Image Credit: Michael Courtney/The CWFull disclosure: My brain had a water-caused shortage during the first minutes of this episode of Supernatural. Well, it wasn’t the water so much as it was the rain. Rather, the rain’s effect on our two favorite demon hunters, who trudged out of a storm (all wet and soggy) and into a hotel filled with bickering gods who wanted a piece of them. Hmm… the gods and I appear to have much in common. Sorry, I’ll stop being a total pig for a second so we can talk episode. [From here on out, this is a spoiler zone peeps. Hardhats required.]
Dean and Sam were tricked into checking into Hotel Totally a Trap, but they didn’t know it was a ruse until the hotel guests mysteriously disappeared. I won’t get graphic with the details of where they went; we’ll just say the gods thought they were mmm-mmm good. Speaking of the gods (who included the likes of Ganesh, Odin, Kali, Baron Samedi, and Balder), they captured Dean and Sam and kept them on hand while the group talked shop, a.k.a. the end of the world. But they didn’t get very far because Gabriel, dressed in the Tricker’s meat suit, showed up and crashed the party.
He tried to help Sam and Dean by wooing Kali, whom he had a ”thing” with at one point, but that didn’t work out. Angered by his betrayal, Kali stabbed him with what turned out to be a phony sword. He didn’t die… from that wound, at least. Lucifer showed up — creepy as ever, in case you were wondering — and killed Gabriel in a showdown. But Gabriel left a (pornographic) video message for the brothers that contained a secret about their quest: There’s a way to stop it all. They can trap Lucifer up forever and throw away the key. But it won’t be easy (shocker!). All they had to do was coax Lucifer back into his cage and use the horsemen’s four rings to lock him up. Sounds simple, right? Well, they have three episodes to do it, and two rings to go. It’s safe to say they’ve got some work to do.
So those are the basics. And here is my offering (no, it’s not a person’s head on a platter): My reflections on 10 lines from last night!
“We’re gonna find a way to beat the devil. I can feel it. We’re gonna find Cas; we’re gonna find Adam. But you’re no good to me burnt out.” – Dean to Sam
I was glad to see the brother relationship in the same place we left it last week: on a good note. But it just wasn’t enough to follow up on last week’s epic ending. It’s not too much of a surprise because Supernatural is typically paced that way, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it.
[Dean looks on as a couple makes out in the hotel hallway]
Sam: What are you, 12?
Dean: I’m young at heart.
…and a little bit of a sex fiend. Not that anyone minds.
Dean: You know what? Bite me, Gabriel
Gabriel: Maybe later, big boy.
I couldn’t just ignore that one.
“Me and Kali, we had a thing. Chick was all hands.” — Gabriel
Zing!
“Okay, okay. I got wings, like Kotex.” — Gabriel, admitting he’s an angel
Two for Gabe!
“Westerners, I swear, the sheer arrogance. You think you’re the only ones on Earth? You pillage and butcher in your god’s name, but you’re not the only religion, and he’s not the only god.” — Kali
I really liked Kali. And admittedly, I hadn’t thought of the other gods much before this episode (call me an ”arrogant Westerner”). As I saw them die off at Lucifer’s hand, my hopes of their return for the end of the apocalypse were dashed. Luckily, Kali survived, and it’s my speculation (nay, hope) that we see more of her before the end of the season.
Gabriel: I can’t kill my brother.
Dean: Can’t or won’t?
Foreshadowing? I hope not. Please.
“Lucifer, you’re my brother, and I love you. But you are great big bag of dicks.” — Gabriel
The award for most over-used profanity-replacement on Supernatural goes to…
“Don’t forget you learned all your tricks from me, little brother.” — Lucifer
That sent chills up my spine.
“Maybe he’s a fan. It is a good one.” — Dean re: Gabriel’s beyond-the-grave video message, which is delivered in the form of Casa Erotica 13
If this show were on Showtime…
So, PopWatchers, what did you think of Supernatural? Did that sneak peek at Pestilence completely gross you out, too? And have you checked out the Ghostfacers webisodes?
