Then on top of it, I'll read some ridiculous interview where the writers talk so confidently about what their intentions were even though none of that ever made its way onscreen in any coherent way. We wind up with the writers sitting on panels TELLING us what they should have SHOWN us, but never did.
This is so true. And that's going to be even worse with the situation where where the show clearly ended at the end of last season. Not only are they trying to reset everything with Dean in Sam's place but there's this whole introduction of the awesome Campbell family.
I think this wasn't so much a slam at Dean's domestic situation as a lame bit of humor from the writers -- just as it was oh-so-funny to see Dean wearing a suit and eating healthy food in "It's a Terrible Life" (another Gamble episode), it's oh-so-funny to see Dean living in a nice house with golf clubs in the closet and women's magazines on the coffee table. Side splitting!
I definitely thought that--even though there wasn't anything particularly emasculated about Dean's life. He'd somehow found himself that job that was pretty traditionally masculine, he was protecting his home, he was teaching a son how to fix cars.
On one hand I totally bought the hunter's attitude towards it. They're part of a subculture that's going to have all these conflicting feelings about it and I totally buy that this type of bravado is part of the package. Wasn't it even the girl who mocked the InStyle (while looking pretty, natch!). But it just pointed out the messiness of the story intentions. Like I said in your lj, we've got Sam who's committed himself to lying to his brother in an incredibly huge way, and bringing Bobby into it, but then he tosses it out the window for a couple of lame djinn with a weak motivation for going after Dean. Then he's telling Dean that he's doing this family a disservice by staying with them.
Again, they probably didn't intend it, but okay, this ep is sort of a flip of the pilot: Dean's got the domestic life and Sam wants him to hunt. But Sam's arc seems to have been coming to realize that he can't have that real life. So you could almost look at his actions here and feel like he set Dean up to go through the same thing he did. I don't think that's what he was supposed to be doing and it wasn't played that way, but I wonder if they thought, "Hey, Sam specifically wanted Dean to have the life he was going for in the pilot and by the end of the ep he's telling him he's wrong to want it." It doesn't seem like they did.
Total agreement on the Mitch Pileggi idea. If they wanted him I think the least they could have done was just make him an unknown Campbell (since there are so many of them, apparently!) who just looks like Samuel. It's just way too obviously he was chosen out of everyone to come back to life because he was played by Mitch Pileggi.
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Date: 2010-09-25 10:47 pm (UTC)This is so true. And that's going to be even worse with the situation where where the show clearly ended at the end of last season. Not only are they trying to reset everything with Dean in Sam's place but there's this whole introduction of the awesome Campbell family.
I think this wasn't so much a slam at Dean's domestic situation as a lame bit of humor from the writers -- just as it was oh-so-funny to see Dean wearing a suit and eating healthy food in "It's a Terrible Life" (another Gamble episode), it's oh-so-funny to see Dean living in a nice house with golf clubs in the closet and women's magazines on the coffee table. Side splitting!
I definitely thought that--even though there wasn't anything particularly emasculated about Dean's life. He'd somehow found himself that job that was pretty traditionally masculine, he was protecting his home, he was teaching a son how to fix cars.
On one hand I totally bought the hunter's attitude towards it. They're part of a subculture that's going to have all these conflicting feelings about it and I totally buy that this type of bravado is part of the package. Wasn't it even the girl who mocked the InStyle (while looking pretty, natch!). But it just pointed out the messiness of the story intentions. Like I said in your lj, we've got Sam who's committed himself to lying to his brother in an incredibly huge way, and bringing Bobby into it, but then he tosses it out the window for a couple of lame djinn with a weak motivation for going after Dean. Then he's telling Dean that he's doing this family a disservice by staying with them.
Again, they probably didn't intend it, but okay, this ep is sort of a flip of the pilot: Dean's got the domestic life and Sam wants him to hunt. But Sam's arc seems to have been coming to realize that he can't have that real life. So you could almost look at his actions here and feel like he set Dean up to go through the same thing he did. I don't think that's what he was supposed to be doing and it wasn't played that way, but I wonder if they thought, "Hey, Sam specifically wanted Dean to have the life he was going for in the pilot and by the end of the ep he's telling him he's wrong to want it." It doesn't seem like they did.
Total agreement on the Mitch Pileggi idea. If they wanted him I think the least they could have done was just make him an unknown Campbell (since there are so many of them, apparently!) who just looks like Samuel. It's just way too obviously he was chosen out of everyone to come back to life because he was played by Mitch Pileggi.