I really miss Scarlett and Gunnar singing together - they complemented each other so well. Individually, I am meh on both of them. I don't think it was a good choice to split them up. It looks like we might getting more duets out of them though, so that's nice!

It was a little strange that Stefan's default setting seems to be "dick." Does that mean his empathetic side is the facade and he's really just a monster? On that note, Elena saying "you were never a monster" was just laughable - HE RIPPED PEOPLES' HEADS OFF, ELENA. LOTS OF THEM. I like when this show laughs at itself…

Why are reapers suddenly corporeal, able to be tortured, and vulnerable to angel blades? I haven't paid super close attention to canon in recent seasons, but I don't remember any of that crap. At least when they were first introduced in season 2, reapers were only visible to the people they were there to reap, they…

I was thinking that too, that his blissed out expression with the burrito reminded me so much of where he got in The End. That bit always felt jarring to me (cults where some sort of dodgy ~spiritualism~ is used to manipulate people into orgies make me side eye hard, especially given this show's uneven-at-best…

This is an excellent point. Dean really hates lying to Sam and his awkwardness and goofiness reflect that because that's how Dean acts when he's uncomfortable. Jensen, as always, knows Dean just so darn well.

10. This is a really good point - they did a lot of work setting up how profoundly, traumatically horrible his experience in the safe was, and then with one murder, one chomp, and one blood bag, he's as good as new? Cheap!

I was confused by this too! Was that supposed to be just another reveal tossed in the mix? Huh. I mean, I suppose since Matt was swanning around Europe with an Original vampire, it wouldn't be too weird for them to hook up with a regular vampire. But yeah, that came out of the blue!

KATHERINE! Love of my life! Every second of this was exhilarating joy, but she is like a triple joy sundae. Yum yum.

Gonna have to second this one. If it had been Alyson Hannigan playing that spell I would have been captivated and probably crying. Kat has never managed to produce an emotional response in me.

How does one even start talking about this episode? It's like they wrote it Just For Me, because I have two weaknesses: