@FrankN.Stein: That pic made my entire day. I LOL'd for about two minutes straight.

Can this woman experience adrenaline rushes if she cannot feel fear? Those rushes aid in surviving stressful and potentially life-threatening situations.

@NotANumber: I particularly enjoyed it when Dean tried to coerce Death by holding his ring as hostage, and Death asks "You think I don't already know where you've hidden it?" As if Dean could possibly threaten the being that's eventually going to reap God!

@Annalee Newitz: I don't remember any really fun ones this season - but maybe I'm just being a huge nerd about it. I worked props and set dressing in the theatre department in college, so I might pay a little extra attention to stuff like this.

"Appointment in Samarra" really was a fantastic episode - I love it when Dean is forced to question himself. He was really taken down a peg or two when he realized that screwing around with life and death isn't as simple as he thinks it is, and the consequences were far outside his ability to perceive them.

What a fascinating essay. For me, it boils down to recognizing and respecting complexity. It may be comfortable to try to organize thought about the future into a simple, easy-to-understand sort of way, but refusing to acknowledge reality because it interferes with perception is exactly how humanity always fails. …

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That Cthulu hat is adorable/hilarious/mind-bendingly terrifying. I must have it!

@mekki: You raise an interesting question, though: how do we *know* that Grampa Sam went to Heaven when he died? I can't remember if he specified in the first episode, but he was/is a hunter, and sometimes they do bad things. Maybe he went to Hell, and Crowley raised him from there. It certainly would be more…

Those high-level corporate brain cell-outs. They're way overpaid. And those bonuses? Pssh! Ridiculous.

@mekki: mind in rewind's got it: age and experience trumps strength and power. Even if Cas is middle-management in Heaven, he's still got more experience points than Crowley. He's been a soldier for Heaven for thousands of years - he's tough enough to handle Crowley.

@mekki: What I was trying to say is that I think *Cas* is a lot older than 350 years - Lucifer knew him by name, which to me suggests that Cas was around when the shit hit the fan and Lucifer was cast out. Whatever Biblical timeline you may subscribe to, that's still a long time ago. ;)

@serenada: I'm always sympathetic to Crowley, no matter how many baby shapeshifters he threatens to slaughter or how many Alphas' heads he chops off! ;)

@serenada: By love interest, I mean "person with whom Cas constantly and inexplicably shares sexual tension that makes no sense whatsoever". The angel was sweating bullets in the brothel when Dean was trying to get him laid, and yet he has no problem watching porn or kissing a *demon*? Sure.

@DrZaius: I agree on pretty much every point. What's going to happen to the search for Purgatory now? What the hell *did* happen to all those monsters? That was incredibly vague. And something else that bothered me was that Crowley's monster prison was supposedly ultra-secure, right? So why wasn't every square…

@serenada: I didn't mind Dean being willing to work with Meg for the sake of Sam's soul so much as the writers kind of forcing her in as a possible love interest for Cas (WTF?!). And the whole "Maybe's she's not so bad, after all" vibe I was getting from this episode as a whole. Work with her, don't work with her -…

@mekki: Cas is old enough for bad-ass archangels to know him by name (Rafael, Gabriel, Lucifer) - whatever his level of power, I'm thinking he's a lot older than 350 years or so.

@serenada: I liked Ellen and Jo too much for the token protest to work for me. "Hey, remember Ellen and Jo? That was sad, right? Oh well - let's do this thing!"

@Brian Hogg: Whatever Cas' motives were, it still seems like a bad move. If Meg is really in control of Hell now, what's to stop her from dealing with Rafael? If they join forces to bust Lucifer and Michael out of the Cage, then Cas is toast (and the rest of the world). Even if Crowley wasn't exactly good or on his…

@Hotscot: Weak and creepy - why wouldn't he want his wife back, too? Go for the family deal.