Article Masterlist - Supernatural
Collection of my pieces breaking down the Supernatural finale, its context, and its aftermath.
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"This is about stories, and the intricate ways in which they become part of us and our world– the ways our lives and struggles are reflected, subverted, and reinforced."
Understanding the unique grief of Supernatural fans, and the power of stories to liberate and to punish. [Warning: spoilers for season fifte
"At the end of Supernatural, the same institutions and cultural powers that have always suppressed stories and voices were still waiting on the other side of the screen. Our gods had not been defeated."
The importance of how stories are told and who gets to tell them. [Warning: Spoilers for season fifteen of Supernatural.]
"Supernatural was not building toward a tragic end, it was actively commenting on the ultimate uselessness and sin of demanding tragedy in a story about love, self-acceptance, and truth."
Reflecting on queer storytelling, representation, and the cost of a failed escape.
"If Supernatural is about the denial of self and breaking cycles of manipulation, anger, and retribution through the truth, our experience in its aftermath has been about what we do when that truth gets fed back into the cycle."
When stories can’t move on from us.
"In Supernatural, the characters got to be real, if just for a moment, and it was this moment of being that revealed how the story would fail without the having. No matter what came after, that is why we are still here."
It’s been five years, and here I find myself again. Dwelling on the end of Supernatural.
Bonus:
"Rather than avoiding the narrative burden of Dean’s death and all the circumstances, both in story and out, that led us to it, The Winchesters is breaking it down. It is examining each theme that was regressed by the finale and pointedly reaffirming it. It’s telling us that what happened to Dean was wrong, that there is something to be done about."
What Supernatural's prequel tells us about healing, trauma, and beginning new endings. [Spoilers for The Winchesters and Supernatural]












