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New SPN! Croatoan!

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST KRIPKE YOU LYING BASTARD!!!!

Sorry, I needed to get that off my chest.

Well. What I love about the show is that when Sam is possibly infected, it looks like where we've been heading all season: "It's not a him," Dean says, "it's an it." Except when it's Sam. Well, we knew that, we've been here, we saw it coming a mile away. But the show doesn't stop there, and the scene turns out to be about something entirely different, about Dean's utter exhaustion, not about his love for Sam. We get something new and surprising, Dean turning away from the mission as he turns away from his whole life.

And that moment, when he tells them to take the car and the arsenal -- as Dean divests himself of everything but the one last thing that matters the most.

That hurt.

(By the way, I still miss John. A lot.)

And the demonic plague, which looks like something of MacGuffin, turns out to tie back not just to Sam's nature (is he immune because he's already part demon?) but also to the question of what the Yellow Eyed Demon wants. (As an aside -- is that what we're calling it now?) I loved that scene, the way Duane mirrored Meg's "phone call" back in "Scarecrow." Poor Sarge. The implication, I think, is that the doctor was one of them as well? Since there are no loose ends, she's either a demon or she's dead, and frankly, she was a little weird.

I have to wonder why Sam was so insistent that Dean not kill ~~that guy (whose name I have forgotten, sorry)~~ Duane. Sam has no idea, but it seems that his visions are using him, as well.

As for the cliffhanger ending, I will only point you up to my first comment. That bastard, Kripke. How long is the hiatus?

And on a mostly unrelated note that I hope will amuse a handful of you, I leave you with the following thought, because I have been re-reading McKillip. John Winchester and Mathom of An -- separated at birth?