I was actually a bit perturbed that, when Henry asked how John learned to be a hunter, the boys didn't say, "Mom taught him." Dean just said something vague about the hard-knock life without a dad, losing his wife to a demon, etc. If you weren't familiar with the whole backstory, that exchange would've made Mary seem…

I love that one of the first things Henry sees when he walks out of the hotel room (and which seems to clue him in to his time jump in a really specific way) is the dad walking past with one baby in the stroller and the other one strapped to his chest. The more that is revealed about the absent fathers on Supernatural…

Moment of Unintentional Humor: when she told her husband she'd "put it behind" her, I couldn't help but mock the line by adding, "No, he put it behind you."

Or defecating in trunk.

I can see that happening. Bobby was a man of secrets and rare abilities and he had a life and contacts separate from his association with Sam and Dean. Like you say, @avclub-2f2b7ca7553ba4230cad836ea1125578:disqus , the existence of this group could've been just another bit of arcane detail and, since they seem to be…

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus - yes to that Buffy reference! Henry reminded me of Giles (and a little of the late lamented Bobby Singer). That there is a kind of Watchers' Council, analyzing the lore and setting Hunters on their path, is such a cool idea for Supernatural and one that ties it more…

That's harsh barley.

Sorry, I hadn't read your post about Hugh, but it's nice to know the wavelength is attuned. Yeah, sorry about those hyphens (someone else mentioned this above - and I've heard it from others as well).

Thank you, @avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus ! (I have heard from other people that the AVC won't let them put @ in front of my name - I think there's another poster hereabouts who goes by "Lola" without hyphens. Maybe that gums up the works. Stupid technology.) I could never write reviews as…

Sympathies. That's a meta pain in the ass.

It was awesome. In fact, I had hoped that the show would follow-up with it and let us see the cheerleaders going about some of their liberatory activities, or at least storming en masse out of the glitter-and-glue sweatshop. I wanted more!

"Does anybody notice how much fire I'm not on?" Dance of joy!

OUCH!

You're probably right and, in the current era, television (although less lucrative and splashy in the short term) is offering actors some good roles with the chance to develop characters over time - along with steady employment - and build a fan base that will likely follow them to their next project. Long-form…

Also, the sound effects were of a piece with those theme of fun (and both times were associated with Dean). First, when he informs Charley that Ed and Lance are dead, we hear a clap of thunder. Then, in that moment you mention, @olivececile:disqus , the frisbee interrupts Dean's big Braveheart moment and everything…

He is indeed a catalyst for all sorts of ladypart (and, I'm sure, manpart) daydreaming.

Actually, I agree. I thought she delivered it OK but the words were just cringe-worthy, which might've been the point. More likely, the writer just felt very writerly at that moment, striving for the quotable line. You should check out Maurice, in which he actually is gay! It works much better. No stammering, no…

I wish he'd spend his hiatuses (hiatusi? weird word) going out and being Action Guy or Comedy Guy in feature films. I know that, at one point, he was being considered for the role of Captain America. If that had worked out, who knows. But it does point to him at least being on the Hollywood radar in potentially bigger…

What's funny (if, as you say, inconsistent) about S & D being unfamiliar with the LARPing community is that it paints them as unhip oldsters, kind of in the same vein as the middle-aged sheriff. The generational divide is funny and both ironic and unfair at the same time. Sam and Dean haven't had time to be partt of…

Yes, that line was a really cool appropriation of a mainstream rom com like Notting Hill, using what weirdly became an iconic Julia Roberts quote, and flipping it generically and in terms of the love object. That skull head was uber-creepy and the reveal of it being a woman underneath was, if you think about, an…