that line may have become tainted for us and for dean but it never was for mary she tucked dean in and told him angels would be watching over him and when she returned she literally saw one run into his arms and cling to him with joy at discovering he was ok and then that same angel focused all his strength and determination on trying to rescue sam she may have been a little afraid of him to begin with but clearly she never doubted that this angel was watching over them in the way she had always wanted (via norahastuff)

5x16 // 12x14

Yeah, this was a long time coming. I’ve been waiting for this since 12.09. Not because I dislike Mary, but because s12 is a deconstructive beastie and Mary is a mirror for Cas. Dean has to tell her off at some point because that’s part of her purpose as a mirror. 

S12 also addresses the core elements of what drove the show to begin with and Mary was the core of all of those elements. Deconstructing her is the biggest check mark on the list. It’s a step in proving there is a better way, and a step in conveying to the Winchesters that there was never a “simpler time” It was all an illusion and if they want to continue, they have to address all the things they’ve been preaching.

S12 is also basically an entire season of the Break Into 3 sequence of a movie. (The start of the 3rd act) It’s the part of the movie where the journey loops back to “the real world” and all the elements from the first act get turned around and addressed with new knowledge. This is the “find a better way” sequence. The arc where the main characters find a new answer to old questions and make the decision to apply it. And once again, they’ve framed the entire season around the purpose of the arc: “Find a Better Way’ in a somewhat literal sense. They did this with Dark Night of the Soul as well…S11: “Darkness Before the Dawn” literally.

Excellent, the adherence of the story to Blake Snyder’s Beat Sheet continues…

12.09 First Blood

THE VERDICT

Oooohhhh boy. That was damn good. So much understated stuff in pretty much every single performance, too. Loved seeing the difference in Sam and Dean’s reactions to being confined to solitary. Isolation as Dean’s true hell has long been something I’ve had in the back of my head, so seeing that played so well in this was excellent. I’m disappointed to see Billie go, but as far as character deaths go it made sense and wasn’t gratuitous, so at least it’s not the rage-inducing kind of disappointed. And I’m relieved that they didn’t shove Mary back in the fridge.

A play-by-play recap with meta-adjacent notes is under the cut!

Weiterlesen

Ok, rebloging this again, because I remember you were wondering about the diner Mary was in in the first scene. According to the SuperWiki it is the same diner she and John had her first date in (as Dean told her in 12x01). I feel like the tumblr dot com meta community should have noticed this, but the episode all left us in a puddle of Cas emotions we didn’t.

Oooh yeah, it is, and she was drinking coffee just like Dean said they did on that date (I mean that’s not a wild stretch but :P)…

Anyway I was mostly just dropping by to suggest Mary blatantly pining for her lost husband goes alongside Cas and his moping, never mind the time they hang out in diners but…

(I feel it’s worth pointing out that though they don’t know it that Cas scene is during the brief time the Winchesters were legit dead)

I mean there’s bigger parallels as well about their mental state in general because they’re both messed up, but I like that Cas left his phone in that spot, just like at the end of 12x03 we get back to the Bunker and Mary had left John’s journal there - since once we see the phone alone without Cas moping over it waiting for a call, it actually is Dean ringing it.

Dean on the phone: “Stop telling people I’m dead”

OH MY GOSH THANK YOU. I’d been driving myself BONKERS trying to remember why I associated Mulroney’s diner with John and Mary’s history. I guess it’s a factor of not having completely internalized s12 yet the way I have past seasons, but the only reference I could come up with was John taking Mary out to dinner in 4.03 to propose to her… and that was at the Jaybird Diner… and I kept thinking I was losing it. :P

FIRST DATE. NOT MARRIAGE PROPOSAL. Thank you for clearing that up. :D

and then ugh oh mary with john’s JOURNAL, the paper record of his life, because that’s all that’s really left of him to communicate with Mary now, and Cas with Dean calling up on the phone… It’s the whole past/present thing yet again, too.

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Cas meeting Mary in the Season 12 Premiere of Supernatural

In the first gif, Mary is wondering what kind of reaction Cas will have to Dean introducing her to him–how much does this guy know about Dean? Then Cas shows that he knows exactly who Mary Winchester is to Dean.

But it’s also a matter of who am I to Dean exactly? Dean introduces her as ‘Mary’, not as ‘my mother’. He’s introducing her in a way that is kind of formal, detached, or at least, that could be interpreted as formal or detached–‘this is my mother’ just can’t roll out of Dean’s mouth easily, not because he doesn’t care, but because he cares too much, it’s overwhelming–but Cas immediately understands, he puts Mary in the right emotional place in relation to Dean so to speak. Cas establishes the familial connection.

Dean identifies her as her own person - her name, just her name at first, only in a second moment he adds the family name, as though the familial membership comes after the personal identity. Cas identifies her in relation to Dean, and I think both ways are important. In order to have a positive relationship with her, Dean needs to see Mary as her own person other than the idealized Mother Figure that he has in his mind, while Cas needs to see her as family.