i honestly dont see how dean can make a full 180degree turn on ‘accident’? i feel like if dean acttually intended to murder sam it wouldve been addressed. this spec rn i hate to say reminds me of “dean only told cas he needs him so cas can heal sam”

obsessionisaperfume:

welkinalauda:

obsessionisaperfume:

bakasara:

The thing is though, if you check my ‘Brother’s Keeper’ post from before I read that meta, I already thought Dean had hit Death by mistake even without understanding it completely. The only thing that makes sense to me now, is the rest of the explanation, the contextualization of the mistake. But I already thought he’d done it by mistake simply by the way it looked.

It wasn’t addressed because as soon as we’re done seeing Sam and Dean’s horrified and surprised faces we switch back to Rowena&co. She casts the spell, we go back to Dean who is near his bag/the table and Sam who still looks kinda out of it. Keep in mind that Death was supposed to take Dean to somewhere he couldn’t hurt anybody nor go back on his own, so the problem is not just that Sam is still alive, it’s also that Death is no longer there for the second part of the plan. Dean is hit by the spell a second later, at which point the priority becomes gauging the damage and then, well, running for their lives.

Rewatching the scene, that explanation is the one that makes the most sense to me, especially because both Dean and Sam explicitly agree to killing Sam right until the moment Dean swings.

The scythe is not a weapon Dean is used to wielding, and it is bloody awkward if you don’t know what you’re doing with it or aren’t using it as it’s meant to be used.  Also, it’s a lot heavier than you’d think.  So that 180 was mostly down to physics.

Scythes are meant to be swung low to the ground in a kind of pendulum motion; the weight helps keep the motion going and takes some of the effort out of that constant swinging.  If you’re going to swing it as high as Dean did, you’re going to have to use a lot more muscle and put your back into it more.

Dean was counting on the resistance from cutting through flesh to slow the blade down, but when that didn’t happen, the weight and the momentum of Dean’s wind-up just carried him on around.

So what you’re saying here is that Death deliberately handed Dean an unfamiliar archaic farm-tool version of the scythe with a massive turning radius (rather than the Garden Fun Size scythe that Dean had held before), stood behind Dean at exactly the right distance to get whacked by the scythe if Dean missed on his first swing at Sam, and then just stood there looking peeved as Dean did, in fact, miss?

Either that was not the true form of Death standing there, or Death has a reason to want to be dead.  

I’m voting for option A.