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mybrainproblems · 2 years

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sorry to everyone who already Experienced the finale in Nov 2020 but it took me a year and a half after i finished spn to get up the motivation to watch it since 15x19 makes a mediocre but serviceable finale and i already knew 15x20 sucked... just not the degree and manner of the suckage of it all.

maybe i'd be less insane about it if i hadn't gotten so far down the dabbnatural rabbit hole but i think it also gave me things to focus on besides dean dying. bc my toxic trait is that i actually enjoy the majority of dabb's writing and in every other episode he's written, the quality has been at worst, competent. it has never been the actual bones -- the narrative structure -- of the story that has issues. his missteps are usually the details that lay on top of the structure and while they aren't always forgivable (cursed s7), they are things that are frustrating bc they are details and not structural. 04x06 is fixable with minor edits! hell, even 07x22 is fixable. (the very premise of 07x08 is horrible but the actual structure of the story still makes sense even if the plot itself is awful down to the studs.)

i am smashing furniture, i am chewing drywall. i am going insane.

#i want to shake someone like a palm tree until information drops like a ripe coconut #i think the only episode that comes close to having the same feeling of being wrongfooted as a viewer is maybe 09x20 bloodlines #which mostly has to do with the fact that it's not a very good spn ep but is a decent pilot for a show if you remove everything spn related #sorry but i *am* a bloodlines apologist and i think it had potential as its own series unrelated to spn but tying it to spn was the issue #but like in general i just cannot get past how little of 15x20 actually feels like it was written by dabb #the pie festival and dean's convo with bobby are the only points where it actually feels like dabb is putting effort in #they are also the only scenes that feel like there are any intentional decisions being made #dean's monologue is clunky and goes on forever and as much as i do like dabb's work... monologues like that are not his strength #it's almost like he wrote a first draft of the monologue and then never touched it and wouldn't let anyone else touch it either #spn #finale fuckery

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