I also got a tumblr page (link on the side) so many of the gifs used here have been reblogged there (since I have no clue as to how to make a gif).
Alright so here is a jotted recap of the episode with my initial thoughts included throughout and after the episode. I do it this way because my memory sucks when it comes to recalling things that don't revolve around my OTP for the series.
SEASON 11
**MAJOR SPOILER ALERT*
"Supernatural" - ep. 11x23 ("Alpha and Omega") [
CW Promo]
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My Tumblr Page for 11x23] [Producer's Preview]
Synopsis: GOD VS. AMARA - God (guest star Rob Benedict) comes to a decision about Amara (guest star Emily Swallows) that has direct repercussions for Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles).
SEASON FINALE TIME!!! Will Amara make it to next season?
THEN
- Carry On My Wayward Song begins
- Amara eats souls as she's the Darkness that is God's sister
- Dean's bond with Amara
- Lucifer's release and possessing Castiel
- All factions teaming up to kill Amara
- Amara killing Lucifer and attacking Chuck/God
NOW
WEBCLIP #1 -- Warehouse
- Chuck and Castiel are unconscious
- Sam and Dean check each other
- Dean checks on Castiel
- Castiel is himself again
- Lucifer was pulled from Castiel's vessel
- "Amara ripped him from my body." -Castiel
- "To where?" -Dean
- "I don't know." -Castiel
- Sam checks on Chuck
- Chuck feels like a bug that got hit by a window
- "Are you...how do you feel?" -Sam
- "You know when you're driving and a bug hits your windshield? I'm the bug." -Chuck
- Sam wonders about Amara's words about Chuck dying
- Chuck feels his 'power' fading
- A creak is heard
- Dean pulls a gun...on Rowena
- Crowley returns too with a reference that Castiel doesn't understand
- "Cas is back." -Dean
- Rowena comments about outside
- Everyone walks out and sees the red sky
TITLE CARD
Alleyway
- The sun is red and it's burning
- Castiel comments on Amara destroying the sun as it's the life force of Earth
- Dean wants to get out of there
- Chuck zaps them all to the Bunker
- Stunned Crowley looks to Chuck
- "I still got a few tricks up my sleeve." -Chuck
- Chuck collapses (Sam catches him and sits him down)
- Crowley wonders now what
- Dean goes straight for the beer in the kitchen
Bunker (Kitchen)
- Dean has given up
- Sam and Castiel try to lift his spirits
- Dean is stumped
- "But how are we supposed to fix the friggin' sun?" -Dean
Elsewhere
- The red sun is seen everywhere
- A Blonde Woman returns home
- Is that VD's Valerie?!
- Newscast reports about the change in the sun
- Woman gets a call
- Woman accesses a panel that opens a secret panel
- "The bloody sun has cracked." -Woman
- Woman has a wanted board for the Winchesters
- That's not good! At first I thought she was part of the Men of Letters
COMMERICAL
Bunker
- Dean runs low on beer
- Dean wants to make a run
- Sam refuses (they have more pressing matters to deal with)
- "No reason to die sober, huh." -Dean
- Rowena offers to make a cup of tea for Chuck
- Crowley looks around the library
- Sam wants to stay behind to think of a plan
- Dean calls upon Castiel
- Rowena interrupts with a request for a tea pot
- Crowley tells Chuck that Rowena is latching on to use him
- Chuck doesn't mind
Elsewhere
- Woman kisses goodbye to a little boy who is sleeping
- Woman is given a care bag of weapons by an older woman
Bunker
- Chuck and Rowena share a cup of tea together as they remininsce over kids and their antics (Crowley, Adam & Eve)
- Crowley drinks near them
- "So glad the world is ending." -Crowley
- Sam walks in
- Crowley offers a drink
- Sam wants everyone to do something productive
- Chuck understands but he's dying and when he dies, the balance will be shifted
- Sam wants to kill Amara
- Crowley is on board
Road
- Dean drives with Castiel
- Dean wonders how Castiel is doing with Lucifer possessing him
- Castiel thinks it was a stupid plan
- Dean knew that Castiel's move was one they needed
- "You stepped up." -Dean
- "I was just trying to help." -Castiel
- Dean tells Castiel how much he means to him and Sam and how they appreciate him
- "You're the best friend we've ever had. You're a brother Cas, I want you to know that." -Dean
- Dean gets a call from Sam
- Sam has a plan
- Dean turns around and drives back to the Bunker
Bunker
- Dean and Castiel learn that the plan is to kill Amara
- Sam explains that killing Amara would balance God's death
- "Chuck's dying...no offense God." -Sam
- Dean wonders how they are going to kill Amara
- Chuck mumbles a possibility
- Chuck takes Crowley's alcohol for himself before he gives his theory
- "He tells us now." -Crowley
- "I wanted to trap her, not murder her." -Chuck
- Chuck has no power to power what is needed to destroy Amara (a lot of suns)
- Sam calls on the factions
- Rowena has no clue from the Book of the Damned
- Crowley has no idea
