Rewatching Sam and Dean

SAM: Or it's an invisible killer. DEAN: My favorite kind. What do you think, Scully? You wanna check it out? SAM: I'm not Scully, you're Scully. DEAN: No, I'm Mulder. You're a red-headed woman. S02Ep07 - "The Usual Suspects"

HENRIKSEN: Well, you're not the typical suspect, are you, Dean? I want you and Sam out here, unarmed. Or we come in. And yes, I know about Sam too. Bonnie to your Clyde. DEAN: Yeah, well, that part's true. S02Ep12 - "Nightshifter"

VERITAS: So, Sam walking back into your life must have been a relief. Hmm? Mallory to your Mickey. And how do you feel about the band getting back together? Hmm, Sam? SAM: Look... what we do... is hard. SAM: But...we watch out for each other. DEAN meets SAM's eyes, communicating a plan. SAM: And that's what's important. And that's it. That's the truth. S06Ep06 - "You Can't Handle the Truth"

HEDDY: I knew those boys were trailer trash the moment they rolled up in that American-made. BEVERLY: Not to mention homosexuals. HEDDY: Ugh. Homosexual murderers. Like Leopold and Loeb. BEVERLY: Only hotter. S10Ep06 - "Ask Jeeves"

Dean: We're the brothers that rock together. Hmm? We're kind of like the American Oasis. Manager: Ew. S12Ep07 - "Rock Never Dies"

SAM: Is this how you pictured it? The end? DEAN: Oh, you know it's not. I always thought we'd go out like... Butch and Sundance style. Sam chuckles. SAM: Yeah. Blaze of glory. DEAN: Blaze of glory. Dean smirks. DEAN: Son of a bitch. Dean closes his eyes and smiles. S12Ep22 - "Who We Are"

DEAN: Alright this is what we’re going to do, next year we’re doing Halloween right okay? I’m thinking matching outfits like uh, Batman and Robin. SAM: No. DEAN: Bert and Ernie. SAM: No. DEAN: That’s weird. SAM: Yes. DEAN: Uh, Rocky Bullwinkle. SAM: Dean… DEAN: Shaggy and Scooby! SAM: Why would we? DEAN: Turner and Hooch. Ren and Stimpy. SAM: Come on now. DEAN: Thelma and Louise. SAM: Thelma and…? DEAN: We just put it in drive and go. S14Ep04 - "Mint Condition"

There are multiple deliberate parallels between Dean and Cas and other couples on the show, which clearly confirm that their relationship was written romantically.

In the final season, the writers repeatedly used Sam and Eileen’s romantic relationship as a mirror for Dean and Cas’s. One example: when Eileen tells Sam she doesn’t know what’s real anymore because of Chuck, Sam kisses her and says “I know that was real.” This directly mirrors the scene earlier in the season where Dean tells Cas that nothing in their lives is real because of Chuck, and Cas replies, “You asked what about all of this is real? We are.”

Another clear parallel: Sam loses Eileen and Dean loses Cas literally in the same episode, 15x18. In fact, the entire episode where Castiel confesses was built around characters losing their love interests, starting with Charlie losing Stevie, specifically to set up and mirror Dean losing Cas at the end. The writers genuinely could not have made it any clearer.

On top of that, they introduced Adam and Serafina — a human and an angel who were deeply in love — literally one episode before Castiel’s confession. That was obviously not accidental. It was clear foreshadowing and an extremely direct parallel to Dean and Castiel. Everyone knows the biblical Adam and Eve story, but Supernatural deliberately changed the narrative specifically to mirror Dean and Cas — a human and an angel, just like Adam and Serafina.

They did the exact same thing with Cain. They didn’t even cast an actor to play Abel. Instead, they created an entirely new character, Colette, Cain’s great love, specifically so she could mirror Castiel in Dean’s life. Cain literally tells Dean, “You’re living my life in reverse,” and says that Dean will kill Cas first and then Sam. Since Cain killed his brother first and then his love interest, Dean living the story in reverse means Cas is his Colette (the love interest) and Sam is his Abel (the brother). That was extremely explicit. That is not subtext — that is text.

And finally, in episode 15x19, right after Cas’s confession and death, Lucifer impersonates Cas in order to manipulate Dean into letting him in. That is the ultimate confirmation that Dean reciprocated. The show had already established Lucifer’s consistent method: he always impersonates the person’s dead love interest in order to manipulate them into letting him in. He did it with Nick by impersonating his dead wife Sarah, with Sam by impersonating Jessica, his dead girlfriend, and with Vince Vicente by impersonating Jen, his dead lover. And he did it with Dean by impersonating Cas.

Therefore, Castiel is canonically Dean’s love interest. Destiel is canon. You cannot argue against these canon facts.

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Yes Dean loves Sam same way Cain loves Abel and loves Cas same way he loves Collete, literally the script you posted show's that, Dean couldn't reciprocate because he wa stunned and confused, no where is it stated he doesn't reciprocate.

Where is Sam the most important to Dean, he literally offered to kill him it get Cas back,not to mention he seemed way higher on Dean's priorities both in Purgatory and not only.

Also random quotes an emotionally distressed character is giving are your proof? Dean also said he would rather Sam being dead over Charlie in s10, well I guess he cares for everyone more than Sam using your logic.

Cass was never Collette, Dean barely tolerated him most of the time and I don’t think he ever once stopped for Cass, in the entirety of the series, except maybe if Cass threatened harm to him. If anyone was a Colette parallel it was Sam and Dean actually took back control of the mark and stopped when Sam called out to him to stop.

