Supernatural Friday [5x22] Swan Song
It's actually really hard for me to do this... but since I've not written any reviews about the last few episodes (even though most of them were awesome), I somehow feel bound to write something about this episode...
So ellethdartagnan, wingfrog, kreespa, niila_nueva and me decided to stay up all night (since we got Friday off due to national holiday on Thursday... Ascension Day... how fucked up is that?!??) to watch the season finale live via stream... first time for me, actually and I couldn't have started at a worse point... I mean... we all were so excited, scared, literally shaking. We KNEW this episode would leave us in tears, anger, desperation... and it did... it really did...
And let me just say something before I begin to write this review: I knew it. I really knew it! This ending... I knew exactly what would happen - and this scares me. Because the things I wrote down just yesterday morning on some SPN Livejournal community sounded way too much like fanfiction... not like canon. And I'm still trying to figure out, if I like this outcome or if I hate it...
The last episode begins as every Supernatural finale does - the most awesome, most fitting song ever played in a TV show... I'm getting goosebumps all over again as I'm writing this... the usual summary of the whole season arc is being told, while Kansas' sing their oh-so-true lines:
Carry on my wayward son...
We hear a voice - Chuck - who's obviously telling the story of the Impala. How she got built, how she got into the possession of John Winchester and his children later. How she contains so many cherished memories...
Cut - Sam and Dean, sitting on the hood of said car. Out of the blue Dean tells his brother, that he's in on Sam's plan. He won't try to stop him from saying 'Yes' to Lucifer, in order to make him jump into his own cage. That he finally sees that Sam has grown up and that he doesn't have to look after him anymore. That Sam can make his own decisions and that Dean has to support him in every possible way.
"You're not a kid anymore, Sam... and I can't keep treating you like one... maybe I gotta grow up a little, too..."
Cut. Team Free Will (plus Bobby) makes preparations. They hunt down demons and let them bleed out... which - in my honest opinion - is so terribly illogical. Suddenly it's okay to kill the demons vessels?? ... but on the other hand - it's Kripke, for chrissakes -_-
Anyway... they need large amounts of demon blood in order to prepare Sam's body to take in Lucifer.
Bobby did some research and found several possible omens. One of them is in Detroit - and as we all know, this is the place Lucifer!Sam told Dean about in the apocalyptic future... so they get on their cars and drive down to Detroit, being sure that might be a trap...
Sam: "You gotta promise me something..."
Dean: "Okay, yeah... anything..."
Sam: "You gotta promise not to try to bring me back."
[ . . . ]
Dean: "So what am I supposed to do?"
Sam: "You go find Lisa... you pray to God she's dumb enough to take you... you have barbecues and go to football games - you go live some normal, apple-pie life, Dean! Promise me!!"
Once they get to Detroit, Sam says his goodbyes to Bobby and Castiel.
Sam: "You take care of these guys, okay?"
Cas: "It's not possible..."
Sam: "Then humour me..."
Cas: "... oh... I'm supposed to lie... uh... suuure... it'll be fiiine..."
Sam: "Just... stop... talking..."
As Cas and Bobby stepped aside, Sam gets back to the trunk of the Impala, starts drinking all the demon blood they gathered. Strengthened and ecstatic he walks towards the building where Lucifer is located and they get captivated by some demons and are brought to the devil himself.
During another flashback we see several things, that made the Impala special. The toys Sam and Dean crammed into the ashtrays or vents, their initials on the cars interior. As Sam steps forward and tells Lucifer, that 'Yes' - he will let him ride his body - the devil just smiles and tells him to be honest. He knows about their plan, he knows about the rings and he knows about the cage. Still, Sam is determined and before Dean can stop him, he says 'Yes' ...
Sam: "So he knows... doesn't change anything...
Dean: "Sam... no..."
Sam: "We don't have any other choice... 'Yes' ..."
Dean hurries and opens the gate to Lucifers cage, helping his brother up, who seems to still have the control over his body. But before Sam can jump into the cage - we see a smirk on his face... and we know, that Sam has lost. It's Lucifer and he closes the gate and vanishes, taking the rings with him.
