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Frontierland -- Appointment in Samarra -- The Third Man -- I don't remember all the details of The Third Man, so forgive me if this is a shallow eulogy, but I did enjoy the Shirtless Sam doing the pullups and the Morning Sex Dean at the beginning of the ep. The rest of the ep with Balthazar collecting souls was just blah. 33- Weekend at Bobby's 32 - Frontierland 32 - Appointment in Samarra 28 - The French Mistake 27 - The Man Who Would Be King 23 - Mommy Dearest 23 - The Man Who Knew Too Much 20 - Live Free or Twihard 14 - Clap Your Hands If You Believe 11- My Heart Will Go On In flagrante with the King of Hell All Dogs Go to Heaven Unforgiven Mannequin 3: The Reckoning Like a Virgin Family Matters And Then There Were None Let it Bleed Caged Heat Exile on Main St. You Can't Handle the Truth Two and a Half Men The Third Man  

Wow, I always figured Kathy Griffin was so obviously the expected choice that there was no way she would actually get the job. I thought that they would go the opposite of Joan to avoid direct comparisons rather than pick someone with such a similar style of comedy. Don't get me wrong, I think that Kathy is actually the best choice if they want to continue having the same type of vibe on fashion police as when Joan was involved, and I will probably enjoy watching her, but hiring Kathy surprises me by not really being very surprising.

Heh. But should the support group be called You Know You Want Him: Learning To Lust Without Fear or Listening To Your Fear: It Doesn't Matter How Pretty He Is If All He Wants To Do Is Kill Things.

I guess I'm with SueB. While I was amused by Sam being the awkward cougar bait,and did like playing spot the"Clue" weapon, I found this episode to be rather boring until the last 10 minutes. When Dean's face turned to dead eyed killer as he quintuple-tapped the shapeshifter, half of me melted from how hot I found him in that moment and the other half froze from the stone cold icy stare. Dayumn. I don't know if it's the Mark of Cain, some leftover demon, Dean's trained hunters instincts or some combination of the three but Dean seems to be pretty deadly right now. His comments in the car when he responds to Sam's question also seems to indicate that he wasn't weak in the earlier eps when Sam got the kill; he was hesitant to kill after being a demon.

With all due respect to everyone's personal experiences (I was babysitting for the neighbours when I was 10), there is an enormous difference between looking after your siblings for a day on occasion or being at home by yourself for a few hours at a time versus expecting a 9 year old to feed, wash, dress, put to bed and get up, entertain, care for boo boos, reassure, and guard his 5 year old brother all by himself for days at a time. This type of 24/7 responsibility is hard enough for an adult to deal with, and it was unrealistic and cruel for John to put it on Dean. And given the implications in the ep that this wasn't the first time he'd left Dean to look after Sam for an extended period, Dean was probably even younger when he was first expected to take over for his father. At best, this was full on neglect by John. While the show leaves it ambiguous, I suspect John was using Sam and Dean as bait for the Striga, since it could only be killed while feeding. The timing of his arrival, just as the Striga is starting to feed on Sam, indicates he was either following it as it headed towards the motel room, or had the room staked out, waiting for it to arrive. And even it was just lucky timing, he still risked his children by leaving them alone near the hunting grounds of a monster he knew targeted victims exactly like his sons, and left Dean completely unaware of the potential danger they were in. And of course Dean, being one to take burdens on himself even as a child, felt guilty, even though he shouldn't, even if John didn't say anything out loud and just gave him the condemning, contemptuous stare ("Dad never said anything, but I knew..."). John should have said something, about how everything was okay and it wasn't Dean's fault. You know, the reassuring things any decent parent would say, instead of laying all sorts of silent blame on his kids shoulders. Dean didn't fail to protect Sammy, John failed them both. As for the guns, yes, eople keep loaded guns in their homes, sure, but they don't hand them to a 9 year old with instructions to use as needed for protection for himself and his little brother and then leave him alone to determine what needs to be shot at. Any kid, and most adults, aren't infallible, don't have perfect judgment in a crisis, and can easily make mistakes about perceived threats and shoot someone they shouldn't. Even though Dean was supposedly trained by John since he was 4 for this job (which itself is a questionable parenting choice at the very least), it was still insanely irresponsible for John to put him in this situation. John was an obsessed, selfish asshole, who continually put his desire to hunt above the needs, welfare and safety of his children. There are many indications in other episodes that he drank too much and was sometimes physically abusive towards Dean, if not Sam. As a parent, John sucked, big time.

