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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: 2011-01-20 12:27 pm (UTC)I don't think Carver's coming back, but at least let Edlund do his thing, because he is the best thing this show has. Or let Kripke write more episodes, I'd rather have him (or well, anyone else than Sera or one of the newest writers) do episodes. Season six has had way more ups and downs for me than any other season before. I sincerely hope it will only get better from now on and from the looks of it, it'll be good.
ps. Aw, you don't like Jared's crying? :D :D He always looks like a little boy when he cries. The only moment I can think of I liked his crying was in No Rest For The Wicked. I'm glad he's gotten a whole lot better in acting though! I like him better as a person than Jensen, but I still find Jensen to be the better actor. Lately, they've been both awesome though. /cool story bro
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Date: 2011-01-20 12:47 pm (UTC)Has Kripke been involved at all with this season? It feels like he just up and abandoned the show. :/
Season six has had way more ups and downs for me than any other season before. I sincerely hope it will only get better from now on and from the looks of it, it'll be good.
It depends on how the concepts of the episodes as revealed via spoilers are dealt with, because as I said there are certain writers that can handle things and certain ones that cannot. The latter is the majority of the writing team, unfortunately. :( We should just let Ben Edlund write them all, that would be awesomesauce. ;)
lol, Jared's attempt at crying either makes me laugh or cringe. It's just not his strongest aspect in acting, sry2say. It's better when it's more subtle and downplayed.
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Date: 2011-01-20 01:55 pm (UTC)He has, but more on the sidelines. I think he hasn't even written anything, which is sad. I liked some of his episodes- and he obviously cares for the characters, unlike certain people. >__>
Yeah, I certainly hope there will be more hits than misses in the latter half of this season. The episodes do sound good, but it really depends on who writes it and how it's handled and all. Like the meta-episode for example. I love the meta-episodes but if it's some no-name writer writing it, it will probably be just a confusing mess instead of the hilarious stuff it can be. Ben Edlund should just write everything ever. He's so perfect at knitting together comedy and angst and horror :D
It's definitely not. That's why I'll like Jensen's crying scenes better, because he's more subtle in them. (And he cries so prettily.)
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Date: 2011-01-20 04:18 pm (UTC)Ben Edlund should just write everything ever. He's so perfect at knitting together comedy and angst and horror :D
Major word to this, and don't forget understanding characterization and interactive scenes. He knows the chemistry of characters incredibly well. Just, leave SPN to him and all will be well, is all I'm saying. ;)
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Date: 2011-01-20 04:30 pm (UTC)Exactly. :D