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5.19 Hammer of the Gods Sam: "By the way, the next time I say let's keep driving, let's keep driving." Dean: "Next time." Oooh! We have quest objects! Four rings to rule them all, and they already have two. Two more rings and a quick trip to Maryland, remove Sam's rib sigils... no, I know it can't be that easy. I'm so glad they finally addressed other religions and other gods, even if all they did was mostly go for the ancient, childish, bloodthirsty types. (If they'd gone for more serious, active religions, it certainly would have offended somebody. Not me, I hasten to add; I worship Bast.) And if it had to be our final episode with Gabriel, at least we got to see him as Loki again. I was really sad to see Gabriel go; he's been around a long time, and was in some terrific episodes. I'm not sure I completely bought his turnabout love of humanity (he did some pretty nasty things to humanity in other episodes, after all) but I bet some of his motivation came from a genuine affection for the Winchesters, as well as Kali. (Dan and I were both rooting for Kali. Wouldn't she make a great ally, like Jesse the tiny Antichrist?) Lucifer was actually pretty scary this time. He blasted through those gods like they were tissue paper, and killed his own brother. You'd think Lucifer would draw a line at killing his little brother, but no. And I am again hoping this isn't foreshadowing. We have a season six, people. Season six without one of the two brothers, it cannot happen. The final few minutes that introduced Pestilence made my list of top five grossest scenes on Supernatural. I actually started to gag. It was even more disgusting than the couple that ate each other. Apparently, for me, snot trumps blood. Bits and pieces: -- Dean was pretty much himself again. Yay. -- Loved the "Hello my name is" nametags. Priceless. -- Happy casting dance for Matt Frewer as Pestilence. And another for Rekha Sharma from Battlestar Galactica as Kali. -- The Elysian Fields Hotel was in Muncie, Indiana, the "tri-state area." According to the internet, there are several tri-state areas in the United States; I grew up in one that was not in Indiana. -- Pestilence was in Las Vegas. He had Nevada tags that said, "SKN TRD". -- There was a "commercial" for the new Ghostfacers webisodes on cwtv.com. I still haven't seen them; it's on my "to do" list. -- There was also a clip of "Casa Erotica 13" that, of course, amused Dean and made Sam the prude uncomfortable. And see, I bet Gabriel knew they'd take it just like that. -- Still no Castiel. Still no Adam. Quotes: Sam: (about Mercury at the front desk) "Creepy." Dean: "Broke the needle." Sam: "An elephant." Dean: "Yeah." Sam: "Like, an elephant." Dean: "Like, full-on Babar." Dean: "Please be tomato soup. Please be tomato soup." Baldur: "No slaughtering each other. Curb your wrath. Oh, and keep your hands off the local virgins. We're trying to keep a low profile here." Sam: "We are so, so screwed." Zao Shen: "Don't mock my world turtle." Baldur: "Why are you here?" Gabriel: "To talk about the elephant in the room. (to Ganesh) Not you." Actually, I think Gabriel deserves a section of his own this time, since it's his last: "Me and Kali had a thing. The chick was all hands." "Screw this marble. Let's go check out Pandora." "Okay, okay, so I got wings, like Kotex." "Luci, I'm home." "You're my brother and I love you, but you are a great big bag of dicks." This was an amusing, interesting, scary and sad episode. Three out of four elephants, Billie View all comments or post a comment. |
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