God yes. That's my fondest wish. I could totally see him as one of Sniper Tim's veteran buddies.

I really hope Jensen Ackles' post-SPN career lands him in a critically acclaimed one-hour basic cable drama; even superlative genre TV actors never get the respect they deserve.

Definitely. All my Michigan relatives sound indistinguishable from Canadians. It makes me wonder why, for a show that's filmed in Vancouver, they didn't just cast an actress with a strong Canadian accent and forgo the exaggerated Marge Gunderson schtick.

I've been rooting for a Sam-Jodie romance ever since I saw their healthy, level-headed, non-destructive chemistry in "Time After Time" back in S7.

Yes, it does. My mom let a Russian friend of hers do it some years ago. I can't remember what her complaint was — I think either a cough of a backache. It left horrible-looking red marks on her back for weeks, but they weren't painful (neither did they help her problem). They were little more than giant hickeys.

Huh. SPN writers surprise me more with what they don't pull out of their asses than with that they do.

If he really embodied the NOPD, he'd be functionally illiterate and would routinely misclassify murders in hist district to keep the numbers down.

For that matter, I was never convinced that killing Amy was necessary, either. I think Dean was anxious about his brother being too close to monsters, at least up until his year in purgatory.

I might have missed this because I had a head and stomach ache when I watched last night, but why did Dean lie to Sam about losing Garth's trail at the hospital? Did he mean for Sam to give up the search so that he could track (and, if necessary, kill) Garth on his own? Did he just not want to be around Sam?

I wonder if there's any chance that Dean would follow Cain's example and simply retire after reaching a certain level of badassery. I could see the series ending with him and Sam shucking corn and drinking beer in a cozy old farmhouse.

I'd have to go back and watch early seasons, but think all the other crossroads demons have red eyes, too.

I think it's the brawling. Very hawt.

I'm sure that's going to be Dean's little secret, assuming Cas can't sniff it out immediately. And Crowley will be his Ruby.

Surely this was A-grade material. After half a season dicking around with an angel plot that hinges on Metatron going from a conflict-averse recluse to a budding megalomaniac in a matter of months (not to mention that a lot of it was handled by the show's bottom-tier writers), this is a breath of fresh air. Best…

Is he ever not?

Yeah, he's at his best when he's playing a baddie. As normal Sam, his emotional range runs from blandly nice to mildly irritated with Dean's antics.

I have a certain fondness for mullet rock (not that it's the sole component of my musical diet), but there are some songs that even fans of the genre revile. Dean was always a bit of a metalhead, too, so cheesy power ballads are a bad fit.

I wondered the same thing about Abner. I would have thought that there would be weird burn marks on the body, not blood spatters and a slit throat. And how would a nasty, abusive vessel willingly allow himself to be possessed?

Did anyone else notice that Sam's dream had the same desaturated look that SPN's reality had for the first half of the series? I'm sure it's not a setup for a bizarre Charlie Kaufman-esque twist, but that would be kinda cool.

They could have picked a better one, though.