I didn't think it took that many cheap shots at the church group, though it certainly pointed out the silliness of exacting a pledge that most people can't keep. The only person who's portrayed in a really harsh light is the a-hole fiancé. Even the girl who trash-talks Honor isn't much more than a church busybody in…

And then there are the female characters who get sidelined or killed off because the (mostly female) fans hate them for no particularly progressive reason.

I think Honor got more development than a lot of the generic victims (male and female) on the average MotW episode. That's why I'm puzzled by the feminist denunciation of this episode in particular. I'm also confused as to why viewers would even expect groundbreaking meditations on gender in a series whose pilot…

Oops! I guess he didn't stand out enough for me to notice his death. If his was the only death, the misogyny allegations leveled at this episode still don't make any sense.

Agreed. I'm honestly baffled by all the hate this episode is getting, and I'm fully prepared for accusations of a Y chromosome for defending it.

I didn't go into this episode expecting grist for the gender studies mill, and that's not at all what I saw in it. I saw an episode that was notable because no humans die, and Sheriff Mills saves the day (and the Samsel in distress). I saw an episode that riffs on the pettiness of church groups and the hypocrisy of…

Pepperjack turducken slammers. Better than you'd think, if prepared right.

You couldn't see him in the "After School Special" flashbacks, either. It's possible JDM just wasn't available for either appearance.

In this episode, it seems like Dean's ambivalence about hunting is being retconned farther into the past than necessary. He seemed pretty unconflicted about hunting at the start of the series and liked his itinerant work. I never sensed any weariness or second thoughts until later, when it started to dawn on him that…

Only because the chronology as a whole is weird on the show. It should be a year or two ahead of 2013 by now.

I think Dean's over 35 by now. He says he's 26 in the pilot, and roughly a year elapses during each season. By the time of "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester" in early S5, Sam reminds him that he's only 30 during a bout of old man griping. Add a year for his time with Lisa and Ben, plus another for his time in…

Agreed. I don't see any evidence of a social agenda, but Fox deserves a lot of credit for taking risks on programming that the other 3 networks wouldn't have considered 20 or 25 years ago. Roc and In Living Colour definitely spring to mind as examples of unusual choices for their time, as do animation (Simpsons),…

I'm enjoying the hell out of Crowley's predicament this season — pun intended — especially this episode. I've always liked him because he stood in contrast to all the Lucifer zealots in hell. He had more interest in the status quo than the Apocalypse, likely because he was shrewd enough to realize that demons would…

I wonder if Kevin's blood has any special qualities because he's a prophet.

As far as I'm concerned, she lives. No body, no proof.

Scott may have legally been an adult, but he was pure manchild at heart, which is why Knives was a much better match.

Attractive librarians exist in the same proportion as they do in the general population, but you're never going to find Hollywood-hawt people working as librarians because it's much easier to get by on your looks than it is to earn your keep by helping ungrateful undergrads pull up three full-text articles from JSTOR…

I usually just throw a sensible shoe at whomever is pissing me off. If that doesn't work, I regale them with stories about my cats.

According to LC filing rules, hyphens and diacritics are ignored, and ampersands are the only symbol with filing value, so S. would go before Sa.

Ah, gotcha. I was reading Harmonian as "a follower of Dan Harmon". Harmony could still be a label for Dan Harmon/Sony shippers, no?