This post contains massive spoilers for the finale of Supernatural season 6. You have been warned.
Let me preface this post with a quick statement of my loyalties in Supernatural. I am a Dean girl, through and through. I am also a big fan of Castiel. I have been for a really long time. Like, season 4, long time. He is my second favorite character and just the thought that he was only supposed to be around for six episodes is amazingly awesome. I feel like it's a testament to both the writer's who created him and continued to create him over the last three seasons, and to Misha Collins for being such a fantastic actor.
I also have a fandom hard on for Castiel/Dean. And it's not just because I truly enjoy slash and fanfiction in all it's glory. It is because, at the very least, I truly believe that Castiel is in love with Dean. I think Misha plays it that way and I think it is a main aspect of who Castiel's character is. That not only is he dealing with the turmoil of being a rebel angel, trying to find God, and fighting against his brothers because he doesn't believe in the apocalypse. He is also dealing with all of that plus being in love with a human. His drive to protect Dean and the protect those whom Dean deems the most important in the world, is that of complete and utter love. That fact is indisputable. Now, it is up to whomever is watching to decide if it is because he loves him like a brother, or if it is because he's in love with him. I choose the latter because I feel like we both already have a strong, do-anything-for-you, brother relationship and because of how Misha plays it.
So, that being said. Let's move on to the finale episodes.
I feel like this season has focused a lot on Sam and Castiel. I feel like their two stories, that intertwine in such a fantastic way, are those which define the season as a whole and define how things are going to move forward in season 7. Dean is an important, makeshift, voice of reason but that does not mean he is always correct. This is where being a Dean girl and Castiel fan comes into conflict for me. This season more than any other.
One of my favorite things about Supernatural is the references to culture. The bit about H.P. Lovecraft was ingenious and I love that it both happened and that even before they showed the name, my brain told me it was Lovecraft. I feel like I wouldn't have thought that, however, if I hadn't been trained by SPN for the past five years.
Moving forward past the teaser. While I adore Ben, and wish he'd had more character growth and had been a main character, I could do without Lisa. I am not a Lisa hater, like a lot of people. I just intensely dislike her. I feel like that was the point, though. No matter how important the writers make a character to Dean or to Sam, if they're a female character then they are meant to be hated. Which is part of that inherent sexism in the show that I was talking about. The way that female characters are treated, talked about, spoken to, or written as, is sexist beyond belief. And that's just within the show. I don't even want to talk about the fandom, which consists mostly of females (Which is what makes it so depressing.) That however is what I have to say about any and all parts of the finale episodes with Lisa. I'm not a big fan, but at least I understand why.
Crowley, on the other hand, is one of my favorite pseudo-villains. If not my favorite. Not only did I completely love, catch, and laugh about how they so bluntly stole a character (almost exactly) from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's epicly amazing novel Good Omens. I also fell in love with Mark Sheppard as an actor.
Okay. So, we've got purgatory. We have the newly appointed King of Hell, Crowley, and a fallen angel, Castiel, working together trying find the spell to open purgatory. Castiel just wants to have enough power to stop his brother Raphael from restarting the apocalypse, which we've already covered Castiel does not want. Crowley, on the other hand, just wants more power. Therefore, we've got the would-be good guy who's just doing this to save the world and the would-be villain who's just doing this because he can and wants to. This will be good.
I still stand by Castiel. I really do. Even after the finale episodes. I feel like the results were both good and amazingly, horribly awful, but I also feel like his intention was very human. In fact the entire situation was extremely human. What he did, why he did it, the results of what he did. He made a mistake. He did some pretty awful stuff, but so has Sam and so has Dean. Sam is on the same level, I feel, as Castiel when it comes to the bad stuff. From just the whole soulless year alone. Dean is very stuck in his ways and when things don't agree with those ways, he usually fights against it. Even if he wrong. Like the vampire episode in season 2 with the good vampires. Prime example of Dean's pigheadedness.
The biggest questions going into season 7 are going to be: What will happen to Sam? His protective wall has been broken by Castiel and he both remembers hell and is remembering the soulless year. Will he completely break apart, or will be soldier through like Dean did in season 4? Will Dean, Sam, and Bobby bow down to Castiel, or will they run for their lives for the whole season? And to couple that question, Will Castiel really destroy them if they don't bow down and love him? There's also my personal question of if Chuck, who I believe to actually be God, will come back. If he does come back, will he be powerful enough to stop Castiel? We know that Castiel will both drop as a main character and will be the "villain" of season 7. So all these questions, and then some, will come up until September.
That being said. I think Sam is strong enough to deal with his wall breaking. I think they will run for their lives and I think Castiel might kidnap one of them in exchange for the bowing down. I can only hope Chuck will come back because I adore him and want him to return Castiel to his former lovely state. I certainly do not hope that season 7 is the last, but I hope that if it is, things are okay. They don't have to be perfect at the end. This is the Winchester brothers we're talking about. I just hope that everything is okay in the end. If it's not, then it's really not the end.
-Wednesday
