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

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[somer]

'But the depth of my emotional response has really surprised me.'

Couldn't have said it better.

[zara_zee]

💔💔💔💔💔💔 [Hugs]

[crowroad3]

I was also totally blindsided by my emotional response, even though I was not surprised by the narrative moves that happened and had tried to kind of ward myself by thinking about those beforehand (e.g. what Dean said his perfect ending would be, the need to go full-circle back to the pilot, the need to give Sam freedom before peace, etc). It did not help!
It was like the story was going to get around whatever salt-circle I tried. <3 <3

[zara_zee]

tried to kind of ward myself by thinking about (the narrative moves) beforehand...it did not help

^^ So much this!!

There was a portion of my brain cataloguing the narrative elements and being quite aware of the deliberate ways my emotional buttons were being pushed, but my emotions responded very genuinely...which I guess says a lot about my love for these characters, as well as the brilliant performances by Jared and Jensen. They put their hearts and souls into That Scene and I think a lot of us responded to how genuine it was. And then we absolutely empathized with Sam and walked his grief with him.

And yep, our intellectual salt circles did not help!! <3 <3

[amberdreams]

And hearing from Jared yesterday that a lot of the call back to the Pilot was their idea and not scripted, that makes it even more moving. J2 really did understand their characters on the deepest level.

[zara_zee]

So true. And watching Jared struggling not to cry just remembering the scene...oh boy...

[amberdreams]

i know, I love that he's so emotional!