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

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I loved the show early on, but rewatching now I love a lot of later seasons - my favorite seasons are probably 1, 5, and 8; but 11 tops them all for me, it's just got so many amazing things, and while most of the previous seasons have at least a couple episodes that are completely missable (or missable-except-one-scene) when rewatching 11 there's not an ep I'd skip. The wrestling ep was probably the weakest and it still had enough funny moments to make it worthwhile.

To heck with the naysayers, I loved Amara! Agreed that the actress did a great job with her. When Chuck finally turned up all I wanted was for them to make up and go off on a cosmic roadtrip together - so yes, I was squeeing and flailing wildly for the entire last ten minutes or so. I loved Amara's little toe-bounce when she first brings Chuck to her, and then the way she's smiling, awwww.

And yay the hugs!!! As a purely-friend-shipper myself I couldn't be happier, the way Cas pretty much throws himself at Dean and then the way Dean pulls Sam into their hug...so great. The only thing that would've been better would be a three-way Team-Free-Will hug :D