It also may not have been written in the script, and then they tried it in rehearsals, and Kim Manners liked it so much he decided to put it in. Still actor's choice, really.

Where'd you hear that, Bev? I can totally buy it, because of how well they work together, and I *want* to believe it because it makes them even more adorable, as well as really committed to their roles.

Well, who's to say the first shot of the hug was unscripted and once they realized how well it worked they went in for a couple more angle shots?

I read it on one of the LJ comms. A lot of the posters are uber spoilers ho's and read all the releases and sides (the actual script pages, subject to change*). One of them posted that the hug was not in the sides. I assumed that either in rehearsal or in an early take Jared just went with the emotion of the scene and Jensen (hey, did you know Jensen is just one letter off from Hensen, which I just typed three times, and...no. Just, no) went with Jared. Yeah, big assumption. But it's not without precedent, as that's exactly what happened in BUaBS.

*apparently the sides, or script pages, are made available to either websites or fansites by the production company after filming, but before the episode is aired. The sides, as I understand it, are the script as written, but before on-set changes to stunt gags, awkward lines, bits of business that don't work on camera, locations that are cancelled at the last minute, or other things that are added or deleted during filiming.

gasp! There's a Wolfram sighting in SPN! Hi there, and welcome.

Heh, I'm actually here a lot, but in full-on lurk mode. Except when I have really important things to contribute, like helping darlini solve her semantical crisis.

Also, SPN - really, really good show. And I skipped watching the whole first season because I was afraid it was just going to be Charmed with boys. (Had to catch up over the summer before season 2.) The writing is okay, but what really shines in this show is its Moments.

I was afraid it was just going to be Charmed with boys

If that were the case, they'd have their shirts off a lot more. I swear, we get skin shots like once per season.

And you're right, the moments stand out all the more because they are so rarely lingered upon... usually the screen cuts to black because the show is going to commercial, ending, or something is coming through the window to attack. But I do love the brotherly bonding moments. "You're my brother and I'd die for you." and he means it. Actually they mean it, because the sentiment applies to both of them.

The sides, as I understand it, are the script as written, but before on-set changes

We used to all go over to Rayne's website for the Buffy scripts, back in the day. I have a bunch of them printed out in a folder someplace, and they're hilarious -- the S3 season opener contains a stage direction for the production manager to be crying in the corner over having spent the entire season's budget on one episode. (That part wasn't filmed.)

How Rayne got the scripts was vaguely hush-hush, at the time; I presume there was an under-the-table business in selling the ones that weren't auctioned off for charities. In this age of para-canon, I'm not surprised if they're officially available for free in most cases.

Wait--who did the transcripts? I thought that was Rayne. Whoever did the transcripts--off home videotape, no less, deserves a medal. Many medals.That's a LOT of words. I don't think there were many stage directions or action descriptions in the transcripts, were there? Just lines?

Wow. Really really "back in the day." Where's my cane and my ear trumpet?

Rayne's site had shooting scripts. . . I remember the transcripts too. I don't recall what site that was.

Another thing people do is go to the websites where there are calls for auditions and get the sides from there. (You have to register. . . but people do it.)

Just for random, the corner at the end of the block between their shoulders roughly where the person in the red coat is, is where Jessica was standing at the end of Bloody Mary.