here's the deal - i was MOSTLY unspoiled. but in a way - go back to my monday link post....Frankenstein? Alchemy & The Philosopher's Stone? Cool Air (by Lovecraft)? to say i was spoiled for that would be wrong. that's called deductive reasoning.

but what i was NOT spoiled for was Bela, for starters. but more on her in a little bit.

some reviews on my flist were saying Lillith was OBVIOUS. uhm, yeah, in the context of the last few episodes - she's a plot device at this point. here's what i'm seeing, and then i'll get on to the other stuff. once upon a time there was a show called Babylon 5. J. Michael Straczynski had a wonderful Five-Year Plan (that he kept under strict lock and key at all times), that was ruined by the tv station switching the air times of the show, not promoting it and the consequently crappy ratings ended up cancellin the show, only giving JMS only FOUR seasons.

he looked at his plots for S4 and S5, and figured out what HAD to be told - and rewrote and edited and recrafted two entire seasons down to one, because as far as he knew, that was it. four seasons for his five-year show. (it turned out, in the end, at the very last minute, another channel gave him his fifth season, so he had to scramble to write a S4 finale, and then S5 - outside his original scope of the series!) BUT - JMS had no way of knowing he was going to get a S5, and so S4 wrapped it up. everything. done. finale. and yes, rushed in some parts.

this is how i see these last, post-strike episodes of S3. the only difference here is that Eric HAS a next season. he KNOWS this, and the Evil Genius is using this to its fullest potential. more on that later. on to the episode.

*Doc Benton: creepy Dr. Frankenstein, making himself into his own monster. how cool was it that John had met up with him pre-series? and when Sam was reading Doc Benton's journal (and got captured - bad form, Sammy), we later got to see John's journal again. know what's interesting? raloria does these awsome Supernatural Revealed posts, and we learn that both Dean and Sam have journals too. whatever happened to those?

oh! and when Sam ran over him with the rental and he stood back up, head flopped over? i knew he was going to fix it like that, just pop his head back into place. hee. and when he went for Sam's eyes, i remembered the Doc's eyes - all squished and in need of replacing. when Dean started shooting him, I said that now the Doc's gonna need a new torso too. hehe....

*Rufus: i'm sorry, this guy is suspicious to me. he knows about Dean's deal, he knows too much for your average hunter, methinks. he had a whole file on Bela - wow. and what we found out about Bela? how did he know all that? there's more to him than meet the eyes. and speaking of eyes, i was waiting for them to change color. seriously. (who me? paranoid? naaah...)

*Dean and Sam - Sam and Dean: hunting zombies in Erie? maybe Pittsburg... well, Blairsville, i think it was. hehe..... ok, no more references that three people are gonna get. Bad form again, Sammy - making Dean - and everyone else who read that pathetic thing called a TVGuide blurb - think you're going zombie hunting, when it's really an immortal guy who's put together from various people he killed!

Dean's deal has become the white elephant in the room that neither brother wants to talk about now, Sam distracting Dean with a job. the brothers go off seperately again, but it's needed this time - cover more ground that way. get the Colt, and kill the demon who holds the contract. interesting to know that that demon turns out to be someone who really wants Sam dead.....but why's she so scared of Sammy?

*and that brings me back to Bela. seriously, honest to goddess, i had NO idea that Bela made a deal with a Crossroads Demon; and i had no idea that the demon was still in contact with her so that the terms of said deal could change like that. How come Dean doesn't seem to have the option to renegotiate his deal? Young Bela was very much like Bela in the show - very well cast, i must say. and since her Crossroads Demon changed the terms of her deal, it makes sense that the Crossroads Demon might have told her about Dean's deal as well. i've liked Bela, and like Ruby, i've known there's much more to both than we've seen on screen.

*this brings us to next week's promo. there's a lot of things going on here that are common sense at this point. Dean's going to hell. we've seen there's no way out for Dean, and if there is something that Kripke pulls out at the last minute, i'm going to be very very suspicious of that too. (well, i could see pulling something out at the last minute ONLY if this really was a series finale.) so yeah, the Hellhounds will be after Dean next week.

NOW, i do know that (a)promos are not necessarily in the order of the show and (b)things appear differenly in promos than in the show. that said, i don't think the epsiode will end with the last scene from the promo. there's gotta be more to the cliffhanger Jared talked about than that!

also - Sam and Dean are inside - there's other scenes where Dean's running through trees - obviously outside. but they're blue - not the colors of the regular epsiode. here's my thought on the three seconds i saw in the promo - sure, Dean's body is in Sam's arms - but Dean? he's elsewhere, running through the trees, running from the Hellhounds or whatever. i've seen this done before, and i want to say it was Flatliners (we're going over my parents on sunday, so maybe i'll bring it back home with me to watch, and then either retract my reference or do a fist-pump. heh) - where the body was clinically dead, but the mind was still going, and essentially dreaming, if you will, about the person's worst fear. when the person was brought out of it, those "dreams" remained with them as kinda a halluciation of sorts. what if the blue scenes is what's going on in Dean's mind?

you know there's going to be a few answers, more questions - and - because Kripke CAN - it's going to be a cliffhanger.
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