I personally loved the slash writer who got to visit the boys, I guffawed loudly throughout those scenes; As a Samgirl I totally understood her sentiments with regards to Dean. He's alright looking, but yeah-never understood the attraction.

The only gripe I have is-enough with the Angels already. It's set up now so that the whole series will entail moar angels, finding a way to kill/avoiding lucifer and invariably the finale will involve some big show down with angels/demons and aaargh! No more I say!

I would be perfectly content to watch them hunt the monster of the week for another 4 seasons or so. I don't want to watch another season with multiple winged beings particularly if it's going to be the final one.

There is no such thing in my mind as too much Dean, but there is such a thing as not enough SAM. I'll say it a million times if I have to. But it's not just Samgirls who want these things, but the STORY wants them! The balance IS out of whack, too much angels, not enough Sam AND Dean. : D

I'm glad you enjoy the reviews!

And thanks for the update about the Colt – again I assumed that regardless, the bullet would kill the host, but then, of course, John didn't die, did he. At least not then. : D

Thanks for the clarification on how the bullet from the Colt can work – I guess I just assumed that the bullet killed, period and the host body died, end of story.

Thanks for the info about the time it would take to die from a gut wound, I didn't know that.

I guess I am feeling very frustrated about the treatment of Sam. It seems that every choice he has made turns out wrong. He leaves for Stanford to leave a life he hates and be his own man and his girlfriend is killed and his brother and father call him selfish. He refuses to kill his Dad possessed by the YED and his Dad dies. He refuses to kill an unconscious Jake and Jake kills him and Dean makes a pact to go to hell for his life. He listens to Dean about not tapping into his powers and Dean goes to hell. He taps into his powers and starts the Apocalypse and frees Lucifer. He prays everyday but the angels reject him. Sam can do nothing right.

Add to that how we never get to see any of Sam's reactions ON SCREEN to all the major things that happened to him. We get 1 episode where he tries to deal with his Dad's death. We get 5 seconds of him crying over Dean's death in NRFTW. We never get to see how he felt to find out that his Mom wanted out of the hunting life and was ready to run away with John (or if Dean ever told him about that). We never got to see how he started drinking demon blood, something he found so abhorrent when he learned the YED had fed it to him as a baby.

This is the balance that I feel is so out of whack between the brothers that the Show presents us. I feel I know every single little thing about Dean and have been SHOWN every single issue about him. And now I am sick and tired of Dean. He bores me to tears and this makes me very, very, sad. He is just a 2 dimensional character who swings from OTT angst to OTT not so comical one-liners. And Sam is just the scew up of a little brother who is too stupid to do anything right.

Bring back the balance, writers and Kripke. You don't need to sacrifice one brother's storyline for the other and yeah, the angel story is getting very old!

I do and don't agree that Sam hands down absolutely should have chosen Dean. On the surface, yes, I totally agree. But then, the only time he made that actual choice was after Dean laid down the ultimatum in When the Levee Breaks. First of all, Dean knew good and well how Sam has always reacted to "My way or the highway" speeches, so it was a very poor tactic to take. Secondly, Dean had spent all the time leading up to that ultimatum waffling over what they should do and how they should do it. From Sam's POV, Dean had to look indecisive at best. Dean went in there knowing he wasn't just dealing with his brother, he was dealing with an addict, and Bobby warned him that he had to handle this the right way, so they could get Sam back. Then Dean went in there and did exactly as he damned well pleased, and spectacularly succeeded in pushing Sam away from him.

But most importantly, Dean had just tricked Sam, and lied to him, to lock him in that panic room to detox, and then treated him like scum he scraped off his shoe (at least while Sam was still coherent). So really, from Sam's perspective, he had no reason to trust Dean. For all he knew, if he agreed to go with Dean he'd find himself locked back in there while (as far as he still knew at the moment) Lilith brought the apocalypse down around their ears. Sam still believed he could stop Lilith, that he needed to stop her, and based on Dean's past behaviour and actions, he had no reason to believe that Dean was going to let him do that, much less help him.

Obviously Dean did what he did in locking Sam in the panic room with good intentions. But since he's not inclined to consider Sam's intentions when judging his brother's actions, I'm less than inclined to consider his. Dean came back spouting crap about the smarter brother being back, and expecting to fall right back into his former place as the center of Sam's universe, and be the one Sam followed, and when it didn't happen, he got angry. I get that he'd just come back from Hell, and he was at his wit's end, and he probably couldn't act any other way. But Sam had just walked through his own Hell, suffered terribly here on Earth, and he probably couldn't do it any other way either. Dean was too broken down to properly handle Sam, and vice versa. Yet again, the problem is that NO one, including Dean, seems to give a rat's ass about Sam or what he went through while Dean was gone. Instead of acknowledging the shades of grey that should exist in Sam's character, they want to paint him as totally black and white.

I was also reminded yesterday about how Sam suffered at the Trickster's hands. In Sam's mind, he was without Dean a lot longer than the four months that Dean was in Hell. Sam did wrong, and plenty of it. He wasn't alone in it though, and he wasn't doing it to be "selfish" as Kripke insists. Unless they want to retcon Sam's actions for the last two seasons. Which I wouldn't put past them.