What impressed me most about the finale is that after all those deaths, they still managed to make Dean's final death so incredibly impactful. You'd think we'd be numb after 15 years of seeing him dying, but I cried like never before for a fictional character.
@@PurpleNurpleSPN Yeah, I think everyone was expecting Dean to die at the end. But not like this. Some poetic hero's death, sacrificing himself for others, as always. But then it ends so suddenly and unnecessarily and you're kind of between "I knew it was going to happen" and "THIS is really how it's going to end?!". Damn, I didn't think that a little horror show would accompany me so emotionally for so long when I started watching it 1 1/2 decades ago...
@@Kalisha2401 yeah, I'm one of the people who didn't mind Dean dying in a more mundane way. That's the whole point of the season - Chuck didn't get his grand ending. My head canon is the barn scene was years and years after Chuck being defeated as I wanted Dean to live a life for a while. But being a hunter... its dangerous work. They've both died/almost died from general monsters so it shouldn't be unexpected. Dean could never give up hunting it seems
@@PurpleNurpleSPN Yeah, by now I've come to that headcanon too and am pretty content with the finale, but the first time watching it felt so unworthy and empty. Still sad though, that he never really had a chance for a normal life, but at least the improved Heaven made up for some of that (and left enough room for interpretation as to what happens next). I wonder how many years I''ll keep thinking about that... xD
Harry Potter: I died once but resurrected soon after. Buffy Summers: I twice and the second time I was ripped out of heaven and resurrected by my dumbass friends. Dean Winchester: Bitch Please
That final scene breaks me. I watched it with my family, and I've never seen all 7 of us so silent in the same room. The weight that came down on our heads when we realized....it's trauma I'm never getting over. So watching this scene again makes me sob uncontrollably.
What about “On the Head of a Pin” 4x16? Alastair nearly killed him when he broke out of the devil’s trap. I mean I knew Dean died a lot, but when you put them all together like this…wow 😂
@@PurpleNurpleSPN kudos to you for trying though lol! Only reason I remembered it was because it was a recent rewatch. I had forgotten about some of these in this video!
@@jamminjag12 good catch. Also there two other times his heart was affected, off the top of my head. Once by the Aztec god in the stripper body, and then when Mary was possessed by the grief crazed father and nearly frozen. Sam always gets concussions, Dean's heart always gets ripped out/stopped/frozen.
I can’t believe I have watched through lots of tears an almost 17 minute video of one of my all time favourite characters die/nearly die. The heartbreak my heart feels after seeing them all together at once now I suppose I better go and watch the Sam one too and put my heart through more heartbreak. I love them both so much. 💔😭 Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
That Bob Seger song gets me every time. First when Dean burns Kevin, then the start of S15. BTW, the guys consider Dean's Death #1 to be the car accident. It's actually in a printed interview in Entertainment Weekly, where they discuss that since Dean's body was only being kept alive by the machines, and he was in the veil and Tessa was trying to reap him, that it's his first death.
I consulted some other SPN fans on whether some of the deaths counted or not. 2x1 Dean’s heart was still beating. He was seconds away from death. The Alt worlds we didn’t see (and it’s alternative timelines I counted not universes) - I excluded chucks version of them as vamps as we don’t know if it was real or just a trick
@@PurpleNurpleSPN ah, ok. I get it with chuck's visions. I thought they were supposed to be the other worlds so taken as real. Clears it up. I also thought in 2x1 his heart does stop. Didn't they say "no pulse"? It's all good. I actually really loved this. Great video
I’m not trying to start a debate I’ve actually been wondering since I saw the episode but is it confirmed if the episode the end was an alternate timeline or some kind of illusion cause it could’ve been a trick to get dean to say yes
I get people being pissed at the way Dean died in the finale, but for me it makes some weird form of sense The job was dangerous for more reasons than the monsters or the sacrifices...
I miss these men. I know they are doing other projects but so far Walker is not any good and I am still waiting to see Jensen. He has always been good in everything he does so I don’t see that changing
Well im not sure if we should count mystery spot cuz it was the same day every time and it was made up for sam like a game or smthng . İdk but it just doesn't feel right to me . İts like it would have been better if we just count it 1 death cuz it's the same day and he dies just once every day.
@@huchlvr yeah well it doesnt feel right cuz he didnt even really died , sam wakes up for another day and another day but its always the same day . When this game was over sam finally wakes up for Wednesday and dean is just fine . So i dont count it idc what others think
If i was dean.. after 2 times died and come to life, 1 time near death, i would beg to be really dead. How tired it is to be Dean, hell yeah he deserves heaven.
I don't think anyone really cared what he wanted and would've just continues to bring him back because they still wanted him to do what no one else could. The angels brought them back countless times regardless of how much they suffered, I'd imagine they'd just laugh and kick dirt in his eyes if he begged them to let him stay down.
I particularly like the fact that "Dean" and "Death" share the first three letters. The name was perfect even though the writers didn't necessarily know that back in season 1.
I kinda feel like they're all near deaths considering he always came back somehow. I don't think that his final death is even going to stick when they reboot the show some day (we know they will eventually).
yeah I think that's kinda the point. Chuck wanted him to die in a spectacular way/have his Cain and Able moment. IMO I think it's fine, freaking tragic, but he did die a hero fighting monsters. I would have loved for him to live a long life, but that would have been unrealistic. Now they have no angels on call to heal wounds like this, it was bound to happen
