Thanks!

He's using his freaky powers to stop demons. Exactly! And they can't argue that just because the powers may have some form of demonic connection that it is bad. Because from where I'm sitting Castial is not exactly nice with the way his powers have gone. And ditto about Sam actually leading an Army of Demons. At the moment it just doesn't seem to be gelling with what he is doing; killing demons, sending them back to hell.

But maybe Sam's powers are simply *his* different-ness, while Dean's different-ness has yet to be revealed. And *neither* different-ness is evil, in and of itself.

No, that makes perfect sense! I have always thought that being fed the blood of Azazel doesn't mean you have taken on his powers so much as the blood act as some of locator, a way to keep track of all the special children.

I think that the Demons and Castial want to set the Winchesters against one another, but at the same time I don't think that can happen, not if the 2 of them actually comes clean about the whole thing. And you know, I'm still a bit obsessed over whether trusting an Angel is the smart move. Because Angels don't care; if God tells them to kill they will do it, and well Demons lie at least Sam and Dean know what to expect from them.