Dean comparing Cas leaving to E.T. though.
Because that ending to E.T. is probably the most tearjerking ending to any kids movie. It’s so sad and sweet and moving and so many different things all at once that you have to just break down and cry (I still cry when I see that scene even though I must have seen in a hundred times growing up). I imagine that it must have meant a lot to Dean as well, the idea that someone could leave you but still love you.
Oh, and E.T. came out in 1982, a year before Mary died. Maybe John and Mary took Dean to see E.T. in theaters, and maybe he was a little young to understand what was happening, and maybe he was a little bit scared, but he sat on Mary’s lap and saw the scene where E.T. came back to life and the scene where E.T. left to go home and it just settled somewhere inside him, soon to be forgotten under the weight of trauma but never truly erased.
And so when he says that Cas is like E.T. going home, he’s not just saying that Cas is leaving. He’s saying that Cas leaving is important, emotional, impossible, terrifying and sad and sweet all at the same time. He’s saying that he wishes he could ask Cas to stay, but he knows that he can’t, because this is something that Cas has to do. He’s saying that it hurts (“Ouch” E.T. says, and Elliot echoes him) and that he’ll always hold Cas in his heart (“I’ll be right here”). He says it like it’s some inevitable thing, Cas leaving him, because of course, in his mind it is. To him it’s just as inevitable as E.T. flying away in that space ship, because as much as E.T. and Elliot have bonded, E.T. doesn’t belong on Earth.
But now that bittersweet ending has been twisted, and instead of flying away E.T. is stuck on earth. And maybe he’ll be homesick, and maybe it’ll hurt, but at least he’ll have Elliot; at least Cas will have Dean.
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He still cannot believe he is changing lives of making lives happier (as mine), but he is doing it. And his humility is one of the reasons he is so important to us.
so let’s recap. so far for s9, Misha has talked (on his own!) about:
- Cas wearing Dean’s clothes
- Dean teaching Cas how to cook
- Dean and Cas going grocery shopping
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#god this little shot was so #dean was trying SO HARD #and god it made him uncomfortable #he was twitching and fiddling with his nails #which is so UNLIKE him #he tries so hard to put up a facade of confidence and dont-give-a-fuck#but he’s starting to understand that avoiding problems don’t make them go away #and he’s determined to not lose cas #not again #so he tries #he makes them have a serious discussion #even though talking about feelings and empathy is hard for him #i dont care what you say that is love |x|
He’s actually working on their relationship ^.^
we’re all of different ages, backgrounds and fandoms, but a little cannibalism really brings us all together.
how did you get that gif omg
this looks like a weird CD cover for a boy band
I’M SO DONE
I haven’t been this endeared with a fandom since the Sherlock fandom in the early days, jesus christ
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