Supernatural Season 15 Episode 17 Review: Einheit

After the initial episode setup, in which Sam and Dean decide to investigate different methods of taking Chuck off, the chapters begin with Amara. She’s still living it and enjoying the joys in life when she finally meets Chuck. He wants her to help him do a hard reset on Earth so he can try again with another creation. She wants him to see the beauty of his current creation. She tries, an effort that might have been better done if she had been on earth a little longer. Maybe it wasn’t the best plan to show Chuck some grouching fans. After all, he insists on being called “Chuck,” not God, and memories of his former person never seem to go down well with him.

Amara’s part ends with Chuck temporarily trapped in the bunker and a compromise proposed. Amara wants a “true balance” between light and dark, something that later bites her butt. Chuck, as selfish and vain as he has become, suppresses all attempts to dissuade him from his destruction. Chuck has become such a brat, which further shows how disaffected the divine Creator has become. Nothing is good enough for him. He is over everything and regards creation as his failure.

When the story changes to Dean, we will follow him and Jack as they pursue the final ritual Jack must complete, which leads them to a shop selling stones and minerals.

The test for Jack is well done. One of the crystals in front of him was touched by the divine – but which one? It’s like choosing the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones – best choose the right one or your adventure here will be over. Jack picks one and then changes his answer. All of this, all of which contain a spark of the divine because it was brought into being by the Creator. That was a really nice and clever answer.

Alessandro Juliani brilliantly plays Adam, the first man, in this scene. If you’re like me, you might have him nine years ago as Dr. Hamilton recognized from Smallville. The man doesn’t age. He happens to be portraying a man several thousand years old and does not take on the troubled gaze of Cain, weighed down by the many years he walked on earth. Adam relaxed the attitude of a modern hippie. He had plenty of time to find the solution – his own rib, a symbol of creation itself.