#spn 15x01

[captainchilly]

"It's okay. Stay back." ↳ 15.01 - BACK AND TO THE FUTURE

[sirlancenotalot]

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

You're wearing Jack, who was like a son to me, like a coat. Every second in your presence is intolerable. It's an abomination. You're an abomination.

Cas and Belphegor in Season 15: Favorite Castiel Relationships [36/?]

[samsrowena]

↳ dean and rowena on the phone in back and to the future

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[saccharine-dean]

belphegor scribble bc i MIS HIM !!!!

[emeraldsummers]

Thinking about how Cas initially couldn't even bring himself to look at Belphegor in Jack's body, but was forced to share the backseat with him in the Impala for the entire Ghostpocalypse.

[shallowseeker]

I think it is being right so often that devastates Dean the most, if you think about it.

It makes being wrong hurt so, so, so much more. (No one's going to be right all the time, after all!)

Like Cas's being brought back by God provided fuel for Cas's sense of hubris, Dean's consistent ability to read people, identify their motivations, and make judgment calls is what grounds him.

It's when he makes a wrong move that triggers every one of his downward spirals. In season 9, he says, on making decisions that "He's so sick of making the wrong one."

DEAN: Hell, maybe I still don't. But, uh... I know I took a piece of you in the process, and for that...[DEAN struggles to say the right thing. He finally just vents] Somebody changed the playbook, man, you know? It's like what -- what -- what's right is wrong and what's wrong is more wrong, and... I just know that when... When we rode together... [He pauses, looking for the right words.]

(9x12)

Dean's life has rendered making wrong decisions incredibly painful. Almost intolerable. (Especially since so many of his decisions have been so high-stakes!)

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Then in later seasons... it gets worse.

First, there was "choking in the fight against AU Michael" in s14

(14x09)

And then s14-15 hits even harder. It's a painful, emotionally devastating setup that results in Dean trusting Chuck and going whole-hog on the whole "God says so" thing.

It's the opposite of everything Dean's ever stood for:

(14x20)

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Then he spins straight into denial, oscillating between that and anger.

(15x01)

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And when Belphegor arrives, he pitches into bargaining, too, experiences multiple phases of grief simultaneously. (It's in the script only, but a close reading shows that the next few episodes underline that THIS is the deal with keeping Bel around.)

(15x01)

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This gives Dean perhaps his heaviest dose of Nihilism yet, effectively rendering him as s4 Cas, "I don't know if you passed or failed here," with Dean saying, "He doesn't know what's God, what isn't."

In Golden Times, Dean is described as "fatalistic."

(15x05)

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(15x06)

Yeah. I'm always thinking of s15 Dean being so untethered that he reads very as a parallel with early seasons Cas!

I can't find the line in the scripts, but I know one of them in s15 references Dean feeling like his "life work is a hoax."

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Dean and Cas have spent large parts of their respective lives being either Right or Righteous(TM), especially considering Castiel's incredibly long military history.

Yet in season 10, Cas says this:

CASTIEL: Yes, well, um… Before, I was very self-assured. I was convinced I was on this righteous path. Now I realize that there is no righteous path. It’s just people trying to do their best in a world where it’s far too easy to do your worst.

(10x04)

It's about trying to reconcile your own righteousness with the world, with where you are going to centralize the locus of your morality (i.e. family) in a world whose food chain spirals down so hard that following it will drive you mad if you're not careful!

The theme of righteousness becomes a poughkeepsie word as early as 4x07:

SAM: I just… I mean, I thought they’d be righteous. DEAN: Well, they are righteous, I mean, that’s kinda the problem. Of course there’s nothing more dangerous than some a-hole who thinks he’s on a holy mission.

That is where Dean fins himself in s15, I think. Grappling with what he will choose.

We see how he's grappling with it in s15, but he by no means really recovers in s15 (this is why we need ONE more season):

DEAN: Trust me, uh, bigger doesn't always equal better. Besides, who's gonna look out after the little guy? God certainly isn't.

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LEE: You don't, Dean? I am you. I'm just you that woke up and saw that the world was broken. DEAN: Then you fix it. You don't walk away. You fight for it.

The funny thing is that Lee echoes a of "I am you's" that AU Michael does. Like characters before him Cain ("you're like me, Dean") and (Crowley "see what what I see, feel what I feel") and Chuck ("the ultimate killer"), Lee is trying to pigeon-hole Dean into being who he thinks he is, something nihilistic and inhumane.

LEE: Ohh. All right. I'll be damned. Why do you care so much, Dean? DEAN: Because someone has to.

(15x07)

Dean fights back against these roles. He fights for his own heart, for his sense of CARING about the little guy.

Maybe it's not about being righteous but letting go of the idea of righteousness.

[reyolfx]

okay obviously gutted about jack's death but alexander calvert makes a really fun demon i love belphegor (so far) (i'm 10 mins into 15x01 ok if he turns out to be awful, well, first impressions and all that)

[lavenderleahy]

"They really missed an opportunity with witch!sam. That could have been his thing."

[captainchilly]

"Can you smite our way out of here?" ↳ 15.01 - BACK AND TO THE FUTURE

[sirlancenotalot]

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

As the light fades from the screen From the famous final scene

Back and to the Future (15x01): Supernatural (2005-2020) [130/?]

[waywardvamp]

Belphegor flirting with Dean while desecrating Jack's body is a sight I want erased from my eyes. Thank you very much.

[gracelyns]

why did they forget how to make ghosts in s15😭😭😭 they look like people so badd

[saccharine-dean]

AGAIN! i love him

[waterlilyvioletfog]

Again, ranked based on how likely I am to rewatch, not necessarily how good they are, the season premieres:

S4 I Don’t Have To Explain This.

S2 The cycles!! They’re cycling!!! Tessa!!!!!!

S12 I like Mary.

S13 I like Jack and widower arc

S11 lol the darkness zombies are fun for me idk it’s sort of atmospheric

S1 it’s iconic

S6 opening montage is soooo

S10 CAS HAS CONSUMPTION???

S14 Mostly just boring.

S5 MANY THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND MOST OF THEM ARE DISTRESSING

S7 Go Godstiel Go!

S8 This is actually a good season opener? I think I just associate it too heavily with ensuing Samelia

S9 I have almost no memory of this episode I think I only tuned in during the Cas bits.

S3 AND WE NEVER EVEN SAW THEM AGAINNNNN CANT HAVE ANYTHING ON THIS SHOWWWWW

S15 It’s so fucking boring and Belphegor can’t save it