I'm Mostly Reblogging Supernatural Gifsets With Dialogue Captions As A Memory Aid, But This One...

I'm mostly reblogging Supernatural gifsets with dialogue captions as a memory aid, but this one...

Dean and Cas are at a rock-bottom point in their relationship in this episode - Cas is deceiving him and doing awful things behind his back, the full extent of which won't be revealed until towards the end of the season; Dean is frustrated with Cas's new evasiveness and unavailability while, as yet, refusing to doubt his motives for a second because they're... Well, what are they? Neither of them could tell you at this point. Neither of them would want to try.

Then they do this - this moment of absolute connection that stills and grounds them both for a moment in the middle of that ugly, unfolding storyline and all its conflict. It briefly cancels out Dean's anger and Cas's impatience with him. They each stand in awe of the other's ability to affect them so deeply by doing and saying so little - they both wish things were better between them but do they get that they miss each other? They both resent the other's lack of understanding about the separate difficulties they're facing. But they pause and have this conversation, quietly, and Cas chooses to refill Dean's glass like a peace offering to dilute Dean's hostility. It works - the gesture, the unexpected approach. This is intimacy and raw chemistry between two characters who don't know the first thing about how to handle it.

Slash fanwriters used to dream about shows giving us raw material like this to work with, while we were creating epic love stories out of a vague sense of incompleteness combined with that one, weird half-glance between character Y and character Z in episode nineteen of season four. We built on what wasn't said or shown - on something that was missing from the emotional landscape of the canon. Now I'm watching a show do this in HD and leave it complicated and messy and open to every interpretation. Holy COW.

DESTIEL IN EVERY EPISODE → 6x06 you can't handle the truth

you asked me to be here, and i came

Cas being a sarcastic and/or ruthless li'l shit when he's done with people is a thing I shall treasure for the rest of my life.

Cas being sarcastic - Supernatural (S15E08)

Amen

HOLY TRINITY OF TRADITIONAL BALLADS

That one time Cas was using all his considerable strength and fortitude to fight the overpowering magic turning him into a homicidal zombie maniac, Sam randomly insulted his car, and Dean tried to sit on the fence about it.

Plenty of shows these days play hard with the whole found family/choose your people motif, but Supernatural's on another level with organic little character scenes like this one among the protagonists. They're chugging along with the story of the week while enriching the characters like crazy. I love it. As a viewer, as a writer, as a lover of good performances - I love it.

"He stole your car in Blaine, Missouri, right?" ↳ 11.03 - THE BAD SEED

This whole episode deserves essays written about it, books written about it, both as a pivotal moment in Supernatural's evolution and as an episode of network television at its finest, but my brain stopped working because Christopher Heyerdahl.

4 / ∞ — oh, buddy, it’s only monday

Having lots of feelings about them