You mean Dean 100% putting on a performance for Wally – Mr I make fun of guys by insinuating they’re queer (soft hands comment to Mick) who tries desperately to emulate Dean by ordering the same dinner then getting all embarrassed and looking at Dean whilst everyone corrects him about cheese not being a carb.
Wally looking like John with the dark hair, beard etc, nodding along in all the shots of Dean postulating.
This scene just looks like a family dinner where Dean’s invited his crush best friend, Wally/John and Mary are sat next to each other, Wally/John is encouraging Dean to act like a dudebro, might as well be like yeah Dean tell us all about your last QB performance! Meanwhile little brother Sam is just looking on at Dean/Cas interactions huffing like “wow…” and making fun of Dean’s shit excuses and postulating.
Yeah. Wally is John.
He’s in Dean’s performance/postulating scenes, nodding in the background.
Total accident. Much coincidence.
Dean’s first look is totally off guard. THIS is how he really feels. Fucking pissed and jealous. Look at the dimples of discontent 😉
Then he gets his act together, pulls himself up and puts the facade on.
We then have Dean and Wally agreeing together about Mandy being into Cas and Dean posturing with all the yeah yeah, you hot waitress, you should find Cas sexy, he’s… yeah my Cas, he’s…he’s hot right, devastatingly handsome you might say! Ummm…. awkward weird smirk that it takes SO MUCH EFFORT for Jensen not NOT look good, I mean this was so on purpose to look awkward and terrible as FUCK.
Meanwhile Mary is watching on like Dean wtf are you doing to your husband? Sam is just like, god, not this again.
Wally is the John stand-in for Dean’s performance whilst Mary and Sam are the “it so doesn’t matter we don’t care who you think is hot or wanna bag or if you’re in freaking LOVE with Cas just focus on the job, Dean!”.
Watch it back too, when you flip between takes, Cas doesn’t even notice Mandy and his memory of Dean is kinda nice. Mary however… totally thinks Dean is being skeevy AF.
It’s all about Dean’s performance. It’s hugely linked to John. It’s fucking fantastic, just before Cas’ death bed confession, Dean’s eternal second half of the season months of worry and then grief that now could not be less framed as romantic.
Leading into a season that is ALL ABOUT FATHERS and specifically brings John up, literally out of fucking nowhere, to remind us that this season is SO much about Dean’s daddy issues and getting past them.
Letting go of precisely this kind of performance and accepting himself and who he is and who he loves.
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