O Death! I will always love this episode just for the intro scene (and many other things too, but heck... that’s how you do a character intro!).
The penultimate episode of s5, and of Kripke Era. There’s just a lot going on, and I realized as I lay in bed after recording this that there was so much more I wanted to say about Death, Chuck’s Story/Process, and the parallel of Death having been shackled by Lucifer and prevented from acting independently here and yet how his actions (and non-actions to this point, including his cryptic message to Bobby delivered by zombie!Karen back in 5.15 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid) are SHOCKINGLY similar to how Billie was made a pawn of Chuck’s’ s15 narrative. For many of the same reasons.
So at least now I’ve said it somewhere, but this is how I view Death throughout the series.
But I think I covered everything else in the episode, so...
LINKS!
The Superwiki page for this episode
Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series for this ep (here and here)
