sophee83:

defilerwyrm:

Sorry to be That Guy but man, I cannot get over the silent dialogue these two have going on. There’s that moment that Dean knows he’s on the hook and has only seconds to decide what to do.

His first instinct, of course, is to make excuses, slap the controls to turn it off, and bluster about how awful (read: unmanly) that was like he did in that deleted scene from 8.20. You can see it in the way he opens his mouth and snaps it shut again, how he steels himself to glance at Sam.

And then there’s Sam’s prompting gesture: “Hey, this crap’s still on, turn it off! You’re not just gonna let that play in the Impala, are you?!”

That’s when he makes his decision. Yeah. Yeah he is just gonna let that play. As Castiel once quoted him: why the Hell not? He’s already copped to liking it in the first place, and so much the better if it pesters his little brother.

This is the first glimmer of S8!Dean we’ve seen in a long while. I’m inclined to consider it Dean’s way of agreeing with the optimism that Sam displayed in the beginning of the episode: he does still have the capacity to grow and improve and get better. Possibly the most important element of this is that it indicates Dean himself believes that what “getting better” truly means is not aping his brother’s “health nut” lifestyle, but being his own person: out from under John’s shadow, outside the rigid box of macho Male Platonic Ideal gender performance he’s been stuffed into, out in the open about things he likes for the sheer sake of them being enjoyable.

And if you zeroed in on the number of times I said “out” in that sentence you are right on track.

10/10 for the commentary. It explains so well why this made me ridiculously happy tonight. I literally squealed and did a fist-pump when he left it on. It felt like a victory. This is the Dean I love. I get all tingly just thinking about it ❤