- Castiel wonders about collecting souls
- Rowena thinks she could make a bomb from the souls
- Chuck thinks it could work
- Castiel will look to Heaven
- Crowley will look in Hell
- Sam and Dean will hunt down ghosts at an abandoned asylum (Waverly Hills)
- "Alright, let's get to work." -Sam
Greenhouse (Park)
- Amara walks around and see the plant life dying
- The sun is fading
Asylum
- Sam and Dean arrive
- Dean does a bad imitation of Rowena and her spells to capture the ghosts
- Sam gives Dean a disbelieving look
- Sam and Dean venture inside
- Some ghosts have appeared before disappearing
- Sam and Dean prep a large room
- "Alright, let's bust some ghosts." -Dean
- Sam pours some salt down along the windows
- No ghosts
- Sam offers to piss the ghosts off as Dean preps the room
- Dean gets attacked when salting a door
- Sam starts shooting at the ghosts
- Ghosts start to follow Sam to the room
- Dean traps the ghosts inside
- Sam continues to figure
- Dean prepares Rowena's device
- A ghost gets their hands on Sam
- "Say the magic word!" -Sam
- Dean activates the device
- All ghosts get sucked into Rowena's device
- Sam is impressed
- Sam and Dean walk out
- Bille the Reaper watches them leave
COMMERICAL
Bunker
- Castiel reports that the angels won't help
- The angels know that God is dying so they are locking up Heaven and 'dying with dignity'
- Crowley lost his soul stash to his betraying demons
- An alert light blinks red
- Sam and Dean pull their guns
- Billie walks in
- "Nice digs." -Billie
- Sam is stunned
- Billie gives a greeting to Crowley (which Rowena notices)
- Sam wonders why Billie is there
- Billie is curious
- "Dead folks, kinda my thing." -Billie
- Sam explains their soul bomb idea to kill Amara
- Billie isn't fazed
- Castiel wonders if that means Billie is helping them
- "I'm about an hour away from reaping God himself." -Billie
- Billie tells them if they wanted souls they just had to call a Reaper
Greenhouse (Park)
- Amara sits on a bench
- A lady feeds the pigeon
- A lady makes conversation with Amara
- A lady spills her story about her family (love/hate relationship)
- "Even when you hate them, you still love them." -Lady
- Amara seemed to be in thought about that statement
Bunker
- Billie collects more souls into the device
- "How many souls are in there?" -Castiel
- "A couple hundred...thousand." -Billie
- Billie had raided the veil
- Rowena believes that the souls are enough
- Billie takes her leave
- "See you around." -Dean
- "Yeah. Just hope it's not today." -Billie
- Chuck knows where Amara is (she's not warded anymore)
- Castiel brings up that someone needs to get to Amara
- Everyone looks to Dean
- Dean reluctantly agrees
- Dean wonders how he's gonna get the bomb close to Amara
- Crowley makes a comment
- Rowena reveals that Dean would have to be fused with the bomb
- "You'll be the bomb." -Rowena
- Rowena explains what Dean needs to do to activate the bomb
- Dean forlornly agrees
COMMERICAL
Bunker
- Rowena transfers the souls into Dean
- Castiel wonders about Dean's state
- Dean feels his insides are on fire
- Dean wonders if that is normal
- Rowena tells Dean that he has about an hour before he's really a ticking time bomb
Air Strip
- Blonde Woman arrives after her flight
- She's heading for Lebenon, Kansas
Cemetery
- Sam and Dean stand by Mary's grave (rest of the team is waiting by the Impala)
- Sam tries to give Dean an out to being the bomb
- Dean knows that he has to try to get close to Amara
- Dean leaves to join the others
- Sam kisses Mary's tombstone
- Dean wonders if Chuck is alright with the plan
- Chuck understands why Amara needs to be killed (though she is his sister)
- Castiel gives Dean a goodbye hug
- Castiel offers to go with Dean
- Dean knows he has to do it alone
- Dean wants Castiel to watch out for Sam
- Sam joins them
- Dean talks funeral arrangements for himself
- "I want a big funeral." -Dean
- Dean wants his ashes to be with Mary
- Dean gives Sam the keys to the Impala
- Sam reluctantly takes the keys
- Dean tells Sam to suck it up
- "Yeah, you love click flicks." -Sam
- "Yeah, you're right. I do." -Dean
- Dean hugs Sam
- I may just cry
- Dean is ready
- Chuck snaps Dean to Amara's location
Greenhouse (Park)
- Dean finds himself in a dying garden
- The sun is still fading
Bar
- Sam pulls up
- Crowley sees a sign about the world ending
- "He's not wrong." -Crowley
- Crowley breaks into the closed bar
- Crowley wants Sam to buy drinks
- "Your round Moose." -Crowley
Greenhouse (Park)
- Amara greets Dean
- Amara wonders how Dean found her
- Dean doesn't answer
- Dean offers himself to Amara like she wants
- Amara can sense the bomb inside Dean
- "What makes this time any different?" -Amara
- Dean doesn't see a choice
- Amara confesses that she's not killing the sun
- The sun is dying because of God's dying state
- Isn't that the same thing or did I miss something else in that explanation?
