Episode Review 6X14
Feb. 19th, 2011 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mangacat201*Pops up* .... *looks around* .... Wow.. seriously guys, the absolute lack of any episode reaction posts lately makes me wanna put one out just for the sake of having it. So, well here you go but beware the SPOILERS right?
Anyway, on 'Mannequin 3: The reckoning' - first that title? Yeaaaaah, it sums about up what I feel about this episode. In some ways it's absolutely hint-tastically brilliant, in others it's just pop-culture trash that's barely bearable.
There's a lot of things I loved about this episode, but some others that make me go meeeeh.
Monster of the Week - classic MotW plot and I have to say, the moving eyes? Crreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy. Reminded me a bit of Playthings which was fun. And the girl with the haunted kidney? Well, to say it with Dean's words 'Just when you think you've seen it all'. The plot was half-assed in places, but I really didn't mind that so much with the Impala staring as a sex doll and the great, artsy spins the MotW layout put on the boys' relationship, what with sisters that'd do anything for each other and the like. Also the great moral dilemas that make the Winchester world rock are sometimes so simple yet...
Lisa & Ben - thought Lisa looked gorgeously unhappy there, first time I EVER actually took her for a 'hunter's wife' or well, someone who'd been touched by the life and took her scars home from it. Also the first time I actually believed her for what she had with Dean. Strange as that sounds. Ben, well, HE'S a piece of work, but despite Dean's firm resolve to be a self-sacrificing sanctimonious little bitch and keeping him out, I think - I hope - we'll be seeing more of him along the road. And he opened a can or worms that's been rotting in Dean's backseat far too long, too. I love the boy. Family Matters.
Dean - well, he was .... so much himself that it was like a slap in the face, but a good one I mean. With everyone going on about how they loved or loathed soulless!Sam because he was so different and off and so much Not Sam ... little did we notice how much Dean hasn't been DEAN this half season without his awesome little brother to play off of. It's chivalry, it's manpain, it's psychotherapist Winchester school, it's protector, father, brother, saviour of the world and still hung up on the lives of one instead of many. And boy, did he ever grow UP. I like you Dean Winchester, you are made of the stuff. (and it really really doesn't help that Jensen gets prettier every fricking week.)
Sam - oh dear, that one's a hard nut to crack. After last week's final 'OMG OMG FUCK OMG' I knew that we wouldn't get the great boom and all - 'tis not the time of the season - yet. But burning fire in Sam's eye, it opens up a whole different kind of possiblity. Satan's left the building heh... did he now. But I think we'll have to stew in that one till the finale either way, so for the moment I'm just going to let it lie. Another thing that's more important...
THE BITCH(Face) IS BACK.
Seriously, how much did we miss those expressive features that ripple through frowns and wrinkles that tells us stories without a single word? I never noticed it so much before, really, how did we ever go without? I mean, I loved Soulless!Sam for the way he put a new spin out (Sam's always went unusual paths with the growing up thing...) but the new!old!Sammy. He's just... I wanna pinch his cheeks and awww and then sigh in contentment. And pep talking his brother on the big picture and overrated normalcy. My my, the world has took a spin, has it. Since college dorms and all that.
Ah well, all in all I have to say, season six, I'm lovin' it. Keep going, right up to number seven.
Cat
Anyway, on 'Mannequin 3: The reckoning' - first that title? Yeaaaaah, it sums about up what I feel about this episode. In some ways it's absolutely hint-tastically brilliant, in others it's just pop-culture trash that's barely bearable.
There's a lot of things I loved about this episode, but some others that make me go meeeeh.
Monster of the Week - classic MotW plot and I have to say, the moving eyes? Crreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy. Reminded me a bit of Playthings which was fun. And the girl with the haunted kidney? Well, to say it with Dean's words 'Just when you think you've seen it all'. The plot was half-assed in places, but I really didn't mind that so much with the Impala staring as a sex doll and the great, artsy spins the MotW layout put on the boys' relationship, what with sisters that'd do anything for each other and the like. Also the great moral dilemas that make the Winchester world rock are sometimes so simple yet...
Lisa & Ben - thought Lisa looked gorgeously unhappy there, first time I EVER actually took her for a 'hunter's wife' or well, someone who'd been touched by the life and took her scars home from it. Also the first time I actually believed her for what she had with Dean. Strange as that sounds. Ben, well, HE'S a piece of work, but despite Dean's firm resolve to be a self-sacrificing sanctimonious little bitch and keeping him out, I think - I hope - we'll be seeing more of him along the road. And he opened a can or worms that's been rotting in Dean's backseat far too long, too. I love the boy. Family Matters.
Dean - well, he was .... so much himself that it was like a slap in the face, but a good one I mean. With everyone going on about how they loved or loathed soulless!Sam because he was so different and off and so much Not Sam ... little did we notice how much Dean hasn't been DEAN this half season without his awesome little brother to play off of. It's chivalry, it's manpain, it's psychotherapist Winchester school, it's protector, father, brother, saviour of the world and still hung up on the lives of one instead of many. And boy, did he ever grow UP. I like you Dean Winchester, you are made of the stuff. (and it really really doesn't help that Jensen gets prettier every fricking week.)
Sam - oh dear, that one's a hard nut to crack. After last week's final 'OMG OMG FUCK OMG' I knew that we wouldn't get the great boom and all - 'tis not the time of the season - yet. But burning fire in Sam's eye, it opens up a whole different kind of possiblity. Satan's left the building heh... did he now. But I think we'll have to stew in that one till the finale either way, so for the moment I'm just going to let it lie. Another thing that's more important...
THE BITCH(Face) IS BACK.
Seriously, how much did we miss those expressive features that ripple through frowns and wrinkles that tells us stories without a single word? I never noticed it so much before, really, how did we ever go without? I mean, I loved Soulless!Sam for the way he put a new spin out (Sam's always went unusual paths with the growing up thing...) but the new!old!Sammy. He's just... I wanna pinch his cheeks and awww and then sigh in contentment. And pep talking his brother on the big picture and overrated normalcy. My my, the world has took a spin, has it. Since college dorms and all that.
Ah well, all in all I have to say, season six, I'm lovin' it. Keep going, right up to number seven.
Cat