i'm glad you loved it. i'm the type who doesn't love the show sometimes, but gets too depressed if other people whose opinion i care about start disliking it too, because as you said "give me some hope". as long as you love spn i'll still love it at least a bit because you'll keep on writing stuff that compels me to. so if that's your reaction, to write your way out of this, then something good came out of the epi.