I Know This Is A Gorgeous Cas Scene, But There's Something About Sam Here That Really Tickles My Interest.

I know this is a gorgeous Cas scene, but there's something about Sam here that really tickles my interest. He's wary in a way that borders on fear once he gets past 'incredulous', like half thinking this is a 'talk someone down from the ledge' moment, but also like he's never forgotten who and what he's dealing with in Castiel.

Looking back over the seasons of Supernatural, I think it's a long time before Sam loses that sense of Cas as something 'other' and a bit awe-inspiring. He accepts Cas as a friend long before it wears off, but there's this... ginger handling thing Sam does with him, like he never quite knows how to tread. And a humour to it, like he's really enjoying the puzzle.

An angel showing up three sheets to the wind - all that power with the brakes of predictability off - ought to be proper scary. I mean, Cas could sneeze and accidentally level the building or something!

(It was a stupid question, though.)

One Castiel Quote per Episode 23/136 → 5.17 “99 PROBLEMS"

DOCTOR WHO

14.07 | The Legend of Ruby Sunday

Most purpose is more burden than glory. You just choose your burden. And trust me, you never wanna be the guy who avoids it ’cause you can’t live with the burden.

I'd just about kill for the canonical backstory on this statement. 2014 Cas was so different, so damaged - so differently damaged to his timeline-equivalent Dean, who's all hard edges and cold purpose. Yet the episode implies they've made the journey together.

What left Endverse!Cas soft and bleak and open and emotionally articulate? Did he crawl through broken glass hell to get here, dragging himself up from nowhere to achieve this level of function and resignation, or has it been a slow, blurry slide from grace into decadence with the bumps softened to meaningless by drugs, booze, and orgies? Why does he package the last one with the 'love guru crap' as if there's still a point to existence, a meaning beyond the moment, then act with Dean (both Deans) as if there isn't? And when did 2014!Dean stop looking at him the way 2009!Dean does?

THE END (5x04)

Loki sits upon the throne, determined, alone.

The Watcher: What are you doing?

Loki: Protecting the multiverse. I wove the strands.

The Watcher: Yes.

Loki:

The Watcher:

Loki: What?

The Watcher: Well, it looks like it's finished.

Loki: But I have to remain alone, guarding it.

The Watcher: Who said that?

Loki: I guess... I did?

The Watcher: Hm. How very Loki of you. Guard it from what? There's nothing out here. He Who Remains can't reach what you have created.

Loki: I don't know!

A pause.

Loki: Well, what do you suggest I do???

The Watcher: Anything you want.

Loki: Oh.

The throne sits empty, with a card that reads: Out To Lunch.

if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light