Writing From the Inside

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “What Is And What Should Never Be” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

There he is, mowing the lawn (badly, I might add), working his ass off on a sunny day, happy as a lark like it’s a gift to get grass dust and clippings on your pants, and to have your ears ringing for hours from the sound of the blade, and the smell of gasoline in your nose and on your fingers. And then, after, sitting on the steps, drinking a beer as he admires his handiwork and the day, and so happy, his smile beaming so brightly that it could burn your retinas if you were to look directly at it. (Luckily we have the filter of film to save us from that messy fate.) It’s all very pretty to look at, but when I think about it, about his joy in the simple act of mowing the freaking lawn, it makes my throat close up a little and I have to look away.

Trying to get Dean to wait

Beautiful when confused

Passion and a sandwich

Unloved by Not-Sam

Disdain from Not-Sam

The George Bailey Scene

Realizing it could never be

Not-Sam and Dean in the Impala

Seeing the truth

Defending his right to say goodbye

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Folsom Prison Blues” on pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“Second, the Lighting Guys must have been in an experimental phase, because what they’re using brings out some rather vivid pink and green tones to the boys’ skin, which contrasts rather abruptly with the orange uniforms the boys are wearing. It’s very stark lighting, and seems to represent the harsh reality of living within the prison system, a metaphor for the post-modern allegory to the amount of violence inherent in the system. (“Help, help! I’m being repressed!”) On the other hand, it could just be the Lighting Guys setting out to prove that Ackles and Padalecki are beautiful, no matter how you light them. Like we didn’t already know that.”

 Dean is discomfitted

Sam thinks this is a dumb plan

Dean is velvety smooth

Too pretty for prison

With his hair in his eyes

Battered but unbowed (and beautiful)

Mock meekness (very cute!)

Digging and sweaty from it

Lighting the fire

Watching it burn

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

An excerpt:

“There’s some lovely close-ups of Sam and Dean’s faces in the next scene, where once again in the trailer, the boys view the dailies. Sam uses his super smart ginormous brain to figure out that the invocation that “Wendy” is using to raise whateverthehell is real, and that this and not the ghost of the actress might be their real problem. The trailer is well lit, and the close-ups are excellent, I must say, especially of Sam thinking. His forehead gets this delightful squinched up expression, and his mouth kind of hangs open, all soft and pink, and his eyes glitter. I think he rather enjoys being smart, you know? He looks so beautiful when he does it that I rather enjoy it too.”

Pics…

 Squinched up and perfect

Scruffy and work ready

Not bedazzled by actors

Tool belt or crotch

Hair in eyes

Fitting in

Pyro boy

Thighs astraddle

Thinking things through

Redwood tree with hair

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

An excerpt:

“And THEN Dean takes his shirt off. In a word, incendiary. My couch was still charred from last week, thank you very much, and I kept thinking I might want to disconnect all those fire alarm batteries just in case. Because it was hot, full stop. It was hotter than burning, it was seduction and skin and a whole lot of sizzle, and I was bought and sold by the images of Dean’s bare back. He’s got a beautiful one, made up of curved muscles and that dip of spine, and lord, you could see a little bit of his underroos, which just sweetened the whole deal. I about died. Anne Shirley who? Doesn’t matter who he was with, he was, at LAST, with somebody. For all we’ve gotten the message pounded into our heads that Dean is Romeo and Casanova all rolled into one, it’s about time we got some canonical proof. More like this, please.”

Pics…

Angels want to wear his red shoes

Sam doesn’t like plumber jokes…

But Dean does…

Sam in daylight

Dean in daylight 

Flutter of angels’ wings 

 Following Dean’s lead 

Never give up, never surrender…

Shouting at angels

Tawny boy

Trying to find the truth

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “I Know What You Did Last Summer” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“Sam is a mess, and while it was most assuredly the script that indicates this, it’s Padalecki who stomps perfectly through the squalid squat where Sam is holing up, his slightly unfocused and bleary eyes not seeing the peeling wallpaper or the scuttle of cockroaches or the moldy, lead-based paint, nor even his own lack of grooming and self-care. All the time Padalecki is making Sam stare into the middle distance, at the wreck of his Dean-less world, I had the comfortable feeling that Padalecki gets it. That he understands his character so well that the ramifications of Sam’s loosing Dean come out through every pore, every twitch, every sideways roll of his eyes; every breath Padalecki takes contains the litany of Sam’s ever-present and suicidal grief. “

Suits and ties are nice

Against the ecclesiastical purple

 

Spit for me, baby

First aid!

Aaaaaaaaaand more first aid!

