#me last night: maybe i'll wake up tomorrow and realize season 12 wasn't that bad after all

[incesthemes]

one more thing actually. the whole concept of the apocalypse world is both cheesy beyond belief AND ahistorical and revisionist to an insulting degree. "sam and dean were never born so the apocalypse destroyed the world" have you by chance forgotten that sam and dean were (1) the ones to cause the apocalypse in the first place, and (2) the true vessels through which the apocalypse could even happen.

sam and dean are literally the conduits for the apocalypse. they were born specifically and exclusively so the apocalypse could happen. without them, michael and lucifer have no vessels sturdy enough to hold them (they could theoretically in john and mary but john's been dead 20 years so that's a bust too). who came up with this idea???? it makes no damn sense.

also after the moral lessons sam and dean learned across seasons 8 to 11 be "the winchesters are destructive by nature and will end the world over and over again to save their brother because they're insane and fundamentally bad for the world so they need to die," having "this wretched place is the world where you were never born" is just so cringe. i'm sorry. like they really fucked this one up. it contradicts not only the entire original kripke era but also every single other season made in the worst ways. when the point of your show is that your main characters destroy everything they touch (to the extent that MULTIPLE supernatural beings try to kill them for the EXPRESS PURPOSE of keeping the world alive and not destroyed) and lie to themselves about the good they put into the world, taking that lie at face value and then making a whole alternate universe based on it is just. so cringe. terrible writing that's so out of place in an otherwise pretty good season finale (especially combined with its penultimate episode).