YES! (and yes there be spoilers)
Ah Show, I have watched the last ep three times. The first in a haze of exhaustion, percocet and valium due to a strained back that I managed to get while reading. FAN FICTION. My own, which makes it even more crazy. Especially, since my writing has gone poof! But I watched it again and again and each time I loved it more.
I love the meta eps, they usually make me smile but that is neither here nor there.
This ep gave me hope. Yeah, it was funny and silly at times but SPN has never been afraid of funny and silly. Nor have they been afraid to poke fun at themselves. OR us for that matter. Its all good as far as I'm concerned.
I loved that SPN can take something as "crazy" as fanfiction and say "Hey! It's not what I believe, but y'all can knock your socks off!" I loved the private all girls school. Let's face it. FF is written mostly by women. Not all of course, but the majority. I love that these girls are accepting of all types of sexuality, and not afraid to say that two of them are in a relationship. It may be just a little thing, and said in an offhanded way, but I like to think that it proves that the world is changing and same sex relationships are acceptable. Maybe the fact that it is said in such away, so matter-of-fact and inconsequental that makes me feel like we, as a society, are learning that it is okay to be gay, or not.
All of your comments are dead on (as usual) there is no need for me to rehash them.
Although when Calliope states that the show, despite its faults is abour FAMILY! I could have kissed her author killing ass for that one.
The Carry On song - that deserves an entire show to itself. In RL, we know it is the anthem of SPN. But do the boys know it? Maybe. But to hear those girls, take a song I love (and have always loved, even before SPN) and make it their own. Lovely soprano, sweet and femine and chilling in the rendition made me cry. Especially, because I prefer male choirs. It was perfect, just perfect. And the boys? If they don't know it is part of the show, the look they exchange, the sudden realization that this is a part of their life, that there will be peace when they are done was awesome. If they do know...it is the sudden realization that this IS their lives.
Then the boys themselves. Oh, SHOW! Thanks for having them back together. I have wished and wanted and NEEDED them to be brothers. I have ached for it.
The part where Dean states he never needed the SAMULET (ha!, I still giggle over that) to show how much Sam means to him. *sigh* But then he hands it over the rear view.
Thank you Show. And thank you Gaelic.
Addendum: I posted this in gaelicspirit 's ramble but it didn't take so I am reposting here then posting again there.