Spoiler alert: Chuck won. Mostly, anyway. Team Free Will is just finding their spark, and just having their eyes opened to just how badly the story had been manipulating them before. Only none of it happens in time to stop the apocalypse, and Chuck’s story gets to continue chugging along.

I hacked out this post the other day that sort of sums up my feelings on 4.22 vs 15.20, and I think it serves as a nice intro piece to this episode

We all know what happens in this one, and I have lots to say about it all.

Links of interest:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode (17 pages of posts! so many!)

An ask about Cas and doubt and free will

My rewatch notes from June 2019

Zachariah, Ruby, and Sam’s tampered voicemail

Chuck’s moment of perfection, only slightly marred by Cas’s rebellion

The CW promo video for this episode