Okay guys, listen up, because I’m about to fuck you up with some knowledge.
So we all know under Dabb’s reign, we’ve seen a multitude of parallels. Season 12 has been chock-full of callbacks from earlier seasons: characters, scenes, props, etc. We saw it with the colt, with Mary’s return, Bobby’s return, “[insert parent name here] went on a hunting trip, and [they] haven’t been home in a few days”. We’ve had Dean and Cas paralleled with Sam and Eileen, Dean and Cas paralleled with Cain and Colette, Dean referred to as Cas’s “human weakness” by Ishim…I mean really, at this point they’re endless. I could make hundreds of posts about the parallels, particularly in regard to Dean and Cas, but I won’t because frankly, there are better meta writers than me on the tumblrverse and they’ve already been done to death.
see @tinkdw and @ibelieveinthelittletreetopper, seriously those guys’ blogs have some seriously incredible information, metas, and I thoroughly enjoy reading literally everything they have to say.
What I want to talk about is Cas’s last scene in the finale. Here we see Cas enter the alternate universe, despite Sam and Dean already being there and having a plan for locking in Lucifer, and stabbing Lucifer, right before Cas’s death scene.
So I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about this scene and how Cas’s death was completely unnecessary and avoidable. That it was used strictly for the “man pain” we hear so much about, so we can watch the boys once again mourn the death of one of their friends. I agree, to an extent. His death absolutely was avoidable, also necessary because Destiel story arc, but here I believe Dabb knew what he was doing. Remember those parallels we talked about ^^?
So why? If Cas is coming back, like we now definitively know, why take the time and effort to include this scene? Because really, it was pointless. Lucifer could’ve killed Cas straight out of the portal without Cas ever entering, and it would’ve served the same purpose, and raised no questions. Because hey, shit happens, and Cas is almost always on the negatively receiving end of it. So why, Dabb? Why shoot this particular scene that seemingly makes no sense and had everyone questioning Cas’s intentions?
Come. Take my hand. Let me show you.
Dabb literally, intentionally, oh-so-deliberately, shot this scene:
To act as a parallel for this scene:
I REPEAT:
DABB DELIBERATELY SHOT THIS SCENE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF DRAWING A PARALLEL BETWEEN SAM AND JESS AND CAS AND DEAN.
IT IS THE EXACT SAME SCENE. THE SAME STRUGGLE. ALMOST IDENTICAL DIALOGUE. THE SAME FUCKING FRAMING, FFS!
and before you say, no wait, your hopefulness, Jess doesn’t come back, this makes for a sad ending, stop, no, what are you doing??
YOU ARE MISSING THE BLATANTLY GAY POINT
Dabb recreated the first scene of the show with Dean and Cas. He intentionally paralleled Sam’s canonical relationship with his girlfriend to Dean’s canonical subtextual relationship with Cas.
Further, the scene with Sam and Jess marked the beginning of the series, the beginning of Sam rejoining his brother in the family business, but also the unfortunate end of his relationship with the woman he loved. If you look at this reversed (much in the same way Cain said to Dean about how he was living his life in reverse), that would mean that this could possibly be hinting at the end of the show, but also the beginning of Dean’s relationship with the man angel he loves.
I mean, I’m not saying that Destiel is endgame…but fuck. Destiel is endgame.
Yes! Hallelujah. Amen.
Dabb is “fixing” things. He’s making parallels and reverse parallels and happy gay parallels. This scene (Sam dragging Dean away) goes down as one of my absolute favorites.
Yes to all of this!
Dean starts the series as an alone hunter and a womanizer, and ends as a hunter in a steady gay relationship.
Sam starts the series in a steady relationship on his way to be a scholar, and ends single on his way to be a scholar. (Still hoping for an Eileen and a dog.)
I agree with 99% of this. But to me, it was important that the AU hunter was _not_ John. Because the divergence point was not Dean’s birth. It was earlier. In that universe, Mary did not make a deal with Azazel for John’s life.
Which means that Dean has forgiven her for making the deal in 12×22, and then he gets to see what happened if she didn’t make it. (And it was so important it happened in that order.)
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. PLEASE READ IF YOU’RE A FAN OF TIM OMUNDSON
Hey everyone,
In case you haven’t heard, Tim had a stroke at the end of April. He’s currently in a rehab hospital recovering. While this is a personal thing for him and I don’t want to intrude on his privacy, I wanted to share this news for 2 reasons:
1) From my understanding, the Psych movie still plans on having Lassiter/Tim involved somehow. One article reported the movie underwent rewrites to accommodate Tim. However, when it comes time to watch the movie, if Lassiter isn’t in it much, please know this is why and don’t get upset. Tim’s health is more important.
2) I’ve seen posts on his social media asking why he has duplicate photos and strange spelling errors. I want to spread awareness so that you can just wish him well and ignore any typos. You can see his wit coming through the posts. You can tell that he’s there, but the brain trauma has affected his spelling. He’s working on it so don’t call it out to him please.
Tim is currently active on his twitter and instagram. Feel free to head over and send him your well wishes!
Reblogging this not only for artists but also for people who write werewolf (and other animal transformation) fiction. If a human turned into a wolf, their knee joints would not reverse– what some fic writers mistake for the knee is actually the ankle. A wolf’s hind feet are relatively long, and they are always walking in way roughly analogous to human “tip-toeing.”
do u guys remember that time we guessed that cas was possessed by lucifer because in one of the promos he touched dean on the wrong shoulder?
why isnt the entire fandom working for the fbi???
This is something I genuinely think about a lot. Fandoms and the way in which they organically crowd-source info and do collective analysis actually provides a very good model for effective data gathering, data sharing, and data processing, particularly when the information is partial and is gathered piecemeal.
Like, someone could actually use organic fandom data-gathering and processing behavior as a model for how to do it effectively.
(The main barrier to it is that with governmental/law-enforcement agencies, people within them are often pitted against each other, sometimes by default and sometimes by design, and everyone is angling for credit above everybody else because promotions and compensation and awards are tied to individual performance, and so there is a disincentive to share info, and help other people, particularly on an inter-agency level. Fandoms, on the other hand, do not work that way. The more everyone contributes, the more everyone gets out of the process because the information IS the compensation/reward, and the entire system isn’t constructed as a zero-sum game amongst the players – in fact, in fandom, it’s whatever the opposite of a zero-sum game is)
And then there’s Jensen’s underwear, which fans tracked down in less than a day from a square inch of the band…
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