this moment about sam remembering jack’s birthday?
dean blanks completely and sam remembers exactly.
sam remembers for the same reason dean forgot: it was one of the worst days of their lives.
their mom is gone. their best friend was murdered. and they had what they thought was a scary powerful creature on the loose.
and what i think is amazing is that even though it was the worst day, it was the start of a significant and beautiful change in their lives.
The LOOK Dean gives Sam.. That’s…not just startled Sam is quick to name a date. Look at how Dean shoots a very hard stare. His face shuts off, it looks like Dean tenses up, even fight-or-flight mode for a split second. Why? Because Dean does remember That Date but not as Jack’s birthday. It’s the date Cas was murdered in front of his eyes. That’s, I think, what Dean’s mind goes to first when Cas says that date. Then when Sam explains it’s Jack’s birthday Dean relaxes.
yes EXACTLY. i didn’t add that deeper destiel analysis on this post because i was focusing on them becoming dads and jack and feels related to that but YES
“forgot” is the wrong word. dean didn’t forget. buried deep to try and forget, yes. but he never could. not for as long as he lives.
Hey, Dad. It’s Sam. Uh… you probably won’t even get this, but, uh… it’s Dean. He’s sick, and, uh… the doctors say there’s nothing they can do. Um… but, uh, they don’t know the things we know, right? So, don’t worry, ‘cause I’m, uh… gonna do whatever it takes to get him better. Alright… just wanted you to know.
Call you? Are you kidding me? Dad, I called you from Lawrence, all right? Sam called you when I was dying! I mean, getting you on the phone? I got a better chance of winning the lottery.
I guess my point is that… if I don’t make it… the stuff I’d miss… it wouldn’t be things like Tahiti. Or the Taj Mahal. I’d miss more time with you. I’m getting that life isn’t all these big, amazing moments. It’s time together that matters. Like this. Well, who’d have thought hanging out with me would make you sentimental? I’ve had a good life, Dean.
:)))
I just accidentally swiped my glasses off my face in my horror over this post
Fair warning, Jensen and Misha are fucking adorbs.
Carry on.
Nice video cover. Someone at TV Guide ships Cockles.
I love it. Everyone else does a solo interview, but Misha and Jensen do one together. Yup, someone at TV guide ships Cockles. That, or Misha and Jensen are just naturally attached at the hip. 😛
Definitely if you’re thinking anything which gets into the territory where it could be baited then switched, I think is not really as far as I would take this speculation at the moment based on the tiny weeny little things we’ve had so far. A lot of it is what I would file under characterisation work which just props up here and there how characters feel about things or how we relate to them in the story in this context etc. In this case, Cas has been shown to be weak, not great at healing, and with a very dim glowing grace, as well as his quick and decisive offer to give it up for Jack – which of course doesn’t say so much about his choice without a reason to do it as sacrifice though is better than him doing it for Sam and Dean, at least – and we have the wider metaphors such as the stuff going on with Jack and HIS grace and the inevitable comparison of what’s happening to him vs how it’s gone for Cas in the past. Cas functioned fine without grace and never got sick as a human – he had his wasting illness when he stole mis-matched grace and forced himself to be an angel again, but was healthy and whole as a human, while Jack’s dual nature is shown to be intrinsic in a very different way to Cas’s fluidity between species.
At this moment I’d continue treating what we’re seeing so far as a discussion from the show about the subject, rather than assuming everything is foreshadowing, as it makes it much more interesting to talk back at the show in the here and now, and much less stressful wondering what it’s about 😛 I feel reasonably confident the show has given us a narrative since Carver era about Cas and angelhood that is still ongoing and hasn’t veered off course no matter what delays and distractions we have.
Cas just up and giving his grace to Jack would have been way too abrupt, though, and I’m glad he didn’t. At this point it’s just too early to tell if Cas’s grace is supposed to be a game piece on the board, though I suspect next episode, returning to the Heaven storyline, will give us the sort of information we can work with, so maybe come check back in with me after that and see how I feel about it then 😀 I think there’s a lot still needed to indicate it’s a part of their storytelling intent for now, so I wouldn’t get too worked up about it happening one way or the other, and for now just see it as part of Cas’s arc in passing moments rather than huge milestones. 🙂
Mittens of Sorcery 