You are correct! That's exactly what occurred to me...though I didn't think of the Gordon-contrast - cool stuff.

Poor Dean. I think BOTH Sam and Dean are going to have to have some serious personality overhauls next season. They've both learned an awful lot about themselves this past season and very little of it is good. Hopefully they will be there for each other...and Castiel, who we last left battling an arch-angel, and given Castiel's current fighting stats...well, if he wasn't signed on for next season already, I'd be even more worried about him.