This past weekend we went to the Stanley Hotel up in Estes Park. It just so happens that this was all Scotty’s idea, and that’s why I blame him most of all about the happenings of this weekend. Rule #1, don’t ever let the people you’re traveling with know that you’re really, secretly, terrified of ghost stuff. Maybe you didn’t know you were at first, but suddenly you got there and were totally not on board with this plan. Okay, that’s all a lie. It was a pretty amazing weekend.

Actually, I was really excited. The weekend was a great get away, and I’ve never been to the Stanley before. We all met up there and each got our rooms. Scotty was staying in room 401, haunted by Lord Dunraven. While one friend got to stay in room 407, I,  shared room 428. A room haunted by a cowboy with an affinity for kissing people on the forehead in the middle of the night. That alone was exciting…until we got there. Then it wasn’t so fun. Well, it was still fun, just a bit scary.

The first night there, Scotty went and did some ghost hunting. I might have gone to bed early with a little regret. It seems I missed a pretty interesting EVP session in Scotty’s room. But, we got to have our own fun the next night. While Friday was all about relaxing, we got a chance to see some of the hotels amenities. Like their bar/lounge area, which is always busy with people. It’s got a fun laid-back atmosphere that is just…nice! The food, oh wow, the food is utterly amazing.

The hotel itself offers several haunted ghost tours that take you around the entire hotel. They share each story about each room and the legends. While we didn’t take the tour, we saw many of them. Even opened our hotel room room and offered for them to come in and get a closer look at the haunted room. It was doing that we learned that our mysterious Cowboy has a name, Alan. With every room there is a tragic, sad, story to go along. Alan lost his home in a fire and was staying in that very room when he died of kidney failure. He watches over the room and its occupants. Reading on later that evening, I learned our room was also haunted by a child; one that likes to set the alarm to have it go off at 12:01pm.  Sadly, we weren’t in the room around that time to see if that was true or not.

Don’t worry, the fun didn’t stop, and the evening proved more ghostly. While Scotty had had some experiences the night before, things were about to get spooky as we hosted a podcast. Now, one of the tour guides mentioned an app, Ghost Radar that would allow us to speak with ghosts. Well, that’s up for debate. Three of us fired up our apps, and the night went on. The podcast proved inconclusive, but there may have been something there. It’s a fun listen. Granted, the boys took pleasure in scaring me as best as they could…

In the end, I didn’t get any huge ghost experiences, but that wont stop me from going back. In fact, I’d love to go again and soon! It’s a gorgeous hotel. Whether you believe in the haunting of the Stanley, or not, it’s a gorgeous historical building with a lot to learn. And really good food. Never got to try their desserts…guess I absolutely HAVE to go back.

Easily of the number of things Dean Winchester loves, this episode is all about girls. He and Sam are on the hunt for, well, a hunt! But, Dean might also be out on the hunt for something a little more, curvy. Sam finds his older brothers phone-buzzing non-stop and finally takes it. Discovering that Dean hasn’t really been looking for hunts, but chicks. That’s right, the infamous older Winchester has joined a dating site. With a name like’ Impala67’, surely nothing can go wrong. When the girl he’s meeting shows up, Sam is speechless to find she’s just as gorgeous as her picture lead her to be. Dean leaves with his date, and all seems to be going well.

Who are we kidding here! Things never go right, not for long anyway. The girl in question turns out to be a prostitute; she’s not asking for cash, just his soul. She’s not a demon though, her pimp on the other hand…well, he might be. The girl confesses the scam and what she’s been through to Dean and he gets Sam to come help figure out why a demon would want to run a Bordello. Crowley, for all intense and purposes, has nothing to do with this, this time. The King of Hell is shocked to find out this has been going on under his nose, and manages not to kill anyone involved, for now.

Sam and Dean aren’t the only ones onto this new demon sex trade. It seems someone else, might be sniffing up that tree. A powerful witch, she kills a demon with a weird sack of, I don’t even know, and the other flees. Having rescued the girls, she takes them to a nice place to eat. The waiter wants to throw them out, but the witch hands him something and casts a spell. Magically, our waiter is willing to do anything they want, including giving expensive glasses of wine away. The spell, however, has a nasty side effect, and soon the waiter’s head….implodes? That’s not really the word for it…he dies, miserably…and it’s kinda gross and sad all at the same time.

