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OH MY GOD SHOW I LOVE YOU WITH FIRE AND!

I do feel like the "Dean is a doomed hedonist" thing was smoothed out a bit. That scene in the diner, both he and Sam almost treating it like a joke. Yes.

Baby!Dean! (is it just me, or does it seem sort of ooky and sexist when the little kid does it? with dean we know it's just a facade, but the kid sort of wacked me) But I love so much that this is what Dean wants, and that he's more and more beginning to admit it. Lisa looked a lot like Carmen from the wishverse.

Sam, I love you so much for totally ignoring Dean's attempts to get you to stop trying to break the deal. Winchester men have absolutely no instinct for self-preservation.

I heart the gossipy moms giving Dean the once-over. WITH MUCH HEART.

Cages. Creepy. Actually, this was a damn creepy ep all around. The but with the saw, and you know he was going to bite it, and he kept getting to close to the blade and then backing off, and you knew that it was coming but didn't know when? And the mom driving her daughter into the river - that was chilling and I kind of couldn't breathe for a while. This ep really made my inner feminist happy - analysis of gated communities and motherhood and being trapped.


So, I'm pretty on board with Blondie now.

At first, when she was all like, "I know stuff about your mama that even John at his most completely obsessed never sussed out," I was getting irritated. Because the Winchester men gave up their lives to solve the mystery of Mary's murder, and John is no idiot, and no slip of a kid with salon hair could beat him to information on his dead wife. BUT! If she's a demon, then she has access to other channels - I'm guessing that demons can see what other demons are up to, or something like that.

And I love the way she flat-out told Sammy that it was all his fault - although I was surprised that there wasn't more Jess-related taunting. That's been pretty popular, up to now.

But the thing that I really like about reveal that she's a demon is that it makes her manner much more believable. All the demon-girls we've seen thus far have been arrogant and syrupy and stalkerish and overly into the whole sex appeal thing. Meg and both iterations of the Crossroad Demon and now this one. They all think they're Mary Sue, you know? And Krip does tend, I think, to sort of write them as meta-fangirls, all into SamnDean's manpain and daddy issues and hotness and w00bification. Which is very much the function of a Mary Sue, so.

AND. Sammy's little FACE when she told him she could help him save Dean, MY GOD. With the pushing of buttons!

I'm still not totally sold, but I'm feeling way better about this one.