Rewatch S6: ...And Then There Were None (6.16)

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So, in the style of Supernatural, we go from a super funny episode to a super depressing one.
The upshot is that this should be a fairly easy clothing episode, since it's so contained.
Don't get me wrong though, the contained-incident is one of favourite plot thingies (I'm so coherent today), it's just a little hard to watch, because it's so INTENSE.

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She really had potential in being one of the ultimate big bads. The Mother is really evil and sadistic, but yet caring and loving at the same time? Perfect! But no. As we now know, her time is short lived which I also believe was yet another mistake of S6.

See, this is why I like her as the red herring. Because she HAD so much potential and we all saw it - which was why we didn't see that she was just a distraction to what was really going on. She was never meant to be a big bad, which I think is kind of cool...personally, but I DO recognize that because of that same potential, there are swathes of people who don't agree with me.

While the idea of having female monsters is not so foreign, sometimes SPN's pattern of killing off every.single.female.character is annoying as fuck. Yeah, Lisa's alive, but no one liked her anyway so we don't count her. I would really appreciate some female influence on the boys, good or bad. Meg is still alive, so that's a plus one there. I just think it would heat things up a llittle, give it some variety.

While I don't disagree with you, I'm also of the opinion that Supernatural is fundamentally about the tragedy that befalls men when they DON'T have a female influence. When they can't keep females in their lives (or even alive). It's about the horrible crushing depression of being motherless.

That being said - I really miss Ellen. The problem with Meg and Ruby and those types of continuing female characters is that I don't count them as female because they are villains. I know that sounds weird, but for me being a villain doesn't count. I liked Ellen because she was a positive female influence - but of course, given what I said above, that automatically meant her days were numbered.

Long ago, masculinity was given the image of being steadfast, sturdy, unchanging, whereas, because everything has to have an opposite, the feminine was given an image of duality, unreliability, and madness.

The greeks obviously never met my close male friends. They are some of the most changeable, unreliable, moody guys....one of them once through a temper tantrum because IMDB had a cast list in alphabetical order instead of in order of most-important. But I digress...

The documentary finally stated something so true: what is more scary than when the one person we are instinctively dependent on, who we rely on the most, our mother, turns and becomes sadistic and psychopathic, killing and maiming those around her? What is more terrifying than that? It is in complete opposition to what we identify with motherhood: safety, warmth, love, reliability. That opposition is what shocks us so much in movies where the villan is female, why it sticks with us for so long.

That's really interesting, and I never really thought of it that way before - but you're right...or rather, the documentary is. That's really interesting - the fact that females make such awesome villains because we just want them to love us and make us safe. Interesting!

Your comment is indeed long, but it is also VERY INTERESTING AND WELL EDUCATED! So, THANK YOU! :)

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I think men today are a lot different than they were back then, even the douchebags, because of the predominating female influence.

Yes, I think so too, thank goodness.

If you have Netflix, look up that documentary. It's on Instant Viewing. Another good one, if you like horror movies (which I assume you do since you like SPN, lol) is "Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue." It's about the evolution of the American horror film industry and at first, I thought it'd be kinda boring but oh no. It's awesome.

Sadly, I don't have netflix, but I do have a pretty good video rental place near me (I know, so 2000s, eh?) so I'll look for it there. I actually can't watch horror movies (Supernatural is my one exception...well, Supernatural and Shaun of the Dead), but I love documentaries, so I would probably still watch a documentary about horror movies. I just get scared so damn easily. Even Supernatural, I have to watch through my fingers sometimes. :P

My next viewing just went up!