Meanwhile, Castiel and Hannah are on the hunt for more Angels to bring back to heaven. Things go fine until Hannah’s husband shows up. Well, not hers more like her human vessels husband. The man is clearly distraught, and Castiel showing up doesn’t help any. Hannah decides to kiss Castiel in a point to prove to the other man that she’s with someone else. Really, it’s a ploy to give the man some closure as to why his wife just ran off. It works, but doesn’t, at the same time. The two angels get back to their hunt, sort of. Hannah decides that she can’t continue on like this anymore. She’s understanding humans and too many of their emotions; even experiencing some herself. In a strange turn of events, Hannah leaves her vessel, returning to heaven in her true form.  Castiel takes a very human not-Hannah back to her husband then does a search on his vessel. Is Jimmy Novak still alive? Did Castiel just fully take over? Is he thinking of leaving? Can he leave? So many questions!

The Winchester’s have discovered the identity of the witch. Her name is Rowena, and she’s old, and powerful. Having been the first, and only witch, to kill a demon with certain magic. They find and hunt her down. Just as Dean is about to take her into custody, our good friend Cole shows up. Remember Cole? He beat up my Sam in the second episode of season 10? Still on a hunt for revenge, the man takes Dean on in a fight. Dean get’s the upper hand and has a chance to shoot Cole, but doesn’t. Instead, he offers the gun to Cole and tells him what really happened. Dean had killed his father because the man was a monster and killing people. He wasn’t Cole’s father anymore, and it is Dean’s job to hunt and kill things.  Cole finally decides to make peace with everything, and he leaves.

Dean seems not like himself, and maybe 10 seasons of self-blame are catching up to him. Sam seems to notice, but Dean wont talk about it. They go on to find their next hunt. And Rowena? She’s been captured by demons and tortured a bit. Crowley finally goes to see her, and in a massive twist of fate, we find out her true identity. It seems, Rowena and Crowley might just know each other. Then again, the King of Hell doesn’t call every witch he sees ‘mum’…..

I am not ashamed to say that one of my favorite venues to visit in my free time is the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.  With such a great history in the area, and my favorite movie was inspired by the stay of Stephen King back in the late seventies.  Most of the time when visiting this hotel, I am just happy to be put in any room they give me, but this time, with the group, I wanted something to happen.

I booked room 401 for myself on this stay and made sure the group was in equally haunted rooms.  With 401 being haunted by the old land baron of Estes, Lord Dunraven, I did not feel too uncomfortable in the room alone, but the same could not be said for others. One Friday night when the rest of the group went to bed, my friends and I decided to do a little bit of investigating around rooms, along with the hotel. 

Exploring the grounds, I led the two bravest members of the team to the concert hall and gave a little bit of a back story of what was said to happen. We got excited when we heard a door close, but came to find out that there was a tour being conducted, so that first experience was somewhat diminished. Heading back to the main building, I noticed that the only window in my main room was sitting wide open.  I know that I shut it before we started our adventure, but there was doubt in the group that I had it shut properly. What is it with myself and the windows at the Stanley that do not get along? Waiting to go back up to the rooms to try some EVP sessions, we toured the Billiard Room and from a distance took some pictures in the Music room since it was roped off. When we were discussing going back upstairs, we heard the piano in the main hall play some bass notes.  Now, one of my friends thought that there was a kid playing it, but when we looked around the piano, there was nobody even close to it. But the strangest thing for me, is that nobody else seemed to notice it.

So with strange things happening, we decided to go back upstairs and try out an EVP session in my room. Shutting the window again, which was unlatched, so somebody had to do it, we tossed our female friend into the room’s closet to see if the reports were true about woman being touched inappropriately. I have never seen anyone run out of a door so quickly in my life as she could describe in-depth the feeling of the fingers touching her.  At this point, my other friend was starting to feel a little uncomfortable as well, from the first moment he stepped into 401, he was saying that he could feel something. 

We started our EVP session, mind you this was our first attempt and we were very anxious to hear or witness anything. Still trying to review the session as there was a ton of wind outside this night, along with an elevator right next to the room which makes it hard to decipher anything too crazy.  Near the end of the session, my buddy was ready to leave the room as it seemed to have pinpointing him the entire night, when his camera died upon first entering the room, along with his voice recorder. It seemed to have a thing for the young man, I hope to hear a response to at least one of the questions that we asked. 