If Dean’s lack of reciprocation was purely due to being stunned it would have said “didn’t” or at least would have left it at “too stunned to respond” not “couldn’t” as “couldn’t” in this instance means “not capable”. The way it was worded is truly damming because: “could have, but didn’t because too stunned to say anything in that moment” vs “couldn’t, because sexuality not compatible” regardless of time constraints.

No, Sam and Dean offered to kill each other to get Chuck to bring EVERYONE including Cass back, with no indication that Dean had any intention to live on regardless of which scenario Chuck chose. Also, the only reason that Cass was specifically mentioned is because he wasn’t disappeared by Chuck like everyone else on earth, he was slurped away by the empty, so if they left it at “bring back everyone you disappeared” Chuck definitely wouldn’t have bothered with Cass, and as it was their friend, they had to at least ask.

Those quotes are proof because Dean meant them with his whole heart, and proved it too, as by Dean’s actions, certainly no individual person or being was ever more important to him than Sam.

When your whole argument is based on parallels, your ship is not canon.

When Dean says he doesn’t not swing “that way,” and Castiel identifies as male and looks male, and Dean sees him as male, your ship is not canon.

When the script says Dean "can’t reciprocate”. It’s not because he doesn’t have time. It’s because he doesn’t feel the same. YOUR TRASH. SHIP. IS. NOT. CANON.

Cry about it.

Good lord, hellers are oblivious and deliberately obtuse.

I hope Jensen continues to spit facts.

No one cares what you ship. Ship all you want. But your feelings and magic and bi lighting and cake and parallels and bullshit don’t make a ship canon.

Finally, if parallels to couples made a romance between chracters canon, Wincest would have been canon 40x over, since season 1.

Jared, Jensen & Samantha | Purgatory 10

These are all on TikTok. I'm going to link them rather embedding them since there are so many. Also, the fact that I even saw these is thanks to this post on X who drew attention to them.

Seeing Sam face-off with S.Sam … it was just so good.

I think I like season 6 so much in large part to Jared’s acting. I enjoy watching him do his thing. And it’s kind of fun watching Jensen have to play Dean as more subdued to counter Sam being off. I know he didn’t like it, but I enjoyed the temporary change-up.

Also …

Sam is salty about this ofc, which is why he gives Dean so much shit about not being good with kids even when he is actually great with them. the idea is that Dean Winchester, while being his brother's primary caretaker at most times, was still a borderline (canonically?) abused child. He made fun of Sam the way older brothers do, he got annoyed of Sam, he'd leave Sam to go "out."

He didn't do a good job at teaching Sam valuable things like "sharing is caring" or whatever but he kept Sam alive. He remembers that part of his childhood, which is why Sam is literally the most precious thing he has. Sam, on the other hand, remembers growing up with his jerk brother and an absent father instead of all the things dean had to do to keep him alive ((proved in the early flashback with the shtriga)), which is why he's so keen on just leaving.

All of this “Sam is kind because Deann raised him, but John raised Dean,” shit drives me crazy.

Sam tries to be better, is more understanding and tries to communicate (at first) in spite of how he was raised, just as much, if not more than, because of how he was raised.

Not only are these, “who would you choose?” things tired and stupid as shit to start with, because we all have our own taste and it isn’t a completion, using AI on one just suggests you don’t think his physique is “good enough” to “win.”

Not only is this shallow, stupid, and clearly just shit-stirring, it’s based off of a lie.

These people are really weird. I do not care if claire likes sam or not. I mean who gives a fuck, if a minor character doesn't like sam. But the way they twists every post and every character into somehow an ammunition to elaborate their sam hating agenda, just gives me ick.

They do know cas destroyed her whole life, on the other hand sam just asked her to stop behaving like a child. A single argument and these hellers suddenly goes like

"uhmm ohh .. you know claire totally loves her dada dean and cas. See she said good bye. While we all know the pathetic third wheeler sam, nobody likes him. We all know he is mean and big bad. See claire didn't even say good bye to him. See he is so bad"

I mean this is such an pathetic attempt to use. And i am like its okay if Claire doesn't like sam, thats not what the issue is. Issue is the lack of media literacy and their agenda of twisting scenes and facts like pretzel just to hate on sam.

As always, the heller agenda blinds them to facts, and their lack of understanding of human behaviour just makes them look silly.

I feel like everyone’s tying it into what he said about his breakdown the night before, but we only knew about that bc he (and then Jensen) told us….

I’ve seen all the videos…he looks fine to me. I’ve seen some of these actors SUPER drunk. Looked like normal Jib con to me. Hellers are just mad because their sainted Jib Con is no longer the cockles con they used to brag about. Their panels never really happen anymore and Daniela doesn’t care to cater to them anymore. They have zero empathy for this guy and there is never a line they will not cross in bullying him even when he hasn’t done anything. They are professional whiny brats. It’s why they made up the lie about him being on something. They didn’t want people feeling sorry for him so that was a way to try to make it his fault.

The panels didn't go as planned because Jensen stayed on for Jared and Misha's panel, and Jared stayed on for Jensen and Misha's panel because Misha asked him to stay.

The weekend was a lot of fun with a maybe slightly higher than usual amount of chaos because of The Boys finally airing and Jared's return to a Supernatural convention for the first time in almost 6 months. But that hotel was packed full of nothing but love and support. I was in the panel room all the time I wasn't in ops and timed it all so I didn't miss anything from Jared or Jensen on stage (except the lizard moment).

People five thousand miles away complaining about stuff that didn't happen at an event they weren't at...

And that dude, was NOT born innocent 2026. The chracter wasn’t even written that year. Also, that’s not Castiel. 😂