in the end
This is probably the most controversial statement I will say about SPN but, as it’s coming to an end soon enough, I feel like I must say it.
I hope to the moon and back that everyone dies in the finale.
This show is all about not three musketeers but two: Sam and Dean, the Boy-King and True Vessel, who just wanted to find their fucking dad and keep hunting wendigo and vengeful spirits. They meet friends, allies, along the way but in the end, everyone is lost to these ill-fated boys but each other.
Castiel should die by an archangel blade or something of equal significance and magnitude, or some kind of valiant pseudo-sacrifice, because of his evolution. He should die with his wings burned into ash beneath him because flying isn’t the only importance of being an angel of the lord: wings are earned, fought over, and killed for...what has he done to not earn those final charred reminders of his power, his celestial nature that burned bright even in the absence of his grace and wings.
Dean should die at the mercy of his own gun, regardless of who pulls the trigger, to memorialize who he always knew his true enemy was. He should choose to close his eyes and submit to the finality of death for the first and last time and pray, beg, for his journey to be over. He’s exhausted and deserves to rest, just like every soldier when they step foot on home turf once again—because he’s belonged to death since birth.
Sam should, for the sake of literary parallelism, be killed last, because he began this journey dependent on the end. Not because I want him to suffer—he deserves nothing but the best—but because someone as logical as Sam Winchester deserves to rationalize that the end has arrived and that wherever he goes after the lights go off has Dean waiting for him. How should he go out, you might ask? I cast my vote for a willing surrender to Billie herself. It’s a promise of totality and permanence in death and allows him to feel an overwhelming sense of peace as the world fades.
Castiel should join Jack, his illegitimate-legitimate son, in the Empty and finally fucking sleep. Jack’s death was violent, he should do nothing but rest in the end. And Sam and Dean...I don’t know what should await them. Perhaps they’re both tied to their Kansas home or perhaps they’re permitted into heaven by some miracle. But all I want from Supernatural’s ending is peace.