Lucifer: "I was just messing with you... Sammy's long gone..."
Lucifer: "I told you... this would always happen in Detroit."
In some secret hideout, we see that Sam and Lucifer are able to talk to one another. Sam is furious and determined to destroy Lucifer. But the devil has the control over Sam's body and Sam is too weak, to get it back.
Lucifer: "All those times you ran away you weren't running from them - you were running towards me."
Back in the city, there is chaos and destruction everywhere on TV. Dean asks Cas, what they're supposed to do now, but Cas just tells him that they can't do anything anymore. That Lucifer will meet Michael on the chosen field and that they will fight. Dean gets furious and shouts at Cas, that they cannot give up now. But even Bobby seems to be hopeless.
In another flashback we see the brothers in the past... playing pool, driving around the country and just being together. And if I hadn't been crying anyway since the beginning of the episode, this last sentence, Chuck wrote, would've killed me for sure:
"It never occured to them... that sure, they never really had a roof and four walls... But they were never, in fact, homeless..."
When Chuck gets a call from Dean, he tells him that he already knows about Sam saying 'Yes' and that he knows, where the final battle would take place. A cemetery, outside of Lawrence - their home town... as Dean gets ready to leave town, heading to Lawrence, Cas and Bobby show up.
Cas: "I just want you to understand... the only thing that you're gonna see out there... is Michael - killing your brother..."
Dean: "Well, then I ain't gonna let him die alone..."
Meanwhile Lucifer arrives at the cemetary and also Michael, in the body of the third Winchester brother Adam, appears. Lucifer tries to stop Michael, tries to convince him, that they don't have to fight. That this is God's sick plan, not theirs - but Michael tells him that he is a loyal son and that he won't betray his father. Just as they're about to start fighting, there is the sound of an engine not far away. And as Dean drives his baby onto the battlefield, he pushes a cassette tape into the car radio, playing Def Leppards 'Rock of Ages'.
HELLS YEAH!!!! This scene ROCKED SO HARD!!!! DEAN IS BACK!!!!
He steps outside the car, talking to Sam. Michael gets furious, tells Dean to get the hell out. That he's no longer a part of this story. But before he can do anything, a voice from the off shouts:
"Hey! ASSBUTT!!!"
And Castiel throws a molotov cocktail of holy fire at Michael, who burns and disappears.
Enraged, Lucifer shouts at Castiel, that no one messes with Michael but Lucifer himself. And before anyone can do anything, Lucifer kills Castiel.
Holy mother of FUCK!!! WHAT THE HELL?????
Why do everyone has to keep killing Cas by letting him FRIGGIN EXPLODE??????
I was so shocked and angry and desperate and FUCKING FURIOUS!!! This... this death... what the fuck!???
I yelled at the screen (thank god, my microphone was mute) and started crying terribly T_T
Lucifer starts walking towards Dean then, telling him that he inteded to be nice to him, for Sam's sake, but that he will stop doing that now. Just as he rises his arm to punch Dean, Bobby shoots him from behind, being not really successfull, of course. Lucifer turns around and breaks Bobby's neck.
Without any more hesitation, Lucifer starts punching Dean, hitting him and butchering his beautiful face... seriously... whoever managed to make Jensen Ackles look THIS disgusting, awful, ugly and pitiful deserves an Oscar or something!! I didn't even know that this would be possible...
Dean: "Sam... it's okay... it's okay... I'm here... I'm here... I'm not gonna leave you... I'm NOT gonna leave you!"
And in the blink of an eye, Lucifer sees his own reflection in the shiny roof of the Impala... images start appearing in front of his inner eye... memories of Sam and Dean and the Impala... the brothers, who sacrificed so much for each other, who love each other so much, that they would give anything for one another.
I'm crying again right now, cause this... I don't know... this just kills me every time... suddenly we see it in his eyes - Sam has once again the control over his body.
Sam: "It's okay, Dean... it's gonna be okay... I've got him..."
