ALL OF YOU FOOLS, ALL OF YOU MISERABLE CLOWNS, LISTEN TO ME
YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. LISTEN TO ME. FOR I BRING THE MESSAGE OF HOPE THAT SHOULD ALREADY BE CLEARLY VISIBLE TO YOU
It was always unfortunate the Buckner and Ross-Leming were going to have the second to last episode, because they are not talented writers. They have convoluted plots, overcomplicated timelines, so many elements people don’t give a shit about, and like to play into cheesy, lazy tropes that no one really enjoys. But Supernatural, the most meta piece of media in its class, made this last season about what makes a story valuable, and what makes it shitty. By making the writer the villain, and defining what he did and didn’t write, they are giving us a commentary on what parts of the show matter – and what parts we don’t need to care as much about.
So, let’s think a moment about what “Inherit The Earth” accomplished. In a confusing, cobbled together and rather rushed first 40 minutes it addressed and resolves loose end after loose end after loose end, finishing off with the defeat of the villain and the restoration of humanity on earth. Bam, bam, bam, story arcs were closed off and conflicts resolved, leaving us with very little mytharc left to address. But what wasn’t addressed by this episode? What didn’t come up at the end? The things we care about. Eileen, and Cas. What they want for their futures.
How brilliant was it to assign all of the detritus that viewers care less about to the weakest links in the writers’ room, clearing the entire board of less-important (to the audience) unresolved plotlines with an episode left to go? In a one two punch, Supernatural took the stuff less important to the heart of the story and reinforced its unimportance by assigning it to Buckleming. They’re done. The big, dramatic conflict is over. The only thing left to address is the stuff we actually care about, and it went PURPOSEFULLY UNADDRESSED ONCE THE WINCHESTERS WERE FREED FROM THE STORY. Because that’s not for the Chucks of the writers’ room to decide – they can’t get their hands on the love, and the relationships. Because what else is there left to resolve?
No, guys, pals, friends, we should be cracking the champagne right now because this episode got all of the rest of the stuff out of the way. None of the B-plot can get in the way of the finale, which will focus on the heart of the show. Andrew Dabb will come through, and he won’t have worked on 15x20 alone. They left the love, the relationships, the romance, and the people that matter for the finale because this is the Winchester’s story now, and they will follow their hearts.
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