The classic song from Disney’s Pinocchio about a puppet who has gained freedom from the ‘strings’ that held him down (full lyrics here) ring particularly true when it comes to the soulless characters in 11×05 Thin Lizzie. Once Amara has taken away Sydney’s soul she describes it as freedom, peace at the quietening of her conscience, like a set of invisible strings had been cut from her:
“And then you can really fly.”
I mentioned in this post (thanks to @f-ckyeahfutbol and @postmodernmulticoloredcloak for your additions!) a couple of other connections to the tale of Pinocchio, for example how Len referred to his soulless self as a ‘robot puppet-man’, and how Dean talked about him holding onto any shred of conscience. It’s funny they should bring up soulless Sam as well in this episode because back in season 6 when Sam was soulless the two talked in terms of Pinocchio i.e. Dean is called Sam’s conscience, his Jiminy Cricket and Sam himself is called a puppet.
Anyway aside from this (just because I don’t know enough about Pinocchio at the moment to draw further parallels) I wanted to extend this connection into looking more generally at the dolls, dummies and mannequins in Thin Lizzie, and how they relate to the idea of a loss of control, of being soulless or under the control of another – puppets, essentially.
Innnnteresting. And then these images from the episodes came to mind.
As soon as the Mark because a topic, the lighting shifted and the folds in the curtains turned into sharp vertical lines.
And then of course there’s this image, with it’s beautiful lighting and striking placement of architectural details.
Hearseeno 