Drove home from work tonight with "Carry On Wayward Son" and the rest of my "Supernatural" playlist blasting on the car stereo (not a '67 Impala or a cassette tape, sigh!), put my Winchester Surprise in the oven, popped open a beer, prepped my cherry pie and got ready for tonight's finale. And sweet merciful awesome, what a finale it was!
1) You've got to wonder whether this episode's script was written before or after the decision to make next year the final season was made. If it was AFTER, then oh the meaning behind some of the lines during the boys' argument with Chuck in the graveyard:
2) Aw, that bro-ment scene in Dean's room when he tells Sam what he's planning and Sam insists he can't lose anyone else? ALL THE FEELZ!!!
3) Motörhead's "God Was Never On Your Side" was quite the on-the-nose choice for the closing montage, wasn't it? And if Chuck Almighty is indeed the Big Bad for next year, then the boys definitely have their work cut out for them.
AND THE GIGANTIC CHERRY ON TOP: 4) Those Season 1 call-backs at the end!!!! Constance the Woman in White from the VERY FIRST pilot episode and Bloody Mary too!! We are clearly set up for the "go big or go home" season Jensen promised for next year! If anything and everything that the boys have killed over the last 14 years is back, then ANYTHING can happen next year! Imagine who we could see: Crowley? Madison? Jo? Original Bobby? Lenore? Benny? Adam? Kevin Tran? Uriel? Zachariah? Dick Roman? Eve? Lilith? Yellow Eyes? We could be seeing ANYONE next year! It's going to be SO bittersweet!!
1) You've got to wonder whether this episode's script was written before or after the decision to make next year the final season was made. If it was AFTER, then oh the meaning behind some of the lines during the boys' argument with Chuck in the graveyard:
- "Our entire lives..Mom, Dad, everything. This is all you...because what? Because we're your favorite show? Because we're part of your story?" Doesn't that sound like it could be directed toward the fans in a semi-accusatory way, like "How can you crazy people actually enjoy watching the characters you love so much endure so much suffering?"
- And then (in reference to the first apocalypse back in the Season 5 finale, when the show was *supposed* to end) it continues: "Where were you, just sitting back and watching us suffer? So we can do this over and over and over again-fighting, losing people we love? When does it end?" Doesn't that sound like actors who are burnt out in their roles? Jensen and Jared did say it was a group decision to end next year...
2) Aw, that bro-ment scene in Dean's room when he tells Sam what he's planning and Sam insists he can't lose anyone else? ALL THE FEELZ!!!
3) Motörhead's "God Was Never On Your Side" was quite the on-the-nose choice for the closing montage, wasn't it? And if Chuck Almighty is indeed the Big Bad for next year, then the boys definitely have their work cut out for them.
AND THE GIGANTIC CHERRY ON TOP: 4) Those Season 1 call-backs at the end!!!! Constance the Woman in White from the VERY FIRST pilot episode and Bloody Mary too!! We are clearly set up for the "go big or go home" season Jensen promised for next year! If anything and everything that the boys have killed over the last 14 years is back, then ANYTHING can happen next year! Imagine who we could see: Crowley? Madison? Jo? Original Bobby? Lenore? Benny? Adam? Kevin Tran? Uriel? Zachariah? Dick Roman? Eve? Lilith? Yellow Eyes? We could be seeing ANYONE next year! It's going to be SO bittersweet!!