apocalypsos | Okay, here goes nothing. *cracks knuckles*

This may get a little long-winded. Mostly because I can't go to bed with this much bleakness rattling around in my head.

We occupy a fandom in which we actually have honest-to-goodness serious debates about whether the lead characters on our show are even going to survive the finale. That the human race might live through the finale because Sam and Dean die to save it is a genuine possibility. And we may wish and hope and pray for a happy ending, but there's not a one of us who would be surprised if we end up being handed a bittersweet or even outright depressing end when the finale comes.

We're a fandom who will count it as a miracle if we even get to keep the Winchesters when all is said and done. Anybody else left alive is cake.

I fear on some level that the oncoming wank -- and you know there will be wank; we wank more before breakfast than most fandoms do all day -- is going to be a debate of quantity versus quality. Is the fact that there are two more dead female characters on the show's tally lessened or negated by the equally undeniable fact that they both went out in character-appropriate and awesome deaths that more female characters on this show should get? God, I hope so.

That was one of the most gripping, emotional scenes this show's ever given us. It was two female characters saying, "You know what? If I'm going down, I'm going down swinging and taking as many fuckers with me as possible." That was a strong death, damn it, and if Ellen and Jo had to go down -- and they did, like it or not; we're at a point in the mythology where if anybody, even the boys, make it out of this alive it'll be a fucking miracle -- they went down with their fists raised and their middle fingers up.

Godspeed, ladies. It's too bad you couldn't hang with us longer.

(Especially considering that Alona Tal had more chemistry with Misha in a handful of scenes in one episode than Jensen ever did in the few seasons since he met her. Sorry, Jensen, but "I think I'm starting to feel something" was the start of something wonderful. Almost. *pouts*)

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So ... Lucifer let out Death, huh?

You mean, the angel of Death?

As in, Michael?

'Cause really, that would explain a LOT. Like why Sam's getting ~~expensive gift baskets~~ snarky speeches from Lucifer and Dean's getting forced appointments with Zachariah in the Gilded Cheeseburger Room.

And it would be HELLA interesting when paired with my neverending theory that either Michael is already in Dean or that Dean's going to say yes to Michael first and Sam's going to say yes to Lucifer to bring down his brother, rather than the other way around.

EDIT: For the record, I am probably wrong. It's one of MY theories. How often are my theories EVER right? Heh.

I just really want Michael to stick his sorry head out of the woodwork. Or, you know, for somebody on this show to just admit Michael's already on Dean. Now, THAT'S the theory I like best. :D

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For the record, I love that Lucifer's going to take down the demons while he's at it. Of course he is. Heh.