Okay, I know a lot of people have a lot of trouble with this bit, so I was trying to see if I could make out the expressions frame by frame, and I noticed that ROAD CLOSED sign.
I didn’t think anything about it until about the sixth time through when I realized that the second Dean steps directly in front of the sign,the girl steps out from behind the building. And I mean literally the exact moment. supernaturalfansonline didn’t have the whole sequence, but @almaasi, bless her, caught it in this post:
the writers aren’t the only ones who shape a scene. The director can define what the motivation should be behind a character’s actions and last night’s director was Jensen, he knows Dean well. I feel like … last night’s scene was directed as if Dean was trying to get her attention to ask if she’d seen Cas but when she reacted aggressively he chose not waste time going after her. I do think the scene was written as Dean hitting on a woman in the middle of searching for Cas but I think Jensen tried to present it differently.
Another odd thing I noticed about the scene is that the visuals don’t quite match the audio–I can’t see the girl’s lips moving when we hear her, “Get a life!” line, and I suspect those lines were looped later and added in post.
I have absolutely NO confidence that Bucklemming meant anything by this scene but a dudebro moment for Dean, but I completely agree that the production team was trying to ameliorate that.
And in an episode that featured SO MUCH Destiel goodness–that Jensen put in there–I’m leaning toward the notion that the ROAD CLOSED sign and the girl’s perfectly timed entrance may be an example of surface readings being misleading this season.
Because signage very frequently means something in this show, and what I get from that one and the subsequent dialog is that Dean’s go-to coping mechanism of casual sex with women (which he actually hasn’t engaged in for quite some time now as a human, just sayin’) has a Cas-shaped ROAD CLOSED sign in front of it.
I don’t know how they wrote the scene (I mean, there’s barely any dialogue to go on by), but how the set design team interpreted could not be clearer. I mean, it’s not just the ROAD CLOSED sign, there’s also the FORBIDDEN DIRECTION sign.
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