Although the show started with Sam desperately trying to leave his unconventional childhood behind him as he attended Stanford, and although both Winchester men attempted “apple-pie” lives at various points in the series, they both came to accept, claim and truly choose their life’s work.Īnd what amazing work it was. Neither one of them questioned the job, nor seemed to feel resigned to or reluctant about it. It was poignant that Dean and Sam jumped back into the regular hunting life after facing down the greatest cosmic being they ever would. And driving down an open road in Heaven bookended the series, as Dean once again picked up Sam, this time not from Stanford but in the afterlife. Instead, driving down that open road brought them back to their roots. The show could have even ended with that penultimate episode, “Inherit the Earth,” leaving the audience on an image of the boys driving down a long, open road but having to make up in their own minds (and fan fiction) what became of their lives in a universe where the new God Jack was their friend but also the spawn of Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino). These guys, after all, could have theoretically done anything. Other, less dedicated characters and shows wouldn’t have done that. They climbed back into Baby and got right back on the road to do what they do best. Paying homage to the show’s beginning at the beginning of the series finale was not only a way to respect its origins and everyone who took a chance on it from the beginning, but it also served to drive home the selflessness of the Winchester family business’ motto of “saving people, hunting things.” There were times through the years where both Dean and Sam took brief detours from the life, but after defeating the vengeful God Chuck in the penultimate episode and being, in the words of Dean, “finally free,” they didn’t chuck it all and head to Vegas or sit by a lake drinking beers all day. (It’s hard not to imagine who might have popped back up for one last cameo had COVID-19 not required two-week quarantines in Vancouver.) Meanwhile, Sam managed to build the life he had attempted the last time he thought Dean was gone for good, and when he grew old and sick his adult son (who he named Dean) echoed the words he had said once upon a time to his brother: “It’s OK, you can go now,” reuniting the Winchesters at long last. “You always knew it was always going to end like this for me,” said the man who survived having the archangel Michael inside him and going up against God himself.Īs Dean was fading, he reminisced over the origins of the show by admitting to Sam that he didn’t know, when he showed up in California to pull his younger brother out of college and ask him to help him find their father, whether he’d tell him to “get lost or get dead.” And he told Sam he didn’t know what he would have done without him - a sentiment felt around the world as the #SPNFamily has been contemplating that very same thing as the end of the show has inched nearer.ĭean made it to Heaven - and the Heaven “it always should have been,” as Jack (Alexander Calvert) and Castiel (Misha Collins) reset things so those who had passed on could see loved ones again and make new memories, instead of traveling a road of their old ones. This time on this seemingly regular case, rescuing the next generation of brothers (with parallels to the young Winchesters, dragged into a life of the supernatural in their own way), Dean ( Jensen Ackles) was impaled on a post and told Sam ( Jared Padalecki) to stay with him, rather than call for help.
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