second verse same as the first

[retro_eidas]

I'm probably slow on the uptake with this, but I noticed that in both last season's time travel ep and this season's, there was Dean/Cas shoulder touch of bromance near the very end of both eps.



In 4.03 it's Cas touching Dean's shoulder. In 5.04 it's Dean touching Cas.

With all this lovely mirroring, does this mean in 5.22 it will be Dean slamming Cas up against a wall with his hand on (or near) his mouth? ;) YES PLS!!

Also in both eps, Surprise Angel in the co-pilot seat with Dean-not-quite-having-a-heart-attack while driving a borrowed car.

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[godofstrife.livejournal.com]

Heehe, you put in more elaborate words what I was trying to say. It could be all business 'let's save the world but don't call me to chat just cuz you're as lonely as I am' but it isn't.

Take the whole Raphael mission. Cas said he needed Dean's help because Raphael wouldn't dare harm him. That's true. But Raphael made it clear when he arrived that Cas was only alive due to his unending mercy and that he would take Dean to Michael. There was no practical reason for Dean to be there, it was arguably even more risky this way. But they both kept this pretense up as a means to spend time together and getting the job done.

Certainly could explain this almost inherent need for closeness, despite his reluctance and some of his protests to the contrary.

That is just very a male thing to do. Not every man of course, my boyfriend is all for publicly displaying affection, I'm more in the emotional obtuse category.
Cas doesn't know of these social mores, hence no personal space issues, Dean on the other hand needs a reason to show affection.

[eido.livejournal.com]

Heehe, you put in more elaborate words what I was trying to say. It could be all business 'let's save the world but don't call me to chat just cuz you're as lonely as I am' but it isn't.

Although I am willing to interpret one of the Very Important Lessons that Dean learned in 5.04 as 'Save the world, but don't leave your angel stranded on the roadside. Let him watch you sleep (just like he got his freak on in the bookend ep)!'

Take the whole Raphael mission. Cas said he needed Dean's help because Raphael wouldn't dare harm him. That's true. But Raphael made it clear when he arrived that Cas was only alive due to his unending mercy and that he would take Dean to Michael. There was no practical reason for Dean to be there, it was arguably even more risky this way.

Yeah, you almost wonder if Cas asked Dean to help him either to test his loyalty (or testing Dean in some other way) or because he needed moral support, it's not like Dean would have been able to do a damn thing to Raphael.

Now you've got me thinking about it, but it was also interesting to me how Dean was present to these secret angel methods both to summon an angel to their vessel, but also another means to kill an angel (step through the magic oil flames, the angel dies). We already know that Dean learned the angel-be-gone sigil from Castiel from that glorious line in 5.01. I suspected back in S4 that Cas was eventually going to function as Dean's Obi Wan, but here we are in S5 and I think that's what's happening, but Cas doesn't seem openly acknowledging this role. Like he's keeping the teaching subtle and secret. Wax on, wax off, Dean! Is he afraid if Dean knew what he was doing, he'd reject it? I suppose that's possible considering "everything [Cas] asks, [Dean] does the exact opposite." lol

Or maybe Cas is afraid to scare him? I admit this secret!Obi-Wan Cas stuff is precariously coming off as hints of S3, when Dean was teaching Sam things he needed to know when Dean was dead. Does Cas possibly know his number is up? If he "never changes" (as, like Dean, I don't think anyone wants to see Mrs. Dalloway Future!Cas ever again), the way I see it, he either somehow goes back to becoming an angel or dies the way he is now. Since Cas probably believes he'll never be a proper angel again, so he fully expects to die with honor? Fall on his sword, if it came to that? That would certainly explain Cas' blase attitude about possibly dying in 5.04. Because he knows and we've seen with our own eyes what the alternative (or AN alternative, we don't know how much of that future was real*) might be and it ain't pretty, so he's not about to live to become that. I almost hate how influenced Kripke is by Joseph Campbell, because in the Hero's Journey, the mentor almost always dies. Granted, Cas DID die already and he came back, so maybe he filled his quota (like Gandalf), but since this is SPN and John (Dean's first mentor) has yet to return? I'm pretty certain I'm enough of a fangirl that if Castiel dies dies (permanently separated from Dean forever), I'll probably be sobbing. *sighs*

*I am really expecting Castiel learns that being human isn't the nightmare scenario he and possibly all angels (minus Anna) believe it to be. If 5.04's future was at all fabricated by Zachariah, that could be how angels perceive A) Falling B) What human life would be like if they didn't have Big Brother Heaven watching out for them. This is so ingrained in Castiel's psyche, he can't imagine falling could be remotely good or honorable. Because all he sees "is pain here" and when it isn't that it's nothing but empty vices, drugs and sex mostly. Human life - as angels seem to perceive it - doesn't seem to have any real meaning at all. Which is a perception that seems ready to get destroyed this season, with our favorite angel at the forefront.

Dean on the other hand needs a reason to show affection.

Which is the beauty of it, because show it he does. With how dangerous their lives are, it's all but assured Dean will probably have excuses to show it more.