ep reaction to Mannequin 3 the Reckoning.
The title is funny to me, because I actually watched Mannequin when it came out. Very romantic for me as a teen! :P But also, this ep was intensely creepy for me. I am afraid of mannequins. O_O One of the scariest eps of Kolchak the Nightstalker is when dress mannequins come to life and try to kill Kolchak. Flash back to me at age six, on
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I think the most painful thing about Dean's relationship with Lisa is that even when he was living with them for the whole year, he was constantly trying to figure out a way to get Sam out of the cage. I think people were a bit misled by Jensen's early comment that Dean read as a bit "soft" on the page.... to my mind, Dean was on the most important Hunt of his whole life that entire year. At least, that's how I read it.
Lisa must've gotten to know painfully well how deep Dean's love for Sam really goes. He never stopped grieving (how could he, knowing Sam was in Hell), never stopped trying to get Sam out. (I pulled a bit of an Angel-whammy on him in my post-5.22 verse, just to give the boy a little peace!)
And Dean did of course go running as soon as Sam called for him... so Lisa knows how that is, and how it will always be.
It's really a terrible situation. But if I could change one thing, it would be Dean's fatalistic understanding of his own nature. He's never understood the breadth of who he is. I think if he could just feel a little "luckier" -- to take it in terms of the last scene of the ep -- he'd find that Lisa is willing to put up with a lot from him. After all, she seemed to call it quits after the Veritas ep, but then tried again and again to get a hold of him.
Dean has been cursed with a series of terrible crises, always going from bad to worse. With Sam's sanity protected by this flimsy wall... well, I think the words of the ep show that he is still torn. But that's my read -- in action, there he is back with Sam, despite his regret that Ben and Lisa are heartbroken and pissed -- but he is still thinking of them in the terms that they are "his". I have HOPE. Painful hope, but HOPE nonetheless!
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Well, I'm not saying that there isn't any hope, just that DEAN isn't letting himself have any at this point. I'm pretty sure we're mostly agreeing ... for example, Lisa WOULD put up with a lot from him. But I also think he's assessing it clearly right now, that who he is - right now - is not something he will ask her to accept, ever. The hardest thing Dean will probably ever face is real hope, and even if he can ever gear himself to face that battle (and it will be a battle), it's not now. So he's not going to spend time on it.
I'm with you, I'm hoping for him, and that Show will one day give both brothers the peace it's been promising so long - and in the form of life, not death! But for now, I'll wait with him, and Sam both.
Oh, boys. :(
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