I must admit that from the moment I heard Supernatural was going to have an episode featuring Paris Hilton my mind immediately went into battle mode with itself. My first thought was, "this is bad and gimmicky". I then countered with, "but I trust the Supernatural crew to pull this off". My internal retort was, "no seriously it's Paris Hilton, this can't be good". And thus my brain battled with itself for approximately 3 minutes before I got distracted by something shiny.
After viewing this episode I can satisfactorily say that Paris Hilton did not ruin this episode! Unfortunately the case of the week was, well, extremely weak and you've got to subtract major points for homicidal Gandhi and Lincoln. I did love Hilton calling out the American public for worshiping celebrities like "gods" but that certainly was not enough to balance the overall feel of cheese that this episode produced.
That's not to say there was not some good parts. The stuff between Dean and Sam was really good. I was happy that Sam stood up for himself and got Dean to analyze the way he treats him. I was shocked to hear Dean admit at the end of the episode that he is in many ways just as guilty of bringing about the apocalypse as Sam. I was mostly jarred because I had forgotten (or deeply buried) that it was in fact Dean who broke the first seal and kicked off the chain of events that led to the rising of the devil.
Unfortunately that admission of guilt by Dean reminded me of what this episode wasn't. This wasn't an episode with Bobby, Cas, or the Prophet Chuck which in my book (or blog) makes it an episode that felt lacking. Basically this was a season one plot shoved into a season five episode and it slowed the momentum this season was building.
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I agree with you, Steve. This was not my fav Supernatural episode. I also can not remember what Dean did to break the first seal? Can you remind me?
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