Comments | destina: all right let's get to it: the SPN finale ep

destina

all right let's get to it: the SPN finale ep

Nov 20, 2020 08:17

I have an excessive number of thoughts and feelings, which I'll now proceed to share with you, now that I've sort of processed them. Can someone please come talk with me about these? Because...so many feelings.

( SPOILERS. Discussion of some stuff I loved, plus callbacks and parallels, but not all positive. )

supernatural, spn

Comments 5

harrigan November 20 2020, 20:24:02 UTC

I'm here. Loved your comment "The whole point of season 15 was to demonstrate some growth! They aren't frantic to throw themselves under buses anymore. They've learned. They can go on now. Hard as that is for fans who want the old codependent bros. That doesn't mean they don't love each other. (Two halves of the same soul? Sure, I buy it.) But the old ways of responding to loss had to go."

I don't hang around fannish social media, so I mostly watch the show in my own little gen bubble. From that vantage, I loved 99% of the finale. (There's no tolerating Sam's wig.)

linderhill November 21 2020, 03:59:19 UTC

I agree, the writers, or rather one writer blew it. Dabb is the one that thought the series ending of Game of Thrones was great when the general consensus was it sucked balls. (I didn't watch GoT so I really can't judge) I just knew we were in for a bad juju. Dabb was always a better writer when he was paired with another but by himself, even Buck/Lemming do better. Of course Kripke has come out to say we all would have hated his ending. I thought the photography was beautiful, the acting was great as always but the plot, no. What the heck is wrong with the boys just riding off into the sunset?

lyrstzha November 21 2020, 07:59:38 UTC

The together in heaven part is fine by me, but just sort of elliding Sam's life into a faceless wife and fatherhood felt slapdash. And yeah, the lack of Cas was a major problem. I felt the lack of everyone who ought to have been there, but most especially Cas.

viridian5 November 21 2020, 08:59:38 UTC

Hilarious is me semi-tearing up at Dean's death scene because of Sam but also being resentful as hell because I expected the show to overturn it like they did his other thousand deaths and didn't want to spend any of my emotional bank on that.

Dean dying from a nail not long after surviving fighting God felt especially weird. I wasn't expecting much after how much of this season bored me, but I didn't expect to be underwhelmed that hard.

withdiamonds November 21 2020, 20:40:50 UTC

It would have felt like a bait and switch to me if Jim Beaver's name hadn't been there in the opening credits. As soon as I saw that, I knew they'd end up in heaven. But man, I loved that opening 15 or whatever minutes. It's so much what I wanted for them. Finally, they're free. Laundry! A dog! Scrambled eggs! Pie! Okay, the pie was almost too much. But that's how I wanted to leave it. Why couldn't they have had that for longer ( ... )