I think they can achieve enough by falling Cas that they don't have to kill him. He's the only one who can achieve a simple dramatic transformation that way. And how would they keep him around next year powered up?

Apparently Nikita is going to be paired with SPN. No news that I can see yet about which of the 9PM shows will come on at 8.

eta: Just read it's keeping the 9PM slot and Nikita moves to 8. Season summary I'll post in Lite.

I'm still wondering how the war in heaven will go.

• If Raphael wins, we're looking at Apocalypse 2.0, which seems ... stupid.

• But if Cas defeats Raphael, he's either going to be too busy running heaven to hang with the boys, or he's going to have to crash-course all the angels in free will so he can (in which case he might fall purposely, like Anna did, to live out his life as a human?).

• Or he's going to die defeating Raphael.

Or he has to make a huge sacrifice in order to either win or mitigate the deal he's made with Crowley or protect the boys and falls as a result.

I forgot sacrifice. That's very true.

I still think they have to wind up defeating Raphael somehow, because otherwise we're back to ... whatever square the apocalypse was.

I think having him human could work for S7 in a way the speculation about Sam couldn't. I also like the idea, because it's more fish out of water stuff for Misha to play, but I'm not sure if they would go there.

IT'S ALMOST FRIDAY. I'm a wee bit excited. And apprehensive.

I don't know if there's anywhere else for them to go with him as an angel, though. Unless they have angel-proof adversaries next year. So my current kittens are on him falling.

I looked at my iPod this morning and thought of "Carry On Wayward Son" and got quite choked up.

And then read a stupid fanfic in which Cas proposes to Dean with a kitten and Dean calls himself a fiancée, so I'm pretty much over it. What is with people? Part of me thinks they must hate the show, that's why they write the fixit fic. I need to not click.

I doubt they'd go there, but there's also the option of Castiel winning the fight against Raphael but being so changed by channeling all those creepily mutated souls from Purgatory that he's effectively an antagonist in Season 7.

It's all wish fulfillment. I think it's less fix-it and more that they love Dean and Cas, for example, but in that situation, if the writer were Dean, that's what she would want to happen. A disconnect between truth in characterization and personal fantasy.

I don't know if there's anywhere else for them to go with him as an angel, though.

I agree. I just don't want Cas to go away.

if the writer were Dean

And there is my disconnect. Now, none of us are like Dean, and that's a good thing. But if you have the emotional development of a middle schooler, why are you publically projecting that onto a 30 year old PTSD suffering killer? Who's a guy?

channeling all those creepily mutated souls

Do we know that he's been channelling them in the first place?

I didn't articulate that very well. It's more that if you are a teenager, you want Dean to have what would make you happy, i.e. a proposal with a kitten and the chance to call someone "fiance".

It's why in so much bad romance, men don't ever behave like, well, men, or speak like men. They turn into every soggy fantasy of the nice guy who only cares about the heroine's feeeeeelings and pleasure and lifelong desires.