Hey friends. I’m struggling for the words to say. We deserve to see the original finale script. It was more found family friendly and not such a slap in the face to Dean’s character development. I know in my heart they didn’t want to end the show like this, on these details. It’s still amazing they came back to filming at all. All the costs to keep everything in storage without shooting for months was great.
Personally I’m reaping the show at 15x18, since it was our last episode of true scripted intent. Imo they never should have shot these two edited episodes and instead just did a movie covering 15x19 and 15x20 sometime down the road. So much was just... bizarre. Little things. Other things like wigs and makeup plainly imo show us how truly thrown together this was, as much as the show might not want to admit that. Or maybe they do. They should.
I don’t know how I’m personally going to proceed from here. I feel like I’ve been killed by what I loved but at the same time I know they didn’t want to kill me. Doesn’t change my reality. But also I refuse to believe my time here was wasted. I see the details they wanted to give us and it was a good story before shutdown. I’m begging and praying they publicly explain these changes. I know it’ll put at least some hearts at peace even with the damage done.
Devastating. It’s all just fucking devastating.
I’m still thankful for this show tho. The relationships I’ve made through this show are what I’ll carry with me always. It’s what I’m personally trying to focus on in order to move forward. So check in on your friends when you finish gathering yourselves. Be there for one another. 😭😔💔
I love that it could have been the logical conclusion that Angels are a species we don’t understand who experience the world completely different to us and have eons of history and culture that would be incomprehensible to a human as that’s what Misha was trying to convey through Cas as our first introduction to Angels. But then every single actor who played an Angel after him literally went we don’t claim him both in acting choices and as Angels. Like oh yes that’s Misha who made some Bold Choices but we’re going to be boring. And oh yes that’s Castiel we’re going to act like normal humans and commit microagressions against him for being neurodivergent and gay. Like Misha actively tried to ✨Act✨ in this role and now Cas IS gay and autistic and neurodivergent because literally everyone else around him did nothing to elevate his backstory work or to tell him no Misha don’t do that.
was thinking about sam’s true crime hobby earlier like imagine him listening to a podcast about an unsolved murder and he’s just like wait a second. we did that.
Look, I know it’s not really ending. I know a lot of us will still be here years after the fact, writing and drawing and gushing over this dumb, frustrating, gorgeous piece of television. It’s not that.
It’s that I have run through crowded metro stations to be home in time for this show. I’ve left my bike in the rain in my haste to liveblog, and after the credits rolled, I wrote an episode coda. It’s that this show had a habit of finding us–the lost, the scared, the broken–and giving us the strength to pull ourselves out of our own personal hells. It became a tether. It grounded us. Introduced us to our friends, our partners, our found families.
Because the story resonated; there is something so powerful about angels dressed like tax accountants, standing under street lamps on the side of a highway–the voice is almost out of minutes. There is something so powerful about an angel choosing rebellion because of one human man. Our heroes sleep in cheap motels and eat shitty gas station food. They’ve lived out of their car. They’ve struggled with loneliness and self-loathing and addiction. They’re real people. Regular people. And there’s something so powerful about humans fighting for the right to choose.
What began as a story of two brothers and has evolved into one of family and love. It’s become an acknowledgement (an appreciation, a celebration) of myself and my community the likes of which has never happened in television. Just as the show changed us, we have changed it.
So… yeah. When I say I’m upset it’s over, I’m not referring to what I know will continue. I’m mourning the fact that this is it. The story’s over.
So then Dean tries to explain himself by making Cas a fucking Led Zeppelin mixtape. But Cas tries to return it! Then Dean essentially decides that doesn’t matter. Even if Cas doesn’t understand what Dean was trying to say, Dean can’t take back his heart anyway. Cas has it always, forever.
It’s a gift. You keep those.
god i can’t get the scene out of my head where Cas is about to Die and he says “I love you” to dean in this room full of people and Dean won’t look at him. and Cas looks away and corrects “I love all of you”