6.14 Review
6.14 ‘Mannequin 3: the reckoning” Review
So, I confess I had to dig a little to understand what the hell was that title all about. Turns out, there are two Mannequin movies, which makes this the third... I guess.
And here I was, hoping that they were going the Twilight Zone way, with the mannequin coming to life and believing that she was human only ( Read more... )
So, I confess I had to dig a little to understand what the hell was that title all about. Turns out, there are two Mannequin movies, which makes this the third... I guess.
And here I was, hoping that they were going the Twilight Zone way, with the mannequin coming to life and believing that she was human only ( Read more... )
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I've watched it twice now and enjoyed it while I was watching, but each time was left thinking - this could have been so much better. It was very disjointed and had some things that I found hard to swallow - for instance, I am supposed to believe that Dean will leave Sam, worried as he is that the wall could collapse at any moment after that incident where as he says Sam nearly died? And that Lisa is suddenly ringing Dean, after it was her who said he couldn't be a part of their lives, and is presumably still worried about him shoving Ben and seeming out of control.
But that didn't stop me sitting there with a tear in my eye at the bedroom scene with Ben for all the reasons you've highlighted so well above. Oh Dean!!
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Your take on Dean/Lisa/Ben feels very true, though, and that part is why I can't totally dislke this episode.
Oh Dean...
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Yes, the Dean, Lisa and Ben parts were absolutely sweet, especially because we caught a little more flashbacks of their life together. I wonder if we'll ever see the bad parts (as in Dean dealing with losing Sam and what he went through in his life?)
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He's a hunter with experience enough to pull the family and the hunting life in simultaneous. The only reason why he endangered Lisa and Ben in the first place, with the whole vampire thing, was because he was hunting with someone who betrayed him.
Give him a solid, trustworthy partner and his job becomes no more dangerous than any firefighter or police officer or soldier in the world. And all of those manage to built families, just like anyone else.
Of course, Dean's main problem is with who he is, not with what he does. Some how the idiot has convinced himself that he's a nasty piece of work and that his life is a bad example for anyone... which, again... idiot!This is a 'uncomfortable' season, I'll give you that, but uncomfortable in the sense that it always leaves you guessing what will happen next, which will be the next turn. And I kind of like it, it keeps in me on my toes. Predictability can be very boring and a show that can completely reinvent itself into something else by its 6th season and still be ( ... )
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Veritas or no Veritas, the minute Dean threatens Ben, his out of Lisa's life and I respect her decision at the time. Later, after cooling down, I'm sure that she must've weighted Dean's behavior towards them for a whole year against his one mess up when he was vamped up and realized that maybe there was a reason behind his odd and violent behavior (hence the 6 calls she made to him).
Yes, the first time she pushes him away, Dean does back off, because, for one, and like you said, he doesn't handle failure all that well and sees it as being rejected; and two, he had Lisa's and Ben's best interests at heart. He saw what he almost did and he assumed that his presence in their lives could not end well, so he backed away voluntarily (hence the not picking up her 6 calls).
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The ending was terrible, and a let down to what could have been a good epsoide. terrible writing.
You never mentioned it but its something I feel that I should say. I don't think I ever realised how selfish (right word??) Sam is. He wants to tap into his memories in order to make amends for the past year but again fails to consider the effect of his death (or coma or what ever) if he releases the hell memories, on Dean or anyone else. IDK. to me it kinda symbolised how he was in S5 trying to kill Lilith, good intentions that can lead to bad outcomes. Considering what dean has done for him to get his soul and in the past you would think he would give it a rest... It always seems its Sams why or the highway.
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No kidding!! A close second on the drool-scale to shirtless Dean and Dean holding babies *g*
Well, Sam selfishness in there can almost be excused by Dean's own selfishness. Like Castiel pointed out (something that many saw as harsh of him), the kindest decision that Dean could've made was to possibly kill Sam the second his soul was out of the cage and not risk his brother going instantly insane had Death's wall not have worked. He didn't though, because truly it was something that would destroy Dean, and in that he put Sam at risk.
I believe Sam has come a very long way from the brat-ish kid brother from season 1 and right now, his desire to regain his memories is more out of guilt and fear of having done something horrible, than actually being just curious.
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