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What`s in the 15.20 Script vs. what J2 gave us onscreen:
Script
Sam: I`m thinking about Cass, Jack … if they could be here…
Dean: I know. I think about them, too. Every day, but what happened – it`s never going to stop hurting, but if we don`t keep living, all that … their sacrifice … what was it for?
Onscreen
Dean: Yeah. Yeah, no. I think about 'em, too. You know what? That pain's not gonna go away. Right? But if we don't keep living, then all that sacrifice is gonna be for nothing.
xxx
Script
Sam looks to Dean, who leans up against the post. Breathing hard. Sam`s eyes find his brother … something`s wrong…
Sam: Dean?
Dean: The kids – they safe?
Sam nods. Dean smiles.
Dean: Good. That`s good.
And we see – BLOOD. Spreading across his shirt. Sam`s eyes go wide.
Onscreen
Sam beheads the last Vamp and puts his machete away, not realising something is wrong yet.
Sam: Let's go find those kids, get them outta here.
Dean: Sam... I don't... Mm. I don't think I'm going anywhere.
Sam: What? What are you talking about?
Dean: There's something in my...Something in my back. It feels like it's right through me.
Sam goes to Dean and very carefully reaches around his back. His hand comes back bloody.
xxx
Script
Sam: Here, let me --
Dean: No, don`t. You move me – that thing feels like it punched pretty much all thae way trough. I think it`s just about the only thing holding me together right now, so … You move it, I`m gone quick.
Onscreen
Sam: Alright. Um... Hold on. Okay. Uh, I got you.
Dean: No, no, no, no, no. Don't... Don't... Don't move me. Don't move me. It feels like this thing's holding me together right now. Just give me... Just give me a minute.
xxx
Script
Sam: I … I`ll call an ambulance.
Dean: Closest hospital`s forty miles. Don`t think they`re gonna make it.
Sam: Then – I`ll get the first aid kit, just –
Dean: Sam, stop. It won`t help, it – I`m sorry.
Sam: Dean --
Onscreen
Sam: Yeah. Um... alright. I'll call for help. I'll get the first-aid kit.
Dean: Sam, Sam! Sam... Stay wi- Stay with me. Can you stay with me, please?
Sam: Okay. Yeah.
xxx
Script
Dean: You get those kids home, okay?
Sam: We`ll get them home, after we get you –
Onscreen
Dean: You get those boys and you get them someplace safe, alright?
Sam: Dean … We are gonna get them somewhere safe.
xxx
Script
Dean: And that`s fine. That`s good. You gotta admit, I had one helluva ride.
Onscreen
Dean: It´s okay. It`s okay. It`s good. It`s good. We had one helluva ride, man.
xxx
Scrip
Sam: No. If Cass was here…
Dean: He`s not.
Onscreen
---
xxx
Script
Dean: I know, but … I may not have a lot of time, and – and there`s something I need you to hear: I`m proud of you.
Onscreen
Dean: I`m fading pretty … I`m fading pretty quick, so… there`s a few things that I need you to hear. Come here. Let me look at you. Yeah, there he is. I`m so proud of you, Sam.
xxx
Script
Dean: I thought you`d say “no.” I thought you`d tell me to get lost. Get dead. And if you had… Hell, I didn`t know what I was going to do.
Onscreen
Dean: I thought you'd tell me to... to get lost or get dead. And I don't know what I would've done... if I didn't have you.
xxx
Script
Dean: Because when it came down to it, it was always you and me. It`s always been you and me.
Onscreen
Dean: `Cause when it all came down to it, it was always you and me. It`s always been you ---- and me.
xxx
Script
Sam: I can`t do this without you.
Dean: Yes, you can.
Onscreen
Sam: I can`t do this alone.
Dean: Yes, you can.
Sam: Well, I don`t want to.
xxx
Script
Dean: And I`ll always be with you. Everyday. When you`re … out there fighting, living… `Cause you … you`ll always keep fighting. And I`ll be with you. Every step.
Onscreen
Dean: Hey. I'm not leaving you. I'm gonna be with you... (Places his hand over Sam`s heart.) Right here... every day. Every day you're out there and you're li... And you're living and you're fighting. 'Cause you... You always keep fighting. You hear me? I'll be there every step.
xxx
Script
Dean: I love you, Sammy.
