What I couldn't figure out was why Lucifer didn't use the one, true reason that he's evil, the stupid Mark. It's actually legitimate AND canonical. God locked Amara away and thought Lucifer was strong and good enough to resist the Darkness that would leak through and he was wrong. Heck, the story was it took God and all four Archangels to lock Amara up, so Gabriel was around and knew about the Mark and Lucifer taking it. Shouldn't it have come up alongside all the rationalizations Lucifer was spouting. Don't get me wrong, I hated "the Mark made me do it", but it is part of canon but somehow we're back to Lucifer was just evil and like a cancer from the get go. Which is fine, but totally dumps an entire storyline. Heck Gabriel could have gone with "you were a good man/angel once, but the Mark corrupted you so much that now... and do the rest of his why Lucifer can't be redeemed speech.

Then there's "we have only a few minutes to get 34 people through the Rift, can we make it. If only we had something like a bus where we could put all 34 people and try driving through the Rift. Again, someone could have corrected by saying the bus wouldn't fit, or that the Rift is fading so they can't risk it, and gone on from there, but at least give it a thought guys.

I didn't totally hate this. I mean, no one slept with a woman who turned into a dog and called her paramour "Master", but it really had some huge issues.