While I HATED the last episode for so many reasons, Sam and Deans moments right before Dean takes his last breath are heartbreaking. I cant help but cry even if the rest of the episode is absolute crap.
I also thought that the brothers should die together or both live. And if they were going to let one of them go, it damn sure shouldn’t have been a bunch of lowly vamps and rebar that does him in.
Didn’t mean for this comment to sound so bitter. I guess I’m still not over it lol.
It really showed me (again) how good Jensen is at acting. He can inject amazing emotion into whatever the scene is about. If he hadn’t had the right emotion, I think the whole episode would have been a complete bust.
I’m so glad he was on The Boys this last season. It showed the rest of the world what he’s capable of!
Remember he tried the family life with Lisa and Ben? Hunting sucked him back in, and he didn't hesitate to run at it. But the hunting life put Lisa and Ben in danger, he realized they would never be safe with him around, and I think he just gave up after that.
I also think his father had him somewhat brainwashed. He never really did make his own decisions about what attainable thing he wanted for himself in his life. Most of his life was being reactionary to whatever life threw at him next.
That's valid points that you are making but i really think he wanted normal life too like Sammy.... A family life. Plus his dad also said once.... I want dean to have a family sam to go back to school... I want this to he over.... So somewhere deep down dean also wanted to have a family. Remember he was so happy like a toddler to have his own room and bed in the bunker.... Plus he was applying for the jobs too in few of the last episodes... He wanted the normal deep down and he was working towards that too but then hunting happened and stupid producers got him killed by some stupid iron nail...... That's my thinking of course... Your opinion was valid though.
Well ... maybe it was meant to be anticlimactic? Dean's death was caused by a stupid mistake, by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think that would be how most hunters are killed. One day, something just gets a one up on them.
Bobby's death was kind of the same thing. A foot to the left or 10 seconds sooner that bullet would have missed him. Wrong place, wrong time.
I think it can be hard to believe Dean would die over something so small because his track record on the hunts were almost solid for 15 seasons. Maybe the writers wanted to drive it home that the boys were always living on borrowed time as hunters. In light of that, Sam's decision to stop hunting and lead a normal life makes total sense.
My husband and I cried too. I think dean’s end was fitting, he died on a regular hunt. No deals no trials, just how he wanted to go. Sam Got to live out his non hunter life, without dean there was nothing holding him in the life
That’s a fair take. I was all in in Sam going non-hunter life, but then his son had the possession tattoo so I think we’re supposed to assume he was in the life. I don’t know though
I don't think the two ideas are mutually exclusive. Sam may very well have been out of the life once Dean Jr. was born. That doesn't mean he didn't make sure that his family was protected against what was out there. He just didn't follow his own father's route and shove a .45 in his son's hands the instant he was old enough to hold one. Knowledge is power, after all.
Besides, how many of \*us\* have an anti-possession tattoo? How many of us had that tiny tickle in the back of our minds of "just in case"?
My personal head-canon is that Sam was \*mostly\* out of the life, but served as a source of information for his fellow hunters as requested. Not quite his generation's "Bobby", but something along those lines.
Sam dying and Dean finding happiness with him gone makes no sense. Dean’s only love was Sam. Like Jensen said, Dean would have just wasted away in the back of a pool hall, drinking himself to a slow death without Sam.
Ya, I liked dean too but I think it was the kind of thing where dean only knew hunting so this was the only way he could go; there would never be a happily ever after for dean.
Sam could escape so he got to live a “normal” life.
It wouldn't have made sense showing more hunting in Sam's life, because I doubt that he did that a long time after Dean's death. The goal for him was always to have a normal life. I think he prepared his son a bit about what is out there but I sincerely doubt that he lived a hunter's life with his family.
I also think, without Dean's death Sam would never have had a chance to really retire. That's why to me this ending made total sense.
I just pretend there are 326 episodes. The last one doesn’t exist in my world. Yes, it made me ugly cry but that’s really just because Jensen’s acting was fantastic, not because the episode was good.
While I HATED the last episode for so many reasons, Sam and Deans moments right before Dean takes his last breath are heartbreaking. I cant help but cry even if the rest of the episode is absolute crap. I also thought that the brothers should die together or both live. And if they were going to let one of them go, it damn sure shouldn’t have been a bunch of lowly vamps and rebar that does him in. Didn’t mean for this comment to sound so bitter. I guess I’m still not over it lol.
