I see that they had Dean crying at the end of the episode, he should have also been crying during the confession. Dude was emoting like a damn brick wall.
I think his brain went offline when Cas dropped the bomb about the deal and then he kept dropping more bombs and Dean didn't have time to process anything until after he was gone.
Castiel started complimenting him, and genuinely meaning it, Dean's self-esteem has always been in the sewer, he never knows how to take a compliment(he usually assumes it means something bad is about to happen and lo and behold because that is the only time anyone says anything nice to him, that or they want something from him....) and that came after Cas told him about the Empty deal he made. Why would Dean cry when he didn't even know what was going on, just that all this information was being thrown at him once?
Besides which he DID start to cry but then the Empty showed up and Cas threw him half way across the room to get him out of the way.
This is what happens when people look at things through just one lens, all sense goes out the window. Dean reacted exactly like he should have reacted, it was entirely in character as well as in keeping with the situation at hand, which gave him literally seconds to react.
Ah but I was feeling ambitious and did do the work(not my gifs though). I don't see a brick wall at all. I actually think Dean is shown going through more emotions than Cas does, which I guess makes sense, Cas is trying to hold onto a feeling of happiness so the Empty will take him, Dean is dismayed and stunned and then getting desperate and then grief stricken:
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thank you! this is exactly how I read this scene as it was happening so I was so confused why people kept saying it was so emotionless??? Like I was legit tearing up from Dean's reaction being so blind-sighted and gut-wrenched from Cas' loss
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Besides which he DID start to cry but then the Empty showed up and Cas threw him half way across the room to get him out of the way.
This is what happens when people look at things through just one lens, all sense goes out the window. Dean reacted exactly like he should have reacted, it was entirely in character as well as in keeping with the situation at hand, which gave him literally seconds to react.
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Edit: The comment above they beat me to it lol
I'll watch the scene again, this makes more sense.
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