This was a really depressing episode for Dean--all that effort and nothing changed--in fact it got worse with the reveal of Casifer! He has to be wondering if he hadn't gone back in time would Delphine have made it--but we know that their time travel efforts always result in history happening as it is, they can't change it.
But if Dean hadn't gone back, would the destroyer have found the sub or would they have made it to safety, Delphine gotten the weapon to the Men of Letters and it would have been in the bunker for them to find? Damn closed time loops!
Oh Cas. You have learned so much from Dean, that you accidentally learned his shitty self-esteem.
Yeah. :(
I appreciated Dean's comment that he was just a witness because my first reaction when it ended was that the boys were just bystanders, it was brave Delphine's and evil Luci's episode.
And I am stealing this from another review because dreamsofspike said it so well I couldn't paraphrase it better:
What's Dean Winchester's worst nightmare? Being useless. Being a burden. Being the "witness" - the helpless bystander - who has to be protected rather than do the protecting. To Dean, having to watch those people die and not being able to save them, not being able to do anything BUT watch, is horrible - and it's also foreshadowing for the situation with Amara, and how he's unable to do anything but watch THERE, either, while all the work is left to Sam. If Dean isn't the hero, if he isn't the one sacrificing himself to save the day - then what good is he? That's how he sees it, I think, and why he's having such a hard time with this. (From here: http://raloria.livejournal.com/2645874.html)
ETA: Where the heck was that final location supposed to be? There is water and a busted pier by the bunker which has always looked to be solidly land-locked?!? And guys, if you know Lucifer is out and probably looking to kill you, why would you step outside your warded bunker to have a little chat?
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But if Dean hadn't gone back, would the destroyer have found the sub or would they have made it to safety, Delphine gotten the weapon to the Men of Letters and it would have been in the bunker for them to find? Damn closed time loops!
Oh Cas. You have learned so much from Dean, that you accidentally learned his shitty self-esteem.
Yeah. :(
I appreciated Dean's comment that he was just a witness because my first reaction when it ended was that the boys were just bystanders, it was brave Delphine's and evil Luci's episode.
And I am stealing this from another review because dreamsofspike said it so well I couldn't paraphrase it better:
What's Dean Winchester's worst nightmare? Being useless. Being a burden. Being the "witness" - the helpless bystander - who has to be protected rather than do the protecting. To Dean, having to watch those people die and not being able to save them, not being able to do anything BUT watch, is horrible - and it's also foreshadowing for the situation with Amara, and how he's unable to do anything but watch THERE, either, while all the work is left to Sam. If Dean isn't the hero, if he isn't the one sacrificing himself to save the day - then what good is he? That's how he sees it, I think, and why he's having such a hard time with this. (From here: http://raloria.livejournal.com/2645874.html)
ETA: Where the heck was that final location supposed to be? There is water and a busted pier by the bunker which has always looked to be solidly land-locked?!? And guys, if you know Lucifer is out and probably looking to kill you, why would you step outside your warded bunker to have a little chat?