Mr. Squirrel & the Moon - Oh man. This is the kind of story that's enjoyable for kids but even moreso for the adults reading to them. In which a squirrel attempts to get rid of the moon that landed on his branch, before someone discovers him with it and decides he's a thief and should be locked away. (It sounds a bit grim, but is actually kind of adorable.)
The Vessel - Hellatus means it's time to revisit past episodes, and this is one I dearly love:
- Dean's futile search for coffee (going so far as to attempt drinking the dregs of Sam's much) is a wonderful thing
- Lucifer is incredibly creepy in this episode
- I'd forgotten just how far he took things with Crowley; Crowley's obsession with getting one over on him in s12 makes a whole lot more sense now that I'm reminded of this context
- Dean once again coming up with an outside-the-box solution to their problem
- I know a number of fans dissed Misha's portrayal of Lucifer, but man did he nail it in this episode
- Everything to do with the submarine scenes is amazing--the slowly rocking camera, the cramped set, the slight shift in color palate, the glimpses we get of the crew--it really does feel like Dean Winchester got dropped into the middle of a WWII maritime movie
- Delphine totally rocks
- The crew member who's constantly asking Dean "future" questions that Dean doesn't care about and doesn't know the answers to
- Sam's readiness to put himself at risk if there's even a chance it'll allow them to save Dean
- And his reaction when he realizes just who he's been rubbing elbows with all episode
- The special effects when Delphine uses the Hand of God
- Sam keeping it together and sigil-slamming Lucifer out of the bunker
- Dean's quiet desolation at having had to simply stand aside and watch while Delphine and the submarine crew sacrificed themselves
- (The closing scene's ridiculous but beautiful pier in the middle of nowhere--for which I've actually located the semi-plausible real-world equivalent because I'm a slightly obsessive dork armed with Google Maps, satellite view)