I’ve been watching live since the end of season one. I always envision the finale as having a lot of the elements that it had and always imagined Sam and Dean getting into heaven and finding the Roadhouse and everyone they loved waiting for them. I know we only saw Bobby, but I also understand that we’d likely have…

I think most people will agree that it wasn’t bad because of what happened, just how it happened. A lot of internal consistency just vanished: plot armor was turned on and off as needed, all sense of time and distance was ignored, and character’s priorities shifted without without enough foreshadowing.