Supernatural Finale and Fic Recs

[zara_zee]

So. How's everyone doing?

It's Sunday night here in Oz. I watched the SPN series finale late Friday night my time, after I got home from my PM shift.

[Finale Spoilers (click to open)]I started crying at the Barn Scene and kept crying for the rest of the episode and then cried for an hour aftewards, before going to bed at 2.00am. I actually had a crying hangover the next morning

Comments

[jj1564]

Y'all, I cannot believe how hard I am grieving for a fictional character. Well. Two fictional characters. I'm grieving Dean's death and I'm grieving for Sam's loss.

I feel the same, as I didn't expect Dean to die, I was so shocked! I thought they'd either die or drive off into the sunset together. Seeing Sam wandering through the Bunker and sitting alone in the Impala was so sad - thank goodness he had Miracle with him. But they ended up together, and that hug on the bridge was beautiful, and as much J2 as Sam and Dean.

Thanks for the recs, I haven't read any yet. I was just about to rec Dizzo's but I see you've read that one; it made me cry, too!

[zara_zee]

Oh yikes! I forgot another one...see what all that crying does to you? I am still a complete wreck from that finale!

I had heard a rumour about Dean dying, so I wasn't as shocked as I would've been otherwise, because yep, I had expected them to go together or drive off into the sunset too.

As someone said on twitter, losing these characters that we love so much, this year of all years, when so many are losing people irl...it's really amped up the grief, I think. It's been a hard year for so many.

And I totally agree...the bridge scene...the barn scene...there was a lot of Jared and Jensen in those scenes. Those emotions in the barn were so genuine, so raw...what an incredible performance. It truly broke me. 💔

[amberdreams]

I'd heard two rumours - one that Dean would die and one that Sam would - of the two this one made more sense because if they've killed Sam off, I'm sure Dean would have put a bullet in his own brain, and that would have been so grim, I doubt any of us would have recovered. (Plus the people screaming about what did happen would have been 100x louder).

[jj1564]

I loved that Kripke said his ending would have been much darker, so perhaps Sam dies and Dean kills himself would've been his ending! And whatever happened, some fans were bound to hate it. *sighs*

[amberdreams]

so true... I'm just grateful I'm not one of them.

[zara_zee]

Yeah, Sam dying and Dean killing himself is really something they shouldn't do and I'm so glad they didn't. I mean, with the AKF campaign that Jared is so involved with...and people dying is a tragic part of RL...to show these guys that so many identify with doing that...it would've been such a dangerous message. The ending Show did was real. Someone dies in a tragic work accident; their loved ones have to live on. And it was heartbreaking because it was real. 💔

[amberdreams]

Yes - and the irony that the cause of death was something so mundane - that was real too. It was almost an accident - except he was in the middle of a battle to save two little kids from vampires. The people whining about it really don't understand what Dean was all about.

[zara_zee]

The people whining about it really don't understand what Dean was all about.

Right? He was doing his very dangerous job and it cost him his life. How anyone could watch the Barn Scene and not be profoundly moved is beyond me. Someone somewhere (on Discord I think...and possibly it was even you...) described it as Jensen giving a masterclass in acting. And that is so true. They were both utterly brilliant, but Jensen was the lead in the scene, Jared responding to him, and yeah, what a master class. That's how you do an emotional scene.

[jj1564]

Their performances were so raw, so moving - it was like peeking through the screen to something real. In fact is was peeking through the screen to something real!

Yes, 2020 has been such a hard year both personally and generally, which has made losing our boys all the harder, *hugs*

[zara_zee]

Hugs all round. We all really need them. 💕