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 just got out of a Russell Howard comedy show and he did this bit there talking about the differences of romance from when he was younger to now. The fucking comparison he made was to mix tapes. I wish I got it on camera. He said something along the lines of “remember when we used to make mixtapes?!!??? That was our idea of romance!!!” And all I could fucking think about was
I really don’t want to be that person, but ever since Cas let slip he doesn’t like Dean’s ‘lumberjack’ look, Dean’s stopped wearing plaid around him (Sam hasn’t, because why would he?). I mean, I don’t know what happens in between episodes, and apparently a lot does, but on screen, every single time Dean’s been with Cas after Rock Never Dies he’s chosen to wear a ‘normal’ shirt.
The only exception is S12E12, but, whatever, I’ll forgive that episode anything.
And, of course, for the purpose of this post costumes don’t count, so I haven’t included suits or anything, but just as a reminder, this is what Dean changed into after Cas’ bad-tempered comment – and I’m willing to bet half my liver those were not random clothes he had in his duffel – he went out and bought them, because lumberjack? I’ll show you who’s a fucking lumberjack. Dick.
Dude SAME! I think it was @k-vichan who I was chatting to about this at the time? Totally, yes. I mean it was pointed out to me that Dean doesn’t always wear plaid and Sam also varies, but it is still a valid point that it’s quite a lot more consistent since this that he hasn’t, especially around Cas, not to mention “Anything?!” Pfffff.
It also goes up there next to WHERE IS THE CLASSIC ROCK after this episode… and all the HONESTY.
The facade man… next he’ll be ordering chicken parmesan and openly watching Moana or something.
I literally can’t wait for 12×22 🙂
Oh also I feel like they’re making Cas’s coat extra horrible and ill fitting this season – I damn well hope there’s a reason for that.
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