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While I agree in theory with everything you said (except possibly the last paragraph), I think Emily is going to need more therapy than just a parent-who-understands (and hopefully Carla will get her to a good, qualified therapist). I also think overly-protective (and feeling guilty) father Beau might want Emily far away from his job and anything that might cause him to endanger her. How that works with her wanting him to "open up" to her more and giving her parental support, I have a feeling that (as far as the show is concerned) they want to show Beau/Jenny moving forward, so the old family has to be out of the picture. *sigh* And the show hasn't been the best at paying attention to what's logical vs. what they want to happen. I do expect to see him calling her, and we'll probably have Jenny, Cassie and Denise ask how Emily's doing at least for the first few months, until it's no longer relevant to the storyline.

So I guess the unidentified deal that Jensen Ackles signed the other day, (per Fangasm, with press release pending) might be for season 4? (I assume they didn't want to spoil the season finale by letting people know he'd still be around.) And that's assuming, of course, that there will be a season 4. In any event, YAY! Beau didn't die. And neither did Donno. And Tonya *did* get the money. And they've set up for Donya next season. And Walter and Cormack are bonding. And Paige is on her way out of town. I didn't do too badly with my predictions, even though only Carla and Emily are heading back to Texas without Beau. Though how he'll check up on Emily from so far away is hard to see. Maybe he'll get her a tracking microchip so he won't have to call her every half hour. I thought Jensen was wonderful here, though I do have to say, when Beau was trying to get Buck to tell him where Emily was, I kept remembering the guy who was threatening Avery and thinking, "kneecap him!" ETA: I have to say this is the first season finale I was actually looking forward to seeing since about season 5 of Supernatural. It reminded me that shows can still set up possibilities for later seasons without resorting to cliffhanger endings. Or maybe I'm just watching the wrong shows. 😊

Do you think anyone will remember about the phone or the $15 million? After all, Beau set up the scheme for Avery to give it to the mobsters in order to get Emily and Denise back, and Avery was wearing a wire so everyone in the van could hear everything he said. OTOH, apparently nobody remembers that the park ranger is missing, so a mere $15 million is nothing much. And no one has mentioned any of the other victims since early in the season. SEASON SCORECARD: Killed: The hiker (Mark?); the camper (Mary?); Luke; the park ranger; the second hiker; Avery and all the mobsters. Kidnapped: Paige (several times); Emily and Denise. Still Missing: The $30,000 (or however much) that Gigi swindled the police out of; the $15 million: Buck, Emily and Denise. RESOLVED: Avery is out of the picture. Buck is a bad guy (though they don't know exactly what he's done yet). Gigi is in jail. Walter is free. Cormack is screwed up for life. I don't think Walter has actually killed anyone (I still think it's possible/likely that Sunny set the fire that killed his adoptive parents to get him away from the abuse.) I don't think anyone has connected him with the (first) hiker, and I don't think he killed Luke--he had plenty of chances but never did anything but look threatening (and crazy). I'd guess it was Buck--wasn't Luke killed with an arrow (not the hitmen's choice of weapon!) and Avery and Buck were the expert archers. I've said it before--I don't think Donno is dead. They didn't show anything directly--just Tonya holding up a bloody hand, the cliche of "OMG, I didn't know he was hurt!" that's usually followed by some kind of revelation/resolution. But mostly, since O'Nan is not just the actor but also the writer/producer, I don't think he'd let them write Donno out unless he was tired of the actor part of his job. But he seemed to be having so much fun writing for himself (most of Donno's best lines were written by O'Nan) that he obviously really, really likes the character. Paige may be traumatized, but I don't trust her to stick with Walter once she gets out of the woods (literally and figuratively). She seems more than a little unbalanced, not just traumatized, or else why go after Sunny just for revenge instead of heading straight for the police to help her and arrest Sunny for giving her up to Buck. And I have no clue why Buck would take either Emily or Denise. He had a getaway car and nobody looking for him. But then, very little in the show actually is logical.

Weren't Tonya and Donno in the room? I remember when all the gunfire started, Donno pulled Tonya behind a (wooden!) table, as if that would stop any bullets (though luckily, all the bad guys hit was the top edges that splintered. I guess they didn't think about shooting through the center of the table). I could imagine her grabbing the phone. Beau didn't seem to notice it when he checked that Avery was dead.

Who's got the $15 million now? Avery got killed before hitting the "transfer to the bad guys" button, right? If it's still in his account, I guess Carla gets it? Since it wasn't "officially" stolen from anyone legitimate? I'd kind of like Walter and Cormack to somehow wind up with it and go off and bond somewhere together, far away from Sunny.

Also, a crop-top bulletproof vest? That leaves an awful lot unprotected. (Per Col. O'Neill, in SG1, after being shot in the arm while wearing a bulletproof vest: "I want sleeves on my vest. I'm serious.")

