Season 5, Episode 13: The Song Remains the Same

"Your father was supposed to protect you."  "He was trying.  He died trying.  Believe me.  I used to be mad at him.  I mean, I used to - I used to hate the guy.  But now, I - I get it.  He was just doing the best he could.  And he was trying to keep it together in this impossible situation.  See . . . my mom, um . . . she was amazing, beautiful, and she was the love of his life.  And she got killed.  And . . . I think he would have gone crazy if he didn't do something.  Truth is, um, my dad died before I got to tell him that I understand why he did what he did.  And I forgive him for what it did to us.  I do.  And I just - I love him."

Then:

"Castiel should be in every episode.  That's all I'm saying. #Supernatural #Season5"
"'He's tough for a little nerdy dude with wings.'  #Supernatural #Season5"
"I like how John Winchester looks the same in 1982 and 2005, but is a different, much younger person in 1978 #Supernatural #Season5"
"'Awesome.  Six degrees of Heaven Bacon.' HA! #Supernatural #Season5"
- Twitter, September 6, 2013

Now:

• Anna showing up in Dean’s dream.  “This is awkward.”
• Oh Anna.  “Sam Winchester has to die.”  She’s like Gordon 2.0.
• Season 5 really had a good overarching theme.  Every episode advanced the plot?
• I love the conversation about who Glenn Close is.   “Does Anna have a point?”  “No.  She’s . . . Glenn Close.”
•  “I don’t understand that reference.”  I’d forgotten Cas's delivery of that line, even though I love that line.
• Poor coughing up blood Cas L
• “He’s tough for a little nerdy dude with wings.”
•  Still crazy to me that John and Mary were this young in an episode that took place only four years before the pilot . . .
• Sam not letting go of John’s hand in the handshake
• And Sam’s look of fascination with his parents
• And John wanting the boys to stay 
• Anyone else find it weird that John would leave a note instead of telling them he was running out when they were in the NEXT ROOM OVER
• Seriously, Mary’s so awesome, would love to see an SPN spinoff about young Mary.  But wouldn’t it be kind of boring if it was about young Mary and young John?  Since John didn’t even know that Mary was a hunter?  They couldn't do Mary/John together, they'd have to either do young Mary, or young John post-Mary's death.  And at that point, wouldn't he have to be played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan?  haha
• I love John showing his willingness to do what needed to be done to help, and Dean being the one to help him.  “All of a sudden, you really remind me of my dad.”
• Sam's conversation with John - heartbreaking
• Calling on Uriel . . . Anna's nothing if not smart
• Dean telling Mary he’s her son . . . this scene is making me cry.
• “There’s a big difference between dying and never being born and we’re okay with that, trust me.”
• Sam dying.  Again.
• Michael possessing John
• What a way for Anna to go
• When Michael tells them that there's a bloodline stretching back to Cain and Abel . . . was that intended then that Dean would eventually take the Mark of Cain?  Was that part of his destiny too??
• If Michael put Dean and Sam back in the present, he couldn't send Cas back with them?
• "This is it.  Team Free Will.  One ex blood junkie, one drop out with six bucks to his name, and Mr. Comatose over there."
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1

Season 5, Episode 12: Swap Meat

"All that apple-pie, family crap?  It's stressful.  Trust me - we didn't miss a damn thing."

• JarPad playing a high school kid in Sam's body is hilarious to me.  Wish we saw more of that, even though I kind of liked how this episode showed Sam and Gary from their own points of view, instead of everybody else's
• A banana daiquiri sounds amazing
• "Thank you for asking, Crystal, this is like the best night ever."
• The ghost carved something into Katie's stomach - that is terrifying.  Meanest ghost ever.
• I love Sam shaking his salad
• The way Gary stared at Sam was kind of creepy.
• I do think it's kind of funny that Sam thought Dean called the police when he didn't come home
• "I think I'm in the wrong body . . . I think I've got asthma.  Call me back."
• Sam was so judgmental with the Star Wars tees!  "Virgin."  "Frustrated virgin."
• Totally didn't realize the first time around that Nora was April Kepner.  I knew she looked familiar, but she was playing a friggin high school kid and she's actually older than Jared Padalecki, so can you really blame me?

to be fair, she looks like a baby

• "That was a nice thing to say."  "I totally lied.  Kid's life sucked ass."
• The look on Dean's face when Sam told him to turn the music down . . . haha.  Fun little episode.
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1

Season 5, Episode 11: Sam, Interrupted

"It's the end of the world, okay?  I mean, it's a damn Biblical apocalypse, and if I don't stop it and save everyone, then no one will, and we all die."  . . . "Apocalypse or no apocalypse . . . monsters or no monsters, that's a crushing weight to have on your shoulders.  To feel like six billion lives depend on you . . . God . . . how do you get up in the morning?"  "That's a good question." 

Then:

"Holy crap, the next time I get caught doing something I shouldn't, I'm totally pulling my pants down and shouting 'PUDDING!' #Supernatural"
- Twitter, September 6, 2013

Now:

• How terrifying would it be to have a monster in your walls and to know it was coming and have nobody believe you because you’re schizophrenic?
• Name: “Edward Van Halen” – Dr. Babar raises flags but Edward Van Halen does not?
• “I don’t know, I don’t have any elephant books.”
• I love that they just tell the truth to get admitted to the hospital.  So good.  "I'm fine.  I mean, okay, a little depressed, I guess."  "Okay. Any idea why?"  "Probably because I started the apocalypse."
• The nurse said “okidoki”, does that mean Dean likes her?
• Sam and Dean are dangerously co-dependent
• “You know what else isn’t good for group?  A monster eating all our faces off.”
• Wouldn’t mind being in a psych ward so I’d have an excuse to kiss Sam and Dean and have nobody think anything of it except that I’m crazy.  But wouldn’t want to be killed by the monster in there so I suppose you win some, you lose some
• How would pscyh patients even have access to the morgue???  Like seriously, they'd keep the morgue on site?
• THIS.

"Crazy works."

