I love this episode. I LOVE this episode so much that I called perseid 5 secs after viewing the episode. This episode is just beautiful; plot, acting and characterisation. Sam is just amazing in this film. Absolutely amazing.

OMFG! Sam 6 months ago was a fucking mess; all drunk, red eyed and so damn suicidal. The scene between him and the CRD made me hurts for him. Hell, every scene made me feel for him. Sam was in such a bad place, and you know, Ruby gave him a reason to survive. Sure, it begun as a way for revenge but it morphed into keeping Ruby alive while on his journey to kill off Lilith. I truly believe that the only reason Sam survived to see Dean alive was because of Ruby.

I really do believe Ruby want to Sam to live, to survive. I don’t think she love Sam, but she definitely needs him. The question is why she needed him.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I wholly approve of Sam and Ruby having angry/despairing sex, and finding some sort of comfort in each other.

Anna is interesting, the way the Demons want her alive and the Angels want her dead. How the onset of her powers coincided with Dean’s rising. Also, how the Madonna that cried blood when the boys first find her. I think, and this is mostly guess work on my part. I think there is a small possibility that Anna is potentially the mother of God, or you know Lucifer or something equally sinister.... except, does that make Dean the father of God? Oh man, I wish I write fanfiction.


They bypassed the whole rape issue rather neatly; not like an argument on the tangibility of a soul can be empirically argued, not well anyway. It would have been interesting to see what Kripke would have done without fandom breathing down his neck.

I have said this before but Supernatural, the show, has one of the most symbiotic relationship with its fans. While I appreciate a creator who listens to the fans I also find it frustrating when they obviously wanted to do something darker but didn’t because of the negative reaction from fans.

I love Sam as a character, which means all the good and all the bad. In many ways I think if Sam and Ruby had sex with him knowing full well that there was an unwilling human soul inside of the body would have been much more interesting for the character and plot.

[Before anything else I would like to state that I wholeheartedly agree that rape is bad. There is no excuse for it and I don't want to argue with anyone about it either. Rape is bad.]

Thematically I would have loved to see a darker Sam who made the wrong decision, and not excuse it as a moment of weakness but as something he will have to live with. It makes slightly irritated that even the bypass of the rape issue felt slightly awkward, as if the creators had to go out of their way to make us like Sam.

This season has been absolutely amazing, Jared is bringing his A- game into this season, and gods, I love this episode to bits. I have read a few episode reactions that made me hit the back button with much speed. For the next few episodes I think I'm going to just stay in my corner and not read any episode reaction.

Also, LOVE the titles.