I think it was incredibly sensible and well-worded and sane, Suela.
Um, says the girl who never had a jot of interest in any actor's life before SPN ATE MY BRAIN. For real. For me, I think it's the fact that the two Js are so charming in interviews and at cons, and the genuine affection they have for each other. I'm also weak and easily swayed by excessive pretty, though.
I should clarify that and add that I'm much more interested in Sam and Dean (and Bobby and John and Ellen, et al) than I am in the actors who play them. At the same time, I've always had a certain behind-the-scenes kink. I love to hear what writers' processes and rituals are, where the idea for a particular novel sprung from; how Jerry Garcia learned to play the guitar with his missing finger, why he liked bluegrass and folk music, etc. So listening to the Js talk about developing their characters is interesting to me. Hearing them talk about tickling each other's feet and taking Thanksgiving-style naps after pizza is just gravy.
I agree very much with your first point, although I sense that the author of the original post you referenced meant something a little broader than respect actually equaling love.
True, although... I don't actually trust fandom at large to make that distinction.
Not to be blunt, but I don't trust ... fandom of a certain age? That's rude to say, I know, and probably untrue. But that starry-eyed thirteen-year-old girl mindset is not always logical, true.
Um, says the girl who never had a jot of interest in any actor's life before SPN ATE MY BRAIN. For real. For me, I think it's the fact that the two Js are so charming in interviews and at cons, and the genuine affection they have for each other. I'm also weak and easily swayed by excessive pretty, though.
Word. I thought I had a Jensen thing when he was in Dark Angel, but then I wasn't interested in watching him in his later shows. So evidently it was an Alec thing. And now a Dean thing.
Hearing them talk about tickling each other's feet and taking Thanksgiving-style naps after pizza is just gravy.
I think it's becoming part of the show's schtick, so I can't really blame the fans for buying into what is being sold. Someone realizes the two actors are impossibly cute together and uses it to promote the show. I'm probably a bit jaded, but I see the con appearances and "stories" as playing to the crowd, and not really breaking the fourth wall. They have created an image and now use it to sell their product. Like their own little con "webisodes". I don't mean that negatively. I like watching that part of the show too. It makes me smile and feel good and have warm fuzzies.
I like that much better than when an actor or actors break the fourth wall themselves and I realize part way through their blog or post that they are bat shit crazy. It takes me awhile to be able to watch their work again and lose that outside knowledge.
Word. I thought I had a Jensen thing when he was in Dark Angel, but then I wasn't interested in watching him in his later shows. So evidently it was an Alec thing. And now a Dean thing.
No Ben love? Yeah, my Ben love
was is fierce. Speaking of the batshit crazy... Also he died. But I still dug him.
No Ben love?
Oh there was Ben love. Ben = Alec. Ben = Glory. Something like that.
Not to be blunt, but I don't trust ... fandom of a certain age?
Fandom of a certain mental age, perhaps.
I like that much better than when an actor or actors break the fourth wall themselves and I realize part way through their blog or post that they are bat shit crazy. It takes me awhile to be able to watch their work again and lose that outside knowledge.
But that's exactly what vaulted Ben Browder past everyone else in my actorly affections: the realization that not only is he batshit crazy, but he's my kind of crazy.
I was going to say. The number of middle-aged women who are actually thirteen...
