Supernatural Season 15: How to Ruin A Final Season (Review)

Hey guys what's up, today we're talking about Supernatural's fifteenth and final season, and why I think it was a massive disappointment.


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[JayTheZoomster]

so true bestie (i just finished my rewatch)

[kamui]

Supernatural has been introducing and dropping plots and ideas for years now. It's one of the show's 2 biggest flaws at this point. The other problem is that it doesn't keep track of its own lore and constantly retcons things.

[majinbuu]

I was pissed with the whole "god gave them plot armor" notion because I was like... So they were never badass? Great....

[samsunkandroit]

*Remember when in season 5 they said, that half of the planet would get destroyed if Lucifer and Michael fought?* and when we finally get that fight, it was such a disappointment, not even a table was destroyed by their fight.

[cassieearle]

i disagree with you about the last episode and dean dying. i feel like death is so over used for them that them actually living til old age would have been a pleasant surprise.

[mr.manguy]

The thing i dislike the most about the show is how it conatantly kills characters off and then brings them back again over and over and then expects me to think it's true or have an emotional reaction.

[elyssaamy]

My ideal ending literally would have been them, in the impala, talking about their next case and having some jokes thrown between the two. I would have loved for the final shot to have been of the impala driving down a road as it pans out, leaving us to wonder what the boys got up to after the show ended. Call me simple, but this would have been far more satisfying and fulfilling in comparison to what we got, as I feel it would be a reminder of where the show began - the two of them hunting simple cases. Maybe a nod to all the people they met along the way would have been sweet too!

[Anasoruk]

For me SPN's biggest sin is banking so much on found family but still making it a point that the only really important thing are the brothers. They contantly kill off and ressurect people for shock value or when they don't know what else to do with a character. With a few exceptions like Bobby, Charlie and some of Cas's many deaths (except the literal most important one at the end -_-) they manage to make a lot of deaths feel unimportant, like yeah it's sad but the boys get over it real quick don't they? Dean throws around a lot of "X character is Family! I would die for them! They are like a sibling to me..." and then that character dies in the next episode and life goes on... I don't mind that the ending focuses on them specifically, what I mind is that it feels like all other characters needed to be unceremoniously dealt with so they are not in the way of the brother focused ending. It was unnecessary.

[mimimurlough]

I only recently got into Supernatural, but the last season seems so different from the first ones that have me hooked. The monster of the week episodes are so good because they focus on character, their inner life and relationships and developments. And then you get an ending where the four mains are just caricatures of themselves? Even as early as season three, Dean was more than a hunter and Sam was more than a normal guy. Hell, you could see it even in the first half of season one.

[Sam-nhty]

I honestly thought that Chuck would turn up in the series finale and reveal that the previous episode was only a joke to let the boys think they could win.

[DMTInfinity]

The ending sucked, and Dean's final death scene was lame as Hell.

[spudnic]

Honestly, I would've loved season 15 if they fought the empty instead.

[gemmamalo]

I couldn't stand the finale, it was totally unsatisfying to me - I had no desire to see the boys die, heaven as their peace means nothing to me (especially with Dean just... waiting to see Sam. Who he just saw. And knows he will see again eventually. And should want to live a nice long life and therefore *not* see too quickly. And maybe instead want to see some *other* people he misses.). I felt that Sam should have stayed in the hunting business as a Bobby figure, running the bunker with Eileen, and Dean should have started up a Roadhouse-style hunter's bar. They're both in the life still, but disconnected from it, close to each other still, but not codependent and living their own lives. And I wanted Cas back as well but I didn't expect that in the actual show - that'll just have to live in my mental version of everything instead. The season itself, like you said, was totally meh. Not awful, not great, just really obvious that the writers room was disconnected & didn't know what they wanted.

[ptamomsam]

I sincerely think an open ended option wouldve been the best way to go. the boys drive off in the car, we dont know exactly what happens, just that they finally have their free will and can choose what happens next. let the fans decide what that "next" looks like

[gngrbllsthwall]

Things escalated up until season 5 and then hit a point where it's hard to go anywhere afterwards because the stakes got raised so high. Having a season that CAN serve as a good finale does that. So the seasons afterwards suffered a big dropoff in quality but slowly recovered and managed to progress to a point where you had another season that could have served as a good finale; that being season 11. After S11 you had the same problem as you had after S5. It didn't recover this time.

[kbiza]

the entirety of the last 3 seasons made me want to curl up into a ball and die

[mcmann]

I just remembered the early seasons, and how wonky the power scaling is. In season 5, Zachariah literally snaps away Sam & Dean’s internal organs. He’s not an archangel, much less god or death

[HasnaaAlaa]

Yeah, I agree with most of what you said except I didn't like the series finale at all, I guess it sounds fine on paper but the execution was so bad, anyway, the characters and the actors are what kept me watching for this long and I am excited to see the cast in future projects.

[ariananichols]

This is honestly the best reaction to the finale that I've seen so far. I was not a big fan of the finale because it felt like a rando episode mid season 4 or something. What I do love is how factual and in depth your analysis is. I also love that this shows that Destiel Shippers aren't upset because the finale didn't have Cas. Most of us are just confused and disturbed by the jarring end and the same problems you addressed. It's just a lack luster ending no matter who you ship. Thank you for your great analysis!

[CaptainPikeachu]

The series finale felt like to me making the last 15 seasons a waste of time, because the characters don’t really grow, they get the ending they want back when the show started but not the ending these characters should grow to have. Feels like so much development just got tossed out the window.