Bar
- Sam, Castiel, Crowley and Rowena watch a newscast
- Crowley ends it
- Castiel tells Sam about Chuck
- Chuck looks worse
Greenhouse (Park)
- Amara hates that Chuck wants her dead
- Dean clarifies that Chuck never wanted Amara's death
Bar
- Crowley eats peanuts
- Rowena drinks beside him
- Sam checks on Chuck
Greenhouse (Park)
- Dean wonders if Amara wanted Chuck dead
- Amara wanted Chuck to feel pain for imprisoning her
- Dean relates to the wanting revenge part of her plan
- Dean brings up fighting with Sam
- "We always make it right because we're family." -Dean
- Dean brings up Amara's underlying connection to God
- "You simply need your brother." -Dean
- Dean brings up all scenarios that could happen
- Dean wonders if maybe there is a different way
- "You tell me, what do you want?" -Dean
Bar
- Sam tells Chuck to hang in there a little while longer
- Chuck is trying to hold on
- Sam offers to get Chuck some water
- Sam gets up
- Chuck disappears
- Sam calls out to Chuck
Greenhouse (Park)
- Chuck is stunned to find himself in the greenhouse
- Amara wants to talk
- Dean silently urges her forward to talk to Chuck
- Amara starts talking about the beginning
- Amara was jealous of Chuck's creations
- Amara hated Chuck for imprisoning her
- Chuck understands
- Amara admits that she finds his creations to be beautiful
- "What you made...it's beautiful." -Amara
- Amara knows they can't go back but she wishes they could be family again
- Chuck wants to be a family too
- Amara takes Chuck's hand
- A bright light glows between their hands
- Dean looks to the sky
- The sun burns bright again
Bar
- The sun starts to shine bring through the windows
- Everyone goes outside to see the outcome
- Rowena and Crowley are shocked
- Castiel wonders about Dean
- Sam doesn't know
COMMERICAL
Greenhouse (Park)
- Amara heals Chuck from the curse she gave him
- Chuck tells Dean that he's going away for a while
- Dean understands
- Chuck takes the souls out of Dean
- "Better?" -Chuck
- "What about us? What about Earth?" -Dean
- "Earth will be fine. It's got you...and Sam." -Chuck
- No pressure or anything Dean...o.O
- Chuck has a lot of faith in the Winchesters which I love
- Chuck returns to Amara
- Amara thanks Dean for giving her what she wanted most
- Amara wants to give Dean that
- Chuck and Amara change into mist (Light and Dark) as they ascend to the skies
- Dean is stunned
Bunker
- Sam and Castiel return
- Castiel tries to comfort Sam about Dean's death
- They still don't know?!?! It's like the end of the season 7 finale for Sam!
- Blonde Woman banishes Castiel with a blood sigil before pulling a gun out
- Sam is stunned
- Blonde Woman introduces herself as Antonia (Toni) Bevell from the Men of Letters, the London division
- Toni is meant to bring the Winchesters in for their harm to the world
- Toni wants Dean too
- Sam tells Toni that Dean is dead
- Sam advances on Toni
- Toni shoots
- SAM!!!!! He can't be dead!! Lady you are on my hate list!!
Woods
- Dean finds himself suck in the woods with no signal
- Why is he always transported to the middle of nowhere?
- Dean finds a woman shout for help
- Dean finds a confused Mary in her white gown
- "Mom?" -Dean
- What the hell?!?! Is Mary Winchester truly back!?!?!
CREDITS
For more of my thoughts taken directly after watching the episode, check out my youtube video for it here
==> [
My After Show Video for 11x22 & 11x23]
See you in October!