Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Bisquick Waffles

Waffles or pancakes? Pancakes or waffles? If you're a person, and I assume you're not some robot from the future reading this right now, then you probably have a preference.

What's mine? No question.


Waffles.


So if you're like me and would rather have some waffles than pancakes today, an actual pancake celebration day, then read on.

These are waffles that use Bisquick. Yes, yes, not entirely homemade. But I have all of this Bisquick from the 7Up Biscuits, and was also feeling like some waffles, so what are you gonna do? It's obviously a perfect opportunity to combine the two. And also? Super easy.

Bisquick Waffles

2 cups Bisquick baking mix
1 ½ cups water
1⁄3 cup powdered milk (or you can use milk instead of the water and powder)
2 eggs , separated

Mix mix, water, milk powder (or 1.5 cups of milk if using that instead) and egg yolks until well mixed.

In a separate bowl, beat egg whites with clean beaters until stiff. Fold egg whites into the batter.

Pour the batter onto a preheated waffle iron and bake per its instructions.

These can be frozen when cooled, or just refrigerated for a few days if you feel like it. Pop 'em in the microwave (depending on how many, I did mine for about 45 seconds, but they were just refrigerated, not frozen), or if you so desire, you can treat these like some Eggos and stick them in the toaster.

In photos:

 Water, milk powder, Bisquick and yolk mixxy mix.

Whip up the egg whites.

Fold in the egg whites. Fluffy.

Set your waffle iron to work and voila!

Mmm. Waffles!

Friday, February 17, 2012

Supernatural 7x15 "Repo Man"

Now, see, this is what I've been waiting for. The return of the hellucinations! By far my favorite episode of the season was the second one when they were first introduced. I wish it hadn't taken so long for them to resurface, but hey, at least they are!

To the recap! We start off four years ago, which is when? Third season? Fourth season? I think it was the fourth based on the sketchy timeline of events in my head (edit: apparently we're meant to believe this is season three, must be between the last two episodes, things get confusing when you've got time jumps in between seasons is all I'm saying). The Winchesters were in search of Lilith back then, and had tracked down a demon possessing a guy named Jeffrey to get the name of one of her special lieutenants. They get the info after some pretty terrible torturing of said dude. Dean drops him at the hospital once he's free of the demon, and that's that.

Of course, that's not that. Flash forward to the present day, where some bodies have been turning up, killed in the same way that the demon in question used to do. Though Dean wants to focus on the leviathans, Sam insists this is unfinished business, and they go to investigate. And now we actually get to see a glimpse of what Sam has been dealing with in regards to Lucifer still being around in his noggin. In the past he's been able to rub the scar on his hand and get him to go away, and that sort of continues to work here too, but as we'll see, it doesn't work for much longer. Oops, spoiler alert! But it's sort of a duh, so, whatev.

Recap/review of Supernatural 7x15 "Repo Man" by freshfromthe.com
Uh oh! Uh oh!
In any event, the boys go to see the woman who had previously helped them track down the demon before. She doesn't know much (or does she?!), but does lead the boys toward Jeffrey, the demon's onetime meat suit, as demons tend to be sentimental about the bodies they possess, often coming back for seconds. Jeffrey, it turns out, did not fare so well after his time with being possessed, and is now living in some kind of halfway house. But he did just get himself a cute doggy (at that point I said "oh no, they're going to kill a dog" and hoped I would be wrong. Alas! Whoops! More spoilers!), so he must be sort of turning things around, right?

Ummm. When the brothers check up on him, they figure out he's not possessed again. But he does remember a few things from his time - names on a list that the demon apparently kept in his head, those that he was going to kill next. And the women being killed now are following that same order. While Sam goes off to keep track of the next woman on the list, Dean hangs out with Jeffrey, who has another memory: there was a sort of hideout place that the demon used to go to when he wasn't killing people. Maybe he's there again now! Or maybe you shouldn't trust Jeffrey, Dean, because he's kind of weirdly shifty! But go to the mysterious warehouse they do, only to find a kid tied up to a chair. Dean tries to free him, but gets shot in the neck with something. Jeffrey! You mongrel! At this point we're wondering whether Jeffrey is actually possessed, or maybe he's just straight up crazy town. I was leaning toward crazy town, musing that perhaps he felt a connection to the demon and felt he should finish what he started. Close, I was, but not entirely correct!

