Surviving the Hellatus: The J2 Canon - Watchmen
As a little shakeup to my Jared-movie Jensen-Dark Angel run, I added some bonus JDM to my queue. What, I wanted to know, could possibly be keeping Our Man away from Supernatural, when clearly there is plenty of opportunity for a good JDM insertion (hee hee) into many of the stories?
This movie is compelling but not finished. It takes on too much and ends up being three looooong hours. But it has what Friday the 13th doesn’t, i.e. a plot, and we do have some interesting characters, if we have to spend 20 minutes getting the backstory on each of them.
The problem is that Our Man’s dead within three minutes of the movie opening. When I realized that, I was like, I’m not sure I’m sitting through the rest of this…But it was compelling, as I said, and fear not - JDM turns up in various flashback scenes.
Our Man shines in this. He has all these layers to the character that John Winchester just doesn’t get to show: a little crazy, a little psychotic, comedic, caring, apathetic, all rolled into one. He’s also a morally ambiguous character, and I love those.
Scoring:
Jared’s Hair (10 being Season 3, 1 being the L’Oreal commercial): 3 JDM’s hair is a little too short for my taste.
Jensen’s Voice (10 being Damian the LARPer, 1 being the pilot): 10, but Our Man can always sell it.
Jared’s Body (10 being lanky season 1, 1 being ‘roided up mid-season 5): Bonus bathrobe sequence. 5
Brotherly Love (10 being the early years, 1 being “Sex and Violence”): The Watchmen care about each other, even if sometimes some of them do things that are bad, and they stick by each other. Though I would have liked to understand more about why exactly that is, it’s strangely comforting in my Supernatural world. Of course, you know, one of them blows up the planet, so…. 7
Use of women’s bodies (10 being tit for tat, 1 being naked Ruby and Meg torture while Sam and Dean torture is merely shoeless): 3 Malin Akerman is really gorgeous, but she’s used for ridiculously unnecessary and graphic sex twice.
This movie is compelling but not finished. It takes on too much and ends up being three looooong hours. But it has what Friday the 13th doesn’t, i.e. a plot, and we do have some interesting characters, if we have to spend 20 minutes getting the backstory on each of them.
The problem is that Our Man’s dead within three minutes of the movie opening. When I realized that, I was like, I’m not sure I’m sitting through the rest of this…But it was compelling, as I said, and fear not - JDM turns up in various flashback scenes.
Our Man shines in this. He has all these layers to the character that John Winchester just doesn’t get to show: a little crazy, a little psychotic, comedic, caring, apathetic, all rolled into one. He’s also a morally ambiguous character, and I love those.
Scoring:
Jared’s Hair (10 being Season 3, 1 being the L’Oreal commercial): 3 JDM’s hair is a little too short for my taste.
Jensen’s Voice (10 being Damian the LARPer, 1 being the pilot): 10, but Our Man can always sell it.
Jared’s Body (10 being lanky season 1, 1 being ‘roided up mid-season 5): Bonus bathrobe sequence. 5
Brotherly Love (10 being the early years, 1 being “Sex and Violence”): The Watchmen care about each other, even if sometimes some of them do things that are bad, and they stick by each other. Though I would have liked to understand more about why exactly that is, it’s strangely comforting in my Supernatural world. Of course, you know, one of them blows up the planet, so…. 7
Use of women’s bodies (10 being tit for tat, 1 being naked Ruby and Meg torture while Sam and Dean torture is merely shoeless): 3 Malin Akerman is really gorgeous, but she’s used for ridiculously unnecessary and graphic sex twice.