Well, I kinda think it's impossible not to see Dean/Castiel because the show runners are deliberately pushing it in our collective face.
They've been marginalizing Sam ever since Castiel showed up, which they admit they did deliberately. The bit with the jab at fandom last season, and the fangirl in the first episode this season, really stuck in my craw, because it strikes me as that snarky kind of making fun that's mean spirited but if they get called on it they can say, "Oh can't you take a joke?" The first two episodes this season, I was getting the same vibe that I used to get from Smallville (when I watched it before it totally went down the toilet) when they were starting to deliberately script it so that Clark and Lex were never in the same room together because the slash chemistry was too strong. And now that I see in the teaser for next ep that they're putting Sam in Lex's White Suit o' EEEEEEEEVIL, it makes me wonder whether that's on purpose.
In any other circumstances, I'd like Castiel more than I do here. He's very good looking, and rumpled, and intense, which I usually like (I've had a John Constantine fetish for decades!), and I like his cluelessness. I just don't like the purpose he serves; his overt, deliberate purpose (not in-show, but as a meta-character) is to be a wedge between the brothers and be slash bait for fangirls. Sera Gamble has admitted as much.
But now the writers have put themselves in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't position. They've split the fandom in a way that makes it impossible to please both factions. The only thing that would be worse is if at the series finale both boys got girlfriends and got married. Then EVERYONE would hate it.
The isolated, codependent, symbiotic relationship between the brothers is what MAKES the series for me. I suspect that's true for a lot of Wincesters. That's why it's not just a YMMV issue for a lot of people. Dean/Castiel isn't just an alternate pairing -- it fundamentally skews the whole world the brothers live in. If someone is watching a show in which Dean can be happy with another pairing other than Sam, they are not watching the same show I am. Get it?
BUT I'm ... I don't know if I'm beginning to see, or beginning to TWIST my vision into seeing, that this is not a pairing Dean is happy with. The Dean/Castiel pairing is a rebound, and a particularly angsty one at that. Like I said, they're using this time with the brothers apart to make them realize that they belong together.
Which is why, yes, the blonde waitress was a Jess stand-in. This was a parallel to the first episode of the series. Sam tries for a normal life, and he tries to have a normal, blonde girlfriend -- in the original script, according to Anteka, he even sleeps with her! -- but he can't NOT be a who he is. He can't NOT be brilliant enough to complete the NYTimes Saturday crossword (FYI that's the one that has the cryptic quotes, it's more twisted than the Sunday one and a BITCH to do), and he can't NOT be a badass enough to bulls-eye three darts in a row. And then, of course, even though he can run, he can't hide, because the hunters find him and FORCE him to reveal himself to his blonde in the most brutal way possible. It was an amazing episode, and just more proof that Sam and Dean belong with each other and ONLY with each other. *adjusts tin hat, places spotlight to sparkly advantage*
But now the writers have put themselves in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't position. They've split the fandom in a way that makes it impossible to please both factions. The only thing that would be worse is if at the series finale both boys got girlfriends and got married. Then EVERYONE would hate it.
One word. Threesome! Dean/Castiel/Sam Everybody wins!
They've been marginalizing Sam ever since Castiel showed up, which they admit they did deliberately. The bit with the jab at fandom last season, and the fangirl in the first episode this season, really stuck in my craw, because it strikes me as that snarky kind of making fun that's mean spirited but if they get called on it they can say, "Oh can't you take a joke?" The first two episodes this season, I was getting the same vibe that I used to get from Smallville (when I watched it before it totally went down the toilet) when they were starting to deliberately script it so that Clark and Lex were never in the same room together because the slash chemistry was too strong. And now that I see in the teaser for next ep that they're putting Sam in Lex's White Suit o' EEEEEEEEVIL, it makes me wonder whether that's on purpose.
In any other circumstances, I'd like Castiel more than I do here. He's very good looking, and rumpled, and intense, which I usually like (I've had a John Constantine fetish for decades!), and I like his cluelessness. I just don't like the purpose he serves; his overt, deliberate purpose (not in-show, but as a meta-character) is to be a wedge between the brothers and be slash bait for fangirls. Sera Gamble has admitted as much.
But now the writers have put themselves in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't position. They've split the fandom in a way that makes it impossible to please both factions. The only thing that would be worse is if at the series finale both boys got girlfriends and got married. Then EVERYONE would hate it.
The isolated, codependent, symbiotic relationship between the brothers is what MAKES the series for me. I suspect that's true for a lot of Wincesters. That's why it's not just a YMMV issue for a lot of people. Dean/Castiel isn't just an alternate pairing -- it fundamentally skews the whole world the brothers live in. If someone is watching a show in which Dean can be happy with another pairing other than Sam, they are not watching the same show I am. Get it?
BUT I'm ... I don't know if I'm beginning to see, or beginning to TWIST my vision into seeing, that this is not a pairing Dean is happy with. The Dean/Castiel pairing is a rebound, and a particularly angsty one at that. Like I said, they're using this time with the brothers apart to make them realize that they belong together.
Which is why, yes, the blonde waitress was a Jess stand-in. This was a parallel to the first episode of the series. Sam tries for a normal life, and he tries to have a normal, blonde girlfriend -- in the original script, according to Anteka, he even sleeps with her! -- but he can't NOT be a who he is. He can't NOT be brilliant enough to complete the NYTimes Saturday crossword (FYI that's the one that has the cryptic quotes, it's more twisted than the Sunday one and a BITCH to do), and he can't NOT be a badass enough to bulls-eye three darts in a row. And then, of course, even though he can run, he can't hide, because the hunters find him and FORCE him to reveal himself to his blonde in the most brutal way possible. It was an amazing episode, and just more proof that Sam and Dean belong with each other and ONLY with each other. *adjusts tin hat, places spotlight to sparkly advantage*
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One word. Threesome! Dean/Castiel/Sam Everybody wins!
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