Sam opens the door to Lucifer's cage. He looks at Deam, scared and unsure and with so much love in his eyes. Michael reappears, tells Sam to step back, that he and Lucifer need to fight. But Sam just closes his eyes and lets himself fall... and when Michael grabs his arm, he pulls him with him - they both fall into the pit and the gates close again.
Silently crying Dean gets up, crawls to the place where the rings of the horsemen still lie... when he looks up, it's Cas who's standing right beside him.
Dean: "... Cas, you're alive...?"
Cas: "I'm better than that..."
Dean: "........ Cas, are you God?"
Cas: "That's a nice compliment... but no. Although I do believe he brought me back... new and improved..."
Cas heals Dean and then gets over to where Bobby's lifeless body still lies and revives him.
In the Impala Dean asks Cas, what he's going to do now and Cas answers, that he's going to return to heaven. Since Michael's gone now there's gonna be anarchy and somebody has to take care of things. Dean is angry that after everything that happened Cas is simply returning to being God's bitch again. But Cas asks him:
"What would you rather have: Peace... or freedom?"
And with that, he vanishes into thin air... good times -_-!!
Once again, we hear Chuck's voice, continuing telling his story... Dean and Bobby say goodbye, they hug and Chuck says that this would be the last they see each other in a very long time.
Dean didn't want Cas to save him.
Every part of him, every fibre he's got wants to die... or find a way to bring Sam back...
But he isn't gonna do either. Because he made a promise.
So, what's it all add up to? It's hard to say... but me I'd say this was a test... for Sam and Dean.
And I think they did alright. Up against good, evil, angels, devils, destiny and God himself.
They made their own choice. They chose family. And well... isn't that kind of the whole point?
No doubt... endings are hard. But then again... nothing ever really ends... does it?
And with a smirk and a last sip of alcohol, Chuck vanishes into thin air. And fangirls all over the planet died, because SRSLY????
CHUCK IS GOD??????????
WHAT - THE - HELL?!??????
In the end, Dean is sitting at the table at Lisa's house, having dinner with her and Ben. She asks him if he's okay. He tells her 'Yeah, I'm good' ... but we all know, that he isn't. That he's never going to be 'okay' or 'good' or 'happy' without Sam... we see the outside of the house, showing the 'happy family' having dinner through the window... a street lamp flickers and a person appears right underneath. The episode ends with Sam looking at the house with an unreadable expression...
Once again... what I said will happen, just the morning before the finale:
- Sam says 'Yes'
- Dean will get his ass kicked
- the Impala gets smashed
- Cas dies
- Bobby dies
- Dean returns to Lisa in between S5 and S6
- we don't know what happens to Sam
Okay, well... the Impala didn't get smashed completely but the front window did and that means that either I'm a fucking psychic OR Kripke and Co let some fanfiction-writer do the script for that last episode... it's not bad, don't get me wrong... I just think, that they tried so hard involving the fans further that they forgot, to write the episode as they should've written it...
Anyway... I loved this episode... God, I cried so much, I screamed, I'm literally shaking again right now... it had everything I love and more... of course there were massive plot holes and illogical actions and stuff... things, they could've left out in my opinion... but over all I am satisfied and pleased with this episode.
It's just... I have no fucking clue how to survive until Fall or Winter, until Season 6 will air... I don't even know when exactly it's coming back... fuck, I just don't wanna wait, srsly T_T I'm so hyper right now, I can't even describe it...
I'm going to watch this episode a few more times again now... trying to figure out some things, I didn't get and re-watching my favourite scenes... until then...
And last but not least - a heartfelt "YAY" for:
- the Impala
- Cas being alive
- Dean being alive
- Bobby being alive
- the Impala being alive
- Jensen and Jared putting their hearts and souls into their play
- Jared ROCKING Lucifer!Sam
- Jensen looking as ugly as he possibly could
- Cas being too stupid to lie to Sam
- Bobby for pathetically shooting the devil
- the Impala
- Dean's classic rock entrance to the big showdown
- Jensen's amazing play after Lucifer took Sam
- the flashbacks
- the Impala
- so many hugs in one episode
- the wee!chesters
- and did I forget to mention? THE IMPALA!!!!
