Writing From the Inside

Given that Ackles and Padalecki are both starring in remakes of slasher films, I had some opinions rattling around in my head. Instead of allowing them to keep me up late at night, I decided to write them down, and heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere they are!

An excerpt:

“First, what’s up with the 3-D? Hollywood is in LOVE with 3-D these days and that might be because they are on crack, but it didn’t work the first time, it barely works at Disneyland now, so why do they keep trying? It’s had its heyday, it’s come and gone a dozen times, and it has never worked. I just wish the lovers of 3-D would just give it UP and move on. I think that Hollywood gets a little bored and somehow imagines that because 3-D is so fun for them to work with, that all the rest of us will enjoy it too. They’re like pushers or something. But the bottom line is, if the story sucks, 3-D is not going to help you, and if it’s a great story, why the hell do you need 3-D? Like my archery teacher at summer camp said, “Pretty arrows do not a bulls eye make.””

Pictures…

 Ackles 1

Padalecki 1

Ackles 2

 Padalecki 2

Ackles 3

Padalecki 3

Ackles 4

Padalecki 4

Ackles 5

Padalecki 5

Ackles as Dean

Padalecki as Sam

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Born Under a Bad Sign” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“Then he says to Jo, “I could be more to you, Jo.” (The tone of his voice, at this point, makes me uneasy and I wonder, what’s up with Sam?) And then he grabs her hand. He’s got his wrist cocked at an angle, with his sleeves rolled up on his manly forearm, and I have to tell you that he’s so powerful and bulked up, it’s pure, unadulterated wrist porn. It’s hard to explain why such a little moment could be so damn intoxicating, but it is. What’s even better is when Jo asks him to let go of her, he flips her hand away like so much dead meat, and the strength with which he does this contains the scary implication that he could have held on to her, if he’d wanted to, and it is only by some mercurial inner whim that he’s letting her go now. It’s a whole new Sam. Why, it’s Dark Sam!”

Lost

Looking for clues

Afraid of going darkside

Always protective

Please shoot me

I got your triple threat right here

Wants to be good to Jo

Shooting at demons

My brother belongs to me

Exorcise resistant

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Houses of the Holy” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“The boys check out the crypt and this time it’s Sam who sees the MOW, the white light that shakes the ground and hands out directions of who to kill and how and when. But what’s even better, what is the BEST, really, is what white light does to Sam’s face. Why, it lights it up, that’s what, and I get an eyeful, and absolutely glorious eyeful of Sam, from the inky locks across his forehead, to his bright, wide eyes, and that cotton candy mouth, all lit up in living color, every graceful line, everything. Everything. It’s like a gift from above, and I begin to wonder what I must have done to have earned this unexpected gift. Only you shouldn’t, you know, question gifts like these, but rather, should accept them with grace and humility and many, many prayers of thanks. Oh Lord, we pray, thank you for Show’s Lighting Team, who know just where to stand and where to aim their Halogens at Sam’s beautiful face to make it more gorgeous than it already is. If that’s possible. Amen.”

Born with a bedside manner

Afternoon delight

 Dithering about angels

Still doesn’t believe

Visited by a vision

Holy brotherly clutching!

Not seeing angels

Listening with heart

Awash with grief

Liquor instead of holy spirits

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Nightshifter” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“Hendrickson knows, man, he knows about how The Dad dragged those kids from pillar to post, raising them up in cheap motels and backwoods cabins, and just as I’m leaning forward for MORE delicious factoids like these, Hendrickson switches into opinion mode because he can’t figure out whether The Dad was a survivalist nut job, a Unabomber, or what. He rattles on to be insulting but simply doesn’t know and is just trying to get Dean’s goat. (Which he had, as they say, at hello.)  And Dean says, “You don’t know crap about my dad. He was a hero.” I love, love, love Dean in this scene, it might be my favorite scene in the whole ep  (besides Sam’s mandroid line), on account of Dean’s shoulders go back and his chin comes up and there’s a whole lot of love and pride running through him. Plus, yeah, I loved the factoids about where the boys lived when they were growing up. Show needs to give fangirls like me MORE like this, and right away, if not sooner. Otherwise I’ll just make stuff up and it’ll be a whole lot darker than what Show had planned.”

Pictures…

On the phone with Hendrickson

Sexy with flashlight

 Playing the part

Wanting to keep Ron safe

You brought a knife Dean?

Couldn’t come in naked

 Dither in the dark

Sam is so screwed

Dean is so screwed

A bunch of people have asked why the episode review for “Hunted” has not been posted, did I skip it, was I doing the reviews out of order. I have answered those e-mails, but for anyone else who was wondering and wanted to know, here it is. I have written the review, and it’s sitting in the vault. Pink Raygun did an interview with Rachel Talalay, who directed this episode, as well as a number of other shows. When that interview is posted, then, as a courtesy, the review of the ep she directed for Supernatural will posted as well, and the two will be linked together. Hope this helps and thanks for your patience.

