elizabethrobertajones:

filleretive:

elizabethrobertajones:

carnilia:

memitims:

_{“I feel like I’m seeing him.”}

This episode was SO ROMANTIC. Like, seriously, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, how do the creators of the show explain away the COMPLETELY RAMPANT ROMANTICISM of the Dean & Cas storyline just in this episode alone? You can’t! You cannot make a convincing argument at all. There is no way that this level of explicitly romantic tropes are applied— to these characters, their story, and their relationship in not only the writing, but the lighting, the cinematography, the editing, and (yes) the acting of this episode— and it is somehow accidental. There is just no way! I mean, Dean standing in the darkness, extreme close up of his anguished face, lit as though by the moon, rain pours down outside, he watches it fall down the window as he thinks but cannot bring himself to speak about what happened to Cas, a flash of lightning illuminates his sad eyes as the storm rages outside— that is some Wuthering Heights bullshit right there, are you fucking shitting me?

“How the hell did you find me?”

“Angels are able to find those who pray to them.”

“Pray? Oh, believe me, I gave up praying a long time ago.”

“It doesn’t have to be a formal prayer, I can, uh, pick up on a longing…”

STOP IT.

The more I think about it the more this works. Season 8 was so patchy in the lore because they clearly forgot Dean was warded from angels, and Cas just constantly pops up by him.

This is Cas literally getting out of Purgatory, presented as him barely even being in this plane until he finally manages to properly manifest behind Dean in the bathroom.

How did he even know to go to Dean? I always assumed because Naomi said she pulled him out that she dropped him there but it’s actually more patchy an explanation because Cas takes a day or two to fully come back to this world.

But imagine him being given the shove by the angels, unknowingly, back to this world, and the beacon that guides him back is the unconscious, unknowing prayer of the one human who misses Castiel specifically – his faith is negligible in every other regard, but his faith and need for Cas is off the charts, so much so he sends out this low-level call constantly in his grief. The one thing that can pull Cas back all the way.

In the end, Dean was the one who dragged every last one of them out of Purgatory.