My interpretation of SPN 6.01 (Exile On Main St.)

[idontagree]

So this is it. After four months of waiting, the boys are finally back in town. Hellatus wasn't as bad as it was in previous years for me... thank god.

And now the boys are back, another year is about to start and no matter what Season Six will bring along, I am excited, I am happy and I can't wait to see where the journey ends. If it ends

Comments

[steeleblue]

Here through spn heavy meta.

I agree with much of this, especially concerning the plot. To me it seemed like with everything else they wanted to portray, the plot was sort of patch-worked around to make it fit in with the emotional and character stuff, rather than using the plot to reveal those things.

I also agree about not being fond of Sam's portrayal. The lack of emotions was really startling. It was like there was a wall between us and Sam, and it was strange, and very different from pre-Cage Sam.

[idontagree]

That wall is exactly what bothered me the most... I wonder where they intend to take this.

Thanks for your comment! :)

[ikabod11]

I am in total agreement with your interpretation of Sam and his motives. I am holding out hope that once he and Dean are really together again that he has some sort of emotional breakthrough and we get our puppy back. (Or at least some ghost of his former self.)

I also agree that part of the reason the episode lacked emotional depth was the sheer amount of info dumping. There was just too much to introduce or explain, that there was just very little time to explore the emotional reactions. I'm hoping future episodes are better paced.

Lisa also left me undewhelmed. She still seems as two dimensional as before and we get no real explanation of her motivation to accept a virtual stranger into her home. Is Dean really just that good in bed? Please writers, give Lisa some depth!

[idontagree]

haha, I have no doubt that he is a real gentlemen in bed. With a bit of a kinky side, perhaps. But I actually liked the fact that they weren't all over each other. There is acceptance and also dependance on some level (especially with Dean), so their relation is more of a platonic type which is exactly what I was hoping for. That's the only why I could buy their relationship. But of course, Lisa characterisation is lacking... I hope it'll get better as the season progresses.

Thanks for commenting :)

[marlowe78]

Heyyy, you're back! Missed you

[idontagree]

Hey you! Yay, I'm back, haha. Can't stay away now that show has returned, can I? ;) Aw, you're right, I did miss our awesome SPN-talks too!

Couldn't have been easy, but I love her for saying that it was the best year of her life. That's actually something that took me by surprise! I didn't know how to take that comment of hers because for some reason I can't imagine that it is true (in a "I mean it with all my heart"-way). It just seems way too fairytale-like to me, you know? Maybe she knew that that's what Dean needed to hear? Or rather, she knows how much a comment like would mean to him and how much he HAS to hear it. And by that she can bind him further to his new family - and I really don't mean this in a bad way! Any woman smart enough would (or should) have done the very same

[marlowe78]

Looking very much forward to more. But to fill the time - and for you to have even MORE after the lecture - I just comment on Lisa's comment

[idontagree]

Hey there! Took me long enough but here's what else I wanted to mention:

Concerning Dean (because we can't NOT discuss this): Jensen was absolutely, unbelievably brilliant in this episode, wasn't he?? Gosh, if it weren't for him, the epi wouldn't have been half as good ( then again, Dean as a character wouldn't be DEAN without Jensen, but still - I can't gush over him enough, haha). There was so so so much non-verbal communication going on and we all know how damn hard it is to actually fake that part of communication. And he just... nails it. In everything. His eyes and his facial expressions especially! I once asked myself what it is that makes a person a good actor and the only thing I could come up with is "they're a good actor if they can make their eyes lie". I'd watch that episode over and over and over again just to see (and feel) him act again and again. Of course it hurts because it's Dean and empathy makes it as good as impossible not to suffer with and for him - but it's still strangely fulfilling (or calming?), in a

[yourlibrarian]

Lisa. She was okay. I wish they had written her a bit more conflicted and less like someone who'd let someone as broken as Dean get away with everything. I get why she took him in, I understand why she felt responsible... but it has been a year and I am sure that even the sanest woman could not carry the weight of Dean Winchester as unconditionally as she seems to be. If there had been more anger and sadness on her side, I would have been more than happy.

This, absolutely. And what you said about Bobby also threw up the contrast between his attitude and Sam's in the episode about some of the very same things.

[kalliel]

I absolutely agree with your assessment, re: the premiere being something that you need to be a fan of the show to respect/love. And after 6 seasons, I do think that's appropriate. The kinds of things we're getting now--there's five years of history behind them that only have that weight if you've been around to watch the previous five seasons. And I think Sera approached it with that in mind, because there were so many little things that meant the world in this episode that would go completely unnoticed, much less have any meaningful resonance, by/for someone who watched/downloaded it on a whim. Thanks for bringing that up!

I agree with you re: Lisa. I absolutely love the woman, but I felt like her role in this episode was a little quieter than maybe it should have been. We'll see how that plays out through the rest of the season. Onward we march! XD