with every episode this season. The whole thing with Cas and his manager ... it was far too obvious that there was a misunderstanding there, and that she wasn't actually asking him out (even though that's what he thought was going on). The fact that she didn't actually say what was happening, and that she just asking him to come over at around 7 (and that he assumed what she was talking about) made it kind of clear that he had misunderstood her. And it bothered me about that character that she asked him to come over and didn't clarify that she wanted him to take care of her baby, cuz she never once said that she was actually a mom and that there was an infant at home that he would be watching. What kind of mother asks someone to watch her infant while she goes out on a date, but doesn't actually tell the person that they will be babysitting a six month old? That screams of irresponsibility to me.

Even more with the lies between Sam and Dean, and I don't see how Sam isn't yelling at Dean yet that he needs to have some answers as to why his brother is acting all cagy (cuz let's face it, Dean has been acting fishy around Sam all season. At some point, Sam should have been demanding some kind of answers). Sure, he asked why Dean said "Zeke" during the Oz episode, but that's as far as we've really gotten, and Sam has to be more suspicious than that about what's going on, especially when there was a genuine case, and Dean is going it alone (which they keep saying is a huge no-no).

It was good to be able to actually see Kevin again, cuz it almost seemed like the writers were going to shove him off somewhere and not have him interact with the boys for a while (even though that probably wasn't the case ... it was probably more to do with availability of the actor). But the fact that Kevin is letting Crowley get to him, even though he has to know that Crowley is fucking with him is kind of disappointing. But then, I suppose that something like that would probably happen in the real world (not necessarily where someone lets a demon fuck with their minds, but that they let someone fuck with their minds, even though they know what's going on).

I'm still not sure how Crowley would have been able to get ahold of that syringe of Kevin's blood without someone noticing what was going on, since it wasn't as though Kevin and Sam weren't paying attention. But I am curious as to what was going on with Crowley mainlining Kevin's blood, cuz there has to be something to that (more than just the creep factor). I'm really hoping that they aren't going to do a reversal of Sam going all vampire with Ruby's blood (and yes, it still irritates me to no end that the writers keep saying that Sam was addicted to demon blood, since demons don't have blood, and he was just drinking the blood of her host).

'Dog Dean Afternoon' -- SPN 9x05

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Another episode where it felt like the show was running of the rails. It seemed a little bit too Turner and Hooch for me ... and not necessarily in a good way. More in the way where it comes off super corny, and it can't really keep you entertained with the whole thing.

The thing is that there have been episodes that have been super silly in the past, and they managed to at least keep me somewhat entertained with what was going on (Sam doing a commercial saying that he has the clap, that never gets old). But having Dean mind meld with a dog ... not really as entertaining as it could have been (and more something that feels like it has been run into the ground, in the "Dean is a such a dog" sort of way).

So far, it really feels as though this season has been dumbed down from the previous seasons, which is saying a lot when it's been kind of dumbed down for a while now. I'm still kind of romanticizing the YED years in my head, even while I know that they weren't perfect, but they were at least closer to what Show could have been than what all of this noise has become.

But it's coming even closer to either Sam finding out, or Dean telling him that Zeke is feeling him from the inside. There have been way too many near misses so far ... to the point where it's getting stupid ... where Sam should have been able to figure things out by now since he's not a stupid boy. And the fact that the boys have been tap dancing all over the line when it comes to Dean having a secret and Sam not knowing what it was isn't being handled as well as it could have been. So far, there has been no ZOMG! moments of Sam almost finding out. Sure, he's almost found out a few times, but it hasn't been anything where it created tension. At most, it created a shoulder shrug and that was all there was.

And the way that they keep using Zeke to heal him (or do some kind of super zonk that only an angel can do) is getting out of control. They are using him far too much, and it's going on overkill now. If they actually spread out the times when he did something, that would be one thing, but they use him every time that someone stubs their toe. It's getting to the point where I'm wanting something horrible to happen so that there would be no way for Zeke to be able to fix everything; Sam finds out what's going on; and the boys are royally boned (to the point where they both die cuz of it). Is it becoming evident that I've lost interest in Show?

'Slumber Party' -- SPN 9x04

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I wasn't overly thrilled with this episode, cuz it felt very much like the writers went off the rails to the point that they are no longer giving a shit about what they're putting into canon. I have come across people who liked this episode, but the fact that they were using a land that came out of a series of books, it felt a little too much like they were tapping into that show "Once Upon a Time" ... which I have issues with as well. In theory, the idea that you would be able to unlock alternate dimensions (and ones that are from fairy tales) is something that you would think would normally attract me to a book or show, but it doesn't in this case (and when it comes to "Once Upon a Time," it's more a case of sloppy writing that I have an issue with). If the show had been set up to where this sort of thing was possible, I don't think that I'd have an issue with Oz being a real place, or Charlie going there. But the way that Show has been set up, it's based in our world, and even if they are able to mess about with time a bit, there is only going back or forward (without going sideways). But to add in the idea that Oz is a real place within this universe, and that there is a possible way for people to go there (and to come back from there), it opens up the possibility that they would be able to put in whatever alternate dimensions that they want where the lands are based on children's books or fairy tales. And really, it strikes me as being kind of a knock off of "Once Upon a Time" that they went this way (and if they're going to do a knock off of another show, wouldn't it make more sense to do it of a show that at least has something in common with Show? Like "Grimm" or "Sleepy Hollow").

