Visual Clues to Soulless Sam in Season Six

[ash48]

It's been a while since I've posted anything visual or meta-ish, so I thought I'd put together a little pic-spam. It's possibly grasping at straws a little bit (ok, maybe a lot), but *shrugs*, I enjoy examining the visual elements on the show and it always looks so pretty anyway.

Comments

[kazluvsbooks]

Wow, this is amazing ash!!
I had never noticed any of these before!!

Wonderful shots you chose <3

[ash48]

Thanks so much hun! <3

[jj1564]

This is a really interesting post, I'd never noticed all the clues to the cage Sam's soul was trapped in, and shirtless soulless!Sam is always good to see!

[ash48]

Thank you! :) I always thought that one shot from 6.05 was a definite reference, but I didn't realise how many more examples there until I went looking.

[madebyme_x]

\o/ I love seeing meta thinky thoughts from you.

Simply from the amount of examples you've shown, it certainly leans towards a conscious effort to depict it that way, and I like it think it was purposely done. It would certainly add an interesting dimension to souless!Sam, one that maybe the writers didn't explore.

(and personally I was hoping that you would include a still of *that* scene ;)

[ash48]

Thanks hun. :)

and I like it think it was purposely done

So would I. I always hope they're doing things deliberately when we discover stuff. :))

And *that* scene is a must of course…:D

[galwithglasses]

This is very cool. I realized when I watched 6.01 that there were a lot of bars, plaid and horizontal lines. Lisa's house is full of them. The plaid is everywhere. I never expanded the theme out to look at that through the rest of the season though. These caps are really awesome. The one of the impala inside the fence is particularly exquisite. So many of these shots look dark and gritty. Is this the season that was supposed to have a film noir feel to it? Some of the seasons run together after a while. It feels good to be able to have fun looking at some of these images again.

[ash48]

Hey!

The show certainly likes to use plaid (I always remember S8 with Amelia and all that plaid type wall paper). With Lisa's house being full of them too it might be a shout out to Dean feeling equally trapped (or stuck).

Is this the season that was supposed to have a film noir feel to it?

I think it was this one. It did have a noir-ish feel - in fact it was pretty dark. Caged Heat is such a dark, nasty episode.

The one of the impala inside the fence is particularly exquisite.

I adore it! There's even a pot of flowers in the background of that scene. :)

Fun to be talking about images again. I hope we can do it again in S11. :)

[fufaraw]

I always love these posts of yours. I find myself going, "I noticed that!" but wasn't aware enough to make the next step to connect to a theme. I hope you have more chances in S.11 to make these kinds of connections.

[ash48]

Thank you!

I hope S11 gives us some more great cinematography. I'm sure it will. :))