#metanatural

[kinky-cas]

it’s 2016 and literal actual god from the christian bible is bisexual but they still won’t let you kiss a man on camera, or even acknowledge out loud that you want to. four years from now they’ll have to kill you on rebar because they let you get too gay for a happy heterosexual ending. they’ll kill the angel, too, of course. even in death, you’ll never be allowed to say that you loved him.

[metanaturalsbitch]

NOOO DONT BE DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE, YOU'RE SO SEXY, AHA!

[carveredlunds]

it’s so surreal to me that supernatural went on for so long that the final arc of the show was literally the main characters screaming and begging and fighting for freedom and rest from a controlling and obsessive author/god who had been writing their lives up until that point, who simply would not let them die. it went on for so long that it went from being a show where the two leads used phones with antennae and made references to myspace, to being a show where they literally referenced the “sir, this is a wendy’s” meme and dean said “galaxy brained”. it went from being a dark and gritty show shot on film to being a show shot on digital where the saturation was so bright that it looked like a sitcom even at night. after 15 seasons, all the fear and grittiness and tension had been sucked out of the narrative. it devolved from a story about choosing free will over destiny into a story about whether or not having free will is even possible after you’ve discovered that god has personally controlled your whole life. the transformation from “classic kripke era” supernatural into “network controlled never-ending” supernatural was literally played out in the storyline of the show itself. it’s unbelievable.

[bridgetoon]

Something so sinister about the Bunker actually. It's not allowed to change. It doesn't accumulate garbage or stains or dust or damage, it's strange and sterile. There are no visible permanent additions, no hanging coats or shoes by the door. No evidence of cases. No pictures. It looks like a set, like no one even lives there. It was locked up for 60-70 years and if at any point the Winchesters packed up and left it would look almost exactly the same

The warding sigils are invisible or burned off or both. It's supposed to be impossible to get into and find, but it happens multiple times. The layout makes no sense and keeps changing. There's a garage. They lampshade in the ep Last Holiday that much of the setting is just props and largely irrelevant.

They don't let Kevin stay, they leave him on a boat somewhere (which is an idiot plot to allow him to get kidnapped by Crowley but does give us a no bunker setting that has at least SOME personality) and when they do move him in, he's still basically not there until he dies. Mary doesn't stay. Cas doesn't stay. No one gets permanent rooms. Even when the AW hunters were there, they just seemed to be borrowing the space, not adding anything to the general look of the bunker, not leaving around personal affects, trash, dishes, not having rooms. It makes it incredibly hard to care about their absence when (other than them not having personalities or names) after they all die the bunker doesn't really feel emptier. It's the same amount of empty. Same goes for when THE ENTIRE WORLD GETS RAPTURED. Everyone else is gone but because we're in the bunker, nothing looks different. You wouldn't even be able to tell

Especially when the earlier seasons sets had so much character. They were in diners and libraries and streets surrounded by people. They sprawled out in motel rooms and abandoned houses, leaving clothes and trash everywhere. Things got old and worn and dirty. Bobby's house looked like a house. The Roadhouse looked like it had people going through it. They had no home but they had the world yknow?

[four-of-cups]

if you think about it, the way things ended for each member of team free will is some twilight-zone levels of cosmic punishment.

season one sam wants to build a life away from his family and hey, that’s what he ends up doing. because post-finale every single member of his family is dead. the people he came to realise that he loved, that he needed, the ones who saw every dark thing he had done and been and loved him anyway - they’re gone. enjoy that life sam, it’s what you always wanted right?

and cas - it isn’t just that he learned to love humanity dean only to have that torn from him at its very culmination. what gets to me is that the empty is a return to pure stasis. his arc was defined by how much he changed - his very capacity for change and what he did with his choices. only to have those possibilities stripped from him as completely as they could be. death beyond death.

dean. oh dean. he thought he broke free of his father’s violence only to have his entire too-short life framed by it. going out bloody. caring about no one but sammy. never trying to build any other kind of life. his heaven is as mundane and limited and joyless as his father’s expectations.

and the thing is - this isn’t the way a show rounds out the character arcs they spent 15 seasons on.

this is the way that vindictive fathers punish defiant children and I will never be ok about it.

[cupidswurld]

thinking about supernaturals circular narrative. how i don’t (and won’t) watch sitcoms because of the conventions of a circular narrative.

the parallels of how characters are reduced into one-dimensional imitations of who the audience perceived them to be, boiled down into their most defining, dividing traits— a phenomenon exclusive to the intrinsic nature of sitcoms. thinking about how everything that is learnt in one episode, is forgotten in the next— how there is no progress, how there is no change and everything will always, always stay the same for the sake of the audience where nothings new.

part of why dean felt he wouldve been better off dead, about why he didnt deserve to be saved, was because he could never make any difference. how they were trapped by the same story, over and over again, that nothing mattered no matter what he did, because he'd just end up in the very same position he was 15 years ago. even before the insertion of chuck's storyline, before freewill, the pervasive hand of the writers have always held them down from the very first episode

[bongosblorbos]

chuck writing roy saying the lord picked dean...dean protesting this choice...a crowd of viewers watching this exchange, cheering..........the metanatural implications of it all

[tiktaalic]

almost every creation has moments that shine through that say “EXTERNAL FORCES WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS WRITING DECISION” but supernatural has SO many and they’re so open about them. bela died because people hated her. jo and ellen died because kripke didn’t want anyone else to write them after he left. the lisa plot happened because the cw found out at the last minute that actually they DIDN’T have rights to the cameo they wanted to do and cindy sampson was available. and cas undied because s7 tanked ratings. and on top of that they smash the 4th wall over and over. dean and sam swear in found footage but not on cw’s the supernatural. the author is god and he calls himself a hack on screen. the author is god and he writes shitty paperbacks with shirtless men on the cover and admits to writing for #drama and self indulgence rather than narrative cohesion. the author is god and he thinks it’s too tropey to be an author god self insert in his story but he does it anyway. when you can see the strings on the puppets do you ignore them or do you cut them? what gives a story meaning? the writer? or you?