That's funny, Sumi--reminds me of XF, where Duchovny was all serious and intellectual and and Anderson's a flake.

Apparently, he is much more like Dean (i.e., a smartass) and JA is much more like Sam -- in real life.

Huh. Because I've liked JA as Dean and as Alec on Dark Angel, both roles where he got his snark on. His role on Smallville was bleagh, but that could have been the aforementioned acting blackhole, or the the fact that he shared most of his screen time with Lana.

Well, there's a huge difference between being splashed with water - which is how an unpossessed person would experience it - and being thrown out of a 5th story window. The demon reacts to these things in the opposite way the person does.

Right, but there's obviously smoke and pain, which is why people were asking if the "holy water doesn't hurt the host" thing was consistent. I think we're both pretty much saying the same thing here.

I had a big ol' crush on Paddywhack when he was Dean on Gilmore Girls. He didn't initially ping me much as Sam (that HAIR! also, it's hard to compete with JA), but I've been totally digging him this season. Yum.

sumi, thanks for the Blood Ties links. I was reading Tanya Huff's blog, and came across this:

Kyle, just so you know, does as many of his own stunts as the producers and insurance people let him get away with. The scene where Henry jumps off the roof of building, that's really Kyle. (Fans of Supernatural take note: we didn't make our boy get rid of his chest hair. ;)

So who shaves his chest?

I remember there being some discussion -- I can't remember whether it was Sam or Dean. . . but let's face it - the Winchesters are almost never shirtless so how would we know?

I remember there being some discussion -- I can't remember whether it was Sam or Dean. . . but let's face it - the Winchesters are almost never shirtless so how would we know?

I know! What's with this lack of wholesome male nudity, for cryin' out loud?

I read an interview somewhere with Jensen Ackles where he mentioned that he was uncomfortable with suggestions that they spend more time with less clothes, since those scenes would most likely take place in a motel room. (My impression from the article was that he wasn't saying it in an homophobic type of way, just in an "I'm tired of being asked that question" type of way.)

For the grammar police -- is it "a" homophobic, or "an" homophobic?

Yeah, I saw that, too.

But hey! That's what away missions are for! Shirts rip, people! See Shatner, Bill.

Clearly, they just need some sort of plot-based reason for it. Like cage fighting.

(Or, you know, I could just pop those Dark Angel S2 DVDs back in and watch the totally gratuitous shirtlessness there.)

is it "a" homophobic, or "an" homophobic?

Maybe it's "a homophobe"?

as in "He's homophobic." and "He's a homophobe"

An is generally used before a word starting with a vowel sound.

"A historian told me..."

"An historian told me..."

See, I'm lost on this one. Maybe it comes from too many years of listening to pompous English and Comparative Literature professors (meaning no disrespect to any English teachers here on the board, by and large I adored almost every single one of my professors).