Supernatural Thoughts and Quotes or How big of an asshole God really is

5x13 The Song Remains The Same

Michael in Past!John to Dean: "[...] But I am going to kill [Lucifer] because it is right and I have to."
Dean: "What, because God says so?"
Michael: "Yes. From the beginning he knew this was how it was going to end."
Dean: "And you're gonna do whatever God says?"
Michael: "Yes, because I am a good son."
Dean: "Huh, well trust me pal. Take it from someone who knows, that is a dead end street."
Michael: "And you think you know better than my father? One unimportant little man. What makes you think you get to choose?"
Dean: "Because I gotta believe that I can choose what I do with my unimportant little life."
Michael: "You're wrong. You know how I know? Think of a million random acts of chance that let John and Mary be born, to meet, to fall in love, to have the two of you. Think of the million random choices that you make and yet how each and every one of them brings you closer to your destiny. Do you know why that is? Because it's not random, it's not chance. It's a plan that's playing itself out perfectly. Free will is an illusion, Dean. That's why you are going to say yes."

Let's suppose God really meant for season five to be the last one, to be the end. It would add up. Everything building up to the grand finale, everyone preparing for Sam and Dean to say yes and to have the big showdown. Of course neither the demons nor the angels are doubting that that will happen, 'cause God wouldn't let anyone cross his plan. 

This conversation between Dean and Michael is just so that Dean can see what will inevitably happen in his near future, so that he is prepared. Moreover the whole 'sending them to the past to meet their parents' had one single purpose: closure for God's "beloved" (23) characters. But I don't fully get it, because before Dean was loyal to an absent father, just like Michael and Sam was rebellious of Daddy's plan (24), just like Lucifer, but now that John is dead, now that they changed, now that they actually get to meet him one more time, they act and more importantly feel contrary. 

Dean finally blames John for having him bear such a burden and such responsibility over Sam and all the other people in the world he has to miraculously save and he realizes that John was never the perfect hunter role model, the one who was always right and he always had to follow and look up to. Sam on the other hand is starting to understand John's actions and forgiving him for being so rebellious and unsympathetic. Basically Dean leans towards Sam's and therefore Lucifer's stance and Sam is more protracted towards Dean's and Michael's point of view. Isn't that contradicting to the plot and the whole brother against brother, because one simply cannot sympathize with the other? What are you up to, God?

Michael refers to Dean as a little man whose life is without any greater value, which just isn't true. For one Dean is one of God's protagonist, the one the whole world literally revolves around and also he is the one who is going to represent and fight for the entirety of heaven and all its power. Dean of course doesn't object, 'cause he's oblivious to the expand of his role in what he calls existence and therefore accepts that his life doesn't matter. However after everything he's been through he is still convinced of the power of free will, that he not only has the right but more importantly the opportunity to make his own decisions and can do whatever he pleases with his "unimportant little life", because he simply has to, to somehow keep living the way he is, which is only possible if he truly believes that he can change it whenever he wants.

What Michael tells him next is going to turn his life upside down, because he is being robbed from one of his most important aspects in life: his freedom. Even though Dean hears it from Michael doesn't mean it isn't coming from God. God tells him that every little or major detail that is somehow relevant to the plot is intended and planned out. He just needs to follow the plan or let the circumstances make him follow it. God is once again telling Dean he has no free will and he is going to follow his plan no matter what he may try to rebel, he is going to say yes to Michael because that is how God wants the story to unfold and how everything's supposed to take place and that's how it's always going to go, isn't it?

Regardless of what Michaeljust so blatantly told him, he forms Team Free Will, because that's the onlyway he can keep living. He has to believe that he has control over his life.Dean Winchester isn't one to give in or give up easily. He will continue tofollow his believes and instincts and what he thinks is right, he will continueto act according to his feelings, because that's what makes Dean a human, ahunter, a brother and a hero.

(23) Note the irony.

(24) Like Gabriel put it so literary.