User blog comment:Touchinos/“Our Father, Who Aren’t in Heaven” Discussion/@comment-44478361-20191213155350

This was a better episode, as there were very limited monster fight distractions. Michaels "capture" was just a little to easy. Hard to believe that Enokian handcuffs could contain Michael since Lucifer melted them with ease several times and Michael disintegrated Lilith with very little effort. Also, Sam and Dean could have simply had Michael probe Sam's wound if he wanted to know the truth about God, as opposed to having Castiel "mind meld" with him.

The key to all this is Chuck's power level which is still a big question. Chuck is supposedly weaker but we really haven't seen much evidence of that. The sun is not flickering and he was able to access Donatello inside the Bunker even though it is warded against at least archangels. The success of the spell is predicated on the idea that Chuck is now weaker. If he is not sufficiently compromised it could spell doom for everyone. We know that Amara could dispatch him with a wave of her hand but, absent Amara, we wont know Chuck's true vulnerability until we see him matched up against Michael or Jack or someone that could test him. The fact that Chuck wiped out an entire casino presumably because the workers did not give him exactly what we wanted and that he can sit at a slot machine and push a button that he knows will let him win every time I guess is meant to show his petty and vindictive nature and maybe clinical depression. It may also be to get Amara's attention, as her fun may be interrupted if Chuck kills enough casino workers.

Having Dean and Castiel return to purgatory may be a trap, since God must know that Michael is on Sam and Dean's side after Michael destroyed Lilith and Chuck presumably must know the spell and the ingredients required to perform it. Its true that Sam was not there when Michael revealed the spell so Chuck could not extract it from him but again Chuck has a direct pipeline to Donatello so he knows what Donatello knows.

In the next episode Chuck will apparently reveal one or more of his proposed endings to Sam, possibly because he and Sam are linked We know that part of Sam's soul is in Chuck so maybe Sam can have some influence over him. One possibility is that Sam will make Chuck "see the light" like Amara did and Chuck will decide to save the world, with the result being Sam defending the "reformed" Chuck, setting Sam against Dean who will want to lock Chuck away at all costs, exactly what God wants.