It’s Not Affecting Life Support

This was a thoughtful choice. Everything had to be set up and staged to get this shot. This is a set - not a car on a real highway where this happened by chance. Jensen had a mark. The lights were rigged. The angle and temperature of the lights were chosen to set a specific mood for the scene overall.

Everyone who worked to create this scene was a seasoned professional who knew how to tell a story within seconds with minute detail. It's subtle. While we might not literally be thinking "oh there's light on Dean's face, so that means that he's allowing himself to hope because Cas, his favorite person, is alive". Like, no. We already know Cas is alive and fine because we've been watching him annoy The Shadow for a few weeks. But Dean doesn't know that.

Anyway. All of this was intentional. It continues to be wild to me that given the constraints of production schedules, CW fuckery, how many people were involved in the business of making this show in general, that there are so many moements of just really lovely and subtle filmaking like this. They didn't have to go so hard, but they did.

Spoilers TBB#3

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