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I do too! Crowley's very smart. And his speech was perfect. I loved the little addition of the "Saving people, hunting things, the family business" line. It was brutal how they re-introduced Sarah into the story, gave her a husband and a kid and then just killed her off.

I didn't expect Cas to be doing that either! I was 99% sure it would be Dean! I do too. Though it's kinda beautifully tragic that the first trial for cutting off the ties between Earth and Heaven would be to kill off an offspring of the two. I wonder, though, if Metatron was telling the truth about the trial. Could he be manipulated by Naomi already? I didn't think about the armless demon but you're right!

Gotta love Crowley

Only thing that bothered me about the episode was that Sam and Dean left Abaddon all alone. for amazing hunters they should've known better!

Dean was really harsh to Cas about not trusting him and leaving again but I think he was right for being so mad. I loved the scene when Cas was shopping for Dean's favourites as an apology

The line about Sam and Dean going to the Grand Canyon when they were little threw me off. Dean explicitly said in season 3 that he's never been to the Grand Canyon. Of course I'm probably making a bigger deal about of this than I should be but

More importantly, I wasn't sure about Naomi talking about Cas' past rebellions. She mentioned the "crack in his chassis" (or whatever the line was), how he's fundamentally different from the other angels, and that no matter how many times he's been reprogrammed, he's always tended to side with humanity. But I thought that it was the Winchesters (mainly Dean) who influenced him to rebel and side with humanity - wasn't that his entire story arc of seasons 4 and 5?

Also getting really tired of how Dean yet again was delegated to caretaking for Sam. That's been the majority of his "story" this season.

Other than that I enjoyed it! I liked Metatron and thought the story on the archangels and his leaving of Heaven was really interesting. I liked how he asked Dean whether he was sure he wanted to close the gates of Hell, if he had thought about the consequences, etc. It's an interesting question.

And a lot of other aspects of the episode. Crowley and his "directing" (it seemed so much like Crowley to do that, more like the Crowley from previous seasons than this season's Crowley has been), Kevin figuring out about fake!Dean and fake!Sam (Crowley: they were "too polite?" ), Cas using the Biggerson's restaurants to evade the angels (I loved the little reference to physics and superpositions as the way Cas was hiding yay physics!), and Dean and Sam really looking like they're brothers again.

Exactly. And yeah, very lazy writing.

I feel like the reaper not being able to send Sam straight to Hell was an excuse to get him to Purgatory. And Sam in Purgatory was an excuse to get Benny involved, so that he could get easily written out. . I agree he's probably not dead. I really want him to come back.

I just can't believe how much damage one episode did to the whole series.