#the winchesters 1x13

[strawlessandbraless]

The Winchesters Season 1 Finale

The Winchesters Season 2

[justjensenanddean]

Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester |  The Winchester 1x13 “Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye”

[kafiguas]

HELLO?!

[destiel-wings]

there's just something about this dean that screams "i am in love with castiel" to me

[deansraspberrypie]

Dean saved

his family 🥺❤🥹

The Winchesters - 1.13 - Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye, 2023

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[beaudeanw]

"Your family...did you ever find a version where they had a shot of a happy ending?"

JENSEN ACKLES as DEAN WINCHESTER in The Winchesters S1 E13 - Hey, that's no way to say goodbye

[outofthecavern]

Y’all should listen to Keep On Ramblin’ again after watching The Winchesters finale. Jensen writes music as an outlet yeah? Like Misha does with poetry. That man wrote an entire album about The Winchesters and Cas.

What? Cas? Yeah I SAID IT. ITS THE DESTIEL ALBUM.

Season 1: Every Light + Keep on Ramblin’

Season 2: Return To Me

Season 3: Restless Man

[amethysthollis]

and then jensen took this to heart

[b-adm]

im sorry, this is my coping mechanisms and im about to make it public (also, if anything is misspelled, im sorry, not a big grammar guy r8 now)

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

The Winchesters (1x13)

Dean: Sam’s still down there, okay? He deserves a good, long life. Hell, they all do. (indistinct chatter) So, if you want to cast me out of heaven… so be it. 

Sacrificing himself to save Sam, fucking with the fabric of the universe and subverting the plans of the powers that be to save Sam... and everyone else (tacked on like an afterthought). He's a man of singular focus after all.

[strawlessandbraless]

Jensen really said it’s not enough to be Dean coded, I need to be Dean

Waiting to see if Jensen Ackles’s fix it fic show will be renewed feels the same as waiting for your fave fic to be updated on A03, wonder why

[justjensenanddean]

Jensen Ackles | The Winchesters S1E13 BTS 

[fangirloverlode]

Oh we got Dean. And Bobby. And Ja oh boy and Jack. And Jack did the little wave and he told Dean to g. Ho boy. To give the colt to his parents. And Baby kept them safe and THEY FINALLY GOT LED ZEPPELIN ON THE SOUND TRACK OH MY GOD IM CRTING SO FUICING HARD RN

[destiel-wings]

I've gathered some of my thoughts about The Winchesters season finale and here's why i think it gave me some peace

(yes, this does contain a destiel interpretation, too 💚💙)

Did i want to see Cas in it? Yes.

Was i disappointed that he wasn't? Actually, no (more on that later).

But I loved it. I was so stunned as I saw it and I felt like somehow it healed some of the wounds from the spn finale... but i couldn't quite understand why.

Here's why.

We basically watched Supernatural. Jensen reopened the finale and went further with it. What we saw in The Winchesters felt like a continuation of 15x20, even if it technically happened in between the last two scenes of the finale. But we got Bobby, we got Jack. They all actually talked, in a way that felt alive and real. Jack broke his rule of no interfering, showing that he still cared for Dean (just like he had broken his own rule off screen by saving Cas from the Empty). The Winchesters wasn't a prequel, but a sequel.

Dean got his own story, got to make something for himself (instead of just waiting for Sam on a bridge), and it's something that he wanted to do. He went back to look for hope and love, for a version of his parents where they could have a real chance.

We learn love (or we don't) and how to be in a happy relationship as kids by watching our parents, and Dean was doomed that way. He never had that example, to learn how to build a relationship and let himself be loved. He never learned that. So when he gets to heaven and he has the chance, before getting on that bridge, before meeting up with his family, with Sam... and yes, with Cas (even if we haven't seen him yet), he just needs a freaking minute. He needs a little time to himself. To reconnect. To understand. To reflect on love and what it means to love and be loved.

So he does what any fond child would do... he looks up at his parents. Only his parents that are right there in heaven didn't exactly have a happy ending (or even a happy middle), so he explores further, searching for a chance, a hope, a version of his own legacy where love was possible. Because if his parents can make it... so can he.

And we see all that through his own lenses (the weird use of the camera lenses with all those flares and glow resembles the aura of Dean's drive in heaven, thinking about it in retrospect).

screencaps of the glowy amber look and those camera flares, there's probably better examples but these are some of the best ones i could find

Dean's mission might have been the Akrida, but the reason he went looking, the real quest he was after, was hope. Hope for a happy ending. Hope for love, where said love was doomed from the start.

And it's not surprising that there were destiel parallels everywhere, because that was Dean's POV, and he's processing his own feelings. Which is something he needs to do before he sees Cas again.

And personally, I think Dean loves Cas back and he knew that before dying, but still, that doesn't mean that he's not afraid of messing it up. That he knows how to approach him, or face Cas, after all that's happened.

He may not even be doing all of this thinking consciously, but the Castiel subtext we've seen in The Winchesters, from a narrative POV, is Dean's.

We're seeing the parallels because he's seeing them, making them, it's his way of processing. Of seeing what he and Cas had, and what they could have. Looking for hope.

And, as he himself said before leaving again... i think he found it.

So i don't know how things are going to go on from here. I can't imagine how we could have Dean in a season two. I've been saying all along that The Winchesters might open the story for a SPN revival/s16, and i think it is perfectly possible that this might happen here.

The Winchesters might not have Dean anymore, becoming its own show (but still having lots of references and guest stars from Supernatural) and *as Jensen loves to say* when we get the revival, there will be the space to address Castiel's confession and give his character the importance that it needs.

It wouldn't have made sense to see Cas here in a little cameo, it wouldn't have been enough. But what we saw here, was the confirmation of Jensen reopening the finale, and his willingness to bring Dean back (as he's always stated), for whatever more he's allowed to do.

I love the way they handled it, we still got peace and hope (even if there were to be no s2), and i feel like we're all more confident that the bridge scene is not an ending, but a beginning of something more. Dean has said he's gonna go look for his family. That's not just Sam.

Of course he's gonna see Cas too. But i don't think any of us would've been satisfied to see him pop up randomly for a couple of minutes in TW, with little to no mention of what happened between them.

Also, i want to point out that this was supposed to be the midseason finale but they had to adapt it when they found out they didn't get a full season, we could've had much more (like more narrating voices as Jensen had teased) or even seeing more of Dean, instead of just seeing him in the pilot and the season finale. They even asked Misha to be there (and he refused for scheduling conflicts since he was busy filming Gotham Knights *but said he's absolutely willing to appear later*).

So i think there's still so much story to tell here and i am absolutely hopeful and trust that we will love it.

I think they did an amazing job in 13 episodes, and I can't wait to see what's next 💖

[deansraspberrypie]

Welcome back, Dean Winchester 🥹❤🥰

The Winchesters - 1.13 - Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye, 2023

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