A Sam-centric episode! I love Dean enormously, but I was beginning to fear that the writers had forgotten about Sam entirely, so I'm glad we had some focus on him. And I can see why we've had so many silly episodes lately: this one had no humour at all. (Well, almost no humour. Dean's reaction to Sam's recounting his sexy times with Ruby (and I like to pretend that the amount we saw of the scene means that Sam went into entirely unnecessary levels of detail) completely cracked me up.)

I don't even want to tell you how many times I watched that sex scene. And, I don't know, at parts it's not even objectively attractive; it's just that it's Sam and Ruby and they are having sexy demonic sex. I am totally okay with you if you want to keep giving us scenes like that, New Ruby. I mean, not that I'd complain if you wanted to jump into the body of someone who can make me believe you're the same character as the one Katie Cassidy was playing, but I am coming around to you, perhaps because we've finally got an episode in which you were present for more than half a minute and regained some of your sarcasm. And I'm glad you were in this episode at all, because I was afraid the writers might have Jo-and-Ellened you. And there was body-hopping! Awesome! (I want to see you possessing a man at some point, by the way. Just for a little while. Ideally, it would be a man played by Chad Michael Murray. Or perhaps Chad Michael Murray himself, as 'Shadow' establishes that he exists in the Supernatural world. And then you can sexually confuse Sam a lot.)

Also, despite the fact that I'm not really a Wincester, 'She said what you would have said' had me raising an eyebrow. Seriously, writers, when you have a Sam/Ruby sex scene and then imply that Ruby is a substitute for Dean, I have to wonder whether you're just doing it to mess with the fanbase's heads.

ALSO ALSO SERIOUSLY SUPERNATURAL I HAVE NEVER WATCHED ANYTHING WITH THIS MUCH NECROPHILIA. YOU BEWILDER ME. Perhaps Sam, whose sexual conquests certainly do not tend to have much luck, has decided that sex with corpses is the best way to avoid the horrible death of one's lover. (It is probably not the best way, Sam.)