... OK I haven't watched the show in like a decade like a sensible person but... is this just whole cloth lifting the Evil Angel plot from Buffy?
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl
Well, no, not really The core idea is the same I guess -- the looming threat that if he ever has a moment of true and perfect happiness he will be damned -- but the execution is completely different
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SecretGamerGrrl
Angel having sex with Buffy was a mistake and it almost destroyed the world This is like the exact reverse trope Castiel doesn't have sex with Dean or even touch him The moment of pure happiness is simply letting go of his cognitive dissonance and admitting that he's in love
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SecretGamerGrrl
And he does so because he realizes that this is the only way to save Dean's life (for various complicated reasons, his death will also kill the evil entity that's hunting them, and is the only thing that can do so) So the act of the confession and the motive are one and the same
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SecretGamerGrrl
It is a very elegantly constructed Bury Your Gays moment, that ranks up there with the classic Bury Your Gays moments of times gone by It's not an accidental or thoughtless BYG like you get these days, this is old school, artisanally crafted BYG
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SecretGamerGrrl
It would have been *trivially* simple to add Dean saying "I love you too" and then they kiss as Castiel is eaten by the whatever, but they chose instead confession -> death -> double hell while Dean sorta stares
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Like it's messed up in ways that can only be intentional and thought-through carefully.
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Replying to @CuddlePotato @SecretGamerGrrl
If Dean had been touching him when he died he'd have been sucked into the thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SecretGamerGrrl
Oh I'm sorry am I not respecting the plot device? Fine, they kiss and as their lips part it takes him, an inch from Dean's still-closed eyes, so when he opens them Castiel is gone. This is easy!
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Replying to @CuddlePotato @arthur_affect
See I'm still hung up on why THIS instance of a character being sent to hell is supposed to stick, narratively, when literally every season finale the show has ever had that I am aware of has that happen to someone and then next season they just kinda come back.
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This is literally the third to last episode of the entire show, the show is over in two weeks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CuddlePotato
See that's why I specified narratively. Like, I know on a meta level, "this sticks because we're done" but like, come on. You still gotta sell it. It's like if they got to the last Star Wars movie they felt like making and suddenly there were just a billion death-star-cannons now
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