Now that we know about the blood/vessel thing, maybe it was deliberate that the nun ritually murdered and used as a Lucifer speakerphone in "Lucifer Rising" resembled Mary Campbell a bit. Maybe she was a relative.

SPN’s been getting political lately and a lot of it is anti Republican stuff. “President Palin”, “we’re torturing again?” and the soldiers playing obnoxious music while they mow down citizens. Or maybe that last one is a pop culture reference no one got? Here are the lyrics to “Do You Love Me?” by The Contours. Never thought it could apply to Lucifer or the Apocalypse.

You broke my heart
Cause I couldn’t dance
You didn’t even, want me around
But now I’m back
To let you know
I can really shake’m down.
DO YOU LOVE ME?
Do you love me?
DO YOU LOVE ME?
Do you love me?
Now, that I can daaance!
Watch me now HEY!

We weren’t supposed to like Sam’s white suit. I’m pretty sure we weren’t supposed to like it. We were probably supposed to go “ewww, what a hideous outfit, well, of course, he’s evil and nothing says evil like a tacky all white ice cream man suit”. They’ve done this before, to show that Sam wasn’t the Sam Dean knew and might possibly not even really be Sam, in “What Is…”, when Sam showed up dressed in pastel yuppie clothes.

I agree- a consistent lack of basic necessities, public gatherings are outlawed, people infected with demon viruses are mowing each other down in the streets, and Heaven has given Earth up as a lost cause, but there’s still a current newspaper? Um, Kripke? Edlund? The newspaper industry will not survive in its current form until 2014. If hard copy newspapers as a global industry were going to survive that long without an Apocalypse, then yes, the newspaper would be one of the last things to go before everything literally went to Hell but they’re not going to last that long, Apocalypse or no Apocalypse. Especially if no public gatherings are allowed- most of what newspapers write about aside from war and local life milestones of people, are public gatherings.

Absinthe IS legal in the US now but I don’t know how you’d get some during the Apocalypse. You won’t exactly find it while looting a gas station mini mart.

Shouldn’t Dean have seen it coming when Dean14 punched him out? I know he’s not psychic, and this isn’t like the “Charmed” episode where they tangled with their evil selves from the evil AU who, it turned out, kept involuntarily guessing what they were about to do and doing it at the same time. But wouldn’t he think “If I was me, and I am, I’d punch me out right now”?
“I win…so…I win”. Sam was chilling there, started out a little shaky but I was able to believe he was Lucifer in Sam’s body. Also, good for Dean for being the first character so far not to fall for the sob story.

Speaking of that, you will have noticed Sam and Dean were in a garden in that scene. How very Biblical.

Castiel on the cell phone was hilarious. “The voice says I’m almost out of minutes!” And then he just stood there waiting for Dean for FOUR HOURS.

HAHAH. Castiel is using his ex angel knowlege to seduce human women. I think those who speculated about the Nephilim thing might be getting close. Foreshadowing, or just a Biblical in-joke? Anyhow, interesting that the show is actually portraying the consequences of Dean’s dragging him to the brothel last week.

The two Deans were great. Once he figures out that it’s not a trick, Dean14 just sort of accepts that he’s talking to himself from the past. He doesn’t even feel the need to explain to his soldiers why he’s being followed around by a clone, he says rather irritably, “me and him, we got a pretty messed up situation going on.”

I like how Dean and Dean14 echoed each other, they both said “Lucifer’s wearing him to the prom” at different times. And yet they were also distinctly different people, Dean14 is hard, cold and bitter, willing to sacrifice innocent lives to get what he wants.

Dean’s way of proving to Dean14 that he really is the same person:

“Rhonda Hurley. When we were nineteen. She made us try on her panties. They were pink. And satiny. And you know what? We kinda liked it.”

There are no words and the delivery of those lines was priceless.

I have to say that although it was great to see Sam and Dean back together at the end, 1) they could’ve dragged it out one more episode. Let’s not be that kind of show that wraps up emotional arcs in two eps, and 2) When Dean held out the knife and Sam took it, I could’ve sworn Sam was hungrily contemplating stabbing him with it. I kept thinking “oh no, they’re going to turn this into a nasty twist and have Sam stab him just before the credits”. It was the same kind of look Faith had on her face the morning after she had her meltdown in that alley and Angel brought her home to help her rehab. She’s seen a knife and imagined stabbing to him with it.

This “say yes to the angel/devil” pressure is a bit like a bizarre form of arranged marriage.

I’m going to make a Lucifer/Sam vid to this song. Because it’ll be funny. Unless the joke falls completely flat.



By Your Side, smoothed out and revised (sendspace link). Should I even bother trying Youtube? I'll do Metacafe eventually.

I solve the mystery of the controversial Homeless American Girl Doll The short of it being that she is neither new nor actually homeless and is not even the main character of the book and movie she appears in.