The original ending is the proper ending to the series. And in my own personal canon, in my head, it is; seasons 06-15 are therefore apocryphal. The one quibble I have with the original ending is that Kripke planned on leaving Sam and Adam in hell. It should not have been that way. The way the show's ending works, God has grown partly disinterested in the world and no longer seems certain it's worth saving. The Winchester's heroism, and Sam's sacrifice seems to renew His faith in mankind and given them a second chance. Sam's sacrifice is both selfless and truly heroic. Adam was plucked out of heaven to serve as Michael's vessel, so we know he was a good enough person not to deserve hell. There is simply is no way these characters should end up in hell as their final reward. The original ending should have made it clear that, no longer needing to serve as vessels for Lucifer and Michael, God freed them, Adam to return to heaven, and Sam to go there. And that would still leave the intended ironic ending that Sam, the rebellious brother who tried to escape the Winchester legacy of hunting, has to sacrifice himself to defeat the ultimate monster, and Dean, the obedient brother who dutifully obeyed their father is the one who unexpectedly ends up free to live his life and have a family in the way Sam had always wanted to do.
And that ending works based on what we see on screen at the end of the season 5 finale. We see Sam at the end, no longer in hell, looking in on his brother as Dean reunites with Lisa. The flickering street lamp strongly suggests Sam is a spirit in this scene as well, and one can presume he could then let go and proceed on to heaven. That, to me, is the appropriate place to lower the curtain on the brothers Winchester.
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cyguration (3951)
3 years ago
Your comment perfectly summarizes how I felt about the Season 5 finale as well. It really should have ended there. As a series it may not have grown with the sort of fandom it accrued from fangirls the world around, but it would have ended very strong and would have been the talk of the town as one of the best series on television/cable/streaming and people would have begged for more.
Instead, they kept going... and going... and going, and soon people were asking for it to be put out of its misery like a lobotomized three-legged dog suffering from epilepsy.
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