trudysmom

Not a fan of most holiday commercials, too kitchy. Except when they aren't because they are too loud, too flashy and obnoxious. (looking at you, Toyota). But I love it every year when the Hershey's Kisses play Jingle Bells. To me, that's the start of the season.

There's Toyota commercial that is a crime against humanity. Someone with a high-pitched voice does a horrific, slow cover of Dion's Wanderer. Urk.

The first time I watched Big Bang and saw Leonard I yelled "it's Trouty!". From that series My Boys. I loved that show. He was an annoying little nerd in that show, too. Love him though.

I have a history of spoiling my own Christmas, ever since I was little. Not always on purpose, sometimes it just happens. This year, I very accidentally found out that my daughter has ordered a custom Jody Mills Funko Pop for me! Squee!!! I only collect girl Pops, strong female characters. I'm hoping this takes some of the sting out of the bitterness I feel over this season so far. :)

Tears. She is so brave.

Waving to Sherry! So sorry you got screwed with the green apple cough syrup. It was a doomed ingredient from the start. I enjoyed your snippets with Jesse, "I thought I was Jesse's girl!" Hope to see you around FN again.

Loved the scenery in this one. Even before the forest, which was beautiful, the scene around city hall or wherever the pardoning was happening was great. I love Louise, she is fierce! Taking on a couple of coyotes, no big deal for her! Great quotes, lovely scenery, the kids sticking together (pinch attack!) to do the right thing, great episode.

I didn't care for either dress, and thought Gen looks a bit goth, but both guys look happy and proud, so hey, live and let live. The photo with the Supernatural Stages plaque, very cool. But my first thought was, they're standing on the wrong sides!

This x1000! I believe Speight deserves alot of credit for this. His episodes seem to cast the best possible light on the brothers, IMO. Of course there's only so much he can do with a shitty script, so Sam's pressuring Not!Charlie to keep hunting was a huge matzo ball he couldn't do anything about. My guess is there will be some hunt or something that Not!Charlie will be there for, her moxie and badassness will save the day, maybe even the brothers, and Sam will get credit for having convinced her to stick around. Maybe she'll find a cure for Jacks consumption. While she's at it she can cure Nick's Lucifer hangover and Sam's constipation, Not!Bobby's self-loathing and Mary's bitchy I'm-Not-Just-a-Momness. (Are you ANY kind of mom?) Then she'll convince DarkKaia to come to the Good side, get the spear, single-handedly take down Michael and become a Wayward chick of some kind. I'm a little bitter, sorry it shows.

I enjoyed this episode for the most part. I usually like Speight's directing, his episodes seem to move along at a good clip, when it's over I think 'wow that was fast'. I didn't like Dean's "clear it with Sam" stuff, but in the end he took Jack along and, except that Jack looks like a high school boy, they did well together. I liked things from both stories, Felicia Day was really good in her scene in the truck, talking about her old life. Sam just seemed flat, to me. Like he was just mouthing the words. I did like the fidget spinner though. Dean got to eat pie, yay. Jack passed out but it looks like next week he's driving Baby? Must be a case of 24 hour consumption. All the AU hunters were out on hunts or something, yay again. They can stay gone.

I wonder if my disappointment with the episode, and season so far, has as much to do with the actors' ability to portray the characters as with the crappy writing. The only ones who were even somewhat engaging were the creepy groundskeeper (props for misdirection, there Dabb), the Djinn and Dean. But Jensen always delivers, and maybe that's what is getting to me. Jared seems to have two facial expressions, exasperation/embarrassment over something (Dean did, usually) and worry/concern. When was the last time the guy smiled? Halloween episode? I can't remember. Samantha Smith just does nothing for me. In earlier seasons, flashback episodes Mary seemed at least somewhat motherly. Now we're supposed to believe that she was always this badass hunter, but that she put all that behind her for John and the boys. But now, here she is again, her true self!--Badass Mary! I don't see it. Bobby, the old Bobby, I loved. This new Bobby, nope. Maybe it's the lack of history with the brothers that's missing, but I don't give one good damn whether he approves of them and how they do things. His opinion means zilch. Same, I fear with Charlie when she comes back. I don't know why Dabb can't see that this show hinges on Jensen. He's the only one holding it up, and I truly am not saying that because he's the most perfect looking man alive and has tremendous presence and range and all that wonderful stuff that is being wasted on this show. Is Jared tired? Ready to move on? Is he phoning it in? I don't want to think that, I've loved both brothers from the start. But this, lately, is not Supernatural. I loved the way he dealt with the Djinn. Over the top, yes. Is it dead? I don't know. But shades of DemonDean and MOCDean came through and I loved that cold, determined look when he emptied his gun into him. And I HATED his props to Sammy at the end. "You did this. You brought her home" or whatever drivel it was he had to say. PLEASE. And did Sam say "We'll find Evil Kaia, get the spear"? So...how? Is he going to ask nicely and say pretty please? Because when Dean was going to get answers from her Sam seemed to have a problem with that. Or will he leave it to Dean so he doesn't get his hands, and conscience dirty? I don't want to think these thoughts!! It's possible I have a problem. Is there a 12 Step program I can take to get over Supernatural Addiction?

That's ok. He can steal all the oxygen he wants. I like when that happens.

When Bobby let Sam have it, blamed him for Maggie going missing, I was ready to turn off my tv if Dean was going to step in and defend Sam. Luckily mommy did that and then split them up so she could coddle Sammy, but I fully expected Dean to be the one to tell Bobby he was wrong.

