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It’s not like no one tried to tell certain folks that they were disregarding the actual meaning of the show. I’m sorry you let a t-shirt company convince you it was about something that wasn’t canonically that important so you’d buy stuff from actors who played minor characters. https://twitter.com/cheriemorte/status/1273712994652958720
If you think “character growth” = “completely disavowing everything foundational to who character is,” then yes, there was none. But maybe you just never actually liked Dean Winchester. & should have found a show with characters you do like instead of fixating on changing him.
Dean had character growth. We met him terrified, self-loathing, trapped, alone. He ended up at peace with who he is. Proud of his contribution to the world. Safe and unafraid. Free to choose the life he used to think he had to stay in, because he learned it was what he wanted.
But more importantly, he ended up with a platonic relationship that reaffirmed all he suffered in those younger years being worth it, because he got to keep & take pride in the person Sam is. They got to grow together. They became equals instead of caretaker & reluctant charge.
They were never toxic. The show told us a million times that what they had was consistently the best of them. The times their relationship was called into question was either by villains (unreliable folks to take your conception of the world from, turns out) or during low points.
Those low points were rough & they did horrible things to each other. But they always worked through it—that should have been a hint. Character growth doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You have to have growing pains, which are by default...painful. The bad was never what defined them.
15 years they chose each other, again again and again, over everyone else. Which doesn’t mean they don’t care about the others, just that they were never in same level. If someone sold you the line that suddenly disavowing that at hour 11 would’ve been good writing, get a refund.
Don’t take it out on people who LITERALLY RISKED THEIR LIVES to finish this thing they poured 16 years into. You don’t have to like it. But tagging actors,writers, producers, crew in your tantrum so you can be sure if you didn’t like it they can’t take pride is unbelievably ugly.
