Thread by @DeansSqueeQueen, Q: How was that scene emotionally being filmed, and also we never [...]

Q: How was that scene emotionally being filmed, and also we never got to see Dean’s reaction
because Cas got taken so fast, how do you think, if we had time, how he would have responded
to him?+

J: Umm great question and it’s funny because I have, all season, in fact I don’t even remember the last time, maybe a big huge season ender or something and i don’t know who’s responsible for this because I would love to say thanks alot you jerk umm but they sent me a reaction

video. It’s like a real time critique from a real fan and I found it fascinating. Like I said I don’t know, I rarely ever do it, I did it for 18 and I wanted to see what the reaction was, and that quickly led to, I didn’t want to go on Twitter you know.

Me: It was trending you know

J. Yeah Misha sent me that, he was like, hey dude the episode is trending right now, and I was actually driving home from Colorado. So I was on like a road trip so I didnt get to see the reaction, so when I got home, uh,

I looked up a few of the fan kind of reaction videos and there was one, this one guy who was the most beautifully reactionary kind of person you would want.

And he was so emotional and I felt like he went through a couple boxes of tissues. But he was so emotional about that scene, and he had to pause it a few times, it was just really entertaining.

I sent that over to Misha, and he sent me another one back, and so then I became really interested and wondered what the fan reaction is.

Then I watched the show, actually watched the episode, and I will say that some of Dean’s reaction of what I played into Dean, they did not use. Uh, in the final edit. But also some of the stuff Misha played in to his side was cut.

And that’s very common, editors will trim up things to speed up a scene, to the point, they call it taking the air out of the scene.

Taking the air out, and they’ll kind of condense it and it’ll be a concentrated version of that scene that was filmed. I knew that scene would be, I mean obviously we’re saying goodbye to one of the most beloved characters to ever be on Supernatural.

And uh also one of my dear friends, I actually had uh, i had one of our crew members take my phone. I was like will you just take pictures of this, and maybe some videos, because I want to remember this from my perspective, and not Dean’s perspective that’s on the screen, because

that will be a highly edited version with music and visual effects and special effects and all that stuff

and I want to remember this, I want to be able to go back and watch this, uh, from my, from Jensen’s perspective on how this happened between two friends irl and two friends in character life, and I was really pleased.

Misha had a tall order that day, for me I just had to be there and watch him kind of go through that emotion and get that all out and it was a beautifully written script and Bob Berens did a good job of crafting that dialogue.

From Dean’s perspective, and Misha and I have talked about this, we’ve talked about this prior to filming that scene, during that scene, and we’ve talked about it since. I’ve actually talked to him uh, alot this past week, about the reaction, what we want to add to that reaction,

how we want to navigate that. Because we’re getting alot of questions about what do you think, what do you mean, what was your intent, and he and i both kind of talked about, well if you, and this may be a little a little too out there but go with me here,

well artists don’t stand in a gallery next to their painting and tell you exactly what you should be seeing.

And I kind of, I hope it doesn’t sound like a cop out, because it’s not meant to be, its truly meant to be. I knew where Jensen was in that scene, I also was making a choice for Dean in that scene. I kind of knew what I was trying to play with him, but at the same time what came

across from a visual standpoint and a storytelling standpoint, and the audience perspective could be a multitude of things.

And I would just, I would never want to tell someone what they should and shouldn’t http://see.Um , and not that, and again I’m not trying to do a cop out because I know it was a very important scene on a variety of levels,but I kind of,

and I always thought i mean i’ll give you guys a little bit of an insight into.

There were no choices made on Dean’s part, and I hope I made that apparent because he was dealing with something far greater than what Cas was expressing to him.

He was dealing with his friend was about to http://die.So I’m not sure that Dean absorbed or processed anything that was coming out of his mouth at that moment.And i will say that they were cornered.

You know you had these two characters who only know how to fight and they were in a corner that couldn’t get out of

So you couple that with the fact that now this person, this best friend is now going to sacrifice himself. I think it was all too much for one human to kind of absorb.

But you also have to remember that Cas is a celestial being, and he’s thinking in a way that might not be comprehensible by a human heart or by a human brain. So the things that he says I always from Dean’s perspective

,I don’t know if I understand where he’s coming from or what he means from a humanistic stand point,

even though he kind of transferred into a human over the course of twelve years. But he was always coming from this, there was always an angelic aspect to him that Dean may, or may not have understood.

So I don’t know, don’t know how humanistic the feelings being professed at that moment were, or maybe they were, maybe that was

what was happening. I don’t think there’s a right or wrong answer. I think that’s the beauty of what this story gives you, hopefully it gives everybody something. END

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