Are you in the market for a photo essay of Dean’s hilari-terror? You are so in luck today, my darlings, because my partner Zeroth has got a bonza one for you – along with a bit o’ analysis:

I like this episode a lot for a fairly simple sadistic reason: watching Dean be in pants-wetting terror for most of the episode.

This is a testament to the acting capabilities for Jensen Ackles. He’s been able to convey a guy trying to be what he thinks manly masculine manly manly men should be, and the vulnerable pain he carries underneath.

He’s gentle and kind to the vulnerable and scared, especially children. He loves his brother and has a fairly common fear of flying.

Which isn’t made any better with a demon trying to crash the plane he’s on!

Poor Dean. He tries so hard to be macho, and then this…