#s2x22

Okay. Deep breath.

This scene tricked me because look, there’s Dean saying ‘I do’ in front of a church and it’s all so obvious it made people in the GA go WOAH NELLY and that’s all great. But I just had my soul handed to me in a big old painful pile because this isn’t the first time we’ve heard this bit of dialogue. Remember, this is Dean’s Big Win, he says so himself, so everything should be great, right?

Well there was this other Big Win that the Winchesters were after idk pretty much their entire lives. And when they got that Big Win look at this dialogue.

Folks they are standing over Azazel’s dead body at the end of All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 and this is the dialogue. This is what that dialogue is paralleling to.

“Yay! Cas is Dean’s win!” I hear you say. And I get it, I do, because comparing getting Cas back to Dean shooting the yellow eyed demon, their personal nuisance who killed their mom right in his cold black heart is great. Monumental even! But! “slaps you with a rolled up newspaper”  NO. NO. BAD. BAD. It’s a bad thing! It’s! *points at Season 3, points at 4 and 5, points at ALL THE HELL the boys have got to go through before they can actually celebrate this win as Dean begs Sam at the end of the episode. There’s more to come. This is the win, sure, but there isn’t time to celebrate right now. They have another demon to kill, Heaven and Hell to contend with, Michael and Lucifer. It’s paralleled up the wazoo.

It’s coming, guys. All those Swan Song parallels we’ve been talking about? And I know it’s not really Hell, but the path there does lead via raising someone from perdition. Huge biblical expectations, particularly on Dean, Death on his side. A prophet. I mean.