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gategrrlThree hours after every one on the East Coast, it was West Coast time to see the season finale of Supernatural. I'm not a super-duper-die-hard fan with fanperson credits in the fandom (and just as well: I want it to stay this way!).
As a more casual fan, but still rabid enough to tell my two kids to keep quiet in no uncertain terms...this show is such a Feelie-Guyfest. It really is. If not for bursting bodies, bodies hanging upside down dripping out blood, Angels behaving Badly and Demons doing Good, you'd think it was some show designed for women, what with all the talk about feelings.
And no, it didn't. Kripke and co. telegraphed the way the show MUST end several shows in advance, so it wasn't like it was a candy-coated jolly good-bye to Sam. I suspect with the okay for another season in the writer's room, they had to solve the problem of "how to end an acopalypse by allowing the main characters, clearly set-up for punishment, to live for yet another year?"
They solved the problem as best they could: indeed, the ONLY way I could see it happening. They allowed a younger half-brother to take over Dean's spot as Angel MIchael's bitch (and whoa, what a hard-ass, he sounds worse than Satan) and gave Sam an improbable way out; family is symbolized by the Impala; it's their home; it's their childhood; so of course, Sam would latch onto that real world memorie and use that to cage Satan in his mind.
And, of course, by dragging Michael down the rabbit hole to hell in a cage match designed to make us miss the fireworks, the writers avoided showing what an all-out Angel fisticuff match would look like (saving their budget) AND allowing the possibility that a cage designed to hold ONE archangel in, might be able to hold TWO. Seeing a forlorn Dean-Satan at the very end watching a forlorn Dean capped that thought off.
Additionally, no mention is made of Crowly's possession of Bobby's soul. Another tidy loose end, certain to come up next season. Crowley, for all his current do-gooding fighting Satan (who may or may not be in total control of his ride's body), is bound to come up again. Whether Cassiell does is anybody's guess.
The surprise vanishing of Chuck the Prophet--makes sense, though, doesn't it? God was Chuck? And the Angels had no idea? I guess he figured that some of his children, like the Archangels, were just alittle too powerful. Maybe.
In the end, this episode felt more like a transition than a conclusion. The Predicted Armeggeddon may have been averted, but Sam-Satan is still walking the earth, who knows what's happened to Michael, and Bobby's ulitmate fate isn't known, either, other than he's currently still hunting. I wasn't 100% satisfied, but hey, at least I'm looking forward to next season. What should have been a closed book, has a bunch of dog-eared pages, and the last chapter ripped out. If this HAD been the final episode ever as intended by Kripke, I think, considering the type of show it is, that would have ended on the right bitter-sweet note. Sam would have been in the cage, Dean possibly WITH him and both of them battling their respective er....demons/angels, which is nothing new to them at all. But they would have been together, which is what they would have wanted.
As a more casual fan, but still rabid enough to tell my two kids to keep quiet in no uncertain terms...this show is such a Feelie-Guyfest. It really is. If not for bursting bodies, bodies hanging upside down dripping out blood, Angels behaving Badly and Demons doing Good, you'd think it was some show designed for women, what with all the talk about feelings.
And no, it didn't. Kripke and co. telegraphed the way the show MUST end several shows in advance, so it wasn't like it was a candy-coated jolly good-bye to Sam. I suspect with the okay for another season in the writer's room, they had to solve the problem of "how to end an acopalypse by allowing the main characters, clearly set-up for punishment, to live for yet another year?"
They solved the problem as best they could: indeed, the ONLY way I could see it happening. They allowed a younger half-brother to take over Dean's spot as Angel MIchael's bitch (and whoa, what a hard-ass, he sounds worse than Satan) and gave Sam an improbable way out; family is symbolized by the Impala; it's their home; it's their childhood; so of course, Sam would latch onto that real world memorie and use that to cage Satan in his mind.
And, of course, by dragging Michael down the rabbit hole to hell in a cage match designed to make us miss the fireworks, the writers avoided showing what an all-out Angel fisticuff match would look like (saving their budget) AND allowing the possibility that a cage designed to hold ONE archangel in, might be able to hold TWO. Seeing a forlorn Dean-Satan at the very end watching a forlorn Dean capped that thought off.
Additionally, no mention is made of Crowly's possession of Bobby's soul. Another tidy loose end, certain to come up next season. Crowley, for all his current do-gooding fighting Satan (who may or may not be in total control of his ride's body), is bound to come up again. Whether Cassiell does is anybody's guess.
The surprise vanishing of Chuck the Prophet--makes sense, though, doesn't it? God was Chuck? And the Angels had no idea? I guess he figured that some of his children, like the Archangels, were just alittle too powerful. Maybe.
In the end, this episode felt more like a transition than a conclusion. The Predicted Armeggeddon may have been averted, but Sam-Satan is still walking the earth, who knows what's happened to Michael, and Bobby's ulitmate fate isn't known, either, other than he's currently still hunting. I wasn't 100% satisfied, but hey, at least I'm looking forward to next season. What should have been a closed book, has a bunch of dog-eared pages, and the last chapter ripped out. If this HAD been the final episode ever as intended by Kripke, I think, considering the type of show it is, that would have ended on the right bitter-sweet note. Sam would have been in the cage, Dean possibly WITH him and both of them battling their respective er....demons/angels, which is nothing new to them at all. But they would have been together, which is what they would have wanted.
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