Resistance is futile

Stuggling with demons, both internal and external

Sinking under the weight

Struggling with angels

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

An excerpt:

“Sam snapping open his laptop has been a comforting recurring theme this season of which I heartily approve. Whenever the plot prescribes him to be at the laptop, and whether he’s at a desk in a motel or, as he is here, pushing the food aside, I get a little thrill of “oh, yes,” and imagine, somehow, that the Sam I know and love and that the Sam SAM knows and remembers has returned and all is as it should be. Seeing Sam with his laptop is like seeing James Dean behind the wheel of a Porsche 550 Spyder, which, even if you know that things are going to go to hell in hand basket really fast, looks iconically brilliant at the time. Because laptop or no laptop, Sam’s still headed down that slippery slope; I just hope he sees what’s coming at him head on.”

Sam in check

Sam in green 

Do we kill teddies?

I hope not!

Dean in green check

Trying not to laugh

Brotherly pose one

Brotherly pose two

Nothing is forgotten

Nothing is ever forgotten

You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“Although the demon wasn’t very light on his feet, I was worried about Sam, especially when he lost hold of the demon-killing knife. Yeah. Trouble ensues, because the demon is fairly powerful and determined and after waiting 600 years (which is when he was last cast into hell), this is his night. The relevant conundrum that Sam is confronted with is whether or not he will use his forbidden powers and save himself from Samhain. As a fangirl, this is a question that does not need asking, since the answer is so obvious, even though I know that Sam would be in SO MUCH TROUBLE should he do what he’s done before and lied about again, and again, and again. And then one more time after that. And then I became distracted by the fact that the lighting was such (oh, those lighting boys, ever on the job!  Big smooches for ya!) that Sam’s eyes glimmered a rather strange color as he raises his hand to exorcise the demon. I couldn’t figure out whether it was yellow or white, but there was something there, something so very WRONG that my breath stuck in my throat and I though, “Oh, poor Sammy.”

Researching

I got this one

Handsome Sam

Long legged boy

FBI agents and brothers

Talk about candy

Objects to smiting

If you smite them you have to smite me first

Quit fingering your bone, Sammy

Don’t hate me because I’m powerful

Watching the truth unfold

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

An excerpt:

“As Sam’s sitting there, he’s saying all those things that Dean has never wanted to hear. Saying them with dark tones in his voice and a finality that seems to be Dean’s biggest fear, that one day Sam will truly turn Dark and all this will be over, “all this” being the saving people, hunting things mantra that runs through Dean’s blood like, well, like blood. Because it is his blood and without it, I don’t think he can survive. Sometimes, I hate to think what will become of him when the last supernatural thing is laid to rest. Perhaps, like a gunslinger with no more bad men to kill, he’ll walk down to the streets of Laredo and wrap himself up in white linen and wait to die.”

Am I haunted?

Boys in suits

Dealing with Dean

Ew

Expressive eyebrows

Marvelous closeup

Sammy in a suit

Stealing the scene

That’s just crazy

Watching for snakes

Yellow fever

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

An excerpt:

“Dean and the vampire fight, which is when Dean discovers that the MOW is a shapeshifter. As the chase scene ensues (as they do, and it’s a treat because I like to watch Dean running), I was particularly impressed by the stunt over the gate. The vampire comes running, and flies over the gate, complete with cape flapping, while Dean struggles with it, looking through the bars like an abandoned orphan. I’d like to give the stunt team and this actor a bunch of gold stars, which they can put on their calendars to remind them how well they did. Look, I know full well and good there was some sort of device, a mini tramp or something, that the actor stepped on to enable him to fly over the gate, but it was COOL, man.” 

Here’s an unlikely post from TV Guide, where Padalecki indicates his thoughts on the whole “has Sam slept with Ruby” issue. I’ll just quote the whole thing, shall I?

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“Supernatural fans want to know: Did Sam hook up with his demon helper, Ruby? While series creator Eric Kripke thus far is mum on the subject, Jared Padalecki is willing to offer his own (albeit unconfirmed) opinion on the possibly sticky sitch.

Padalecki theorizes that the unlikely associates “have been lovers,” noting that “from the first episode this season, when Dean returns and Ruby (now played by Genevieve Cortese) is in her underwear and Sam is coming out of the bathroom, it’s hinted that Sam and Ruby have a bit more going on than, ‘Hey, let’s study how to kill demons.'”

Padalecki, however, stops short of suggesting that any hook-up (if one happened) means anything. “Maybe she’s just being nice to Sammy,” he says, “since he thought he lost his brother.”

Rant follows!

There’s so much wrong with this bit of speculation that it makes my brain hurt, although I’m not saying that Padalecki’s not entitled to speculate, heck, fangirls do it ALL the time. It’s just that his speculations seem so…well, so weird! What he’s saying here gives me the impression that he has no knowledge about the guidelines that Show has set down for demon lore. To paraphrase Guy (Crewman #7), does Padalecki even WATCH the show?

So, either Padalecki is just being nice and trying to give TV guide an answer that he thinks they want to hear (which makes me roll my eyes and shake my head because you’d think after three years that Padalecki would have a bit more knowledge than this), or he’s saying exactly what he’s supposed to say in order to stir up as MUCH trouble as possible, although I wouldn’t think that Show needed to get publicity this way. Oh, Padalecki! Oh, Show!