Onscreen
Dean: I love you so much, my baby brother.
xxx
Script
Dean: And I need … I need you to promise me… I need you to tell me it`s okay.
ON SAM. A long, painful beat. […] Sam reaches out, taking Dean`s hand. It kills him to say this, but he does it anyway.
Sam: Dean … It`s okay. You can go.
And he leans in, embracing his brother.
Onscreen
Dean: I need you to... I need you to promise me. I need you to... To... to tell me... that it's okay. I need you to tell me that it's okay.
Sam: (crying) No.
Dean: Look at me. Look at me. I need... I need... I need you to tell me that it's okay. I need you to tell me... Tell me it's okay.
Sam places his hand over Deans.
Sam: Dean… it's okay. You can go now.
Foreheadtouch.
Dean: Goodbye, Sam. Goodbye.
Dean`s head falls onto Sam`s shoulder.
xxx
Script
[Bobby explaining the new heaven.]
ON DEAN. Getting emotional now. This is … perfect.
[More conversation about beer.]
Dean: Yeah … just one thing missing.
Bobby: He`ll be along.
Onscreen
Dean: It`s almost perfect.
Bobby: He`ll be along.
xxx
Script
Dean staring out at a soaring vista. The whole world, perfect and beautiful. Then—
We`re BEHIND DEAN, as a BOOT drops into frame. A footstep. Dean hears it – turns – and his eyes go wide to see… SAM.
Onscreen
Dean looks out over the water. Then he smiles, the moment he feels Sam`s arrival. He know`s before he`s even turning around.
xxx
Script
Sam: Hey, Dean.
Dean: Hey, Sammy.
Onscreen
Dean: Hey, Sammy.
Sam: Dean
They really upped everything up a notch!
14x20 // 15x20 ✧ for @addictsam
➤ Supernatural Parallels || 5.22 - 6.01 - 15.20 ⤷ Every part of him, every fiber he’s got, wants to die, or find a way to bring him back. But he isn’t gonna do either. Because he made a promise.
What`s in the 15.20 Script vs. what J2 gave us onscreen:
Script
Sam: I`m thinking about Cass, Jack … if they could be here…
Dean: I know. I think about them, too. Every day, but what happened – it`s never going to stop hurting, but if we don`t keep living, all that … their sacrifice … what was it for?
Onscreen
Dean: Yeah. Yeah, no. I think about 'em, too. You know what? That pain's not gonna go away. Right? But if we don't keep living, then all that sacrifice is gonna be for nothing.
xxx
Script
Sam looks to Dean, who leans up against the post. Breathing hard. Sam`s eyes find his brother … something`s wrong…
Sam: Dean?
Dean: The kids – they safe?
Sam nods. Dean smiles.
Dean: Good. That`s good.
And we see – BLOOD. Spreading across his shirt. Sam`s eyes go wide.
Onscreen
Sam beheads the last Vamp and puts his machete away, not realising something is wrong yet.
Sam: Let's go find those kids, get them outta here.
Dean: Sam... I don't... Mm. I don't think I'm going anywhere.
Sam: What? What are you talking about?
Dean: There's something in my...Something in my back. It feels like it's right through me.
Sam goes to Dean and very carefully reaches around his back. His hand comes back bloody.
xxx
Script
Sam: Here, let me --
Dean: No, don`t. You move me – that thing feels like it punched pretty much all thae way trough. I think it`s just about the only thing holding me together right now, so … You move it, I`m gone quick.
Onscreen
Sam: Alright. Um... Hold on. Okay. Uh, I got you.
Dean: No, no, no, no, no. Don't... Don't... Don't move me. Don't move me. It feels like this thing's holding me together right now. Just give me... Just give me a minute.
xxx
Script
Sam: I … I`ll call an ambulance.
Dean: Closest hospital`s forty miles. Don`t think they`re gonna make it.
Sam: Then – I`ll get the first aid kit, just –
Dean: Sam, stop. It won`t help, it – I`m sorry.
Sam: Dean --
Onscreen
Sam: Yeah. Um... alright. I'll call for help. I'll get the first-aid kit.
Dean: Sam, Sam! Sam... Stay wi- Stay with me. Can you stay with me, please?
Sam: Okay. Yeah.
xxx
Script
Dean: You get those kids home, okay?
Sam: We`ll get them home, after we get you –
Onscreen
Dean: You get those boys and you get them someplace safe, alright?
