Okay, apologies for hijacking your post OP but I couldn’t stop thinking about this to such an extent that I just went to rewatch the entire Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet to remind myself at what point in the plot this scene was from because I needed to reassure myself that I wasn’t crazy for thinking this was probably intentional, because like, that’s batshit, right?
I am now 100% convinced this visual nod with the orange lighting and the blue cross in 13x06 was an intentional Romeo and Juliet parallel and here’s why:
The first thing to know if you, like me, didn’t remember, is that the blue neon crosses in the 1996 Romeo and Juliet are in the church at Juliet’s wake after she has faked her death. The first gif in this set is after Romeo has returned to Verona, and, fully believing that Juliet is dead for real, he has run and fought his way into the church where she lies. He is approaching her body here.
Another thing to note about the 1996 Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet is there’s extremely heavyhanded angel imagery surrounding Juliet throughout like, the entire goddamn film. There’s angels everywhere in her room. She goes to the costume party where she first meets Romeo dressed as an angel, white fluffy strap on wings and all. It’s not subtle. It’s Baz Luhrmann, none of the imagery in this film is subtle. (for what it’s worth, Romeo attends that costume party dressed as a knight)
Okay so, angel, believed dead, reunion, yep that’s enough for one simple visual nod to this scene in romeo and juliet that most of the audience of supernatural won’t notice, just for the sake of queerbaiting the ones that do notice because it gives the scene a SIGNIFICANTLY more romantic connotation, yeah.
But. Y’all. Do you remember what Dean did in the last episode, 13x05? As part of his widower arc spiral, when he couldn’t save the kid the MOTW ghost got, he fucking injected himself with poison to (hopefully, probably temporarily) kill himself so he could talk to the trapped ghosts. Yeah he told sam to inject him with adrenaline after 5 minutes to bring him back but he did not have an absolute guarantee that would work. It was heavily implied if not stated outright that he wanted to die, while believing Cas to be dead, when he did that. Meanwhile we, the audience, already knew Jack had resurrected Cas.
They really brought Castiel back with a whole ass Romeo and Juliet parallel, with Dean as Romeo killing himself by poison and with the same dramatic irony, and then shot their reunion scene as a visual reference to the most iconic movie version of Romeo and Juliet.
But also of course in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo stays dead and then Juliet kills herself for real. Well, Billie brought Dean back saying he was needed for something big (killing God) — was this also foreshadowing of Cas’ confession in 15x18???
And then we never got textual confirmation that Dean reciprocates! After the fucking ROMEO AND JULIET parallel! This show is infuriating. I love it. I hate it.
