Cas stared at the ring Dean had slid across the diner table like he was afraid that the piece of jewelry was going to explode or something, “…What?” Dean picked up his cup of coffee and tried his best not to look like he was fidgeting with it even though he couldn’t quite bring himself to look at Cas. He grunted out his response and dumped a packet of sugar into his coffee despite his preference for black, “You heard me.”
The former angel sighed and leaned forward in the booth a little, staring at his own cup of coffee, “Dean, we don’t have to – ”
Dean interrupted him before he could finish, his voice sounding way more certain than he’d thought it would, “I want to.” Cas stared at him for a minute, not totally sure if he was serious or not, before slipping the ring on his finger with a small smile and nothing else. The hunter watched him out of the corner of his eye and cleared his throat when he saw that Cas had it on, “Good. Want pie?”
“You should really cut ba – ”
“Finish that sentence and I’m taking the ring back.”
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.
Hey, Nonnie! Hmmm Violet? The girl that we saw in 9×20 a parallel for Castiel? Where did you read that? We can agree that her look was a little similar to Cas’ in season 9…
But the fact that both episodes were written by Andrew Dabb doesn’t have to mean anything. What’s more, the fact that Cas did the same for Dean in 9×22 and that the three episodes were written by Dabb is pure coincidence.
If you see carefully, you’ll notice that Dean said “No, you had a choice” in 6×20 whereas David said “You had a choice”. Come on! It’s obvious the lines don’t convey the same romantic vibe!!
This…
doesn’t look or sound as romantic as this…
The fact that both Cas and Violet always end up leaving is just another random coincidence.
And the fact that Violet knows David (her love interest) very well…
doesn’t mean that Dean is Cas’ love interest just because Cas knows him very well, too.
How would anyone think that the heterosexual couple of Violet and David can have anything similar with Dean and Cas (who are bestest friends, no homo)?
I just don’t understand.
Clearly we are just deluding ourselves that there’s a connection.
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