Sam, meanwhile, has found the next victim at the library. He keeps a watch on her all while being constantly chatted at by Lucifer. Sam ignores him and ignores him and ignores him, until he surmises that Dean is probably dead since he is not picking up any of his phones. When Sam tells him to shut up, we can see the battle has just been lost by dear Sammy. Lucifer has found a way back in. Uh oh.

At first, he's helpful. Nothing has been going on with the librarian, and Luci points out that the answer is actually in the coroner's notes. This time around, all of the women were tranquilized. Why would a demon need to tranquilize women, one must wonder? Back to Jeffrey's! Sam combs the place until he finds some latin papers, which look like they came from the woman's place. Indeed, they did. Ms. Havelock was forced to try to come up with a summoning spell for the demon because crazy Jeffrey took her son, the boy we saw tied up earlier. The first spell didn't work, but she found one now that will, only it takes the blood of the exorciser. Namely, Dean. Better find him quick!

Dean, meanwhile, is getting an earful from crazy Jeffrey, who is, yes, crazy. It turns out he had serial killer tendencies even before the demon showed up, and felt free once he was able to do everything his heart of hearts desired. Now he just wants to get the demon back and feel whole again. Only when he performs the summoning, the demon decides to take up residence not in Jeffrey, but in the kid. Though the demon is proud of Jeffrey for fulfilling his terrible potential, he doesn't want to join back up with him. Obviously, Jeff is less than pleased with this information, so the demon gives him a slappy slap. Don't talk back to your demon, buddy, they don't like it.

Recap/review of Supernatural 7x15 "Repo Man" by freshfromthe.com
Lucifer, I missed you. Wait. What?

The demon's about to turn his attention on Dean, but that's when Sam and the mother turn up. They trap the demon in a devil's trap (though I wonder why that was there? Did Sam and the woman have time to put it up? I wouldn't have thought so. And why would Jeff put it up?) and exorcise it, but not before Dean has to shoot Jeffrey down dead when he tries to kill the kid meat suit. Another demon in training sent down to hell, yikes. It won't be good when he comes out someday.

The boys head back to their motel suite. Dean flops onto the bed, but Sam is not so lucky, because Lucifer is still there with him, and now that he has acknowledged his presence, Sam can't get rid of him by rubbing that scar on his palm anymore. His bed fills with flames while Lucifer cackles beside him. Sammy!

Random Thoughts:

- Oh hi, Impala! We've missed you. Will you be coming back anytime soon? Or is this like the alterna-reality leading to that future where you're buried beneath a tarp and future Dean is all mean? Huh? What? That was season five. Get over it.

- Yikes, that forked tongue from Lucifer was freaky gross! Squick factor: extreme!

- I loved it when Lucifer called himself Luci. Haha, yes!

- You know someone is straight up evil when they kill a dog, especially their own dog. Damn you, crazy Jeffrey!

- The whole thing seemed to wrap up a little too easily after such a great build up, but I won't quibble when generally it was really good.

- Brain melt thought of the night: why does Lucifer manifest as the Nick version? Is that the version that Sam would've seen in hell? Obviously for budgetary reasons we can't see some mystical devil figure, but what if Sam saw Lucifer as himself sometimes? Jared was always great at playing him. Probably would get too confusing.

- The preview! OMG, the preview! Sam on a hospital gurney looking crazed! Misha! The awesome way they said the date of the return in that gramophone (March 9th, btw. Yep, we're in another mini hiatus)!

Quotes:
(I could just call this Lucifer quotes!)

"It's nice. Kinda like a men's room with beds." - Lucifer

Guy 1: I wanna talk about Cinemax. We're grown men. We pay rent. Why can't we get Cinemax?
Guy 2: Heh heh. Skinemax.

Dean: Sorry, just had to make sure.
Jeffrey: Make sure of what? That I peed my pants today?

"You're right. We just don't read anymore." - Lucifer

"I'm pretty sure this guy's the boring sort of chubby chaser." - Lucifer

"This is what I'm talking about, Sam, real interaction again, I've missed that. The rapier wit. The wittier ape." - Lucifer

"Hmm. Latin. Not suspicious at all." - Lucifer

Sam: A demon summoning. Why?
Lucifer: Why? To summon demons, jackass.

