Thanks for such a funny recap! Your threesome jokes soften the sting of some of my canon gripes with this episode, and made me feel better about it on the whole.
I LOL'd at your freakout over the angel feathers, sorry. Because of course in Destiel-land (aka S8), Dean has a few stashed in the trunk. And now we know how Baby travels a zillion miles in 3 minutes--the angel feathers up her ass make her light and limber!
My main gripe (not a new song for me) was simply that Sam had zero to do, as was the case last week, and many of the eps to date. Sigh, it's not hard to make me happy in this regard, people! I get that Dean is more fun to write, and that the show is his POV. Just have him do ONE THING per episode. I did like your observation that this retcon might really be a good way to interest Sam in hunting again. That gave me some hope.
I fell on the side of "no one wants to remember Sera existed" rather than "Dean and Sam are regressing in the face of stress" re: their attitudes towards John. I kind of feel that way about their attitudes toward everything this season. There COULD be a reason they are acting as they are, but it is NOT SUPPLIED ONSCREEN.
I kind of disagree with you that being a retconned legacy MoL devalue's John's backstory as a normal guy--for all intents and purposes he still was, psychologically, much in the way that Dean was a "normal" guy to Sammy's part-demon psychologically until they dubbed them both angel condoms in S5. The character motivations remain consistent for me because the characters believed in their own self concepts.
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I LOL'd at your freakout over the angel feathers, sorry. Because of course in Destiel-land (aka S8), Dean has a few stashed in the trunk. And now we know how Baby travels a zillion miles in 3 minutes--the angel feathers up her ass make her light and limber!
My main gripe (not a new song for me) was simply that Sam had zero to do, as was the case last week, and many of the eps to date. Sigh, it's not hard to make me happy in this regard, people! I get that Dean is more fun to write, and that the show is his POV. Just have him do ONE THING per episode. I did like your observation that this retcon might really be a good way to interest Sam in hunting again. That gave me some hope.
I fell on the side of "no one wants to remember Sera existed" rather than "Dean and Sam are regressing in the face of stress" re: their attitudes towards John. I kind of feel that way about their attitudes toward everything this season. There COULD be a reason they are acting as they are, but it is NOT SUPPLIED ONSCREEN.
I kind of disagree with you that being a retconned legacy MoL devalue's John's backstory as a normal guy--for all intents and purposes he still was, psychologically, much in the way that Dean was a "normal" guy to Sammy's part-demon psychologically until they dubbed them both angel condoms in S5. The character motivations remain consistent for me because the characters believed in their own self concepts.
In short: angel feathers and incest threesomes.