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they literally found love in a hopeless place (the supernatural set)

Fan: Why Dean’s death was not him giving up.

Jensen : I have 2 thoughts on this.

One is, and this is something we’ve heavily discussed during the filming of said scene, was that physically and logistically we were playing the fact that the rebar had positioned itself in a way that if I was taken off of it, it would mean instant death. It was basically holding my lungs together, holding my torso together, which if you took me off of that, I would be gone in seconds.

So that’s kind of how we had to play that, in order to make sense, so he [Sam] didn’t go and run and get an ambulance or go and get the medic bag in the Impala and go into triage mode. So that’s how we kind of got answered that question on the day and logistically.

More kind of why in theory Dean didn’t struggle so much. I mean, he was not happy that he was stuck on a post in the middle of a barn. I think there was something I added there, which is just I just yelled, I forget what I said, like "Damn it" or something, that was not scripted. But I just fell like he would have been like "I wasn’t prepared for this right now."

But once it has settled in that this was happening I think, and we talked a little bit about this in my M&G yesterday, and I think you [Jared], they mentioned that you talked about it too, about how much time that elapsed between the God showdown and the barn scene. And I think I always assumed that several years had gone by. And so they have been living in basically their ideal setting for several years.

They beat the big bad, that saved the world, they saved themselves, they were doing that they loved, they were in a routine that made sense, they found their sweet spot. And I feel that played into Dean’s acceptance, that he had made it, he was okay because he got to where he needed to go. And he was there and had been living there for a while and that was what he needed in his life and he kind of found it.

So I think it was easier to say a few things that he needed to say to his brother in the end.

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