R.I.P. Gabriel. Your ability to make frat boys slow dance with aliens after being probed again and again and again and again..and then one more time endeared you to us all. Your willingness to use both tacos and dogs as creative murder weapons for Sam’s Mystery Spot lesson made you a legend. You gave us an sound bite of Sam admitting to slightly lessening the spread of genital herpes and caused assorted drinks to spurt from our noses in laughing fits. Finally, your super sneaky “wait! He might live!” moments in this episode made it all the more depressing when your diet orange slice sword didn’t fool anyone (especially lucifer). You will be missed.
I totally agree! I was sad to see him go because the episodes he was in were so funny and meaningful to the series! This show is still getting better and better!
I really hope God brings him back – like he did (and hopefully will again) with Cas!
Gabriel is the reason I started watching Supernatural. It was the “Changing Channels” epi that everyone was raving about. Lets just that in two months I have caught up on all Supernatural episodes! So, thank you Gabriel – not only did you make me laugh but you also hooked me onto one of the best tv shows ever!
RIP Gabriel…you were awesome.
The episode was awesome… I loved the showdown of Lucifer and Gabriel in the end. I’m not gonna lie though, I’m going to kinda miss Gabriel. He was very entertaining! This was a setup episode to launch us into the final episodes of the season, so therefore, while it wasn’t as good as last weeks (lets face it, not many episodes are), I enjoyed it! I did miss Cass being around though, there was a definite void. All in all it got me pumped for the finale episodes of the season!!
i miss cass too
Honestly, I loved this week’s episode about five times more than last week’s. Less emo-whining, more humor, more mythology, and DING DING DING Gabriel. RIP, you sweet-tooth-having, pranking, possum playing son of a gun.
This episode was a big mixed bag for me. The other gods, by all rights, should have been able to go toe-to-toe with Lucifer, right? Why didn’t they? Or, as a team, why couldn’t they beat him? That didn’t make much sense.
Also, Kali running away in fear and into the Winchester’s car… so much for being a powerful god.
I was also sad to see Gabriel go. When he first said he was Loki, I was really hoping the Gabriel thing was the ruse; I liked him much better as a straight-up trickster. And “angel as a trickster” just never made much sense to me. Feh. It totally changed a fun character into something else.
They weren’t able to beat Lucifer because, contrary to Kali’s complaint about Westerners, they aren’t really gods, just powerful, ancient monsters.
Though I have to say I’m wondering how the Hindus will react to the depiction of some of their gods.
Yeah, that left me stumped as well. If these gods/ancient monsters/whatevs are so willing to go up against Lucifer then I expected them to put up a better fight… or just a fight, for that matter. I can see Sam, Dean and Cas putting up a better defense then what those guys managed to do last night. Lucifer was knocking ‘em down like bowling pins..wtf
If you paid attention, Lucy said they(God and angels) took all the power they had, and that the rest of the “gods” had forfeited the Earth. Therefore, we can assume that the angels are just much more powerful, and Lucy and Mikey are the most powerful among them. So, the “gods” got their buts handed to them.
Gabriel finally showed up though…he knew he was going to sacrifice himself and my bet is that God’s gonna hook him up Cas style so the trickster can get a remix of life. It’s interesting that lucifer and michael are rocking the beta version meatsuits. It bodes well for the bros. Winchester that their angelic counterparts are evenly matched…though something tells me Michael can’t beat down Satan w/o Dean, while Satan can w/o Sam. So who knows, I’m still waiting for Cas…his death don’t come off-screen.
Shout out to Rekha Sharma, a.k.a. Tory Foster from BSG. Kali was great. The confrontation between Lucifer and Gabriel was awesome and definitely blazed foreshadowing. I could almost see Sam saying, “Don’t forget, I learned all my little tricks from you, big bro.” Or Dean repeating Lucifer’s line. Either way, leave it to Supernatural to create some sympathy for the devil.
