I simply…do not see Dean giving up on Castiel so easily. He cares too much, Castiel is too important to him, for Dean to throw it in without a fight
Juxtapose that with how they portrayed Dean in 6.20, with Castiel himself commenting that the hardest thing was watching Dean fighting so hard to stay loyal even when every instinct was telling him otherwise, and Dean's obvious relief when he thought Castiel had proved Sam and Bobby wrong before Cas opened his big stupid mouth and fucked things up. That was Dean caring, and fighting, and not giving up.
But the writers obviously had their end game, which was Castiel going dark side, and I swear I could almost SEE their brains smoking as they went into overdrive trying to figure out how that could ever happen when Dean has always been able to reach out to Cas when it mattered and convince him to stay by his side and fight the good fight, no matter how suicidal or impossible that fight would be.
So we had a sudden character shift with Dean. Part of it I believe, because this is a Dean post Sam betraying him, and there's only so much of that the man can take. But I still think even then, Dean was going to reach out, and he and Cas were going to have another of their epic showdown moments where Castiel would come around.
Cue Crowley trolling and taking Lisa and Ben away. No matter how much that wasn't directly Castiel's fault, Dean could only see that indirectly, Cas making the choices he had, had led to it. And at that point he was not in an emotionally healthy place where he could see sense anyway.
He did still reach out. At the very end, he tried one more time, even though by then it was too late. I don't think Castiel was right in assuming Dean was only saying what he did because he was scared. Of course he was scared, but he was also scared for Castiel, and he meant every word he said. He would have taken Castiel in, and figured out how to save him from what he'd done to himself, and shit would've been awkward for a while, but he would've forgiven him just like he eventually forgave Sam, because he tends to forget it in the moment, but he always eventually remembers that family is more important than anything.
Writer machinations, man. :C
Also, um. How come Bobby works with Crowley and it’s all, “Oh, gross, Bobby. Did you kiss him?” and Castiel works with Crowley and it’s all, “OH NOES YOU ARE EVIL AND HAVE BETRAYED US FOREVER WOE IS US”?
I honestly think this is at least in part because the writers are never REALLY interested in going in depth with anything having to do with Bobby. They love him, they know we love him, and they'll throw us bones here and there, but we were never going to see a huge emotional reaction to his deal with Crowley they way we did with Castiel.
The other part is that I think the situation was wholly different. Bobby made a deal more like Dean's deal -- sacrifice himself, however temporarily, to help save his family. And that was at a time when they'd at least grudgingly accepted that they had to work with the demon.
Castiel chose to get in bed with Crowley. Not just give up something of himself to get something in return, but actively work with him and involve himself in shit Dean could never understand, all in the name of a goal Dean couldn't get behind. I liken Castiel's situation much more to Sam working with Ruby in season four.
Hence we saw a very similar reaction from Dean. Dean was ready to call Sam a monster and tell him they'd be done if he kept on down that road, no matter how much it obviously killed him to do it. And when Sam still chose his work with Ruby over listening to Dean, Dean couldn't really forgive him for that for how long? Not until he saw what the rift might result in, in The End.
To Dean, it was this all over again with Castiel. Cas didn't come to Dean when he should have (Sam knew Dean wouldn't understand, Cas knew Dean wouldn't understand; Sam called Dean too weak, Cas said he couldn't burden Dean with that, wow parallels), and when Dean eventually found out anyway, Cas wouldn't stop, just like Sam wouldn't stop, and when the chips were down and Dean begged and demanded Cas just STOP, Cas didn't.
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Juxtapose that with how they portrayed Dean in 6.20, with Castiel himself commenting that the hardest thing was watching Dean fighting so hard to stay loyal even when every instinct was telling him otherwise, and Dean's obvious relief when he thought Castiel had proved Sam and Bobby wrong before Cas opened his big stupid mouth and fucked things up. That was Dean caring, and fighting, and not giving up.
But the writers obviously had their end game, which was Castiel going dark side, and I swear I could almost SEE their brains smoking as they went into overdrive trying to figure out how that could ever happen when Dean has always been able to reach out to Cas when it mattered and convince him to stay by his side and fight the good fight, no matter how suicidal or impossible that fight would be.
So we had a sudden character shift with Dean. Part of it I believe, because this is a Dean post Sam betraying him, and there's only so much of that the man can take. But I still think even then, Dean was going to reach out, and he and Cas were going to have another of their epic showdown moments where Castiel would come around.
Cue Crowley trolling and taking Lisa and Ben away. No matter how much that wasn't directly Castiel's fault, Dean could only see that indirectly, Cas making the choices he had, had led to it. And at that point he was not in an emotionally healthy place where he could see sense anyway.
He did still reach out. At the very end, he tried one more time, even though by then it was too late. I don't think Castiel was right in assuming Dean was only saying what he did because he was scared. Of course he was scared, but he was also scared for Castiel, and he meant every word he said. He would have taken Castiel in, and figured out how to save him from what he'd done to himself, and shit would've been awkward for a while, but he would've forgiven him just like he eventually forgave Sam, because he tends to forget it in the moment, but he always eventually remembers that family is more important than anything.
Writer machinations, man. :C
Also, um. How come Bobby works with Crowley and it’s all, “Oh, gross, Bobby. Did you kiss him?” and Castiel works with Crowley and it’s all, “OH NOES YOU ARE EVIL AND HAVE BETRAYED US FOREVER WOE IS US”?
I honestly think this is at least in part because the writers are never REALLY interested in going in depth with anything having to do with Bobby. They love him, they know we love him, and they'll throw us bones here and there, but we were never going to see a huge emotional reaction to his deal with Crowley they way we did with Castiel.
The other part is that I think the situation was wholly different. Bobby made a deal more like Dean's deal -- sacrifice himself, however temporarily, to help save his family. And that was at a time when they'd at least grudgingly accepted that they had to work with the demon.
Castiel chose to get in bed with Crowley. Not just give up something of himself to get something in return, but actively work with him and involve himself in shit Dean could never understand, all in the name of a goal Dean couldn't get behind. I liken Castiel's situation much more to Sam working with Ruby in season four.
Hence we saw a very similar reaction from Dean. Dean was ready to call Sam a monster and tell him they'd be done if he kept on down that road, no matter how much it obviously killed him to do it. And when Sam still chose his work with Ruby over listening to Dean, Dean couldn't really forgive him for that for how long? Not until he saw what the rift might result in, in The End.
To Dean, it was this all over again with Castiel. Cas didn't come to Dean when he should have (Sam knew Dean wouldn't understand, Cas knew Dean wouldn't understand; Sam called Dean too weak, Cas said he couldn't burden Dean with that, wow parallels), and when Dean eventually found out anyway, Cas wouldn't stop, just like Sam wouldn't stop, and when the chips were down and Dean begged and demanded Cas just STOP, Cas didn't.