We then headed to room 407.  Same ghost, but different reports of the haunting. Lord Dunraven is reported to be seen in this room when nobody is occupying it, but when people are in the room, they report smelling cherry tobacco.  We tried our session in this room as well, but nobody was feeling out of sorts at all, so we tried the closet activity, but still nothing. I guess the ghost was busy in my room, opening my window.

Our first night had come to an end and I commend my pals for sticking with the hunt as it was their first time and both of them felt a little bit out of sorts since my one friend was getting targeted by someone or something in my room all night, and my other fried had felt the cold caress of an unseen hand. For the rest of the night, nothing happened that I noticed, but I slept very heavily as I was exhausted.  So this takes us to our second night.

On Saturday night, we were going to try the same thing, with Shae and John coming along, but we got some extra ideas from the tour guides as we were letting them and groups into our rooms while we were there. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it and we had a fun time with it as well.  Finding out that there were ghost kids in Shae’s room, 428, we moved small soccer balls into there’s to see if anything would happen with it. We also set up our podcast in the room with another piece of equipment that we did not know about, the Ghost Radar app. 

Although the skeptics seemed to think this was silly, it seemed to be very accurate in my room as I tried it out. So we let it play during our podcast while trying to see who or what was in the room with us and what they wanted. Now most of the time, the indicator light was showing up behind the girls on the couch during the show, so hopefully one of their mics picked something up. We had a lot of fun on the show and heard a couple of things on our playback, and hopefully you will hear more when it is up. Bumps and creaks mostly, but I have not finished reviewing the recording yet.

After the show, we went to investigate the hotel once again. We were happy to see that the Music Room was open so we jumped right in. Now my one friend seems to be the haunting barometer, as he got goose bumps when entering the room, the same feeling he had the previous night in room 401.  We snapped a lot of pictures and explored the other rooms on the main floor and even jumped into the MacGregor room where the housekeeper that haunts room 217 fell and broke both of her ankles after blowing up half of the building. It is a beautiful room, but we did not feel anything special in there.

Heading back upstairs, we called it a night and went back to our rooms. With nothing out of the ordinary happening, my room did feel a little bit heavy tonight, so I left my recorder running for a couple of hours. I am having a hard time coming up with anything special, as I said the room was right next to the elevator and that makes plenty of noise during the night. But I did feel like someone was watching me, which made it very difficult to fall asleep, but when I finally did, the hallway went active. I did not have time to get the recorder to the door, but it did sound like someone was running up and down the stairwell that leads to the tower. Looking through the peep hole and opening the door, there was nobody there. It only lasted for a couple of seconds, but it did make it hard to go back to sleep as it was almost the normal time that I get up in the mornings.  I did sit in my little reading room, watch and listened as the new day was approaching once again.

I was kind of upset at the time that the others in the group were having strange things happen to them, but then I remembered that they were skeptics and those are the people that need to have things happen to them, to make them believe. I had a great time and I sincerely hope to do this again with the group as with all of the scares, it was a different work environment than we are used to. With a ton of laughs and even some trying to scare each other, it reminds me why I like working on the site so much, as we are still friends. If you have not been to the Stanley Hotel, what is wrong with you?  I have been going for several years now and love every minute I am up there. Now it is not a guarantee that something will happen to you while you are there, but if you want to feel a different kind of energy, it is the place to visit. I hope everyone gets a chance to visit this location, as it is beautiful and welcoming. And bring a friend if you want to share it with somebody, if only to keep you safe from the ghosts.

I thought of naming this “My Adventures in Ghost Hunting”, but I figured that would tip the ghosts off to my going to see them. And, well, I can’t really have that, now can I? In some twisted way, that just ruins the surprise of meeting them face-to-face. I mean, they could be reading this blog right now. Which, if that’s the case, I’m totally not going ghost hunting while at the Stanley Hotel…

I digress. I’ve never actually been to the Stanley before….ever. Despite spending most of my life in Colorado, and a lot of time visiting Estes Park, I’ve never thought to visit there. Then again, I knew about it, I guess I just never realized that it was as close and truly had such a lore about it. Having seen many documentaries on the famous hotel and countless Ghost specials, I just figured it was finally time to go there myself.

