Castiel, you are my *favorite* (SPN 6.03, "The Third Man")

[laughingacademy]

Ahhhhh, there's my show.

Gore! Ethical quandaries! Post-DampSquib!Apocalypse Heaven as a celestial version of the dissolving Soviet Union, complete with nukes gone astray! CASTIEL OMG I missed you.

Thoughts:

• Wow, plotwise, that was a straightforward homage to the Carol Reed film. Thank goodness Castiel is tougher and cannier than Holly Martins.
  
• Speaking of Castiel, his people skills are "rusty" (he spent a year as a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent!) but he remembers "air quotes." Hee.
  
• I'm digging Balthazar as the angelic counterpart of Crowley -- someone who preaches the doctrine of CYOA and likes the good life. ("I had a menage a ... what's French for twelve?") Would be willing to watch again.
  
• Another black man bites it. Oh, show, why you gotta be like that?
  
• All the "bad" angels dress like William Morris agents. This amuses me.
  
• Female angel with dialogue, please? Bonus points if she's named Penat.
  
• So, did Raphael resurrect Sam? After all, if the Apocalypse is to happen Lucifer will be needing his meatsuit.
  
• Oh, SAM. *eyeroll* At least you aren't sleeping with third-cousin Campbell, which is what I first thought when that brunette emerged from the bathroom.