Sam: Dean … We are gonna get them somewhere safe.
xxx
Script
Dean: And that`s fine. That`s good. You gotta admit, I had one helluva ride.
Onscreen
Dean: It´s okay. It`s okay. It`s good. It`s good. We had one helluva ride, man.
xxx
Scrip
Sam: No. If Cass was here…
Dean: He`s not.
Onscreen
---
xxx
Script
Dean: I know, but … I may not have a lot of time, and – and there`s something I need you to hear: I`m proud of you.
Onscreen
Dean: I`m fading pretty … I`m fading pretty quick, so… there`s a few things that I need you to hear. Come here. Let me look at you. Yeah, there he is. I`m so proud of you, Sam.
xxx
Script
Dean: I thought you`d say “no.” I thought you`d tell me to get lost. Get dead. And if you had… Hell, I didn`t know what I was going to do.
Onscreen
Dean: I thought you'd tell me to... to get lost or get dead. And I don't know what I would've done... if I didn't have you.
xxx
Script
Dean: Because when it came down to it, it was always you and me. It`s always been you and me.
Onscreen
Dean: `Cause when it all came down to it, it was always you and me. It`s always been you ---- and me.
xxx
Script
Sam: I can`t do this without you.
Dean: Yes, you can.
Onscreen
Sam: I can`t do this alone.
Dean: Yes, you can.
Sam: Well, I don`t want to.
xxx
Script
Dean: And I`ll always be with you. Everyday. When you`re … out there fighting, living… `Cause you … you`ll always keep fighting. And I`ll be with you. Every step.
Onscreen
Dean: Hey. I'm not leaving you. I'm gonna be with you... (Places his hand over Sam`s heart.) Right here... every day. Every day you're out there and you're li... And you're living and you're fighting. 'Cause you... You always keep fighting. You hear me? I'll be there every step.
xxx
Script
Dean: I love you, Sammy.
Onscreen
Dean: I love you so much, my baby brother.
xxx
Script
Dean: And I need … I need you to promise me… I need you to tell me it`s okay.
ON SAM. A long, painful beat. […] Sam reaches out, taking Dean`s hand. It kills him to say this, but he does it anyway.
Sam: Dean … It`s okay. You can go.
And he leans in, embracing his brother.
Onscreen
Dean: I need you to... I need you to promise me. I need you to... To... to tell me... that it's okay. I need you to tell me that it's okay.
Sam: (crying) No.
Dean: Look at me. Look at me. I need... I need... I need you to tell me that it's okay. I need you to tell me... Tell me it's okay.
Sam places his hand over Deans.
Sam: Dean… it's okay. You can go now.
Foreheadtouch.
Dean: Goodbye, Sam. Goodbye.
Dean`s head falls onto Sam`s shoulder.
xxx
Script
[Bobby explaining the new heaven.]
ON DEAN. Getting emotional now. This is … perfect.
[More conversation about beer.]
Dean: Yeah … just one thing missing.
Bobby: He`ll be along.
Onscreen
Dean: It`s almost perfect.
Bobby: He`ll be along.
xxx
Script
Dean staring out at a soaring vista. The whole world, perfect and beautiful. Then—
We`re BEHIND DEAN, as a BOOT drops into frame. A footstep. Dean hears it – turns – and his eyes go wide to see… SAM.
Onscreen
Dean looks out over the water. Then he smiles, the moment he feels Sam`s arrival. He know`s before he`s even turning around.
xxx
Script
Sam: Hey, Dean.
Dean: Hey, Sammy.
Onscreen
Dean: Hey, Sammy.
Sam: Dean
They really upped everything up a notch!
J2 really are the Bibro Kings. (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)
15.20 | Carry On
Dean… it’s okay. You can go now.
