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rogueslayer452Day 7 - Your favorite Dean crying scene
Jensen does an incredible job with all his emotional scenes in this show. To be honest he deserves a frakking award for each and every one of them. There's something outstanding the way that he does it, and while some people call it "pretty boy crying" I think it's more than that. It's part of his character personality, the way he restrains himself, he compartmentalizes his emotions and he tries to hold it in until it gradually tears him apart. But he holds it together nonetheless. So really it's the build-up to those moments that really affect me the most about Jensen's performances in these kinds of scenes, because there's a sense of vulnerability that we don't often see with Dean and it really is fantastic to see on the screen.
As for favorite, I think I'm torn between the hospital scene at the end of "OTHOAP" and him revealing what happened to him in Hell at the end of "Heaven and Hell". Both are incredibly effective and there's something about him opening up like that which makes my heart ache.
Day 8 - Your favorite Sam crying scene
None. I find his crying scenes to be mostly ridiculous.
By this I mean that those kinds of scenes aren't his strongest suit in terms of his acting. He's more efficient with giving sad!face and puppy!eyes than emotional crying scenes, because otherwise it looks incredibly forced and overacted on his part. I mean that scene with him in "Heart" is a prime example of that. I was kind of embarrassed for him since that really was kind of a laughable scene, to be honest with you. It looked more along the lines of this:
I mean, it's like someone literally drenched his face in that scene, and I know some will argue that crying irl is never pretty and it's more "realistic" that way, and that's fine if they think so and are affected by it. I'm just not. It's better to downplay those scenes and have him just be sad in a subtle manner rather than shedding the tears. Leave those scenes to Jensen, please.
Rest of the 30 Days of Supernatural Challenge.
There's this talk about SPN getting a seventh season, and while I'm still on the DO NOT WANT bandwagon, I have been rethinking certain options.
Most shows that are extended longer than originally planned go through horrible seasons at some point or another, it's just inevitable. I hated the thought of extending to a sixth season and a seventh season is rather pointless considering how I think the story should have ended after season five because really, what else is there after a biblical apocalypse? However, I've thought about how having the show canceled after this poorly handled season would be kind of bad, and kind of an embarrassment overall. If the show needs to go out with a bang this is definitely not the season to do it seeing how it's failing left and right. So I'll accept them having a seventh season ONLY IF they get rid of Sera Gamble as showrunnerand writer, just off the show for good plz, bring back Jeremy Carver and have him and/or Ben Edlund take over if Kripke isn't going to return, and have yet another apocalyptic arc/or something similar to finish off the entire story so we can have that explosive bang like Kripke had originally wanted for his show to have, and to have it be for real this time, not just some anticlimactic nonsense they pulled last season.
If certain shows could rise from the ashes of being a disappointment in the end, there may be a chance to save this one before it runs itself further into the ground. If done right, of course. Just putting it out there, is all.
Jensen does an incredible job with all his emotional scenes in this show. To be honest he deserves a frakking award for each and every one of them. There's something outstanding the way that he does it, and while some people call it "pretty boy crying" I think it's more than that. It's part of his character personality, the way he restrains himself, he compartmentalizes his emotions and he tries to hold it in until it gradually tears him apart. But he holds it together nonetheless. So really it's the build-up to those moments that really affect me the most about Jensen's performances in these kinds of scenes, because there's a sense of vulnerability that we don't often see with Dean and it really is fantastic to see on the screen.
As for favorite, I think I'm torn between the hospital scene at the end of "OTHOAP" and him revealing what happened to him in Hell at the end of "Heaven and Hell". Both are incredibly effective and there's something about him opening up like that which makes my heart ache.
Day 8 - Your favorite Sam crying scene
None. I find his crying scenes to be mostly ridiculous.
By this I mean that those kinds of scenes aren't his strongest suit in terms of his acting. He's more efficient with giving sad!face and puppy!eyes than emotional crying scenes, because otherwise it looks incredibly forced and overacted on his part. I mean that scene with him in "Heart" is a prime example of that. I was kind of embarrassed for him since that really was kind of a laughable scene, to be honest with you. It looked more along the lines of this:
I mean, it's like someone literally drenched his face in that scene, and I know some will argue that crying irl is never pretty and it's more "realistic" that way, and that's fine if they think so and are affected by it. I'm just not. It's better to downplay those scenes and have him just be sad in a subtle manner rather than shedding the tears. Leave those scenes to Jensen, please.
Rest of the 30 Days of Supernatural Challenge.
There's this talk about SPN getting a seventh season, and while I'm still on the DO NOT WANT bandwagon, I have been rethinking certain options.
Most shows that are extended longer than originally planned go through horrible seasons at some point or another, it's just inevitable. I hated the thought of extending to a sixth season and a seventh season is rather pointless considering how I think the story should have ended after season five because really, what else is there after a biblical apocalypse? However, I've thought about how having the show canceled after this poorly handled season would be kind of bad, and kind of an embarrassment overall. If the show needs to go out with a bang this is definitely not the season to do it seeing how it's failing left and right. So I'll accept them having a seventh season ONLY IF they get rid of Sera Gamble as showrunner
If certain shows could rise from the ashes of being a disappointment in the end, there may be a chance to save this one before it runs itself further into the ground. If done right, of course. Just putting it out there, is all.
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Date: 2011-01-19 09:05 pm (UTC)So if they did a seventh season, that might be okay. If anything, I think they'd step away from the obsessive All About the Winchesters focus that stifles the show (IMHO.) It's a big universe to play in and I think they coudl do something amazing if they let the show expand a little bit beyond the circle of SamnDean.
(Also I TOTALLY AGREE re: crying scenes. Jensen = amazing, Jared = DNW. I haven't even seen Heart because I don't want to see him snivel. The gifs of that are more than enough for me.)
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Date: 2011-01-20 08:27 am (UTC)OH GOD YES, THAT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. I think there needs to be a convention or just panels for the writers/producers of the show because what better opportunity to ask all these burning questions that we fans have that the actors cannot answer? Edlund and Carver would be perfect because I want to know their process of writing and understanding the story, whereas the the others I would want to know why they aren't doing the same thing. ;p
I know that Creation did have Jane Espenson and Tim Minear for one of the Whedon panels a little while ago, and they discussed writing at length it was just amazing listening to them talk. It would be great if they got more for other cons/panels.
It's a big universe to play in and I think they coudl do something amazing if they let the show expand a little bit beyond the circle of SamnDean.
Exactly. There are so many opportunities that have been missed because we keep going back to the Winchester angstfest and, while yes their story is what is the centerfold of the show, it's not all what there is and with everything they've done it's like we've covered pretty much everything already. They need to move on from repeating the same-old schtick with them and focus on something grander. Which I had thought was what the apocalypse was about, you know? Something they were both tied to but on a grander scale than they ever anticipated. Unfortunately they ended it lamely which brings us to whatever this season contains.
I haven't even seen Heart because I don't want to see him snivel. The gifs of that are more than enough for me.
lol it really is that horrible. I get he's sad but, wtf with the over-dramatic sniveling? lol forever. The only worthy scene of that horrid episode was Jensen's manly tear at the very very end of that episode before the credits roll. That's the only exciting thing. Heh.