"Ay carumba! Mi cabesa!" - Lucifer

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Underappreciated Gems: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009)

Underappreciated Gems: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles by freshfromthe.comI will be the first to admit that this show wasn't perfect. First and foremost, it should've just been called Terminator: The Connor Chronicles. Placing all of the emphasis on Sarah Connor and not also her son John was, in my opinion, a misstep. There were also some downright ridiculous plots (like that door shadow killer that was unceremoniously dropped) and boring side stories, but the overall arc of the show was really engaging.

I will warn you, however, that the second season finale of the show, which ended up being the series finale, ends on an epic cliffhanger that will drive you nuts. So I understand if you don't want to watch something you know won't have a satisfying ending.

All of that being said, you'd be missing out. Especially if you are a fan of the Terminator series in general. Though if you liked Terminator: Salvation, I'm not sure I trust your judgment one bit. You would think the acting combo of Christian Bale, Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin would be promising, but you would be mistaken.

Anyway, let's not get bogged down in that, we're supposed to be talking about good things! What was fun about T:SCC, as the fans came to call it, was that while it was obviously part of the Terminator mythology, it also diverged in new and interesting ways, particularly thanks to the addition of some new characters. Summer Glau starred as Cameron (nod to James Cameron!), the latest terminator incarnation sent back to protect John. They had a somewhat kinky relationship thanks to her being modeled after someone future John would come to know, which is cool because John is supposed to be the one to take out all of the machines, yet he probably has the closest emotional connection to them too. Complicated!


But my personal favorite new addition to it all came in the form of Derek Reese. Played by Brian Austin Green (or BAG for shortsies), Derek Reese came back from the future to help John. And if that name is sounding familiar, it should, because it turns out he's the brother of Kyle Reese, who you'll recall is John's father. One of my absolute favorite moments in the show, ever, was when Derek took John to see the kid versions of himself and Kyle playing baseball. John obviously never knew his dad, so it was a particularly touching moment. D'aww. But also, he lent an authoritative male presence, one who had seen the war with the machines firsthand.

Overall, the show had some great ideas. Perhaps not always executed as best as they could be, sure, but no show is perfect. If you like yourself some scifi drama and can handle a couple eh episodes in the first season, you'll definitely get swept up in the second season as it picks up the pace and starts getting more serialized. I am really holding myself back from talking about the ending, but if you've seen it and want to chat in the comments, please bring it up!

 
The show used to be available on Netflix, but I'm afraid those days seem to be over for now. It seems like it's available to stream of IMDb TV, and of course there's always DVD.

Top Episodes:


  • 1x01 "Pilot"
  • 1x06 "Dungeons and Dragons"
  • 1x09 "What He Beheld"
  • 2x01 "Samson and Delilah"
  • 2x06 "The Tower is Tall but the Fall is Short"
  • 2x08 "Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today"
  • 2x21 "Born to Run"

And, one last random aside, I actually attended a fan event for this show before the second season started. We got to meet the stars, have them sign some stuff, and watch the season two opening episode. It consisted of a lot of waiting in line, and a rather disappointing bit where we got shunned outdoors and had to watch the live Q&A from outside, even though people behind us in line got to stay in, the bastards. No, I'm not bitter at all! Ah well, it was still a good time.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Strawberry Buttermilk Ice Cream

You guys. Something epic has happened.

Strawberry Buttermilk Ice Cream by freshfromthe.com

I got an ice cream maker. Technically an ice cream maker attachment for my Kitchenaid. Same difference.

The world will never be the same. Because I? I loooove ice cream. In fact, this is probably a disaster, because whenever I have ice cream in my freezer, that's all my brain seems to think about. There's ice cream in there! Don't you remember? You can EAT IT ALL UP!

It will be a lesson in self-restraint. Delicious self-restraint.

So what did I make for my first batch of homemade ice cream? This strawberry buttermilk stuff. It's pretty delish. I was actually quite skeptical whether it was going to start turning into ice cream while it was mixing up, but lo, I left the room, and when I came back some 12 minutes later, there it was. Ice cream! That I made myself!

Strawberry Buttermilk Ice Cream
(adapted slightly from Joy the Baker)

2 cups cream, half and half or milk
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup sugar
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 Tablespoons cornstarch
heaping 1/2 cup sliced and diced strawberries (optional 1 Tablespoon sugar)

Rinse strawberries under water and slice. Create a mixture of sliced and diced pieces. If the strawberries aren't very sweet, go ahead and mix them up with that optional tablespoon of sugar and let them soak until you're ready to use them later.