• "Is there a quota?  How many people do you have to save?"  "All of them."
• I love Sam with lots of meds
• Another reference to the GED and give 'em hell attitude!
• "Do you really think this is going to end well for you kiddo?"  "No, but I'm crazy, so what the hell."
• So . . . the boys killed a nurse (albeit, a wraith, but still) and then ran from the mental institution, leaving the dead nurse there.  And leaving Martin there.  Now I know we see Martin again, so screw him, and I know that the authorities were never going to be able to track down Eddie Van Halen, but still.  Seems a little brazen.
• "Son of a bitch" count - 2

Season 5, Episode 10: Abandon All Hope . . .

"I was a son.  A brother, like you, a younger brother, and I had an older brother who I loved.  Idolized, in fact.  And one day I went to him and I begged him to stand with me, and Michael - Michael turned on me.  Called me a freak.  A monster.  And then he beat me down.  All because I was different.  Because I had a mind of my own.  Tell me something, Sam.  Any of this sound familiar?

Then:

"I forgot you two, at best, are functioning morons."  "YOU'RE functioning morons!"  Haha . . . that's a me response.  #Supernatural #Season5"
- Twitter, September 5, 2013

Now:

• As far as mid-season finales go, this one must have been a big one.  Not as shocking as Season 9, and not as gut-wrenching as Season 7, the worst one, but this one was rough, and it must have been rough for those watching it when it first aired and having to wait a month for the second half of the season.
• CROWLEY.  From his very first scene I loved him.  Didn't think after that first episode that we'd see him more than just that episode, but so glad that five seasons later he's a regular.
• I love Cas spying on Crowley.  "It's going down."  (I'm yelling timber!)
• I think I love this episode because EVERYONE is in it.  Dean, Sam, Cas, Crowley, Bobby, Jo, Ellen, Meg . . . it's pretty much the full magilla of the cast to that point
• Alona Tal looks seriously skeletal in that opening scene
• Love that Crowley's opening line to the Winchesters is "So.  The Hardy Boys finally found me.  Took you long enough."
• I still love Dean and Crowley's exchange: "I forgot you two at best are functioning moron--"  "You're functioning morons!"
• Crowley's so awesome.  Seriously, could I possibly love him more?  "How about you don't miss, okay?!  Morons!"

loved him from the start

• I love Cas drinking with Ellen.  "I think I'm starting to feel something."
• Good on Jo.  "I'm going to spend it with a little I call self-respect."
• The poor family picture.

they all look so miserable.  Thanks for that "This is our last night on earth", Cas.

• Was Tessa the only female reaper?  At least until April, all the others seemed to be men.
• "I'm told you came here in an automobile.  What was that like?"  "Slow.  Confining"  Aww, Cas.  If only you knew that you'd be driving your own pimpmobile around in a couple years.
• "Almost all of heaven wants to see me dead, and if they succeed, guess what?  You're their new public enemy number one."  Well Lucifer was right about that.  It took some time but it happened.
• Jo's organs hanging out - pretty horrible
• And Ellen!  So calm!
• When Bobby says "angel of death, big daddy reaper" . . . at least it's some sort of acknowledgment that a reaper is an angel? (Still trying to explain April...)
• How did they know how to build a bomb so quickly and easily?
• The first time I watched this, I thought it was really sweet that Dean just kissed Jo's head before they left - I wish that they'd left it with that, as a big brotherly thing, instead of the kiss on the lips too.
• Poor Ellen and Jo =(
• I love Lucifer's "Owwwwwww" after he was shot with the Colt
• So if there's only five things in all of creation that the Colt can't kill . . . what are the other four?
• I think this is the first episode where Meg calls Cas "Clarence."
• Never really understood why Bobby burned the picture - was it his way of giving Ellen and Jo a hunters funeral?
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1

Season 5, Episode 9: The Real Ghostbusters

"I am not a fan, ok.  Not fans.  In fact, I think that the Dean and Sam story sucks.  It is not fun.  It is not entertaining.  It is a river of crap that would send most people howling to the nut house.  So you listen to me.  Their pain is not for your amusement."

• I forgot about the frantic music at the beginning of the episode as the boys are rushing to get to the hotel
• The row of Impalas is pretty hilarious
• "I just borrowed it from your pants."  Becky is so crazy.  And yet so awesome.
• I watched Home Alone this past winter . . . once you know it's Buzz in this episode, it's totally obvious

totally the same guy

• It's funny that Becky is wearing plaid . . . totally in character
• Also I love that most of the fans of the book who are at the Convention are men . . . I have not yet been to a Supernatural Convention, but I think it's safe to say most of the people at them are going to be women...
• "Who gave you the rights to our life story?"  "An archangel!"
• Wouldn't Chuck have had a vision that this place was actually haunted?
• "You're the chuckles, Chuckles."
• I really like the name Leticia Gore
• “How original.  Supernatural bringing us more creepy children.  Sigh.”  Have a point there, Hookman.
•  “LARPing as cowboys and Indians.”  Love Dean’s delivery of that line.
• “Just give her the puppy dog thing, okay?”  I never caught that line until this time around, but too funny.
• I really love that Damian and Barnes wanted to help
• "Supernatural makes digging graves seem so easy.  It's not though."
• Chuck is pretty hot when he yells "I said nobody leaves, damn it!"
• "Maybe we should put these things on a bungee."  Seriously!  It's a good idea!
• "You're wrong, you know. . . about Supernatural.  No offense but I'm not sure you get what the story's about. . . . To be Sam and Dean, to wake up every morning and save the world.  To have a brother who would die for you.  Well who wouldn't want that?"
• "Like a monkey on the sun, it was too hot to live."  That line is so great.
• FIRST CROWLEY MENTION!  Wish he'd actually been mentioned in Time is On My Side, but I guess he couldn't have been
• Love that Beaches gets another mention in this episode.  Two references in the series - so obscure but awesome.

Season 5, Episode 8: Changing Channels

"Why do you think you two are the vessels?  Think about it.  Michael, the big brother, loyal to an absent father, and Lucifer, the little brother, rebellious of Daddy's plan.  You were born to this, boys.  It's your destiny!  It was always you!  As it is in heaven, so it must be on earth.  One brother has to kill the other."

Okay, seriously, I can't even with this episode.  I can't.  The sitcom theme song is one of my favorite things ever.  The Grey's Anatomy parody is one of my favorite things ever.  Everything about this episode is one of my favorite things ever.

