Thread by @starkytower, Ok, I’m still outside the drama today but from what I can [...]

Ok, I’m still outside the drama today but from what I can gather this is my conclusion: Do you guys get how bad a finale has to be to get the point where not only the fandom but apparently even people in the show cannot agree on what is actually within the show’s canon? /1

Like, I am flabbergasted. One actor says there’s a homosexual declaration of love in the final story arc, another says the show isn’t about romance or sexuality, like even a little bit? How can the takes be so wildly different? /2

I fully believe that every side of this fandom, bronlies, hellers, and GA and everybody in between, including the creative team (at least those that have spoken publicly) all believe 100% that their interpretation IS 100% CANON. Not that they have their own interpretation or /3

Twist on canon, but that it is fully, blatantly, textually canon. How is this possible? /4

(GoT spoilers ahead) No one argues “Well, actually, Jamie Lannister won the Iron Throne.” Because he didn’t. Even if you wanted him to, even if in you say “Fuck that finale, I’m ignoring it, Jamie won.” we all agree, canonically, he didn’t win. /5

But somehow S/PN ended so poorly, with so much grey area and lack of clarity, that people can say “Destiel is canon” another can say “Wincest is canon” & another can say “The show isn’t about romance at all” & they all 100% believe what they say is in the text of canon. /6

Even within the Destiel side of the fandom, I don’t think there’s a consensus on if Destiel is actually textually canon or not. Which is why it “keeps going canon” bc I think each time, a new subset of people see something that changes how they view Destiel’s canonicity. /7

I think that’s where a big thread of the disrespect parts of the fandom is feeling comes from and why we keep having so much drama months later. If people can take away such wildly different texts from the show, then the finale did not do the job a finale is supposed to do. /8

It did not hammer it home, reinforce themes, and make it clear what the show was even about. In actuality, it did the opposite of what a finale is supposed to do and left us, as a fandom, with the question “well, what was the show about then?” /9

In which case, if even the show isn’t clear on what it’s about, what was the point? Why take the 15 year journey at all? /10

(The answer that we will have to accept to find any possible closure is “We took the 15 year journey for the journey itself not the destination” which absolutely sucks and is really not what you want in storytelling, but that’s all we have) /11

In order to exist in this fandom at this point without any drama today you have to know how to use Hegelian dialectical thinking which is something I personally only know how to do bc I studied world religions for 8 years for my college degree. /12

It’s absolutely unthinkable to expect a fandom this large, this diverse, and this popular to, as a general rule, be able to think in those terms. So drama is inevitably going to exist. /13

So in reality, even if unintentional, what the finale said was Supenatural wasn’t about family, love, and togetherness. It was about Drama

/14

And that’s what hurts the most. Because we’ve always had drama. But it’s been okay, because we knew that our SPNFamily still was unified and that love defined us. That that’s what it’s all been about as a fan experience. /15

And in saying the show was about the Drama

, the finale took that away from us. Any finale was going to alienate some group of people - deciding this is what it’s about is always going to do that. But by validating anyone, they invalidated everyone. /16

There’s a commercial aspect to this as well, which is incredibly important, but a different Twitter thread. But I think, no matter what side of fandom you fall on, the Supernatural family feels chaotic and crazy right now and I wonder if this might be the core of why. /17

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