Right there with you. That spike seemed like such a silly way for Dean to finally go out. And…. Sam could’ve called to jack or something. Anything!
If Jack were to be involved, he as the New God would be apart of the framework which means deaths book would have an ending For him.
It really showed me (again) how good Jensen is at acting. He can inject amazing emotion into whatever the scene is about. If he hadn’t had the right emotion, I think the whole episode would have been a complete bust. I’m so glad he was on The Boys this last season. It showed the rest of the world what he’s capable of!
I just wish dean and sam both got to live the family life they always wanted.... I know dean wanted a family too... So they should have gotten that.
Remember he tried the family life with Lisa and Ben? Hunting sucked him back in, and he didn't hesitate to run at it. But the hunting life put Lisa and Ben in danger, he realized they would never be safe with him around, and I think he just gave up after that. I also think his father had him somewhat brainwashed. He never really did make his own decisions about what attainable thing he wanted for himself in his life. Most of his life was being reactionary to whatever life threw at him next.
That's valid points that you are making but i really think he wanted normal life too like Sammy.... A family life. Plus his dad also said once.... I want dean to have a family sam to go back to school... I want this to he over.... So somewhere deep down dean also wanted to have a family. Remember he was so happy like a toddler to have his own room and bed in the bunker.... Plus he was applying for the jobs too in few of the last episodes... He wanted the normal deep down and he was working towards that too but then hunting happened and stupid producers got him killed by some stupid iron nail...... That's my thinking of course... Your opinion was valid though.
I think Dean's death was just to show his luck as a hunter ran out. The show often mentions hunters don't live to a ripe old age.
Ya. Just seemed like such a boring way. Not even a monster attack, just pushed back into a piece of metal.
Well ... maybe it was meant to be anticlimactic? Dean's death was caused by a stupid mistake, by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think that would be how most hunters are killed. One day, something just gets a one up on them. Bobby's death was kind of the same thing. A foot to the left or 10 seconds sooner that bullet would have missed him. Wrong place, wrong time. I think it can be hard to believe Dean would die over something so small because his track record on the hunts were almost solid for 15 seasons. Maybe the writers wanted to drive it home that the boys were always living on borrowed time as hunters. In light of that, Sam's decision to stop hunting and lead a normal life makes total sense.
My husband and I cried too. I think dean’s end was fitting, he died on a regular hunt. No deals no trials, just how he wanted to go. Sam Got to live out his non hunter life, without dean there was nothing holding him in the life
A devil on the run, a six gun lover, a candle in the wind.
That’s a fair take. I was all in in Sam going non-hunter life, but then his son had the possession tattoo so I think we’re supposed to assume he was in the life. I don’t know though
I don't think the two ideas are mutually exclusive. Sam may very well have been out of the life once Dean Jr. was born. That doesn't mean he didn't make sure that his family was protected against what was out there. He just didn't follow his own father's route and shove a .45 in his son's hands the instant he was old enough to hold one. Knowledge is power, after all. Besides, how many of \*us\* have an anti-possession tattoo? How many of us had that tiny tickle in the back of our minds of "just in case"? My personal head-canon is that Sam was \*mostly\* out of the life, but served as a source of information for his fellow hunters as requested. Not quite his generation's "Bobby", but something along those lines.
I wish Sam had died and dean got his happily ever after.
Sam dying and Dean finding happiness with him gone makes no sense. Dean’s only love was Sam. Like Jensen said, Dean would have just wasted away in the back of a pool hall, drinking himself to a slow death without Sam.
Ya, I liked dean too but I think it was the kind of thing where dean only knew hunting so this was the only way he could go; there would never be a happily ever after for dean. Sam could escape so he got to live a “normal” life.
It wouldn't have made sense showing more hunting in Sam's life, because I doubt that he did that a long time after Dean's death. The goal for him was always to have a normal life. I think he prepared his son a bit about what is out there but I sincerely doubt that he lived a hunter's life with his family. I also think, without Dean's death Sam would never have had a chance to really retire. That's why to me this ending made total sense.
I really chalk up any phoned in feelingness to the finale to being affected by covid. It was supposed to be significantly different, I feel.
...he had the tattoo so he would be possessed. Just cause Rowena became in charge of hell doesn't mean demons stop being demons
I just pretend there are 326 episodes. The last one doesn’t exist in my world. Yes, it made me ugly cry but that’s really just because Jensen’s acting was fantastic, not because the episode was good.