That's one of the reasons I liked the beginning of S6 as well. I was so over and done with the whole angel/vessel arch, and I was so tickled that it was not connected.
My personal theory--upon which I have only my own speculation to base it--is that Show started getting dicey with the loss of Kim Manners, and the apparent loss of anyone who could or would put the reigns on Kripke. It seemed like there came a point when the self-nods and overtly blatant meta pointed to Kripke believing in his own cleverness, and no one telling him, "Hey, dude? That's not really quite as clever as you think it is." Or when they did (such as the phone call from Jensen, Jared, and Misha), Kripke overrode them, and we're given some uncomfortably embarrassing childish humor that doesn't fit the tone of the rest of what's going on.
But we're over and done with that stuff now, so I'm very willing to move forward with them.
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Date: 2013-02-05 05:58 pm (UTC)My personal theory--upon which I have only my own speculation to base it--is that Show started getting dicey with the loss of Kim Manners, and the apparent loss of anyone who could or would put the reigns on Kripke. It seemed like there came a point when the self-nods and overtly blatant meta pointed to Kripke believing in his own cleverness, and no one telling him, "Hey, dude? That's not really quite as clever as you think it is." Or when they did (such as the phone call from Jensen, Jared, and Misha), Kripke overrode them, and we're given some uncomfortably embarrassing childish humor that doesn't fit the tone of the rest of what's going on.
But we're over and done with that stuff now, so I'm very willing to move forward with them.