I have a few questions about last night's show:
1) Why was the biblical killing spree necessary? It felt every inch like a plot device to show us Jack's fall from grace, not like an organic development of his character even given the circumstances.
2) Why didn't Cas heal Worm Guy in the hospital?
3) As much as I enjoyed seeing precisely how Duma intended to get Jack to make angels last year, didn't we learn in season 12 that humans can't enter heaven? (Remember that was how they were going to kill Kelly and Jack before the latter was born.) How then did the band of churchgoers survive? Or was Cas specifically talking about the portal and not being teleported?
4) On that same note--the new angels that Jack made, did they have wings like angels are supposed to?
5) Duma's threat to "snap these fingers" (as she put it) and change Mary's heaven seems to suggest angels retained their reality warping powers even all this time after the Fall, and even given the state of affairs in heaven. I find that difficult to believe given what we see of Cas' nonexistent abilities as a seraph, and to date we've gotten no indication that Duma is anything but a lower-tier regular angel. (Sloppy writing, unquestionably.) Besides which, didn't season 5 establish that every soul generates its own heaven? Why would angels have power over that at all?
I will say it was nice to see a display of real archangel power for once, even if they took the form of the biblical punishments. We've always heard about how powerful archangels actually are, but we've only seen a few examples on screen. I get that Jack's a nephilim and more powerful even than Lucifer, but it's still a good reminder of why archangels are so feared...or were before they were all nerfed.
I sure hope next week doesn't end the season with "help Chuck, we must restore Jack's soul"/"Oh, sorry, one soul to a customer"/"GOD! Not you! I banish you to oblivion!" If they bring back Chuck, which seems to be the case, I'm seriously hoping it ends up with "Jack, go to your room, and think about what you did," as Chuck undoes the damage he caused and fixes everything wrong with Heaven. (I'm also sort of hoping that the answer to Heaven's problems is to bust all of Chuck's children out of The Empty, which requires one of the Winchesters to be sent there to wake them up...cue cliffhanger ending a la season 7.)