So long, guys - see you (probably) next year...
To be continued
So ellethdartagnan, wingfrog, kreespa, niila_nueva and me decided to stay up all night (since we got Friday off due to national holiday on Thursday... Ascension Day... how fucked up is that?!??) to watch the season finale live via stream... first time for me, actually and I couldn't have started at a worse point... I mean... we all were so excited, scared, literally shaking. We KNEW this episode would leave us in tears, anger, desperation... and it did... it really did...
And let me just say something before I begin to write this review: I knew it. I really knew it! This ending... I knew exactly what would happen - and this scares me. Because the things I wrote down just yesterday morning on some SPN Livejournal community sounded way too much like fanfiction... not like canon. And I'm still trying to figure out, if I like this outcome or if I hate it...
The last episode begins as every Supernatural finale does - the most awesome, most fitting song ever played in a TV show... I'm getting goosebumps all over again as I'm writing this... the usual summary of the whole season arc is being told, while Kansas' sing their oh-so-true lines:
Carry on my wayward son...
We hear a voice - Chuck - who's obviously telling the story of the Impala. How she got built, how she got into the possession of John Winchester and his children later. How she contains so many cherished memories...
Cut - Sam and Dean, sitting on the hood of said car. Out of the blue Dean tells his brother, that he's in on Sam's plan. He won't try to stop him from saying 'Yes' to Lucifer, in order to make him jump into his own cage. That he finally sees that Sam has grown up and that he doesn't have to look after him anymore. That Sam can make his own decisions and that Dean has to support him in every possible way.
"You're not a kid anymore, Sam... and I can't keep treating you like one... maybe I gotta grow up a little, too..."
Cut. Team Free Will (plus Bobby) makes preparations. They hunt down demons and let them bleed out... which - in my honest opinion - is so terribly illogical. Suddenly it's okay to kill the demons vessels?? ... but on the other hand - it's Kripke, for chrissakes -_-
Anyway... they need large amounts of demon blood in order to prepare Sam's body to take in Lucifer.
Bobby did some research and found several possible omens. One of them is in Detroit - and as we all know, this is the place Lucifer!Sam told Dean about in the apocalyptic future... so they get on their cars and drive down to Detroit, being sure that might be a trap...
Sam: "You gotta promise me something..."
Dean: "Okay, yeah... anything..."
Sam: "You gotta promise not to try to bring me back."
[ . . . ]
Dean: "So what am I supposed to do?"
Sam: "You go find Lisa... you pray to God she's dumb enough to take you... you have barbecues and go to football games - you go live some normal, apple-pie life, Dean! Promise me!!"
Once they get to Detroit, Sam says his goodbyes to Bobby and Castiel.
Sam: "You take care of these guys, okay?"
Cas: "It's not possible..."
Sam: "Then humour me..."
Cas: "... oh... I'm supposed to lie... uh... suuure... it'll be fiiine..."
Sam: "Just... stop... talking..."
As Cas and Bobby stepped aside, Sam gets back to the trunk of the Impala, starts drinking all the demon blood they gathered. Strengthened and ecstatic he walks towards the building where Lucifer is located and they get captivated by some demons and are brought to the devil himself.
During another flashback we see several things, that made the Impala special. The toys Sam and Dean crammed into the ashtrays or vents, their initials on the cars interior. As Sam steps forward and tells Lucifer, that 'Yes' - he will let him ride his body - the devil just smiles and tells him to be honest. He knows about their plan, he knows about the rings and he knows about the cage. Still, Sam is determined and before Dean can stop him, he says 'Yes' ...
Sam: "So he knows... doesn't change anything...
Dean: "Sam... no..."
Sam: "We don't have any other choice... 'Yes' ..."
Dean hurries and opens the gate to Lucifers cage, helping his brother up, who seems to still have the control over his body. But before Sam can jump into the cage - we see a smirk on his face... and we know, that Sam has lost. It's Lucifer and he closes the gate and vanishes, taking the rings with him.
Lucifer: "I was just messing with you... Sammy's long gone..."
