stupid stupid STUPID that sam’s endgame was what it was for like a myriad of reasons that i will restrain myself from getting into (saileen men of letters/hunter leader witchy sam endgame supremacy) but like. oh its SO fucking stupid that we saw it all in a dumbass montage. like....no! no. the whole fucking point was the dean and sam and cas wanted to break free from the story - from chuck’s story, which is ultimately the supernatural we know. there never SHOULD have been a definitive ending for any of them, but sam’s was the stupidest because they SHOWED US A FUCKING PLAY BY PLAY TIME SKIP. like he was still stuck in the dumbass role he had been assigned at the very start and we saw it all, there was no free will and no choice and no privacy from the audience. in a meta sense he did not escape the viewer and the cosmic story, or chuck and the writers. the ending had to be private in order to be satisfying. we shouldve gotten HINTS at what’s coming: getting back the people that dean and sam loved, setting up for a future, but it thematically never should have shown us any sort of time skip. it renders the entire metanarrative of them escaping the story and choosing for themselves meaningless. when dean asks cas what he’s going to do next in season seven and he says, “i don’t know. isn’t that amazing?” THAT had to be the energy of the ending we’re left with. they know enough that they’ll be surrounded by the ones they love and they’ll be choosing what happens next, but we dont see it or hear it described. they escape from the story and the audience and the roles and the entire concept shuts closed with a private, hopeful future
