2014!CASTIEL I think it had something to do with the other angels leaving. But when they bailed, my mojo just kind of— psshhew!—drained away. And now, you know, I’m practically human. I mean, Dean, I’m all but useless. Last year, broke my foot, laid up for two months.
I’m maybe stating the obvious, but I was rewatching The End, and I thought I’d share those lines again, because I saw a lot of posts about Cas’ lack of powers in the season 14 premiere, but what was said by Endverse!Cas in this scene probably explains why he’s weaker and weaker when it comes to his powers in the present context, knowing that there’s very few angels left.
Cas’ grace was already pretty damaged before, if I’m not wrong, so it kinda makes sense that he’s more affected than any other angel. And on top of that, he’s emotionally not at his best, it probably makes it worse.
You mean another callback to the exact same episode where this happened in Detroit too?
Where we now know there’s hardly any Angels left, indeed basically none on Earth (except Cas and Jo) as per Naomi’s ordering them back to Heaven, while again here and now Sam now says there’ll be no King of Hell as a direct reverse-mirror to his fulfilling his Lucifer destiny and all the demons running scared from him?!
Idk man, it’s not like Dabb loves callbacks, mirrors and knows his canon inside out or anything 😉