What strikes me in that scene is how calm Dean is. He knows he’s gonna die and tries to keep it together to tell a proper goodbye to his brother, to tell Sam what he needs to hear to “carry on”. When Sam realizes that Dean is really gonna die, he tries to keep it together as well. He almost breaks at “I love you so much my baby brother” but holds on to tell Dean that it’s okay. Okay to go, that he will not try to bring him back, that he will carry on, that he’ll be Dean’s legacy. And man, that was beautiful ❤️
Carry On with captions for the wincest-impaired
If Supernatural were a musical:
THIS would be the song Dean would sing when he showed up at Stanford and stood outside Sam’s dorm for hours working up the courage to go in and see him:
“Run away with me Let me be your ride out of town Let me be the place that you hide We can make our lives on the go
We’ll be on the road like Jack Kerouac, looking back Sam, you’re ready, let’s go Anywhere Get the car packed and throw me the key Run away with me
Romeo is calling for Juliet, ready set Sam, you’re ready, let’s go Anywhere Say the word and I’m already there Run away with me”
(via fierclynormal on tw)
Then | Now for @nancylou444
Don’t think about how much Sam still misses his brother years later
J2 Quotes about 15.20:
"The series finale, episode 20, is this beautiful throwback to the whole show—to what it was, what it has been, and what it is today." -Jensen Ackles, Glamour, Supernatural Star Jensen Ackles Is Ready for What’s Next. Are You?
“[The finale] is certainly going to feel right and it’s going to feel good. It should put a lot of people in a position to feel great about the journey they took with the Winchester brothers.“ -Jensen Ackles, EW, Jensen Ackles says Supernatural ending will 'feel right' for fans
“[I] couldn't be more pleased with the way it turned out. The series finale is my favorite episode of all-time." -Jared Padalecki, EW, Jared Padalecki says Supernatural series finale is 'my favorite episode of all-time'
“[The barn scene] was a really, really awesome day, it was probably one of my most favorite days in fifteen years.“ -Jensen Ackles, TVLine, Supernatural Stars Preview Series Finale
“[Jensen and I] had talked about it [and] the way it did end, I’m proud to hang my hat on that. I’m really happy with the way it did end.” -Jared Padalecki, TVLine, Supernatural Stars Preview Series Finale
Q: What feeling would you use to describe Dean and Sam's ending? Jared Padalecki: Content Jensen Ackles: Satisfaction -J2, TVLine, Supernatural Stars Preview Series Finale
Jared Padalecki: "Jensen and I worked in a few little Easter eggs." Jensen Ackles: "Oh I'm excited, especially the one at the end. That was all Jared, he said hey I got an idea and I was like of course we're doing that!" -J2, ET, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles on Saying Goodbye to Supernatural After 15 Seasons
“In those final moments, without giving away too much, one thing you’ll see in my opinion for me [is] the lines that separate the character from the actor get heavily blurred.“ -Jensen Ackles, Variety, Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki on Their Final Scene Together, Moving onto The Boys and Walker
“I’m going to take Sam Winchester and the lessons I learned from Supernatural, proudly, into every job I do — and probably outside of jobs, just as what kind of a human being I want to be.” -Jared Padalecki, Variety, Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki on Their Final Scene Together, Moving onto The Boys and Walker
spn || parallels [route 666 and carry on] insp
So, Spn went hard Wincest endgame, probably as hard as possible without making GA cringe. But Destiel will always be my OTP.
Here’s the romantic features in 15x20:
- Dean is fridged with no other apparent plot reason than to get the romance between himself and his brother kicked off with hurt and comfort.
- Dean expresses his love to Sam and dies making it canon that his whole life he can only commit to loving his little brother.
- Right before dying Dean asks for Sam to comfort him, and Sam leans in for forehead touches. Dean did not give Castiel any comforting words or physical touch during Castiel’s declaration. On the other hand, Sam gives Dean both words and physical touch for comfort.
- Dean gets to Heaven and hears Castiel is alive, but other than a smile seems fairly indifferent about it.
- Heaven’s rules about only sharing with your soulmate have been retconned. This allows Spn to avoid explicitly stating to GA that Sam and Dean are eachother’s soulmates.
- Then Dean leaves every other soul in Heaven to drive around and remain solitary for 40 years until his little brother can meet him there. That reads very soulmate and romantic.
- There is no canon evidence that Dean has made any attempt to pray to Castiel although it’s been established he’s alive.
- Meanwhile, Sam names his son Dean and dotes on him, but his wife is barely acknowledged. Like the wife was just there to produce a kid, and that was it.
- When Sam dies, his son Dean tells him it’s okay for him to go. This lets Sam be comforted by a Dean, even though his brother isn’t there. (note: the token wife is nowhere near Sam’s deathbed so it’s just his son Dean comforting him in the end)
- The two brothers finally find eachother in Heaven and embrace.
I didn’t know an incest romance story could be shown on primetime network tv, but mofo supernatural pulled it off.
