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Well. That wasn't quite what I expected.

I saw the preview for this ep last week and squeed at the sight of Meg. I'm an agnostic when it comes to Castiel: I have no problem with his existence, but I'm not a Cas!girl. So I was mostly curious to see what the writers were going to do with him.

Apparently, they were going to use him to write themselves out of the corner they'd painted themselves into.

It's been a great source of tension all year: Sam being more or less able to deal with his scrambled brains. And now, at the point where he literally can't keep it together, where the poor guy can't even sleep (and how many times did I go, "Oh, SAM!" during this ep?), we have not one but two deus ex machinae (dei ex machina?) magically fixing everything: the mysterious ~~Bobby~~ wind that blows the business card onto the floor, and Cas taking away Sam's hallucinations. The writer in me does not approve.

Not that I didn't appreciate Cas taking a turn at being a martyr and suffering for his sins, and the moment when Lucifer called him brother was chilling and well-played by both Mark and Misha. But the overly-convenient aspect of him fixing Sam bugs me, especially as Cas is apparently going to be locked away in ~~Riverview~~ a corner until he's needed again.

Speaking of...MEG! So excited to see her back. So thinking the actress is better at one-liners than multiple sentences of dialogue in a row.

Love that Sam managed to do a salt-and-burn even while in the psych ward. Now that's dedication, people.

I thought Jared's acting was phenomenal in this ep. Slowly getting more and more worn down, trying so hard not to react to Hallucifer while having to indicate to the audience that he knew something was there. And then the way his expression changed when Cas took away Hallucifer was great, that same bewildered relief as when Bobby and Dean burned Meg out of him in BUABS.

Thoughts?