Then:

"Yay!!!  I love Trickster episodes!!!!! #supernatural #season5 #livestudioaudience"
"Ahhhh I love the #Supernatural sitcom theme song!  With the Full House font!  Hahaha #Season5"
"Sam and Dean are on Grey's Anatomy!!!! #supernatural #season5 #tricksterepisodesarethebest #nomaryis"
"I love them mocking Denny Douquette #supernatural #season5"
"'Oh my god it's him.  It's Dr. Sexy.' #Supernatural #season5"
"Misha Collins was in the Full House credits, he'd better be in this episode! #Supernatural #Season5"
"Yay!!! There he is!  But Mr. Trickster does not like pretty boy angels :( #Supernatural #Sseason5"
"Sam has genital herpes.  #Supernatural #Season5"
"Castiel is back!  And he's all beat up and has duct tape on his mouth! #Supernatural #Season5"
"Ok, #season5 is definitely my favorite season of #Supernatural so far."
- Twitter, September 5, 2013

Now:

• I love the bright colors of the sitcom scene - how the motel is the same set used in the "real world" scenes but it looks totally different because of the colors
• I also love Dean's fridge full of condiments
• Amazing.  This is one of my favorite Supernatural things ever.

• I love that Dr. Sexy M.D. becomes an actual thing in this episode - when it was just a passing reference in The Monster at the End of this Book
• "Would there be any reason that Lou Ferrigno, the Incredible Hulk, would have a grudge against your husband?"  I love how seriously that line is said.
• So we find out in this episode that the "Trickster" isn't actually a trickster at all, but really Gabriel.  But until that point, every time we saw a "trickster" it was the same one - were there ever any other tricksters?
• Dean didn't know about MySpace, but at least he knew Facebook
• Why would the boys just assume that there had been a murder?  Was that the police code on the scanner?
• "The Trickster trapped us in TV Land."  "That's your theory.  That's stupid."  Dean was so quick to shoot it down, and yet that's exactly what happened!
• "This show has ghosts?  Why?"  "I don't know.  It is compelling."  I will never not laugh at them making fun of Denny Douquette being a ghost, especially since Jeffrey Dean Morgan was in both shows.
• Dean geeking out at Dr. Sexy is so funny to me.
• "I swore part of what makes Dr. Sexy sexy is the fact that he wears cowboy boots.  Not tennis shoes."  "Yeah.  You're not a fan."  "It's a guilty pleasure."
• I love the music in the Dr. Sexy scenes.
• Sam's face after the surgery, when Ellen Piccolo mouths "I love you" - so funny.
• How did Cas even manage to get into TV Land?  I never quite understood that.  Since obviously Gabriel didn't want him there.
• The genital herpes commercial is so good.

at least all your girlfriends die before they can catch it, Sam!

• I love the dialogue in the CSI scene.  
• Plus any excuse to hear Dean make fun of people wearing sunglasses at night douchebags (just like people who wear them inside in Dog Dean Afternoon)
• I love that Sam was able to feel Dean going through the trunk of the car
• "Should I honk?"
• "Where'd you get the holy oil?"  "Well, you might say we pulled it out of Sam's ass.
• "Son of a bitch" count - 6 

Season 5, Episode 7: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester

"You don't stop being a soldier 'cause you got wounded in battle.  Okay?  No matter what shape you're in, bottom line is, you're family.  I don't know if you've noticed, but me and Sam, we don't have much left.  I can't do this without you.  I can't.  So don't you dare think about checking out.  I don't want to hear that again."

Then:

"Ok, Dean as an old guy is awesome, but I don't get to look at Jensen Ackles for the rest of the episode?  Boooo. #Supernatural #Season5"
- Twitter, September 5, 2014

Now:

• I like the doctor not believing the boys were CDC because they showed up early.  "New administration.  A change you can believe in."
• At least the first old guy looked like the first young guy . . . the one thing I really hate about this episode is that Old Dean looked NOTHING like Jensen Ackles

come on . . . NOT EVEN CLOSE

• "You look GREAT, Cliff.  Did you get work done?"  I love Dean's wink at the girls.
• "I see you've met John McCain over here . . ."
• "It's like Grumpy Old Men."  "Shut up, Sam."
• Old Dean with acid reflux - kinda funny.
• "Sammy, when you get to be our age . . . "  "You're THIRTY, Dean."
• "For a witch, you're so nice it's actually kind of creepy."
• I love Dean's little dance and heel click.

Season 5, Episode 6: I Believe the Children Are the Future

"You know, I'm starting to get why parents lie to their kids.  You want them to believe that the worst thing out there is mixing Pop Rocks and Coke--protect them from the real evil.  You want them going to bed feeling safe.  If that means lying to them, so be it.  The more I think about it . . . the more I wish Dad had lied to us."

Then:

"Yaaay, Castiel is in this episode.  #oneepisodewithdrawal #Supernatural #Season5"
"Castiel just sat on a whoopie cushion. And felt a need to clarify 'that wasn't me.'  Amazing. #Supernatural #Season5"
"Castiel!  You can't kill a little kid! Supernatural #Season5"
"Oh, I get it.  He's an action figure now.  I think I want one. #Supernatural #Season5"
- Twitter, September 5, 2013

Now:

• The girl at the beginning who scratched her brains out . . . glad we didn’t actually see that
•  Love that Dean actually eats the ham that they fry with the joybuzzer . . . in multiple scenes . . . 
• What a creepy tooth fairy!!!
•  Love Dean making the face that could “stick that way”

Seriously . . . how is this show even for real?

• “Dude, seriously.  Still with the ham?”  “We don’t have a fridge!”
• The premise of this episode is a lot like Hunter Heroici, except instead of the zone of Looney Toons it’s the zone of kids’ beliefs
•  Dean’s hairy hand is gross
• Jesse is adorable and they should really bring him back in – of everything going on in the world of Supernatural, nobody cares that the antichrist is out there????
•  “It’s called soup.  You heat it up and you eat it.”  Love Jesse’s sass.
• Swallowing the salt was crazy smart
• Man . . . the only thing worse than getting pregnant as a virgin would be getting pregnant with a demon's baby and giving birth to the antichrist
• It's still appalling to me that Cas was ready to kill Jesse - poor little kid.
• The whoopee cushion scene still makes me laugh
• "He might make the right choice."  "You didn't.  And I can't take that chance."  Touche, Cas.
• I still want a Cas action figure.
• Wouldn't Julia have gotten an anti-possession charm or something after BEING POSSESSED FOR NINE MONTHS AND GIVING BIRTH TO A DEMON'S BABY?!
• Our little antichrist all grown up:

he's almost 16 . . . he could be even more dangerous now!

