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Sylvia Bond is a ten-year technical writing veteran with too many degrees under her belt to count. She lives in Colorado, but does not ski, preferring instead to spend her money and time at the annual Great American Beer Festival, taking road trips across the United States, and reading historical fiction from the comfort of her fluffy green arm chair. She has been involved in fandom since 1993 and been writing fanfic since approximately 1993. What she finds most amazing about fandom (besides the open heartedness of fans and the sheer amount of creativity) is how visible fandom has become. "In my day," she says, "we had to hide behind P.O. boxes to get fanfic. But nowadays, people wear t-shirts that shout their affiliation and share their shiny toys on the internet." It's a wonderful world. 18 Comments
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I loved this ep–the chick fight between Tammy and Ruby; the boys’ emo moments; the revelation that Ruby can’t help Dean out of his deal. But demons lie! Is she telling the truth now? Is she playing Dean? Is he playing her? We were left with fascinating questions here, mysteries, if you will, and I, like you, am still Kripke’s bitch, waiting for other reveals. Excellent review, as always! Love, Robin
Great review!
‘But check out Sam. I do believe, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but Padalecki is wearing an old jacket and shirt from last season. And either the jacket and shirt have shrunk in the wash, or Padalecki has been working out. I vote for the latter, because the jacket is pulling at the shoulder seams like there’s not enough cloth to cover those deltoids, even though there’s enough length to cover his fingers. And the buttons in his shirt across are straining across his pecs. His jeans are hanging off him in the way conventional off-the-rack jeans do when you put them on a man whose thighs cut away from his groin muscle with a lovely dent, and there’s nothing the jeans can do but fall straight from his hips. Jeezus, Padalecki.’
That paragraph right there froze my brain right right over with gorgeous images….
Dear Robin,
Thank you, dear, and if I knew the answer as to whether or not Ruby is lying, I’d be wearing my schwami hat, which I am not! But it’s got to get darker before it gets lighter, as the Scarecrow says, so all we can do is hang in there!
Best Regards,
Sylvia
Dear Mags,
Thank you so much for enjoying the review! And yeah, doesn’t it look like Mr. Padalecki has been working out? I did a double take while watching this ep – and I could be wrong, I could be, it could just be too much hot water in the laundry. But…nah, he’s been working out.
Best Regards,
Sylvia
I agree with the majority of this, very well done.
But I definitely don’t think Ruby’s usefullness is out the door. Yeah, she may be rogue because she still remembers her humanity and everything, but even still, she knows more about demons than they’ll ever be able to figure out through research or Bobby. So she probably knows exactly what she needs to get Sam ready to face, she just needs help in going about it – which is where Dean comes in because no one knows Sam better than Dean.
And personally, I hope that Dean sees some kind of spark of hope out there because if Ruby can end up the way she did, perhaps Dean might be able to – depending on circumstances though, I’m sure.
But one thing I think we missed out on was this thing growing out in the west. What/Who the hell is that? And how much of a threat are they really to Sam? That’s another thing piled on poor Sammy’s plate and if that thing doesn’t attack until after Dean’s gone…how’s he gonna handle it?
AH! So many possibilities. Damn, I love this show.
I had a blast reading your review.
And yes, my mind went off track at the leash comment too. 
You have an amazing way with words, almost every recap makes laugh and/or have my brain freeze with the stuff you say about the boys like in this one with Padalecki waring the old t-shirt and jeans and him working out. yum.
I hope that what Ruby told Dean (that when you go to hell eventually you’ll become a Demon cause all the humanity is burned out of you) will light a fire under his lovely rear end to try and get out of his deal with out killing Sam. ‘Cause I don’t want him to die and go to hell and becoming what he hunts.
Keep up the great work.
Dear Amalthia,
Thank you! It’s nice to know I’m not alone in my weird, dark thoughts. : D
Best Regards,
Sylvia
Dear misskitty,
And you are amazingly nice to say so! (Did you go back and watch it? Did you see the strain on that button?)
I hope something lights a fire under Dean because time is running out, and I really don’t like the idea of him suffering in hell, you know? Fingers crossed that Kripke’s got some clever ace up his sleeve!
Best Regards,
Sylvia
Dear Brandi,
I really appreciate that you like the review, and you’ve got so many interesting ideas here it makes me wish I’d thought of them! Ruby, yeah, she might still be useful, I think it just gave me unhappy to see her be more human and approchable, that makes her less interesting to me. You know? It’s like she’s been tamed. As for the thing out west, yeah? What’s up with that? I think either they’re messing with Sam, just to piss him off, or….or they’re going after Dean in a way he’s never going to get out of hell. Either way, it’s going to get darker before it gets lighter.
Best Regards,
Sylvia