To add to @bakasaraâs post, Deanâs death was extremely romantic for an additional reason: it was utterly clean.
If you watched the scene of his speech to Sam and didnât know he supposedly had rebar stuck in his flesh, you wouldnât even tell heâs wounded or dying expect for the lines spoken.
Supernatural isnât the most ârealisticallyâ gore-y show out there. The gore is usually pretty⌠fake-looking. You donât feel queasy watching Supernatural. But it still has gore. Heads get sliced a lot. Sometimes the heroes get punched in the face and temporarily reduced to bloody messes, for instance in the very previous episode, or even in the climatic scene in Swan Song. Even when Dean told Sam âitâs okayâ in Swan Song - the scene this was obviously supposed to be a callback to by contrast - his face is bloody and swollen.
At least⌠the characters groan in pain if theyâre hurt, you know? But not Dean as he dies. Itâs like the event of him being fatally wounded is a separate thing from his death scene.
Dean has a piece of metal inside his chest and doesnât even cough.
He talks for minutes, his voice barely affected. (Where is the metal rod? Inside a lung? Inside his heart? Magically in the middle allowing him minutes of speaking like it wasnât there? I never studied anatomy, but Iâm pretty sure the scene is somewhat not realistic.)
His speech didnât falter. The only thing affecting his speech is Emotionâ˘. Furthermore: usually, when a character has this kind of wound - something puncturing their chest - they cough up blood or are at least shown with a little blood in their mouth, especially if it takes them a while to die and they try to speak. Dean doesnât have blood in his mouth.
Dean is beautiful. Dean looks his perfect pretty self. This is the kind of death you expect from a tragic romance. When the heroine dies in a tragic romance, she doesnât look ugly, she doesnât cough blood, she looks ethereally beautiful. Graceful. Dean dies like the heroine of a tragic romance. Her hand, that was holding her belovedâs hand, drops down, and thatâs when her beloved knows sheâs gone and cries out in desperation.
He doesnât make a single grimace of pain. He says heâs dying but doesnât show it. Heâs basically a female character in a Joss Whedon movie. He needs to look pretty as he passes away gracefully, nice and clean.
There is no blood. Just a beautiful tear.
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