#me watching 4.01 after just getting out of fever

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Dean Winchester in SUPERNATURAL 4.01 'Lazarus Rising'

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Destiel: Season 4 - A catalog of Supernatural episodes

I recently binge-watched the entire Supernatural series, and I’m now obsessed. I’m a little bummed that I’m only just now getting into this fandom, especially since the upcoming 15th season will be its last. But better late than never! To fill the time between now and the start of the new season, I’ve decided to catalog each episode that features scenes related to Destiel. This includes scenes between Dean and Castiel, of course, but also scenes with other characters that address their relationship with each other. I will also include scenes that allude to Dean’s bisexuality. I know that Destiel is not officially canon, but I ship it hard, and I think it is a valid reading of the series. Although Dean is not explicitly portrayed as bisexual, there is a significant amount of queer coding in his behavior, especially with regard to Castiel. So here we go, starting with season 4!

Season 4 Summary Analysis:

Dean is intimidated by Castiel at first but becomes more comfortable with him over time, especially as he grows apart from Sam. Cas is curious about and amused by Dean from the beginning. Cas grows fond of Dean over time. Inspired by Dean’s devotion to his brother and determination to do what is right, Cas rebels against heaven, following in the footsteps of his former mentor, Anna.

4.01 Lazarus Rising

Dean is freaked out by the “bad mojo” surrounding his resurrection. He’s intimidated by Cas’s power. 

Cas looks down on Dean: “This is your problem, Dean. You have no faith.” 

Cas pities Dean: “You don’t think you deserve to be saved.”

4.02 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean Winchester

Castiel is amused at Dean’s ignorance: “Read the Bible. Angels are warriors of God. I’m a soldier.” “I’m not here to perch on your shoulder.” 

Dean is irreverent and Castiel comes down on him hard: “Our numbers are not unlimited. Six of my brothers died in the field this week. You think the armies of heaven should just follow you around? There’s a bigger picture here. You should show me some respect. I dragged you out of hell; I can throw you back in.” Dean is visibly freaked out by this show of aggression, but also seems to respect Cas more afterward.

4.03 In the Beginning

Cas is curious about Dean: “What were YOU dreaming about?” 

Dean is frustrated by Cas’s ambiguous communication. 

Cas feels sympathy for Dean when he sees Mary make the deal with Azazel.

Dean is intimidated by Cas’s threat: “Your brother is headed down a dangerous road, Dean, and we’re not sure where it leads. So stop it, or we will.”

4.06 Yellow Fever 

Dean flirts with a guy at the Sherriff’s office while he’s under the influence of ghost sickness.

4.07 It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester 

Cas is confused by Dean’s unwillingness to do whatever it takes to stop Lucifer. 

Cas calls Uriel out on his hatred of humans: “You’re close to blasphemy.”

Cas believes in Dean: “There is a reason we were sent to save him. He has potential. He may succeed here.” 

Cas is impressed by Dean’s determination to save people: “I’m not here to judge you, Dean.” “You misunderstand me, Dean. I’m not like you think—I was praying that you would choose to save the town.” 

Cas demonstrates his love for humanity: “These people, they’re all my father’s creations. They are works of art.” 

Cas opens up to Dean out of respect and sympathy: “Can I tell you something if you promise not to tell another soul? I’m not a ‘hammer’, as you say. I have questions. I have doubts. I don’t know what is right and what is wrong anymore, or whether you passed or failed here. But in the coming months you will have more decisions to make. I don’t envy the weight that’s on your shoulders, Dean. I truly don’t.”

4.10 Heaven and Hell 

Cas tries to reason with Sam and Dean about Anna to avoid fighting: “She is far from innocent.” 

Cas is visibly uncomfortable with being forced to kill Anna. 

Dean demonstrates his awe of angels: “You guys are powerful, perfect. You don’t doubt yourselves, or God, or anything.” 

Anna helps Dean understand why angels are cold and emotionless: “Perfect—like a marble statue: cold, no choice, only obedience.” 

Dean and Anna connect over absent fathers, and she helps him feel better about the PTSD he is experiencing from being in hell. Dean’s experience with Anna helps mitigate his fear and awe of angels.

Uriel tells Dean about Castiel’s affinity toward him: “You see, he has this weakness—he likes you.” 

