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Okay, now for some coherent thoughts on last night. Should I be grateful that I can once again think something more complex than "aljlkjkilgjejnejgnjgk"?

First of all, I'm still kind of hung up on the fact that the demon taunted Sam about the telekinesis. I've still got a firm belief that Sam doesn't really have telekinesis, but was picking up Max's powers. (Which is amusing, really, because when do I ever write a fic where he doesn't use it? *snickers*) He only did it once, while in the same house with Max. It seems weird to me then that the demon would taunt Sam to make the gun move, because he has to know that Sam can't do that.

Okay, this is going to sound really stupid, but did you ever see that episode of Charmed where the telepathic kid could use other witches' abilities because of his powers? (I can't believe I'm referencing Charmed, for Christ's sake. *headsmack*) What if this is like that? Do I think Sam is the only one who can do this? No, not really. I'm not exactly sure if Max would have been able to have visions if he'd stayed alive, but I think the demon would be way more interested in Sam if he were the only one who could do it. So far, he's only shown more interest for the obvious reason that Sam's family is hunting the thing.

It's also kind of interesting to me that when the demon left John, it didn't possess either Dean or Sam. I'd say that that would be a good explanation for Dean's necklace -- that it wards off demon possession -- but remember back in "Phantom Traveller" when Sam told Dean he needed to calm down or the demon would possess him? If that was what the necklace is for, then it seems odd that it wouldn't stand up against that demon, and if so, then it definitely wouldn't have stood up against this one.

It also makes for an interesting concept that it didn't possess Sam. I don't think it's that Sam can't be possessed -- hell, he was possessed in "Asylum". Theoretically, with what we've been given in the past, the demon could have jumped into either one of them and it didn't. It knew damn well neither Dean nor Sam would shoot the other one, but John was another story entirely. He may love his boys, but he said it himself -- the demon comes before everything else. He would have shot those boys in a heartbeat and worried about the consequences later. The demon's best chance of taunting them and getting out of the situation in one piece was to inhabit John.

And I've been thinking about this for a while, and it bugs me -- that it's taken John twenty-two years to get anything solid on this demon. I mean, seriously? The man who can look at a couple of drownings and pull "water sprite" out of thin fucking air can't find house fires that started in the nursery, interview the families, and realize that the kids might be a little bit off? That's why John not knowing about Sam's abilities seems weird to me (I still think John wasn't really paying attention to Missouri when she said that thing in "Home" about Sam having a bunch of power because someone mentioned Mary and John just slipped right into ANGSTANDWOE mode). I'm not sure that I buy that John didn't already know about Sam's visions, but if he didn't, why the hell not? There's got to be some massive denial going on if THAT'S true.

Then there's the thing about the demon killing Mary and Jess because they were in the way. (RINGS! *flails* Sorry, but my Sam/Jess 'shipping heart won't let go of that anytime soon. I need to fic that somehow, damn it.) "They were in the way" sounds like a fairly vague reason considering that if I were the demon and wanted to kill anyone in that house, it would be the ex-military man in the living room and not the pretty blonde woman. You know, the threatening one. Of course, my mind went off on this crazy tangent like, "Oh, my God, they were angels which is why they were a threat and that's why they died OMGWTF!!1!1!", before I realized, "You know what? That makes no fucking sense." Although I do think it's inordinately weird that the three women we've seen threatened or killed by the demon all went to bed in white nightdresses. Dude, do you know ANY women who go to bed in white nightdresses? I think I've maybe owned one white nightdress in my entire life, and no woman I know does, girly or tomboy or whatever. I'm not saying that no one does, I'm just saying that the fact that they all randomly picked the same damn thing out of the closet on the night they were attacked is just odd.

If the death of the woman is a sacrifice, I'm having a really hard time jiving what we know of Sam's situation with what we know of Max's situation. Both of them lost their mothers as babies. Both of them developed abilities around the same time. So why the hell did Jess have to die? I had this great train of thought going on in my head that the blood dripping on the baby was like a demonic baptism, but I don't think Mary's blood did get on Sam. Honestly, I think the only person it did get on was John, which led to a whole line of conjecture that OMG Mary's death gave John psychic abilities!!1!, but ... no. But it would explain why Jess had to die -- "Oops, didn't get you the first time" -- but wouldn't explain why Sam and Max developed their powers at the same time. They don't share the same birthday as far as we know (which would make their "baptism" not the same day), they wouldn't have been "baptised" the same way, etc.

Hell, I don't know. I'm still a little broken from last night.

Oh, and for the record, for somebody that seems to have one of his oh-so-detailed visions every time the demon so much as stops in the next town over for gas, Sam didn't have any visions this episode. You know, until that last minute, which I will be firmly believing until September.

KRIPKE, YOU DICK, I LOVE YOU.

The good news is that the plotbunnies that died so suddenly and violently last night at 9:58 p.m. or so have now been resurrected and are currently eating my brains. Like, literally. (No, really, that's good news.) WOOHOO!