Last week I had the feeling that Beau wasn't going to survive the season finale. Now...I'm not sure. I don't think they'd be as obvious about killing him off as they are in next week's trailer. And now that Avery's out of the way, the family can head back to Texas where it's warm (notice Beau's winter jacket when no one else seems to be cold?) I also think Donno is going to survive. If Buck can walk away from a hammer to the head and still be a threat, then no simple bullets are going to stop Donno. Besides, they've set up Donya for next season.

Well, it seems like Beau, Jenny and Pops are the only full time members of their P.D. We only see others in the background when those three need someone to look like they have a full staff, so they may well be just part-time security guards they hire to clean up the crime scenes after the others finish their work. Otherwise, why would they ask Cassie to do their detective work instead of another police officer? That could also explain why they never call for backup--there isn't any.

Apparently Buck just becomes a (random) serial killer when he drinks (20 years ago when he became the bleeding heart killer?) Without drinking, he has to have a reason to kill, like whats'er'name the camper. And I guess drinking makes him like to take his time to play with his victims instead of just stab and go.

Anybody else think the Benders? Maybe this was Ma Bender who'd decided long ago that her menfolk were too stupid to live and so took off to Montana.

It certainly sounds like it in the article I linked, but I haven't seen it verified anywhere (maybe I'm looking at the wrong place in The Futon Critic?) ETA: Oh, I see where it says the season has 13 episodes, but it doesn't say the 13th ep is the season finale. But that's just nitpicking. You're probably right.

Still no info on whether episode 13 is The End of this season, but they did release synopses of the episodes through 13: https://bleedingcool.com/tv/big-sky-deadly-trails-abc-releases-season-3-eps-11-13-overviews/ They're still hinting about Beau/Jenny, but it seems more likely to me that Beau will be leaving Montana by the end of the season.

For me, this isn't so much a question of "how" but "why." Assuming it's actually part of the story and not just stunt casting or to hit the reset button, why would Castiel need to show up in the John/Mary storyline? To save them, probably. Maybe to make sure the match takes place, since (at that time) heaven really, *really* wanted/needed Sam and Dean to be born. I can't see season 15 Cas needing to do anything in the earlier time except make sure it happened as planned. And, as mentioned above, then it shouldn't be Misha as Cas, but whoever Cas borrowed in 1972.

I would say Jenny is the worst-acted character, followed by Sunny. Also on the bottom would be Buck, Emily and Beau's ex (whatever her name is). I'd put Walter there, too, except he's good at what he does, which is being creepy. It's just too one-note for me. On the top is, of course, Donno, with Cassie and Cormack as runners-up (at least they usually change expressions to match whatever situation is happening). I think Beau is doing as good a job as he can, considering the nonsense they have him spouting/doing. Acting can only save a bad script if there's something to dig out from underneath, and there's nothing much there. JMO.

It would be interesting if Samuel is "the Queen." After all, he's been under their control all this time. 😊

Maybe Emily is adopted. For someone with two very smart parents, she sure doesn't have any sense of reality or self-preservation, and she doesn't look anything like either of them.

The more I think about it, the more everything points to Buck being the killer. He's the only one with a motive for everything/everyone (except the ranger), which is: (ta-DAH!) to put the blame on Walter. That can even go back to the murder of Walter's parents and the bleeding heart murders--all to make Walter look guilty. Unfortunately, the more blame that gets pointed his way, the harder Sunny works to protect him, which I'm guessing is exactly opposite of what Buck wants. Now, whether he wants Walter out of the way because of jealousy or some other reason, I assume we'll find out. But Buck is also the one who did seem to enjoy the blood and maybe purposely did stupid things like burning the truck near the heart and digging up and leaving the bodies/their personal items where they can be found. And of course Sunny is pretty nutso herself. Maybe she's trying to protect Cormack from knowing his whole family is insane. That's about to go sideways any second now. Has anyone ever mentioned who Walter's father is/was? And how/when Sunny and Buck met and got married?

So, the score so far: Backpacker: accidental. Covered up (very clumsily) by Sunny and Walter. Paige: believed dead; covered up (clumsily) by Sunny and Walter. Mary: killed by Buck. Covered up (clumsily) by Sunny and Buck. Luke: killed by person unknown, with an arrow. Archery experts: Buck and Avery. Park ranger: killed by psycho who hired Donno and Tonya, for no particular reason except to up the body count. And maybe be there to kill Paige when she comes out of the escape tunnel. At stake: millions in cryptocurrency (is that worth anything any more? ☺️) Avery, I think, is the only one with the code word, and he's the one who needs the money as opposed to just wanting it. And his marriage is going down the tubes. Also, just to keep things interesting, all the murders (including Walter's foster parents) 20+ years ago. And doesn't anyone do anything in daylight? All the interviews, staking out, stalking and hunting are at night. Maybe Montana has *really* short days. AFAICR Walter hasn't actually killed anyone (lately). But considering his face going to hunt Luke, he certainly looked capable of it; but he had an axe, not a bow and arrow. He seemed to want a face to face confrontation to scare Luke, not killing from a distance. But wasn't the story that he killed his foster parents because of something they did to a girl he liked? I can't remember. So "protecting" Paige could be his turning point--or just another red herring so he can look like he's the killer. I'm thinking maybe Sunny is really the killer, starting with Walter's adoptive parents for not taking care of him well enough; the high-school murder because she spurned Walter, and all the current ones (and her clumsy coverups) to put the blame on Buck and away from Walter. After all, Reba is the headliner here!