Cas is intrigued and surprised when Anna, someone he looks up to, kisses Dean and says she forgives him. 

Dean saves Cas from being killed by Alistair. 

Dean, who is experiencing PTSD, is envious of the angels’ lack of emotion: “I wish I couldn’t feel a damn thing.”

4.14 Sex and Violence 

A siren takes the form of a man to seduce Dean and acts like the perfect partner who trusts his judgment. The siren drives a rift between Sam and Dean.

4.15 Death Takes a Holiday 

Cas tells Dean he is “different” from other people. 

Cas is impressed by Dean’s success in preventing a seal from breaking, but annoyed that he had to ask for help surreptitiously instead of being straightforward: “Whatever I ask, you seem to do the exact opposite.”

4.16 On the Head of a Pin 

Cas is unnerved at recent angel killings, and he’s been demoted because he’s grown too close to Dean: “My superiors have begun to question my sympathies. I was getting too close to the humans in my charge—you. They feel I’ve begun to express emotions, doorways to doubt. This can impair my judgment.” 

Cas feels bad that the angels have been so cryptic: “Dean, we know this is difficult to understand.” 

After Dean says no to torturing Alistair, it pains Cas that the angels are making him do it: “This is too much to ask, I know, but we have to ask it.” “For what it’s worth, I would give anything not to have you do this.” 

Dean goes through with the torture because Cas convinces him it’s a necessary evil. 

Anna scolds Cas for letting Dean torture and encourages him question his orders: “Who are we to question the will of God?” “Unless this isn’t His will.” “Then where do the orders come from?” “I don’t know. One of our superiors, maybe, but not Him. The father you love—you think he wants this? You think he’s ask this of you? You think this is righteous? What you’re feeling, it’s called doubt. These orders are wrong, and you know it. But you can do the right thing. You’re afraid, Cas—I was, too—but together, we can stop...” 

Cas gets defensive because he knows Anna is right: “Together... I am nothing like you! You fell!” 

After Sam gets the truth out of Alistair, Cas succumbs to his doubt and goes to Anna for guidance: “I’m considering disobedience.” “For the first time, I feel...” “Anna, I don’t know what to do. Please tell me what to do.” Anna encourages Cas to think for himself. 

Cas confronts Uriel and fights him with a renewed sense of confidence and faith: “For the first time in a long time, I am [unafraid].” 

Cas visits Dean in the hospital after Alistair’s attack and warns him about the possibility of more angels working against them. Cas demonstrates his faith in Dean: “It’s not blame that falls on you, Dean. It’s fate. The righteous man who begins it, is the only one who can finish it. You have to stop it.” “Dean, they don’t tell me much. I know our fate rests with you.” 

Dean is despondent and emotionally vulnerable with Cas: “Then you guys are screwed. I can’t do it, Cas, it’s too big. Alistair was right—I’m not all here. I’m not strong enough. I guess I’m not the man either of our dads wanted me to be.” Cas shows concern and sympathy for Dean.

4.18 The Monster at the End of this Book 

Dean prays out of desperation to save Sam, and Cas answers: “You have tested me and thrown me every which way, and I have never asked for anything. Not a damn thing. But now I’m asking. I need your help. Please.” 

Cas is frustrated that he can’t help, but then gives Dean a clue about archangels being tied to prophets: “Thanks, Cas.” “Good luck.”

4.20 The Rapture 

Cas appears to Dean in a dream and wants to tell him something urgent, but when Sam and Dean go to meet with him, they find signs of an angel fight and an unconscious Jimmy Novak. 

Cas has been re-educated by heaven: “I learned my lesson while I was away, Dean. I serve heaven, I don’t serve man. And I certainly don’t serve you.”

4.21 When the Levee Breaks 

Dean prays to Cas for help and is disappointed when Cas won’t tell him what’s going on. Cas convinces Dean to accept his fate in order to save Sam, but he is visibly uncomfortable with the situation. After Dean swears to serve heaven, he and Cas stare at each other for a long time. 

Cas follows orders to release Sam from Bobby’s panic room in secret. He also turns Anna in, although he feels bad about doing so: “You shouldn’t have come, Anna.” 

