I like this. I am sort of wondering how Dean Cain (Dean Cained?) will factor into the Angel melee.

Funny, I've been kicking around with the idea of dropping it as well. I've actually enjoyed the season for the most part, but I've been increasingly unimpressed since Meta Fiction (although I liked the Jody/vamps one) - and I've just been sort of thinking that I might just take a break and Netflix it next summer/fall.

Interesting thanks. I've seen (and participated) in spec that they'll be enemies by the end of the season, or else Dean goes full evil with Sam trying to save him, with a Winchester vs. Winchester battle for S10.

Oh, I hadn't heard anything. Is that an actual Jensen reference about the finale?

Well, I like the actress and wish she'd stay around. But if Abaddon isn't dead, they better have a good reason for why she could survive the knife when no other demons/knights could previously.

I don't even remember offhand, how they perma-kill demons. I thought that's what the selling point of the blade was, though? I'm a little hazy on the finer points of past episodes this year.

I enjoy Continuum. I've given the rest decent shots, but they are/were not for me.

To me, he got off the wall by sheer force of will and could walk over to Abaddon, so he can resist demon mojo to some extent. And he got the better of Abaddon, in the end, in order for the knife do to its thing. From where I sit, he can hold his own physically where he couldn't before (meaning with demons, he's always…

Well, then hopefully he'll be in something I'm inclined to watch. Apart from SPN, the CW ain't my bag.

I guess time will tell. I saw it as strictly coming from the mark though: right now Dean has supapowers, so (from his point of view) he doesn't need a potential hostage following him into dust-ups with supervillains.

Sadly I'm not finding anything surprising about Dean's story - so far it is all going exactly as I was expecting. It's interesting because it's a counter-point to Sam's dalliance with demons a few seasons ago, and dark Dean is a twist we haven't really seen except for dribs/drabs and him telling us about his…

I agree, I think Dean was saying Sam (or at least the Winchester tag-team), has become a tactical liability. I guess Dean's not wrong technically, but to me he's co-opted/seduced by the mark and now that his deed is done things can only go downhill for him.

I've got mixed feelings about the episode. On the one hand, the episode was good and getting rid of Abaddon with two episodes to go is an interesting move, IF they make the most of it and give us a few twists. On the other hand, I was finding the Hell War MUCH MUCH (MUCH!) more interesting than the Angel War.They…

It's about time those crazy kids got together!

Dunno, not in my tv show stable, for the most part.

Very much this. After several years of incest being the trendy go-to shocking thing in various tv shows, Bates Motel had made incest actually seem rightfully creepy again.

Thanks for the synopsis, I took off to watch Warehouse 13 so I missed most of it.

Yeah Carbonell was being a very good sport about that.

Discussion point: Bates Motel seems almost compulsively obsessed with American iconography from the mid-20th century…

To stick up for the show a bit and provide an alternate reading: