Oh your review, especially the visual component of it, is balm on my soul as always. I watched the finale coming off the emotional woodchipper that is Avengers Endgame and I privately pitied Show because I figured it was poor timing and that it would just pale against that one no matter what they did and boy I couldn't have been more wrong (though I definitely need a nap and a going to bed early today since I'm also attempting to finish my bigbang this weekend and I am just not ready for all of these feels). I thought this episode was supremely crafted, it surprised me at every turn, wrenched my heart out of my chest (Jared you bastard, Jensen you... I can't, I really can't, and Alexander fucking Calvert, your fucking face, oh my God), I loved that Chuck became the Big Bad for the final season in the undeniably meta way that all his involvment in the show has been - I know there's little chance that this long game was on the table then, but boy, does "The Monster at the End of this Book" take on a whole new meaning. The question I ask myself is whether Chuck just erased all the boundaries between the planes so the monsters would spill out of Hell and Purgatory (since Heaven is empty and all the devils are here) or if he specifically undid all the Winchester's deeds in a kind of clean-slate-throwing-out-the-whole-draft revision, so the monsters we see back are the actual one's the boys killed. (And boy, the possiblities of a walk down memory lane victory lap, mind explodes!) I'm still wondering what Dean read in that book and if that ending has changed and I'm so glad to see Billie back (and also concur wholeheartedly with your assessment of Sam&Rowena the buddy comedy) and find myself reminded very strongly of Julian-Richings-Death stating that one day, he'd reap God, didn't he. So many callbacks to so many things. And boy, is my confidence restored in a way I haven't felt about the show in a long time. Hiatus here we come, so many upcoming lasts in our future, but I am so along for the ride, which, considering the set up we're left with, could end absolutely any way we've imagined, which is a feat. Peace out.
PS: Or well, not because I just realized I forgot something, about Sam shooting at Chuck, and I had to go back to rewatch it too. Obviously I didn't realize it was a commercial break because I can't watch it in real time, so when I first watched it, I actually thought it was two different shots Sam took, since the muzzle flash for the first round is quite a bit bigger (though it might conceivably be like you interpreted it since the repeat was shown from a slightly different angle) so I thought Sam actually ended the universe and it kind of like, bounced back like a rubber band because the universe doesn't condone being ended, so it will instantly reconstitute itself for a doover, like Chuck put a Rowena-death-defier on himself and by extension all of creation, but obviously being shot like that by Sam would have pissed him off even more, so I don't know, I find that a more facinating premise? Even though I don't know if it would enrich the narrative in a meaningful way, so maybe that's just me.
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Date: 2019-04-27 08:03 pm (UTC)I thought this episode was supremely crafted, it surprised me at every turn, wrenched my heart out of my chest (Jared you bastard, Jensen you... I can't, I really can't, and Alexander fucking Calvert, your fucking face, oh my God), I loved that Chuck became the Big Bad for the final season in the undeniably meta way that all his involvment in the show has been - I know there's little chance that this long game was on the table then, but boy, does "The Monster at the End of this Book" take on a whole new meaning.
The question I ask myself is whether Chuck just erased all the boundaries between the planes so the monsters would spill out of Hell and Purgatory (since Heaven is empty and all the devils are here) or if he specifically undid all the Winchester's deeds in a kind of clean-slate-throwing-out-the-whole-draft revision, so the monsters we see back are the actual one's the boys killed. (And boy, the possiblities of a walk down memory lane victory lap, mind explodes!)
I'm still wondering what Dean read in that book and if that ending has changed and I'm so glad to see Billie back (and also concur wholeheartedly with your assessment of Sam&Rowena the buddy comedy) and find myself reminded very strongly of Julian-Richings-Death stating that one day, he'd reap God, didn't he. So many callbacks to so many things.
And boy, is my confidence restored in a way I haven't felt about the show in a long time.
Hiatus here we come, so many upcoming lasts in our future, but I am so along for the ride, which, considering the set up we're left with, could end absolutely any way we've imagined, which is a feat. Peace out.
PS: Or well, not because I just realized I forgot something, about Sam shooting at Chuck, and I had to go back to rewatch it too. Obviously I didn't realize it was a commercial break because I can't watch it in real time, so when I first watched it, I actually thought it was two different shots Sam took, since the muzzle flash for the first round is quite a bit bigger (though it might conceivably be like you interpreted it since the repeat was shown from a slightly different angle) so I thought Sam actually ended the universe and it kind of like, bounced back like a rubber band because the universe doesn't condone being ended, so it will instantly reconstitute itself for a doover, like Chuck put a Rowena-death-defier on himself and by extension all of creation, but obviously being shot like that by Sam would have pissed him off even more, so I don't know, I find that a more facinating premise? Even though I don't know if it would enrich the narrative in a meaningful way, so maybe that's just me.