4.22 Lucifer Rising 

Cas looks pained when heaven calls on Dean and can barely look Dean in the eye: “We’ve been through much together, you and I, and I just wanted to say I’m sorry it ended like this.” 

Dean calls Cas out on his blind loyalty: “Destiny, God’s Plan? It’s all a bunch of lies, you poor, stupid son of a bitch. It’s just a way for your bosses to keep me and keep you in line. You know what’s real? People, families—that’s real. And you’re gonna watch ‘em all burn?” 

Cas explains that he’s doing it for Dean’s sake: “What is so worth saving? I see nothing but pain here. I see inside you. I see your guilt, your anger, confusion. In paradise, all is forgiven—you’ll be at peace, even with Sam.” 

Cas is surprised and upset by Dean’s negative reaction: “You can take your peace and shove it up your lily white ass, ‘cause I’ll take the pain and the guilt, I’ll even take Sam as is. It’s a lot better than being some stepford bitch in paradise. This is simple, Cas. No more crap about being a good soldier. There is a right and there is a wrong here, and you know it. Look at me! You know it! And you were gonna help me once, weren’t you? You were gonna warn me about all this before they dragged you back to Bible Camp. Help me now. Please.” 

Dean gets angry at Cas: “You spineless, soulless son of a bitch. What do you care about dying? You’re already dead. We’re done.” 

Dean’s rejection and anger ultimately lead Cas to help him escape from the angels. Cas busts Dean out against his orders and sacrifices himself to help Dean and Sam.

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4.04 - Metamorphosis

Big brother is pissed sums this episode up.  

Watching episodes like this, just bring out my bitter!Sam girl when I remember dialogue I was forced to listen to in later seasons where Sam says to Jack that Dean and Castiel helped him when he was going through things.  Bitch when?!  Show me the episode!

That said, give me all the angst because I love the drama.  Why would you want these boys to be functional around each other.  The whole entertainment is in their disfunction - sorry, but I personally have no interest in watching Disneynatural.

As an aside, that flowery shirt is unlucky for Sam, Dean’s grabbed it twice now.  4.01 and here.  I think Sam picks up on that because I can’t remember it being seen much after this.

I can’t ever watch the binocular scene in the car without thinking about the gag reel.  There’s a lot of scenes that happens with.

Sam’s, “I think that qualifies as weird” on seeing the rougarou eating raw meat is an understatement.  I felt ill just watching.

I liked the rougarou concept, and the actor playing him was great, showing the transition from normal to monster, I can’t help feel sorry at the end result. 

As mentioned in another post, I loved this exchange between an experienced hunter and Sam:

SAM: What if he doesn't hulk out? I did a little homework. Uh, I've been checking out the lore on rougarous. TRAVIS: What? My 30 years of experience not good enough for you? I love that Sam tries to be respectful to the older hunter, even when he’s trying to change his mind on whether they should be hunting Jack.  Travis, of course, is too old school and set in his ways.  If it’s a monster, kill it.  Which ultimately leads to his demise.  The actor playing Travis did sell that he was genuinely regretful about having to do it.

Sam is championing the monster, which he always does (Lenore being the first way back in Season 2), but he’s obviously also thinking about himself, about a hunter taking him out and not asking any questions first, particularly after Dean’s: “If I didn’t know you, I would wanna hunt you.” speech earlier in the episode.  Sam has to believe Jack’s savable because he wants to believe he (Sam) is savable.

I miss Sam getting angry, because that’s generally the only time we really get what he’s feeling.  And I get why Sam does that; he bottles things up and then ultimately they explode out of him when he’s pushed too much.

I like the whole scene where Sam and Dean burst in to save the girl that Jack was going to eat.  Dean trying to close a door that was far too broken.

The whole eating Travis scene was graphic, Supernatural used to be a lot more gory.  What happened to it?

So many great moments between Sam and Dean in this episode, even though they are at odds with each other, there are several scenes of them talking throughout the episode.

The fact Sam had to be the one to kill Jack in the end, and he’s completely broken by the end of the episode, and so done, just... pass me the tissues on this one.  

Love this episode. Always been one of my faves. I was going to say this was the last one for today, but see that Monster Movie is up next, then Yellow Fever.  Damn it!  It’s going to be a late night.