Pour 1 1/2 cups of cream or milk into a small sauce pan. Add the sugar and salt and heat the milk mixture over medium low heat. Keep an eye on it, stirring often so you don't get some burned milk on the bottom of your pan.

Measure out the remaining 1/2 cup of milk or cream. Stir the cornstarch into this 1/2 cup of milk, until smooth and no lumps remain. Keep stirring, it'll happen.

The milk on the stove should be hot and steaming. It doesn't need to boil, just steam. With the milk over a medium low flame, stir in the milk and cornstarch mixture. Stir the milk constantly until you begin to feel it thicken. It won't be suddenly all molasses-like, but will be thicker than regular milk. It should take only a couple minutes once the cornstarch is in there.

Once it's thickened, add in the buttermilk and vanilla. Stir to incorporate.

Pour through a strainer into a mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Stick it in the fridge for a couple of hours so that's it's cooled.

Once it's cooled, put it in your ice cream maker per manufacturer's directions. When you've let it go for about 10-15 minutes, dump in your strawberries. Why don't you do this before, you wonder? Because they will freeze to the edges of your mixing attachment! Truth.

Strawberry Buttermilk Ice Cream by freshfromthe.com
Once it's done mixing in there, you're going to have to transfer it to a freezer-safe bowl. Either you can wait until it's frozen some more to eat it, or you can enjoy some soft-serve style straight from the ice cream maker, which is obviously what I did.

Strawberry Buttermilk Ice Cream by freshfromthe.com
Yum! Though, I will say, the strawberry bits do get frozen in there, and are therefore not as good as if you just made a strawberry glaze to pour over the top. Live and learn.

*No step by step photos this time. I was making this at night, and the lighting was just not great.
 

Friday, February 10, 2012

Supernatural 7x14 "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie"

Wow. Oh man. I have not laughed that much at an episode since probably French Mistake. Definitely one of my favorites of the season so far. Nearly every line leaving Dean's mouth was a winner; I haven't written down so many quotes in a long time. If you didn't laugh at least half the time, I'm not sure we can be friends.

Moving on to the actual plot! The Winchesters arrive in town after someone is seemingly killed by a giant octopus, which is decidedly not normal. They think, however, due to the weird bite on the guy's neck, that some vampire with an octopus fetish might have killed the guy. They decide to talk to the wife to see if there's any merit to this pretty wackadoo idea, and don't really get any leads on the subject until Sam talks to the daughter and finds out that she thought that a giant octomonster was hiding in her closet, and that's what killed her dad.

Recap/review of Supernatural 7x14 "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie" by freshfromthe.com
Behind you!
Still not a lot to go on, though, so it's helpful when we get our second death of the episode when a dude is literally impaled by a rogue unicorn. Yes, you read that right. A dude was running away from a unicorn, thought he got away by jumping over a metal fence thing, but I then yelled "Stabbed through the fence!" and wouldn't you know it? He got stabbed through the fence by the unicorn's horn! Of course, when Dean comes to investigate, it's not so clear that it was a unicorn horn quite yet, but he does find out that the dude's son had gone to a birthday party at a certain national pizza chain called Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie - where all your dreams are good! Where all your dreams are good?! Oh man. What a tagline. Why is that such a good clue? Because the daughter of the other guy had also just been there. To Plucky's!

Actually, it's just Sam that gets sent to Plucky's right now, even though he desperately does not want to go since, apparently, Dean used to drop him there as a kid while he went trolling for chicks. Sam talks to some of the employees and finds out that the kids draw their worst fears for the wall, and the two from the other kids earlier are missing from said wall. He also is approached by the janitor, who wants him to come meet him after hours. Oh poor janitor, we barely knew ye. Because he never does get to talk to Sam. Instead, he's tasked with cleaning up the ball pit, only to be hunted by something swimming inside the balls themselves! Blood! Mayhem! Death! Bye bye, shifty janitor with secret knowledge!

Just what seemed to kill him? A shark! In a ball pit?! What! Yeah, something is definitely afoot at Plucky's. Sam decides to try to shake down the employees by going all bad cop on them, which was sort of hilarious because he really just said nondescript things like "are you really?" and such. The manager and the uber-happy guy both seem to check out, but when he talks to the guy in the lion costume, the dude freaks out and bolts out of there. Dean chases him down, as he was hanging out inside the place as well to check for suspicious behavior. But this guy was no evil genius, he's just a dude whose brother used to run a meth lab and may or may not have gotten high and played in the ball pit with the dearly departed janitor. But! He does have some valuable intel. There is a sub-basement beneath Plucky's, and he and janitor dude used to hear strange noises coming out of it sometimes while they were having their after hours fun.

