Ok so. "Why does this sound like a goodbye?" Was fucking heartbreaking, right; we have the full-on uninterrupted eye contact, the head tilt, Dean's already open mouth twitching before the scene cuts to Cas' "I love you," like he had more to say, but Cas beats him to the punch. It's great, we love that. But for the dialogue to be sequenced that way, and to have Dean reply with, "don't do this, Cas."
I'm only just realizing how fucking insane it was. And sure, I might just be coping here, at the end of the day who fucking knows, but look at it. Think about it. Now let yourself feel it all over again.
It's Dean's death knocking on the door behind Cas, and it's Cas' death emerging behind Dean. Like this, they're directly facing their own demise—but they're too stuck on each other, in their moment, to give a damn. And then Dean doesn't say, "I love you too." He says, "don't do this."
He isn't disgusted or ashamed or put off in the slightest by Cas' confession, because if he is then why is he on the verge of tears? In what world would it make sense for him to want to cry after his best friend confessed to him, if the confession was something he did not want. He says don't do this here, don't do this to me now.
Even if, and that's the most unlikely if to ever exist, Dean did not reciprocate Cas' feelings—don't do this is still so fucking powerful. Because Dean's connected the dots, happiness [...] is in just saying it, and Cas said it, so where does that lead Dean? That's right, with Cas dead again, trying to save him again.
Don't do this. Don't die for me, don't love me only to die for me, don't love me at all, just stay with me.
Don't let me watch you die again and not even let me follow you—because, at the very least, that was a consolation. She's gonna kill you, which Dean knows that Billie knows will hurt him more than his own death, and then she's gonna kill me.
"Don't do this," was actually so fucking powerful, I don't know how it slipped past me until now...
seeing the y yo a ti version of this moment only makes you realize how incredibly tender and intensely romantic Dean's expression was when he said "don't do it Cas"
Ok maybe I’m crazy but Dean’s mouth doesn’t match up with the words. I sometimes have to watch a persons mouth to understand what they’re saying and this has bugged me for a while so here, see for yourself:
He’s either saying “we can’t” or “wait Cas”. Personally, I’m pretty sure it’s “we can’t”.
Is there any fic out there where in 15x18 after the confession instead of the empty taking cas billie breaks into the room and kill dean instead and cas has to deal with the consequences PLS i cant be the only one who think about it
getting my friend into supernatural and talking about this meme (he knows about it as a meme but not that it’s spn) and not being able to explain it to him until he finishes the show feels like sending my son off to a war I know he’ll die in
i’m crying. also how does anyone on earth think cas’ confession is not a declaration of love. the one thing that can summon the empty is his true happiness? and is true happiness is telling dean he loves him. richard speight excellent directing, all excellent acting. misha’s monologue was so good :((((