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Jared & Gen!!! ❤️❤️

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He looks too good to not post on here

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The only things I can conclude after hearing what Kripke would have "really" done if he’d written a season 5 finale are:

1) Kripke says a lot of things, so 🤷‍♀️

2) as much as I have issues with late stage show runners, I’m not sure that we would have been much/any better off if Kripke stayed at the helm. Once a show runs long enough, it’s hard to keep up the quality no matter who is running it.

3) I’m glad Kripke moved on, if him being gone meant we got a Sam & Dean who were in a good place with their relationship in later seasons, and us getting the barn and bridge combo.

4) Sam wanting a normal life, being pulled back into hunting, and finally fixing his relationship with his brother, only for it all to go to shit, and for Sam to burn in hell for eternity is hideously depressing. This is not a good hero arc, and this would have been a bad ending, imo. Sam being the only one to suffer for what was a team effort apocalypse is shitty.

5) Kripke has become too fond of shock value over substance, and it shows.

6) I kinda think Kripke is talking out of his a$$ on this one for whatever reason.

I find it so fascinating that Kripke's idea was for Dean to eventually let Sam go, to leave him to his fate and start a family when that is so far from what happened in canon. Instead of becoming less attached after Sam jumps into the cage, he holds on even tighter than he did before, abandons normalcy and that white picket fence ideal life. The space between what could have been canon and what IS canon is so vast. I can't even imagine Dean doing any of that, that's how divorced it is from his actual character.

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JARED PADALECKI in FRIDAY THE 13TH dir. Marcus Nispel

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New Enhanced Edition - LACON 2008 - J2 Breakfast

Direct link to video. Link to YouTube channel. (24 videos available.)

Here's my newest video, the J2 breakfast from LA in March 2008.

Of all the conventions that badly need the "Enhanced Edition" treatment, this one is surely high on that list. Even if you don't normally use them, I recommend turning on the subtitles this time. For some reason Jared and Jensen were only given a single microphone to share, which meant one or both of them often didn't use it at all. I ended up with many of the dreaded [inaudible]'s, but I think I did pick up a lot more through repeated listening than what most people would catch from a single casual watch-through.

Footage Found/Recovered

I mentioned this in the "What's Next?" section of my last video announcement, but I had the great fortune to make contact with Candygramme while searching for videos for this project. She has a beautiful 4.5 minute clip from the breakfast video that you'll see around the middle of the panel. That portion of the panel was covered in other videos, but not in such good quality. You can see the difference in my comparison images below.

Due to camera battery difficulties, she wasn't able to capture Jared's solo panel or the first half of Jensen's, but she did catch the second half of Jensen's and the entire main J2 panel. She has a little under 3 minutes' worth of coverage that's not covered at all by any other videos I've seen, plus I counted about 8.5 minutes where she was the only one who had Jared in the frame along with Jensen during the main J2 panel. There's a lot of fun banter between them in that panel so being able to see both of them makes a huge difference! I don't believe her videos are on YouTube, so a lot of people may not have them and I'm excited to share them.

What's Next?

Jared's solo panel from this convention is next. Unfortunately this one will have a lot of gaps. I have about 21.5 minutes' worth of footage.

Jensen's solo panel will follow that one, and then the main J2 panel. I have full coverage for both of those, along with the new-to-many-of-us footage as described above.

Before/After Comparison Photos

The first comparison shots from Candygramme's footage only represents 4.5 minutes of the video, as mentioned above. The rest will look more like the second set which was the source I used the most of. So most of the video quality won't be great, but you can see the expressions on their faces a little better in the enhanced version so I'm hopeful people will consider this to be an improvement over whatever they might have watched before.

A recap for anyone not familiar with this project…

In December 2023, I started a project to enhance old convention videos. The project is mostly focused on Jared and Jensen, but there will occasionally be videos with other actors. I'm upscaling the videos and making other visual improvements, adding extra content to clarify various references, and adding human-generated, color-coded subtitles so you can better understand the sometimes-chaotic audio. The subtitles can be auto-translated to other languages via YouTube.

