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This rumor is CONFIRMED. 

In episode 5.04 (The End) the original script says: 

But instead, we become this. The only thing I think we have left, Dean and me, is each other. (unadorned sincerity) If Dean says it’s time to go out in a blaze of glory, win or lose, so be it. I’m in. But then…  (smiles easily at Dean) That’s just how I roll.

This script (which can be seen here) was won by Laura (tumblr user hidefan) in an auction at Rising Con in 2010. She posted it on her tumblr after having the script signed by Misha Collins at the same convention the following year. (x) 

In the episode, Castiel says: 

Except I used to belong to a much better club. And now I’m powerless. I’m hapless, I’m hopeless. I mean, why the hell not bury myself in women and decadence, right? It’s the end, baby. That’s what decadence is for. Why not bang a few gongs before the lights go out? But then that’s, that’s just how I roll.

(From Supernatural Wiki’s Transcript)

Therefore, the line was changed between the original script and the final version in the show, and this rumor is Confirmed.

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Notes: 

Laura (hidefan) has the entire script, but this was the most significant difference between the script and the show. 

If you’re curious about how season 9 will fit in with the current year (since it will be 2014 halfway through the season) and the End!verse, check out our posts here and here. 

#reblogging for posterity #spn

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Post 6/6 of Ben Edlund commentary from SPN Then and Now podcast, 4/15/2024

Edited for clarity.

About Cas as a "broken angel," and Sam, Dean, and Cas and plot armor:

"Castiel has been a freak his whole existence and kind of a broken angel in some way that was intended. And there’s sort of a hair in the gate that was put there for some reason and it seems like the hair in the gate is a foiling mechanism for the corrupt ambitions of the archangels, the one who keeps messing it up and keeps coming back with this stubborness that defies the story. Here’s a miracle, that we are permitted to do this. We just kept bringing Cas back because everybody was like, cool, we like Cas. No one was like, “how does this work, why is this allowed?” It actually breaks the coherence of life and death but to me it makes a certain sense in the same way that moving forward through 15 seasons one could say it just passes beyond credibility…to me it passes into an epic Gilgamesh*. It passes into a thing where of course you can throw Sam or Dean 30 feet into a concrete pillar and they just…because they have lapsed into demi-god-dom, demigodhood, through all these crazy trials and purifications, going to Hell numerous times, and dying and coming back, it is a process they went through of becoming."

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*Footnote: Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia about a king on a quest for immortality. Not incidentally, featuring the friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu, best friends, found brothers, and often interpreted as a queer relationship. (There’s scholarly books on the subject). Best friends, brothers-in-arms, and lovers. Super interesting Ben Edlund references Gilgamesh right after talking about Cas’s immortality, in the same podcast where Ben Edlund also talks about Dean and Cas’s profound bond, subtext, show don’t tell but also “we just like…say it,” isn’t it? It’s not just about the immortality aspect. Dean and Cas are the Gilgamesh and Enkidu comparison. Sam and Dean and Cas as characters are comparable to the immortality themes and “demigodhood.”

#castiel #spn #commentary #reblogging for posterity

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buffy summers is the ultimate "she should have been at the club". because she was at the club. often. and yet,

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Pizza it is

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#mi

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this this this

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big win for the girlies (gn) who like beelover!cas despite the haters

#what i've always said #bees represent angels #and it is tragic not cute #spn #castiel #reblogging for posterity

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“Castiel has been a freak his whole existence” - Ben Edlund 2024

#spn #castiel

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he needs to stop (pls continue)

#spn #destiel #reblogging for posterity

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holding ben edlund upside down and shaking change out of his pockets SAY MORE ABOUT DESTIEL SAY MORE ABOUT DESTIEL!!!!

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"You know, we know what it is, what’s going on. We don’t talk about it. The actors don’t, Jensen and I don’t. But we’re all perfectly aware of how the relationship is, the writers are completely aware of how it’s being written. It may be unspoken but that doesn’t mean it’s not there or not true."

~Misha Collins

"Ok, we know what the subtext is, bury it a little bit. [...] Mainly because all the other aspects of that story tell us that. Show us that, actually. That's the whole thing. Show us, not tell us.” 

~Ben Edlund

THEY WERE ALL PERFECTLY AWARE OF WHAT THEY WERE DOING. AND HOW THIS RELATIONSHIP WAS WRITTEN. AND DEAN AND CAS' RELATIONSHIP WAS WRITTEN AS A LOVE STORY.

#destiel #reblogging for posterity #spn

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#their music is bad and i listen to watching over me regularly #polls

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#by the end it was dean

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#my answer would entirely change depending on the season #destiel #polls

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Pick one of my favorite little moments with Cas

*"-appreciative, too" from 12x10

**from 14x15

Screenshots of some moments (which I think may be too small to remember) are below the cut.

Cas hugging Claire in 10x09

Cas squeezing Jack's cheeks in 14x08

Cas' little smile when he talks to the waitress in 8x21

Cas making this gesture that shows the "shape and heft" of someone's penis from 14x15

#killing homophobes! #poll #castiel

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All in Honesty  |  Teen  |  24k

Author: @golby-moon  |  Artist: @twinone1221

It’s been years of watching Dean and Cas dance around their feelings and at this point, Sam’s losing hope that they’ll ever take that step and talk things out already. One well-placed spell from Rowena makes Dean and Cas incapable of not talking, but even that doesn’t get them together. Will Sam ever be able to help the morons he’s forced to live with get together already, or is he destined for a life of perpetually being stuck between them as some sort of bizarre marriage counselor that neither seems aware the other also talks to?

Link to fic  |  Link to art 

Pairings: Dean/Cas

Warnings: Brief Implied/Referenced Child Neglect, Brief Implied/Referenced Rape (April), No Major Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Oblivious Cas, Oblivious Dean, Matchmaker Sam, Sam POV, Truth Spells, Castiel and Dean Winchester Become Incapable of Not Using Their Words ™

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