Boom boom, shake, shake the room.

[apocalypsos]

So I've been reading SPN finale spoilers and can I just say if they really do kill off everybody save Sam and Dean in the end ('cause seriously, it's starting to look that way), I am going to laugh my fucking ass off.

Not that I *want* everybody to die -- seriously, in my perfect world we get Ellen and Jo and Gabriel back and nobody touches Bobby or Castiel with a ten-foot pole -- but you know me and my love of the apocalypse. If they kill off everybody save Sam and Dean, I would honestly be VERY interested to see where they go with that. You know how whenever people don't like a character, they go, "Ugh, this isn't the Castiel/Anna/Ruby/Bela/Gabriel/Bobby/whoever Show! It's the Sam and Dean Show!"? Well, guess what we may get next season at this rate?

See, I don't mind if characters die as long as it's a good death. For all of "Hammer Of The Gods"'s non-Abrahamic-religion flaws, I thought Gabriel had a good death. For all of the show's rampant misogynistic tendencies when it comes to killing female characters, I thought that Ellen and Jo had a good death. So I know they're saying "a beloved character will die" or whatever in the finale -- granted, considering past spoilers, that may mean it's Chuck or Lisa or Random Indiana Diner Patron #3 rather than Bobby and Castiel, the only two non-Winchester "beloved characters" we have left -- but I'm kind of hoping it's both of them. Not that I don't want Jim or Misha on my TV screen -- although, hey, there's always watching them bicker on Twitter to fall back on for entertainment purposes -- but a large part of me would ADORE to see them wipe the slate clean and start from scratch for next season.

Sam. Dean. The Impala. Twenty-one cases. And a season full of brotherly angst and male bonding.

The possibility of a season like that makes me happy in my pants. GUH. I want to rub up against my computer screen just THINKING about it.

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Okay, okay, now I'm going to go work on my Big Bang.

Comments

[nrrrdy-grrrl.livejournal.com]

For me, I think it's residual trauma from season 4, but I know what you mean- so many chracters jumped into the breach when they wrote Sam pulling away from Dean. On one hand, I respected the idea of messing with the show's core dynamic, on the other hand, I thought it seemed like they had no idea how to make that change work so things felt floundery for a lot of season 4.

At the start of season 5, I'm like, "Okay, now have a big yell fight, then some ferocious make-up sex and then get back to work!" It never took, though. I mean every other episode has been "Okay NOW we're homies again. Oh, no- wait- now we're all weird again. Okay NOW we're good. Oh, wait..."

I WANT GRAND, DECISIVE GESTURES THAT STICK!

That's why I love guys in RL, that's why I loved these characters. All this vaccilating is an emotional boner killer.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know, seriously. A lot of the stuff that's happened in the past two seasons makes me feel not so guilty for really hoping that what they're planning for season six is to clear the slate and get back to basics in regards to the boys' relationship.

[nrrrdy-grrrl.livejournal.com]

My philosophy is that I get enough ambivalence from hot guys in RL. I can only control my urge to slap them if my TV boyfriends give me the psychological opposite of that. Bring Shit so it Stays Broughten. It's what keeps our society from pandemonium.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I don't know. For all that I would love for it to go back to more of a "case of the week" format, I would miss Castiel and Bobby a lot. And I am not as sanguine about character death as you are. :-) It'll depend a lot on how it's done.

[vivien]

I want Sam and Dean to die, too, so we have season six of all zombies, all the time.

[trinity_clare]

Killing off everyone except Sam and Dean is pretty much the only way they will get me to watch season 6, at this rate. (Not that I don't love Bobby, but he's become a cross between the exposition fairy and the deus ex machina, neither of which do him any favors. And I'm not a huge Castiel fan.)

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

When Jim and Misha go at it on Twitter, it's the best comedy show on the web. Misha's one tweet that ended with "PS, I'll kill you" actually made me snort.

That said, I'm pretty sure Bobby's a goner. The evidence all adds up - and if you're really raising the stakes to epic levels, you can't be afraid to commit to the "nobody's safe" rule.

And Bobby's death would be the pinnacle of that escalation.

Going back to the beginning is really the only way Season 6 has a chance of working...it'll be fresh for the latecomers, and for the rest of us won't fall into the trap of "yeah, we know we *said* last season was as bad as it was going to get, but..."