13 things I liked a lot about SPN 13.02, "The Rising Son"
- To start at the end--what an end it was! Jack so distraught and full of self-doubt, Dean promising, not threatening. And a beautiful mirror shot of Jack to close out the episode
- Jack "teleporting" to the other side of the door
- Sam being all calm and coaxing with Dean but very RAWR with Donatello over the question of Jack's nature. Despite their disagreement, he and Dean are still very much a team--no contrived drama here.
- Sam explaining (accurately) to Jack how Dean functions
- Asmodeus is delicious cheese
- "Dude, you were hallucinating sheep on the road. You need a few hours."
- Dean almost getting sucked into watching Scooby Doo is adorable (and then Jack opens the Bible to "Song of Solomon"--starting right in on the erotic love poetry, woohoo)
- Donatello using Mr. Rogers as a moral compass
- Them staying at the "Black Hat Motel"
- The fight scenes at the motel, especially Dean's angel-blade throw
- New camera angles on the Impala--always something to be appreciated
- I'd started to get bored with Lucifer, but I thoroughly enjoyed his scenes in this episode
- Even though Dean starts off treating Jack purely as a problem to be solved/killed, he's clearly thinking of him as an individual by the end of an episode--a dangerous individual, sure, but someone who at least doesn't want to do harm. If he has to kill Jack, he'll regret it (though he'll still do it)
