See, I almost feel like the Sam stuff should have been given it's own episode. It sort of threw off the pacing in this episode. It was greta stuff, don't get me wrong. I am not arguing against it. We really needed to see what Sam went through. And it gave us some great Sam characterization which i think he desperately needed this season.

I'm just questioning the use of it within the context of this episode. Either way, the episode still was good. Not the strongest, imo, but even weaker SPN eps are like miles ahead of other shows LOL