Recap/review of Supernatural 7x14 "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie" by freshfromthe.com
Sam's worst nightmare: check!
Also, while Sam was doing his "grilling" of suspects, Dean was getting to know one of the kids who had to constantly hang out at Plucky's because his mom works there. She's generally being kind of mean to him because she's so overworked, and they seem like a prime pair for the next fear monster, despite Dean getting the kid to understand a little better what his mom is going through. It's too late, because the kid's drawing of a giant robot with laser beam eyes has already been taken by the culprit.

So, Sam goes to try to head off a possible robot while Dean heads down to the basement to find out what's going on. It turns out, someone has been working some seriously shady hoodoo down there. Who? I think we can all agree that it's no surprise that it's the overly perky one. You just can't trust people who are constantly perky. It goes against nature to be that happy all the time. He and Dean get in a standoff, and he lets Dean know that he didn't go after the kid after all, but rather has turned his attentions to Sam, who he sensed had a thing about clowns.

Indeed, a couple nasty clowns have appeared and start tormenting Sam. They get into some nasty fisticuffs while Dean uses cunning and smarts to figure out what the bad guy's own fear is, which turns out to be that he blames his parents for his brother's death. He throws some stuff into the hoodoo fire, and the guy's dead drowned brother turns up to make him drown out himself, which makes the clowns, who were doing some serious damage to our dear Sam, disappear into a poof of glitter confetti. Done and dusted.

In the end, Dean gets one of the best laughs he's had in awhile when he sees Sam covered in blood and glitter, as do we all.

Random Thoughts:

- Seeing the flashbacks to season two. Aw. Sammy looked so young!

- Always dig when they alter the title card a little bit. Glitter card!

- When that unicorn started spouting a rainbow out of its butt, I literally said out loud "this show is crazy!" Of course, that was a reference to a past episode (Houses of the Holy) where Dean says unicorns shoot rainbows out of their ass. Which at the time was a sarcastic remark, but hey, we've come full circle.

- I kind of loved it when Dean could tell Sam was freaking out about the clowns at Plucky's and he said "Sammy" to try to calm him down.

- Was wishing that we'd gotten some kind of flashback scene to whatever happened to Sam at Plucky's when he was a kid!

- Plucky's definitely seemed like a riff on Chuck E. Cheese. Somehow I think "where a kid can be a kid" is a better slogan than "where all your dreams are good" haha!

- Did the janitor guy also play one of the clowns? I may be making this up.

- Hoodoo versus voodoo. What's the difference?

- Dean wanted a giant slinky, and in the end Sam got him one, because they earned it. Dean's gift to Sam? A clown doll. I mean, he is over his fear of them, having had to face them head on, right? Clown, meet asphalt. Guess some things are not meant to be gotten over.

Quotes:

"If it bleeds, you can kill it."

"Hey, you spawn a monster baby, see how quick you wanna dive back in the pool." - Dean

"So what are we looking for? Octovamp? Vamptopus?" - Dean

"Mom. Dad. Nanny. That is a love triangle right out of Casa Erotica. Of course in those, the jealous wife tends to channel her feelings more productively." - Dean

Sam: Wait, now unicorns are evil?
Dean: Yeah, obviously.

Sam: They think the ball washer did it.
Dean: The what?
Sam: The ball washer.
Dean: The what?
Sam: The ball--

"Shark week, man. How do you not watch that? Whole week of sharks." - Dean

"Yeah, guy in his thirties hanging out at Plucky's by himself, that's normal. Not pervy at all." - Dean

"I'm sorry, you look like you got attacked by some PCP crazed strippers." - Dean

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Friday, February 3, 2012

Supernatural 7x13 "The Slice Girls"

It's been a while! Last we checked in with the brothers Winchester, Dean went through a little trip through time while Sam teamed up with Jody Mills. Now that they're both back in present day, however, it's back to what should be a normal case, since they've currently got bupkis on the leviathans. Dean is less than impassioned about their newest case in rainy Seattle, and jumps at the opportunity to drown his sorrows in his patented drinky drinks while Sam does some research.

