Could you tell me what happens to Dean in The Winchesters?I watched SPN up to episode s15ep18 and gave up watching the end because I was so angry with what they did to Cas and what Dean had become, a big idiot.But I watched the end today and it made me curious about the future, even though I hated the end and Jack never saw Sam again and Sam didn't know Cas was alive.
Hi!
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
So, basically the Winchesters is set somewhere during Dean's drive in Heaven, before he gets to the bridge to greet Sam. After meeting Bobby he gets into his car and has a little detour, a trip in the multiverse to take a peek and see if there was one universe where his parents were/could be happy and things might've gone differently for all of them. So he drives there and changes some things when he gives a letter to his young father, who had just been back from the war and was starting to face some of his inner demons (PTSD), and that letter leads him to meet Mary. I don't remember exactly how and how much this changes things from what supposedly happened in "our" universe, but the vibe that it creates in the Winchesters is very much cozy and nice. Like, John meets Mary, but also Carlos and Latika, whom he befriends and they form a scooby-gang kind of group. He also has a close positive relationship with his own mother Millie Winchester, so basically he doesn't resemble much (or at all) the John Winchester that we got to know in Supernatural (not yet at least - although there are hints at how me might become).
But anyway, power of friendship aside, Dean basically only appears in the pilot and in the season finale, and that's where his character shines and the story of how this show entangles in the SPN universe is explained, so I would encourage you to watch that one episode if you're curious. Bobby and Jack appear there too, to help and then urge him to get back where he belongs (if I'm not mistaken) and so he greets his family (without telling them who he is) and gets back to heaven with the two of them.
What i love about all this is it demonstrates clearly that Dean didn't just take one long drive from the Roadhouse to the bridge to meet Sam *and bye bye greetings from the cast* --Stuff has happened during that long drive: he detoured to do a freaking trip into the multiverse to see if there was one version of his family where they could have it all differently, where his father didn't grow up to become a hard revenge-driven homophobe (last part never canonly confirmed but heavily implied), where he could maybe grow up with two happy parents (we can see John trying to meditate here to face his ptsd and latent darkness issues), where they could all have a future. The future that he was denied in our version of the story.
What i love about this Dean is how sad and mature he seems, but not sad as in depressed -mind me-, sad as in finally aware.
And i know that's unconfirmed of course and it's all just up to interpretation based on Jensen's incredible acting, but i feel like he conveys a Dean in heaven that seems to know and possibly accept more about himself. He just has a look on his face, I can't explain it, but that's how i see it (I've made posts about all this).
And also if he did this detour, who's to say he didn't do other ones?? Who's to say he didn't go look for Cas too, before he finally went to that bridge???
So basically what I love about The Winchesters is how it took that tiny bit of story (Dean's drive) and made it breathe, opening the story to a whole wide range of possibilities that are (yes, again) up to imagination, but at least now supported by canonical proof. It couldn't change Supernatural's ending, of course, but it did make it, in my personal opinion, just one tiny bit more tolerable. And that's saying a lot, given how shitty it was.
