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Meta on Castiel in SPN 6x21-6x22: "You fight and you fight for this family"

May 22, 2011 12:25

This is an add-on (an expansion pack, hee!) for my main meta post on the SPN season finale.

( some SPN quotes from prior seasons and brief comments behind the cut )

holy tax accountant, meta: supernatural

Comments 33

writingpathways May 22 2011, 16:38:47 UTC

Sniffle. I love our show.

dotfic May 22 2011, 17:56:54 UTC

Shooooow!

Ah, show you sly devil, I see what you did there.

august_monsoon May 22 2011, 16:38:57 UTC

HOW CAN THEY NOT REDEEM CAS? THEY CAN'T! THEY HAVE TO GIVE THE MOST ROMANTIC OF ALL LOVE STORIES A SORTA- HAPPY ENDING!

He's one of them!!! He's family no matter what Godstiel says, and I'm pretty sure Dean isn't going to give up.

Throwbacks at least is something that show does well consistently. BUT OH GOD THE FEELLLINGSSSS!!!!

dotfic May 22 2011, 18:02:22 UTC

Castiel is so twined in, including cues like these shout-backs.

If S7 goes another way on it, I will be wtfing like I've never wtfed before.

destina May 22 2011, 17:04:04 UTC

"I've lost Lisa and I've lost Ben and now I've lost Sam. Don't make me lose you too.

As you know, Bob, I don't find this line equivalent to Dean's line to Sam in Salvation. I find it a fine, fine piece of emotional manipulation in service to getting Castiel to come down out of his freaky god tower, which actually echoes Sam to Dean in Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (paraphrasing, because I'm too lazy to go get the DVD): "I've lost Jess. We lost Dad. Now I'm gonna lose you too?" I don't think that one equates. But I love the other two. *g*

dotfic May 22 2011, 18:08:13 UTC

I agree your quote is a closer resonance than the one I picked -- the one I picked happened to sproing in my my head.

It's true Dean was deliberately trying to talk Castiel down, and the Dean-Sam exchange in Salvation was purely instinct and impulse. So in that sense they are different. But the core of hurt and the things Dean fears and the underlying reasons he said it are the same to me. Dean was trying to keep Sam from running head-first into a situation that could get him killed, because he feared losing him. Here Dean's more self-aware and doing it purposefully but it is emotionally parallel.

counteragent May 22 2011, 17:13:41 UTC

Yay I'm glad you're not sad! I have like two super-Cas peeps on my flist and I was worried about you guys!!!

dotfic May 22 2011, 18:13:43 UTC

It was a close thing! This all could've been angry tears and deleting eps of S6 and me trying to break up with the show for the 13th time. I feel so, so sad for my fellow Castiel peeps. They are very sad. D: I'm all GUISE GUISE IT WILL BE OKAY SEE LOOK I HAVE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE!

MAYBE I HAVE LOST MY MIND BUT OMG. This hit my buttons right. I am good at least until 7x01 actually airs -- I am actually very excited for S7 and yet it could be the end of my glee.

(Also -- you are getting the schmoop thing we discussed).

counteragent May 22 2011, 22:05:11 UTC

YES!!!!

nyoka May 22 2011, 19:21:32 UTC

Great parallels.

dotfic May 26 2011, 03:17:57 UTC

The show knows exactly what it's doing there. Whatever the outcome, I think we are meant to believe Castiel has become part of their family unit. He is definitely doing things that are very Winchesteresque.