Remember Billie over in the Empty? She’s got Jack. She’s got the Shadow.
Rowena just triggered a magic soul-trap death spell which filled her with souls and the infinite potential that lies before death. Which she ONLY did because Billie told her and Sam a prophecy that Sam would kill her. Rowena might be dead, a passing tool of Billie-as-Death trying to avert the ghospocalypse. But that end goal seems a bit…small for Billie, doesn’t it? I prefer to think that Rowena’s another piece added to team Death for the truly BIG PICTURE game yet to come.
Billie’s setting up a chess board. What’s her game?
The same game Cas was playing trading any hope of future happiness to the Shadow in exchange for Jack’s soul in 14.08.
He’s got that… no hope of happiness ever, right? And Rowena’s fulfilled her prophecy, too… there’s a bigger game happening here.
It’s been months and I’m still not over the fact that Castiel gave up his literal eternity so that Sam and Dean could have just what maybe 30 years tops with their adopted son Jack only to watch his father kill him a couple of months later. Geez, what a horrible thing for Cas to be going through while also facing that the people he gave up his eternity for are angry with him.
And it became our problem too because we suffer for him and with him 😭
For anyone who still doesn’t understand why people relate to Castiel, defend him fiercely, and root for his happiness:
Have you ever felt like you were always standing on the outside looking in no matter how hard you tried to adapt and belong?
Have you ever thought you did something right, for the right reasons, only to be told you were wrong over and over, or worse, selfish when the cost you paid was dear?
Have you ever felt no matter how many battles you fight for others, when peace again reigns and those you fought alongside don’t need your help anymore, that you’re actually all alone and no one has your back?
Have you ever given yourself to the point of feeling profoundly empty, emotionally and physically, and gotten little to nothing to hold on to in return?
Yeah. Those are just a few of the reasons he deserves better - a few of the reasons we all do.
Honestly, the boys defeating the apocalypse in three episodes so they could spend the rest of the season getting Dean and Cas back together is a plot twist I did not see coming
okay yes this is upsetting, and this is painful, and did I cry? you bet your sweet ass i did. a lot. but this is the first… real conversation dean and cas have had in fucking years. this is amazing. this can’t be brushed under the rug.
cas is gonna have to end up with the winchesters because they’ve sunk too much time into establishing him as family. the show won’t end with him off doing his own thing. this means another conversation is gonna need to happen, but more to the point, this means that dean will have to take a serious step back and think about his and cas’s relationship: what it is and what it means to him.
and then just like cas told him, he’s gonna have to tell cas.
supernatural either just set up a straight shot to endgame deancas, or have ramped up the gay to pull off the most spectacular queerbait in TV history.
I think what killed me the most was “you and Sam have each other”, like cas was never part of that unit and never had hope to be part of that unit, that he was just a third wheel and a tool along for the ride until he wasn’t needed anymore. it’s literally what he’s been feeling from the beginning, and based on recent events his worse fears have been realized.
i’ve clowned about deancas for ten seasons straight and some of y'all really think i’m about to stop now lmao it’s the last season i’ve got absolutely nothing to lose it’s not like i had any dignity in the first place
OKAY HI EVERYBODY GUESS WHO HAS BEEN SCREAMING OVER ON TWITTER FOR HALF AN HOUR!
There I was happily trying to watch the Great British Bake Off as you do, and my notifications start blowing up because someone decided to go write a ridiculous spoilery article about season 15 in the TV Guide magazine and all the good and terrible things we have to look forward too! So I promised I would attempt some sort of time line of spoilers and events so that we can jumble together some expectations (and some yummy speculation) about the upcoming season!
Episode 1 - we know that Cas is in this episode as Misha was filming. We know that Alex was also filming though potentially either as a corpse, or as a manifestation of someones guilt/hallucination (these are theories not confirmed). Other than this we know that Jack “won’t be coming back from the Empty for a while now” and hasn’t been seen filming since. (source)
Episodes 2 and 3 - The main spoilers of relevance are that Dean and Cas are still not okay with each other. There is tension between them and they won’t be okay for a while (sources on this are from SDCC and well, everywhere, unless you’ve actually been living under a rock all summer).
“Theres a scene we shot recently that really got to me. Cas decides he’s going away for a while. And it wasn’t necessarily a goodbye, but it felt like that to me.”
“God becoming his primary enemy bent on destroying everything he cares about is a really difficult transition for Cas to go through” as a result, after a few episodes of chaos, Cas gets fed up and takes a personal time-out before returning to the action, or as Collins puts it, “He leaves in a huff.”
So we have been speculating that this likely takes place in episode 3 following some big dramatic showdown. Cas leaves because he just can’t deal with everything that is happening. Poor angel has lost his son, found out his father is basically enemy number 1, and he has lost the one person he cares about most in the universe (honestly I just don’t see Sam falling out with Cas here because those two are TIGHT but Sam’s friendship alone won’t be enough to make Cas stay - it’s the DeanCas tension that all the PR has been going on about lately).
