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I have literally been thinking about this (because I got stuck in a cycle of watching supernatural amvs) but like in the first few seasons of supernatural Misha Collins managed to nail his mannerisms so much that Castiel did legitimately feel strange.
I don’t know how to explain it but he legitimately look like nothing we had ever seen before.
He felt strange ,otherworldly like he wasn’t quite put together right and it just added to the unnatural ness of angels. The feeling like there was nothing quite like them.
Like I don’t know what exactly he was doing to his face to make it that way (maybe it’s just the inherent unnatural ness of such vivid blue eyes) but it’s not exactly that he lacked expressions and more that the expressions were done wrong like they were cobbled together by someone that was barely paying attention. It’s so cool honestly and just stands to show how good of an actor Misha is.
Because it’s something that no other spn angel ever really managed to match (even when they were aloof like castiel they felt more like Jack who was just learning everything for the first time instead of the inherent weirdness of Cas) and the writers just kind of abandoned that along the way and just started writing the angels like humans honestly. But it was exciting to see.
The only other angels I felt exuded the unnaturalneas like castiel were;
Matt Cohen’s Michael who just exuded unnatural levels of power. Like look at that expression those are the expressions I would expect someone second only to God to make.
And
This Raphael which just gives “I’m playing a game you couldn’t even hope to understand.”
Like these exude primordial being that I just didn’t get from the other Angels. The inherent strangeness of being an angel but looking uncannily human.
Look I know it’s probably just a retcon or continuity error and it’s a very small scene so who should even care (me, I do) but in season 1 when the kiddies are picking hero’s names there is the oh so famous flashback to Mic giving Aizawa his hero name and in that flashback (which I Presume happened their first year) Aizawa seems extremely confident in what kind of hero he wants to be. He even says I’m going to be an underground hero so it doesn’t matter. Which is in complete contrast to second year Aizawa who is just kind of listless and unsure of himself and what he wants yo be. An Aizawa that depended on his best friends to give him confidence. Where did that confident Aizawa go? The Aizawa that was just a miniature of the Ine we have now. And on some level I know the change is just because it’s a more compelling story to travel back in time to see are steadfast unshakable mentor figure as an unsure and insecure teen. But for a minute let’s pretend it’s not a poorly thought out retcon/continuity error it leaves us with the question of what could have possibly shaken little first year Aizawa so greatly that he’s lost all confidence in himself by his second year?
I am utterly fascinated