This is a review from season 5 I wanted to post my own words since this has become my favorite cause it reminds me of the one thing that I love the most mythology about all the different gods.

~ Episode Summary ~

A security guard making his night rounds in the rain in Muncie, Indiana stopped at the derelict, condemned Elysian Fields hotel. As he passed through the junk-strewn lobby, checking out a noise further in, a dead plant bloomed on the registration counter, and an odd crackling sound led him to a cracked mirror magically restoring itself. He spun around to find a dapper man in a bow tie standing behind him, who explained his presence by saying someone had to get everything ready because all of them were coming. He told the guard they each had their part to play, and the guard was dinner. He killed the guard.

Some time later, the Impala pulled into the motel’s neon-lit, well populated parking lot in the midst of a torrential thunderstorm that soaked the brothers just in their dash from the car to the door. Other refugees from the storm thronged the lobby and the adjacent lounge of a place several points up the scale from the brothers’ normal choice of lodging. The man who had killed the guard was the clerk who checked them in, hid fingers flying over his computer keyboard. The clerk observed a small cut on Dean’s neck, and offered him a tissue to dab the blood. When Dean asked about a coffee shop, he directed them to the hotel’s all-you-can-eat buffet, asserting it had the best pie in the tri-state area. As Dean tried to choose between multiple desserts, another man on the same errand referred to it as heaven, but Dean maintained the dessert buffet was better. Enroute back to their table, Dean tried to make a pass at a beautiful woman, but she shut him down cold and with more than a hint of menace.

At their table, finding Sam scrolling through information on his smart phone instead of eating, Dean tried to persuade him to relax and eat something, but Sam insisted they should get back on the road, observing the storm was of downright biblical proportions and they should be out trying to deal with the apocalypse. Dean countered by asking how much sleep Sam had gotten all week. Noting that Bobby had his feelers out and they had talked to everyone imaginable across twelve states, Dean insisted no one was giving up, least of all himself. Maintaining they would find a way to beat the devil and would find Adam and Castiel, Dean said Sam would be no good to him burnt out. Sam grudgingly agreed, and Dean said they should enjoy having the night off for once. A waitress passed their table and headed on into the kitchen, where a dismembered arm lay on a food counter.

Heading to their room, Dean was amused by the newlyweds next door, who weren’t waiting to get into their room to start making out. In the room, he was delighted to discover chocolates on their pillows and the latest installment of his favorite porn series on television. Sam was suspicious of a place this nice being in such a backwater. Their discussion was interrupted by the unmistakable happy noises of sex next door, which abruptly cut off when something massive hit the wall hard enough to crack the brick façade. They broke into the room to find the bed rumpled but no one there, and a diamond engagement ring dropped on the floor. When they asked the front desk clerk about their neighbors, the man claimed they had just checked out, and took the ring to put it in the lost and found.

The brothers split up, with Sam keeping tabs on the creepy desk clerk while Dean prowled the rest of the hotel with an EMF meter. Following the clerk, Sam lost him when the man went around a corner into a dead-end hall; he simply disappeared. Sam heard a metallic snick and felt a sting at his neck, and his fingers came away bloody from a nick twin to the one Dean had gotten earlier. Dean, meanwhile, got off the elevator on a higher floor and walked down the corridor looking at the meter, until he glimpsed from the corner of his eye an elephant with a bath towel through the open door of a room he passed; when he backtracked, however, he saw a big black man wrapped in a towel, who slammed the door in his face.

In another room in the hotel, a man refastened the necklace of the woman who had shut Dean down at the buffet, calling her sweet and kissing her neck. They were interrupted by the appearance of the clerk, who apologized for interrupting but announced that all the guests had arrived and the pantry was full, and said that while the Winchesters were suspicious, they were under control. The woman asked if he had their blood, and the man whisked across the room in the blink of an eye to stand in front of her, offering two vials and observing that he was quick. She thanked him, calling him Mercury.

The brothers rendezvoused in the hotel lobby, exchanging information, but discovered the lobby strangely deserted and the hotel doors locked. Sam guessed the highway detour and unnatural storm. Searching through the rest of the public areas and finding no one, they wound up in the kitchen, to discover a red soup containing eyeballs on the boil and the rest of the hotel guests locked up in panic in the freezer. Before Sam could pick the lock, two burly men appeared behind Dean, and the brothers were overpowered and hauled into the hotel ballroom, set up for a conference with a U-shaped table. The brothers saw the nametags on the other guests and realized it was a convention of gods. The Norse Baldur was chair with Hindu Kali at his side, and others present included Odin, king of the Norse gods; Hindu Ganesh, often depicted as having an elephant’s head; Mercury, the Roman version of the Greek Hermes, speedy messenger of the Olympian gods; Baron Samedi, the voodoo loa of the crossroads and death; Zao Shen, the Chinese kitchen or stove god; and three others whose nametags couldn’t be read. Mercury produced a platter with dinner: the roast remains of the security guard. A spotlight shone on Dean and Sam as Baldur announced the guests of honor had arrived.

