Tuesday TV Touchbase Two: Supernatural

 Hi there and welcome to I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses You. I am Dave-El, the usual purveyor of questionable wisdom that adorns this blog but today, I will turn this small patch of internet real estate to my daughter Randie for a bonus edition of the Tuesday TV Touchbase.

Randie will share some thoughts about the recent series finale of the long running CW show, Supernatural. 

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So hi. Dad has called me in as the resident queer kid and Supernatural expert.

He requested that I provide some insight on the series finale of the show.

Here's my in-depth analysis:

FUCK!
FUCK!
FUCK!
FUCK!
FUCK!
FUCK!

Okay, for real, the series finale was exactly what we were told we'd get. A return to basics and the original feel of the show. Just the Winchester brothers saving people and hunting things.

That is, in fact, what we got.

That is ALL we got.

This show has gone on for 15 seasons and has evolved beyond what anyone expected for a Monster of the Week drama on the CW.

Aside from the angel in the room, the Winchesters have firmly established that family doesn't end in blood. The friends they've made over the years are just as much a part of the show as the brothers, yet they are all but absent from this finale.

And then there's Cas.

Cas is the canonically queer angel who once gripped Dean tight and raised him from perdition. The two have shared a profound bond that captured the hearts of pretty much all of Tumblr in the powerhouse of a ship: Destiel.

We all came into this episode with Destiel half-canon after Cas confessed his feelings for Dean, and the certainty that they wouldn't leave Cas out of the finale. His name is carved in the table in the bunker, he's family too.

All shipping aside, to leave Cas out of the ending of this story was unforgivable. To narrow the entire series down to being just the brothers again is shameful.

This wasn't a good ending. 

Not for Dean who never got to live a life outside of hunting.

Not for Sam who had to lose his entire family just to be able to grow old.

Certainly not for Cas, who was all but forgotten by the people he loves most in the world.

And not for any of us. The hopeful fans who have been on this road since the beginning, only to be left behind with the smoking remains of the endings that could've been.

Still, we'll carry on and do what we do best: write our own endings, tell our own stories, and never forget the road so far.

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Thanks, Randie! 

Let's close out this post with this version of Carry On My Wayward Son by Neoni.