Just what is Sam doing research on while Dean has himself the first one night stand he's had in a while? (At least, that's what I'm assuming, I could be wrong!) See, some dudes are being killed in a pretty dramatic and specific way - someone is cutting off their hands and feet, and also carving a symbol into their chests. Since their usual fount of information, namely Bobby, is now with the dearly departed, they are forced to do more research themselves, and call upon a local professor to get his help in identifying the symbol.

Meanwhile, however, Dean has realized that he had forgotten the flask of Bobby's he's taken to carrying around with his aforementioned one night stand, Lydia. When he goes to retrieve it, he notices she's got a baby. Wait a minute, she didn't have a baby the night before, did she? Indeed, she did not. We as an audience got to see the child in question gestated at a record pace. Dean also starts to cotton on that something is not quite right with this kid when he overhears the supposed toddler actually say "Who's that man?" Uh, what? Dean goes full on stalker and soon sees a now child-aged girl leaving the house, and follows them to some abandoned warehouse. Hmm, what could they be doing?

Recap/review of Supernatural 7x13 "The Slice Girls" by freshfromthe.com
But daddy, you can't shoot me and my dagger.

The boys find out from the professor that the symbol they keep seeing is something to do with the Greek goddess Harmonia, who created the Amazons. You know, the all powerful women who don't need men... except to procreate. And then they kill them. They also find out that the children these Amazons produce happen to grow at an exponential rate until they reach a certain age, which would explain Lydia's kid. Which means, uh oh, since Dean slept with Lydia just the other night, that girl he saw? Emma? Yep, she's probably his.

Now that they know all of this, though, they're no closer in figuring out what to do about it. Do the Amazons die like regular humans, or do they have to kill them in some special way? They try to go through Bobby's stuff to figure it out, but end up in a bit of a tiff. At least until a wayward breeze seems to dislodge a particular piece of paper. The breeze could be Bobby's spirit, but Sam is quick to poo poo that idea because that's what they'd like it to be. They did apparently burn his body, which is usually good enough to get rid of a spirit. But what about that flask Dean's carrying around, hmm? Just a thought.

Anyway, nonetheless, the paper that was dislodged appears to be important since it's in Greek, so Sam takes it to the professor while Dean hangs back at the motel with strict orders not to go anywhere. Why they didn't both go, I can't quite fathom. Because the plot needed it? Okay!

So while Sam finds out from the professor that the mother Amazons don't kill the fathers, but rather the children themselves, Dean gets a visit from his very own Amazonian offspring, Emma. She's come to him with stories of wanting to get away and try to live a normal life, pleading with him to help her, but it turns out to all be a ruse to get his defenses down so she can kill him good and proper. Luckily, Dean is not dumb enough to trust her and gets his own gun out. But he's having a hard time pulling the trigger. You know, since it's his daughter and all. But, he doesn't have to do it after all, because Sam shows up and is able to shoot her even though she tries to turn on the puppy dog eyes on him. Sorry Emma, only Sam gets to wield the puppy dog eyes.

In the end we get our patented brother-car-chat, this time with Sam basically upset with Dean because his head is clearly not in the game lately. Which is, you know, true. Sam just wants him to stay alive, and the way he said it was so sad because it really made me think that perhaps Dean is the only thing keeping him sane at the moment, and when are we going to get more of that stuff, hmm? I've heard it's coming, and it's about damn time.

Random Thoughts: 

- The girl who played teenage Emma, Alexia Fast, really did look like she could be Sarah Canning's daughter. Or, you know, sister. Nice casting! Sidenote: Alexia also apparently played Missy Bender back in season 1!

- Was the breeze really Bobby's spirit? The "THEN" segment really seemed to want us to think so. I hate the heavy-handed previews, they make things so obvious sometimes. Honestly I'd prefer if it wasn't his spirit. Am I alone?

- This was the first sex scene we've had in a while on the show! When was the last one, anyway? Like season four? That's the last time my best sex scenes list has anyway.

- Raise your hand if you want more Sam hallucination stuff! Me me me!

Quotes: 

"Some guy with a foot fetish run amok..." - Dean

"'Didn't mention anything human' usually seals the deal for me." - Sam

"Nice decor. Very early Slaughterhouse." - Dean

Dean: News flash, pal, you're just as screwed up as I am. You're just... bigger.
Sam: What?
Dean: I don't know.

Here's a little interview Jared and Jensen did about tonight's episode for those who haven't seen it yet:

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