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A Few Thoughts
Mainly about Castiel, but first - there is a guy at my school who looks like a perfect cross between Skandar Keynes and Colin Morgan. I shall call him Skanlin, and never talk to him because he is always running about awkwardly and making me feel vicariously embarrassed for his awkwardness, but still, he's kind of awesome just for existing.
Castiel. I've been trying to figure out, of course, what he's going to be up to next season, because surely he's going to be in it. I think that, having saved him once more, Kripke/Gamble are admitting that he is too much of a fan fave to let go, and will be keeping him around for Season 6. About half of that thought is pure hope, of course, but I really do think it makes sense that he'll be back.
So, what's his role going to be? It's really hard to say. Cas has come full circle in a variety of ways. He was bad-ass, heartless s.o.b. angel, then slowly became humanized, got angel brainwashed back to heartless land, then got humanized again, then got literally humanized, and then finally returned to full awesome angelic glory. He even came full circle in his interactions with the other characters, in a way - we first see him having raised Dean out of hell and then he enters and bamfs Bobby to the ground with the two fingers of angelic might, and now finally at the end of season 5 we see him entering again as the mysterious angelic presence (less literally mysterious, of course, but there is the sense, especially in Dean asking "Cas, are you God?" of a re-entrance) and, of course, he uses the two fingers of angelic might there at the end to raise Bobby up. Cyclic scenes, I think I love you.
But so now we have a Cas who has had all this round-trip experience down on Earth, and he's shooting back on up to become the HAIC, and while I can see the possibility of a storyline for him of having to deal with the cracks in the angelic family, revolutionizing heaven, bringing the dissenters under control, etc, I get the sense that with this general conclusion of the mytharc, the writers want to sort of fade the majority of the angels out. Free will won, so they'll be crawling back to heaven to lick their metaphorical wounds. (Which, by the way, totally opens the possibility of Season 6 croatverse, because the angels have left! And there could still be some Croatoan virus out there, for sure. Show, let's see this happen, please and thank you). Also, Gamble has said that there's going to be a lot of meat-and-potatoes episodes next season, which pretty clearly means monster-of-the-week. Which is disappointing, and I just really really hope that even if the main angel mytharc is done with, Castiel will still be a major presence in Season 6. He's really a must.
Castiel. I've been trying to figure out, of course, what he's going to be up to next season, because surely he's going to be in it. I think that, having saved him once more, Kripke/Gamble are admitting that he is too much of a fan fave to let go, and will be keeping him around for Season 6. About half of that thought is pure hope, of course, but I really do think it makes sense that he'll be back.
So, what's his role going to be? It's really hard to say. Cas has come full circle in a variety of ways. He was bad-ass, heartless s.o.b. angel, then slowly became humanized, got angel brainwashed back to heartless land, then got humanized again, then got literally humanized, and then finally returned to full awesome angelic glory. He even came full circle in his interactions with the other characters, in a way - we first see him having raised Dean out of hell and then he enters and bamfs Bobby to the ground with the two fingers of angelic might, and now finally at the end of season 5 we see him entering again as the mysterious angelic presence (less literally mysterious, of course, but there is the sense, especially in Dean asking "Cas, are you God?" of a re-entrance) and, of course, he uses the two fingers of angelic might there at the end to raise Bobby up. Cyclic scenes, I think I love you.
But so now we have a Cas who has had all this round-trip experience down on Earth, and he's shooting back on up to become the HAIC, and while I can see the possibility of a storyline for him of having to deal with the cracks in the angelic family, revolutionizing heaven, bringing the dissenters under control, etc, I get the sense that with this general conclusion of the mytharc, the writers want to sort of fade the majority of the angels out. Free will won, so they'll be crawling back to heaven to lick their metaphorical wounds. (Which, by the way, totally opens the possibility of Season 6 croatverse, because the angels have left! And there could still be some Croatoan virus out there, for sure. Show, let's see this happen, please and thank you). Also, Gamble has said that there's going to be a lot of meat-and-potatoes episodes next season, which pretty clearly means monster-of-the-week. Which is disappointing, and I just really really hope that even if the main angel mytharc is done with, Castiel will still be a major presence in Season 6. He's really a must.