I really cant take credit for this, since it was Scotty’s idea…I will take partial credit, because I’m just like that. What am I expecting? Hopefully Ghosts! Mattie and I are sharing a famously haunted room. It’s rumored that a ghost will come and tuck you in at night as well as place a kiss atop the head of a pretty girl. Hopefully, one of us has this happen! Last time Scotty was there, the window in his room flew up. I’m curious to see what other experiences happen. There’s many stories of staff and guests alike encountering some otherworldly creatures or having strange experiences.

Like the Ghost of Stanley himself, who gives advice to those feeling lost, or the piano that plays itself. Granted, I am a skeptic. I’m not sure ghosts exist, I’m not sure they’re not just legends. After all, we all believe what we believe and I’m sure many of us have had strange experiences we couldn’t quite explain.  Then again, I also believe my apartment is haunted, but Mattie just says its easily explained. Either way, ghost or not, I’m looking forward to spending some time in a writer's inspirational dream place, and a historical landmark. 

Well, today is the day that the Girls of Geek team will be arriving at the glorious Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.  I must say that this is by far the most excited I have been to head back to this historical estate and it is because I get to share it with my friends.  Now, I have become the Stanley Hotel veteran, making my patronage up there once a year, but I am usually on my own, not with anybody I really know.  Now that this is happening, wow, just imagine what will happen.

Now, as you should know by now, this is my favorite place to visit in Colorado, and I might as well say it, in the country.  I have had a couple of strange things happen during my say, just last time my window flew open without any reason and all of the lights in my room were burned out.  The previous time I visited, I heard laughter in an empty room, heard the kids running up and down the hallway and was awakened by the elevator trying to go to a higher floor.  Now, can I say that all of this will happen on this trip?  No, I cannot, but I have ensured that if anything is going to happen in the hotel over this weekend that we will be there to witness it as we are staying in some haunted rooms.

Now when I was booking the rooms on my last stay, I was working it all out in my mind of who would be served the most in each.  As I have heard about what has happened in room 217, Stephen King's old room, I figured that none of the men from the site would be good in the room since we are all bachelors and the house keeper that overlooks that room is still working in the old times when the single male folk were required to sleep outside of the main hotel.  So that is out, but when I heard about room 428, I got overly excited as there is a cowboy that tends to enjoy kissing ladies on the forehead while they sleep.  Mattie and Shae, this cowboy is for you!

Picking out the next rooms was not too difficult since room 418 was already booked for the same weekend.  I chose room 407 which Lord Donraven has been said to make an appearance or two buy speaking up, or just letting the guests know he is there when his cherry pipe tobacco fills the air.  I also chose room 401 which is said to have a closet door that opens and shuts throughout the night.  And then we are all on the fourth floor which is considered haunted by many people as you can hear kids playing in the hallways during the night. 

What will happen?  Will the group witness anything that scares them out of their minds?  I do not have the answer to this question, I can only speak to what I have witnessed in my past experiences and hope that everyone in the group enjoys their stay.  It is a beautiful hotel and its location up against a hill will leaves you in awe as you see it from the road. I am sure we will be sending out updates throughout the weekend as it is all but one person’s first time there and now that Halloween is over, the spirits can come out to play.  It is a great get away and I hope everyone gets a chance to visit this historical site, as the Stanley Hotel has become a staple in my vacation time to just get away.  Stay Tuned...

Was it the butler in the kitchen with the knife? The husband in the hallway with the axe? Wait a minute, that’s not how we play Clue now is it? In Supernatural this week, things get a little weird…which is saying something since it’s a show about Hunters killing monsters. Well, the boys are struggling to find their next case, after that last one, and grasping at straws. In the mean time, Dean finds an old phone of Bobby’s and listens through the messages. It seems that a Ms. Bunny, a very wealthy heiress, has passed away and left something for Bobby. Surely it’s worth checking into, right? Getting there isn’t the problem, it’s dealing with the four siblings of the diseased that’s the problem.

Two sisters and two brothers, surely this won’t be terrible, will it? Turns out, maybe just a little. Not only does the family hate each other, they most certainly can’t stand the oldest brother’s young wife. Sam and Dean are unaware of what’s already been going on in the house; a maid died the morning before anyone showed up, having fallen from the second story into a glass table. Nobody knows what’s going on. The Butler gives Sam and Dean what was left to Bobby, and instructs them to leave.

