I'm kinda weirded out by how much amazing content we had in this episode (totally on with you about the Emmy reel fucking ten times over!!) only to then have it mushed together with such disparate parts in between. I can deal with the Destiel allusions to be honest, if we get Sam choosing to go for Dean as his lodestar every time and Dean finally acknowledges that he trust Sam's judgement implicitely on the big picture stuff. I thought Sam and Eileen had a good end, even though seriously the direction on those lingering looks leaving was a bit cheesy for my tastes, I never bought into the big romance thing, to me it was, if they were going to be together, it would have been a pragmatically loving relationship and not a love for the aeons type thing (seriously, fifteen years of building that shit on Samn'Dean and they expect us to hop onto that train with life five episodes?), but I like Eileen, I'm glad she survived the Sam-peen-o-death (the second time anyway).

I cannot, under any circumstances, take any more of the ridiculousness that was Vampy!Winchesters. That looked just WRONG in every single shot to me. What was that effect. I cannot.

I'm still cautiously optimistic about the ending. I've been speculating already about Chuck being replaced as the anthropomophic expression of God as the solution as you know, comparable to Billy-Death etc. so I think that's where they going with Jack. I could take that. Like, Jack gets to be the inexperienced baby!God that gets raised and taught by his angel-, witch- and warrior-Dads how to not fuck up the world, which retires them without taking them completely out of the game, but letting the next generation take charge of the balance. That would make me happy. Of course, now that I thought it up, there's no way it's going to happen, but a girl can dream right?
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