After establishing basic ground rules for the meeting intended to keep a low profile and not attract undue attention from the surrounding world – no killing each other and hands off the local virgins – Baldur announced the purpose of the meeting being for the gods to determine how they were going to deal with the Judeo-Christian apocalypse underway, noting they had two valuable bargaining chips in the persons of Dean and Sam, the vessels for Michael and Lucifer. The gods bickered among themselves, with Zao Shen advocating killing them, Ganesh scoffing that the angels would just bring them back to life, and Odin wondering why any of them needed to be concerned about a slap-fight between angels because the world wouldn’t end until the events of Norse myth occurred. As the gods bickered about whose myth was more valid and which of them was older, the brothers turned to leave, but Kali made the room chandelier drop in their path and ordered them to stop. Kali maintained the archangels only understood violence and war was the only option. Mercury objected that they hadn’t even tried to talk to the angels, but Kali silenced him by choking him with a thought, until Baldur made her stop. Then the door opened and Gabriel entered, robbing the brothers of their voices when Sam began to say his name. Baldur greeted him as Loki, and the Trickster angel, after questioning why he hadn’t been invited, told the rest they couldn’t stop the apocalypse. Saying the adults had to talk, he zapped the brothers back to their room.

Trying to process what they’d fallen into, Dean proposed trying to break the imprisoned humans out of the freezer as their first step, but Gabriel appeared in the room. When Dean accused him of having set the whole situation up, Gabriel called himself the Costner to their Houston, saying he’d come to save them. He said the gods planned either to kill the brothers or use them as bait. Dean pointed out that Gabriel had tried to make them play their roles the last time they met, and Gabriel agreed that Michael and Lucifer were still going to have their throw-down, but not here and now. Asked why he cared, Gabriel claimed not to care, but said he and Kali had a thing and he was sentimental. Sam asked if the gods had a chance against Satan, and Gabriel answered it was a bad idea and Lucifer would turn them into finger paint. Dean advocated Gabriel spiriting them away, but the angel said Kali had their blood and used it in a spell to hold them there. He got set to charm Kali. Dean wanted to get the humans out as well, and when Gabriel said it couldn’t be done, Dean noted the other gods had called him Loki, meaning they didn’t know he was an angel. Dean threatened to reveal his identity to the gods unless Gabriel agreed to rescue everyone, and when Gabriel realized he couldn’t block them without raising questions from the other gods, he agreed.

Gabriel embarked on a seduction of Kali, revealing that Kali had been the one who had called and alerted him to the meeting. When she said she had thought he would take it seriously, he protested that he was; he advocated both of them leaving Earth, teasing they should check out Pandora. She said it didn’t have to be that way, but he turned serious and insisted it did, saying if the gods fought, they would die. He told her he had tussled with angels before and begged her not to do what she planned. While kissing her, he reached for the vials of the brothers’ blood he could see behind her, but she realized his intent and scratched his neck, getting his blood and binding him to her the same way she had bound the Winchesters.

The brothers, heading for the kitchen, hid from four of the gods out for a snack on the businessman who’d eyed the dessert buffet with Dean. Realizing the gods meant to kill him, Dean started to try a rescue, but Sam held him back, warning it was too late, and Dean watched the man die. In the kitchen, as Sam tried picking the lock on the freezer, Dean was attacked by Zao Shen and flung across the room. The god began to throttle Sam, but Dean stabbed him from behind with a wooden stake. As the god fell, the brothers wondered where Gabriel was.

Captured again, the brothers were dragged back into the ballroom to discover Gabriel already a prisoner there. Kali revealed to the rest that she had known Gabriel’s identity for a while, and said he had something she wanted: she drew his archangel’s blade. He tried to persuade her that he was a runaway, not a spy, and that he was trying to save her from Lucifer because the gods couldn’t beat him. He said he’d skipped ahead to see how this story ended, but she insisted that was his story, not theirs. Complaining about the arrogance of Westerners, she said his wasn’t the only religion, and his God wasn’t the only god. Saying there were billions of them and they were here first, Kali said if anyone was going to destroy the Earth, it would be her. She apologized, and then killed Gabriel with his own sword. Observing his body, she said angels could die and they could kill Lucifer. Dean stood up and proposed a distasteful partnership to help the gods ice the devil, after which they could all go back to killing each other. He said that he and Sam could get Lucifer to the hotel, but insisted the gods release the imprisoned humans first. He laid out that the gods could either agree, or eat him.

