Goodbye Dean
Goodbye Sam
Goodbye Cas
In the end, Team Free Will 2.0 didn’t really have free will.
Dean died young, on a hunt, like he was supposed to.
Sam raised a family, and died old like he was supposed to.
Cas became expendable, a sacrifice and a soldier, like he was supposed to.
Jack became the most powerful being in the universe and left his life on earth like he was supposed to.
None of them got what they wanted. All of them got whatever the fuck their destiny was supposed to be. As if saying “Fuck You” to destiny and fate isn’t their whole thing.
This. ALL of this.
Seriously, Saileen and Destiel and EVERYTHING ELSE aside, their WHOLE THING was about literally ripping up the script and making it up as they went. Giving the middle finger to "fate" and God and wresting the real power of Free Will from everything that sought to control them.
In the end? They succumbed to the destinies they were originally born to have: daddy's blunt instrument, a college geek with a faceless family, a soldier told to serve and die for a "cause". I don't know how to describe Jack and his ultimate fate also just pulling a whole Uno reverse on Him, but he too could not escape the "destiny" set down for him.
The thing is, they were supposed to be SO MUCH more than that! They had grown and evolved into these people that were more than what life had expected of them! But all that growth, their journeys and losses, it feels like it was all for nothing. Their growth just .. written over and tossed away.
Sure, they're in Heaven and "at peace", but the ways in which they got there did none of them any justice. We don't even know exactly HOW some of them got there!
So that's it. I cry now nearly entirely because a show that had SO MUCH potential and so LOW of expectations completely missed its mark. In fact, the arrow landed somewhere beyond the target and they just got tired of looking for it and left.
What happened to making it up as they go? To ripping up the script? To Free Will?
TEAM FREE WILL 2.0 FIRST AND LAST WORDS
𝚂𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞 2005 - 2020
Anonymous asked:
I do think covid was responible for Misha not being in the finale. I mean if it had to do with no-homo, why wouldnt Eileen be in the finale? She also seemed to be COVID-related cut. (Not that I think they would have delived on destiel if Misha were there lol)
They had 100 maskless people on a bridge.
A bunch of kids on set (at least 6 different kids).
Jim Beaver, whose pushing 80.
Random Vampire Lady from S1.
Big crowds at the pie festival.
But NO Misha? No Shoshannah? The two Not-Dead people who mean the most to Dean and Sam?
At the time of filming, Canada WAS allowing entertainment jobs to enter Canada with little to no quarantine (like the NHL). SPN already paid Misha for the season, they could use him as much as they wanted.
Even IF they couldn’t get the actors for whatever reason (and there’s no reason good enough to exclude their third lead), there was SO MUCH they could have done to include Cas & Eileen that they chose not to do. They could have clearly show photographs of Eileen in Sam's house, so we know for sure he married her. Instead of Faceless Blurry Wife. In Heaven, they could have had a moment where we hear the angel wing noise, a recycled "Hello, Dean" from Cas, and Dean turning around, grinning. Like that would have been enough to make folks...more content. Make it feel less like a slap to the face. But they chose not to do that. It’s especially egregious to exclude Misha/Cas after what happened in 15x18. Cas confessed gay-romantic sounding love for Dean to Dean, promptly dies, and the confession is never mentioned/dealt with AND Misha/Cas are excluded from the finale, from Dean's Heaven? That looks really bad. You can see what that looks like, see what the implications are. Intentional or not. It is not a good look.
Neither is excluding Sam’s canon girlfriend, who happens to be deaf. Are we supposed to assume she wasn’t good enough for Sam, they didn’t want to saddle Sam with a disabled wife?
Why did the gay angel and the disabled girlfriend get cut out of the finale? Why did they CHOOSE to do that, even though it could be easily rectified with a picture and a voice over? Why can’t Cas be in Dean’s Heaven, why don’t they even want to HINT at that possibility?
It’s not JUST a No Homo ending, although that’s a huge part of it. It’s also a Bros Only ending. Can’t even show Sam’s wife, or any kids he have that aren’t Dean substitutes. No life outside of Dean. Covid isn’t the reason for completely excluding Cas (the Gay Angel) and Eileen (the Deaf Girlfriend). It’s their excuse, their criticism deflector, for doing what they wanted to do, for their own shitty choices.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Even if you don't want to bring the actors back, you have Photoshop. You've been doing bad Photoshop for years! There were sooooooo many pictures on those shelves. Or like the son could have signed and spoke to Sam at the end like that's how he was raised.
And like, "Cas helped". "He's here?" *Nod*
That would have helped so much. Even if your first thought is not, "I should go find Cas" it's ok to want to take a ride. But at least be excited that your best friend that you probably love is not trapped in superhell.
the five times castiel came back to dean and the one time he didn’t
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I can't even believe this.
Great job Misha