Loved some, disliked some. I wasn't really feeling the Sam and Dean moments - they felt obligatory, and all the same emotional beats had been hit only a few episodes back, with better execution. The viral fog had great cinematography and CGI though, and I loved the unraveling duct-tape which felt sort of emblematic of Sam and Dean ''fixing-things" in general.
Alas, I greatly dislike amulet fixits and have since the first moment someone came up with the notion that Sam might have taken the amulet out of the trash.
The stuff I loved was God!Chuck and Metatron. I'd long ago accepted that Chuck being God was probably the authorial intent and might be made explicit text at some point, but I've never been too fond of it. But guy-who-plays-Chuck's acting and God being such a flawed, petty, miserable bastard (which, I never thought SPN God could be any other way, I was just pleased by the execution) who needs to be read by Metatron, of all people, sold me on it. At least for this episode, who knows how I'll feel by the end of the season.
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Alas, I greatly dislike amulet fixits and have since the first moment someone came up with the notion that Sam might have taken the amulet out of the trash.
The stuff I loved was God!Chuck and Metatron. I'd long ago accepted that Chuck being God was probably the authorial intent and might be made explicit text at some point, but I've never been too fond of it. But guy-who-plays-Chuck's acting and God being such a flawed, petty, miserable bastard (which, I never thought SPN God could be any other way, I was just pleased by the execution) who needs to be read by Metatron, of all people, sold me on it. At least for this episode, who knows how I'll feel by the end of the season.