“One last time”? Jensen, we know this isn’t the last time. You’re too unhinged to let Dean just leave your body. This is probably the first time to many “one last time” lines you’ll grace us with over the next many many years
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1.13
-Route 666
-Sam’s hackles are up the minute Dean says they’re dropping everything to help a woman he knows. Sam is alternately irritated and amused by Dean’s trysts but he draws the line at someone else actually being important to Dean.
Sam acts exactly like a jealous wife. He says “so by old friend you mean…?” And then he crosses his arms and accuses “you never mentioned her” and “you mean you dated someone. For more than one night.”
-Sam is even angrier to find out Dean told Cassie he’s a hunter.
He looks like a scorned wife. He never told Jess, who he wanted to marry, the truth about his life shared with Dean. In the pilot, before she died, Dean challenged Sam by asking, Does she know the truth about you? She didn’t, she couldn’t know this part of Sam that Dean knows. Now Sam finds out that there is someone else in Dean’s life who knows their secrets. He’s threatened.
-Cassie is ridiculously beautiful and likable. Sam is too sweet to hold anything against her.
-Sam is paying very close attention to Cassie and Dean. He’s studying them, which means it’s really important to him to figure out what’s going on between them. He observes to Dean that she’s fearless and wouldn’t take his shit. He notices that they don’t look at each other at the same time, that they have unfinished business.
-Sam and Cassie are a lot alike. She’s educated, she stands up for herself and speaks her mind, and she’s the type to call Dean out. Dean specifically told Sam he admired the fact that Sam stands up for himself and goes after what he wants, and we know Sam challenges Dean all the time. Reporters also tend to do quite a bit of research, which is Sam’s thing. She was even in college at the same time Sam was, when she and Dean dated.
Dean met her and had the most serious relationship of his life during that first year Sam was away at college. John wrote in his journal something about Dean talking to a woman who is a reporter about Sam on Sam’s 20th birthday as they leave Athens, Ohio. Dean probably sought comfort from Cassie about missing Sam and definitely told her about him. Dean tried to fill the Sam-shaped hole in his life with Cassie.
-Dean can either have Sam or he can have a girlfriend (or he can have neither) but he can’t have both.
-Sam won’t let this go. He’s kind of teasing Dean about it but then he gets serious when he says “you loved her.” His vibe changes again when he guesses that she was the one who dumped him. He looks hurt. He probably thought he was the only one who had ever dumped Dean.
It makes him so insecure.
-Did Sam just think that Dean would never fall in love or get into a relationship? Is this the first time he’s considering that possibility?
-Sam reflects that when he was at college his life was so simple. Something about this particular case makes Sam miss when his life was less complicated, and the only thing different about this case is that Dean has feelings for someone. It would fit with Sam running away from his feelings for Dean.
-Sam coughs loudly when Dean and Cassie kiss and tells Dean to admit he’s still in love with her. Dean doesn’t. Imagine Sam’s face if he had.
-Sam watches Cassie and Dean kiss goodbye and then looks away with this expression on his face
-He asks Dean if a girl like Cassie ever makes Dean question if what they’re doing (hunting) is worth it. He also says he likes her, like he’s giving his approval. He’s doing the same thing Dean did in Hook Man, seeing if his brother wants to stay behind for a love interest.
They’re testing each other. They’re pushing to see who will leave first. Sam’s abandonment issues come from not feeling chosen and feeling left out, left on his own constantly while Dean and their dad hunted, the odd one out. It’s part of why he left in the first place. He thinks Dean needs his help, but he doubts that Dean would truly choose him when it came down to it. Before this he thought that Dean was choosing hunting over him, but now the possibility arises that he could choose another person. He thinks now that this is what Dean truly wants.
-Dean doesn’t answer Sam’s question outright. He just looks at Sam with so much love and tenderness and tells him to wake him up when it’s his turn to drive. There was never any contest.
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bear with me for a second. episode 13 was supposed to be the MID-SEASON finale. if the CW wasn’t completely bankrupt, it was expected they would have ordered more episodes for the second half of the season.
something tells me this isn’t the last we see of dean, nor is it the last word on his status. he looked DEVASTATED by the idea of returning to heaven. that ... that wasn’t a feel-good ending. it’s clear dean wants more. he’s desperate to find another mission to give purpose to his life, another story where he could finally be happy. the whole season was about this. it doesn’t make sense for his story to end here.
and the episode title? that’s no way to say goodbye? i think that was about dean. this wasn’t the way for him to say goodbye to his story. this was the mid-season climax, the tipping point where we realize the status quo no longer stands, and things begin to change.
i’m half expecting dean will become a cas-like figure, repeatedly rebelling against jack’s “natural order.” he’s the one with the crack in his chassis, the soldier who won’t follow the new orders.
but also ... jack isn’t chuck. he understands free will better than most.
ultimately, this universe isn’t dean’s. so i’m holding out hope that when jack told dean to return to his story, he meant HIS universe, the one where dean met cas in hell. that story has been left unfinished.
it’s telling that cas wasn’t there to retrieve dean. either he’s on board with dean’s multiverse traveling and interference ... or he’s still in the empty. and dean was driving across universes to find him.
i can’t predict what season 2 will hold. but episode 13 wasn’t supposed to be the end. and i can’t imagine it’s the end of dean’s life either.
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