OH MY GOD, THAT WAS FUCKING BRILLIANT!
Grey's Anatomy, eat your cliched, melodramatic heart out. I'm like having repeated, self-induced SPN thoughtgasms over here, I AM A HUGE NERD AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH! Oh, man, I wish K was still watching because she'd write up one hell of a review of this, she really would. This episode was like an onion; the same message kind of drilled in on multiple levels. So much to say, but I'll post that tomorrow. For now, just my tiny kind of play-by-play, since I had the power of pause:
That long-suffering look on Bobby’s face when Dean started saying "why me?" OH GOD I LOVE YOU BOBBY!
SWEET! Clear screencaps of Ruby. I AM ALL OVER THOSE!
Ruby parallels Dean again in her reaction to Castiel. More on this later, man I could write an entire META on JUST THIS. God, the way they're written in relation to each other just blows me the fuck away.
Awww...Sammy's driving and Dean’s asleep. For some reason, I find this so adorable, it's such a role-reversal.
I love that when Sam's drawing the tattoo-thing you get that shot of him with pencil in hand against Dean in the background, gun in hand. Pen vs. the sword; thoughtful passivity vs. blunt action. I'M A NERD DEAL WITH IT.
"You gonna shoot, shoot. Don’t talk." I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE, BOBBY! Way to sum up the whole episode in like six words while I take two pages.
"you alright?" "NO!"
God, Jensen has beautiful eyelashes. Sorry, he was sleeping and they like fluttered against his cheek as he woke up and I kind of couldn't breathe for a moment. Clearly the most important part of the scene.
I love that Dean won't take the threat of being sent back to hell from a demon but he will take it from Castiel, despite what Castiel's said about it being God's will. There's like this very active evil up against this very passive good; at some point, you do have to take the offensive, and maybe that's where Dean comes in since that's what he's been doing his whole life. Again, I think that goes back to the entire theme of the episode. As everything does. I guess because the idea is so simple. There is a try; in trying you inherently do, but in doing no success is guaranteed, so all there ever is is 'try', all of life is trying to different degrees.
Did I mention I LOVE THIS EPISODE LIKE LINDSAY LOVES FAKE TANNING? BECAUSE I DID!