Dean had also already tried to ‘work cases’ to keep the mark at bay all season. It was already clear from the disaster of 10.22 that that didn’t work. So why waste time for the Rudy+case plot when it was so redundant? Imo there were far more important things to choose to show in a finale for this season.
Similarly, now I don’t get why show us Dean having a nightmare once, focused on Sam only, and then drop it, and only tell us he’s getting worse. So is Dean actually worried about the prophecy coming true or was that just a one-off symptom? Also, even if you use the prophecy as a red herring (which I though it was anyway, so not surprised there), why don’t you actually commit to using it as a red herring, and have Dean be very worried about it?
This way it wasn’t even a red herring, it was just… pointless? Imagine Dean getting constant nightmares/visions of killing Cas and Sam, his whole family dead in the bunker, and then you get to 10.22… Of course after he doesn’t kill Cas you can guess he won’t kill Sam either, but that is when the audience realizes it was a red herring and starts shitting themselves because they forgot to pay more attention to the real dangers.
Also: we were told Sam was being too extreme, but then Dean was suddenly a real threat again which apparently could only be achieved via killing Charlie. Because obviously they couldn’t actually show him getting worse, then injure Charlie badly and have that be a tipping point. So what was the point of .17-19? wouldn’t it have been more logical to, again, show more nighmares/actual symptoms & still commit to the theme of Sam being too extreme? This way Dean could go off the rails but they could keep the theme of the codependency having dangerous consequences because tunnel vision? And I didn’t make up 10.19 so I’m pretty confident there was a point about going tunnel vision and it being bad there.
By any chance do you know what was the first thing Death say? Because I have re-winded that conversation but I just don't get that word (the food offering part)
Pretty sure he says “Don’t tell me that’s kaiser.” I googled kaiser and it’s this German bread, I think
I’m not sure how much sense that makes given they’re in a Mexican restaurant
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bunkerbound said: Re bittencupcake’s ask: Death said “don’t tell me that’s queso.”
why even have all the cain parallels???? why even have the whole scene with cain saying dean would kill crowley and cas and sam????? why??? what was even??? what was the point????
death is smart. death does not trust the winchesters. he can read minds and intentions. why would he willingly give the only thing that can kill him to dean fucking winchester??? that makes NO sense at all
maybe this is just me, but at the end, when death was coaxing dean to kill sam, he seemed ooc. his lines felt wrong. they didn’t feel like death’s character at all.
i don’t think death is dead. i don’t think he’s gone.
if he is is gone for good, then why the fuck didn’t dean get his powers??
Ok but you guys: We could have had Supernatural In Space. I mean, we know they’re pretty much set to get at least season 12, so really what better way to extend it than by spending a season fighting aliens?
spn writer 1:
yeah but like how about we make Lucifer!Sam spn writer 2:
we could also make Dean become Death? spn writer 3:
or we can send Dean to the cage with Lucifer? Or maybe bring Lucifer to remove the mark? spn writer 4:
no spn writer 4:
no, no listen up spn writer 4:
how about we get rid of the Mark really quickly spn writer 4:
and then we... UNLEASH DARKNESS other writers:
what spn writer 4:
DARKNESS spn writer 4:
D A R K NESS
