Signing up to be an
angels’s bitch is the best health insurance on Supernatural. And I don’t only
mean the “re-hymenation” Castiel performed on them after he’d dragged the boys
from Hell. Think of all the times they got brutally beaten up, slammed against
walls, slashed with knives and so on – what little time it took them to heal
their wounds and recover. This is a TV trope common to many shows (Jared
Padalecki referred to it as the "WB ointment") but I firmly believe the main reason why the guys
are still fit and good-looking after years of doing a job like theirs is
because angels have been watching over them since they were born – if only
because Sam and Dean were destined to become vessels for two of the mightiest
archangels. Seriously, they never seem to have any concussions or broken bones,
not even scars – apparently, angels care about their physical health. Too bad there’s
not much the heavenly doctors can do about their mental health. And it’s funny
how immediately after Castiel is gone in early Season 7, their physical
vulnerability gets to the guys: Dean breaks his leg, Sam’s haunted by suicidal
hallucinations. Remember the time when you stitched your own wounds, put back
dislocated shoulders and even brought each other back from the dead without
relying on Magical Insta-Healing Angelic Fingers, guys? And, of course, Sam and
Dean's speculations about whether they are going to make it into, say, their
40s, are totally meaningless -- I don't think the angels or Death will allow
the demise of the men with such important missions on their hands. Not yet.
