Season 6, episode 21
I have mixed feelings about "Let it Bleed" and how the closure of Lisa/Ben storyline was handled. I said "closure" becasuse there are several factors to prove it:
- Lisa/Ben story was dragged out one more time because after M3TR the comments stated "it didn't seem to be the final end"
- why otherwise spend a whole episode on Lisa and Ben just before the finale?
- why make Lisa and Ben forget the past year, if not for getting rid of them for good?
So, yeas... it was a closure. The writers (in this case Sera Gamble) also mentioned twice during LiB that Ben is not Dean's son.
For the record: it has been said in "The Kids are alright", "Two and a half man", and twice in "Let it Bleed" that gives us 4 times when they clearly stated Dean is not the father! If he were, then the angles in season 5 could have use Ben as the vessel instead of Adam. Logic people!
Anyway, to clear things out, the demons repeated it in LiB. Yes, demons lie but in this case they confirmed what Lisa was saying and what the angles already knew. Besides, demons tell the truth when they know it is more painfull for the victims. Demons have their way to know such secrets. Like the demon posessing Lisa: demon knew Lisa was a slut (yes, yes.. my dear viewers you should also know that from TKAA), knew she regreted meeting Dean. And that is cool. Really. What is so not cool is Dean.
One more time I hated this idiot. This wasn't "the Dean" form previous seasons. I understand he felt guilty and responsible and furious when Crowley kidnaped Lisa and Ben, but hey... he didn't have to act like an emasculated creature.
It was a closure, although Dean didn't get to speak his mind and come to a good conclusion. No, Sera shoved her "love-boring-sotry" down our throats from the beginning of S6 till the very end. Many people on the message boards didn't expect Lisa/Ben storyline to be there for so long. Especially that it did not serve any purpose: Well, Dean was changed, deprived of all his great qualities after the year with Lisa. However, when Sam came back to Dean's life, Dean left Lisa and Ben immediatley.
- Their "relationship" was over in 6.02 episode. Dean & Lisa were not together.
- Then, there was vampire episode which should "end" Dean's hesitation whether to lead a "nomrmal life" or not but it didn't. It was such a waste opportunity. Dean & Lisa were not together.
- After few SN months there was the "truth spell" episode which showed Lisa's true colors but Dean was so OOC that he didn't dump her :( She dumped him. Which is kind of stupid because Dean and Lisa were not together!
- To my horror, the writers were trying to "close L/B" in M3TR... Dean and Lisa were not together for a.. half a year or long in SN world, so why the hell insert her and the brat to the episode?
So basically, after not being in a relationship with Lisa and her brat from the second episode of S6, Dean had to deal with these two annoying people one more time. And was there any conclusion? Any choice making on Dean's part? No! He spent a whole year as Lisa's puppet playing the role of her man and being a father figure for Ben, which made him miserable and unhappy yet he did not open his mouth to say: sorry Lisa, I'm a hunter. This is my life. Sam is my life and we've got job to do. I thought I'd like "nomral" life but I was wrong.
No love has been shown between Dean and Lisa. No love has been between Dean and Ben. No attachment. Just a pure feeling of responsibilty and failure on Dean's side. Just a pure need of having a man in her bed on Lisa's side. Plus her lack of compassion, lack of understanding, lack of warmth, lack of charm.
If Dean didn't come to a conclusion he is a hunter and he loves that, Lisa/Ben had no purpose on this show.
I'm torn when it comes to the mind-wipe solution. I understand other Lisa-haters that such a poor character doesn't deserve heroic death. Only the good characters die on Supernatural - that is the rule. Obviously Lisa doesn't deserve to join heroin's club. That would be a joke!
On the other hand however, death is the most final end. Dead Lisa would not bother anyone. She wouldn't pop out without any warning someday in the future. Lisa left alive creates danger of bringing her back. It is hope for L/D shipers. Actually, from what I've found on forums, they are convinced Lisa and Ben would be back.
I could live with such a solution. But the execution of L/B closure was poor. It wasn't anything special requireing waiting untill the finale episode. It didn't require keeping Lisa and Ben in the background for so long. It was simple. It should've been done after 6.02. But most important it only made Dean look like stupid loser. If the writers kept Lisa and Ben for the whole season then something good should've come out of this story and it's closure. I was waiting for Dean to realize he loves his life as a hunter, just as he did back in seasons 1,2,3. After all S6 was advertised as coming back to origins - well, bullshit!
I hated the last hospital scenes of Dean. Lisa is not Jess. She was just a horny, not responsible mother who took a complete stranger to live with her. Dean crying and being so emotial about, after all not-dead woman and her not-dead kid, is so OOC. Another attempt to force on us the imporance of slutty Lisa. I mentioned Jess because I fear that the writers would write Dean in S7 as the other/next brother who lost "the love of his life". That would be the continuation of re-writeing of SUPERNATURAL.
