rewatching season 4-5 is like. one part of me genuinely does think early seasons destiel was mainly aimed at jokes and thinly veiled microaggressions. HOWEVER. carver writing point of no return, where dean lashes out at everyone he cares about and hits them where it hurts most - the context of his attack on cas is waaay too carefully thought out. dean tells bobby he isn’t his real dad; tells sam he doesn’t believe in him; and tells cas to blow him, that the last person who looked at him like that means he got laid, and winks at him. nevermind the extremely tension-ridden scene it’s followed by where cas beats the shit out of him. what makes this so different is that the attack is targeted and calculated, and carver decided dean’s choice of action against cas would be - flirting. which is an insane choice. he could have chosen to make light of their friendship. or to poke at his fall from heaven. but no. instead, what hurts the most is to air out the unaddressed tension between them. this is in season FIVE!!!! carver textually decided to make cas’ treatment distinctly different from dean’s other family. destiel was baked into the show from so early on and therefore walking it back later to suggest that even if CAS had feelings, dean didn’t reciprocate is - frankly - absolutely bonkers. if anything this is a far stronger indicator that dean knew exactly what was going on between them at this point, even if cas didn’t know or couldn’t put a name to it yet
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