#s5 and s8 knocked it out of the park every time

[redrobin-detective]

Listen remains one of my favorite episodes of modern Doctor Who because it’s a story of paranoia, of how in the dead of night when you’ve been alone too long, the shadows seem scarier and you start drawing conclusions that seem silly in the light of day but are oh so real at night. It’s a story of simple, childhood fears and what they tell us about ourselves and it is done so well. 

#rewatching obviously #god I remember watching this live #when I was still unsure of PC as the Doctor and being enraptured #its such a well constructed and compelling story #i couldn't look away #honestly S8 is a perfect season every episode is a banger #s5 and s8 knocked it out of the park every time

[missjackil]

I know your top 5 episodes of supernatural. Where does 'Carry on' fit on the list? Did it enter your top 5?

Oh yeah, I gave it the #1 spot! 

The end of the series had a lot of issues IMO, but very few of them had anything to do with the final episode itself. I liked episode 19 but it was a bit anti-climactic. The deaths of Michael and Lucifer were really boring, especially for the biggest story arc of the whole series. We never (or I never) got a satisfactory answer as to why Sam and Dean were Mike and Lucy’s vessels in the first place, if they were carrying the story past s5. Had that arc ended there, then fine, but it was brought back up in s11 and continued to be added upon for the rest of the series. I don't like that Lucifer was “killed” 3 times, none of which were by Sam’s hands and he’s vocally wanted to take him out as recently as S13. I didn’t like that Dean dealt with being Michael’s vessel throughout s14, but only with AU Michael and Our World Michael never even acknowledged Dean being his True Vessel. These were probably my biggest issues with the overall end of the Supernatural Saga, but the end of The Epic Love Story Between Sam and Dean was ALMOST perfect IMO. 

Carry On, as an episode, was very well written and incredibly acted. The Boys’ stories didn't end the way I thought they would, and ideally, I would have much preferred they die together (if they had to die at all) but they end up in Heaven together forever, and that was the most important thing.

Carry On not only hit every all of my fangirl buttons, but knocked them out of the park. The first half of the episode, with Domestic Winchesters was awesome! Dean with the dog, and shirtless, fresh from the shower, wet hair Sam, making food, doing laundry, and even taking a road trip just for pie, made me make a lot of happy fangirl noises LOL and the 2nd half was more emotional than I could have asked for. Sam and Dean in the barn during Dean’s death couldn’t have been done better. I wanted to be drowned in brolove and I most certainly was. Id hoped for many seasons to get a real “I love you” from the Winchesters and I got so much more than just that “I love you so much... my baby brother” the hand holding, the foreheads touching, Dean literally laying his dying head to rest on Sam’s shoulder.... OMG how can it get better than that? The funeral pyre destroyed me on all new levels. Sam’s heart breaking grief was so real I get everything.

I did freak out a little when it moved to Sam married with a kid, I thought it just ruined the whole thing for me, to give Sam this happily ever after life, but, that wasn’t really what we got. We got a “wife” we never actually see aside from some long-haired woman in a dress I could never imagine Eileen in, never to be shown again, but the focus moving to how Sam was raising Dean Jr and continuing to deeply grieve his brother. Nothing at all like the crap they tried to feed us in s8 of Sam’s life after Dean.  Dean driving around in Baby the whole time he waited for Sam, not hanging out with friends and family, but watching Sam and staying with him every step of the way, as he promised. 

Dean’s face lighting up as he just “knows” Sam has arrived and such a wonderful happy, love filled hug! Dean’s face was unmistakably saying “Now it’s perfect” as he gazes at Sam, and then out over Heaven. It was nothing shy of awesome! So much love was put into that episode and I fully appreciate it. My only real problems are that they didn't take time to get Sam a decent old guy wig, that was bad, and Sam dying an old man will make it really hard to “come back” from when they want to do something more with the Winchesters later. 

Overall I think it was the best episode of the series. It was so satisfying to me that I ALMOST don’t want them to come back, because they wouldn't be able to top that again. However to solve THAT problem, just never give the story a concrete “end” if they do more later. Just leave it open ended with no “final” feeling. Just show them driving off into the sunset if there is a next time. Know what I mean?