Okay, that was eventful-- mostly in the last half hour or so.
I've been worried-- or more like fatalistically expecting-- that May would die at season's end, so I was quite encouraged by the ending of the first episode. May is saved and reunited with the boys. Psycho chick, Ketch, and Margaret Thatcher are all dead at the hands of Ketch, Mary, and Sheriff Jody respectively. Now we can move on to Lucifer. But things did not go so well in part two.
Okay, so Mary's not dead, which means there is still hope. But the last time we saw her she was upon to be sprang upon by a thoroughly enraged Lucifer after she pounded him back through the wormhole with magical brass knuckles, trapping him in the Post-Apocalyptic Mirror Universe. That's a hell of a cliffhanger all by itself. If she's going to survive, something drastic will have to happen in the next half second. I'm guessing that Mirror Lucifer will intervene. I guess it really depends on if they actually want Mary to continue on the show.
And we got to see Mirror Bobby, looking like Khan on Ceti Alpha V. Man, I love Bobby, in all universes.
And then there's Crowley. Even before that re-humanizing ritual a couple of years ago, he was pretty soft hearted for the King of Hell-- he's been called on it many times, and he's tried to prove it's not true, but now he's finally owned up to it. He threw his lot in with the boys in flannel, admitted he wasn't interested in ruling Hell, and even offered to close the gates permanently. And then ultimately gave his own life to defeat Lucifer. A nice ending for the character if he's really done, but I hope he does find a way to come back.
Castiel, on the other hand, I'm pretty positive will come back. He's like Captain Scarlet. It doesn't matter how many times he dies, he somehow manages to recover no matter what. Undoubtedly it will have something to do with the new kid on the block.
Speaking of which, he's kind of creepy, sitting there in the corner in the dark like that. But I have a feeling that he will not be evil, as Lucifer hoped and expected, but probably not as good as Castiel believed-- he's going to be trouble, but the question is what kind of trouble?