I really liked it, it could go down as a favorite for me. Like Katy said, a happy Dean is my kind of Dean, too. The conversation at the end, Sam finally said what I wanted to hear, that no one blames Dean. About time. I know in the pilot, Sam told Jess "You know how I feel about Halloween". Then it was what, a couple of days later she died? I always thought after that he associated it with her death. I also found it sloppy that they left the mannequin in the morgue. I sort of thought Dean might put it in the Impala and take it home!

Thank you TNT for some vintage episodes for Halloween! Bloody Mary was the one that hooked me, as well. While watching it today with my daughter, who does not watch the show except for a random episode occasionally, I wondered the aloud about why Dean's eyes would bleed in that scene. She said "Because he feels guilty about every bad thing that's ever happened to anyone, anywhere. He carries the weight of the world on his shoulders, always has." It's obvious to even someone who you wouldn't even call a casual viewer. Le sigh. It struck me odd though, that Sam says there are things he prefers to keep to himself, but in the recent seasons it's like he wants Dean to open a vein and spill every thought he has, ever. Maybe that's due to all the seasons of lies and deception between them, though. I miss those seasons, thank Chuck for Netflix!

Rewatched and a couple of things screamed out at me. The fight in the cabin with the 3 goonie vamps, (Did they buy out all the funky buck teeth they could get in honor of Halloween?) the goons got in what looked like some good licks, popping both guys in the jaw repeatedly, especially Dean. (I'm always worried about that pretty face) After it was over, only Jody looked to have any sort of mark on her. Besides the broken arm, her face was bruised. No bruises on Sam or Dean. No split lip, not even a smudge of dirt from the floor. It's like they put so much emphasis on making sure Dean is a Dick is the theme of the episode, and spotlighting the amazing gymnastic talents of AUKaia, Master SmartAss, they forgot or just blew off any sort of realistic touches for the brothers. Lazy. Lazy editing, lazy writing, (just let Dean blame himself for everything, that's his thing). Best thing about this episode, no Mary. So thanks for that.

Huh, maybe when they keep talking about God being gone, not caring anymore, they're really talking about Kripke. He, like the God they created and wrote, left his creation and no longer cares what happens to it. Sadly, Dean, his "firewall" is being pummeled from all sides. I wish the CW would pull the plug already.

Very disappointing, as expected. I liked Dean best when he was just laser focused, speeding down the highway or staring down AUKia. The Dean Winchester-I-do-what-I-have-to-do is the one I will ALWAYS watch. The guilt ridden, apologetic Dean who blames himself for everything just makes me sad and mad and frustrated. Fourteen years in how can I still be so emotionally invested in a show/character?? And why after all these years if I know he's not going to want to talk it to death right away doesn't Sam? He told Jody Dean was working something out but he kept hammering at him every. chance. he. got. SHUT UP Sam.

It's stupid, the random, silly things that bugged me. One, the way Nickifer says "Cast-yell". It bugged me when he was Lucifer, now it bugs more. NO one else says it like that. It's not hard to say . But for some reason, that he calls him by his name seems wrong, somehow. I mean I'm sure Cas told him "I'm Castiel", and that's all he knows to call him, but still, bugs me. Like I said, silly. NOTBobby's use of Bobby ism's and mannerisms bugs me. He was too freakin' cool to live in South Dakota, but he's like our Bobby in every other way? Please. This entire episode bugged me. The pacing, the stupid repeat of a scene we'd already seen. When it's just Sam, Dean and Cas, even when they're working on something big like hunting down Abadon or Amara, they ate, drank, talked to each other. This episode was just bounce around from one thing to the next. Too much going on, they must have used 6 different sets. To do what? Show Nick being evil, traces of Lucifer still there? Jack being needy and bratty? That could have been accomplished in so many other, less annoying ways. I guess it's the early writers fault for setting the bar so high, creating expectations of a real story that I cared about.

The best thing about this episode was looking at Jensen, all shaven and pretty. I'm beyond sick of Mary, Super Hunter. I didn't care for all the yelling at Cas, so shut up Jack and Nick. Who are you to call Cas names, be all judgey and blame him. Yeah, NIck has more than a bit of Lucifer left in him. Jack looks like a typical teenager full of angst and tunnel vision. IF the end result of MIchael's experiments resulted in new races of super monsters and that means the boys have to figure out how to kill them, and we can see some good monster-of-the-week episodes, then I'll forgive the stupidity that led up to this storyline.

Agreed, gonzosgirrl. And I'm sorry, but Danneel on my screen is almost as bad as Mary. So flat, so blah. Do not like this version of Bobby, either. HIghlight for me was Sam telling Mary to shut up more or less.

Jensen's face looks so thin in this clip. It's not fair that he just keeps getting better looking, dammit.

Agreed, KatyM, plot reasons, but good writing could have helped with that. Anyway, I guess I'm always looking for logic, reason and happy endings. I should know better!

Rewatched, have to ask, why was Kevin still on the houseboat and not at the stinkin bunker???? Makes me feel a bit better about the last couple of fiascoseasons, the writing was shitty then, too.

School's finally out for summer-YAY! So I'm home enjoying reruns on TBS and Season 6 starts with Dean and Lisa. And all I can focus on is how pretty he is. I mean every time he's on screen I keep thinking holy crap. Fast forward to now, and not as pretty, but time has been kind to him. I usually hate that men can age so well and seemingly effortlessly (not being a man I wouldn't know, except that my hubs puts little to no effort into aging well) and women work so hard at not looking their/our age. At least I do. Also, classic rock was such a huge a part of the show then, it adds so much. I miss that. Le sigh, thank Chuck for reruns and Netflix.