The boys do, only to have the bejeweled cross charm appraised. Of course it’s worthless, well, with no value. But it is a key, and keys unlock doors right? Confused they head back to the house to figure it all out, mostly just to ask the butler. In their absence however, the older brother of the family had been decapitated. Supposedly by the ghost of Bunny’s late husband…when the boys arrive they’re met with not only the butler, but a police officer that plans to interrogate everyone. Now stuck in the house, they get the chance to look around.

Dean finds what the key unlocks first, a door to a secret room in the attic…where he finds a dead maid and one that is very much alive. She claims to have been locked in there by the butler because she wouldn’t talk to the detective for him. Dean goes to find the butler, while Same investigates the house….only to find said missing butler dead. But Dean is up talking to the butler? Well, something supernatural really is going on here. The butler Dean was talking to is really a Shifter. Finding silver seems to be the easy part, testing everyone in the house seems hard. By all counts, everyone has no reaction to the silver making it even harder to find who really is the shifter. The younger brother has had enough of the Winchester’s shenanigans and locks them in a room after they all find the detective dead. I really didn’t see this coming, but the maid gets the room's attention by grabbing the detectives gun and pointing it at the family. She reveals that she is Bunny’s daughter and, also, a Shifter. Seems Bunny’s husband wasn’t her real dad, and Bobby killed the Shifter father before he could get to her. Bunny swore she’d keep the girl locked away if Bobby spared her life. Upon her death, Bobby was contacted so he could take care of the girl, instead of killing her. The butler had known of her all along. He’d let her out of the attic thinking it was all right to have her be free…which backfired just a bit.

Sam and Dean finally get free of their room and Sam gets into a gunfight with the Shifter while Dean gets silver bullets from the car. While she spills her life story and nearly kills Sam, Dean shoots her…several times. Is the Mark affecting him again? Sam’s not sure, but he’s more than a little worried. They leave the family, and in typical Dean fashion, they don’t talk about the issue much. Dean’s denying the Mark is controlling him. Claiming he wanted to be sure he’d killed the Shifter. Maybe he was just protecting Sam? I can only hope!

Last week was most likely the best episode in the history of episodes. Okay, that's a matter of opinion. In reality it was the first musical episode! Supernatural celebrated their 200th episode with a bang! Our two hunters are still trying to get back into the swing of things, which isn't easy for either of them. Dean is grasping at any straw he can to find a case. Of which he does! A drama teacher of an all girls private school has gone missing. Which in Dean-land means she was kidnapped or killed by something otherworldly. Seems totally legitimate. I guess. Amazingly enough, Dean ends up being right. The school is putting on a musical interpretation of the occult book series, Supernatural, that happened to document the boys lives. The director, producer, and writer of this play is not sure what happened to the drama teacher, she's just adamant about seeing the play happen.

When the Winchesters come across all of this, they're a little thrown aback to say the least. While Sam can find humor in the situation, Dean finds irritation. Still, it is a case! Neither has a problem with that. However, they don't find any lead to suggest something happened to the drama teacher that warrants them being there. As they're about to give up and leave when a girl goes missing. The time, there's an eyewitness. A scarecrow dragged the girl away, according to the writer of the play. This kicks up the search to find what's going on.

Turns out, a goddess is behind the whole thing. She keeps kidnapping people who want to stop the play in order to see it happen. After that, she plans to eat the author. Not so ideal for the young writer. The boys promise to make sure nothing will happen to her. And nothing more does. The night of the play goes off fine. It's halfway through the first act when the scarecrow shows up and takes Sam. He wakes in the basement to find the missing teacher and student, as well as the goddess. She plans to eat more than just the author it seems...while he attempts to fight her, Dean is onstage fighting the scarecrow that has come back for the young writer. With some help and some perfect timing, Sam and Dean defeat the scarecrow and the goddess at the same time. The girl is saved and all ends well.

With a vocal rendition of 'Carry On My Wayward Son', the Winchesters are reminded that their half brother, Adam, is still trapped in the cage with Lucifer and Michael. After they leave, our young writer gets a visit from a publisher she'd desperately been waiting for; a long, thought dead, prophet, seems to be alive, well, and possibly something more.

