Yeah… I resent this love triangle so much just because it so unabashedly exists 😛
I personally don’t think anyone was actually implicated in reciprocating it in any way until Drowley in season 10 but Crowley’s mix of aggressive flirting and apparently developing real crushes despite his best efforts has made me convinced he’s in love with all 4 of Team Free Will one point or another… Sam’s always had the least amount of patience for him and would happily just kill him, but from the start Dean’s resentfully had chemistry with him, so I’ve always seen 6×20 as Crowley gleefully elbowing in on the DeanCas thing almost as much to spite Dean as anything on the personal side rather than the plot side… The Dean/Cas/Crowley love triangle haunts me. 😛 Crowley just seems so aware he’s homewrecking them, maybe because since he showed up to the “watched him rake leaves” moment he actually got to feel like he was stealing Cas from Dean…
Anyway I think that was much more on Crowley, but it did exactly the same as the season 10 Dean/Cas/Crowley love triangle, which was cast one random branch of it romantically (albeit in the weird/horrible Crowley being flirtatious way) so that the other branch of it between Dean and Cas is being talked about in those terms as well…
Oh, the Dean/Cas/Crowley triangle has always been real. Cas and Crowley have been mirrors for each other since forever after all, their characters have always been connected in the narrative…
This is one of those things that the show does that leads me to sit in astonishment at how they can actually be so bloody bold in the subtext to the extent that it becomes an actual serious plot point in season 10. Drowley specifically, none of us asked for it. None of us wanted it, but it was shoved at us anyway by the shows subtext which was so blatantly obvious I’m surprised that even the most oblivious of viewers didn’t catch on. Crowley is weirdly in love with Dean and even weirder is that he is well aware that this makes him a home wrecker in a manner of ways. That deleted scene from 10×14 continues to amaze me everytime I watch it… like SERIOUSLY SHOW? I don’t think that Cas actually went there with Crowley in season 6 since he was rather repulsed by the idea of working with him… but I have no doubt that Crowley tried it on. Cas and Crowley now have this weird relationship where they both have a mutual respect for one another, in one way because they play their parts as the (literal) angel and demon on Deans shoulders, and also because both are very much aware of their hopeless devotion to him. It was after all, canonical portrayed as a competition for deans affections in 10×14, when he chose Cas over Crowley.
So yeah as far as this weird love triangle goes, very much real since season 6 where Crowley has been trying his luck with each of them to take what he can get. I personally only think he succeeded with Dean (no seriously). Him and Dean hooked up whilst Dean was all demonic (which can be argued as dub con anyway since Dean wasn’t right of mind) but still. They went there. Crowley implied as much in 11×02. I’ll never get over that fact.
Tbh drowley is literally the worst because as you say most of us didn’t even want it, so you’re there half laughing half just shaking your head in astonishment thinking of how it seems that destiel is so out there, so all-in-your-head, like the possibility of canon is SUCH a shocking concept for the creative team, but then at the same time they’re like, hey you know what we should do? Really push the subtextual drowley. Yeah damn right. Dean and Crowley. With really blatant sexual and romantic subtext. Why not stop at an alliance? Or why not depict it as a brotherhood, like when they were both demons they were kinda like twins, connected in their devious ways? Nah. Nah, we really need to push that kinda-one-sided-but-maybe-not-completely-for-a-while romantic+sexual portrayal for Reasons. What reasons? Who the hell knows. Meanwhile we’re all here just like, OK THEN, DROWLEY THEN, like what can you do, but we’re also here like YOU’RE GIVING US MIXED SIGNALS DUDE. And then crowley’s all like “ooh we had such a ✨👌✨Bromance✨👌✨ dean”, and you’re like ALRIGHT I GIVE UP WHAT ARE YOU EVEN PLAYING AT. I FUCKING GIVE UP
Hahaha that was my exact response back in like, 10×01… And I have not managed to get over it since… just sitting here like… they decided to write Dean a relationship with a dude… and it was Crowley??
there’s a lot of pp hating on toni (that’s her name right) for coming to ‘arrest’ the bros and shooting sam on behalf of the european MoL but honestly the real question is what took them so long
Like seriously were the other five apocali now enough?????
No, seriously, Andrew Dabb, Imma need an explanation for why it was so VITALLY important to this episode to show the British Woman-of-Letters Lady bantering with servant, having tea while watching the telly, and making a flight connection…
but Cas, one of the main characters, actually getting resolution to his 8-year long character arc, getting a chance to talk with God, his father, whom he’s never met, was deemed unimportant?
Why?
The lack of God/Cas convo was so obvious. Like they sat in that bar together for how long and Sam is the one to talk to and tend to God? Ok then.
Andrew Dabb couldn’t find time for Castiel to react to his absent, dying father or for Cas to get any real closure, other than, “thanks for being Lucifer’s bitch, bro” even though that was Castiel’s entire arc and reason for disappearing, and yet he had time to show the new chick sipping tea in four different rooms of her house and to let Crowley and God have a heart to heart about Rowena.
I’m not gonna lie, I would almost rather that Dean died. That he just straight up made the sacrifice play and blew Amara and himself up.
Then maybe when the dust settled, it turned out that the soul bomb didn’t blow Dean and Amara up, but instead, caused the two of them to fuse along with the all the souls and what we have now is God!Dean to replace the dying Chuck with the Darkness dwelling within him. Dean brings balance to The Force type of thing. Perhaps not something exactly like that, but something along those lines.
Otherwise the point of the arc for him? What was the point of the soul bomb? Everything was tied up so nicely and neatly. Nothing was gained and nothing was lost and all of that build up and foreshadowing was for absolutely nothing and Dean did nothing on top of it.
Funny how all that talk about Amara and her bond with Dean came out to presicely nothing given that apparenlty she discovered her love for humanity after a conversation with a one-scene wonder old lady and seeing a picture in the bunker.
Funny how once again, Dean was reduced to a plot device that was good for nothing in the end.
Want to be happy about Dean and Mary meeting, but given that LAST time they met, Mary coudln’t care less for Dean and was all BUT WHAT ABOUT MY SAMMY!!! despite Sam being 6 months old last she saw him, I am not positive about how that is going to end.
wow dean winchester?? into chick flicks???? doth my ears deceiveth me? this is dean winchester we’re talking about right? the same dean winchester that likes leather and classic rock and cool cars and hot babes and other manly men stuff?? the same dean winchester that said that one time he wasn’t into chick flick moments and now 11 years later all of a sudden he’s saying he is???? my entire world’s flipped upside down i literally never saw this coming how do i go on with my life knowing that dean winchester is into chick flicks?????
And he likes cake?? And wears shorts??? I wonder if he’s ever lied about anything else to make himself look extra macho????
That ending struck me as really anticlimactic. Chuck and Amara are just going to work out their issues? No fuss, no muss, no coconuts?
What was the point of the soul bomb if Chuck just got rid of it it?
I’m not saying that I wanted to watch Dean blow up or get sucked into nothingness, but what was the point of having all that build up and foreshadowing this season if literally nothing came of it?
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