Season 5, Episode 5: Fallen Idols

"The way I see it, we got one shot at surviving this . . . . Maybe I am on deck for the devil, maybe same with you and Michael, maybe there's no changing that. . . .  But, we can stop wringing our hands over it.  We gotta just grab onto whatever's in front of us, kick its ass, and go down fighting."

Then:

"Sam fighting Gandhi - kind of hilarious. #Supernatural #Season5"
"How did Paris Hilton get to be in #TheOC AND in #Supernatural?  She belongs on crap like 90210. #Season5"
"Beheading her - kind of awesome though. #Supernatural #Season5"
- Twitter, September 5, 2013

Now:

• Cal's death is particularly gruesome, even for Supernatural
• I love Dean talking to Little Bastard.  "I'm not gonna hurt you, so . . . don't hurt me. . ."  How nervous he got
• Dean checked the engine while still in his dress shirt and tie . . . he totally should have taken his shirt off.
• Evil Abe Lincoln still makes me laugh
• Isn't the Fonz's jacket in the Smithsonian?  (You know who would know for sure?  The doctor who delivered Phoebe's triplets.)
• I didn't even know the term "sexting" existed in 2009.
• "Fourscore and twenty years ago I had a funny hat."
• Dean making fun of Sam for being a fan of Gandhi - kind of mean.  But Sam knowing Gandhi was a "fruitarian" (a word that I didn't even know existed) was pretty dorky
• When Sam tells Dean that one of the reasons why he went off with Ruby was to get away from him . . . really, Sam went off with Ruby because DEAN WAS IN HELL . . . unless he was just talking about why he chose Ruby over Dean in When the Levee Breaks, which actually makes more sense, so forget this whole bullet point
• I am still annoyed by the fact that both Paris Hilton AND Snooki have been on this show.
• I do like the "I've never even seen House of Wax" line though.  You know who HAS seen that movie?  Erin.  You know who owns that movie?  Erin.  

yah, that top DVD on the right is totally House of Wax

• I really wish Paris Hilton had turned into John Winchester
• Awww... Dean letting Sammy drive for the first time in seasons.  Sweet.
• Blood spatter count - 2

Season 5, Episode 4: The End

"Maybe we are each other's Achilles heel.  Maybe they'll find a way to use us against each other, I don't know.  I just know we're all we've got.  More than that.  We keep each other human."

Then:

"'This isn't funny, Dean!  The voice says I'm almost out of minutes!'  I'm for real getting a dog to name Castiel.  #Supernatural #Season5"
"'President Palin defends bombing of Houston.'  That is a terrifying headline.  #Supernatural #Season5"
"There's 2 Deans and they're both hot.  Also in real life, there's a giant cricket on my wall, and that is terrifying.  #Supernatural #Season5"
"Cas is dressed like a hippie and holding an orgy in 2014!  #Supernatural #Season5"
"'What are you, stoned?'  'Generally, yeah.' #Supernatural #Season5"
"'Don't get me wrong, Cas, I'm happy the stick is out of your ass, but what's going on?' #Supernatural #Season5"
"Dean cries a lot.  It's pretty hot.  #Supernatural #Season5"
- September 4, 2013

Now:

• Cas is too precious.  "I'll just wait here then."
• The images in this episode, when Dean looks outside and it's 2014 - how cool looking.  So many colors.

I love this screenshot

• I swear, if I ever see the word "Croatoan" written anywhere, I will run as fast as I can away from there
• I don't understand why the people infected with the virus don't kill each other 
• I LOVE the use of "Do You Love Me" in this episode
• August 1, 2014 is Friday . . .  uh-oh...
• Also, I watched this episode while I was in Houston, so the "bombing of Houston" line - not a good thing!
• Ughhh Bobby's overturned wheelchair - what a sad image
• Dean's horror at seeing the Impala all rusty - "oh, Baby, no."
• Pretty safe to say that Dean really gets that dark when they get to 2014 =(
• I love 2009 Dean's "Because you'd only be hurting yourself?"  Clever.
• Rhonda Hurley . . . now there's an image.
• What a kick in the gut.  "From what I understand, Sam didn't make it . . ."
• "Oh, c'mon, you don't trust yourself?"  "No.  Absolutely not."  "Dick."
• Cas is creepy in 2014.  And sad.  So sad.
• I do love that 2014!Cas knew that Dean was an older version of himself.
• "What happened to you?"  "Life."
• "What?  I like Past You."
• "Some free advice?  You ever get back there, you hoard toilet paper.  You understand me?  Hoard it.  Hoard it like it's made of gold.  'Cause it is."  Oh Chuck.  You were so good.
• 2014!Dean is so hardened it's sad.
• It's so disturbing to see Sam as Lucifer snap 2014!Dean's neck.
• "I've learned a lesson, alright.  Just not the one you wanted to teach."
• Cas's smile when he tells Dean "we had an appointment" and Dean tells him to never change . . . it's so sweet.
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1

Season 5, Episode 3: Free to Be You And Me

"What about me?  I don't know.  Honestly, I'm good.  I can't believe I'm saying that, but I am.  I'm really good."  "Even without your brother?"  "Especially without my brother.  I mean, I spent so much time worrying about the son of a bitch.  I mean, I've had more fun with you in the past twenty-four hours than I've had with Sam in years, and you're not that much fun.  It's funny, you know, I've been so chained to my family, but now that I'm alone, hell, I'm happy."