The other day some wonderful news came across the wire that left me with a hint of internal conflictt. Yes it was announced that Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell would be at long last coming together for another chapter in the Evil Dead but that it would be different than any of the fans expected, it would be a television series premiering on Starz sometime next year. 

Now I say I was conflicted because after I saw the news I was jumping up and down for joy, then I had a moment of pause. I wasn't upset, just, surprised. We have all waited forever to see what happened to Ash after Army of Darkness but I think I can speak for all of us Evil Dead fans when I say that I think we expected it to be on the big screen.  

After all, every single tale of this poor sap turned hero has been on the silver screen, and even the 2013 film of the same namesake was presented to us in theaters. So my first thought was...would this even work?  Well I took a few moments to think about it, actually a good day or two before coming to realize that this is one of the most fantastic ideas in the history of ideas.  

Yes, the conflict left me once it dawned on me that with a television series of this, on cable, Raimi and company can do whatever the hell they want. We should still be able to get the gore, the laughs and of course...more Bruce Campbell as Ash.  

I mean, ten weeks of Evil Dead is better than no Evil Dead for starters but really just imagine it. Incredible one liners and badassery from Bruce week in and week out.  His character on the run after all these years and forced back into being a hero as the deadite threat returns, it is going to work. After all Bruce is no stranger to television and well, perhaps the biggest thing that put my mind at ease is that Sam Raimi will be involved in the show as an Executive Producer and write and direct the first episode. 

The man behind it all will be guiding the tale and that's reason enough to trust that this will kick some serious ass. After all, Sam's never let his fans down when it comes to this franchise and now, he's going to treat us week in and week out with one of the coolest horror stories to ever exist and he's bringing back one of the best characters of all time.  I can't wait to see where this show will take us.  Hail to the king, baby.  

What I love most about Supernatural is the fact that they do episodes just like this one. Easily one of my top favorites, this episode also had me hiding in embarrassment and laughing so hysterically I was glad to have no one whiteness it. With that, I must also gush about how much I love this show's ability to make me squee with utter joy.

What's more terrifying than fighting ghosts? Why, an all girls school interpretation of the Supernatural books into a musical play! No, really, you read that right. If you went into this episode expecting a lot of singing, you were gravely mistaken. However, the show breaks the 4th wall to once again remind us that it can make fun of itself. The show we loved has given us a reprieve from the heart breaking sadness that carves at our souls. To show us a lighter, fun, side to itself. When Dean catches wind of a missing Drama teacher he decides it's a case they must take. Sam, is a little more reserved since there's no evidence suggesting this case has anything to do with the supernatural they hunt. Dean wins, because Dean always wins, and they go check things out. Here they stumble onto the play that is their lives in musical form. Can we blame Chuck? Yes we can. Why? Because he wrote the stupid books (well, "Winchester gospel") that started all of this mess. More than unhappy, and shocked, to see this play being produced, the brothers must find out what happened to the drama teacher. All signs point to her being drunk and not dead by some creature.

Just when Sam is about to make Dean leave the case another disappearance happens. This time, the girl who wrote, produced, and is directing the play, saw what happened to her friend. A scarecrow kidnapped her. Yep, scarecrow. Of course, things are never just that simple. A Greek Goddess is really behind everything. She's been "protecting " the play from people who want to shut it down so she can see the play come to life...and then eat the author. Why? Goddess reasons. Onto the plan, Sam and Dean decide to stay and help the play happen. They're not really happy about it, but they have to...

During the play the scarecrow appears. Sam and Dean are armed and ready, but Sam never sees the creature appear behind him. He doesn't expect to get caught. When he wakes up, he's in the basement with the girl and missing drama teacher. Our Goddess reveals herself and traps Sammy. All while the scarecrow appears to bring our producer to its mistress. Dean ends up fighting it on stage while Sam gets an assist from the missing girl. He and Dean both stab their opponents at the same time. And both the Goddess and scarecrow erupt into gross goo.

The play ends with a vocal rendition of 'Carry On My Wayward Son.' And I did sing along. In the end, the boys leave with a vow to keep hunting. Our producer girl is met with the mysterious publisher she had invited. Now, this show seriously knows how to mess with me. The producer? He's Chuck. Let me just get this straight. We can tease me with Chuck actually showing up, but we can't bring Gabriel back? Why!? This show is out to get me. I swear it's true.