downtoagincourt:

Sometimes one’s brain just melts over this: endverse!Cas is onscreen for fewer than six minutes of this episode. FEWER. THAN. SIX. MINUTES.

He’s in five scenes, in two of which he doesn’t speak at all (exterior, silently watching when Dean shoots the Croat-infected patrol member; and exterior in Kansas City, with binoculars as they’re preparing to go into the hot zone). So three speaking scenes (not counting the pair of 2009!Cas ones that bracket the episode):

a) “You…are not you…not now you, anyway”;
b) “What? I like past you!”; and
c) “But then, that’s just how I roll.” [x]

Three scenes—maybe five minutes total.

And we’re halfway through a million-word series about him.

I love everyone in this bar survivalist encampment.