And yes I think it’s so fucked up. Of all the bizarre shit in 2020, Wincest endgame is making me question my reality.
Please someone prove me wrong, but that was the most romantic episode I’ve ever seen in Spn. Starting from Sam walking around topless while the brothers are making their beds. Like topless guy walking around being domestic, pretty common in rom coms. Then Sam smooshing pie on Dean’s face.
Disclaimer: I really like J2, and if they weren’t playing brothers in-universe I would totally ship them. But ugh wtf is an incest romance doing in the series finale?
Like what the actual fuck did I witness?!?!
I find this kind of interesting because I’ve been a fan of the show since the night it aired, and recently watched the fandom hype itself up toward the end and get stoked about destiel going ‘canon’ and all I could think to myself was...
It was always going to end with the brothers. It’s the only way it could end. Always. Since day 1.
As someone who used to ship destiel but doesn’t anymore, once I took off those shipping goggles around s8, I stopped having any belief it would ever go canon (and stopped having any desire for it to but that’s a side thing). Taking those off, it became incredibly apparently the narrative wasn’t telling that story, and had zero interest in telling that story. I felt it undeniable that Cas must love Dean, but knew we’d never see them together, because they were simply not being written as a romance.
(Which is also why the confession in 18 was cathartic and beautiful to me, but perfect in that it was not requited).
Meanwhile, Jensen Ackles told us months ago that 19 was the season finale, whereas 20 was the ‘series’ finale. We knew the seasonal arc was going to wrap up in 19, we knew it was over. And I saw shippers still saying it wasn’t over. I watched people wait with baited breath for something to change in 20.
And then I saw these people claim they were betrayed by 20 despite getting everything we were told to expect (old school episode, focused on the brothers, one more case, series finale, etc). And I just... don’t get how. How are so many people saying they were betrayed when we were told what to expect, and we’ve had 15 years of development to know exactly how this story would end?
From the pilot through to finale, the story has centred around and anchored itself through the relationship between Sam and Dean. It’s never been overtly romantic or sexual, and most people (your GA / general audience) won’t read it as incestuous. And it doesn’t have to be! The point is their brotherly bond, which is itself beautiful (and destructive and overwhelming) without sex or romance. It’s not about those things and has never needed to be, textually. Instead, it’s always been played as this deep, crazy, consuming love between them (”family, love, whatever”) with their brotherhood at the heart of it.
Despite that, the show has had intermittent incest subtext from damn near the beginning. It’s something I’ve always been surprised by (especially that they get away with it), and I’ve been shocked at how they played on that deliberately and pulled it into view, if you were willing to acknowledge it and pick apart the episodes from a narrative lens.
The show joked about it within the story (people calling them a couple, them posing as one), made meta-jokes about it (people in-universe writing incest fic about them), highlighted time and again that they couldn’t fit romantic partners in their lives so long as they had each other (Lisa, Amelia), had nods to them being an old married couple and made implicit comparisons to an actual gay married couple of hunters (the Chitters), and more.
Regardless of sex or romance, the brothers have been canonically been called “psychotically, irrationally, erotically co-dependent” by a character who’s entire job it was to get them to simply play the roles fate set out for them. They were textually implied to be soulmates. There is an in-universe fan convention for Chuck’s books based on them and people who cosplay them turn out to be a gay couple. One of the show’s writers and producers has called the series the “epic love story of Sam and Dean.”
Whether or not someone ships it, Sam-and-Dean as a single unit has been layered into each season of the show. That was never going to change, certainly not in the final episode.
So while I agree with you -- the show went all-in on the ‘wincest’ endgame, and for all that it wasn’t sexual or romantic overtly, it’s still in some ways shocking, especially considering it’s written for a general audience -- the part that’s bemusing to me is this: if you’re able to see clearly how the finale was written that way, how could it not be clear that the literal entire show for the last 15 years has also been written that way?
I don’t mean that as a specific jab to you, OP. You seem like a lovely person, and I don’t know how to word my question better or I would. I just mean, at all shippers who are angry about the finale focusing on the brothers in this way, or angry about this subtext, or frustrated at the lack of destiel -- I genuinely don’t understand how the past 15 years hadn’t prepared you for this ending.
Even in the pilot Dean was telling Sam it’s ok and the finale Dean needing Sam to tell him “It’s ok”