Lucifer: "I told you... this would always happen in Detroit."
In some secret hideout, we see that Sam and Lucifer are able to talk to one another. Sam is furious and determined to destroy Lucifer. But the devil has the control over Sam's body and Sam is too weak, to get it back.
Lucifer: "All those times you ran away you weren't running from them - you were running towards me."
Back in the city, there is chaos and destruction everywhere on TV. Dean asks Cas, what they're supposed to do now, but Cas just tells him that they can't do anything anymore. That Lucifer will meet Michael on the chosen field and that they will fight. Dean gets furious and shouts at Cas, that they cannot give up now. But even Bobby seems to be hopeless.
In another flashback we see the brothers in the past... playing pool, driving around the country and just being together. And if I hadn't been crying anyway since the beginning of the episode, this last sentence, Chuck wrote, would've killed me for sure:
"It never occured to them... that sure, they never really had a roof and four walls... But they were never, in fact, homeless..."
When Chuck gets a call from Dean, he tells him that he already knows about Sam saying 'Yes' and that he knows, where the final battle would take place. A cemetery, outside of Lawrence - their home town... as Dean gets ready to leave town, heading to Lawrence, Cas and Bobby show up.
Cas: "I just want you to understand... the only thing that you're gonna see out there... is Michael - killing your brother..."
Dean: "Well, then I ain't gonna let him die alone..."
Meanwhile Lucifer arrives at the cemetary and also Michael, in the body of the third Winchester brother Adam, appears. Lucifer tries to stop Michael, tries to convince him, that they don't have to fight. That this is God's sick plan, not theirs - but Michael tells him that he is a loyal son and that he won't betray his father. Just as they're about to start fighting, there is the sound of an engine not far away. And as Dean drives his baby onto the battlefield, he pushes a cassette tape into the car radio, playing Def Leppards 'Rock of Ages'.
HELLS YEAH!!!! This scene ROCKED SO HARD!!!! DEAN IS BACK!!!!
He steps outside the car, talking to Sam. Michael gets furious, tells Dean to get the hell out. That he's no longer a part of this story. But before he can do anything, a voice from the off shouts:
"Hey! ASSBUTT!!!"
And Castiel throws a molotov cocktail of holy fire at Michael, who burns and disappears.
Enraged, Lucifer shouts at Castiel, that no one messes with Michael but Lucifer himself. And before anyone can do anything, Lucifer kills Castiel.
Holy mother of FUCK!!! WHAT THE HELL?????
Why do everyone has to keep killing Cas by letting him FRIGGIN EXPLODE??????
I was so shocked and angry and desperate and FUCKING FURIOUS!!! This... this death... what the fuck!???
I yelled at the screen (thank god, my microphone was mute) and started crying terribly T_T
Lucifer starts walking towards Dean then, telling him that he inteded to be nice to him, for Sam's sake, but that he will stop doing that now. Just as he rises his arm to punch Dean, Bobby shoots him from behind, being not really successfull, of course. Lucifer turns around and breaks Bobby's neck.
Without any more hesitation, Lucifer starts punching Dean, hitting him and butchering his beautiful face... seriously... whoever managed to make Jensen Ackles look THIS disgusting, awful, ugly and pitiful deserves an Oscar or something!! I didn't even know that this would be possible...
Dean: "Sam... it's okay... it's okay... I'm here... I'm here... I'm not gonna leave you... I'm NOT gonna leave you!"
And in the blink of an eye, Lucifer sees his own reflection in the shiny roof of the Impala... images start appearing in front of his inner eye... memories of Sam and Dean and the Impala... the brothers, who sacrificed so much for each other, who love each other so much, that they would give anything for one another.
I'm crying again right now, cause this... I don't know... this just kills me every time... suddenly we see it in his eyes - Sam has once again the control over his body.
Sam: "It's okay, Dean... it's gonna be okay... I've got him..."
Sam opens the door to Lucifer's cage. He looks at Deam, scared and unsure and with so much love in his eyes. Michael reappears, tells Sam to step back, that he and Lucifer need to fight. But Sam just closes his eyes and lets himself fall... and when Michael grabs his arm, he pulls him with him - they both fall into the pit and the gates close again.
