spn - abandon all hope
Of course, the thing one should watch when you're a little hung over and so not exactly 100% is the one episode that will absolutely wreck you.
I always adored Jo and Ellen. "My good girl." Oh.
But thank you, SPN, for giving them a good death. They had agency, they had the story that mirrored Dean and Sam, and before Jo chose to sacrifice herself, she saved Dean from the hounds. (And, god, Dean's terror when he knows they're there - that's how good horror is done, by not showing, by Dean's reaction and just the sound of it) And Ellen staying with her daughter, because that's what you do. And Jo dying before the hounds show up, because she was allowed. And Ellen just-- let's move on! I think I have something in my eye. *sniff*
Everything else after that was a little muted and dull, because that's the grand finish. That.
Everything else:
- Crowley! I love Crowley. Can we keep him? Cas can just own up to Castiel being his middle name and Aziraphale being his first (or the other way around!) and they can have their own show and solve crime or something?
- I love Crowley kissing dudes and mocking them for their homophobia so much. Oh, Crowley.
- I also love Crowley for calling the Hardy boys morons. Because they are. FACT.
- Ellen and Castiel drinking shots. ♥
- Dean giving Jo the last night on earth speech, the way Jo turned him down. (How Jo totally got herself some angelic loving not long after that, which, yes, Cas, we understand. You're only an angel.)
- Castiel being freaked out by the reapers. Castiel seeing them as old, old men, because he's known them - known of them - long enough to think of them as old. This is how death is both a young woman with black hair and an old man. You see what you see.
- Castiel and Lucifer. Cas and Luce. Cassie and Lucy. Have I mentioned lately how much I love Mark Pellegrino? So, so much. I believe in Lucifer's power of persuasion so much that for a moment I thought that in the fianl scene we'd either have Castiel on his side or Lucifer wearing Castiel's suit.
- Castiel's really fallen now? Oh, sweetie, you gotta' share those things with the class. Is that why he's drinking and totally sexing up Jo and heading towards the path Dean saw him on five years from now? Oh Cas.
- Castiel, walking over Meg's burning body. I love it when angels get hardcore and ruthless.
- does Sam know about Detroit? Did Dean ever tell him? (And is Dean seeing now every little piece coming together bit by horrifying bit? Is he read to say "yes" soon?)
- I know Bobby burned the photo but he didn't burn the negatives. The photo can still be found in the future. In the miserable, miserable future.
Thoughts:
Ellen and Jo have always represented Dean and Sam to a degree. They made it even more so in the previous episode with them in Good God, Y'all when the previous Horseman showed up. Dean is Ellen to Sam's Jo. (Does that make Dean/Jo a thinly veiled Dean/Sam? Maybe. They both even have names that are suitable for boys and girls. DISCUSS.)
Anyway, that makes me worry about the boys ultimate end. If they die, they die together, like Jo and Ellen. They die fighting.
I actually think Kripke has two different endings. That one and the one he and I both hope for, but it all comes down to whether JDM comes back to play John/God or not. If he does, we get a happy ending. If he doesn't, death and destruction.
I'm really thinking that it should be the happy ending. Their lives have sucked so much that they deserve a little happiness. Dean gets a family and Sam ... Sam either goes on hunting or dies as the hero who saved them all.
I'm good with either end. As long as the end is as glorious as it can be, and as long as Dean gets first dibs on the dragon.
(Iiiii think I need to get my Angel the Series DVDs out for the hiatus.)
I always adored Jo and Ellen. "My good girl." Oh.
But thank you, SPN, for giving them a good death. They had agency, they had the story that mirrored Dean and Sam, and before Jo chose to sacrifice herself, she saved Dean from the hounds. (And, god, Dean's terror when he knows they're there - that's how good horror is done, by not showing, by Dean's reaction and just the sound of it) And Ellen staying with her daughter, because that's what you do. And Jo dying before the hounds show up, because she was allowed. And Ellen just-- let's move on! I think I have something in my eye. *sniff*
Everything else after that was a little muted and dull, because that's the grand finish. That.
Everything else:
- Crowley! I love Crowley. Can we keep him? Cas can just own up to Castiel being his middle name and Aziraphale being his first (or the other way around!) and they can have their own show and solve crime or something?
- I love Crowley kissing dudes and mocking them for their homophobia so much. Oh, Crowley.
- I also love Crowley for calling the Hardy boys morons. Because they are. FACT.
- Ellen and Castiel drinking shots. ♥
- Dean giving Jo the last night on earth speech, the way Jo turned him down. (How Jo totally got herself some angelic loving not long after that, which, yes, Cas, we understand. You're only an angel.)
- Castiel being freaked out by the reapers. Castiel seeing them as old, old men, because he's known them - known of them - long enough to think of them as old. This is how death is both a young woman with black hair and an old man. You see what you see.
- Castiel and Lucifer. Cas and Luce. Cassie and Lucy. Have I mentioned lately how much I love Mark Pellegrino? So, so much. I believe in Lucifer's power of persuasion so much that for a moment I thought that in the fianl scene we'd either have Castiel on his side or Lucifer wearing Castiel's suit.
- Castiel's really fallen now? Oh, sweetie, you gotta' share those things with the class. Is that why he's drinking and totally sexing up Jo and heading towards the path Dean saw him on five years from now? Oh Cas.
- Castiel, walking over Meg's burning body. I love it when angels get hardcore and ruthless.
- does Sam know about Detroit? Did Dean ever tell him? (And is Dean seeing now every little piece coming together bit by horrifying bit? Is he read to say "yes" soon?)
- I know Bobby burned the photo but he didn't burn the negatives. The photo can still be found in the future. In the miserable, miserable future.
Thoughts:
Ellen and Jo have always represented Dean and Sam to a degree. They made it even more so in the previous episode with them in Good God, Y'all when the previous Horseman showed up. Dean is Ellen to Sam's Jo. (Does that make Dean/Jo a thinly veiled Dean/Sam? Maybe. They both even have names that are suitable for boys and girls. DISCUSS.)
Anyway, that makes me worry about the boys ultimate end. If they die, they die together, like Jo and Ellen. They die fighting.
I actually think Kripke has two different endings. That one and the one he and I both hope for, but it all comes down to whether JDM comes back to play John/God or not. If he does, we get a happy ending. If he doesn't, death and destruction.
I'm really thinking that it should be the happy ending. Their lives have sucked so much that they deserve a little happiness. Dean gets a family and Sam ... Sam either goes on hunting or dies as the hero who saved them all.
I'm good with either end. As long as the end is as glorious as it can be, and as long as Dean gets first dibs on the dragon.
(Iiiii think I need to get my Angel the Series DVDs out for the hiatus.)