My goal is to publish the best, most complete, and most watchable versions of these older convention panels yet seen, but this is only possible thanks to the fans who captured the footage in the first place and were generous enough to share it with other fans. My video descriptions on YouTube will always credit my sources.

If you have any old convention videos you'd be willing to contribute to this project, please message me! I can also be reached at DetailTilted@gmail.com. If I can get them to upscale (I can't always), I'd happily send the upscaled files back to you for your own collection whether I use them or not.

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Castiel was interesting at the beginning but he quickly turned into a caricature.

Cas in my opinion, started as an antagonist, as the mirror image of Ruby. He was the one manipulating Dean, he opened the panic room to let Sam out, and he did exactly what heaven told him to do which made him interesting, and compelling. The fact that he chose to help Sam and Dean, to go against heaven's orders made him even more interesting because he defied everything he knew for them. He turned on his home, on everything he knew, because he realized humanity was worth it.

That's where my issues with his character started because why wasn't that implored more thoroughly? Why couldn't they show him change, show him become more merciful and human-like without reversing it each and every time? Why couldn’t they focus on Castiel hating how weak he'd become without making jokes or giving him his powers back?

The writers could have done so much more with his character but instead, they just repeated the same cycle over and over again; he gets weaker, he miraculously gets stronger, he wants to help which means he needs to become even stronger, he fucks up majorly, he gets punished for a minute, repeat.

That said, I think it's clear that Castiel’s downfall started quickly and didn't stop until he 'died'.

Like I said, at first he was a compelling character with depth and tons of potential but as soon as season six started he started decaying, slowly losing what made him interesting until he was nothing more than a husk that could be filled with a new personality every time his character became stale.

It's obvious the writers didn't know what to do with him after season five which is why they sent him on random quests; getting out of the way but still close enough in case Sam and Dean needed him for something. Even that could have worked though; he could have been a recurring character like Garth or even Bobby. They could have explained his absence so easily too; he's needed in heaven, rebuilding what was destroyed.

But that wasn't the case. Instead, they kept him around and made him into a fool that actively made things worse for the people around him. He didn't even take responsibility for most of the things he did, not even for the few I'm certain he did on purpose.

(I'm talking about things that happened after season five, before that his alliance was with heaven after all)

Let's start with him pulling Sam out of hell soulless. There is no way he didn’t notice Sam didn't have his soul, that he didn't notice Sam was acting different because if he didn't then that means he pulled him out and left without looking back. And honestly? That just makes it worse considering he would have left his injured and incredibly traumatized 'friend' in a field without letting anyone know or making sure he was okay. It would also mean that he didn't check in on him or Dean during the time Soulless Sam walked around.

That wouldn’t be a bad thing if they kept Castiel ambiguous if they made him care about them slowly, bit by bit, but they didn't. They presented him as a part of the team, as a friend, very early on but they didn't make him act like it. He constantly acted like a comrade who changes alliances as soon as someone stronger, someone better, showed up. That didn't just happen once either, it happened multiple times.

And of course, he wanted to be stronger to help but why did he always trust people he either barely knew or knew to be evil? He trusted Crowley, someone who wasn't trustworthy at all, over his so-called friends. That, of course, didn't end well. Not only did he free the Leviathans and became Godin his quest for power but he also destroyed Sam's hell wall. That led to dozens of deaths and almost killed one of his friends. And, instead of dealing with that whole situation the writers 'killed' him, erased his memory, and wrote him out of the show for a while. And when they decided they needed him back Castiel took Sam's hell trauma, making himself suffer. That would be a great way to show his growth if the writers and characters weren't pretending it never happened in the first place. The fact he broke Sam's wall is basically never mentioned again, instead, it's always about Castiel being insane (not to mention that said insanity gets used as comedy).

After that came Metatron, an angel he barely knew, if at all. Trusting him would be understandable if Castiel didn't already know that angels are just as untrustworthy as demons. He already had to deal with angels that were manipulating and conniving (Uriel, Michael, Naomi, etc.) so why did he decide to trust Metatron blindly? Why didn't he try to find out more about him or the trials Metatron wanted to perform? And why, after Naomi told him that the trials Sam was doing would kill him, did he decide to go see Metatron on his own? I also can't decide if I believe Castiel didn't know the trials would kill Sam upon completion or not. On the one hand, he could've said Naomi was lying due to her track record but on the other hand, it didn't seem like he cared about Sam's upcoming death all that much so who knows? In the end, it didn't matter anyway because Cas, once again, lost his powers, Sam survived (barely) and the angels fell.

