lordwhat:

i mean i don’t really get what they were trying to do with cas’s story line this season now i’ve seen the whole thing.

everyone’s been saying it already but i thought i’d hold off on being full on bitter (don’t know if i succeeded, probably not) until we saw where they were going and they just were not going anywhere with it at all and had about 6 random shifts in tone. just a really bad piece of writing.

it seemed like they were gonna tell cas that he mattered

since he’s obviously depressed and the lucifer story line was going to bring that about

but in the end they had dean tell him that him risking suicide was a necessary risk and a commendable action which is just a really disgusting message to send out to a fan base who has struggles with mental illness.

I really really didn’t read this scene in that way at all. It wasn’t about Lucifer, or about that decision at all. It was about Cas seeing himself as stupid for making the decision in the first place. What did you want Dean to say? “Yeah, Cas that was really stupid.” and kick the guy when he was already down?

Instead Dean broke pattern. Instead of belittling Cas for the choice he made, he supported him in it, even if it wasn’t a good choice. A complete reversal from the tail-end of season six and the reverberations from that, which arguably led to Cas feeling worthless in Dean’s eyes to begin with. I have friends with mental illness. I have them myself. Agreeing with someone when they say they’re stupid is not the way to go, ever.

Argh, I’m not really sure where I’m going with this, so I’ll just leave it there.