#I'm just at a loss that the showrunners would insist on going out on this kind of wet fart

[modifiedtrashcompactor]

"We're all very sad about a lot of aspects of the ending of the show."

Not, uh, "the show coming to an end."

This and the Jensen-on-stage vid (where he talks about having been unhappy about the ending 'until' Kripke 'talked him through it' and then with exactly the energy of Katniss reciting Panem-Today-Panem-Tomorrow-Panem-Forever winds it up with a spiel about how "excited" he is for it and we'll be "excited" too) - it's all reeeeal vibing on a cast that wanted to do so much better by us and were staring down the road, Bad Moon Rising playing in their ears, knowing the mack truck about to side-swipe 12-15 years of their passionate performances and our passionate fandom into a 4-alarm-dumpster-fire.

I don't know if anyone remembers the vids from the cons immediately after the death of original Charlie aired - I've never seen like, *all* the actors on a show telegraph so much rage and disgust at a plotline or set of writers/writers' decisions that way.

This isn't *as* extreme so far as I've seen, and it's risky business as an actor airing negative sentiment towards showrunners - you don't want to be seen as a "problem" by the projects that could hire you. But this obviously wasn't what these folks wanted to leave us with.

I have no damn idea what made the showrunners/writers/studio look between the "bang" and "wimper" buttons on the console, dive for frantically for whimper, but in a slapstick comedy of errors slip on a banana peel, loose their shoe down a drain, tumble arse-over-tea-kettle, only to find their taint an inch from their nose as they let out one of the wettest of farts possible - as the world watches on, stunned, and gagging on the fumes: I mean, the "bang" was right there, you're supposed to choose "bang," "whimper" was an option sure, but this was at least supposed to be a binary choice. Y'all just invented a new kind of fail? Like, that wasn't even one of the buttons!

I hope someday, with Dabb far in the rear view mirror, we'll get the kind of miniseries the actors have mentioned a time or two. Something that just - can take the hot mess of these last two eps, synthesize it into some fucked-up fever dream of chuck-isn't-really-depowered or omniscience-twisted-Jack as the intro premise, set about a plot actually about - any? Of? The core themes? With a bonus Orpheus rides into the underworld segment for Dean to do as Cas once did for him - bring him back from the Empty to life on earth.

IDK, maybe let the cast hash out the plot. They're actors. They know stories too. They've lived with the damn character's headspaces, building continuity and flow and interior life into every performance in every episode no matter how unversed the writer actually was in the larger continuum being contributed to, spent years wearing them as a second skin.

The whole damn season was about overthrowing God - the Writer. You know, until it very suddenly and very abruptly wasn't. I guess because, you know, at the end of the day: why kill a good ego trip? After all, Dabb spent so much time with the fandom for the last 12-15 years, *really getting to know us.* What we'd want in a finale. Look at this brilliant ending, guys! Don't you feel Seen by Dabb?

Maybe it's time to manifest that shit, actually overthrow the Writer-As-God, bring some praxis to the table. A miniseries written by the people closest to the characters - the actors, collaboratively; who've rolled with the punches of a revolving door of showrunners, who've had to take every script, particularly the ones lazied out by writers who couldn't bother seeing the characters in more than one dimension, and try to build a coherent evolving-over-time fully-dimensioned performance with continuity and nuance.

(Look, let me have my fantasy, okay?)

There’s a hole in the calendar coming up and that’s a nice thing for me at least.

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