Heartbreak

Mar. 20th, 2009 11:46 pm
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If you're like me, when you watch a show long enough and attentively enough you start guessing what the characters are going to say. I do this a lot with SPN and a lot of the time I'm right or pretty close to it. But last night there was one line in the scene between Dean and Castiel that I simply did not see coming and I thought it was the most heartbreaking line of the whole episode.

Castiel's just told Dean that because he unknowingly started the apocalypse, he's the only one who can stop it. And Dean's lying there all battered and exhausted and he can barely talk or even turn his head and he says, "Lucifer? The apocalypse?" And this is where I expected him to say, "What am I supposed to do about that?"

But instead he said, "What does that mean?" Then he said it again, "What does that mean?" And he sounded more terrified and desperate and almost panicked than I can describe. He didn't ask "what am I supposed to do" because he doesn't even have enough left in him to muster up that active of a question. He literally doesn't even know what Castiel means. Doesn't know what he or God or anyone wants from him or why they want it and oh my God. God, I wish they'd just let him be for a little while.

Date: 2009-03-21 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oselle.livejournal.com
A giant yes to everything you said. Yes, they've finally gone ahead and destroyed Dean. I don't think that's up for debate. He might as well be dead. He's pretty much worse than dead at this point. The Dean I saw at the end of 4:16 doesn't even look like he's ever going to get out of that bed. So now what?

Next week looks like kind of a silly episode. The show has a long-standing tradition of breaking up very intense episodes with lighter fare, especially towards the end of the season. Usually I find this kind of annoying and distracting but this time around I think (I HOPE) there's a rationale behind it other than comic relief. I suspect (I HOPE) that the alternate reality events of next week's episode will be a dream or a spell or some kind of Wizard of Oz deal, while in the show's "real life" Dean is still recuperating and pulling himself together. Maybe there will even be some moral or lesson in the alternate reality that will give him some sort of reason to go on. That might be kind of a quick patch-up but at least it would be something. Because you're right -- if Dean just picks himself up and dusts himself off after THIS, he's not real. And this episode meant nothing.

Ultimately though, they CAN'T "fix" him anymore. There's just not enough of him left. It would be like trying to "fix" a house that's burned to the ground. Like you said, they've gone too far. They've got the rest of this season and a whole new season ahead of them and they're going to have to rebuild Dean. They burned him down and now they can't shirk the duty of reconstructing him into a changed man. Who will still be Dean or at least Deanish at times but the same? Never.

Date: 2009-03-21 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mews1945.livejournal.com
Maybe there will even be some moral or lesson in the alternate reality that will give him some sort of reason to go on.

I don't think I trust Kripke et al to do it. I'm beginning to think they're like a gang of nasty little boys stomping on an ant hill to see what'll happen.

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