Viewers are very unhappy with the Lisa storyline. And it's not just my opinion. Search the forums and you'll find anti-lisa threads. I'll repeat one more time why this story is stupid and shallow:
* Lisa showed up in this show in TKAA episode (seasosn 3), she was again in DALDOM but everyone knows the actress was hired because another actor couldn't play. There were no plans for "Lisa"
* Lisa having a child is not an advantage. The whole meeting in TKAA and a little mistery whether Dean is Ben's father is a shallow method of creating interest in the show. Idea taken from a cheap romance.
* after almost three seasons: BAM out of nowhere comes Lisa and we are supposed to believe that Dean has been imagining himself with her for years. That's stupid. Long-term fans will never buy this!
* I've never ever had an impression that "normal" is what he wanted: in the first season he was saying how he liked hunting and wanted to keep Sam with him, the same in second and third. He didn't like "manicured lawns", he chose real life instead of some crappy-happy illusion in "What is and what should never be"; he came to conclusion that hunting is his life in "It's a terrible life". Even the hell experience didn't change the fact that the most important person in his life was Sam.
* Dean's very traumatic events in the past did not cause desire to end up with boring housewife.
* Lisa is boring, bland, stupid, terrible mother, desperate housewife who would do anything to keep Dean in her life, very selfish and wishes Sam to be dead. She is nothing more than a nodding dog.
* She doesn't have any of the qualities that Dean would love in a woman...
All the above resulted in Dean's destroyed character. Instead of writting a new good character for Dean, SG rewrote Dean to fit in with Lisa.
Will this misery ever end? Will Dean be Dean again? When will the writers stop forcing Lisa into each episode? I don't know if long-term fans are going to have enough patience to find out.
Eric Kripke, please come back and save the show......
Lisa isn't the problem in my mind. Season 6 just comes off like a woman trying to write like a man and its ruining my weekly escape. Eric kripke, please fix this mess. The dialogue is the worst part. Again, it sounds like a woman trying to dialogue like a man. I'm a woman btw, so this isn't gender bias here. I want my boys to sound like themselves again. I'll watch anything supernatural gives me but I truly miss the sam n dean vibe I'm used to.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the other, comment it's Gamble and I can't believe what she's doing to Cas. Come back Kirpke.
ReplyDeleteHm... I think it's not the SG's writing that is the biggest problem (after all there are other writers). I think it's her inability to run the show, I don't think she fully understands the spirit and vibes. She was doing alright when she had to advice EK and/or write an episode from time to time. My issue with her as a showrunner is that she certainly doesn't get Dean's character. The Lisa/Ben storyline was the best example of this. "Lisa and Ben" triggerd a series of mistakes that made me stop watching the show. Not permanently...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I get what you say but to me the worst of the worst of SG's ideas were L & B and what they did to Dean (meaning: destroyed him).