Then:

"Every motel Sam and Dean stay in, no matter what city, looks exactly the same.  #Supernatural #Season5"
"'You were wasted by a Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel?'  Haha - I had the same thought. #Supernatural #Season5"
"Also - Castiel is badass for someone so deadpan. #Supernatural #Season5"
"'Last time you zapped me someplace, I didn't poop for a week.  We're driving.' #Supernatural #Season5"
"'We're humans, and when humans want something really, really bad, we lie.'  'Why?'  'That's how you become president.'  #Supernatural #Season5"
"'Last night on earth.  What are your plans?' 'I just thought I'd sit here quietly.'  #Supernatural #Season5"
"Dude, can we keep Dean and Sam apart always?  Dean and Cas are a way, way better duo. #Supernatural #Sesaon5"
"Misha Collins is incredible.  Cas's face in this 'den of iniquity' scene is fantastic. #Supernatural #Season5"
"'I just looked her in the eyes and told her it wasn't her fault that her father Gene ran off.' #Supernatural #Season5 #dyinghere"
"'Maybe one day.  But today, you're my little bitch.'  'What he said!'  Hahaha #Supernatural #Season5"
"'I've had more fun with you in the past 24 hours than I've had with Sam in years.  And you're not that much fun.' #Supernatural #Season5"
"Jacob's the devil, and he's sitting on Sam's motel room bed.  Spooky.  #Supernatural #Season5"
- September 4, 2013

Now:

• "Sooner or later the past is going to catch up to you like it always does.  You know what happens then?  People die.  Baby, the people closest to you die."  It happens. :(  But to be fair, it happens to Dean too!
• Sweet Cas pleading with Dean.  "I need your help because you are the only one who will help me."
• Dean's "I didn't poop for a week!"   I've been known to repeat that line.
• Cas trying so hard to tell the truth is so cute
• Love how knowing Cas gets with the whole "St. Pete's" thing."  
• Cas's bluntness: "Michael is much more powerful, it will be far worse for you."
• Sam had someone named Cassidy in his phone, but no Castiel.  Also, did he have a Cassidy in his phone the last time we saw him looking through his phone?  When did he make new friends?
• If The Monster at the End of this Book finally sold me on Cas, this episode made me love him.  "I just thought I'd sit here quietly."  Oh Cas.  Just want to hug you.
• It always rubbed me the wrong way that that Lindsey made fun of the name "Keith Sam."  Who is she to make fun of someone else's name?
• I love to see Dean laughing.  Didn't happen much.
• Seriously, how nosy is Lindsey?  I saw on the Super Wiki that there was a deleted sex scene between her and Sam.  I'm glad it was cut.  I wouldn't have believed it.
• C'mon.  There's NO WAY they would have been able to light a fire in a hospital without anyone seeing it or getting caught
• So . . . technically, Sam kissed Lucifer.  Think about that for a minute.  That's even worse than Bobby kissing Crowley!
• "Son of a bitch" count - 2
• Blood spatter count - 1

Season 5, Episode 2: Good God, Y'All

"From the minute I saw that blood, only thought in my head . . . and I tell myself it's for the right reasons, my intentions are good, and it, it feels true, you know?  But I think, underneath . . . I just miss the feeling.   I know how messed up that sounds, which means I know how messed up I am.  Thing is, the problem's not the demon blood, not really.  I mean, what I did, I can't blame the blood or Ruby or . . . anything.  The problem's me.  How far I'll go.  There's something in me that . . . scares the hell out of me, Dean."

Then:

"'I'm gonna find God.'  'Try New Mexico.  I hear he's on a tortilla.'  "He isn't on a flatbread.'  That exchange was hilarious to me #Supernatural"

"#Supernatural loves #Lost - the Man in Black is in this episode.  Should have known that he and Jacob would be involved with the apocalypse."

"Aw, Sam and Dean are breaking up.  #Supernatural #Season5"

- September 4, 2013

Now: 

• It seemed funny to me that Cas would call Sam's phone and not Dean's.  He and Dean share the more profound bond!
• Also, Sam said Castiel weird.  I think he put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLABle.
• Cas saying "I'm gonna find God" - so earnest.
• I love that the Samulet had some more significance than simply being a gift from Sammy . . . as young Sam told young Dean, "Uncle Bobby says it's real special..."  Yep.  More special than Uncle Bobby even knew.
• "When you find God, tell him to send legs!"
• I love that Spirit in the Sky plays as the boys walk into town - so good.
• Yay, Ellen's back!
• I actually recognized the Man in Black - I'm really bad with out-of-context actors so I was super impressed that I recognized him AND Jacob, and that they were both in the same season
• I groaned both times I watched this episode, when Sam picks up the knife with the demon's blood on it . . . really Sam?  Really??
• "Where'd you serve?"  "Hell."  "No, seriously."  "Seriously.  Hell."
• I love how even when he's pissed at him, Dean still calls Sam "Sammy"
• Oh Sam and Dean, breaking up again.
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1
• Blood spatter count - 1

Season 5, Episode 1: Sympathy for the Devil

"How are we supposed to do all this, genius?"  "I got no idea.  But what I do have is a GED and a give-'em-hell attitude, and I'll figure it out."

Having now watched all nine seasons to date of Supernatural, Season 5 was -- and remains -- my favorite season.  It didn't seem to fall into the same trap that many of the later seasons have fallen into - there was one overarching theme of the season: to stop Lucifer and the apocalypse.  Every episode worked towards that goal.  I loved everything about this season, have re-watched many of the episodes several times, and thoroughly enjoyed watching it in full a second time around.

Then:

"Cas exploded like a water balloon of chunky soup?  Why do I feel like he's probably not actually gone.  #Supernatural #Season 5"

"Also Zachariah sucks.  And not only because Kurt Fuller was stupid Lindsey from #Alias #Supernatural #Season5"

"'This is wrong,' said Dean.  'Then I don't want to be right,' replied Sam in a husky voice.  #Supernatural #Season5"

"'You got my letters!  And my marzipan!'  'Right.  Yummy.' #Supernatural #Season5"

"'You're sorry you started Armageddon?!' Tough love from Bobby.  #Supernatural #Season5"

"Uh-oh . . . I don't think this is Bobby . . . #Supernatural #Season5"

"Ooh, Zachariah sucks!  But Castiel is AWESOME. #Supernatural #Season5"

"So Jacob from #Lost is Lucifer's vessel.  And Mellie from #Scandal is talking him into it.  All my shows are colliding!  #Supernatural #Season5"

"And also, I aways knew that Mellie was the devil.  #Supernatural #Season5"

- September 4, 2013

Now:

• Thunderstruck is my favorite AC/DC song and one of my favorite classic rock songs
• I guess I like the blood title card better than the Season 4 birds - I really hated those birds
• The look on Dean's face when Chuck tells Sam his eyes went black . . . I could cry.  At least Dean didn't have to see that.  At least Sam didn't know it happened.  With the Comic Con season 10 preview clip going around . . . so many feeling today.
• "He exploded like a water balloon of chunky soup" - that is the worst possible image!  I was really glad they didn't show it, but then we actually have to see it at the end of the season
• Jimmy's molar in Chuck's hair - ugh, the worst!
• Awww, Dean learned Cas's banishing spell
• I was so excited to see Jacob from Lost in this - I'm sure Mark Pellegrino has done a lot more, but I can never recognize "out of context actors" and he I actually did
• Becky does not portray the SPN fandom in the best light, but I love her anyway.  The line about the marzipan - cracked me up.  Mostly because I love marzipan, and I love Chuck's slightly concerned "yummy."
• Becky's website - "morethanbrothers.net" - Oh Becky
• "You're Sam Winchester and you're . . . not what I pictured."  It always bugs me that Becky knew their last name, when Chuck said that he never wrote it into the books.
• I also never understood how Bobby let himself get possessed.  You would think that after all he'd been through, after he killed his wife, after Sam had been possessed and the boys got their tattoos - you'd think that he would have been prepared for that and would have had his own anti-possession tattoo.
• It ALSO bugged me that they really believed that Bobby would lose it on Sam and tell him to "lose his number" - especially after all that Bobby did in Season 4 to help convince Dean to talk to Sam
• And it's Meg.  First time around, I hated Rachel Miner's Meg - I preferred Nicki Aycox's so much, maybe because she originated the character.  But this time around, I appreciated what Rachel Miner did with it so much more.  Unlike with GenPad taking over Ruby, I really felt like it was the same Meg, just in a different, well, meat suit
• The blood in the crib at Mark Pellegrino's - horrible.  Lucifer's cruel.
• And so is Zachariah!!   Giving Dean stomach cancer?  Removing Sam's lungs?  Horrible!
• Carving the Enochian sigils into Sam and Dean's ribs sounds so ridiculously painful
• MELLIE IS THE DEVIL!!!!
• Dean's "what I do have is a GED and a give 'em hell attitude" line is one of my favorite things that he's said in nine seasons.  Also inspired our team's GISHWHES 2014 catchphrase. :)
• "Son of a bitch" count - 4

Season 4, Episode 22: Lucifer Rising

You stupid, stupid son of a bitch!  Well, boo hoo, I am so sorry your feelings are hurt, princess!  Are you under the impression that family's supposed to make you feel good?! Make you an apple pie, maybe?  They're supposed to make you miserable!  That's why they're family!

What I said then:

"Carry On Wayward Son . . . #Supernatural #Season4 Finale"
"'They're supposed to make you miserable!  That's why they're family!' Love it, Bobby. #Supernatural #Season4"
"'Suite Life of Zach and Cas' . . . haha #Supernatural #Season4"
- September 3, 2013

Second time around:

• I get chills every time I hear Carry On Wayward Son
• Bobby yelling at Dean about what a brat he sounded like - so true, and I loved the tough love speech
• It's really weird to me that nobody noticed a nurse wheeling a baby out of its parents room and into a hallway
• I love the burgers and beers the angels had ready for Dean when he got to their "green room"
• Super awkward when Zachariah tells Dean "you're looking fit"
• "Look at you, all 'roided up.  It's like A-Rod and Madonna over here."  Haha - love the A-Rod reference
• I still can't believe that Sam got so obsessed that he actually killed the nurse so he could drain her blood
• Dean says sarcastically that he wants to talk to Sam about "the B.M. I took this morning..."  Doe she mean bowel movement?  Seems like there are a million other slang terms he could have used to refer to it.
• At this point in my rewatch, I must have fallen asleep because I can't even read my notes
• I love when Dean punches Cas and then grimaces
• "There is a right and there is a wrong here and you know it."  You KNOW that Dean was getting through to Cas, but Cas resisted for so long.
• So I'm assuming it was the angels who manipulated Sam's voicemail?  Cruel.
• When Cas covers Dean's mouth and let's Dean cut open his arm . . . that is so hot to me.  And also it immediately reminded me of how Sam would slice open Ruby's arm . . . I could see how Destiel could be a thing.
• First time we get to see an angel banishing sigil!
• I love when Cas and Dean show up at Chuck's, and Cas sends Dean to Sam and stays with Chuck to deal with the archangels and Chuck puts his hand on Cas's shoulder
• I don't get why Lilith glowed white when Sam killed her - is it because the seal was broken?
• This final scene with Ruby - her "I was the best of those sons of bitches!" and "Even you have to admit - I'm awesome!"  That's my favorite scene that GenPad does as Ruby - her pure glee in that last scene is so good
• "Son of a bitch" count - 4

Season 4, Episode 21: When the Levee Breaks

"I'm not giving him demon blood.  I won't do it."  "And if he dies?"  "Then at least he dies human!"

What I said then:

"I'm so over Sam.  #Supernatural #Season4"
- September 3, 2013

Now:

• What's up with Rufus?"  "He knows."
• It is super creepy to see young Sam with yellow eyes
• I love it when Cas refers to what is and isn't "of import"
• I love Bobby's bluntness.  "You willingly signed up to be the angel's bitch?"
• But Dean's reasoning made sense.  "It's either trust the angels or let Sammy trust a demon?"
• I hated when Cas let Sam out.  The first time I watched this, we still didn't know what the angels were up to, but knew it couldn't be good, and I was convinced that Cas was just a bad guy haha
• Sam's hallucination where Dean tells him "God picked me" - oh, our crazy little show, that this is something that could be said to a character in a hallucination to make him get all hot and bothered
• Crazy blood addict Sam knocking Bobby out when Bobby just wanted to him him
• Uggggggh for Lilith eating babies.  You'd think that as someone who enjoyed spending time in little girl's bodies, she wouldn't be into that.  But what do I know, helloooo, demon.
• "It's not something you're doing, it's what you are."
• I feel bad for Sam when Dean calls him a monster, but I feel more bad for Dean when Sam beats him up and then walks out on him.
• Man, Sam leaving Dean for Ruby was bad enough, but he also left him with all of that hotel room damage!  Rough!
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1

Season 4, Episode 20: The Rapture

"Castiel, you son of a bitch!  You promised me my family would be okay.  You promised you were gonna take care of them.  I gave you everything you asked me to give.  I gave you more.  This is the thanks I get?  This is what you do?  This is your heaven?  Help me, please.  You promised, Cas.  Just help me."