Silently crying Dean gets up, crawls to the place where the rings of the horsemen still lie... when he looks up, it's Cas who's standing right beside him.
Dean: "... Cas, you're alive...?"
Cas: "I'm better than that..."
Dean: "........ Cas, are you God?"
Cas: "That's a nice compliment... but no. Although I do believe he brought me back... new and improved..."
Cas heals Dean and then gets over to where Bobby's lifeless body still lies and revives him.
In the Impala Dean asks Cas, what he's going to do now and Cas answers, that he's going to return to heaven. Since Michael's gone now there's gonna be anarchy and somebody has to take care of things. Dean is angry that after everything that happened Cas is simply returning to being God's bitch again. But Cas asks him:
"What would you rather have: Peace... or freedom?"
And with that, he vanishes into thin air... good times -_-!!
Once again, we hear Chuck's voice, continuing telling his story... Dean and Bobby say goodbye, they hug and Chuck says that this would be the last they see each other in a very long time.
Dean didn't want Cas to save him.
Every part of him, every fibre he's got wants to die... or find a way to bring Sam back...
But he isn't gonna do either. Because he made a promise.
So, what's it all add up to? It's hard to say... but me I'd say this was a test... for Sam and Dean.
And I think they did alright. Up against good, evil, angels, devils, destiny and God himself.
They made their own choice. They chose family. And well... isn't that kind of the whole point?
No doubt... endings are hard. But then again... nothing ever really ends... does it?
And with a smirk and a last sip of alcohol, Chuck vanishes into thin air. And fangirls all over the planet died, because SRSLY????
CHUCK IS GOD??????????
WHAT - THE - HELL?!??????
In the end, Dean is sitting at the table at Lisa's house, having dinner with her and Ben. She asks him if he's okay. He tells her 'Yeah, I'm good' ... but we all know, that he isn't. That he's never going to be 'okay' or 'good' or 'happy' without Sam... we see the outside of the house, showing the 'happy family' having dinner through the window... a street lamp flickers and a person appears right underneath. The episode ends with Sam looking at the house with an unreadable expression...
Once again... what I said will happen, just the morning before the finale:
- Sam says 'Yes'
- Dean will get his ass kicked
- the Impala gets smashed
- Cas dies
- Bobby dies
- Dean returns to Lisa in between S5 and S6
- we don't know what happens to Sam
Okay, well... the Impala didn't get smashed completely but the front window did and that means that either I'm a fucking psychic OR Kripke and Co let some fanfiction-writer do the script for that last episode... it's not bad, don't get me wrong... I just think, that they tried so hard involving the fans further that they forgot, to write the episode as they should've written it...
Anyway... I loved this episode... God, I cried so much, I screamed, I'm literally shaking again right now... it had everything I love and more... of course there were massive plot holes and illogical actions and stuff... things, they could've left out in my opinion... but over all I am satisfied and pleased with this episode.
It's just... I have no fucking clue how to survive until Fall or Winter, until Season 6 will air... I don't even know when exactly it's coming back... fuck, I just don't wanna wait, srsly T_T I'm so hyper right now, I can't even describe it...
I'm going to watch this episode a few more times again now... trying to figure out some things, I didn't get and re-watching my favourite scenes... until then...
And last but not least - a heartfelt "YAY" for:
- the Impala
- Cas being alive
- Dean being alive
- Bobby being alive
- the Impala being alive
- Jensen and Jared putting their hearts and souls into their play
- Jared ROCKING Lucifer!Sam
- Jensen looking as ugly as he possibly could
- Cas being too stupid to lie to Sam
- Bobby for pathetically shooting the devil
- the Impala
- Dean's classic rock entrance to the big showdown
- Jensen's amazing play after Lucifer took Sam
- the flashbacks
- the Impala
- so many hugs in one episode
- the wee!chesters
- and did I forget to mention? THE IMPALA!!!!
So long, guys - see you (probably) next year...
To be continued