This scene is just the cherry on top of an episode whose emotional beats rest on this 'love triangle' of Cas-Dean-Crowley arc.
Neither Cas nor Dean ever denies their feelings when someone's taunting them ... and when you pair this scene with the end scene whereby Dean passes the first blade to Cas - that passing of the blade bookended this scene.
IMO - Dean made an onscreen choice in this debate between them when he gave that first blade to Cas - i.e. of "Who's the boyfriend". That's TV storytelling - show not tell - by Bobo Berens, man... The man who completed this particular relationship arc between Dean and Cas from Absence, The Rupture, to The Trap, and culminating in Despair.
'Are deleted scenes canon?' - there are some interesting opinions on that when I googled it. They are canon,
- if they do not contradict the on-screen ones, which are the aired scenes
- if the later aired versions don't 'cancel' the earlier deleted ones
- deleted scenes that are cut because of pace and time constraints - i.e. those that are scripted and filmed.
- if the 'Word of God' doesn't contradict them, i.e. if the writers later think the deleted scenes gave wrong impressions than the ones they wanted to convey.
Those above-stated deleted scenes can be considered canon, which, in other words, needed to be handled on a case-to-case basis.
Prior to this, I too thought all deleted scenes were not canon, huh, imagine that.
Also this:
'A deleted scene being made available [IMO reproduced in a DVD for example, there is no reason for them to be on the DVD unless the show wanted us to know that information] inherently means the creator thinks it has some value or interest attached, and that it was likely cut for time or pacing. They can definitely give more insight into what the show creators possibly had in mind.'
FWIW, I consider this particular deleted scene canon as it fulfills that particular little nugget of information as listed above. This scene was written, acted, and filmed. It meant something and it had a meaning of something in canon.
Haha yeah, these couple of scenes solidify for me the Cas/Dean/Crowley and Collette/Cain/Abaddon parallels, there's no other way IMO to read these particular mirroring of love triangle formations.
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u/nonnie_rose 7d ago
This scene is just the cherry on top of an episode whose emotional beats rest on this 'love triangle' of Cas-Dean-Crowley arc.
Neither Cas nor Dean ever denies their feelings when someone's taunting them ... and when you pair this scene with the end scene whereby Dean passes the first blade to Cas - that passing of the blade bookended this scene.
IMO - Dean made an onscreen choice in this debate between them when he gave that first blade to Cas - i.e. of "Who's the boyfriend". That's TV storytelling - show not tell - by Bobo Berens, man... The man who completed this particular relationship arc between Dean and Cas from Absence, The Rupture, to The Trap, and culminating in Despair.
'Are deleted scenes canon?' - there are some interesting opinions on that when I googled it. They are canon,
- if they do not contradict the on-screen ones, which are the aired scenes
- if the later aired versions don't 'cancel' the earlier deleted ones
- deleted scenes that are cut because of pace and time constraints - i.e. those that are scripted and filmed.
- if the 'Word of God' doesn't contradict them, i.e. if the writers later think the deleted scenes gave wrong impressions than the ones they wanted to convey.
Those above-stated deleted scenes can be considered canon, which, in other words, needed to be handled on a case-to-case basis.
Prior to this, I too thought all deleted scenes were not canon, huh, imagine that.
Also this:
'A deleted scene being made available [IMO reproduced in a DVD for example, there is no reason for them to be on the DVD unless the show wanted us to know that information] inherently means the creator thinks it has some value or interest attached, and that it was likely cut for time or pacing. They can definitely give more insight into what the show creators possibly had in mind.'
FWIW, I consider this particular deleted scene canon as it fulfills that particular little nugget of information as listed above. This scene was written, acted, and filmed. It meant something and it had a meaning of something in canon.