Can I just talk about how fucking neglected Cas has been this season
Like, he died. While he was dead, he was alone with some weird ass entity who voiced all of his insecurities and used them against him.
He comes back. Yeah, there’s like a reunion and stuff. He gets to meet Jack, and they go on a hunt. But that’s it. Nobody’s like, ‘hey you died man, how are you feeling? What happened with that fucking cosmic entity.’
Then he gets fucking captured by the Prince of hell, but does anyone notice that the person updating them on their hunt for Jack ain’t Cas? No. Nobody realizes that he’s missing. He was just left to rot in a cell next to Satan.
He finally escapes from Asmodeus, gets stabbed and walks home. Sam and Dean feel bad about not knowing it wasn’t Cas speaking to them, but once again, that’s it. No 'Oh shit, did he hurt you? What happened while you were captured?’
Nope. They just went and did something else.
Cue Castiel leaving to “find Jack” and not being in like, four episodes.
He was in the crack episode with the Scooby gang but then, you guessed it, disappears- he wasn’t even called when they find out that his fucking brother is found out to be alive, not even when Dean goes to another dimension with Ketch.
Then he helps Gabe. Gabe leaves, Dean comes back from Dimension 2 and yells at him and Sam.
Castiel is then sent to heaven where he is reunited with Naomi, who, if you don’t remember, tortured him to kill Dean over a thousand times- trying to rewrite his brain against The brothers. He finds out that his “childhood home” is dying. Because all of the angels that he killed, how much guilt do you think that burden leaves? But does anyone care to ask if he okay? NOooo.
They finally get to the other dimension where he loses his brother to a pack of rabid vampires, but, again, because it’s Sam, everybody focuses on Dean’s grief. Sam was Cas’ brother to, hello? His face when he told Dean he was gone says it all.
He and Dean find 'their’ son, only to find that Luci decided to pay them a visit. Lucifer “joins” them, but only to be able to talk Jack.
Castiel loses his title as Jack’s father, thanks to Satan who opens his stupid ass mouth playing the victim in everything. Nobody asks Castiel about this because there’s so much going on.
When they go to save Charlie and Ketch, they meet Castiel; the one from that world. Evil Cas has a monologue about how they’re the same- remember, that Cas is a renowned torturer and evil af- Cas says that he’s right before killing him.
The self-fucking-loathing in that sentence hurts it so obvious. He obviously feels guilty about everything he’s done, hell, he said it himself, in season 7. As it seems everyone has forgotten, he said that if he saw what had become of heaven after what he did, he might kill himself. He told Dean. Dean heard him, but he never, for almost 6 years, asked about it.
Then when they get back to the bunker, Bobby makes a toast to The Winchester; Sam and Dean. Not Cas. Never Cas. Because everybody forgets that Cas is there too.
This just makes me so fucking angry, because Castiel is such a vital character in this TV show. But, everybody seems to forget that he’s there.