juppschmitz:

My attempt at making any sense whatsoever of the atrocious characterization and writing on SPN since Dabb took over:

Remember when Amara said to Dean in 11.23:

“Dean, you gave me what I needed most. I want to do the same for you.”

And boom! There’s Mary in her white night dress, looking all forlorn and confused.

Everyone assumes that what Dean needs most is Mary, right? But, I’ve come to assume that everything that’s happened is not actually real, but Amara knowing that Dean most needs to be shown how crap his family/friends are and to realize that he has to let them go.

For me this explains single-handedly all the crap that’s happened in season 12, 13, and (so far) 14:

We have Mary returning and…leaving first chance she gets. Then she’s – literally – in bed with the enemy. Then she gets Sam to join the BMoL without telling Dean. Then the two of them get Dean to also work for the Brits. Then, of course, eventually even Sam and Mary realize the BMoL are a horrible organisation and need to be wiped out. Then Mary disappears in the AU. End season 12.

Season 13 has Dean try to come to terms with losing Mary again. Until he realizes she’s alive over there and he tries his best to bring her back – only to realize that she’s decided for herself that a bunch of random strangers in a world that isn’t even her own are more important to her than Dean. Then it’s decided that Mary and all those AU fighters need to be brought to our world for reasons and Sam’s stupidity makes it possible for both Lucifer AND Michael to pass into our world with Sam ending up in mortal danger from Lucifer which makes it necessary for Dean to say yes to Michael so Sam can be saved.

Season 14 has Mary quite obviously not giving a shit about Dean’s possible Michael trauma (even though Dean only said yes to Michael to save her favourite son) as long as she can fawn over “natural born leader” Sam and hop into bed with a guy who could be her granddad.

It goes this way season after seaon and episode after episode until finally, in the very last episode of the show we’re back with Amara and Dean in that garden from 11.23 and Dean realizes the truth.

He decides to leave his family behind and – cue Jensen’s dream of the ending of the series: 
“It’s just one scene. Think: Middle America, Big Sky country. It’s just wheat fields as far as the eye can see, and there’s an intersection, a crossroads, oddly enough. I drive up in the Impala, and I park in the middle of the intersection. There’s nobody for miles. I get out of the car and I look in the distance […] I just see this thing coming in the distance, and it gets closer and closer and closer and closer. It’s a guy on a motorbike. And we never really see his face. He’s got a helmet on. But he walks up and I give him a nod, and I take a walk around the Impala very slowly and I walk back over to him and I hand the keys to him. And he takes off his helmet — we don’t see who it is — he hands the helmet to me and hands me the keys to the bike. From his back, he gets in the car and I watch the Impala drive off. And then I turn and I look at the bike that’s got one seat. And I put the helmet on, start the bike, [give] one last look to the Impala, it’s now gone, and I take off. Because I don’t need the extra seat anymore.” (x)

See? Perfect ending to a perfect scenario.

And that’s it. I’m sticking with it because to me it’s my perfect Watsonian explanation of everything that frustrates me. The Doylist explanation of course is that Dabb and his team of writers suck, but that does not help me keeping an interest in the series.