he’s never seen 14 year old Dean from that angle. He remembers looking up to this Dean, literally. That facial expression looks like he’s thinking “OMG he’s so tiny”
That is 100% Sam realising, for the first time, “This is how old Dean was when dad left him in a care home. This is how old he was when he stole to feed me. This is how old Dean was when I ran away, and he’s a child, and he’d already been looking after me for TEN WHOLE YEARS, and he was a CHILD, and HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS BEFORE OH GOD LOOK AT HIM.” (fozmeadows)
And this is a realization that Dean cannot sanitize. He can’t change it or explain it away.
Now Sam has to look at everything he thought he knew about his childhood and wonder what else he missed.
(If only Show would explore this at length, but alas, I expect that’s about as likely as Adam showing up again.)
not only does Dean LIKE CAKE, he has CAKE STANDARDS, he has a CAKE ~TYPE
omg this is beautiful!
Oh my GOD. “So sammy. You know I love Pie right? But what if I also liked Cake?” This show is killing me.
someone did an AWESOME fan comic with Dean talking about loving pie but being open to loving cake too should the right cake come into his life - does anyone remember that and have a link? I think we should bring it back into circulation due to relevance :)
What really gets me about this is that Adam admitted to using fan suggested “Dean-isms” while writing this episode. I remember him tweeting this a while back, though I can’t find the tweet anymore… I remember looking at the replies to it and there was an overwhelming amount of people yelling “PIE!” at him.
So of course, It would be super easy for him to use pie in that scene, especially since, if they were trying to remind you of Hansel & Gretel, well… the witch used cake and candy to lure them in, because those were things they enjoyed.
That comic of Dean & Sam about Cake and Pie is extremely popular in fandom. I wouldn’t doubt that Glass has seen it. In an episode where Dean admits to being an alcoholic, and unapologetically loves a Taylor Swift song, I don’t think it’s too crazy of an idea to assume that we’re supposed to see Dean as beginning to accept all parts of himself that he has usually repressed, including his bisexuality.
I also think it’s so interesting, because so many people seemed to notice the cake and the absence of pie.
“I thought Dean liked women? Why would he go for Cas[men]?”
