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Whether the actress was unavailable, or whether they simply made a choice to focus on just the boys and Bobby (and, randomly, Jenny the vampire) for this finale, the blurry woman in the background while Sam is playing with his son could easily be Eileen, as she seems to be right height with the right hair color, and Eileen is as much a hunter as the Winchesters.

The writers have been carefully setting up Sam and Eileen’s relationship throughout this final season, giving Sam a possible future family. Of course, Sam doesn’t necessarily give up hunting all together, as we see him answer a call for help made to “Dean’s other other phone.” He is also, presumably, married to another hunter.

#SUPERNATURAL ENDING SERIES#

Supernatural: The Internet’s Best Reactions to the Series Finale By Kayti Burt Dean was his father’s son, and a hunter born and bred Sam took after their mother a bit more, with more of a yearning to be able to give up that life and rest. While he resents Chuck’s dismissal of him as a “killer,” Dean did always get more out of the hunting life than Sam did, taking satisfaction in it as a calling and even enjoying some aspects of life on the road. He was always on edge, looking out for things to hunt, never quite settled. When Dean spent a year in Purgatory, Sam found another girlfriend, Amelia, and a dog, and tried to settle down.īut when Dean spent a year living with Lisa and Ben while Sam was gone, he didn’t adjust too well. In the pilot episode, Sam has a girlfriend he loves and a career plan, all of which gets taken away from him when Jessica is killed and Dean comes asking for help. Since the very beginning of the series, Sam has been the one trying to escape the hunting life they were raised in and settle down with a family, while Dean has always been a hunter through and through – and hunters don’t usually die in their beds of old age. No offense to Kripke, but it has to be said: it makes a lot more sense this way around anyway. But reversing it, so Dean dies young and Sam has to move on and start a new life with a wife and son but without his brother? That honors Kripke’s original ending without pointlessly repeating it. Repeating the same ending – Sam dying and Dean trying to move on – would have felt redundant. In Kripke’s finale, Sam died (he went to the Cage with Lucifer riding his body, along with Adam and Michael) and Dean retired to live a family life with his girlfriend, Lisa, and her son, Ben. As many fans know, the series was supposed to end with the season five finale, “Swan Song,” which ended Kripke’s original arc plot, but it was renewed and The Magician‘s Sera Gamble took over as showrunner (followed in later years by first Jeremy Carver, then Andrew Dabb and Robert Singer). One reason is to honor creator Eric Kripke’s original planned ending for the show without simply replicating it. There were several reasons it had to be this way. Just a normal, human death (fighting vampires).Īnd just as we needed to see the Winchester boys die to really get closure, it had to be Dean who died young, leaving Sam to live out a long and apparently happy life before joining his big brother at last.

No more deals, no more accidentally ending the world trying to save each other. When Dean gets Sam to agree not to try to bring him back, there’s an almost palpable sense of relief, as sad as it is. Sam and Dean have watched each other die, grieved each other, and brought each other back from the other side so many times that we needed to see them reach their final rest, in a much-improved new Heaven, without demon deals or miraculous resurrections or angel rescues or anything else. When it comes time to re-watch the series (a hefty undertaking, considering there are 15 seasons of it!) no doubt many will choose to stop there the episode even has a series finale-style montage of moments from across its 15 years to go with that classic conclusion.īut Supernaturaldidn’t end with “Inherit The Earth.” In a show where death was in danger of losing all meaning, it was never really going to be over until we’d seen the Winchesters finally die, for good, we really mean it this time, no take-backsies. This Supernatural article contains MAJOR spoilers for the series finale.Ī lot of fans were hoping that Supernaturalwould end the way its penultimate episode ended, with Sam and Dean literally driving off into the sunset in the Impala, to new and unknown adventures.

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