I was on the edge of my seat when Castiel was sitting outside there, thinking that we were finally going to get that moment of real understanding and comfort between the two of them that we've all been yearning for but then they just used it as an excuse to rehash the "deadbeat dad" line, which like I said, just doesn't work for me at all. Don't tell me that John Winchester was "a Righteous Man" who we all literally saw ascend to Heaven in a ray of light and then turn around and also tell me he was a deadbeat. And at this point Dean's attitude towards his father is completely schizo because NOW we know that Dean knew from childhood that John was willing to abandon his family (and we also know that he had another "wife" and son that he treated a hell of a lot better than his first set) and yet Dean spent the first 26 years of his life nearly worshipping him?

I was really mystified by why we saw Lisa in the THEN sequence and it's funny that they had to do that to remind us who she was. I know Dean had that little reverie about her in "Dream A Little Dream" back in Season Three, but I thought that was supposed to be symbolic, as in, Lisa was a symbol of the things Dean might have wanted for himself if his life had turned out differently not...Lisa was THE ONE.

He can see himself happy with her because he doesn't know anybody else with a ready made kid to take care of imo.

I think we were always supposed to assume that Lisa was lying to Dean about Ben not being his, and to assume that Dean also knows she was lying, so this is meant to show that unlike John, Dean is NOT a "deadbeat" and is ready to take care of his son no matter what, even in the face of his own possible death and Armageddon itself.

I just...I can't. This is a facepalm for me.