I think I can safely say that at least 102.89% of the Supernatural fandom agrees that the first “I love you” was meant for Dean
Seriously though it was.
Setting aside if it was romantic or platonic or other it was for Dean. The way the scene was shot and acted and EDITED emphasized that Cas was talking to DEAN first, THEN Sam and Mary. Love all around but a distinction was made.
Dean: Is the righteous Man, the Micheal’s sword, the champion of heaven, the one true vessel of the Archangel Micheal.
Sam: Gets to use the Micheal’s lance/spear to kill a prince of hell aka YED.
Me: Does any writer remembers Dean’s history in this show anymore?
Dean Who?
A lot of people are claiming that this was Sam exacting revenge on the YED, but there’s a few things wrong with that logic.
Ramiel wasn’t The YED™, aka the demon that fed Sam his blood, killed Mary and then twenty-two years later killed Jessica, Sam’s girlfriend, aka Azazel. In fact, the episode made it clear that Ramiel wanted nothing do with Azazel’s Special Children plan so not only is Ramiel not The YED™, he wasn’t even complicit in The YED™
’s plans. The only thing that Ramiel was guilty of is association.
The YED™ had already been killed. He was killed a decade ago and completely satisfactorily to the narrative. The fact that he was killed by Dean and not Sam doesn’t matter because the Winchester’s exacting revenge on The YED had always been framed as a group effort. Killing The YED wasn’t just about Sam being fed demon or killing Sam’s girlfriend, it was about him killing Mary and destroying the Winchester’s lives collectively. When Dean killed Azazel, he wasn’t taking that kill away from Sam, in that moment Dean was Sam. He was also John, Mary, and Samuel and Deanna Campbell. There was no revenge for Sam to exact in killing Ramiel.
Dean is The Michael Sword™. The Lance of Michael is inherently connected to him. Symbolically, Dean should have been the one to wield it. The fact that Dean didn’t even so much as touch the thing until it was useless is dissociating Dean with his own mytharc. But really, that’s par for the course with the show and dealing with Dean being the Michael Sword™. In season five, Michael was a total nonentity, Dean met Michael all of once and by the end of the season, Michael vessels were popping up like daisies. Why is that? Because seasonfive!Michael was framed as a Christ expy so Dean, by association, was framed as a messiah figure and we simply can’t have that.
Sam using the Lance of Michael even though Dean is The Michael Sword™
happened for the exact same reason Sam jumping into The Cage happened. Sam is “supposed” to be The Savior™. Therefor anything that puts Dean directly into that framing – such as being The Michael Sword
So…I don’t hate Mary. But I’m disappointed in the way the show has decided to handle her character and storyline.
I found the tension between Dean and Mary interesting in the beginning of the season, and I was willing to wait and see how that relationship would evolve. But the writers seem to have dropped that particular story thread and all seems ok between Dean and Mary on the surface (and I say the surface because once Dean finds out she’s lying, things will not be ok).
In theory, I should understand her motivations for working with the BMOL and keeping it a secret from her sons and Cas: I guess she’s supposed to want a monster free world to keep her sons safe, but that’s not really coming across in the show. I don’t know, her actions and reasons are very flimsy at best.
Last night, I was scratching my head at the lengths Mary went to in order to keep her secret and secure a particular item for the BMOL. She did it at the expense of Cas and her sons dying. I know the character is getting a lot of hate while others are defending her actions by saying “Cas and the boys have lied to each other and done things for the greater good”, and that’s true. But we’ve spent many years with these characters and we got to see their storylines play out on screen, and we got to see their motivations. And some of us didn’t like the lying and the backstabbing (some of us excused every little thing our favorites did) and they were criticized accordingly.
But then there’s Mary. We have not spent a lot of time with the character and she has not spent a lot of time with her sons. So what we see on screen is someone who’s not comfortable being in her sons presence unless she needs them to help with a case. That’s not cool. Not cool at all.
So when the show tries to sell to the audience that Mary is doing questionable things to make the world a safer place for her sons (and this is just a guess because I don’t feel that it’s been established that this is why she’s working for the BMOL), it doesn’t hold water. It’s not believable and she will continue to receive a lot of flack, because we have no idea why it’s crucial for her to work with the BMOL and keep it a secret from the boys. The stakes aren’t high. It’s not like she’s trying to prevent an apocalypse from happening.
Basically, I’m not feeling a connection to the character and that’s sad because I really want to love her. I don’t hate her. I don’t even dislike her. But I need the writers to allow Mary to make a concerted effort to connect with her sons. Because while the show has shown that Mary was willing to sacrifice her own life for her sons (the prison episode), I’ll always question if that was out of love or out of some need to go back to heaven, because she’s expressed before that she’s having difficulty adjusting and fitting in. As a result of this, I can’t feel or believe her love for her boys, and because she has not made an effort to get to know her sons, her lies and betrayal paint her as an unsympathetic character. That’s a problem.
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