f-ckyeahfutbol:

I’m still on the cut scenes posted by theoverlordmisha, wondering what would have changed if the cut scenes would have been featured in the episode.

At the end of Season 9, we were shown that Castiel loves Dean Winchester. The end of Season 10, it seems, was meant to show that Dean Winchester loves Castiel (and it was textually established that they are aware of their love for one another during the season).

I think the crux of the issue was Castiel’s assuredness, as he pried information out of Rowena, that everyone loves something. If we had the first cut scene with Dean and Crowley, Dean’s dream about the brutalized Castiel and its combination with Dean’s waking hallucination of Castiel leading him to trash his hotel room, leave his beloved car behind and contact Death, then the conclusion on who Dean Winchester loves would have been extremely clearly laid out. It would have placed Castiel much more firmly than it does now as the ultimate push for Dean wanting to end his own life. I don’t want to downplay his desire also to spare innocent lives, but what drove him to seek death (and Death) and very nearly to claim his own brother’s life, was Castiel. And the cut scene would have strengthened that impression.

But what about the other scene?

That was the polysemous balancing no-homo turn to the prestige. There have been a few people, very few, that I’ve seen suggest that what Castiel loves, since everybody loves something, is Claire. Claire is important to Castiel, this is true, but what Castiel loves is pretty goddamn obvious, whatever nature you choose to ascribe to this love. It is known. Even the general audience probably could have made the connection.

So to balance out Dean Winchester’s love for Castiel, Castiel makes a speech about the sweet, crooked smile of his Ersatz daughter. This would have brought back the question of the previous season, who does Castiel love? It would have cast (slight) doubt on what Castiel’s own disposition toward everybody loving something would have been. But there’s a subtext in his line, because Claire and Dean were paralleled throughout the season, and like I suggested yesterday, especially their sweet, crooked smiles were contrasted. In fact, most of the smiles of Dean Winchester for past three seasons have been given specifically to Castiel. Now that is something that the general audience probably isn’t meant to remember. That is the subtext.

But as we have the episode now, both the hell yes homo and the no homo were removed. The elements are still there, but they aren’t as obvious, and it takes longer to put the clues together. But in essence, nothing is changed. Castiel is the thing that Dean Winchester loves. Castiel is what Dean Winchester loves so much that he was willing to die, willing to exile himself on a goddamn asteroid for all eternity, and to kill his own brother because of him. Mostly, because of Castiel. 98% because of Castiel.

That’s how fucking much Dean Winchester loves Castiel.

(gifs from acklesjensen)