At brunch today, juliana and Lee asked me how I felt about John. KNOWING what was coming in that first episode. Mean girls.

No, mean would have been telling you.

No, mean would have been telling you.

EXACTLY.

Also, as the first Kool-Aid pusher, I had to find out Where You Stand on John. It's very important!

(Though I do think the campaign to Bring John Back is a little... misguided.)

I do think the campaign to Bring John Back is a little... misguided

Word. JDM is way out of their price-range now. And I'd rather have no John than have green-screen John... A little redemption of the character wouldn't go amiss, but I don't expect to see it--apparently Kripke has said that he thinks John was a poor father and basically unlikeable.

Um, dude, if you're gonna claim that, don't cast Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Cass, there's a ton of stuff here.

Mean girls.

You misspelled awesome. And a little cruel.

My kind of girls. Never said I didn't like them.

Have gone through the first 4 episodes and am now back at the first, listening to the commentary. My John feelings are all confuzzled now.

My John feelings are all confuzzled now.

Um, dude, if you're gonna claim that, don't cast Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Right? Could there be a more likable, warm face on the planet? Those eyes alone...

My John feelings are all confuzzled now.

Welcome to the fandom...

It's like your first merit badge. This one is shaped like a flannel shirt.

SuziQ, just to keep it interesting around here, there is, amongst the very vocal majority who adore John, one or two of us who are less admiring of him. I do think that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is one majorly attractive guy, and the 3 J's on screen are more testosterone than the TV screen was ever meant to hold, but John... no, I do not care for him. I know I'm in the minority, I realize that many, many people here feel strongly that he did the best he could in difficult circumstances, and so on, but I just wanted to let you know that there is a safe harbor for you if you have less than warm feelings for John Winchester as a family man. (What you may feel for him as a sex object is up to you, of course.)

Kripke has said that he thinks John was a poor father and basically unlikeable.

Geez. Krip is such a boy. His favorite moment is the guy's hand in the insinkerator. It's also been said by someone who works with him that he envisioned two guys in a muscle car gunning through backroads America, and he's dismayed at the chemistry between the two leads, that it's well beyond guy territory and into mythic loyalty and devotion, which he never intended.

He was quoted calling John an abusive, neglectful father. When Samantha Ferris asked him point-blank if there might be a possibility of Ellen and Dean getting together for a little comfort sex, he shut her down completely. "Never."

Such. A. Boy.* I think he resents the places the writers and the actors have taken his B movie horror show. I'm grateful to him for getting it on the air in the first place, and I bow to his judgement in a lot of things. But I do think he's more interested in the shallow end of the pool.

*This is by no means a slam on males, who can be very nice and thoughtful and kind, who are, at times, very thinky and profound. However, boys haven't learned yet to deal with more intricate vagaries of thought and emotion. In my personal opinion.