I wish I could give this list more than one up-vote (especially the bullet about the music). I enjoyed this episode and can't figure out why other people are so down on it.

I thought the same thing. It would have been fascinating to spend even just a little bit of time in a short scene where Sam and Dean acknowledge this and lament their early hunter ignorance.

I agree. It's worrying since I'm watching largely for Dean. I wonder if Ackles gets frustrated at so many of his story lines being dropped. Purgatory and the PTSD arc were phenomenal last season—and then they just cut it out from under him. They snatch fresh stuff away so he can do repetitive Sam and Dean drama (lying…

Maybe the red smoke is just Crowley's poetry.

I did notice that—I'm jonesing for an entire episode in the old desaturated actually-done-on-real-film look.

I adore Ackles, but I think his acting is slipping a bit. He's resorting to some overacting especially in the scene in the bunker after he knocks everything over. I'm increasingly distracted by his overuse of "okay" as well. I'm still rooting for him, though.

The show needs to step away from the Bob Seger already. I'm still cringing over Katmandu…

The crossroads demon in Crossroad Blues smoked out black so I think it's just Crowley with the red hue.

I see what you're saying, but at the time he killed Hael, though, things weren't so civil war with the angels. Cas may have thought things would work out differently. In this episode he sees all the murders, the torture chambers, the two evil angels vying for rule and realizes that he has to get involved but can't do…

I know, right? Even when I saw the light burning out of Kevin's eyes my stupid stupid self thought, "maybe it's not too late—here comes Dean to the rescue—and then, oh shit, he's really dead!" (maybe it was because the last time Kevin almost died the same light burst thing happened but Metatron saved him)

I agree. What I don't like is the show being so stingy about the brothers' story line. It feels like everything else in this world right now where every product and service just keeps getting smaller and more cheaply-made. Can't our favorite fictional past time at least be more generous like it used to be? I would…

I couldn't agree more about the awful writers of this episode. They show some improvement compared to past episodes they've written but it's still weaker than a major myth-arc mid-season finale should be. In past seasons of the show the strongest writers were assigned the first, last, and mid-season episodes—so why…

Sucking the grace out of another angel must have some kind of horrible side effects or be so repugnant that Cas didn't want to do it until he felt he had no choice. If the effects are temporary then Cas may revert into some kind of angel vampire dependent on getting more grace from more angels.

I don't agree with the harsh review and grade for this episode. I enjoyed the show and thought the handling of gender issues did what they often do in this series—raise needed questions and debate. The shows we should be worried about are the ones that present gender and sexuality issues as so "normal" and like the…

I don't understand why Dean wouldn't be confiding in Cas. Even though Cas doesn't have powers he still has a ton of knowledge about angels and what they can and can't do. It seems like the first thing Dean would do is ask for Cas's help and advice on Zeke—even if Dean didn't reveal it was Sam he needed help about,…

I think Zeke was just sitting there because he was weakened by the amount of angel sigils Dean had drawn in the room. Remember, Dean had to cross out a few and then Zeke seemed better.

I would have like the sex story line better if Suzy had not regretted the sex with Dean, but instead used it as a learning experience that there's a comfortable middle ground between porn and virginity.

I, too, have to spend more time than I want to worrying about bras and I also noticed the former porn star's ill-fitting bra. Whether it was a mistake or not, I actually found it refreshing and realistic. I get tired of the over-perfect look of many of the actors on this show and shows like it. In the real world not…

I haven't read the previous discussions of this gaze theory either, sock monkey, but it's interesting that it's argued the gaze belongs to Dean. I often notice that the gaze seems directed at Dean—full body pans of Dean along with fetishized objectification of specific parts of his body (face shots, crotch shots). …

The body doesn't lie. Proof that the bathtub scene rocked the horror: was I the only one watching it that couldn't help squirming on the couch only to realize that their body was reacting to the scene viscerally by mimicking the woman in the tub trying to escape? If someone would have dropped a cloth over my head…