What also may make me slightly upset with the whole thing of using the Oz books as a backdrop for this episode is the fact that they didn't get their details straight. Sure, there's going to be a bit of interpretation, but the premise was that Baum used the books as a way to give clues to Dorothy, and one of them was the shoes ... except that in the book, the shoes weren't red (let alone stilettos, since Dorothy was all of like eight in the book). In the book, the shoes were silver, and if Charlie had really read the books (and was as much of a nerd about them as she claimed), she would have known that. And I might have been ok with the writers changing a bit about Baum's life (like that he even had a daughter and the Oz stories were a guide for her), but what is it with show and turning all of the dads into shitty and/or absentee fathers? The heavy handed daddy issues that Show has been running with since day one is something that I could really do without (and would be more than happy to see go).

I have the feeling that everything's going to explode in Dean's face pretty soon. It's not just that Sam heard him call for Zeke when he came into the room, it's also the fact that Sam has started questioning Dean about Cas leaving (which I still think was stupid and makes Zeke look even more shifty, since the bunker is protected against every fucking thing, so they all should have been safe in there even with Cas there and all of the angels in Creation looking for him). Dean's going to have to either think a little more quickly on his feet (since he isn't lying very well when it comes to this), and hope to Hell that no one spills the beans about what is actually going on with certain aspects of the things that he's lying to Sam about (like Sam coming into contact with Cas, and Cas telling him why he actually left).

Also with the keeping people inside the safe zone: if Dean's going to tell Kevin that being in the bunker is the safest place for him to be, maybe getting him outside of the bunker (even if it's to let him clear his head) might not be the wisest plan (since up to now, the bunker is the only place that we have seen that no one has been able to break into, and anyone that's there had to be either brought there, or given "permission" to be there (which is how I see the boys being able to get in, since they were given the key by one of the last Men of Letters)). Knowing that Crowley is so close probably isn't the best thing for Kevin, but with all of the angels running around and wanting mess some shit up, and a Knight of Hell running around wanting to fuck some stuff up ... the bunker is the safest place for the Prophet to be. I did see somewhere where someone suggested that Zeke might have put the idea into Dean's head to "give Kevin a break" somewhere far away from them, which would make Zeke even more shifty (since it would mean that he's slowly trying to isolate the boys from everyone else, but especially from their family and friends (and anyone else who would be able to help them get rid of him, or stop him from whatever shifty plan he has in mind)).

So, Dean's going to have to think of a lie that is a bit more convincing than anything that he's been saying now to explain why Cas and Kevin aren't in the safest place that they could be. And he's going to have to think of some better lies as to why there's an angel in the bunker (when there shouldn't be, to Sam's knowledge), once Sam figures out how to get the angel locater working ... and we all should know by now that he's going to be able to get that fixed in the relatively near future. But, really, I don't see why he isn't already asking about Cas and Kevin, and isn't already suspicious about what's going on there.

Did anyone else think that scene where Sam, Dean, and Charlie finished watching season one of "Game of Thrones" was a bit awkward? Jared's delivery seemed a bit ... off when he was saying that he reads books without pictures. Maybe it was intentional? Maybe we're supposed to be thinking tat Sam isn't as good as we think that he should be with an angel inside of him helping him get on the mend (they've already had Dean give Sam the stink eye when Sam said that he'd never felt better).

Also, speaking of Zeke feeling Sam from the inside ... have I brainfarted when it comes to Angel's taking over human bodies? Cuz I can't remember anyone else having the glowie blue eyes the way that he does, which is making me think that there might be something significant about him. But there also might not be, since they still haven't explained why Crowley has red smoke, when all the other demons have black.

'I'm No Angel' -- SPN 9x03

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So, I guess that Cas is no longer afraid of boobies. Our little boy is growing up!! And one day soon, he'll become a hedonistic hippie who is stoned all of the time (and Chuck will warn Dean that he needs to covet the TP).