So then we have two Cas free episodes with 4 and 5 (and I love that there was early speculation following a pic that Jensen posted that Dean might have a beard in episode 4 because OMG GRIEF BEARD OVER LOSING CAS HELLO YES PLEASE GIMME THIS!)
Episode 6 set spoilers show Jared and Misha filmed together, whereas there were very few Jensen sightings. We can therefore speculate that Sam reaches out to Cas because he is fed up of his brothers sulking? Or maybe Cas finds a hunt and calls Sam because he’s still mad at his husband. Or well, anything along these lines. If Dean and Cas don’t reunite in episode 6, then that makes for a very interesting timeline with episode 7. Which is looking to be EPIC.
We have received quite a few spoilers for episode 7 so far. We know that Christian Kane is going to be playing an “old friend” of Dean’s from his past (who it appears Sam doesn’t know, or at least isn’t involved with). We know there will be a fight scene which “the fans will love” whatever that means, and we know that they filmed at “Swayze’s bar”. [Twitter Source]
*rubs temples and tries not to reach for the red nose straight away*
We also now know that Jensen will be singing in this episode and that Dean and Leo have a “wild night” together where Dean will “recapture his mojo”[Twitter Source]
*starts painting face with red and white*
So Dean was down on his mojo eh Dabb? This is starting to sound a bit like early season 13. Dean clearly doesn’t take too well to Cas leaving him in episode 3. >.>
Now I am convinced that no matter what happens in episode 7, the homoerotic tension is gonna be EXTREME, but please allow me to go full clown mode here for a second
*adjusts rainbow wig*
*HERE BE SPECULATION FOLKS - JUST SOLID CLOWN FACED SPECULATION*
If this episode does indeed go down the route of Leo being an ex boyfriend, if something DOES happen between Dean and Leo beyond just bros being bros, then we have a legit coming out episode here following a huge bust up with his actual husband that somehow ends with Dean getting his mojo back. This episode, like every Dean focused episode, usually ends up with Dean getting some big realisation. Dean growing a little bit more, and the audience learning something new about him. Whatever goes down, we are now in a prime position for a DeanCas reunion either by episode end or in episode 8.
IF in episode 8 Dean is able to reconcile with Cas in someway, but because some other horrible shit goes down (which based on latest spoilers could potentially be an Adam/OG!Michael return/Cage breakout of hell nightmare) plus since episode 8 is a Bucklemming episode meaning it will be overly jam packed with plot stuff so a potential Jack return plus Empty entity in this one too - then…
*deep breath*
The time line fits.
Episode 8 plot filled mayhem interrupts a true DeanCas make up scene but we get at least some reveal that Dean wants to have a “conversation” with Cas, then imagine if following the episode 8 drama Jack returns. Imagine if we get a midseason finale in episode 9 where for at least a small part of the episode it looks like the family is back together? Following all the angst and separation of the early season we are right back to where we were during the midseason finale of season 14 - TFW2.0 together again and fighting side by side. Enough to bring some joy to our poor angels otherwise broken heart?
Imagine if though, when all is said and done, right after the boys think they have a win, Dean gets his moment. The show has already given us his coming out ep. He has already realised what it is he truly wants, now he finally gets the chance to reach out and grasp for it…
But when he does it’s a moment too late. It’s time to pay up. Cas gets his moment of true happiness - and the Empty takes him. Midseason finale ends with a horrified Dean having just laid his heart on his sleeve, and a dead Castiel at his feet.
THE TIMELINE FITS.
(I know. I’m a clown for having any hope in this - but my god the potential is too much for me to bare. HONK HONK)
Standard Disclaimer: Nothing I say here is claiming to be factual other than sources from PR related material and spoilers from set. Speculation is all based on what we have seen and my own foolish hope that this show might actually go the way it has been building up to for 10 fucking years. I am not a psychic. I do not have a crystal ball. Readers are asked to manage their own expectations and not blame me for daring to squee about my own excited enthusiasm on the internet on my own blog. Hate is not welcome. Negative comments and moaning accusations are not welcome. Either squee with me in excited delight or scroll on past. You are welcome to join my screaming over on Twitter as well.
Manage your own expectations. I am not telling you anything is going to happen other than what I would LIKE to happen. As always PR IS NOT SHOWRUNNING.
Thank you and good night.
I totally agree, we’ve been speccing this timeline all hiatus and all the spoilers add up to exactly the same timeline.
I’m still extremely cautious re the bi!dean / destiel stuff but if we are NOT getting it ep 7 is still gonna be super homoerotic and the DeanCas stuff will still be strong, just more along the family / belonging sense than romantic. But otherwise still basically the same.
I’d like to be more positive but I’m gonna wait n see how the first few eps go to see!
#oldpost but this actually perfectly describes my hopes and headcanons for s15. The only time we see Chuck freaked out because something veered off his script is when Cas gets Dean to Chuck’s house in 4x22. Chuck even says that that wasn’t what he’d written; Cas surprised him. I like to think that Chuck was being honest there and he just… can’t write Castiel. Cannot anticipate Cas’ actions. Cas is the ultimate wildcard, and that’s why Chuck kept piecing him back together. Because Cas FASCINATES him. All of the angels that Chuck has created and this one is different.
