I’m seeing so many negative posts about the ending and it truly hurts my heart to see. 15 years these guys have given us. Blood, sweat, tears and a hell of a lot of time. They absolutely do not deserve this negativity.
I’m going to be honest here. Please bear with me.
At first, I had no idea how to react. I was angry, I was a sobbing, emotional wreck that Dean went out the way he did. I, for sure, thought there was going to be a twist, that maybe it was one of “Chucks Endings” and we were inside his head as he went mad in an alley somewhere. Then I went into denial, like really, this is it? After all this time, all this effort and pain they’ve gone through for it to be…like this? Why couldn’t they be happy? Why couldn’t they both die of old age?
The boys would never do an ending that they wouldn’t feel was justified for their characters and if anyone knows them the best, it’s J2. Dean went down on a normal hunt, Sam got to live the apple pie life that his brother had always wanted for him.
They were happy. They were at PEACE.
Even before that death, they were living their normal life. Dean with a dog (oh my heart, am I right?), they had a dodgy washing machine, Miracle ate the leftovers, Sam makes his bed where Dean absolutely does not which made me laugh so hard, Sam likes to wack his hair up in a towel, Dean went to a damn pie festival and finally got the treats of his dreams…it was normal.
…and so I am at peace with the ending. I get it. I said my emotional goodbye to my two boys through tears, a lot of sobbing and a fond smile. They have given me so much to be thankful for.
I’m seeing negative posts about reunions and not seeing characters back on your screen.
Come on now. Let’s stop this hate, right here and now.
Let’s take a step back here and look at this situation, COVID happened, it meant that so much that was planned could not be done because of this stupid disease. Who knows what would have been done differently if things had been normal in the world and you know, maybe we will find out over the next few months. There is absolutely, no need, to be hateful in this fandom.
But please, think about what Dean is going to be experiencing now in heaven, think about what our boys are going to be experiencing at this exact moment in time now they are together again. They’re back with their family.
- They get to have their family dinners with mom and dad.
- They get to walk into the roadhouse and see Ellen giving a glare across the bar when Dean and Jo flirt.
- They get to see Cas, who has helped rebuild a heaven that Dean and Sam would love.
- They get to hangout with Bobby, our Bobby. Not AU stand in. BOBBY.
- They get to be yelled at by Rufus.
- Sam gets to see Jess, a reunion that he’s waited so long for (which i’m sure he’ll be happy about even if he did get married)
- They get to see Adam and actually get to know their half brother. (Wish I could see the look on Mary’s face when that ball is dropped)
- Maybe they will have meetings with Rowena. Who knows if Crowley was brought back to annoy his mother and argue over the throne in hell.
- Maybe Jack will stop by once in a while to see how his adoptive dads are doing.
…and to see all that, we only need to use our imagination. We can create those moments with our words, we can share our ideas through our own vision. Even though it feels so final, the ending is still so open. Just like Michael, the door to the Supernatural world hasn’t really closed. It’s been left open…just a crack…waiting for the right time to revisit it once again.
It started with the Winchesters.
It ended with the Winchesters.
Two brothers, a love that runs incredibly deep, finally being a peace now that they are done.