SPN 6:12: Like A Virgin

[oselle]

In brief:

As I said to sistermagpie, you would think that the mother of all the monsters who ever lived wouldn't consider it quite so important for her earthly vessel to have an intact hymen. But this show never can pass up a good virgin joke, which of course is more important than crafting or casting a believable villain, especially a female one. Either that or I guess the writers were channel surfing one day and decided their One Bad Muthah should look like she'd just jumped ship from the Pretty Little Liars set.

Someone (sistermagpie again?) made a comment on my LJ at the beginning of this season that she thought it was so funny how they kept trying to "give" Castiel to Sam. That awkward non-hug had me snorting. When has Castiel ever sought a hug from anyone? Much less Sam?

I do believe that the writers have been trying to create a bond between Castiel and Sam where none has ever existed, but I vastly prefer my my fanfic-writer's theory on the sad non-hug.

Castiel knows that he needs to keep his emotions on a short leash where Dean is concerned because he's so achingly in love with Dean that it's been tearing him up for years. He's already lost his grace once and died -- what? twice? -- for Dean's sake. Not to mention the awful turmoil of his ardor has in the past manifested itself as extreme violence towards the very object of his affection. So Castiel knows he could never, ever hug Dean. Hell, he can hardly look at Dean without appearing close to spontaneous combustion. Therefore, Castiel's perplexing desire to hug Sam was because hugging Sam is as close as he can get to hugging Dean without losing his mind, his grace, and everything. He can hug Dean vicariously through Sam. Sam is "safe" to hug, Dean is not.

YOU KNOW I AM RIGHT.

Comments

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

I do find it kind of hilarious that the writers seem to be saying that Sam and Castiel are such great friends despite the fact that they barely have any screen time together. I mean I know the writers are biased towards Sam but come on!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

When something is working on the show (or at least, when there's something the fans respond well to) the writers tend to take that thing and overuse it until it wears out its welcome or, in this case, they try to transplant it to another situation where it doesn't work so well. The audience responded well to the relationship between Castiel and Dean, which came about very naturally. Now they're trying to artificially transplant it to Sam. It's not going to take. It already hasn't.