Time for Cas to...do something
I’ve seen a lot of the “The writers are screwing Cas’s character” around, so...wonder how that’s gonna play out this time around!
In fact, new season means new ways for Cas to somehow mess up. We’ve already seen in the preview for the next episode that Cas is talking to the angels and refusing them...but that’s a good starting point, isn’t it? For something more to spark there? I mean, annually, Cas does something he thinks is for the greater good and...isn’t in the long run.
However, this season may be different.
I already posted something about this before, that Cas this season might be taking a new direction. Instead of thinking about the “greater good,” or even just coming back with a win for the guys...
...maybe he’ll think about getting his own win this season. Maybe that’s Jack?
Although I know I can’t revolve everything around Jack, (sometimes I do) he is a central part of this season. He’s also a molding of Castiel himself, and NOT evil. Jack IS a win!
However, you are correct, there’s more to this season than Jack...or I think there will be.
Jack’s development in this season represents more than just pulling himself out of a dark place, but pulling the F A M I L Y out of a dark place. I think that includes Cas, (I mean The Empty could definitely be a great way the writers incorporated symbolism...because it’s...a dark place).
Cas has been in this vicious cycle of messing up and then messing up again, but he didn't mean it! So this season it would be really nice if he, like, didn’t fall into that again. DRAG yourself outta that darkness Cas!
In fact, Dean might factor into a lot of this.
He said in the latest episode that Cas was a win, and it’s about time Cas started to understand that too. So this season, I’d like to see Dean teach Cas how to be family!
We already saw a bit of it in 13X06 with all the:
“It’s not stupid, it’s great. You look great.”
“Yeah, trust me, I know.”
“Wait was it that movie with the whiskey or the guns?”
“Literally both, you know this. I only made you watch it like 3,000 times.”
My point is, MORE OF THIS.
I HATE it when Cas goes off by himself, and it’s going to be a lot harder to do that this season.
I actually think that whole scene with the angels hinted at in the promo for episode 7 will end like this:
Cas feathers his ass back to the bunker and waiting there for him are Dean and Sam sitting by a lamp, dramatically flipping it on...because they just would.
Dean: Where you been, Cas?
Cas: I was...out. I was looking for Jack.
Sam: You sure that was all you were doing?
Cas: We don’t have time for this, Jack is still out there--
Dean stands up all “authoritative dad like,” and walks towards Cas.
Dean: You wander off, and bad things start happening. You wandered off before and the world became a living, breathing purgatory, you wandered off again and Lucifer started riding shotgun, and the last time you wandered off, Kelly got gone, Crowley killed himself, mom’s stuck in an alternate reality, and you died Cas! We’re not going through that again, I’m not going through that again! So either you sit your feathery ass here and move when I tell you to move, or I chain you up downstairs and we go lookin’ for Jack ourselves, understood?
Believe it or not, that was meant to be endearing.
My point is, they’re gonna be all over Cas this season and that’s going incorporate some “What it means to be family” Winchester lessons, or at least I hope so.