Ok but consider this: dean making breakfast singing along to Taylor and dancing in his socks, boxers and a tshirt. He’s using the spatula as his mic. And Cas comes in with his bed head and dean grins and dramatically sings “and to the fella over there with the hella good hair, won’t you come on over baby [insert ridiculous boob shimmy] we can shake, shake, shake - yeAH OH OH”
I am all about stories where the hero and villain know each other very well and were once friends, but I could deal with it being used another way.
What if instead of being used for drama, for wistfulness and pleas to join the other side, it was more like the hero looking over a battlefield going Seriously, who does she think she’s kidding, she’s been using the same chess strategy since we were seven or the villain picking a headquarters in a specific climate because she knows the hero hates hot weather or deciding Send in some forces to round up all the copies of his favorite poet’s work, that’ll tick him off.
Or most of all them still having inside jokes with each other.