Actors pull triggers all the time. That's part of their job, following director's orders of where and when. They're supposed to be able to trust the armorer and whoever is in charge of safety that the weapon is safe, which is why the majority of the blame is being put on them. Where Baldwin gets in trouble is as producer, who is responsible (more or less) for everything on set, including hiring the people who supposedly screwed up, and overseeing safety (which apparently was pretty lax). I think he might be desperately trying to prove he didn't pull the trigger more out of personal feelings of guilt (who wants to be responsible for killing a friend, even accidentally?) as well as saying it was the gun that was defective (even though there should never have been live rounds in it anyway.) So being exonerated for pulling the trigger might help keep his acting career, though I think not many will bankroll him to produce for a long, long time.

I think it's 13.12, Various & Sundry Villains. From SupernaturalWiki: Synopsis Unbeknownst to Sam and Dean, Rowena is back. She protected herself with a resurrection spell that allowed her to survive Lucifer 'killing' her. She has teamed up with two young witch sisters to get the Black Grimoire from the Winchesters. While on a beer run, the girls cast a love spell on Dean. He comes back to the bunker, proclaiming he has fallen in love and is bringing the Black Grimoire to his love as a gift. Sam tries to stop him by taking the keys to the Impala. Dean knocks him out and leaves on foot with the Grimoire in hand. Sam catches up with him as he is giving the book to the girls. As Sam and Dean are fighting again, Rowena shows up and breaks the love spell. Sam, Dean, and Rowena start to look for the sisters. Rowena explains that she put a tracking spell on the Grimoire and that is how she was able to locate it initially. She explains that she needs the Grimoire for a spell to protect her from Lucifer, should he find her again. She leaves out that she's the one who put the girls up to getting the book from Sam and Dean in the first place. While Dean goes into a local store to ask questions about the sisters, Sam and Rowena talk about their abuse at Lucifer's' hand. They both confide that they have seen his true face, with Sam saying that it still keeps him up at night. He tells Rowena that the feeling of helplessness will never go away. Rowena asks how he dealt with it and Sam replies that he never really has, he's just pushed it down. When Dean comes back with an address for the sisters, Rowena 'sticks' them to the parking lot by dropping a hex bag and reciting a spell. She leaves and goes to the sister's house. At the house, the sisters have been using the Grimoire for a spell to resurrect their dead mother. It goes wrong, and she comes back as an apparently 'magic-proof' zombie. Rowena tries to take the Grimoire and the sisters set the zombie mom loose on her. In the meantime, Sam and Dean have broken free and storm the house. The sisters, who are 'freakishly strong', attack them with a knife and hammer. The fight continues until Rowena grabs Dean's gun (which had fallen during the fight) and shoots zombie mom in the head. She then casts a spell on the sisters who set upon each other with the knife and hammer until they kill each other. In the house, Rowena is clutching the Grimoire and pleading with Sam and Dean that she needs the spell so she can feel safe from Lucifer. Sam takes the book from her and she leaves.

Hair got longer starting in the late 60s and kept on going through the 70s. There were all different lengths, from just below the ear to down the shoulders and back (or outward, for curly hair 😊) so John's hair would have been fine for the "just growing out of military" en route to the longer, hippie look, or for those who weren't comfortable with shoulder-length or longer. Ear length was considered short and, neatly trimmed, was usual for businessmen. By the early 70s, people rarely talked about gay but it wasn't unknown or in the closet, at least in the East. I remember the first time (about 1971) I saw two men kissing on the main street of the small town I was in. They got a few doubletakes, but nobody said or did anything, just shrugged and moved on. This was in NY (actually in New Paltz, a small upstate college town not at all like the one in Provenance, and not too far from where JDM lives now.) It was, of course, the 70s, not 2005. And it *was* a college town; but so is Lawrence.

And then there was Dean's answer--"not in my experience." And everything Cas said was a lie anyway. The angels did have an ulterior motive, and it wasn't just doing a good deed. ☹️ Sorry.

It seems like they just want cheaper shows, ones they can produce themselves (instead of buying from other sources who then get the streaming revenue.) He also specifically says he wants more comedies (which tend to be cheaper to produce) so I'd be worried about the more expensive action oriented shows, but it's not *really* over yet. Yet.

I need a score sheet to keep track of who's doing what, is suspected of doing what, is supposed (or not) to be doing what, and who knows what. My head hurts. 😊

I have no issue with thick eyebrows. I have 'em, too (and was embarrassed by them back in the '70s and tried to tweeze the heck out of them but gave up because it was too much trouble.) My problem with Meg's is the black eyebrows with blonde hair. The 70s was about being and looking natural, and that sure wasn't it.