Dream a Little Dream of Me 3.10 || Who We Are 12.22

This is a colossally stupid idea!

i think we all need a hug.

Jensen talks about the Mary-Dean-scene in 12x22...

…and how it relates and calls back to the end of S11 to him when Amara said “I’m gonna give you what you need most”, because he expected John to return and he struggled all season with Dean and his relationship with Mary, because it didn’t make “sense” for him and how when he read 12x22 made a lightbulb go off over his head, because he then realized that “what the Darkness meant for Dean to need most” was to be able to confront and forgive his mother.

Wow.

The 12.22 Family Hug

At the end of 12x22, we had that beautiful moment where the Winchester family was reunited and had forgiven one another their transgressions. They all go in for a massive family hug, and it’s fucking beautiful. But…something was off. Take a look at these faces during the hug.

One of these faces is not like the others. Can you pick out which one?

When I first saw this moment, my gut reaction was “Aww, Dean, after everything you just went through, your family is together! Why aren’t you smiling and happy like Sam and Mary?!”

Then my brain came to a screeching halt, because I knew the answer and I was shocked it hadn’t immediately occurred to me.

We’re still missing a Winchester, one who is very important to Dean. 

In fact he mentioned earlier in the episode that, like Mary, he had just found this person who is now lost.

He got Mary back, but it’s not enough to bring him that joy that Sam and Mary seem to have here. 

He is still pining. He still needs Cas. And his expression in that moment tells us both of these things very loudly and very clearly.

Everything about this post is so on point. I only wanted to add the one scene where we do finally get a genuine smile from Dean: after Cas heals him.

Look at that adorable, shy little asshole.He loves his Cas, and he can’t hide it

What’s the matter, Dean? Am I too different from the Mary you know? Or too much the same?

12x22

So m-my brother and I, we, um… no. You know what…. I called you here because people, um, our people are being slaughtered. And we’re next. The British Men of Letters, they came here because they thought they could do our job better than we could. They hooked us with their flashy gear and their tech- most of you had the good sense to turn them down. I didn’t. They said they wanted the same thing we wanted, you know, a world free of monsters. That’s not what they really wanted. They want control. They want to live in a world where they get to sit in some office and decide who gets to live and who gets to die. And they’ve killed people. They’ve killed innocent people just because they got in the way. They think the ends justifies the means, but we know better.

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