ambular-d:

siterlas:

I love this scene so much. By saying “You did the best you could, I forgive you”, Anna is showing Dean the kind of mercy heaven never showed her. And that look on Dean’s face, okay, jfc. He just came back from 40 years in hell where he did unspeakable things, and this fallen angel right here is the first person to tell him this thing he needs to hear with the sincerity he doesn’t think he deserves. For all this talk of heaven’s mercy it ends up coming from heaven’s fugitive, from Anna’s aspirations of humanity. She wanted to be compassionate and merciful, to be different from other angels, as much as Dean needed to hear that compassion and mercy. Don’t they both want to be better than the sins they’ve been accused of?

I think there’s just a whole world of layered meanings in this little scene.  It’s meant for Dean and Anna for all the reasons you just said, and it would have stood as a great scene for that reason alone if it had been, say, just Uriel, or Uriel and Random Garrison-Mate #12 there to kill Anna.

But because it’s Cas there, it’s also meant to demonstrate to him why Anna chose to become human and how their way is better—and, as becomes clear a moment later when he offers his own rather flat attempt at an apology, to make the point that unlike Dean, he is not forgiven.  He’s moved enough by what he sees to know that he wants for himself what Anna has just given Dean, but doesn’t yet understand why he does, or why he should, or what he needs to do to earn it (i.e., to really, truly repent what he’s about to do; not just to wish he didn’t have to, but to acknowledge that he’s wronging her.)

To me that’s what that little downward glance was always about.  Not jealousy that Anna was kissing “his” human, but an unexpected pang of guilt or regret and a desire to be absolved.  I think that’s the whole reason Cas did try to apologize right at that moment.  It must have confused him no end when he said exactly the same thing that Dean did (and you can hear him hesitating just a little, trying the unfamiliar words on for size; ‘How do apologize?’) but got a completely different response.

deanneedscasneedspie:

i don’t even know anymore. 

Against All Odds

ambular-d:

Burn, baby, burn…

aeveee:

#just finished watching all of her episodes #god that last episode was just a massacre of anna milton #for no fucking good reason #she just gets royally screwed over by each and every person #thanks writers #just thanks #she tried to stop the apocalypse to save mankind #not for some stupid selfish reason #she saw humanity as something worth saving and was willing to sacrifice all to do it #and what she gets is to be burned out of her beloved human body #to be rendered to not so much as ash #i fucking love anna milton #and this show completely assasinated her character for NO reason

How did they screw Anna over, let me count the ways:

 

• Cas sold her out to Heaven
• Sam and Dean completely failed to notice she was gone
• Cas never confessed to them what he’d done
  
• Neither of them called him on it when they finally found out
• None of them apologized to Anna for any of it
• Or considered that if Cas shook off Heaven’s reprogramming, maybe she could too
  
• Nor made any attempt to dissuade her or talk her down before resolving to kill her
• None of them ever mourned her or even mentioned her again.
• The writers never bothered to reveal the actual reason she went off the rails.
  
• She didn’t even get a proper set of motherfucking wingprints.
  

And is anyone surprised it was a Sera Gamble episode?  I’m not.  :p

sweatersandstarfleet:

Jensen: No pictures
Jensen: We’ll post when we think it’s the right time
Misha: LOOK BABY
Misha: ANOTHER ONE
Misha: LOOK AT THE HUMANS I HAVE CREATED
Misha: WATCH THE BABY COOK
MIsha: I PUT THE BABY IN THE GROCERIES
Misha: ……
Misha: BABY

And then there’s Jared, who sort of takes the middle road:

Jared: Hey look guys!  A mini-moose!

Jared: ……

Jared: ……

Jared: ……

Jared: Cute, isn’t he?

Jared: ……

Jared: ……

Jared: ……

Jared: Yep, Mooseling, still here

goatheart:

i wasn’t planning to finish this i just saw a post i liked before and i started drawing. x

i suspect they’ll try to teach it poetry or something.

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ambular-d:

_{women of spn: Anna}

“Do you know how many angels have actually seen God? Seen his face.. Four angels. Four. And I’m not one of them.”

Hm, something just clicked.  This quote strikes me as indirect evidence that there really were just the four archangels, though I suppose you could argue that there are still others who haven’t seen the face of God…

(Also, all the Anna love!)