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I've been wanting the name Robbie Thompson to be associated with SPN again for a long, long time. Him and Jensen are a great start for a project like this. Very promising.

Isn't this the director's job ? I'm not sure the term "rebar" would necessarily be on the script. You know, Singer, the guy who decided to film Jared up close knowing his old guy make up looked like utter trash. Director Singer who hasn't been able to direct a decent fight scene for like a decade.

I know, that's what I'm talking about too. I tuned out whatever Dabb and Singer were saying anyway, they would never disparage their own "work". But everything else was super boring too and the cast interviews were basically just a few sentences spaced out over 40 minutes for no reason.

I'm sure it was a good time for the dozens of people who didn't watch the other specials, missed half the episodes in recent seasons, and never watched/read a single interview in the show's entire run. For the rest of the fandom, you can get something that's 100 times better just by browsing youtube for a couple of hours.

I'm finally at peace with the ending. It was really unoriginal and rather shallow, but after 15 years I'm good with something safe. After pretty much hate-watching the show for 3 seasons, the finality of the ending and the fact the both guys are at peace helped me let go of all that anger. Also, I've seen plenty of old friends reach out as the show was ending, including people who had dropped out years ago. Nobody really forgot. It feels nice to be reminded how impactful this show has been for people, and the small part I played in getting this community together. Dabb still sucks forever, though. Now that was the real disappointment. Totally surface-level, horribly edited, it just felt like a long form commercial, mostly catering to very casual watchers.

Just watching Dean's death again and crying this time. I just wish the episode had more than that. Also gonna rewatch the episode tonight with my partner, who I met through the fan communty 12 years ago. We got a kid a couple years ago and you can probably guess what his middle names are. It's going to be a rough day.

On rewatch, Dean's death scene is well written and of course, well acted. That's not the issue at all. It's just terribly placed, smack in the middle of the episode, so we don't get enough time with the guys living (dialogue never went beyond what they said at the end of last episode, come the fuck on), or enough time in heaven. Everything else is rushed as hell and we definitely didn't need another montage of depressed Sam, or to see Jared in that wig.

I never thought the episode would have the ability to ruin anything because we were well past the point of Sam and Dean having character arcs or motivations that were going to get them anywhere in a meaningful way. So yeah, we'll always have the first five seasons and the great moments under Gamble and Carver (Dabb has done fuck all I want to rewatch). But damn, I wish that episode hadn't been so hollow. It's just a mish-mash of the most mundane "emotional" greatest hits pieces, that completely ignores what the characters are really about in favor of getting those tears out of the usual audience. Just like Dabb has almost always did. And COVID didn't change anything as far as I'm concerned. As a finale, I would have gladly taken an episode with just Sam and Dean talking for a full hour. Meaningful fucking conversations about what they were going to do now, so we get a final glimpse into these characters we used to love. Instead, and predictably, it's probably one of, if not the episode episode in the entire show with the lowest amount of lines. Because why bother creating when you can just rehash the same shit over and over again ?

Completely useless, lazy, utter crap. Couldn't even muster a few good, heartfelt lines of dialogue to close out 15 years. Just and endless stream of fake emotiony crap straight out of the series finale 101 book for preteens. I'm immensely disappointed.

Oh boy. This thread might be, be not for the right reasons

He just snapped his fingers and she disintegrated. Which makes no sense since as far as we know not even God could kill death. Btw on rewatch Pellegrino's acting made me crack up. It was ridiculous to watch him completely freestyle his scenes but at least someone there was having fun and it's not like the plot deserved better.

I'd trust the fact that the showrunner has been a complete buffoon for the last three years more than the delusional words of somebody who doesn't even watch the show, but hey, that's just me. I don't think you realize how much, much worse this episode could have been considering who wrote it. Trust me, I'm a BuckLeming expert and seasoned masochist.

Yeah, ironically, the montage felt like the opening credits to a lame show like the one they parodied in Changing Channels.

It does suck, but it's been that way since Dabb took over. I guess I've reached the acceptance stage. I'm just happy we get something before saying goodbye. On another note, how did you guys like the super obnoxious music we got throughout the episode ? Really finishes the bootleg Supernatural experience.

I thought it was... okay ? I mean considering the plot this season had been absolute garbage all along I didn't expect some sudden flash of brillance to close things up. But at least it did close things up. Don't get me wrong, the writing was mediocre at best especially towards the end with the giant exposition dump at like the most crucial moment of the episode, followed with Jack's corny-ass goodbye monologue. Also the acting at the beginning from everyone ; what the hell was that ? Super rough. I fully expected Lucifer to have one last showing ; it's just BuckLeming doing this for themselves. Whatever, wasn't that long. Mostly I liked that things are neatly tied up and the show can finally concentrate on Sam and Dean for the last time after neglecting them for years ; no excuse this time. That's just what I was hoping for.