So, basically - word up, preach it sister! I'm with you so hard on pretty much everything here.
I'll add a couple of cents though:
it felt like everytime Dean called him, the general tenor was: Cas: "I'm fighting a civil war in Heaven trying to save what we - you and me - fought for." Dean: "Fuck that, I don't care! There is something wrong with Sam. That's more important."
Yes, it did. It felt exactly like that. And that was such a horrible feeling that I spent most of my S06 energy trying to deny it because wtf Dean aren't you better than that by now? BUT, having looked over all of that, I'm starting to think Dean's seemingly callous attitude to Cas all season was a deliberate decision on the writers' part. It was them playing up the miscommuication and mixed signals between the two characters, which would ultimately push Castiel down his dark path in the finale. They were intentially showing the negative side to Dean's character and how his snark and inability to deal with or show his feelings can have painful consequences.
IMO, and it's been said before but I'm coming from a different angle this time, it's an arc similar to Dean and Sam's over S04-5. S04 was about showing how Sam and Dean had communication issues (among others) that ultimately pushed Sam into darkness, leading to S05 being about the two of them confronting those issues, learning to forgive each other (because yes, Sam starting the apocalyse, but Dean did stuff wrong too and Sam have to get over that) and establishing a stronger bond as a result.
SO. If we take it that Dean (and to a lessen extent Sam) and Castiel's S06 plot is, roughly, a similar beast to Sam and Dean's S04 one - S06 SHOULD LOGICALLY (AND EMOTIONALLY) MATCH UP IN SOME WAY TO SAM AND DEAN'S JOURNEY TOGETHER IN S05. Which means saving Cas. Which means forgiveness. Which means all of them coming to a better understanding of each other.
...whether the show will deliever this payoff...well. But THIS IS THE SET UP I'M SEEING. The set up they've spent all S06 providing.
I'm not asking them to spend the whole season on it like they did with Sam and Dean in S05. I just want the arc to BE THERE. Because if it is then for me all of S06 will have been worth it and it will be amazing, it will mean the boys' story with Castiel has truely been completed having evolved through a proper range of the emotional and narrative spectrum (because I can't understand the people who argue the angel storyline in the show has run its course, when it seems so very much incomplete to me at the moment!)
Not long now until we find out where the show's actually going anyway... *crosses fingers for Cas*
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I'll add a couple of cents though:
it felt like everytime Dean called him, the general tenor was:
Cas: "I'm fighting a civil war in Heaven trying to save what we - you and me - fought for."
Dean: "Fuck that, I don't care! There is something wrong with Sam. That's more important."
Yes, it did. It felt exactly like that. And that was such a horrible feeling that I spent most of my S06 energy trying to deny it because wtf Dean aren't you better than that by now? BUT, having looked over all of that, I'm starting to think Dean's seemingly callous attitude to Cas all season was a deliberate decision on the writers' part. It was them playing up the miscommuication and mixed signals between the two characters, which would ultimately push Castiel down his dark path in the finale. They were intentially showing the negative side to Dean's character and how his snark and inability to deal with or show his feelings can have painful consequences.
IMO, and it's been said before but I'm coming from a different angle this time, it's an arc similar to Dean and Sam's over S04-5. S04 was about showing how Sam and Dean had communication issues (among others) that ultimately pushed Sam into darkness, leading to S05 being about the two of them confronting those issues, learning to forgive each other (because yes, Sam starting the apocalyse, but Dean did stuff wrong too and Sam have to get over that) and establishing a stronger bond as a result.
SO. If we take it that Dean (and to a lessen extent Sam) and Castiel's S06 plot is, roughly, a similar beast to Sam and Dean's S04 one - S06 SHOULD LOGICALLY (AND EMOTIONALLY) MATCH UP IN SOME WAY TO SAM AND DEAN'S JOURNEY TOGETHER IN S05. Which means saving Cas. Which means forgiveness. Which means all of them coming to a better understanding of each other.
...whether the show will deliever this payoff...well. But THIS IS THE SET UP I'M SEEING. The set up they've spent all S06 providing.
I'm not asking them to spend the whole season on it like they did with Sam and Dean in S05. I just want the arc to BE THERE. Because if it is then for me all of S06 will have been worth it and it will be amazing, it will mean the boys' story with Castiel has truely been completed having evolved through a proper range of the emotional and narrative spectrum (because I can't understand the people who argue the angel storyline in the show has run its course, when it seems so very much incomplete to me at the moment!)
Not long now until we find out where the show's actually going anyway... *crosses fingers for Cas*