#taking into considertaion all that happened afterwards

[drulalovescas]

Okay, the confession was romantic. It was just poorly written. Like the rest of the show.

okay, the confession was romantic, agreed. but for me it's absolutely and utterly beautiful and very good writing. like, I'm not even exaggerating. castiel's words and his love for dean was pure and selfless and uconditional. so i gotta disagree?? unless you mean it was "safely" done in order to leave the window for a platonic interpretation open in which case yeah, i guess. Bobo could've written: I love you. I'm in love with you to leave no doubt but the thing is he really couldn't. I'm 100% convinced that that was the condition under which the confession was even allowed. Hence, Bobo tried to work around it. hence we had Cas say "the one thing I want is something I know I can't have." He wasn't allowed to give us explicit "I'm in love with you" so he gave us the second best thing. And if you mean the execution, how it was shot, the distance between dean and cas (the way they always stood on top of each other and here it felt like they're million feet apart lol), how there were some of jensen's and misha's reactions cut (which is literally confirmed by jensen himself) then yeah, that happened but that's not on the writer.

My personal opinion: the confession was done, written, shot and then edited (aka butchered in the editing)"safely enough"to not alienate homophobes. but that was the condition tptb set. and, again, it is not on the writer.