Supernatural

Season 5 Episode 19

Hammer of the Gods

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A group of gods abduct the Winchesters and try to use them to bargain with the angels to stop the Apocalypse. However, when Gabriel arrives to warn them, one of the gods betrays the others to Lucifer.
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  • Gabriel

    10
    no no Gabriel is going to live nope she didn't just kill him Ghost Facers didn't just come on nope nope this didn't just happen nope. I give it a ten for the feels it gave me. when Ghost Facers came on I was practically screaming high pitched like at my TV, and thought something was wrong with my TV or the episode.
  • That's gone too far

    10
    The writer for sure did research over wikipedia to bring in something new to this episode. unfortunately, his eyes got burned out after hearing the "voice of an angel" and could not complete his research. he did not know that he is referring to "gods" worshiped by billions of people.



    So, the must comedy part of it was that some slutty entertainers were hired to play as gods. it looked like a pre-primary drama with them wearing "name tags".



    No offence, but Isn't the writer crossing the limits here ? Isn't it an insult to all the religions ... even christianity ? i think that everyone... after a few exceptions... shall recognize the need of respecting each other's religion.

    This episode is an exception to all others. It is a creative piece of crap written by some useless but creative shithead.moreless
  • Loved this Episode!

    9.0
    This almost seemed a throwback to early episodes. Dean gets thrown into something. Sam gets grabbed by the throat. (very season 1) Here, once again was the overprotective big brother. "Sam, unpucker. Eat something. How long have you slept?" And Sam re-grew his brain. "What's a four-star hotel doing on a no-star highway." Hmmm...turns out...good question. Nice to see the boys working as a team again.
  • The ignorance of the writers is shocking.

    1.0
    Ganesh, Kali etc are Pagans? The writers really need to do some research before showing Gods worshipped by billions as man eaters and considerably weaker than the Devil of all people. There are other major religions in the world other than Christianity and the writers should respect them.(Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world followed by more than a billion people)



    I can understand demi gods or actual pagan Gods being portrayed as weaker than Lucifer but some major Gods have been treated with utter disrespect in this episode.(Ganesh is the son of God according to hinduism)I understand that some facts need to be altered but not to this extent. The callous attitude of the writers leaves a bad taste in the mouth.moreless
  • Wasted potential

    5.0
    the story with Gabriel finally taking stand in the the battle of his brothers could have been wonderful and interesting and poignant. instead it was just an aftertought in a rather distasteful episode. I understand creative license and I can hand wave a lot. you in a way have to if you want to enjoy this show and I am OK with it. most of the time. I rolled my eyes here and there but this is a different case. because creative license is one thing but disrespect is a whole other ball game. I can get into the whole angels and Lord Allmighty and Lucifer and Michael and destiny and Apocalypse stuff and so on because it is their story and most of time it works. but in here they made other religions a joke. and not only one but a lot of them. they just took a bunch of names out of thin air without care to what they actually meant and ridiculed them. and as great as the Gabriel story could have been and as big as the final revelation was in the context of the story it all doesnt matter because all this episode left was a bitter aftertaste of disrespectful stunt writing. I hoped the show was better then thatmoreless

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

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  • TRIVIA (1)

  • QUOTES (7)

    • Lucifer: Gabriel, if you're doing this for Michael...
      Gabriel: Screw him. If he were standing here, I'd shiv his ass, too.
      Lucifer: Huh. You disloyal...
      Gabriel: Oh, I'm loyal. To them.
      Lucifer: Who? These so-called gods?
      Gabriel: To people, Lucifer. People.
      Lucifer: So, you're willing to die, for a pile of cockroaches? Why?
      Gabriel: Because Dad was right. They are better than us.
      Lucifer: They are broken, flawed, abortions!
      Gabriel: Damn right, they're flawed. But, a lot of 'em try, to do better. To forgive.

    • Gabriel: But... me and Kali, we, uh... had a thing. Chick was all hands.

    • Kali: I never took you for the type.
      Gabriel: Romantic?
      Kali: Pathetic.

    • Dean: We can either take on the Devil together, or you lame-ass bitches can eat me. Literally.

    • Gabriel: Okay, okay. So I got wings like Kotex.

    • Baldur: You think you own the planet? What gives you the right?!?
      Lucifer: No one gives us the right. We take it.

    • Gabriel: Lucifer... you are my brother, and I love you. But you are a great big bag of dicks.

  • NOTES (2)

    • International Airdates:
      UK: June 9, 2010 on LIVING
      Sweden: September 3, 2010 on Kanal 5
      Spain: December 27, 2010 on AXN
      Germany: March 7, 2011 on Sky Cinema Hits
      Australia: March 21, 2011 on ELEVEN
      Czech Republic: November 18, 2011 on Prima COOL
      Finland: July 15, 2012 on Sub

    • Music: You Know You Know (I Love You) (The Bachelors)

  • ALLUSIONS (10)

    • Elysian Fields Hotel: Elysian Fields in Greek mythology is the final resting place for the heroic or virtuous. It is synonymous with Heaven, Valhalla, etc.

    • Dean: And you keep an eye on Norman Bates here.
      Referencing Norman Bates, the killer played by Anthony Perkins in the 1960 movie Psycho, and its sequels, based on the novel by Robert Bloch.

    • Dean: Like full-on Babar.
      Referencing the title character of a series of children's books written by Jean de Brunhoff. Babar travels out into the world, becomes educated, and returns to create a kingdom of civilized elephants.

    • Dean: Motel Hell.
      Referencing the 1980 movie starring Rory Calhoun as Farmer Vincent, who together with his young sister Ida runs the Motel Hello. That's just a cover for their real business, which is abducting unsuspecting passerbys, planting them in the ground, severing their vocal chords, and eventually slaughtering them as ingredients for their famous smoked meats.

    • Gabriel: I'm the Costner to your Houston.
      Referencing the 1992 thriller The Bodyguard starring the aforementioned actor & actress. Frank Farmer is hired to protect a music superstar, Rachel Marron, who is a stalker's target. During the course of the movie, the two fall in love.

    • Dean: Or, uh, we tell the Legion of Doom about your secret identity.
      Referencing the Legion of Doom, the supervillain organization that first appeared in Challenge of the SuperFriends. The SuperFriends' first actual super-powered opponents, the Legion featured thirteen members: Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Solomon Grundy, the Riddler, the Scarecrow, Bizarro, Cheetah, Black Manta, Giganta, Gorilla Grodd, Sinestro, Captain Cold, and the Toyman. Nine of those villains appear in the JLU version seen here. Each week the Legion would come up with some ludicrously overly complicated scheme to take over and/or rob the world, be defeated by the SuperFriends, but escape at the last minute.

    • Gabriel: I mean, screw this marble. Let's go check out Pandora.
      Referencing the native planet seen in the 2009 science fiction film Avatar. In it, humans attempt to harvest unobtanium and create genetic hybrids to infiltrate the local sapient humanoids, the Na'vi. Released in both 2-d and 3-d, the film received a universally positive reception and became the first film to gross more than $2 billion in worldwide showings. It was nominated for nine Oscars and received three.

    • Dean: All right, you primitive screwheads, listen up.
      Referencing the 1993 movie Army of Darkness, where the hero, Ash, is transported through time and addresses a group of Medieval English villagers using the same dialogue while explaining about his "boomstick."

    • Gabriel: Lucy, I'm home.
      Referencing the classic TV show I Love Lucy, where Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) always announced his arrival at home in the same way.

    • Gabriel: And you should see the Spearment Rhino.
      Referencing the world's largest franchise of "gentleman's club," and reputed by many to be the best in the world.

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