The “walking funny” analyses were amusing, but I didn’t read into that scene. Then my brain goes, “Hm, that hickey’s at a weird angle if it came from in front.” I still don’t think that scene meant more, but throwing that into the fray lol

f-ckyeahfutbol:

mittensmorgul:

HAH I thought the same thing. Like, I found myself tilting my head trying to figure out what weird angle I’d have to achieve in order to leave a vertical hickey like that. But FROM BEHIND? YEAH THAT’S THE RIGHT ANGLE. Oh my god. *wraps additional layer of protective tinfoil around my head*

I know I’m in the minority here, but I still saw his stiff posture as more evidence of nothing involving sexytimes, and more likely maybe getting a little hot and heavy with someone in a bar before passing out in an uncomfortable position, like in an uncomfortable chair or passed out on a pool table. Without them showing us Dean explicitly in bed with another human being, I’m taking all his claims of hooking up with anyone as “performing dean” because that’s what Sam expects him to do.

What we learned at the end of the episode, though, was that Sam had been seeing through Performing Dean’s mask for a long time. And in a way, Sam’s also been performing his own expected reaction to Dean’s braggadocio.

Because when Dean changed the script when he returned to the hotel room after telling Sam that he was going out to pick someone up, HE ACTUALLY TOLD THE TRUTH. HE TOLD SAM THAT NO, HE DIDN’T HOOK UP WITH ANYONE. He just came back with some food.

And then at the end of the episode, when Dean finally came clean about his issues with Amara, Sam was neither surprised nor outraged. And that surprised Dean. Dean had been trying to hide all of this, and had been performing the mask that everything was fine and Sam was wrong about Dean being targeted by the banshee because he was “vulnerable,” etc. Sam’s known there was something “off” about Dean for weeks now, and he’s just been waiting for Dean to come clean, take of the mask, and confide in him.

And I know that about 90% of what I just wrote doesn’t have anything to do with the hickey, or Dean’s funny walking, but really at the end of the day, it kind of does.

Well, you guys are not alone, the angle of the hickey was literally the first thing I noticed in the promo.