User blog comment:Nicole Janine Holbrook/how do you think Dean is gonna feel when he finds out that his friend is no longer an angel/@comment-5619706-20130831152540

Castiel has already tried being a hunter in Hunteri heroici, so the transition shouldn't be too hard. Dean will probably feel sorry, or even guilty he was not able to help his friend.

I don't really mind however Dean feels about it, so long as that sub-arc (and all the related dramatic moments) isn't shoved down our throats every episode up to the last episode. The show has several pressing matters to attend to given the way they ended season 8, and frankly, they better address all of them satisfactorily.