I started watching this show because of Misha Collins.  Well, because of Mary telling me she needed me to know who Misha Collins was.  But really, he was the reason why I gave it a shot - I'd been pulled into GISHWHES and I knew I needed to reach Season 4 to reach Misha Collins and of course I was hooked long before then.

I said that The Monster at the End of this Book was my favorite episode and the one that sold me on Castiel - this is the episode that sold me on Misha Collins, not as a person, but an actor.  The fact that with a couple of words and body languages you could tell immediately that he was not playing Castiel anymore.

Anyway.  All I had to say then:

"Ahh!!  Castiel is a little girl!  #Supernatural #Season4"
- September 3, 2013

Now:

• It seems bizarre to me that Dean would go fishing in his dreams.  He seems more like someone who would drive racecars in his dreams than do something as mundane as fishing.
• I appreciated the scene with Jimmy eating the burgers - it put some context into all the burgers that Cas ate in My Bloody Valentine
• It also makes sense that Jimmy was from Pontiac, Illinois - Cas would have needed a vessel near where Dean was buried.
• It's so weird to hear Misha not speaking in Cas's voice
• It was also kind of weird to me that Jimmy slept in his full suit and tie... you'd think he would have at least taken the tie off before going to bed
• When Anna tells Sam he seems different, and he responds "A haircut?"  Not even remotely believable.
• The flashbacks, how Jimmy loosened his tie right before he gave his consent - makes sense why Cas's tie is always slightly loose
• Cas's deadpan "I am not your father" to Claire - poor kid.  He probably could have handled that a little better.
• Jimmy's dinner with Claire and Amelia is so sad.  "Why are you crying?  "Because I'm happy."  So short lived.
• It always really bothered me that the demon possessing Amelia smacked Claire and called her a bitch - you don't do that!
• When Jimmy is shouting at Castiel for not helping his family, I love that he calls him Cas.  With Dean and Sam, it was one thing, they had met him in a vessel, he was more human to him, but Jimmy had only communicated with him in his true voice and form - Cas seems so personal.  I guess it's because he was Cas, or Cas was him.
• I love Cas showing up in Claire because that means that Claire gave her consent.
• Sam sucking blood in front of Dean and Castiel - talk about horrifying, that he was that addicted that he would just go crazy and suck blood from someone's neck like a vampire.
• Why did nobody hide their eyes when Cas entered Jimmy again?
• I wonder what happened to Amelia and Claire.
• That last line: "I learned my lesson while I was away, Dean.  I serve heaven.  I don't serve man, and I certainly don't serve you."
• "Son of a bitch" count - 2

Season 4, Episode 19: Jump the Shark

"Dean. . . all of this . . . it's not real.  The dad Adam knew - he wasn't real.  The things out there in the shadows - they are real.  The world is coming to an end.  Everything else is just part of the crap people tell themselves to get through the day."

"Dad didn't have a choice with us, okay?  But with Adam, he did.  Adam doesn't have to be cursed."

"He's a Winchester.  He's already cursed."  

• I think the title of this episode is brilliant - another example of the Supernatural writers and creators just getting it.  Knowing how to make fun of themselves and knowing when they do something ridiculous is part of what makes this show great.  And also, this interview with Eric Kripke about this episode:

"When we were breaking the story about the third Winchester brother, we knew the fans would scream that we had jumped the shark.  Of course, adding a new sibling or relative to an established series is a classic and cherished shark jump, Cousin Oliver being the patron saint of the practice.  Anyway, it became clear that we should beat the fans to the punch and title the episode, 'Jump the Shark.'  Though rejected titles included: 'When Leo Joined Growing Pains,' or 'The Raven Symone Episode.'  For fans who are worried that we are truly jumping the shark . . . watch the episode, decide for yourself.  Personally, I don't think we're gassing up the motorcycle quite yet, but you tell me.  And stay tuned for next season, when the boys take trips to London and Hawaii (haunted Tiki dolls!) and Sam and Ruby get married.  And Ted McGinley joins the cast as the thoughtful (but hot!) college professor."

• Man.  Can Supernatural go to London?
• I feel like the boys stay in so many motels that it was weird to see them sleeping in the car, Dean sleeping in the passenger seat, Sam brushing his teeth outside the Impala.
• "I mean, a hunter rolls into town, kills a monster, saves the girl . . . sometimes the girl's grateful."  "Well, now I'm thinking about Dad sex.  Stop talking."  "Maybe he slipped one past the goalie."
• Dean getting pissed at Adam for talking about John - so typical Dean.  
• I actually got really sad for Dean when he saw the picture of Adam and John at the baseball game for Adam's birthday. Poor guy got nothing from John his whole life except for a "I'm so proud of you" right before he died when all he ever wanted was his father's approval
• SO much blood in the walls of Adam's house...
• Sam was so good at being the big brother with Adam after being the little brother his whole life
• It was such a kick in the gut to learn at the end of the episode that Adam had been dead the whole time.  Not necessarily for the viewers, but for Sam and Dean.
• So I did think it was nice that they gave the real Adam a hunters funeral.  Poor kid.  "Adam was our brother.  He died like a hunter.  He deserves to go out like one."
• "Son of a bitch" count - 3
• Blood spatter count - 1

Season 4, Episode 18: The Monster at the End of This Book

"You must understand why I can't intercede.  Prophets are very special.  They're protected . . . .  If anything threatens a prophet, anything at all, an archangel will appear to destroy that threat.  Archangels are fierce. They're absolute.  They're heaven's most terrifying weapon. . . .""So if a prophet was in the same room as a demon -""Then the most fearsome wrath of heaven would rain down on that demon.  Just so you understand... why I can't help."

This episode is my favorite episode of the whole series to date.  From the very first time I saw it, to the dozen or so times I have rewatched it, this episode is everything that makes this series brilliant.  Just as importantly, this episode, the quoted moment above - that was the moment that I knew, that I was sold on Castiel.

My first thoughts:

"As in Sam slash Dean together."  "You mean together together?  They do know we're brothers, right? #Supernatural #Season4"

"Ok.  This is the moment, right here in this episode, that I've decided I love Castiel.  I'm sold.  #Supernatural #Season 4"

- Twitter, September 3, 2013

And now:  

• I love the opening credits.  I love how Bobby looks exactly the same and Sam and Dean look like this:

which one is even which?