And then there was Lucifer. Castiel helped free him the first time by opening the panic room, something that could be excused considering he was still on heaven's side then. Still, the fact it was never mentioned he did that by anyone just goes to show how little he cared for Sam. But, this is not about that, rather it's about him freeing Lucifer the second time.

Castiel knew Lucifer couldn't be trusted. He knew what he did to Sam in the cage, intimately considering that he had taken Sam's trauma earlier. He knew Sam was still traumatized. He knew how many people had died last time Lucifer was free. He knew all of that but still decided to let Lucifer possess the body that didn't even belong to him.

Sam had been in that cage with Lucifer, his abuser, for so much longer, saying "No" over and over again while he was terrified just for Castiel to say yes after a few minutes. Sam knew Lucifer was lying, that he was just saying what they wanted to hear but Castiel trusted him anyway. Not just that, he didn't even tell them about it. He let Lucifer walk around in their home, Sam's home, without saying anything. He didn’t warn them, he didn't leave and he didn't do anything to protect his 'friends'.

Then when Lucifer tried to kill Sam, after he had already shoved his hand into his soul, Castiel finally decided to stop him. But instead of kicking him out of his body he just left and continued to let Lucifer possess him because he thought he knew better. Because Lucifer might have tried to kill Sam but he would still help them and leave them be afterward. We all know that's not what happened, that people died, that people suffered and Jack got created. All because Castiel thought he knew Lucifer better than anyone else, than Sam who spent decades with him only a few years ago.

All these things wouldn't be that bad if they hadn't made Castiel up to be family, if they had treated him like Crowley or Rowena but they didn't. They wanted Castiel to be part of Team Free Will. Still, they made him do so many things Sam and Dean shouldn't have forgiven him for, things that made him Naive and stupid. They should've killed him or had him be a once-a-season character instead of making him into what he was at the end and I am sure they would have if it weren't for some fans loudly begging for him to stay.

But what did it get them? A character that repeats the same mistakes every time he doesn't have anything to do, a character that wouldn’t even be around if the writers had stayed consistent regarding Dean’s character. Because let's be real: Sam suffered from Castiel’s actions the most, either directly or indirectly, and Dean should've killed or at least abandoned him for it.

That brings me to my next topic: the relationships between Castiel and the people around him.

Let's start with Sam and Castiel’s relationship. We all know it started with Castiel calling Sam an abomination while Sam was starry-eyed due to finally meeting an angel, a being he had believed in for years at that point. Him seeing Sam like that could have been the start of a compelling and impactful story. The writers could have built the relationship between them slowly, making Castiel’s view change from 'walking sin' to the good and kind-hearted person he was. Castiel could have questioned Heaven's ways because of Sam, because he was told The Boy with the demon blood was evil even though Sam always tried to do the right thing.

They could have built upon that, they could have shown how the two of them helped each other but they didn't. Instead, Castiel said Sam was a friend but acted like he didn't care about him at all. He didn't think he should be saved, he didn't care when he was soulless, he ignored his prayers, he destroyed his hell wall and so much more.

We all know why: because the writers and some of the fans decided Dean was better, that his relationship with Castiel would be more interesting. That decision, to me, was the noose that slowly took the air away from Castiel’s character and the confession scene was what kicked the chair out from under his feet.

I know that might sound harsh but I truly believe it to be true.

Dean and Cas were never friends, never family. At first, Dean hated Cas, thought he deserved to die because he wasn't human, because he was a monster and every monster deserves to die in Dean’s mind. Then they were coworkers, working to stop the apocalypse they both helped start and later to stop Lucifer. That's it. You could argue that they might’ve been friends after that but only out of convenience. Dean was the human Castiel latched onto at the beginning, he raised him from perdition and then he was his mission. Castiel was the friend that could help Dean with everything, every time he needed help and he was the friend that couldn’t die. Castiel didn't choose Dean, Heaven did and Dean tolerated Cas because it was convenient.