The gods capitulated, and Dean escorted the humans out of the hotel, telling them to get away from there. Gabriel, hiding in the back seat of the Impala, revealed he’d tricked Kali with a fake sword, and told Dean to use Kali’s liking for him to get close to her, steal back their blood, and they could escape. Dean refused, telling Gabriel to hand over the real sword or man up and join them, because allying with the gods seemed the best chance they had to kill Lucifer. Gabriel refused, claiming he didn’t care, but Dean said he saw through Gabriel’s attitude and knew he considered the gods his family and they would die without him. Gabriel protested that he couldn’t kill his brother, and Dean asked if he meant can’t or won’t. When Gabriel didn’t answer, Dean said that was what he thought, and went back into the hotel. Inside, Sam was telling Kali he needed her to squeegee the marks off his ribs and Lucifer would come running, but Dean said the plan wouldn’t work because the sword was a fake and Gabriel was still alive.

At the same time, Lucifer, wearing Nick, rang the bell at the front desk and said he wanted to check in. Mercury, who had taken his own initiative and called him, thanked him for coming. Lucifer said he’d never understood pagans, how they were always fighting and eager to sell out their own kind, and observed it was no wonder they had forfeited the planet. He said they were worse than humans, worse than demons, but claimed to be gods – and then he killed Mercury. On his way to the ballroom, he killed all the other remaining gods, until only Baldur and Kali, still in the ballroom with the brothers, remained, and Baldur admitted they couldn’t simply translocate away. Lucifer entered the room and Baldur challenged him despite Kali’s warning not to, and Lucifer simply put his arm right through Baldur’s body, killing him. Kali faced off with him, sheathing her arms in fire and hurling it at him as the brothers dove for cover, but Lucifer simply shrugged it off and slugged her. Gabriel appeared beside the brothers, observing it was better late than never. He gave Dean a DVD case, telling him to guard it with his life, and then he flung Lucifer away from Kali and advanced blade in hand. Standing between Lucifer and the others, he told the brothers to get Kali away, and the three left, taking the Impala.

Gabriel faced off against Lucifer, telling him to look at himself and ridiculing him for being a child throwing a temper tantrum, planning to smash all of God’s toys because Father God had been mean to him. Gabriel said Lucifer could play the victim all he wanted, but they both knew the truth: that God had loved Lucifer best, more than Michael or Gabriel, but Lucifer hadn’t been able to handle it when God brought humans – the new baby – home. Lucifer asked Gabriel why he was willing to die for a pile of cockroaches, and Gabriel said it was because God was right: humans were better than angels. When Lucifer scoffed that humans were broken, flawed abortions, Gabriel agreed they were flawed, but noted a lot of them tried to be better and to forgive. He announced he wasn’t on Lucifer’s side or Michael’s, but on the humans’ side. Lucifer asked him not to make him do this, but Gabriel noted no one made them do anything. Saying he knew Gabriel thought he was doing the right thing, but he knew where his heart truly lies, Lucifer turned abruptly away from the image of Gabriel he’d been facing to grab and twist the sword hand of the real angel who was striking from behind, plunging the blade into Gabriel. Observing Gabriel had learned all his tricks from Lucifer, Lucifer killed him. Saddened, he stood over Gabriel’s body amidst the ashes rising from his burned wings.

The next day, playing the DVD Gabriel had given them, the brothers saw cheesy porn with a mustachioed Gabriel in a starring role. Just as Sam wondered aloud what was going on, the onscreen Gabriel turned to look right out at them, saying they probably wondered what was going on. He said if they were watching the video, he was dead, and with him gone, they’d lost their only chance to kill Lucifer. He said they could trap him, however, because the cage he’d been imprisoned in was still down there. He warned it wouldn’t be easy: they’d have to get the cage open, trick Lucifer into going inside it, and avoid Michael and the God squad. He told them even Lucifer didn’t know the four Horsemen’s rings were the keys to the cage. Gabriel said Dean had been right: he had been afraid to stand up to his family, but he wasn’t any more. Knowing they already had two of the rings and needed only two more, the brothers finally had a plan, and hit the road in the Impala.

Meanwhile, the desk clerk at a rural general store was reading about the rapid spread of a new influenza virus, electrical storms causing huge power failures in New York City, and an earthquake in California when Pestilence, driving a beat-up old green AMC Hornet with Nevada license plates, arrived accompanied by flies to ask about non-drowsy flu medication. Coughing, sneezing, and spreading phlegm and mucus everywhere, he smiled on his way out, and a cloud of flies rose to fill the car as he drove down the road.

The original post in this thread is a copy and paste of the review from http://www.supernatural.tv/reviews/s5reviews/hammergods_bardic.htm
The origingal author is the reviewer Bardicvoice.
There is enough evidence to point out that LunaRoseAngel is not the original author and as such this thread shall be closed.