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Playthings” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“But really, and perhaps you’ll agree, that the finest thing about this scene is the shirt Sam is wearing. It’s a thin, grey one that looks like cashmere, which everyone knows it couldn’t be, seeing as the boys get their clothes from the Salvation Army. Then again, maybe it could be; I once got a cashmere sweater there for a dollar. At any rate, it clings to every single curve of Sam’s arms and chest. Or rather, to give credit where it is due, it clings to Padalecki’s arms and chest. I’ve not got the math smarts to graph a chart that will demonstrate just how often and how hard the boy’s been working out, but it’s plain to see that he has been. Vigorously, and, dare I say it, religiously, because if working out and muscles were prayers, then this boy would be SAVED. The long, once boyishly lean torso and arms, the once tender and young sweetness of his neck, all of it has now turned into rippled iron, covered by silky skin, turning his frame to a divine work, so that when he shifts, or turns, or flips a cell phone closed with a resounding click, and it’s grace personified. He’s always had the height and the charm, now he’s got control and confidence. All wrapped in unassuming wool. (And his hair, lest we forget, spires down like inky ribbons across his intelligent forehead. It’s enough to make a fangirl swoon.)”

Angst AND Emo

How he move

Sam I Am

I know, just don’t kiss me

Desperate to save

Checking it out

 The Dad said so

You promised

Yeah, my brother likes dolls

Taking a break

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Croatoan” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“Second, I’m pleased on account of The Dad’s theory about Croatoan. Legend has it that the colony of Roanoke disappeared, and either they got absorbed or killed by nearby Indian tribes. Perhaps they wandered aimlessly off in search of the nearest Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe, whatever. There’s an overarching 400 years or more of history to attest to the fact that the colony vanished in mysterious but was most assuredly a normal, earthly manner. The Dad, however, tosses all of this out the window and without a single nod to any generally accepted “lore” that had been unearthed, ascribes the entire disaster to the YED messing around with his pet virus. You have to love a man with enough chutzpah to overthrow current carbon dating methods, satellite imagery, anthropological digs, DNA testing, preserved letters and ephemera, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, TLC, National Geographic Magazine, AND The Smithsonian – all to theorize that the devil did it.”

 Checking through eyelashes

Wide eyed boy

You killed Mr. Rogers

Love that neck

Doing the hard thing

Sammy Sam Sam

Pastoral beer drinking

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Crossroads Blues” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“It must have been coming on sunset when they filmed, with the light slanting through the trees from the west. Both boys are lit up like Christmas morning. Dean circles around Sam, who watches as his brother digs and then joins in the dither about graveyard dust and black cat bones. You can count the freckles across the bridge of Dean’s nose, and you could spin a rope from the thickness of Sam’s eyelashes. You can see the green glitter glint of Dean’s eyes, and the hard planes of Sam’s jaw. They’re stunning and beautiful and almost unearthly here. It’s amazing that Show doesn’t figure out how glorious this looks and film ALL of their scenes at this time of day. I’m sure that the fact that they don’t is a punishment for some past sin of mine, or maybe it’s that Show knows that if it gives me too many daylight scenes like this, I’ll just become jaded and spoiled.”

Diner scene

Not laughing

 

People are STOOPID

Sharing the sunlight

Guh

Our Sammy

Smile for me

While the Pink Raygun team relocates from Tucson to Philly, the site is on a hiatus. Thusly, my review will be posted later this week.

Here’s some pictures to tide you over till then:

Freckle sighting

I got my dither face on

In an additional note,  in all their wisdom, the people at the Emmys decided that  our very own Jensen Ackles wasn’t worth a nod to make it on the short list. And there is a short list now, it consists of actors doing their thing to applause and acclaim, but it does not include one of the better actors of our day. Yeah, I adore James Spader and Hugh Laurie and Denis Leary with all my heart. They’re good. They’re very good. But they’re not Jensen Ackles good. The things he can do with his face and his body to telegraph unspoken dialog are mezmerizing. I think the error lies in the Emmy’s inability to see past the facade of a horror TV show, though I see that Mary McDonnell from Battlestar Galactica made it to the short list so at least SOMEONE is watching quality TV. 

My protest will be to NOT watch the Emmys this year. Not that I ever do, but you know, in my small way, I’ll make my mark.

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “The Usual Suspects” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“Anyway, the interrogation focuses on Dean, whom they tape while Dean confesses. What’s funny here is watching Dean tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but so help me God, he’d be sexy even if he wasn’t saying a word. The lighting guys are at it again, doing their bright and shiny best in all of Dean’s (and Ackle’s) scenes in the squad room. The set guys have put a table that reflects light up, and thusly we get, yeah, all those freckles, and the sparkles in Dean’s eyes, and the lovely swell of that raspberry mouth thrown into high relief. I wouldn’t say that what Dean was wearing stands out in my memory, but with a face like that, who cares what he’s wearing?”

A warning glare

Dean in peril

Unable to save

Sam with flashlight

You missed a spot

Leaving the scene of the crime