Dicks with Wings

[sistermagpie]

So Supernatural was on last night, which means time for the weekly round of "who's the biggest jerk and why, and who owes what to who..." Since I’ve been reading a lot about it, I'm going to say ...

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[shaggydogstail]

Yes, this. I'm really glad that Castiel is still Very Much an Angel, not some sort of superpowered human with amusing social issues. His otherness is fundamental to his character, and while I can understand viewers judging him by human standards to an extent (we're all human, after all) it just doesn't work like that.

When Castiel says "you didn't" to Sam regarding making bad choices, I don't think he's joining in the fandom debates about whose fault everything is. I think he's just flatly stating that trusting the wildcards that are humans is just far too risky.

Absolutely. What Castiel says is true, and it's not about any Apocalypse Point Scoring. The fact that Jesse is a child really underlines the human/angel divide here - Sam and Dean (and viewers) see Jesse as an innocent child, and are naturally more protective of him because of his age. Castiel doesn't have this instinct (why should he?) so from his pov Jesse's age makes him more dangerous - if an intelligent, rational adult like Sam can't make the right choices with his super-powers, how can a child be expected to do it?

[sistermagpie]

And Sam makes the same connection in the episode, that he, too, was a human who had dangerous powers and he was manipulated into using them badly. Sam's a good guy, committed to keeping Lucifer in hell, and yet the choice he made was wrong. Sam just related himself to Jesse in a slightly different way when he said he made the wrong choice and needed to believe someone else could. The central concept was pretty hard to avoid making the comparison, really!