User blog comment:Rafe Adler/"The Big Empty" Discussion/@comment-28568301-20171105171115/@comment-28568301-20171107015057

1. Still retcon, a glaring one at that.

2. Ghosts are souls that didn't go with their reaper to their final destinations, heaven hell. When they died, they finally move on to their final destination. Demons are essentially corrupted Souls. They are all. If Demons are similar enough, then why don't demons go to hell after they are defeated? why different plane of existence? They are still souls after all, an not souls of monsters, but formerly of humans. A light retcon, for me at least.

3. You know that leviathan can kill angels, right? why would they spare castiel but destroying his body? I think he was killed, not just the vessel. If God did create another castiel, that was unnecessarily cruel of him to punish the clone angel. Of course, the other explanation for this is: The Cosmic being talked out of his ass and Chuck (and by extension Amara) have degrees of control over that realm. It helps that the cosmic being sleep all the time, he might not notice God snatching Castiel away again and again and again.

You misunderstand, as a standalone episode, it is good, borderline great episode. As part of continuity, however, it's really a turn off. I happened to remember things long, particularly for movies and tv series (yes I know, not very productive), which is why I can't stand things like this.