It's probably not workable story-wise, but I would still like to see Abaddon/Dean hate sex. She must know what his part in the apocalypse was supposed to be, since she called him "the perfect vessel" and threatened to rip the tattoo off his flesh so as to have her way with him. Maybe she thinks it would be fun to…

I think Ezekiel may turn out to be a crutch Sam has a hard time letting go of. Also, when he and Dean were talking in the abandoned diner (Ozzy O's Diner — with Ozzy lettering, no less), they were having the sort of honest conversation about choices and consequences that Sam and Dean never do.

Nah, it was the Black Eyed Peas… or Dave Matthews… or Mumford and Sons. It's just as important to hate all the right bands as it is to like the right ones.

There have been a lot of red flags over the years, but I think the HS reunion meltdown that left him rooting around the car for his "tools" and shrieking that he was a golden god would have been the definitive wake-up call for the rest of the gang if they weren't all damaged or narcissistic themselves.

Yes. They also have vat-grown pretty, bland brunettes with thigh gaps and impossibly straight hair. Their acting ability is excised upon activation so that they don't upstage the male clones.

While black actors can achieve the requisite washboard abs and bleached teeth, they lack the hair texture necessary for the CW's signature product-spiked bangs.

Am I remembering correctly that Sam's last line in this episode is "We've got work to do"? That was the same thing Dean said at the end of the pilot, at the end of S2, and at a couple of other points. Funny that it's coming from Sam now.

@avclub-2f2b7ca7553ba4230cad836ea1125578:disqus They were a pair thematically, but why kill off Benny when he wasn't the problem? They could have sidelined him like the vastly less charismatic Amelia. I can't shake the feeling that they intended to do a lot more with Benny, what the vampire alpha's S7 promise to "See…

YMMV according to preferences, but Racist Ghost Truck does have a sex scene with Dean in it, so there is that.

It would be nice if the Emmys had a category specifically for genre TV.

I almost feel like Benny was taken away as a punishment for the audience not responding well to Amelia, as if the two were a package deal.

Crowley is the one who knocks.

Cas' vessel is probably way more damaged than the average demon's. Even if Cas could be flushed out of Jimmy (and I think they were permanently fused in S4), Jimmy would die pretty quickly.

"Good soldier" doesn't necessarily mean good across the board, and he may well have changed since Cas last saw him.

I second that. Phil is astute, but a lot of times he's more intent on grinding an axe or displaying verbal wit than just covering the material assigned to him.

The bottom half of his face also gave a fine performance in Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.

That disappointed me, too. And since when does formulaic = bad?  Supernatural in its entirety is a well-executed formula. There's nary an story in there that hasn't been told before, but the satisfaction lies in the telling, not the content.

That's what I thought and fervently hoped would be the direction they'd take going into this season. I'm a little tired of angels at this point, though last night was the most menacing they've been in seasons.

Oh, I didn't mean to overlook him. He just didn't have any scenes with the brothers in this ep.

Dean's reasons for wanting Sam to live were completely understandable, selfish, and true to character. The reason he offers for living is his own modus vivendi: keep fighting and maybe a plan will come to you. That doesn't quite work for Sam, who's done all the heavy lifting in everyone else's plans and hasn't had a…