Assbutt Business

No, but the thing about Dean saying that at the start and dying later on is that it seems like a cop-out to dealing with Cas’s confession, and seems like they’re playing Dean off as not caring, but I feel like it was the opposite.

Cas sacrificed himself in 15x18 to give Dean more time in his life. He spent his last moments telling Dean why he thought he deserved to live, why he was such a great man. Dean showed he believed Cas in 15x19 when he told Chuck he wasn’t a killing machine and let him live. Cas’s confession was a whole “I love you. I know you have had a rough year. I know you just want to live your own life. I’m giving up mine so that you can live yours.”

To me, Dean wanted to honour Cas’s sacrifice. While the whole “we have to keep living or their sacrifices mean nothing” sounds so lazy, that’s it. That was as far as an “I love Cas too” that Dabb was going to give us. An open-to-interpretation “I love Cas back”.

Because Cas gave up his life so Dean can live his own out. Dean, we saw later in 15x20, thought that once he died, he was going to hell. Dean was also convinced that Cas was stuck in the Empty. Basically, Dean thought he would never see Cas again, and therefore will never get a chance to tell Cas he felt the same. So what can he do? Live the life Cas wanted him to. Honour his sacrifice, show Cas that his love meant something to him.

Dean went back to pick up Miracle, the dog. He had a job application form on his desk. The vamp-mimes were supposed to be his last hunt before he got settled into a normal life.

Dying for someone is easy. Living for somebody is harder, especially when we know how devastated Dean gets whenever Cas dies. Dean is pushing through, trying to find every inch of happiness he can find (the dog, the pie fest thing) and live life. Really live it, breathe it in, because this – because living a full life was the only way Dean had to tell Cas that he loved him too.

SPN: hits us with Doomsday 2.0

2020:

It‘s actually canon.

“we dated...sort of. more like we watched a lot of old movies together.”