Whoops, cross posting. This is what I get for letting myself be interrupted in the middle of a post for an hour or so. I will re-vote, but still feel like I should keep my eulogy for And Then There Were None: I have not come here to praise "And Then There Were None", but to bury it. As well as Rufus, Gwen and Grampa Samuel. Damn, I think my main problem with this ep in hindsight is that if they were going to kill off so many re-occurring characters in one go, it should have been more meaningful and connected to the season arc. At the end of the day, their deaths didn't seem to matter. I don't exactly remember my initial impressions when this ep aired, but I'm pretty sure I thought it was surprisingly boring. revote: Weekend at Bobby's ++ Caged Heat -- Let It Bleed -- 37 - Frontierland 33 - Appointment in Samarra 31 - Weekend at Bobby's 29 - French Mistake 23- The Man Who Would Be King 23 - Mommy Dearest 19 - Live Free or Twihard 19 - The Man Who Knew Too Much 17 - The Third Man 13 - My Heart Will Go On 11 - You Can't Handle the Truth 09 - Clap Your Hands If You Believe 09 - Two and a Half Men 07 - Exile on Main St. 03 - Caged Heat 01 - Let It Bleed In flagrante with the King of Hell All Dogs Go to Heaven Unforgiven Mannequin 3: The Reckoning Like a Virgin Family Matters And Then There Were None

You know it's a good episode of talking dead when it flies by and I wanted to keep going for at least a couple more hours. Yet again, Yvette was informed and informative, funny and sweet and had great chemistry with Chris and the other two guests. And she looked terrific too. CM Punk was good and the actor who played Noah had some thoughtful contributions about his character, was clearly a fan of the show and had some good one-liners. If I wasn't worried about too much of a good thing, I would be lobbying for YNB to have A permanent spot on the couch as a guest.

Heh. Not to this fan of the original trilogy.

I haven't played this game in years, so I may be a bit rusty. Hope I'm doing this right.... Weekend at Bobby's ++ Mannequin 3- - Let it Bleed - - 31 - Frontierland 27 - Weekend at Bobby's 25 - French Mistake 23 - Appointment in Samarra 21 - Live Free or Twihard 21 - The Man Who Would Be King 19 - Mommy Dearest 17 - Two and a Half Men 17 - The Third Man 15 - The Man Who Knew Too Much 15 - You Can't Handle the Truth 13 - Clap Your Hands If You Believe 13 - My Heart Will Go On 13 - Caged Heat 11 - Family Matters 11 - ...And Then There Were None 09 - Like a Virgin 09 - Exile on Main St. 09 - Let It Bleed 07 - Mannequin 3: The Reckoning 03 - Unforgiven In flagrante with the King of Hell: All Dogs Go to Heaven I find it difficult to give pluses to any Season 6 ep, given that it was my least favourite, but I went with Weekend at Bobby's because it was a decent ep that could have fit in on any other season.

I forgot to check the credits; does anyone know who wrote the songs?

Perhaps it's only because I really liked "everybody hates Hitler", but I think I could get behind a spinoff with Adam, the Golem and their quest to eliminate the Nazi sorcerer group whose name I cannot remember. There could be some interesting internal conflict with Adam having ignored his heritage and grandfather's teachings and now having to learn about the mysticism and cultural history in order to survive being chased by the Nazis. And for external conflict, well, there's the Nazis. Throw in another sidekick, maybe a former member of the sorcerers group trying to make amends and gain redemption, do a back door pilot where they meet up with Sam and Dean again, and boom there is your spin off.

There are people who don't like musicals. There are people who don't like meta. There are people who don't like this episode of Supernatural. Today, I am not one of those people. It was a sweet and salty cross between a roast of the show and the occasionally overzealous parts of fandom and a love letter to the show's fans. It managed to honor the shows history in a milestone episode and also provided some insight into the Winchesters current state of mind and the brotherly relationship. I admit to doing a little fan girl squee when they did the montage of all the title cards ever, during the performance of "Carry On My Wayward Son", and when Chuck showed up at the end. I found the songs to be ridiculous (and ridiculously catchy) in the best possible way, and thought the guest actresses, particularly the director/writer, did a pretty good job. And I enjoyed the affectionate poking at the fandom with the quotes about subtext shippers and making your own version of the story. But the best part of the episode for me by far was the reactions of Sam and Dean to the whole situation. From their flabbergasted faces when they first walk into the theater and see the performance of "the road so far", to Sam's geeking out in the tech room to Dean's annoyance with them getting the story wrong and his "just no" to the whole Destial thing. Both Jared and Jensen did some terrific and funny reaction shots, and Jensen's face when Dean realized he just called a teenage girl a bitch was priceless. And, notwithstanding my issues with the brotherly relationship during the past couple of seasons, I did get a tiny bit misty when Dean hung the prop Samulet on Metallicar's mirror. Congratulations to all of the cast and crew of Supernatural reaching their 200th episode and for making it such a good one.

The salmon Canon was one of the funniest bits Johnny has done so far. All of the celebrity cameos with their WTF faces getting slapped with the salmon just tickled me pink. How in the hell did he get Tom Hanks and R2-D2 to do this? Well I'm going to miss John while he's gone, at least he ended the season on a real high note, going from the ridiculousness of the salmon cannon to shining a light onto the scam that is the educational state lotteries to The closing credits dance party with all the characters from earlier eps. Loved seeing the Scottish unicorn and space sex geckos again but the pole dancing chicken still freaks me out.

