Rewatch S6: Mannequin 3 - The Reckoning (6.14)

[hells_half_acre]

Ok, so, by rewatch and clothing catalogue necessity, I must watch this episode again - as I recall, this one was the weakest of the season. However, I do believe there are SOME good moments...(though a bit of a warning, I am in a little bit of a bad mood today...)

Comments

[katsheswims]

I remember those conversations ending with Dean and Lisa, and then Ben really frustrated me too. I'm pretty sure I yelled at the screen.

I hated the end to the hunt because it was too convenient and unbelievable that a piece of glass speared her in the kidney with where she was standing (and the ghost would actually stick around until that kidney was salted and burned...)

[hells_half_acre]

Oye, yeah, it was completely ridiculous because Dean and Sam were closer to the wreckage yet completely unharmed.

[missyjack]

I actually really loved all the unfinished scenes in the Lisa and Ben sequence, because it felt to me exactly when the end of a relationship can be like where noone is really at fault, its just that its not working, not going to work. I think the frustration we feel as a viewer is deliberate, bc its what Dean and Lisa feel - there is no right thing to say that will fix things.

I really like this analogy am sees them at 0, and every win is a +, whereas Dean sees them in the negatives and every win is a + that gets them just a little bit closer to 0 I mean back from S2 Sam always feels like he can do something to make up for a wrong done.

I think my problem with this ep was that two cool idea - murderous mannequins and a haunted kidney - that got smushed together so the real potential of neither was realised.

[hells_half_acre]

I think the frustration we feel as a viewer is deliberate, bc its what Dean and Lisa feel - there is no right thing to say that will fix things.

I think that feeling could of been retained without the incomplete scenes. Maybe I'm wrong though. It might just come down to personal taste, and personally that writing technique drives me mental.

I'm glad you like my analogy. Haha, I wasn't sure if I was just getting more confusing at that point - but I was raised by mathematicians: everything can be explained in graph form. :P

I think my problem with this ep was that two cool idea - murderous mannequins and a haunted kidney - that got smushed together so the real potential of neither was realised.

I agree, also I feel that the Lisa-Ben storyline got smushed in there too, and didn't realize it's full potential either (though out of the 3, it came closest.)

[liliaeth]

"What do you want from me?"
"I'm not asking for anything."
"Well then ask for something!"
-I think this is a great reflection of the kind of guy Dean is - he'll do anything for you, but you have to tell him what. He's someone who grew up only being allowed to follow orders after all.

This is something that a lot of Castiel fans seem to forget. They say that Dean didn't help Cas, but the thing is, Dean offered to help, and did help whenever Cas asked him to. But he wouldn't know how to help Cas, if Cas didn't bother to actually ask him for it.

[hells_half_acre]

Very true, and a great way to tie this storyline into the main plot. It's just like Dean says later on "I was here. Where were you?"

[khek]

I hated that Lisa in this episode was saying the exact opposite of what she said a few episodes earlier about Dean and their relationship. For me, it felt like the character was just there to mouth whatever the writers needed her to say to forward the story...not like they'd created a realistic character to populate their Supernatural world. (And I never liked Ben; I thought he was the most unlikeable kids the series has created. Even Todd had more character!)

I also thought they copped out at the end, killing the sister with the kidney. I'm sure they could have come up with a purification ritual, or something better than the oh-so-convenient sliver of deadly glass. Also, it bugged me that the ghost sister vanished without any kind of reassurance or sticking around for her dying live sister. Sisters can love each other as much as brothers do! And they had made it sound like these two were as close as Sam and Dean, in their own way.

The various dummies were really creepy though!

[hells_half_acre]

That's basically what I thought about everything too. I have nothing to add. :P