Do you think that Dean and Cas will finally have a heart to heart conversation this season that has a beginning, middle, and end without being interrupted? Where they finally get to talk about everything and mend the rift between them? I really hope so
2/2Â Iâm the heart to heart anon! Like I would love if there was a moment where someone sat them down to air their grievances the way Sam and Dean did for Chuck and Lucifer in s11, bc it actually worked and was incredibly promising
HI nonnie!!
Iâm on the run and have a busy Canadian thanksgiving dinner to get to (and Iâll most likely add to this once I have time), but WHAT A GREAT QUESTION, because frankly, this is what weâve been anticipating forâŚa while.Â
Weâve seen 15x01. The rift between Dean and Cas = NECESSARY spousal discord. Dabb & Co know what theyâre doing here, and pretty much most meta writers in the Destiel community gleefully watched the EVER-heightening intensity of D/Câs romance-coded arguments unfold in their conjoined emotional arc for the better part of 11 years!! Dabb era, dudes. Family struggles. DEEP EMOTIONAL BONDS, frayed, to be repaired in the endgame.Â
English 101: writing an external conflict between two characters can inherently convey INTERNAL CONFLICT â character vs the self, thus introducing significant elements of character development and self-reflection that two characters, intentionally written as romantic star-crossed counterparts to each other, will think about, then either NOT act on or WILL act on.Â
In short, the metanarrative focus on Dean and Cas fighting means theyâre gonna need to RESOLVE it, and exactly, anon â since itâs the final story countdown, this also means there should be a subversion of every other instance in which theyâve almost hashed things out but were: A. always interrupted, B. gave outside forces priority, not their interpersonal relationship, or C. just plain olâ avoiding addressing it.Â
HOW MANY TIMES CAN THEY SURVIVE THAT? How many times can we survive the drawing-out of WILL THEY WONâT THEY/USING THEIR WORDS?
Lemme tell ya, I do believe weâre going to see the D/C narrative focus grow more potent the closer we get to 15x20, if not earlier. Again, PR isnât showrunning, but Jensen and Misha are fully aware and informed of their roles as Dean and Cas; they know their tension is a key emotional plot point driving the physical plot, always has been. I mean, itâs already amplified, right in the first episode of the final season!!
After finding out that God is the Big Bad, Dean and Cas must re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other. Again, did they inadvertently play into Godâs Angst Plot for them? Did they think they were saving the world on their own terms of free will when in fact, God wanted them to do exactly that â to ignore their self-consciousness and each otherâs emotional needs in the process?? *rips hair out*Â
Keeping up the awfully sad vibe of arguing ex-husbands a la 14x17/18/19/20, Sam continues to represent all of us. Currently, we donât see any resolution in sight; once S14 came to a close, they were still clashing. The negative spaces are NOISY! Once again, D/C = divorcees at odds, with what looks like irreconcilable differences. Sigh.
Itâs the classic trope of setting aside personal conflict to get the important crap done, yet not realizing that personal conflict is inevitably going to implode.
To get on the same page, Dean and Casâ preconceived notions of FREE WILL must be challenged, and true free will â> LOVE. God couldnât control the existence of love...the most powerful force in the world. The ultimate manifestation of free will. TFW threw a wrench into His plans when Dean, out of LOVE, refused to shoot his son, Isaac-mirror Jack â when Cas, out of LOVE, also raised Jack as his own humanized child alongside psychologically nurturing him with Dean â when Sam, out of LOVE, chose to be his teacher in the ways of survival and human difficulty.Â
TFW singularly chose to destroy Godâs script when they started loving the Nephilim, the TFW mirror, Godâs OG Big Bad for his cut-and-paste SPN series of The Winchester Brothers and the Angel Castiel: Same Mistakes Never Learned.
*Back to the point, sorry I went on a whole TFW-lovey-dovey tangent there lol â YEAH, I hope and expect that Dean and Cas will engage in a genuine heart to heart without interruptions, where they no longer let God perch on their shoulders. Itâs time for them to set their cards on the table. Itâs time for them to USE THEIR WORDS.
Romantic or not (lbr a non-romantic resolution â> greatest cop-out for a 15-year iconic institution, because why even implement consistent, constant tropes of a damn non-platonic nature without any proper follow-through, even in subtext?!), the fact remains that Dean and Cas are longggg overdue for a discussion â a deconstruction of their tension, clearing the air of ALL the stuff theyâve hidden from each other, and with bated breath, I wait.Â
(The visual D/C narrative also holds: they stand as a unit together, Sam positioned apart from them. Like, we been knew.) *trots around in clown mask*
Seriously. Iâm Destiel-positive so far. 15x01 simply strengthened my (cautious) optimism. If you want to read more about the D/C rift, with Jack at the core of it all (oh man, how fitting that Belphegor, whoâs taking up Jackâs image by possessing his body â and remember, Jack was the catalyst for both heavily marital-code unity and conflict in Dean and Casâ relationship â will seemingly take over Jackâs role as metanarrative exposition/mirror for now), I wrote these late S14/beginning of the last hiatus (below), plus x x
I discuss the Dean/Cas argument here, here and here â itâs both a break-up and argument entrenched in parental mistakes, self-guilt, and their ultimate bond with/trust in each other (particularly in relation to Jack, their subtextual son), where the lying and the dishonesty (a redux of S5/6 and S12) are combined spiral narratives of their relationship that they eventually have to break together. COMMUNICATE BEFORE ITâS TOO LATE
Iâll emphasize this again too â still highly relevant lol (14x18):
Cas is telling himself: if I was completely honest with my husband, without holding back, we couldâve been able to avoid this. I wasnât honest because I knew how much Jack meant to us. I was đ¨. I did it for myselfâŚI did it for Dean.Â
Dean is telling himself: I dunno, why am I taking my husbandâs dishonesty so hard? Because I đ him a lot, and I đ my son. I trusted Cas to be honest with me. We couldâve worked together. But, đŠ, I guess I wasnât as open with him as I was supposed to beâŚabout what I wanted, and what I felt.
Me: *slaps notebook closed* *coughs* Uh, itâs a â really long â work in progress. KEEP TALKING.Â










