#Yes oh my God thank you #Discussions of this episode usually revolve around the weight of Castiel’s magnificent gesture #making his decision regarding the ship and Fate and all those souls based on Sam and Dean #and I’m certainly not saying that should be discussed or celebrated any less because it deserves the focus it gets #but what kills me is that Balthazar is doing the EXACT SAME THING throughout this episode #but it tends to go completely unrecognized #Balthazar changes history because Castiel asks him to #He intentionally gets caught and puts on this little act to hide that Castiel is the one behind it all #He’s going to do something as huge as kill one of the Fates because Castiel needs him to #And then he stops the second Cas tells him to no questions asked no doubt expressed #then changes history again because Castiel makes the call even though that also means they lose all those souls and power in the war #And all of that tends to be completely forgotten and waved off by fandom #while people act like he genuinely had no further motivation than the lulz worthy but shallow reason of hating a movie #and to me that’s really glossing over some important characterization and development for Balthazar #as well as a well done deeper look at his REAL usual motivation #and it just does him such a tremendous disservice and that makes me really sad
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Thank you! I love Balthazar, but it really annoys me that so many people seem to write him off a a swallow character and...
((Which makes what happens to him and his decisions all the more meaningful near the end of the season… He’d have done...
(( People actually believe he sank it for his hatred of the movie? I thought the episode made it pretty damn obvious...
ALL OF THE ABOVE!