Not the symbol of Adam wanting Pizza (TM) and fishing around about Michael's Plans (TM) a la Dean with Cas in Swan Song
He REALLY wanna know if Michael is gonna go back to Heaven or stay with him.
Cause, you see... The minute Michael mentions: "I don't know much about any of this. You'll be my guide," it's almost this weird sense of excitement. injects itself into the scene... and pizza. Michael's already eating a burger, but they go OUT of their way to bring in... pizza.
Then the PIZZA LITERALLY ARRIVES. Adam says thank you and leans down to savor the aroma...
Hilariously, though. He KEEPS his eyes down. Busies himself with fiddling. Averts his eyes as he asks Michael to FUCKING CLARIFY the Very Thing Michael just hinted at.
OFC Michael gets big sad about his brothers, his dad gone, etc. "In so may ways, I'm alone..."
And Adam is sat over there like
Cool cool cool play it cool he is being sad DO NOT LOOK EXCITED POKER FACE P-P-P-POKER FACE!!!!
Adam and his slice of angelic meat-lovers pizza pie.
Oh, my god. Now, he's staring around the diner smiling and eating his FUCKING CAKE.
On the heels of Sam being ANXIOUS about Dean encouraging shooting his shot, we get Adam surveying the parlor, and landing on a group of couples on a double date (again, not an accident, who these look a bit like):
...and then we PAN to a guy who APPEARS alone.
But Adam smiles a little bit here, because maybe, he thinks... Maybe he's okay if he looks like that to other people.
"Maybe I should get a little job... we're gonna have expenses, right?"
He's thinking about his future.
Adam has already told us he doesn't need to eat, but he's, uh. Wiggling his fingers nervously here as he talks about spending the last of his change.
He suggests maybe he'll be a bartender. (Yeah, his pizza and his cake bears some resemblance to Dean's roadhouse dream, interestingly enough.)
When Adam reiterates he can't go back to college with an archangel inside of him, it's an off-key parallel to Dean's words to Sam, his whole encouraging vibe of -> Maybe your life isn't gonna look like how you expected. Maybe happiness doesn't take the perfect white picket shape!
(BTW: Of course Adam could go back to college WITH Michael, but CRUCIALLY, the subtext here is that college is the thing to get to The Thing. It's the tool to set you up for achieving your dreams, and... well. Adam realizes he can skip straight to retirement with the thing he wants, no matter how it looks to other people.)
He smiles when he talks about the things he can't do with "Michael inside of him," because that's the thing that he truly wants.
As soon as Adam makes up his mind to embrace his future with Michael? Enter Lilith, in her warning yellow.
And she... she starts sampling Adam's cake.
Michael is STEELY and protective and resistant to Chuck... because he still has Adam. (When Adam is removed, he's more depressed and vulnerable ofc)
When she threatens him, she basically becomes a barrier between Michael and the cake (Adam).
He incinerates her for that:
EDIT 2: Can I also say I love the red wagon motif????
It's Michael giving up SOME control to Adam, it's very push-pull and learning. And like YEAH in childhood, red wagons are our fledging steps into independence. It's exploration! It's autobiographical! A wagon is a first vehicle. It's also about space, balance, and how objects fit together!!! IN THIS CASE, Adam is precious cargo in Michael's first wagon... but sigh. He winds up losing him anyway. :(((
After Michael murders Lillith, everyone is staring in horror. it's tremendously risky and rebellions. SOOOO OOC for the top military guy, and where do his eyes rest?
That's right. The Adam mirror. The future. Michael CHOSE that.
"Remember nothing," he says.
The pair couples turn back and smiles... And the queer couple turns to each other and smiles:
But LIKE SAM is NERVOUS, now MICHAEL IS NERVOUS.
Maybe he can't be happy, after all?
THIS IS what he means when he later says, "Since when do we get what we deserve." Like perhaps Adam too has realized... something will ALWAYS be coming for him and Michael.
This tiny, unhappy push of cake... THAT'S what it's all about.
Ah, yes. Michael in a foreign (god-) coded area, contemplating betraying God to keep the life he wants. He's Supposed to Want Paradise. He's a True Believer.
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(He pushes the cake away.)
I ALSO think re: that moment where Adam sadly says, "Since when do we get what we deserve?" can be about how Adam WANTS his weird little life with Michael, and Michael, so NEW to wanting....
Maybe Adam sense Michael is still so Conflicted about his father. It really is a bit like Swan Song Dean and Cas.