This is Dean looking at Cas after he just unbuttoned his shirt.
This is Dean looking at a cake he desires to eat.
Do you see a difference? Because I know I sure fucking don’t.
Fuck subtext. this shit is canon.
That Dean has been looking at Castiel like he’s a delicious thing made out of something chocolate-y ever since they got back from Purgatory? Yeah, that shit is definitely canon.
You thought I was done with Rock and a Hard Place? Not even close.
The fact that they moved Bad Boys between Heaven Can’t Wait and Rock (where it really doesn’t belong) because of the PR fiasco at the start of S09 has always annoyed me, because 9.06 and 9.08 were so clearly meant to be watched back-to-back. This is why it’s taken me so long to fully appreciate the inversion structure in the two episodes. Just like the numbers on the lottery ticket, 9.08 follows an inverse structure to 9.06, and I’ll walk you through it.
The initial scene of 9.08 is the culmination: it is the end of Dean’s journey to Rexford and the start of his journey to Hardford (notice that both names reference crossing places). The story from 9.06 runs in reverse in 9.08, and I can’t believe how long it’s taken me to realize it despite the fact that we explicitly, actually get the “Adios“ before the “Hola“ in the episode, while we get the hello and good-bye in the order we’re meant to in the preceding episode.
To set the scene, we have Suzy Lee who used to be Carmelita and we have Steve who used to be Castiel. Only Carmelita was not who Suzy really was, and Steve is not who Castiel really is. Dark-haired man in a maroon hoodie is inverted in a blonde woman with a green hoodie.
The story in Hartford begins with the sad ‘Adios, always the adios’, the other story ends with them. Then Dean describes the sex scene: notice the placement of it. It’s precisely where the missing time is. Dean then mentions that things got sticky - the other story has the Zit Rien that turns people into a sticky mess.
“Are you sure we don’t know each other?“ — “This is not you, man. You are above this.“
Dean offers to walk Suzy home. Castiel asks Dean for a ride.
“Okay, lead the way.“ “Where to, Cas?“
Suzy takes over her hoodie. Dean asks Castiel to take off his vest.
“I can’t stop thinking about my friends.I’m so scared for them.Will you pray with me, Dean?“ — “He heard the victims’ cries, and their anguish, same as he’d hear an angel’s in heaven.” “You’re scared.“
Dean and Suzy sit on the sofa and share an uncomfortable moment. Dean and Castiel sit in the car and share a comfortable moment. Suzy stacks several books on Dean’s lap. Dean and Castiel rehash their history.
The new scene in 9.08 stats with Suzy needing to use the bathroom. In 9.06 the previous scene ends with Castiel having to clean the bathroom.
The scenes in 9.08 and 9.06 are preceded by Dean’s phone call to Sam during which he discovers the hidden truth about them: both his counselor and his guardian angel are under cover pretending to be something they’re not, living lives that aren’t their lives. He lies to Sam both times, but in 9.08 Sam knows what Dean is doing.
Carmelita was not who Suzy really was, but Dean coerced her back into the role. Steve was not who Castiel was, and Dean coerced him from the role.
Dean was impressed by what Suzy (”You’re a freaking legend!”) could do with tacos (”Well… They do not appreciate you.I mean… the things you can do — the scene with the tacos”) and was convinced that was the real her. Dean thought that serving taquitos (”Wow. So you went from fighting … heavenly battles to nuking taquitos?”) was beneath Castiel and was not the real him. (”This is beneath you!”)
“Yeah, what am I supposed to say? ‘Oh, yeah, hey, I used to be a porn star. Let’s pray’?“ — The other dude’s a former angel recently fallen from heaven.
Dean says Carmelita made him want to join a mariachi band just to be near her. Dean lied to his brother and friend, and left them in the middle of working a case to see Castiel. (There’s also grim foreshadowing in the fact that one of the most popular mariachi bands is Los Caballeros = the knights; Dean did join the mariachi band in the hopes that one day he would be able to be near Castiel again)
But I think “Hola!“ is where the scene from 9.06 stars, with Dean walking into the Gas-n-Sip, and everything between then and Vesta knocking them out happened at the end of 9.03. Did Dean kiss Castiel good-bye? I don’t know. He probably didn’t, but he wanted to. From the moment he heard that Castiel had had sex with April, learned that the guy he was in love with and believed junkless was capable of feeling actual human desire, he wanted to climb him like a tree. You can bet your ass there were dreams about the showers and the water pressure.
Suzy then asks Dean if he’s a bad boy, and Dean tells him to ask that in Spanish. Dean has to do something that he deeply regrets while Castiel is eating a burrito.
“You’re not like… the other guys in town, are you?You’re kind of a… a bad boy.“ — “You lied.“ “I do that“.
Suzy escorts Dean out, and Dean says he’s missing it already. Dean kicked Castiel out of the bunker. Suzy says “I got to say, I really missed that [sex]“. Castiel says, “Dean, you know I always appreciate our talks, our time together.“
Once you realize the stories run in inverse parallel, it’s easy to pick out the cross-references. I’m sure there are a ton more that people with keener eyes than mine can see. The amount of co-incidences between them is far from accidental.
And the most important is the narrated sex scene, which is exactly where you would narratively expect too find it. It fills in the gap. The fact that Dean and Castiel had sex in the fashion that Dean himself narrates to us is implied canon. Not fanfiction, not head canon, but actual fully intentional subtext that was rapidly becoming text.
#but honestly #what did it say in the script #’dean gives cas an approving once-over’ #’dean looks appreciatively at cas’ #’dean checks cas out’ #’dean runs his gaze over cas’s body in the way he might like to run his hands over it… like a lover’ #(sorry things are getting a little harlequin up in here but don’t act like this moment doesn’t merit it) #top ten least heterosexual moments of supernatural (tags via morethanslightly)
#no no no no #this is fucking awful though #because he’d fallen to earth thinking it would be okay #that all he had to do was get to the bunker #and dean would welcome him with open arms #and it wouldn’t matter so much that he didn’t have his wings because he’d have dean #and he’d have a family #and as long as they were there to help him everything would work out #and maybe being human would be a blessing after all #no one to pull him away #no one to force him to leave dean’s side #no one that is except dean himself #the one person he really didn’t expect #the only person capable of breaking his new human heart #he didn’t just lose his powers dean #he lost you too (via: noangelsinthegarrison)
We have seen many brands of beer on Supernatural over the past two seasons. Last season we mostly saw Sam and Dean drinking from bottles with red labels depicting the image of a Native American. This season we have seen blue and red labeled bottles mostly, while Dean was shown drinking Cain’s preferred brand of beer after he took on the mark.
Only twice have we seen the particular brand of beer seen in the above gifs. First, in 8x23, when the cupid delivered the beer to the men she gifted with love. Second, in 9x06, when the beer delivery man interrupted Dean and Cas’ conversation so that Cas could sign for the delivery. These two scenes are almost direct mirrors of one another, with the same brand of beer, the characters framed in almost the exact same positions, and the bright blue and red colors featured so prominently in both.
We can’t be certain what the intentions were here, but it I can’t watch this scene from Heaven Can’t Wait without immediately being reminded of two men falling in love with a little nudge in the right direction from Heaven.
