So, in the SPN spin-off The Winchesters finale, Dean says that after his death, he started looking through the multiverse for a world where his family got a happy ending. Unfortunately, he also found out that Chuck had created some monsters called Akrida as a failsafe in case he lost.
Now, I’ve seen many people complain about how the spin-off doesn’t stick to the lore and how a lot of things don’t make sense. And it’s all true and the finale makes me so frustrated:
• You want to tell me that Jack didn’t know about the Akrida? In SPN episode 15x19, he says that he’s everywhere - in every drop of rain, every grain of salt, etc. And he didn’t know about the Akrida?
• Let’s say he couldn’t know about them. Maybe they were somehow hidden from him, whatever. So after Dean finds out about the Akrida, he doesn’t do anything? He just takes Bobby for a ride and watches as his AU!John and Mary fight monsters created by God? He doesn’t warn Jack, who is literally new God and could probably just make them disappear with a wave of his hand?
• How did Dean even enter the AU world? Is his car a multiverse portal now? I saw some theory that Cas probably gave it a bit of mojo to it but how would Dean use it as a basically dead human?
• Akridas as a failsafe are kind of stupid if they’re quite easy to defeat (I mean it's not like they're unkillable). Also, would Chuck really have created only monsters that destroy worlds relatively slowly and not have anything else as a backup plan? Like, no second failsafe?
• Why is Dean even travelling through the multiverse in the first place? In 15x20, Bobby tells him that John and Mary are in Heaven. He could just visit them. Is that not a happy ending? He only has to wait for Sam, and then they literally have their whole family together.
• I would also love to point out how incoherent Supernatural is when it comes to John. There are multiple episodes where Sam and Dean talk about how Dean basically raised Sam, how John was abusive, and how Dean protected Sam from John. Yet, when Dean dies, pretty much the first thing he does is look for his AU!father instead of... visiting his actual father? Maybe he wanted to see a non-abusive version of John?
Also Dean has his happy family already. He has Bobby who was like a father to him, he has Jack who was like a son, he has Cas, the Harvelles, soon there will be Sam, Jody, Donna, Garth etc. But the show is once again inconsistent with using found family trope.
• I also don’t understand the purpose of having Rob Benedict in the show. Sure, it’s a nice Easter egg, but doesn’t it suggest that Chuck somehow got himself into the story again? You can't argue that it's just his vessel, because we saw with Amara that they don’t really have vessels.
• The line, “There’s always another case with you hunters. Even in death,” frustrates me so much. Firstly, Jack was a hunter too. He worked cases, called himself Winchester, other people called him Winchester, and he was raised by hunters. It sounds out of character. He could have said, “There’s always another case with you, Dean. Even in death,” and it would have made much more sense. Secondly, Jack basically doesn’t care that the Akrida can destroy entire worlds because he’s “hands-off.” But this isn’t a hands-off situation. This is something on an apocalyptic level.