User blog comment:Touchinos/"Absence" Discussion/@comment-2605:A000:122A:408A:498A:9BB5:B414:5708-20190412230625

So...what was the point of the whole Nick business this season? Are we truly done or is Lucifer coming back in someone else? Nick/Lucifer could still have been Jack's bad Jiminy Cricket without everything that came before.

When did Cas and Mary hunt together? Are they now introducing a new backstory to provide a rationale for something in the future?

I am not surprised that Jack is "going darkside," although he never intended to kill Mary. I don't think he's evil, just, as always, unaware of the full extent of his powers and unable to control them. This isn't the first person he's killed accidentally. Throughout the whole episode I thought that if he and the Winchesters could just be in one place long enough to talk about it, we could prevent the Winchesters v Jack battle.

I did like the flashback with Mary and Dean in Baby and I liked Rowena. She seems to mostly handle situations "just so." I doubt I would have been able to tell Jack I wouldn't cast the spell after seeing what he had done to Mary.