I think many people, a relationship when you have a kid would require more than a LDR might offer.
Why? She doesn't have to do any more parenting or spend any more money than before he showed up. This way, she gets laid sometimes.
We weren't shown a woman clinging to the tatters of a relationship, or anything. She told him she'd do fine without him, in contradiction to her (IMO unappealing) pleas of the previous episode.
I guess I just don't understand why a single mother needs more in that way. If she can adjust Ben to "he's not your Dad, but he gets to help out" it seems perfectly reasonable behaviour.
Signed,
Single and Childless.
SPN meta fan survey. One of those acafen things, you know.
She told him she'd do fine without him, in contradiction to her (IMO unappealing) pleas of the previous episode.
I didn't read that as pleading, though. I heard "Don't discount your contribution to this past year together, I was really happy," not, "Please don't leave us, big strong man!"
He was pointing out that he was a mess, and she was saying, yeah, well, sort of understandable, and you still did a pretty bang-up job as a member of this family.
Maybe I'm just projecting from my own view that I would be an awful single parent and need as much help as I could! Eh, it's no big. We'll see what happens with them anyway, I the show would be boring if it were the Dean, Lisa and Ben show.
I didn't read that as pleading, though. I heard "Don't discount your contribution to this past year together, I was really happy," not, "Please don't leave us, big strong man!"
Fair. But, see, Dean can't really look her in the face and leave right after she pulls the Dad card. But she doesn't necessarily know that. So I feel she got him in his weak spot there.
I would be an awful single parent and need as much help as I could!
But she apparently has done a really good job for most of Ben's life. Doesn't mean she didn't want Ben to have a father, but I think it's clear she doesn't need him to be that for her.
Interesting survey. I never really thought about why the fan-centric epsidoes were among my favorites.
...it's clear she doesn't need him to be that for her.
Which is why I'm a Lisa fan.
Rewatching 6x02, the scene where Dean kisses Lisa goodbye before going to see Sam and the spawn, and I just noticed that Dean has a money clip in his back pocket (it was shiny and glinting in the light, I was not staring at his ass! um). For a guy still tucking his shirts in on occasion, that seems like such an easy pick. Was it Jensen's? Was it a specific wardrobe choice to show that he's let his guard down with the domestic life? Or maybe he always had a money clip hidden under his shirts?
woot! ita has a vid! (maybe two, you lucky bum) Very kick ass.
