Initial reaction 11.18: Can't be a super-savior if you don't have a super-villain.

Then: On October 1, 2009, thousands of loyal SPN fans watched "The End," one of the very best episodes of one of the very best seasons of the show, and then many collapsed and died of the feels. And a week later it was followed by "Fallen Idols," which would have been mediocre even if it hadn't had Paris Hilton.

Oh, no, wait. That's not the Then.

( It's not like he invented the Prius. Which actually works. )