• "Sam slash Dean" - I love that Sam had to explain that to Dean and the disgust on Dean's face when he figured it out. 
• "The best parts are when they cry."  So true.
• The publisher girl who was also in season 2 looks so much younger in this episode.  Maybe because she's fangirling like crazy instead of being griefstricken over her dead husband.
• I love the "traded soulful looks" line followed by the actual soulful looks traded by Sam and Dean.
• "This is not a misery thing, believe me, we are not fans!"  That whole scene is so great, and Chuck Shurley is such a fantastic character.
• So Chuck never wrote the last names into the books, but the first thing Becky says to Sam in Season 5 is that she knows him, that he's Sam Winchester... how'd she know that?
• "Obviously I'm a God."  Yup.  I think that's pretty clear, Chuck.
• I love Sam's reaction to Dean busting out the Vonnegut titles - too funny.
• "You especially are not gonna like this."  "I didn't like Hell."
• I always feel like the food came out super quick when Dean and Sam ordered their tofu burger and salad.
• Dean thinking "tofu is amazing" - still funny after all these viewings.  Also - BIG mistake by that waitress - she's lucky Dean was just playing opposite day and that he wasn't a vegetarian!
• I love Dean trying hardest not to fight with Sam.  "It frustrates me when you say such reckless things."
• Chuck telling Sam about the demon blood storyline, that he was "afraid it would make you look unsympathetic" - truth.
• Did Kevin ever have visions like Chuck did?  I can't remember.  I feel like he spent 2 seasons trying to translate tablets but that's about all he did as a prophet.
• I love Cas's face when he tells Dean "just so you understand why I can't help."  He's so clever in that moment, so understanding of how to be sneaky - it's kind of un-Caslike, especially compared to what we'd seen of him to that point.
• I HATE this version of Lilith... she was so much creepier as a little girl.  At least when Katie Cassidy played her, she played her like a little girl in an adult body... now we're supposed to buy her as a demon who needs to have sex to seal a deal?  I just don't like it.  At all.  
• I've always wondered what exactly Chuck saw.  Was it that Sam killing Lilith would break the final seal? Was is that the angels wanted the apocalypse to happen?  I guess it doesn't matter, we get the idea, but still, curious.

Season 4, Episode 17: It's a Terrible Life

"Look, it's more than that.  Like, I don't like my job.  I don't like this town.  I don't like my clothes.  I don't like my own last name.  I don't know how else to explain it, except that . . . it feels like I should be doing something else.  There's just something in my blood.  Like I was destined for something different.  What about you?  You ever feel that way?"

I love everything about this episode.  We know it had to be a trick at the beginning, that our Dean Winchester couldn't be wearing suspenders, drinking rice milk, driving a Prius, and listening to NPR, eating salads and offering diet tips . . . so it was logical that the angels would be behind it.  Still, it was a total treat, and I thoroughly enjoyed it the second time around too.

• Every time I say the name of this episode I sing it to the tune of Terrible Love by The National. . . "it's a terrible life and I'm walking with spiders..."
• I will never trust Kurt Fuller in any show that he is ever in ever because he was such an ass to poor Sydney Bristow in Alias
• Love Dean and Sam's alternate universe last names Smith and Wesson
• Who the hell would think to kill themselves by sticking their head in a microwave?  I mean seriously. Head in the microwave?  What a way to go!
• Ian's reaction when Dean tells him he filled out the paperwork wrong is actually kind of funny . . . I mean it's not because we know he's probably going to go crazy and kill himself, but it's a little funny
• When Ian stabs himself it totally looks like chocolate syrup
• "So you're telling me that your dreams are special visions and you're some kind of psychic?"  "No, I mean, that would be nuts."  Hahaha.
• "Should we go check this out?"  "Like right now?"  "No. No, it's getting late.  You're right."  "I am dying to check this out right now."  "Right?!!"   I loved that dialogue.
• I love where they went with Dean in this episode, having him be the exact opposite of who he really is. Dean Winchester?  On a cleanse?  Getting rid of carbs?  Really?
• I love it when Dean calls Sam "Sammy" and Sam calls him out on it
• LOVE that the boys watched the instructional video from the Ghostfacers
• Also love that Sam's ex-fiancee's name was Madison and that when he tried to call her he got an animal hospital.  Nice call back.
• Love that the first thing that Dean says when Zachariah touches him and makes the reveal who he is is how hungry he is.
• Blood spatter count - 2

Season 4, Episode 16: On the Head of a Pin

"I can't do it, Cas.  It's too big.  Alastair was right.  I'm not all here.  I'm not--I'm not strong enough.  Well, I guess I'm not the man either of our dads wanted me to be.  Find someone else.  It's not me."

• Any episode with Castiel in the opening scene is a-okay with me.
• This is the first episode where we see the angel wings after an angel is killed within a vessel . . . I think that's so cool
• I think this is also the first time that Dean calls Castiel "Cas" to his face - I'm not sure that he ever actually even addresses him by name in any episode before this one
• I love Cas beginning to show empathy to Dean . . . the first time around, I still wasn't sold on him at this point, but knowing now how much I grew to love him, it's nice to see the hints of the Cas I grew to love even when he still had a stick up his ass ;)
• "Uriel's the funniest angel in the garrison.  Ask anyone."  Hahaha
• I really did believe Cas when he said "I would give anything not to have you do this."
• And this is the episode that we learn that what Sam has secretly been doing with Ruby is DRINKING HER BLOOD.  So creepy, Sam.  
• So John was in hell for nearly a year in Earth time before he got out when the gate opened.  I guess that means that he resisted torturing souls in Hell for MUCH longer than Dean lasted. 
• This version of Alastair is SO creepy.
• It is super sad to see Dean in the hospital all beaten up =(
• The lights flickered before Anna shows up - what's up with that?  Obviously the angels come and go all the time without any flickering of the lights
• Ugh, Uriel.  So evil.  Knew it.
• Uriel's "help me.  Help me spread the word. Help me bring on the apocalypse" speech - all I kept thinking was Jerry Maguire and "help me help you."
• Why didn't Uriel's eyes light up right away when he was stabbed?  There was definitely a delay.
• When Dean cries, my heart breaks every time.
• "Son of a bitch" count: 1