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I'm...oddly not upset. I've felt this coming, not because the show's not the same sort of format as the other CW shows, or the guys aren't the young hotties of the other shows, or there're no flashy costumes and superpowers.

I've heard the Js say again and again that the show is a cottage industry that keeps a whole community employed, that it's a family, that they have felt and do feel a responsibility for that family and that possibility of continuing employment. But I've also heard them both not-actually-complain, but express regret that their babies are growing up without them being there to see it. That their lives are passing while they're so deeply absorbed in work. I've seen the con videos and observed the microexpressions, and exchanged expressions when such subjects come up.

This isn't a surprise. In one of the articles already online the writer stated this is not a network decision, but a creative one, which is just this side of saying, the guys are finished with this, and want to stop. Maybe to rest awhile. Maybe to move on to something else. But they've done more than could ever have been expected of them, and for them, it's time to stop.

It's also so very gentlemanly and like them to give their fans a whole season's heads up, to give us a chance to pay attention to the farewell tour, to savor it as it winds down to the end.

For myself, I just hope Butch and Sundance are off the storyboard.

ETA: I'd just like to add that closed canon doesn't mean closed fandom. SPN has given us so much fodder for casefics, AUs, RPFs, continued exploration of themes and memes and fairytales. I don't for a second expect SPN fandom to fade just because there are no new episodes. Not every ep in fifteen seasons has been mined nearly bare for fic and art and vids. So, though I know some folks will move on to new shows, to other fandoms, I think we'll still be up and running in SPN for a long time.

Wikipedia to the rescue: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shedim

Shedim is the Hebrew word for demons or spirits and also designates a supernatural creature in Jewish folklore. The word shedim appears only twice (always plural) in the Tanakh, at Psalm 106:37 and Deuteronomy 32:17. It was possibly a loan-word from Akkadian in which the word shedu referred to a protective, benevolent spirit.^[3] Both times the term appears in the Tanakh, it deals with child or animal sacrifice to false gods that are called demons.^[4] The word may also derive from the "Sedim, Assyrian guard spirits"^[5] as referenced according to lore "Azael slept with Naamah and spawned Assyrian guard spirits known as sedim".^[6]

 

I've been sort of bemused lately at all the buzz and PR for Supernatural's Season 13 premiere. Earned, I'm aware, the show having endured this long.

But I remember the first four seasons, when we never knew if we'd been picked up for the next season until the very last minute. The Impala was left ticking in a field as her metal cooled after being T-boned by a semi truck in the first season finale. If the show hadn't been picked up, the Winchester story would have ended in that field.

At the time, the CW was spending what ad budget they had on all the nighttime soaps: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, etc, and since Dawn Ostroff had no love at all for Supernatural, we were lucky if there was a flash of Jensen and Jared included in a 30 second montage of new and returning shows on the network. I don't even think there were "tonight at 9:00 a new episode of Supernatural" ads for the first two seasons.

So all the excess now, all the comic con panels, the international SPN cons, print and talk show interviews, books on the meta of the show, magazine spreads--whole magazine issues!--devoted to Supernatural. It makes me laugh--I'm just not sure if that's triumph or ironic laughter. Maybe a bit of both.

While I try to find my articulate about the ep itself,( just let me say that )

Also, we have snow on the ground this morning. I should get pictures of the garden Buddha, serene with snow on his shoulders. Here he is.

I took some time this morning and rewatched the end scene with Toni and Mr. Whosit in the car, and took down the dialog, word for word, because I have some thoughts.

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But I feel a mighty neeeeeed! Can anybody--and are you willing to--make a .gif icon of Sam's smile when Mildred says, "Before I got so good looking"? Pretty please? I'll, um. Be extremely grateful? Extoll your virtues far and wide? Cookies? Anybody?

One tiny little note, when director-Marie asked the "Dean" actor why she wasn't wearing the amulet, she said, "It keeps hitting me in my lip."

Before he found out how upset the fans were at its loss, Jensen said at a con he was glad they'd ditched it, because "that thing smacked me in the mouth all the time. I think it may have chipped a tooth."

Meta continuity FTW \o/ !