Itâs spec time: Empty spaces
I want to use this opportunity to talk about every possible ending I saw out there and, using my natural talent of seeing the worst in the best, explore the reasons why each has no sense (except The One, of course).
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Thatâll be a long trip, hon, make yourself comfortable.
Cas is coming back, but Dean keeps it friendly (friendzone much?)
Cas comes back in another vessel
Cas comes back and the whole âsharing the vesselâ thingy
Cas comes back, where a) we get a full Destiel endgame and b) âHello, Deanâ, cut to black, an open ending free for interpretation
Now, starting from the top.
Whatâs wrong with this one?Â
Oh boy, where should I even start? I have a whole âLove Always Winsâ on it, but to sum up, thereâs no reason for Cas not to be back except if thereâs someone hating him / hating Misha / hating us on the crew.
He has been to Empty, came back twice. Heâs not even the only one jumping in and out, so the finality of this death is veryâŠweak, vague?Â
The whole season is Destiel centered (bite me, antis), the arc of their relationship is the foundation, itâs also mirrored in other relationships through the season - Sam and Eileen, Charlie and Stevie (also, Stevie? Gas-n-Sip Steve anyone?), Earth and humanity. Separated, but reunited.Â
Only Dean has an emptiness waiting to be filled.
The whole ep19 is screaming about this void.
(and metaphorical emptiness, as well)
Empty is The Big Bad this season. Why?
Does that look like anything Chuck-related to anyone? No? Didnât think so.
And following the metaphor, to defeat the empty, you should fill it up with someone something.Â
Cas is coming back, but Dean keeps it friendly, brotherly
Dean Winchester is the most repressed son of a bitch the sun ever shone on, but itâs clear as a day, that the walls are crushing. The whole âI want to experience things for the first timeâ, the longing in his looks at Garth and his wife dancing.Â
He didnât want to bother Sam when Mrs B went nuts, because he wanted Sam to have a nice evening with Eileen, he wanted his brother to have one thing Dean himself thought he could never have - a chance. To love, to be loved, not to be alone anymore. We always wish others what we would want for ourselves.
And here enters the lamp with a steel chair.
We can joke all we want, but lets once again look at our parallels: Sam and Eileen, Charlie and Stevie. All of them âlet the guard downâ, allowed themselves to love. âThe best eggs in her lifeâ, anyone? This post lives in my head rent free, I had to get rid of 2k words in French I knew to make a place.
So, I think we agree on this once, as well - not gonna happen.
Cas comes back in another vessel
To fight this argument, my friend, we will have to think about our good olâ pal Jimmy Novak. And his little daughter, Claire. And the way things ended up for them, because Castiel took over his body. Remember how brokenhearted Cas was, when Jimmy was gone? Remember how he said that ruining Jimmyâs family and his life was the biggest regret of his life?
Yeah, see, I canât imagine any situation where this end justifies the means.
Not for Castiel, for sure. So, thatâs a strong no, too. Â
Cas comes back and they are âsharing the vesselâ
In the blue corner we have Castiel, whoâd hate to take over another body. In the red one, we have Dean, who had the whole âMichael, we had a dealâ fiasco, all the drowning inside his own head, being powerless and not his own man for some time. And Dean even has voiced his fears to Cas, so they both are clear on his feeling about this âexperienceâ.
Throw into it the whole narrative of the season (of the show?) centered around the free will, about being able to make their own choices.
Add some more salt with narrative of âWe are realâ, and multiple times one character had to âwake upâ another one for them to be back to reality.
I mean, whatâd be different?
This time Deanâd be stuck in between the Dream World where he has a life with Cas and the Aching Reality without him? How cruel is that?
The ending of the show is about a new chapter, a fresh start, not about never finishing the last page of the book you love so much just to keep the story running, even if only inside your head.
I personally would be very disappointed and hurt with this outcome.
So, the only one left isâŠ
Cas is coming back and Dean reciprocates
I donât know how, I donât know when, I donât know if we even get to see him or it is just âHello, Deanâ and cut to black, and we only get the close shot of Deanâs widening eyes and tears gleaming in them once he recognizes the voice.
Of course Iâm clowning for the whole cycle, for Dean speaking his truth, loud and clear, for everyone to hear (especially antis with their âbrotherly loveâ).
Of course Iâm clowning for him pulling Cas in a hug and muttering âYou stupid son of a bitch, donât you dare leaving me again like this. Ever!â.
Iâm the biggest clown alive, honk honk.
Will I be disappointed with the âHello, Deanâ ending? Yes, I will. Itâs bittersweet, weâve clowned for too long to get just that.Â
We deserve good things happening to them and to us, too, we deserve certainty.
We deserve the happy end, for a change.
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