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SPN Fandom Pushes Back
Nov. 21st, 2020 08:45 pmFans are of course rejecting the writers' reality and substituting their own. (Rhetorical question: Why are so many show endings just bad and lazy these days? Honestly endings aren't THAT hard FFS.) They are also doing charity work: The Castiel Project is donating to The Trevor Project and Dean Winchester is Love is donating to NAMI. So far they have collectively raised over $40k in 24 hours.
ETA: The Sam Winchester Project is for emergency assistance for college youth.
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The thing I think that really got me about the ending is how fucking depressing it was on a show that has actually engaged with dealing with depression. Over the years the characters have dealt with nonfunctional and suicidal depression, as well as just constantly wrangling with despair and hopelessness. The episode started with the characters aimless in their "new Normal", moved onto what really felt like Dean *choosing* to die and Sam *choosing* to let him, and then while Dean is puttering around in Heaven Sam is going through the motions for decades. Now, they say that Covid presented problems with shooting the finale, which I believe, but FFS there are ways around that: They could have shown video calls with other characters checking on Sam, they could have done sound effects and offscreen reaction shots to give the impression of character interaction. By not choosing to do that, they basically had two characters give into depression, which, as someone with her share of mental issues, is a fucking punch to the gut.
Anyway. There's loads of fix-it fics and video edits to, well, fix things. Fandom is always ours, and not theirs. So.
ETA: The Sam Winchester Project is for emergency assistance for college youth.
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The thing I think that really got me about the ending is how fucking depressing it was on a show that has actually engaged with dealing with depression. Over the years the characters have dealt with nonfunctional and suicidal depression, as well as just constantly wrangling with despair and hopelessness. The episode started with the characters aimless in their "new Normal", moved onto what really felt like Dean *choosing* to die and Sam *choosing* to let him, and then while Dean is puttering around in Heaven Sam is going through the motions for decades. Now, they say that Covid presented problems with shooting the finale, which I believe, but FFS there are ways around that: They could have shown video calls with other characters checking on Sam, they could have done sound effects and offscreen reaction shots to give the impression of character interaction. By not choosing to do that, they basically had two characters give into depression, which, as someone with her share of mental issues, is a fucking punch to the gut.
Anyway. There's loads of fix-it fics and video edits to, well, fix things. Fandom is always ours, and not theirs. So.
