This is why I don't feel like you asked your question about the 15x18 confession in good faith, especially when you had a chance the previous day to ask it to both Jackles and Misha with a friendlier audience. You were even scrambling for a question to ask on Saturday and wound up asking about Misha's 50th birthday. But you got in line Sunday with the tweet of "going to get the fandom answers," but what answers?
Jackles couldn't tell us how anything would happen in the continuation if they were actively working on it. A lot of us speculate how things would happen in a continuation concerning Dean and Cas, but at least for myself and others in the fandom, I don't expect him to give away the play-by-play up on stage.
Sometimes, criticism with regards to jackles is just not giving him the time of day to understand who he is as a person. I'm not defending him because there's nothing to defend, but I'm saying that sometimes people are so gung-ho about hating on him that they never actually learn who he is as a person.
And then, folks get up in front of a mixed bag audience that he also knows is a mixed bag, and ask a question he couldn't possibly answer with great detail, nor answer exactly how you want him to -- because people who hate on him so much set these expectations for him in their head and when he can't possibly meet them, it's used as justification to rag on him more.
There's also just ignoring the context of the situation: When he's on a panel with Jared or Misha, he generally knows who is in the audience, which is why he was so unhinged on Saturday. He even said at the beginning of his solo panel on Sunday that he was nervous. It's known, in fandom, that he is often nervous when he does a solo panel. It's always been like that. He doesn't do them often enough like Misha does, so he can just go with the flow. And if the folks constantly criticizing him ever gave him a moment of grace, they'd have known that before asking that kind of question in front of an audience that straddles two very different sides of the fandom. And he's highly aware of that. He's been doing this for years.
He's the only actor out of the three with a wide range of fans and is often pulled and pushed between them. He also doesn't like confrontation or telling others how to feel. The fact that we got this detailed answer about it is enough to cheer!
Also, I feel like criticism of this answer willfully ignores everything else he's said over the last few years regarding Destiel and 15.18.
Could his wording have been better? Yes. I've read the transcript, I've watched the video and his stuttering along indicates he's trying to choose his words carefully. And sometimes when we do that, we kinda stumble.
He's not perfect, not by any means, but ignoring the substance of the answer just because someone thinks you "know Dean the best" shows me, and likely many others, that this question falls more into the lane of 'justification' to hate on him more.
I hope one day you'll want to join in on the discussion rather than point at people who are, and go "people with terminal Jackles disease" and "Jackles apologists" as if he did anything wrong.
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