#dencon

Jared answered a question about a scene / character dynamic he was not at all involved in. He should not have done that.

Earlier, Jensen brought up 15x18 unprompted again, for the record.

But THIS question was asking “When did you know Cas was in love with Dean?”

Jensen said he knew for a fact that Dean didn’t know till the end because that’s how he played it, and he went to discuss when he as JENSEN found out, and… he never got to answer, because Jared felt compelled to spontaneously rant a “no homo.”

I really need everyone to know and understand that the validity of Cas’ confession being romantic was not questioned by Jensen or called “open to interpretation” until the other person on that stage—who shouldn’t have answered at all—opened his mouth and spoke for 2 minutes. Badly.

Jared’s entire rant came across as a VERY bad attempt at a “we know who’s sitting in this room let’s not alienate this particular audience” answer that then parroted homophobic talking points. Jensen backpedalled after that, and that’s why it went off the rails.

It basically went like this: 

-Jensen answering the question as asked

-Jared going the fuck off and basically turning it into "hey love is love, not sex, who knows what it was, you decide" (with a lot of bad things / parroted talking points said in there)

-Jensen then backpedaling and doing a blanket "open to interpretation" sort of approach, which was not really the question at all

I think we’ve all expected (and can continue to expect) for some time now that “open to interpretation” is the company line that has been / will be required about Dean. But thus far, it’s not how Jensen himself has approached the topic of Cas’ confession at all.

And again, it was not the question asked here. There was no need for this.

Jared fucked up, unprompted, to put it mildly. He felt the need to “no homo” Cas’ confession. That was not where things were going until that very bad, very appalling rant.