Rec, and SPN 6.02.

[janissa11]

I know I've recommended it before, but there is quite a bit more to it now, and should be finished fairly soon, I've heard. So if you have not been reading Restraint, darkemerald's spectacular Regency-era J2 AU, you are missing out, terribly. I am utterly spellbound. I love it to a truly unseemly degree, truly.

Comments

[oselle]

I don't suppose I need to mention that having one of the main actors state, unequivocally, that his character was pretty much unrecognizable on paper makes a grave statement about the caliber of writing, do I?

Jensen didn't just say Dean was unrecognizable, he also implied that it was left up to him to salvage their writing with his performance. Of course, he didn't put it that baldly, but I don't know any other way to interpret comments like "I did my best to kind of curve that in the acting" and "I would kind of skew the dialogue a little bit to make it work in his (Dean's) favor."

I think you're right. I can't imagine why she thinks that, but evidently she does.

As far back as Season 3, Gamble was talking about how awesome Bela was because she took Sam and Dean "down a peg." I think she especially enjoys taking Dean down a peg -- why, I can't imagine since he's hardly ever been up on his high horse and if anything he desperately needs a self-esteem boost. Even if it were amusing to poke fun at Dean now and then, creating loathsome characters to sneer at him for no apparent reason is not fun or cool, it's just stupid and annoying.

[andycake]

I made some comments in my on LJ on this, but Sera is such an ass that she has totally forgotten that even Kripke eventually admitted this was what they got wrong with Bela. She made a fool out of Sam and Dean a number of times. He said it in freakin' interviews for God's sake! Didn't she get that memmo? We don't *want* Sam and Dean taken down a peg. We *like* them and have empathy for the, that's why we can stand to watch the show.

Now 50% of the main cast are assholes and Bobby is starting to make John Winchester seem like a reasonable guy. I love that quote from Janissa's friend about "Who would have thought it was the Winchester genes that were the leavening "non-jerk" part of what makes up Sam and Dean."