on SPN's season finale

[xparrot]

The short review: eeeeeeeee *flails everywhere*

I can now call it - 11 seasons in and Supernatural just had its best season. Not a single terrible ep in the entire run and several of my all-time favorites, including the finale, which had everything I wanted and a couple things I didn't know I wanted but now totally do, in particular a potentially major game-changer that I did not see coming. There was a casting spoiler that Samantha Smith might be in the episode, but we were assuming ghost, not that after 11 years Mary Winchester would return from the dead...!

(Not to mention, Dean doesn't actually kill a female this season. And given the various character introductions, and how the finale passed the Bechdel test twice, they really do seem to be trying to turn over a new leaf...)

Also I totally called it!

Plus, you know:

Comments

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

There were some filming shots of the hug and I told my friend "whenever Dean and Sam hug, somebody's going to die!" Well, surprise, Dean didn't die...we got a return from the dead :D (However, I figured Mary would return when Amara said she was going to give Dean a gift of what he needed/wanted, since that will always be his mother.)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes - as soon as Amara said that line, we knew how Mary figured in; but before that we didn't guess. --though thinking about it, Sam & Dean hugs usually happen after someone dies and comes back (All Hell Breaks Loose, Mystery Spot, Lazarus Rising, the 8th season premiere)(actually this might be the first time they hug before going off to die? There was no hug in Swan Song or the 7th season finale...) So maybe that was a clue!