#medeah

Cas’ issues with putting Dean and Sam in danger are what drive his weirder decisions a lot of the time. He’s still an ancient being that is statistically more likely to survive incidents (and his track record with asking for help hasn’t been stellar for him). He probably should understand by now that they’re better together, but bad luck and a need for finale setup kind of prevent it even if he would have figured it out during the episode. The whole nephilim possession thing kind of prevents real conversation… for reasons. If Purgatory really is purity and truth, then Cas’ way of showing love has been to keep those he loves out of danger. That’s his priority. He still operates on it being the best course of action and he believes himself more capable of hard decisions. He’s wrong of course, but he desperately wants to prove that he’s not useless to both himself and the Winchesters. As Dean said “He’s not thinking straight”. There is certainly a level where I can understand his feelings though.

At this point, they’re pretty much riding on circumstance to prevent real conversation because they seem to want to reserve every possible resolution for later in the season. Which.. ok, fine. It’s a tv show after all. But man are they running out of scenarios here. There will be a point where if they don’t start resolving things, they’ll either enter retread territory, or they’ll enter what is the narrative equivalent of a fizzled out balloon.

They can only hold their breath for so long, and I’m hoping they don’t pass out from it. 

As long as the show keeps its themes up, the ending will probably be fine. Ridiculous and over the top from a story perspective probably, but fine from a character one. It will probably still have some form of sadness because most likely Mary and some other characters will die, but I seriously doubt Cas will. There’s a limit of how much pain people can handle regarding single characters before it gets gratuitous and becomes an issue. It’s not a good idea to be angsty for the sake of angst. Conflict must have meaning for people to care about it, and they’re running out of ways to use it. 

They’re pretty much doing what I thought they would do with the ep in terms of Cas powering up and disappearing into the wherever. There kind of has to be some positivity in the next eps though. More angst at this point isn’t a payoff, and when you wind the story up that tight, you kind of need something to balance it out if you want to remotely loosen it.(there’s another reason they should loosen it, but it’s hard to explain) I have no idea what their plans are, but I want to trust Dabb. I want to think he knows what he’s doing. This ep was like 80% setup which makes sense for its place in the season, and as setup, Cas’ actions are pretty well in line with that. It’s pretty likely that TFW will all be on the same side in the finale because it’s easier to write/keep track of with so many factors, and because of the themes of the season.

I dunno, though. They may have something planned that fulfills a bunch of narrative stuff and still pulls the angst card. But that card would not be easy to find and I can’t think of a scenario that fulfills everything they’ve put together and still does that in a way that can survive a holdover of several months. If they can do it though, good for them.

Hiya and thank you :)

In 12.12, Cas says “I love you” but he doesn’t look at Dean. He looks at everyone else. He only looks at Dean and holds his gaze after he adds “I love all of you.” It felt like he was scared of the full weight of the words, especially with everyone there. I think he did want to tell Dean he loved him but was afraid of the weight behind those words. Early in the episode, we have Dean’s reaction to Mandy flirting with Cas. We don’t know how that interaction would have gone without other people around, but we can get an idea by the insert of Dean’s face after she calls Cas handsome. 

Dean decided to hide the situation by spreading the weight out and making it applicable to everyone. Still focusing on Cas, but in a manner that pulls the weight off of his feelings. He doesn’t think he can react any other way and is scared to. And of course, Dean knows how to judge a room anyway, it would probably be even more awkward for everyone if he actually got annoyed.

When Cas thinks he’s dying, there are several people around and we certainly know that Sam and Mary are important to him too. He made that clear in 12.09. They truly are all important to him but his focus here is Dean(it’s Dean’s segment after all) We can tell by the face he makes, just like with Dean. In this case as well, the situation feeds Cas’ anxieties. He doesn’t know definitively that Dean cares the same amount about him that he does, so he addresses the issue in a way that spreads the emotional weight around to everyone. If it was just he and Dean, it may have been different. But as it stood, I think he felt compromised as much as Dean did before and didn’t want to leave all the weight of his death, and how awkward that would be with Dean. But he had to tell him, tell them.

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