SPN Season 6 Finale

[oselle]

You know that old song, "Love The One You're With?" You know it..."If you can't be with the one you love, honey/Love the one you're with!"

Yeah, I think that's it. That's my newfound approach to Supernatural. It's never, ever going to be the show I want it to be or think it could have been but it's the show I've got. So I'm just gonna...love the one I'm with.

So, the finale.

The first hour was basically an exercise in wrapping up the whole Lisa-and-Ben saga in a way that would seem to close that chapter for good, and without going the obvious but unpalatable route of killing them off. Now, I say "seem" because I'm still not convinced that we've really seen the last of them, memory-wipe or not. I can easily imagine a scenario at the end of the series where Lisa and Dean have some chance encounter and Lisa falls in love with Dean because they were always meant to be together and not even angelic intervention could keep them apart yada yada yada. I feel like I've seen this in some movie. It sounds awfully familiar. If you can think of it, please share, because it's driving me nuts. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Nah, I think it was something much chick-flickier. Anyway...

I love the way injuries are so mutable on this show. Characters can endure the most horrific battering and just walk it off, but a little shiv between the ribs puts them at the brink of death. There's no way that was a fatal wound, and I have no idea why Lisa was on a ventilator or why Dean was so sure she'd be "dead by midnight." I'm also surprised that Dean didn't immediately demand that Castiel heal her, but I guess he figured he was in no position to ask Castiel for favors because of what Castiel might expect in return (feel free to think dirty thoughts, if you like). But wait, then he did ask Castiel for a favor, so that can't be it. All I could think was that poor Castiel had to wipe not only Lisa and Ben's memories but those of everyone in the hospital who had treated them, and then rewrite her admission papers, insurance reports, charts, etc. Poor Cas.

Jensen was quite prettily shattered over erasing himself from Lisa and Ben's life, but of course Jensen always rocks scenes like that. It needs to be said, though, that this move hardly makes Lisa and Ben safe -- they weren't in peril because they loved Dean, but because Dean loved them. The fact that now they don't even know who Dean is doesn't make them any less of a target for anything that wants to get at Dean, because he hasn't forgotten all about them. But whatever. I just hope it'll be a good long while before we ever see them again.

The second hour, for me, was all about Castiel's broken heart. I know there was something going on with Sam, but it was underwhelming to say the least -- after all the dire warnings about "the wall" coming down, he certainly emerged from it quite unscathed, although I do have to admit that this was one of the few really convincing performances I've seen from Jared. Maybe he's best when he only has to play against himself. I'm not even sure why Castiel took the wall down, unless it was just to keep Dean distracted so he could go and bust open purgatory, but I don't think it matters -- Sam's "wall" was just one of Season Six's dangling loose ends, and this was how they chose to snip it.

A loose end that was not snipped was poor Adam, who has been ignored all season and now has gone permanently down the memory hole without meriting so much as a mention. Considering the show has always been about "family," it hardly seems possible that neither Sam nor Dean would spare even a passing thought for the fate of their own half-brother, and the writers could have so easily addressed this just by having Castiel tell us that when he let Sam out of the cage, Adam was also released to go back to heaven. But whatever.

Anyway, Castiel's broken heart. Take Cas's plaintive speech in the first hour, throw in a whole lot of hopelessly yearning looks, and to me, Cas chose purgatory because he'd lost Dean. Period. Now, I know this isn't what they were getting at, but that's how it played for me. When he turned up at the end, I swear, the look he gave Dean was so you-left-me-no-choice that I was doing my little couch-squeals again, just like two weeks ago. He just loves...er, loved Dean so very, very much. And I gotta say...Omnipotent, Smiting, Bow-Down-And-Love-Me Castiel was really friggin hot.

Now, some folks think Castiel is the new Big Bad and so the boys are going to wind up hunting him all through Season 7 and these writers are lame so they probably will, but I prefer to think that Dean is going to try to save Cas because come on...Dean loves him too. For all that Dean looked sad when he lost Lisa and Ben, he looked absolutely horrified when he lost Castiel especially since on some level he must know that Castiel did it all because of him and wow...I'm like, really heading off into Crackville now. I really do kind of dig Castiel as God although what passes for theology on this show is outlandishly silly but I'm going to have a lot of fun thinking about that in church on Sunday unless of course I'm raptured up to heaven tomorrow and get to meet Castiel for myself. Doubtful.

Finally, I want to share a very important discovery I made during this episode, and I hope it'll be as special to you as it was to me. It's called Ben & Jerry's Late Night Snack and it's "Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with a Salty Caramel Swirl & Fudge-Covered Potato Chip Clusters" and it will forever end the dreaded "salty or sweet?" snack torment. It totally figures that this momentous treat only came into my life the day before the beginning of the end of the world. Now I wish I'd bought more than one pint. Perhaps if there's looting tomorrow I'll be able to pick up a few more, by the grace of Cas.

Here endeth the Sixth Season.

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[oselle.livejournal.com]

Sam knifing him in the back rather proved his point about not having a family.

*Blubbers!

Oh, Cas!!