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bossymarmalade) wrote2006-08-21 12:04 pm
bossymarmalade) wrote2006-08-21 12:04 pm
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homer and i had real chemistry onscreen
I am in the process of tagging all relevant journal entries, and I found an aborted post that had been intended for NaJoWriMo! Most of it is useless, but there's some Supernatural stuff and that I will post here because rereading it made me go HELL YEAH.
Lori and I were talking about it and we agreed that the better female characters are the ones who are not romantically involved with Sam or Dean in any way. Sam's girlfriend was a)pointless, b)a bad actress, c)stilted, and d)completely devoid of any chemistry with Sam. Dean's ex-girlfriend was a)a bad actress, b)smug, c)self-righteous, and d)completely devoid of any chemistry with Dean. And then we have the two ex-Jossverse actresses, and rather unsurprisingly they are both Joss's inexplicable favourites and the two who I found the most unconvincing and downright irritating to watch.
I mean, Darla. I missed the very beginning of the faith-healing episode and haven't rewatched it since, but from what I could tell Julie Benz was doing her same old "I'm so deep and intriguing, now listen to me deliver all my lines in my compelling Baby Voice" routine except without the excitement of syphillis or eventual onscreen death. I never felt sorry for her in Angel or Buffy, and I sure as hell felt no sympathy for her in Supernatural. In fact, I felt more sympathy for ME for having to endure scenes of her trying to look long-suffering and martyred and Dean staring at her with big limpid cow-eyes of admiration.
And then, of course, my favourite of all the irksome twitchy stick-figures I've ever been forced to watch -- Amy fucking Acker. I cannot even DESCRIBE the surge of anger and revulsion that I felt when she lurched onto the screen in that evil-drowning-lake episode; I am at a complete loss to recount the UTTER HATRED I felt when for no apparent reason Dean found her to be the most attractive thing he'd seen since he looked at his brother. WHY?!? Why did the fucking Everybody Loves Fred syndrome follow her over from Angel?!? Why did she get to shoot Dean down with asinine and hateful comebacks? Why why WHY?!?!? God, I hate her so much. I thought maybe it was just the character of Fred, but no, I hate Amy Acker. I hate her stupid gormless face, I hate how she thinks that wobbly voice is adorable and irresistable, I hate her lank brown hair and the way she bares her teeth to show fear and the way she twists her mouth when she thinks she's said something smart. They better not fucking bring that woman back as a refuckingcurring character, because I LIVE WHERE THEY FILM THE SHOW AND I AM NOT ABOVE HUNTING A BITCH DOWN.
But seriously, y'all. If you were hired to flirt with/have a mad sex scene with Jensen Ackles, how hard would it be to act as though you were really into it? HOW HARD?
PS: Dear Sam's Girlfriend,
If one hears a noise in one's room in the middle of the night that sounds like people struggling and finds one's tall strong and handsome boyfriend missing, and one subsequently decides to investigate said noise wearing only bikini panties and the croppiest of baby crop-tops, it seems rather silly to then snittily make comments about going to put on clothes when ogled by the boyfriend's brother. Really, being ogled is probably the best possible outcome of such a scenario. However, this may no longer be a matter of concern to you, as you are now dead and unlamented by anybody except the boyfriend (and then only sporadically). Sucks to be you, Sam's Dead Girlfriend.
Lori and I were talking about it and we agreed that the better female characters are the ones who are not romantically involved with Sam or Dean in any way. Sam's girlfriend was a)pointless, b)a bad actress, c)stilted, and d)completely devoid of any chemistry with Sam. Dean's ex-girlfriend was a)a bad actress, b)smug, c)self-righteous, and d)completely devoid of any chemistry with Dean. And then we have the two ex-Jossverse actresses, and rather unsurprisingly they are both Joss's inexplicable favourites and the two who I found the most unconvincing and downright irritating to watch.
I mean, Darla. I missed the very beginning of the faith-healing episode and haven't rewatched it since, but from what I could tell Julie Benz was doing her same old "I'm so deep and intriguing, now listen to me deliver all my lines in my compelling Baby Voice" routine except without the excitement of syphillis or eventual onscreen death. I never felt sorry for her in Angel or Buffy, and I sure as hell felt no sympathy for her in Supernatural. In fact, I felt more sympathy for ME for having to endure scenes of her trying to look long-suffering and martyred and Dean staring at her with big limpid cow-eyes of admiration.
And then, of course, my favourite of all the irksome twitchy stick-figures I've ever been forced to watch -- Amy fucking Acker. I cannot even DESCRIBE the surge of anger and revulsion that I felt when she lurched onto the screen in that evil-drowning-lake episode; I am at a complete loss to recount the UTTER HATRED I felt when for no apparent reason Dean found her to be the most attractive thing he'd seen since he looked at his brother. WHY?!? Why did the fucking Everybody Loves Fred syndrome follow her over from Angel?!? Why did she get to shoot Dean down with asinine and hateful comebacks? Why why WHY?!?!? God, I hate her so much. I thought maybe it was just the character of Fred, but no, I hate Amy Acker. I hate her stupid gormless face, I hate how she thinks that wobbly voice is adorable and irresistable, I hate her lank brown hair and the way she bares her teeth to show fear and the way she twists her mouth when she thinks she's said something smart. They better not fucking bring that woman back as a refuckingcurring character, because I LIVE WHERE THEY FILM THE SHOW AND I AM NOT ABOVE HUNTING A BITCH DOWN.
But seriously, y'all. If you were hired to flirt with/have a mad sex scene with Jensen Ackles, how hard would it be to act as though you were really into it? HOW HARD?
PS: Dear Sam's Girlfriend,
If one hears a noise in one's room in the middle of the night that sounds like people struggling and finds one's tall strong and handsome boyfriend missing, and one subsequently decides to investigate said noise wearing only bikini panties and the croppiest of baby crop-tops, it seems rather silly to then snittily make comments about going to put on clothes when ogled by the boyfriend's brother. Really, being ogled is probably the best possible outcome of such a scenario. However, this may no longer be a matter of concern to you, as you are now dead and unlamented by anybody except the boyfriend (and then only sporadically). Sucks to be you, Sam's Dead Girlfriend.