andythanfiction:

Call it a Destiel thing if you want to, but it’s another example of the fantastic synergy and attention to detail that Jensen and Misha bring to their characters.  Both Dean and Castiel are soldiers first and foremost – best of the best of the best Sir – and in working together for five years, they’ve learned from each other as soldiers.  Dean handles the angel blades no longer like the knives and machetes he’s used since childhood nor with his usual bar-room brawler’s down and dirty streetfighter style (and he did use them that way the first few times), but like Cas does, with an almost kata-like precision, grace, and flair that reflects both off of Misha’s grounding in Buddhist theory and the entire idea of spiritual warfare and preternatural discipline. At the same time, when you compare the sequence with Alistair or even the alley scene with more recent fisticuffs, Cas has learned that if he’s going to need to fight like a human, he’d better fight like the best.  He mimics Dean so well in a brawl now that it looks like he’s usurped Dean’s fight choreography. 

And yeah, I know that’s because Misha basically wrote the book on how to use the angel blade prop as much as Michael Dorn did with the bat’leth and Misha actually has been learning how to stunt fight from Jensen…but that’s the thing.  Jensen knows damned well how to use a stunt knife.  There are an assbuttload of professional fight coordinators Misha could learn from.  That they’ve chosen to mirror each other is a beautiful character touch that I deeply appreciate.