Where Personal and Professional Life Collide...

So, yeah.  Overall high marks for Show a) kicking it up a notch in terms of Events, b) using every damn tool in their toolbox to kick it up, and c) not pulling many punches.

But there was one punch that, for me, was straight to the gut.

The look on Castiel’s face was the pullback to the blow: What have you done?

Dean’s fine.  Everyone’s fine.  Right. And they part, each to do their bit to bring this to an end…

But when Castiel returns to his motel room, filled with the detritus of Being a Hunter (shades of John’s motel room in Season 1), the look on his face is of someone who is bleeding internally, who has taken the last blow before his knees buckle.  Because Metatron holds the script, and Dean wears the Mark of Cain.

“You are not the hero in this masterpiece. You are the villain. I’m the hero.”

If they are not the heroes, if they are not The Righteous Man and the Angel - then what chance to do they have?

And then the blow lands - the moment when Castiel stops, turns, and tears down the wall of evidence, clearing it away to make the glyph of the Horn of Gabriel and call his troops to him …

It was the sheer violence that I loved in this scene [where loved means “oh Casbabyno”], the “get the fuck out of my way you useless pieces of paper that can’t save anyone” intensity of his slow-building yet sudden decision.  That is not the rational strategist, the emotionless angel-soldier.  That’s a heart in pain

”Fine,” he is saying.  ”I will play your game.  I will embrace the role you have made for me, leading my people to death in a futile attempt to destroy you.  And we will see how it plays out…”

And oh, Cas, baby, you’re real close to becoming this 2014’s version of EndVerse Dean….