Jan 3
Dean very much did become his Endverse self in a lot of ways, but instead of feeding Cas to the meat grinder to accomplish the desperate mission, he fed it Amara and Jack. (With, honestly, a bit of Cas’s blessing, especially about Amara, and though Cas looked for a different way about Jack, it felt a bit weak in the face of his struggle with Jack’s Big Destiny.)
Even if both regretted it, (“You consumed your sister?” / “Come on, a spell, anything! We’re not giving up on you!”)
It was done.
And it was done so late in the season and without much care, that honestly the series never fully recovered from it.
#decayed character studies#dean’s existential crisis#complex dean#complex cas#i don’t mind when beloved characters fail#but if they were gonna do that it should have started way earlier to deal w the fallout#nor do i mind sam being the one to have grace for once but it too landed weakly#because sam doesn’t have a good track record w this topic#and without recalling rowena’s rigged game arc sam’s enlightening a-ha! falls short of being believable for him too#but w respect to dean and cas it clearly set up two ppl who completely lost their way from their morals and values#and it threw in a few hair-hearted speeches rather than deal with that#you can randomly throw in epiphanies like that for all these characters and expect it to land#but they won’t if you do it that last minute