tl;dr, the last season of Supernatural is the creative labor of people who KNOW it has been dragging on for way, way too long, KNOW it has rightfully obtained a reputation for being mass-market pop fiction schlock, and KNOW this is very unfortunate And this, somehow, saves it
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Well dang maybe I should start watching Supernatural* *I should not, but I love that kind of meta shit
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It's honestly some of the best meta shit I have ever seen (from a show that had not always been so deft at it), and frankly it's the kind of thing you could only use in something with a such a history of poor writing, a runtime so long, a fandom so large, a background so storied
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Somehow the idea of Chuck, who's a goofy comic relief character at first and presented as this fundamentally weak and shallow person, being God himself really works
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
That's the whole fucking problem with the world they live in God was always weak, that's his nature -- he can't commit to any one thing, he's always fucking waffling and dithering and looking for a sneaky way out The world, in all its glorious complexity, is a paradox
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The world is what it is because he couldn't pick one thing and stick to it, because he constantly tried to make everything be two things at once, because he kept trying to force things to act against their nature Making mess after mess after mess, the human soul being the worst
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
That's what's so compelling about the very worst hack writers, after all They bite off more they can chew They try to do justice to big ideas and fail horribly and by so doing they make something immortal because it's fundamentally broken and cries out to be fixed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
There's a great moment in the final season when Fortuna, one of the last surviving pagan deities, initially scoffs when Sam and Dean say they've met the true Creator, and then when Dean goes "Yeah, he's this squirrelly little creep" Fortuna instantly believes him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(Even though that was obviously long before the white American dude Chuck Shurley existed Before he tried incarnating himself, God made the pagan gods to be the actual deities he couldn't be, to live up to what mortals expected from a creator)
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Supernatural is in a way more memorable than Neil Gaiman because, as I just said, they are trying to do justice to these great big Neil Gaiman concepts but don't really know what they're doing and flail a lot
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s and
Gaiman has this quiet (not always deserved) confidence, like he's letting you in on a secret about the deep truths of the universe, little brush strokes that reveal grand truths This seems more like a paintball gun
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Replying to @CuddlePotato @arthur_affect and
Yeah, that's kind of what makes it so great Chuck isn't even as cool as Neil Gaiman, he's the guy from your undergrad creative writing workshop that wants really badly to be Neil Gaiman
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