I had a BSG flashback when I saw her turn Dean’s advances down at the bar, and I was so pumped she was a main player in the rest of the episode! (Hated her as Tory in BSG, though)
I was wondering if I was the only one who hated her on BSG. Guess not!
Another fantastic episode! So many great moments and lines that cracked me up. Oh, how I love this show.
Another great episode. It had me worried at first, but pulled through.
My favourite line
“You think I’d give them my real sword?! That thing could kill me!”
This was one of the best lines: Why are you running around with no hands?
Awesome. I forgot about that line. So funny!
Honestly, I don’t even remember a lot on last week’s episode. I did remember the week before last and enjoyed it a lot. I’m sorry for the mix up, but, since TNT has been showing 2 episode a day, everything is kind of mixed up for me. This episode was cool. I too was wondering why Luci was able to destroy almost all of the other gods, but I’m Catholic. So, I’m bias.
Nerd moment – The Christians and Muslims, back when we were still Jews, began ‘converting’ the pagan/monotheistic gods of other religions into demons (Beelzebub from Baal) and relatively harmless fairies or mixing them up with our idea of all-encompassing evil (the ha-satan in the Bible who was given the face of the Celtic Horned God and the living quarters named for a Norse God (Hel)). In other words, Western/Mid-Eastern religion has long shuffled aside the old gods delegating them to a lesser status. Having said that, any advanced individual (whether technologically or magically) will appear godlike to an inferior. Gods may not be gods, but just very powerful creatures with enormous egos and while the China and India respectively are largely not followers of any Abrahamic religion (Abraham (Jew), father of Isaac (Christian) and Ishmael (Muslim)), the world (including Africa and S. America) is predominately the domain of one God/three faiths: the God of the the Koran, Bible, and Talmud rules the world.
Back to Supernatural: I liked the use of the Persian tale of Lucifer’s fall (ordered to love man, refused to do so because loved God more, battle commences, Lucifer falls) and the confrontation between G & L; plus, rather nice to see a positive Dean: we’re gonna find Cas and Adam, we’re gonna beat the devil. Nice to see big bro man up.
Cannot believe only three episodes remaining.
Not so much nerd moment as Intro to Religion summation. That being said I am on the fence, with the whole G & L showdown. Agree totally with Dean coming back to himself and awaiting Sam’s true self. I hope the series end on a positive for the fans.
Since there’s a 6th season coming next year there’s plenty of time for the happy ending.
Yes, but the Apocalypse story line will end. I was a bit confused as to how they would continue to a S6 but now I understand!
BTW, Hope, I really liked your religion summary. But as a non-practicing Hindu I kind of wish my Gods did get to kick some Lucifer ass…
Your western-centrism is showing.
A moment of silence for our dearly departed Trickster. Yes, he was Gabriel, but he will always be foremost in my mind as the Trickster. And yes, the scene with Pestilence at the end actually kind of made me want to throw up.
Okay, I missed a couple of things at the end: Dean told Kali ['princess'] to get into the Impala if she wanted to survive but then what? The next Impala scene I remember was just the bros.
Matt Frewer as Pestilence is gonna be great–his scene was SO hilariously disgusting. But the camera lingered on his car’s license plate for a moment except I still couldn’t read it. I figured it had to mean something–did someone else make out what it said?
And Sandra it wasn’t just the use of ‘dick’ or any variation. How many times did ‘as*’ get spoken in the episode?
Pestilence’s license plate read SIKN TRD I believe. Something close to that. Which is plate speak for Sick And Tired.
Hammer of the Gods was a stellar episode to follow up the emotional weight of Point of No Return. I loved seeing Dean back up his turn around with his words and actions this week. It’s so good to see him back, even if I did love his descent into depression. Loved the humor, loved seeing Gabriel again. I was hoping he’d get out of it, but figured he’d die. The showdown between Gabriel and Lucifer was fabulous.