Heh, I loved it too, but then I love it when the show does quirky, out-of-the-ordinary episodes. A lot of fans feel differently though, so it wouldn't really have mattered when the episode aired. People who hate these kind of episodes would have hated it anyway. LOL Just for the record: I adore 'Bad Blood'. It's one of my fav X-Files episodes. *g*

The brotherly banter is my comfort-zone. I adore it and Jensen and Jared do it so well. ♥ So any episode that features it heavily, like this one, has me right from the start LOL. The characterisation stuff is only visible for people who think about this show entirely too much anyways. I guess most viewers didn't even notice the hitch in the story.