This episode has me even more suspicious of Ezekiel than before. We just had an episode where Dean was yelling at Kevin about how the boys and Kevin and Cas are family (and how families stick together and look after each other), and now, Dean is telling Cas that he needs to move it the fuck along. While Ezekiel may have completely innocent reasons for telling Dean that they need to get rid of the angel that is actually part of their little family, it makes me not trust him. Yes, Bartholomew's crew is going to keep looking for Cas, and it may be possible that they might find him (and the bunker, and Ezekiel), that doesn't mean that they are going to be able to get inside of the bunker (even if a rogue reaper managed to find Cas despite his Enochian tat). And yes, it's true that they would have to come up with a really good reason to keep Sam inside of the bunker ... which probably wouldn't work, and they'd probably have to tell him what was actually going on (which wouldn't go well). But it still comes down to the fact that the guy is family now ... and far more vulnerable than he has ever been before.

And what makes it even worse was the look on Cas's face when Dean said that he had to leave. You could tell that he had been more relieved than he had had the words for when he realized that he was safe, he was home, his family was there, and there was food. And to be shoved back out into the cold and the dark, going back on the run and not knowing where his next meal was going to come from or where he was going to sleep (or if one of the angels (or any of the bounty hunters that they would send after him) would find him and kill him while he was sleeping) was not only frightening, but also completely heartbreaking. I can understand why Dean did it ... Sam has always been his priority, and if he thinks that he is doing the right thing to make sure that Sam is safe, he's likely to shank anyone that he has to ... but it still doesn't sit well with me for all of the reasons that I've said. When Sam finds out what's going on (and I'm 100% sure that he's going to find out), I really hope that he kicks Dean's ass, and I'm not even sorry.

What is it with Ezekiel that makes him not want the others to find him? What exactly did he do? Could he have been part of Naomi's group at some point, and he knows that Bartholomew would want to kick his ass for whatever it was that he probably did? Or could there be something more that's going on? I would love to be able to think that there is something more going on here, but I've been Kripke'd so many times with this show that I have a hard time believing that there would be anything awesomely huge that happened behind the scenes (and which would make me go back to loving the show like I did in the beginning). It'll probably end up being something completely pedestrian ... like him being part of Naomi's department and pissing them off so that they will never forgive him.

'Devil May Care' -- SPN 9x02

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Finally, someone saying something that I've been thinking when it comes to Mama Tran ... we never saw her body, and all we have is Crowley's word from when he was messing with Kevin's mind that she was dead in the first place. Sure, it's Crowley saying that there was something fishy going on originally, and he is more than likely only messing with Kevin's mind again, but that doesn't mean that what he's saying couldn't have a tone of truth to it. Since we have never seen a body, and no one has gone looking for her, we don't know for sure that she isn't alive somewhere. She very well might be, since she might have come looking for Kevin at this point ... but she might have also stayed away cuz she thought that it was the right thing for her to do.

And I don't see how the boys would have thought that something hinky wasn't going to happen when they left Crowley in the bunker with Kevin, and they went off. Sure, they weren't going to help their friends, but they had to realize that it probably wasn't a good idea to leave Kevin alone there with the guy that tortured him. At some point, he was going to want to take some kind of revenge, even if it wasn't necessarily right then.

Also, the fact that Crowley is giving up names now ... there is something fishy about that. Kevin did not hurt him or scare him enough to make him want to give away anything. It may be nothing more than Crowley not wanting to be caught in such a pickle when Abaddon comes calling. She isn't likely to get into the Devil's Trap herself, but she would probably send someone else in there to dispatch him while he's otherwise disposed. It might be another demon, one who would be able to at least move around within the Trap since they wouldn't be handcuffed (even if she would probably leave whoever it was in there once the dead was done); or she could always try to get someone else to do the work for her ... whether it's a human that she is able to trick, or some other kind of monster that won't be effected by the Trap. But I get the feeling that he realizes that she's gunning for him, and the more demons that he gets out of the way, the less likely it is that someone will come for him ... even if he couldn't possibly know for sure who might be coming.

It seemed like we were supposed to think that there was some kind of significance to the fact that the bar was burned when Dean grabbed his duffel ... burned almost the same way that we see the burning that is left behind by the angels. I'm not sure if we're supposed to think that Ezekiel isn't exactly who he claims to be, or if the people that Abaddon isn't using who we might suspect that she would have (at least not in all cases). It seems more likely that we are supposed to think that there is something going on with Ezekiel and be worried about the fact that he's running around in Sam's head (especially after we were supposed to be suspicious about the fact that Sam is happy ... since the default position of the boys is misery and lying about it). I am not entirely convinced at this point that we really have a reason to be suspicious about Ezekiel, but it's very obvious that the writers want us to think that there is a reason. I would really love it if there was all sorts of suspicious bitch!face from Dean when it comes to Ezekiel, but when it comes right down to it, we find out that there was nothing to be afraid of to begin with. I'm not going to be holding my breath on that one, but it's at least something to hope for.