I don't like it either. This show is supposed to take place in the Supernatural universe and by changing the lore arbitrarily they are damaging the Supernatural narrative world I know and love. If they change stuff they need to explain why.

I liked that they put Dean in the monster/killer position passed out on the floor with his eyes popping opened and suddenly springing into action. I also liked the strange blurry POV camera shots from the recovering Jody and later Sam’s weakened gaze.

It's just these experiences of being hit on that builds Dean's expectation, or perhaps lack of surprise is a better way off putting it, that many people want him. Dean seems to know people want him but he's probably insecure as to why. Even when Dean gets thrown at someone flirting he usually reveals later that he was…

I'm thinking Dean is either having current thoughts about hurting Sam that he's being careful to control or he's still traumatized about the urges he had to hurt Sam while he was holding the blade.

Dean’s soft voice and tone around Sam in the beginning of the episode is notable as is his avoidance of eye contact. Even his hesitance of turning toward Sam troubles me as those two are often such compass points for one another. All these understated actions with Dean being careful around Sam seem to suggest the…

He's even spitting which should be gross—but it isn't! Why can't I look away? Look away. Look. Away.

I love and miss the closeups too—I love how you put it "up in their grill!"

I see Dean hiding his drinking as being more a lie of omission. Sam said he didn't want to be brothers just work together and co-workers don't always reveal stuff like this to each other.

Season 10 will have to be the last if the show made a crossroads deal ten years ago…

That was so delightfully Sam—he's always getting choked so this is smart Sam working around it.

Now that we know Crowley has some horrible plan hatching, though, his "affections" for Dean reveal themselves to be playing to Dean's ego (that Dean expects everyone to be attracted to him) to throw Dean off and gain enough of Dean's trust to keep the plan moving forward.

Yes. Me too. I always listen to new episodes with headphones—it's amazing how much more you can hear in the background that makes the show feel even more immersive.

I was distracted, from her admittedly inappropriate response, by her crazy awkward lunge to make sure Dean got her business card and not Sam! Once that happened it almost erased everything else from my mind. "Demons I get. People are crazy."

The First Blade seemed like something that would have come out of Purgatory. I would be ecstatic if the show tied the blade to Purgatory somehow since I felt like they dropped that Dean story line much too quickly. What if Cain was in Purgatory? The primitive homicidal rage Dean seemed to experience while holding…

I agree about the possession. Working so much with evil allies seems to be rubbing off on the Winchesters a bit.

Jensen’s acting was compelling and the use of sound was perfect—that drowning drumbeat and how Sam’s voice was muted for just a couple of seconds. We were all in Dean’s head for a minute and it was scary.

The only way a Windows 8 appearance on the show would be realistic is if the user was complaining about how difficult it is to navigate. My husband does university IT work and nobody there young or old wants to deal with Windows 8.

I thought it was Ted McGinley too at first!

The show hasn't highlighted Dean so viciously killing something since he rapidly shiv-stabbed the demon in Malleus Maleficarum—and that was a demon so I thought this killing was especially brutal. Was the death necessary? The guy had a knife and Dean clearly had him subdued. Did Dean really need to kill him?

Yes—for like a second I thought it was Zeppelin—but no. Kripke used Zeppelin for Revolution—what a fucking waste!