I was rooting for Jack, too, and I really thought that he might have been able to figure out a way to deal without Travis coming in and escalating things. I did believe that Travis was a good guy and truly sorry about it, but he went the wrong way on that. And yeah, a little annoyed at yet another back story guy. But I'm thinking that ten years ago, John cut off communication with most other hunters and tried to keep him and his boys separate from that. Maybe because that's when he found out about Sam's demon blood? Hmm.

They can stop implying Sam/Ruby anytime now. Yep. Aaaanytime.