Because they’re women. You only get to come back to life, and not just as a ghost, if you have a penis. Haven’t you been paying attention the last five years?
Didn’t you just finish a story yourself? That look was the look of knowing that his story was both good and complete. Not alien at all to the face of an author. Add me as another vote that the scene was meant to show him ascend to heaven, Mary-mother-of-Jesus style.
I’m glad that there is another season, because this would have made for a poor series finale. All that build up to an anticlimax.
And I thought just the opposite - it wsa the ‘perfect’ series finale - made less dramatic and less important by the fact that another season is coming.
That and the gutlessness of the writers - afraid to kill off Castiel or Bobby because of the renewal (assumed) and a fight that was a non-event.
But the overall ‘feel’ of the episode, with the narration and story bits by the Prophet Chuck, down to his disappearance and “its all about family” - there were alot of bits about it that made it a perfect series ender.
Well, thought it was OK. Just re-watched and one question I have is “what was the song”? When Dean showed up at the boneyard. Sounded German, but I’d iTunes that.
And Chuck was totally God. He was clearly coming up with the story, not just chronicling it there. His whole thing about how it’s easy to come up with beginnings but not endings. If he was just a prophet it would just pop into his head, not be something he had to come up with. (Yeah, it was a meta-joke too, the writers speaking to the audience, but can’t it be both? And who is the “god” of a show if not the writers?)
I do wonder where the hell (no pun intended) Crowley was. Too big a wuss to be there for the big show down, or they just didn’t have Mark Shepperd contracted for another episode? You be the judge!
Another minor thing, after they made a big deal about Jo and Ellen not being in heaven, I sorta expected them to show up possessed by demons or something. But I guess not. I just wonder why they weren’t up in that big bar in the sky. (Probably money/contracts again, I suppose)
Well, I’m more of a Canadian Cultural Heritage dude, but I was in grade 3 back in 1983. Although, it is a sad thing how culture fades through the ages. I work with people who’ve never seen “Gilligan’s Island” let alone heard of it. I fear my nephews will never recognize The Tragically Hip or Trailer Park Boys. At least I can download and appreciate the song, thanks all.
Whoa whoa whoa. They never said Jo and Ellen weren’t in heaven. The bar in the sky wasn’t heaven in general, it was Ash’s heaven. They say right in the episode that each person gets their own individual heaven. Ash has worked out a trick between moving between heavens to see old buddies, but since he didn’t even know that Ellen and Jo were dead, there was no reason for him to go looking for them.
Well, I liked it just fine. Watching a season recap now, they’re saying that Sera Gamble promised that we’d see God by the end of this season, so maybe Chuck was God. I like the idea of Chuck as JesusGod.
Going back to monster of the week for next year sounds good to me. I am also curious about Sam blowing out the streetlight - he’s not supposed to be on earth, period, much less all juiced up. Very interesting.
I finally watched it. Enjoyable, except for explodey-Cas. Do not want explodey-Cas (and Misha Collins’s Twitter feed is hilarious). A bit cheap bringing them back.
I didn’t think of Chuck as God, though I did think of Chuck as ghost, so I’ll go with the Holy Ghost!
Dean looks much the same in the flashbacks, but wow, Sam looked so young at the start of the series.
Sam started out looking about 12, it’s true. He really has grown up in front of us. I’m trying so hard not to make any completely inappropriate comments in this post.
