finality.
→ I guess no matter how meh I feel about watching a finale, listening to Carry On Wayward Son will NEVER not get me in the mood. :)
→ I'm sort of glad I saw all the negative reviews on my flist and twitter. Because I went into this episode with near zero expectation (you can always, ALWAYS expect Jensen Ackles to look fucking delicious!) and I came out of it feeling...pretty satisfied.
→ I still think the Bobby bits were pointless and annoying, but I'm willing to look past a lot of things for this show and I don't think I will ever stop. Anyhoo, the boys got their angst and Bobby's gone (dear GOD let him be gone for good) - but not before telling the boys what he and everybody else have been telling them since forever: REVENGE IS BAD.
→ We didn't get as much Sam/Dean lovebirds brotherly moments as we've been getting for the last 6 finales, sure, but they actually sort things out together throughout the episode.
→ I could do without all the Dean/Cas male bonding time, but whatever.
→ BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABY. I so squealed with delight when Dean made Cas zapped him into that garage. I am a little bit sadface that he didn't get to crash into Dick's lair with her, but because she's practically the third lead anyway, I'm willing to see it as her driving Meg and not the other way around. Speaking of, right before Meg crashed her into the sign, I totally thought, "WTF? This isn't Dean driving, is it? He would NEVER crash Baby on purpose--" And now I am truly devastated that Dean won't get to drive her for a while BECAUSE HE'S IN PURGATORY. :((((((
→ Which brings me to: I'd been much, much happier if the episode ended at the scene where Sam's alone in the lab. Although, I appreciate the symmetry of him looking around and Dean looking around in the Purgatory. :| It's much like 3.16 for me, where I could live without seeing Dean on the meat hooks, screaming in Hell.
→ Which brings me to: as much as I despise Sara Gamble as a showrunner (not really as a writer because she loves making Dean suffer and cry and look beautiful doing it), I sort of get what she did with this whole separated Sam/Dean stuff. This whole season has been about the boys handling their business without the training wheels on (ghost!Bobby and Frank and crazy!Cas aside *eyeroll*) and what's better as a climax than them being without each other? That's like cutting off their limbs and - I don't know, I just would really like to see one of them saving the other one by their own will and strength and love, y'know?
→ All in all, I honestly think the pacing was off this whole season. Maybe Show works better when they don't have 23 episodes to spend. :|||
For what it's worth, bring on the epic brotherly angst of Season 8! *\o/*
→ I'm sort of glad I saw all the negative reviews on my flist and twitter. Because I went into this episode with near zero expectation (you can always, ALWAYS expect Jensen Ackles to look fucking delicious!) and I came out of it feeling...pretty satisfied.
→ I still think the Bobby bits were pointless and annoying, but I'm willing to look past a lot of things for this show and I don't think I will ever stop. Anyhoo, the boys got their angst and Bobby's gone (dear GOD let him be gone for good) - but not before telling the boys what he and everybody else have been telling them since forever: REVENGE IS BAD.
→ We didn't get as much Sam/Dean lovebirds brotherly moments as we've been getting for the last 6 finales, sure, but they actually sort things out together throughout the episode.
→ I could do without all the Dean/Cas male bonding time, but whatever.
→ BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABY. I so squealed with delight when Dean made Cas zapped him into that garage. I am a little bit sadface that he didn't get to crash into Dick's lair with her, but because she's practically the third lead anyway, I'm willing to see it as her driving Meg and not the other way around. Speaking of, right before Meg crashed her into the sign, I totally thought, "WTF? This isn't Dean driving, is it? He would NEVER crash Baby on purpose--" And now I am truly devastated that Dean won't get to drive her for a while BECAUSE HE'S IN PURGATORY. :((((((
→ Which brings me to: I'd been much, much happier if the episode ended at the scene where Sam's alone in the lab. Although, I appreciate the symmetry of him looking around and Dean looking around in the Purgatory. :| It's much like 3.16 for me, where I could live without seeing Dean on the meat hooks, screaming in Hell.
→ Which brings me to: as much as I despise Sara Gamble as a showrunner (not really as a writer because she loves making Dean suffer and cry and look beautiful doing it), I sort of get what she did with this whole separated Sam/Dean stuff. This whole season has been about the boys handling their business without the training wheels on (ghost!Bobby and Frank and crazy!Cas aside *eyeroll*) and what's better as a climax than them being without each other? That's like cutting off their limbs and - I don't know, I just would really like to see one of them saving the other one by their own will and strength and love, y'know?
→ All in all, I honestly think the pacing was off this whole season. Maybe Show works better when they don't have 23 episodes to spend. :|||
For what it's worth, bring on the epic brotherly angst of Season 8! *\o/*