Not to mention that Dean constantly treated Castiel like trash, like he never stopped thinking of him as a monster but the writers still forced them to be friends. Dean made fun of him losing his powers, got angry at him when Castiel was too busy to come as soon as Dean called him and he abandoned him when Castiel needed him. Castiel didn't even stick up for himself, he just continued to run after Dean like an abused dog that still loved its owner. And just like the dog Castiel deserved better.

Every relationship that came after he met the Winchesters traced back to them as well. He met most of the people he knew through the Winchesters and the few relationships that were created without them were destroyed by them. It's like Castiel wasn't allowed to exist outside the Winchesters, like his pure essence was tied to them no matter what.

He never freed himself, and never tried to be someone else; he just continued to be Dean’s property. Dean was the one he spent the most time with, the one he was seeking out, the one he cared about the most. He stayed at Dean’s side through everything, only having other relationships when it furthered the narrative, losing them as soon as the story they were needed for ended. He didn't get much screentime with Jack either, because even that was given to Dean, the person who hated Jack from the moment he was created.

But still, Castiel liked Dean better than Sam, even though Sam treated him way better in comparison.

That isn't to say that he deserved Sam's kindness because he didn't. Not just because he acted like Sam was beneath him, not just because he did everything in his power to make Sam's life worse but because he didn't even apologize.

He never told anyone that he opened the panic room, not even when Dean practically disowned Sam for starting the apocalypse; something all three of them did. He didn't defend Sam when Dean blamed him for everything that went wrong and he, just like Dean, acted as if he'd always known about Lillith being the last seal.

He either purposefully rescued Sam without his soul or just ignored his injured and traumatized 'friend' while he went on his quest for power. He later destroyed Sam's hell wall, the only thing keeping him sane, to keep Dean away from him. That once again, shows that he barely saw Sam as his own person instead he was an extension of Dean; a prop.

He practically didn't care when Naomi told him Sam would die if he finished the Trials, he repeatedly kept things from the Winchesters, he went off the rails multiple times and most importantly he freed Lucifer. He freed Sam's abuser and kept it from him, and then when Lucifer started doing what he always did, Castiel made it everyone's problem. He acted like it wasn't just his fault that Lucifer was freed and he gaslit Sam into thinking it was his duty to help. And don't get me started on his monologue; telling Sam that "he was used by Lucifer too" AS IF IT WASN'T HIS OWN CHOICE. He acted lik3 h3 knew what Sam went through even though Sam had been tortured and sexually assaulted while Castiel sat around watching TV. (Sam should've punched him for that honestly)

So no, Castiel wouldn't deserve Sam's friendship but Sam would still be the better choice. But he chose Dean. He hopped from Noami to Dean, back to Naomi, and right back to Dean. In the process, he lost every bit of his character that made him so compelling until he was nothing more than 'the angel hanging around the Winchesters'.

Seeing what became of his character I can't help but wish that they killed him off. His death was set up so often, they could have just let him stay dead but no, they brought him back time and time again; diluting his character with each resurrection. They didn't give him proper, compelling storylines, they didn't develop his character in any interesting way and they certainly didn't let him exist outside of Sam and Dean. Instead, he got a bad confession of his love to Dean, something that wasn’t set up or fair to his character.

(As you can see I got a bit mad halfway through)

I will make a post about Sam as well but I don't know when. Also, if you want me to write about a different character just tell me and I'll look into it!

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I am going to try stick to episodes that I like …

W - What is and What should Never Be

A - All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1

T - Tall Tales

C - CroaToan

H - Heart

I - In My Time of Dying

N - Nightshifter

G - Goodbye Stranger *

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S - Scarecrow

A - All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2

M - Mystery Spot

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A - A Very Supernatural Christmas

N - Nightmare

D - Death's Door

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D - Dead in the Water

E - Exile on Main Street (or End, The)

A - And Then There Were None

N - Nihilism

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A - Appointment in Samara

G - Gamblers, The

A - Abandon All Hope

I - It’s a Terrible Life

N - No Rest for the Wicked

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In onclusion, my user name has too many As.

a spn episode for every letter in your url? I'll go first:

born under a bad sign

optimism (bad episode)

you can't handle the truth

keep calm and carry on

in my time of dying

nightmare

good god, y'all

sacrifice

croatoan

on the head of a pin

unity

repo man

tall tales

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Seems to me like that writer is more of a loser to get that over invested in characters that were never written as (or intended to be) a couple by a single show runner (or person who had any power on the show), than the fans who actually just accepted the show for what it was.

