#metanatural

The warding sigils are invisible or burned off or both. It's supposed to be impossible to get into and find, but it happens multiple times. The layout makes no sense and keeps changing. There's a garage. They lampshade in the ep Last Holiday that much of the setting is just props and largely irrelevant.

They don't let Kevin stay, they leave him on a boat somewhere (which is an idiot plot to allow him to get kidnapped by Crowley but does give us a no bunker setting that has at least SOME personality) and when they do move him in, he's still basically not there until he dies. Mary doesn't stay. Cas doesn't stay. No one gets permanent rooms. Even when the AW hunters were there, they just seemed to be borrowing the space, not adding anything to the general look of the bunker, not leaving around personal affects, trash, dishes, not having rooms. It makes it incredibly hard to care about their absence when (other than them not having personalities or names) after they all die the bunker doesn't really feel emptier. It's the same amount of empty. Same goes for when THE ENTIRE WORLD GETS RAPTURED. Everyone else is gone but because we're in the bunker, nothing looks different. You wouldn't even be able to tell

season one sam wants to build a life away from his family and hey, that’s what he ends up doing. because post-finale every single member of his family is dead. the people he came to realise that he loved, that he needed, the ones who saw every dark thing he had done and been and loved him anyway - they’re gone. enjoy that life sam, it’s what you always wanted right?

and cas - it isn’t just that he learned to love humanity dean only to have that torn from him at its very culmination. what gets to me is that the empty is a return to pure stasis. his arc was defined by how much he changed - his very capacity for change and what he did with his choices. only to have those possibilities stripped from him as completely as they could be. death beyond death.

dean. oh dean. he thought he broke free of his father’s violence only to have his entire too-short life framed by it. going out bloody. caring about no one but sammy. never trying to build any other kind of life. his heaven is as mundane and limited and joyless as his father’s expectations.

and the thing is - this isn’t the way a show rounds out the character arcs they spent 15 seasons on.

the parallels of how characters are reduced into one-dimensional imitations of who the audience perceived them to be, boiled down into their most defining, dividing traits— a phenomenon exclusive to the intrinsic nature of sitcoms. thinking about how everything that is learnt in one episode, is forgotten in the next— how there is no progress, how there is no change and everything will always, always stay the same for the sake of the audience where nothings new.