I know I'm late to the party but I didn't watch this ep until yesterday. While it's clear that the canvas was being difficult, nothing -except if he was grabbing her boob or something - justifies telling him to fuck off. It's unnecessary, unprofessional and unbelievable. When it got to the point of where the two couldn't agree, she should have told him to come back the next day for the tattooing session. In the meantime, she would design a tat based on his circuit board idea, but with biomechanical elements. Then, if he didn't like it and wouldn't let it be tattooed on him, she could go ahead and tattoo it on herself. if she could have shown the canvass that the proposed biomech tattoo looked cool and close to what he wanted, instead of them just arguing about it with each other, it's way more likely she could have talked him into it.

Well, that was a terrific finale to a very enjoyable season. I had been getting weary of the repetitious monster and alien make ups but the season really turned it around with a focus on all sorts of other types of critters. The final makeups for all three were very good and it was amazing how well they stood up to the surprising physicality of the Knights battle. I am pleased that Dina won as I liked her makeups the most throughout the season, but Cig's was pretty good and he would have been a very acceptable winter as well. Drew's team helping out Dina clean her molds truly epitomizes my favorite thing about face-off, which is the camaraderie among the competitors. It's such a contrast to so many other reality competition shows (Ink Master, I'm looking at you) where the competitors are assholes to each other and can never acknowledge that anyone else did a good job.

Well, I didn't care about Kate and her werewolf on the run story two years ago and I still don't care about Kate and her sister the werewolf now. Perhaps it would have been different if the actress who played Kate didn't sound like she was bored beyond belief every time she was talking. She seemed to care even less about this episode then I did. And the sister brought about as much depth and menace to her "I love being a werewolf" speech as a toddler pointing a finger gun and going "bang bang". However, I could easily have watched the boys hanging out by that incredibly picturesque lake and jokingly giving each other shit in those douchy sunglasses for an hour. They were sure bringing the pretty in that opening scene.

It thrills me to no ends how many challenges this season have been monster and alien free. It's like they have been reading the message boards or something.... Stella wasnt a bad artist by any means, but she picked a bad time to do her worst look. Her concept was far from innovative but if she had been able to pull off a better paint job she might have been able to squeak past the oil slick fairy. Although I preferred Dina's beautiful flood fairy, Cig's Avalanche fairy was pretty good too and a worthy winner. Those ice wings were very nifty and I wish they had shown how he did them in the first half of the ep.

I've said it before (though not on this site) that Nightshifter is one of my favorite episodes of TV ever, not just supernatural. I would argue that it is one of the best, if not the actual best, episodes of supernatural in their nine seasons based on tight plotting, enjoyable one of characters (poor Ronald) and the introduction a major complication for the boys that runs for the next two seasons in the form of Henderson and the FBI. Both Sam and Dean are funny smart and competent in this episode and the monster of the week is a legitimate challenge. The little touches like the Sherry shifter being stabbed by Dean in front of an "it's been --days since the last work accident" poster to sam's face when the teller starts gushing about Dean to Dean's reaction to Hendrickson criticizing his father are all wonderful. Add in the renegade "we're screwed" ending and you have a terrific episode.

This was great and I love that the CW is giving the little show that could it's due after 10 seasons. And while I agree that "Mans Best friends with benefits" is far and away the worst thing they've ever done and I would rather watch a weeklong marathon of nothing but Wendingo then even just the first 15 minutes of the dog fucker episode ever again, I can't blame Kripke for it. That was done on Jeremy Carver's watch, and so it is he who owes me an apology, salted caramel chocolates, and an hour of my life back.

Oh, boy. Clowns are scary even when they aren't trying to be. I may be sleeping with the lights on tomorrow night. ; )

That Canadian French rock climber was insanely good especially considering he had never run this type of course before. Congrats to the athletes who finished stage 3. All were impressive, but I really have to feel bad for the two Japanese guys who finished, yet still couldn't score any points for Japan. That's two years in a row that Japan has basically been humiliated by their overall performance. The two finishes on stage III could not make up for the horrid performance on stage one and the suck fest that was stage two. It's very hard to understand why. Is it jetlag? Overwhelming pressure? Lack of decent sushi? What is it?

All I have to say is that an episode without Mr. Westmore equals an automatic fail.

Well, fuck you Space for not showing this episode. It sounds like so much fun, dammit. Can anyone give me the details of Glenn and the kitties?

Overwhelming YES!! to the thread title change. Bwaha!

You know, I didn't realize until today that my DVR didn't record Sunday's episode. I think my DVR is trying to save me from myself when it comes to this show, and I'm taking its advice. Woo! Another 44 minutes each week to waste on something slightly less stupid than The Lottery.