Brothers fans / bronlies "won" until the very end, actually.

And hellers will forever lie about "canon," and stay bitter until the end of time.

When did it become canon? LOL And ahhh yes, homophobia again for not shipping. Losers. 🤣🤣

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Lucifer appeared to Sam as a Young John. 🤔

So if it’s true that he ONLY tries to "come disguised as his victim's deceased love,” all roads seem to lead back to wincest. In one form or another.

ITS NOT OPENT TO INTERPRETATION!!! 🙄

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Also, the only proof that Dean reciprocated the trench coat's "romantic" love "confession" would be IF DEAN ACTUALLY RECIPROCATED TO HIM.

He didn’t. So he doesn’t.

Get over if FFS.

All of this searching for loopholes to prove a sunken ship still floats is purely embarrassing at this point.

EDITED TO ADD: Hellucination Lucifer also appears to Sam as Dean … just sayin' … the Lucifer only appears as romantic loved ones argument is a slippery slope. 🤷‍♀️

If you were so certain it wasn't open to interpretation, you wouldn't have to shout it from the rooftops.

And yes - it is. 😂😂

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Jared & Gen | Purgatory 9 2025

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J2 | Purgatory 9 2025

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J2 at PURCON9 - Stomach "Tap"

I haven't seen this here on Tumblr yet. The original 26-second video is here.

It's like he tried to resist, but just couldn't do it. 😂

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shhh shhh *it’s a secret* 

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Bobby is an old drunk who very obviously favored Dean, and he looked at Sam like he had three heads while he was experiencing a mental breakdown (in a season where he only showed Dean sympathy despite Sam living with fresh hell trauma). So, him and his "family don't end in blood," actually doesn’t carry a lot of weight for me, actually.

Bobby’s saying should have been, "family begins and ends with people I can easily relate to."

BTW, I don’t remember Sam or Dean sacrificing themselves to bring Bobby back when he was killed helping them with their mission. They were sad, sure, but they didn’t exactly go to any measures, big or small, to bring him back. What I do remember is them talking about how they couldn’t let Bobby continue hanging around them as a ghost at the end of Seaon 7 because he became a liability.

How to trigger a fandom. The way they latched onto a throwaway line is something else. I wonder which fan said it this time that's got their panties in a twist?? Lol

Imagine a group guilt tripping you for liking the leads??? If you hate what the show's about?? Tough. Don't watch it then. Do us a favour and fuck off.

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I’m so tired of this idiotic take.

Supernatural is ABOUT the brothers, Sam and Dean. Found family is an ELEMENT that exists in the show, but the CORE of the show was ALWAYS Sam and Dean and their love for each other. And they may have collected friends and "found family" along the way, BUT almost every single one of them died in support of Sam and Dean's missions, and the biysmived on with varying degrees of guilt or sadness over it. The "found family" were sidekicks to the boys, that’s it.

Sam and Dean saw themselves and their parents as their core family. They didn’t choose to leave their parents and find other family. Their parents died, and they bounced between others who could provide them with help along the way, but it was always then against the world, and when they occasionally faltered from that is when shit hit the fan. And even when it came to their parents, they still put each other above them. Dean only sacrificed himself, or tried to trade his life himself for Sam, and Sam only ever went insane over the loss of Dean or put the whole world at risk to save or avenge Dean.

People can call all of the SPN recurring characters "found family" if they want to, but it doesn’t change the fact that not one of them was considered by the brothers to be as important as each other. And they aren’t as important to the story as Sam or Dean. It’s just facts. Being butt-hurt about it doesn’t change anything.

It was always Sam … and Dean.

Curious as to why this is starting up again. Why do people need everyone on the same level as Sam and Dean?? Do any other fandoms do this??