... how did Castiel find Sam & Dean without being told their location? Did he erase the Enochian from Dean's ribs when he healed Dean last year? Did Sam's resurrection leave him Enochianless? Or did they just forget?
Forget? You think they would just forget a plot point like that? And that no one on the writing team, or the production team, or any of the actors would notice and remind them? Or that, being reminded, they would not take pains to preserve continuity? How amateurish that would be. *g*
I was actually thinking about the actors; it seems like a medium-sized plot point (a structural underpinning of the fact that S5 lasted 22 episodes, in fact), and it is kind of embarrassing that no one would notice. Maybe they did and decided it wasn't worth the screen time? That would be a miscalculation, but not quite so bad.
Well, I meant more that the actual, specific act of praying might form a ~mystical connection~ (or, one might say, a profound bond *g*) between prayer and pray-ee. Neither of the boys actually tried to contact Cas via prayer last year, did they? Wasn't it all cellphone comedy, because Cas being cut off from Heaven meant he didn't have the juice/it wasn't safe enough to communicate through normal angelic channels?
I'm hoping someone can come up with some kind of plausible explanation. It didn't ruin the episode for me or anything, but it did give me a "whu?" moment.
I'm thinking Castiel was already in town when Dean called, and from there it was just a matter of flitting from street to street till he found the Impala and then from room to room till he found the boys.
Well, the Enochian ribwriting was to obscure them from angels, so it wouldn't have helped Cas locate them anyway. I just assumed Cas homed in on Dean's prayer-thought beam-energy hand-wavy thingy. But then, I'm easy.
That was my point: if the Enochian obscured location, then it would have made it impossible for Castiel to find them; I guess I can handwave "prayer provides location," but last year they needed cellphones.
Personally, I'm comfortable with the explanation that supplication reveals location (overriding obfuscation) to an angel in heaven with his full powers, which Castiel didn't have last year. It's something of a handwave, but this is Supernatural, after all. ;)
Although I guess it's possible Sam came back without sigils, since we have no reason to think otherwise (aside from the fact that both he and Dean returned from hell with Demon-Protection-Tattoos intact.
Although, again, Sam could have come back without the tattoo and had it redone just to be tricksy.
I thought it was a continuity goof and I wasn't surprised by it. Considering Adam's presence in the pit/cage/pit-cage has been handwaved. If they can handwave an entire character, I doubt a little bit of rib etching is even easier to forget.
/snark
Having said that, I thought the Dean praying was lovely and in character (with one eye open, fairly abusive towards the entity being prayed to, and also vaguely blasphemous as one isn't supposed to pray to an angel, is one?)
I like the idea of the pit-cage. Pige? Cit? Yeah, I think Dean's characterization is pretty solid, and of course I just want to see the Sam shoe drop; this may be going someplace very clever, but I am hating the retread of Sam hiding and Dean suffering and want it over.
Not blasphemous at all, darling. Saints and angels are fair game, along with Christ and friends/family who've gone on home. Some people find it tough to pray to a father figure; the universal church understands that. If someone finds a badass like St Vincent de Paul more relateable, then by all means, do what works. Religion is pragmatic, after all, or it dies.
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*reaching for logic*
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*still reaching*
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I'm hoping someone can come up with some kind of plausible explanation.
It didn't ruin the episode for me or anything, but it did give me a "whu?" moment.
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Although I guess it's possible Sam came back without sigils, since we have no reason to think otherwise (aside from the fact that both he and Dean returned from hell with Demon-Protection-Tattoos intact.
Although, again, Sam could have come back without the tattoo and had it redone just to be tricksy.
I'm done now.
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/snark
Having said that, I thought the Dean praying was lovely and in character (with one eye open, fairly abusive towards the entity being prayed to, and also vaguely blasphemous as one isn't supposed to pray to an angel, is one?)
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LOL!
Ditto to your sentiment re: the retread. *sigh* It may or may not be going someplace clever but it's going nowhere good.
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