Which is the “major spoiler” in the TV Guide Magazine interview?
So, apparently Jensen revealed a huge spoiler, one of the few things (according to Natalie Fisher, who writes those awesome Hypable articles) that was a “do not reveal” (DNR) to the press. I’m guessing it was that Michael is building an army of "supermonsters" AND thinks the angels are corrupt, both of which are fairly major plot points I can imagine they want to save.
I had thought perhaps it was the part about Dean being awake/aware of what's going on during the possession, which was not a given. Many of us had speculated he'd be in some kind of dream (pleasant or unpleasant or neutral) since that’s what happened when Gadreel possessed Sam. But it’s probably not this, since that will be established pretty quickly in 14x01 and since, in fact, it’s something we could have deduced from the trailer where Michael is having a conversation with Dean while looking into the (distorting) mirror.
But the thing about building a monster army?? That’s intense. The fact that he feels like he needs to cleanse Heaven as well as earth because the angels are corrupt? Holy. Shit. Like, it could not be a more direct callback to Castiel’s arc in S6/7! Working with demons, monsters, anyone possible because Heaven itself needs to be purged. I mean, Castiel was doing it with the eye towards saving humanity (Dean) and Michael is doing it for the opposite reason, but that doesn’t make it any less of a parallel. And Dabb’s plan is to make Dean live that process through Michael? Remember how I was speculating that Castiel’s journey is going to become Dean’s and Dean’s will become Castiel’s? Whew!!
I had been speculating that Michael would enter Heaven as its new ruler, bringing that archangel power to charge it back up, and would have Sister Jo/Anael by his side (since she knows how to survive and side with the biggest player). And I’m not saying that’s not going to happen in some form, but it sounds like it’s going to be much more Michael vs. Heaven than Michael ruling Heaven. I wonder if this is why we got Naomi back? I wonder if Cas will have to work with her? Friends, I AM EXCITED for this arc!!!
One thing is for sure, I definitely don’t think the spoiler is the fact the TFW won’t be riding off into the sunset with a couple of ladies; J2 have been pretty much giving this stock response on the relationship question for years. And Jared’s decision to explicitly mention library sex is just a dig at Rich, not a hint that anyone else is getting busy any time soon. Plus it’s not like if they had any intel on Destiel-related spoilers they would ever in a million years give it away to us. So, please, no one get grumpy or freak out about those comments. Focus on the carefully-constructed parallels that mean that it’s more than possible, more than even plausible, that the writers are setting Dean and Cas up as a romantic couple. Will it happen? Not until the end is in sight. But enjoy the ride! 😉
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