We're up to 2x04 now. (And it turned out that iTunes had season 2, so it's actually legit. More on that farther down...)

Husband: "You know, I'm not sure about all the soap opera stuff this season."
Me: "Chicks dig that. Shut up."

Boy, the emotional stuff is packing a wallop this season. Although ... you know, I'm not by any means a huggy sort of person, and on top of that I'm used to the SGA cast, who have got to be the least huggy group of people in two galaxies (at least up until this season), but I'm *really* starting to crave a teeny tiny bit of physical affection between Sam and Dean. Or at least SOME comfort of some kind to go along with all the hurt. Come on, a pat on the shoulder or *something* ... (sob)

And while I didn't think it was possible for me to fall harder for Dean than last season, this season is just smacking me upside the head with the Dean-love. "Bloodlust" is the one that *really* got me, because of his reaction to the vampire woman being tortured: his flip-flop on the vampire issue and his total willingness to risk his life protecting these people that he's spent his whole life being conditioned to hate and think of as "not people". And his tortured reaction to the whole idea that some of the creatures he's spent his life killing might not have been deserving of death. Although they usually end up killing the creatures in self-defense, so Sam's defense of their lifelong pursuit of evil is quite justified. But still ... oh, *Dean* ...

Incidentally, I totally called the "vampires gone good" thing the minute that the other hunter showed up. Because things just couldn't possibly go that well for the Winchesters...


About the legitimacy thing that I mentioned above ... despite not having cable or broadcast TV, I really do *try* to get the legit versions of the shows I watch when it's a) possible, b) affordable and c) relatively easy. So I've been downloading these off iTunes. And here's where it gets hilarious (and sad), because it's turned out that playing the "official" versions of the files is a goddawful pain in the butt compared to unlicensed AVI's. In fact, it's SUCH a pain that I'm halfway tempted to download the AVIs despite having already bought the episodes legitimately. Our entertainment system is a Frankensystem that's all hooked up to a ceiling-mounted projector which broadcasts the Winchesters onto a king-sized bedsheet on the wall. The Mac where I download the files (which can run them beautifully) doesn't have a VGA port so it can't be hooked up to the projector. The files have to be copied to a Windows XP machine and that's where things go screwy, because the AVI's can be played in a happy little free Linux media player, but the only thing we've found so far that can play the M4V's successfully is the Windows version of Quicktime, and it can't be full-screened, not to mention that it stutters and lags every time the antivirus software (which refuses to be disabled) kicks on.

Wouldn't you think that the version you pay for would work better than the version you don't? Ah, in a sane and perfect world that might be true ...