Supernatural finale
May. 14th, 2010 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zinnithThank you dearest almighty f-list for not spoiling me!
Wow. I don't really know what to say. Let's try anyway.
First of all, I'm going to say this. Those last couple of seconds? Does not exist. Those were tacked on to sell in season 6, and season 6? Doesn't exist either. As far as I'm concerned, this is where Supernatural, the real Supernatural, ends. I might give S6 a try, but in that case I'm going to view it as a spinoff that doesn't really have a lot to do with Show. Maybe that's childish of me, but I need this story to be over. (Remember that thing about this being my gut reaction? Yep.)
Now, this is where my writerbrain kicks in. If I had been the one to write this episode, I would've done it just like this.
This entire series has, in a way, been about Sam and his road to redemption, his way home. He's spent the Show trying to find a way to prove himself and, well, I guess this was it. He did it. He found that one thing that would give him the upper hand against Lucifer, the one thing he's been fighting and trying to run from all his life. Family. Home. Brother.
I didn't cry during Carry On Wayward Son (something I have done every season finale and I wonder why I keep tormenting myself by having it as the ringtone of my cell), I didn't cry when Sam said Yes and things predictably went wrong, I didn't cry at the utter hopelessness afterwards. But the Impala sequence? I cried then, and I think the use of the Impala as a symbol for family is beyond brilliant. It's the one thing that's always been there. It's the one thing Sam has always associated with Dean and after all his struggles to find his place in the world, it's the thing he comes back to in the end, the thing he comes home to.
And so, having found where he belongs, he can let go and finally find his redemption.
There are other things I would have done differently. I would've kept Cas human or at least a rebelling angel. I wouldn't have skimped on Bobby's deal with Crowley. (I am insanely happy that they both got to live though because I was so convinced that Bobby was going to die that I'd already done my mourning and come to peace with it, and I was so terrified that Castiel was going to die that I couldn't even come up with a satisfying scenario for it and you're looking at someone who'd killed Fred Weasley in her head long before J.K. Rowling did it.) I think Lisa was ridiculously tacked on, and for her to make any sense at all, she would've needed to have been part of the Show in a whole different way. I do like that Dean went to her in the end though, because it's so in character. He promised Sam. He didn't do it for himself, but because it was Sam's wish, and the most important person in Dean's life will always be Sam.
I can live with this ending. My writerbrain can also live with this ending.
Bye Show. *sniff*
ETA: I almost forgot. HEY, ASSBUTT! I want that on a T-shirt. And Cas' awkward little faces when he's trying to lie. And the snoring in the backseat of the Impala. Yes.
Wow. I don't really know what to say. Let's try anyway.
First of all, I'm going to say this. Those last couple of seconds? Does not exist. Those were tacked on to sell in season 6, and season 6? Doesn't exist either. As far as I'm concerned, this is where Supernatural, the real Supernatural, ends. I might give S6 a try, but in that case I'm going to view it as a spinoff that doesn't really have a lot to do with Show. Maybe that's childish of me, but I need this story to be over. (Remember that thing about this being my gut reaction? Yep.)
Now, this is where my writerbrain kicks in. If I had been the one to write this episode, I would've done it just like this.
This entire series has, in a way, been about Sam and his road to redemption, his way home. He's spent the Show trying to find a way to prove himself and, well, I guess this was it. He did it. He found that one thing that would give him the upper hand against Lucifer, the one thing he's been fighting and trying to run from all his life. Family. Home. Brother.
I didn't cry during Carry On Wayward Son (something I have done every season finale and I wonder why I keep tormenting myself by having it as the ringtone of my cell), I didn't cry when Sam said Yes and things predictably went wrong, I didn't cry at the utter hopelessness afterwards. But the Impala sequence? I cried then, and I think the use of the Impala as a symbol for family is beyond brilliant. It's the one thing that's always been there. It's the one thing Sam has always associated with Dean and after all his struggles to find his place in the world, it's the thing he comes back to in the end, the thing he comes home to.
And so, having found where he belongs, he can let go and finally find his redemption.
There are other things I would have done differently. I would've kept Cas human or at least a rebelling angel. I wouldn't have skimped on Bobby's deal with Crowley. (I am insanely happy that they both got to live though because I was so convinced that Bobby was going to die that I'd already done my mourning and come to peace with it, and I was so terrified that Castiel was going to die that I couldn't even come up with a satisfying scenario for it and you're looking at someone who'd killed Fred Weasley in her head long before J.K. Rowling did it.) I think Lisa was ridiculously tacked on, and for her to make any sense at all, she would've needed to have been part of the Show in a whole different way. I do like that Dean went to her in the end though, because it's so in character. He promised Sam. He didn't do it for himself, but because it was Sam's wish, and the most important person in Dean's life will always be Sam.
I can live with this ending. My writerbrain can also live with this ending.
Bye Show. *sniff*
ETA: I almost forgot. HEY, ASSBUTT! I want that on a T-shirt. And Cas' awkward little faces when he's trying to lie. And the snoring in the backseat of the Impala. Yes.
