Personally, I think it's almost impossible for guys with swimmer builds (tall, wide shoulders, thin waists) to pack on muscle and simultaneously look good. DB managed it for a few years, but I imagine he had to spend hours in the gym every day to achieve that.

Well, JP apparently works out every morning. (Per JP at the Chicago con . . . one of the reasons why it takes him longer to get ready in the morning than JA.)

I think JP suffers from the current Hollywood waif syndrome. He may be tall, but people who've seen him in person at coms verify that he's surprisingly tiny, especially from the waist down. He looks massive on camera, but that's optics for you. In reality, his shoulders aren't as broad as JA's. And while JA may be more proportionate, he's fairly waiflike himself.

Screen actors, both male and female, need to eat decent meals.

I don't find JP steroidal in appearance, just attempting to put bulk on his frame. Apparently he has a metabolism from hell (insert envy here) and burns off masses of calories just by breathing. This particular picture is sort of alarming, in a comic way. It's obvious he's posing, flexing, and he's still not all that bulky, considering the length of those bones.

I don't find the ripped-ness appealing, myself. A little more padding would be better, to my eye at least.

but in the show (say, while manhandling Ruby) he looked just lovely to me.

He was excessively ripped there for my prefs, as well. I just prefer a different amount of muscle. Much like I can't stand women who are too thin. It just looks unhealthy to me.

I am not fond of arms bigger than my head. Nicely muscled arms, oh yes, my, but the gigantor hugeness of muscles....erm, nope.

But I do like the self-deprecatingness of the pix.

Hello, all! I'm a friend and colleague of Anne W, and she kindly pointed out this group as a nice place to chat online with fellow Supernatural fans. I've watched the show since the pilot, love the brothers (naturally), and I love to discuss plotlines and speculate about where things may be heading.

As a bonus, I seem to have stumbled upon a topic I've pondered with another SPN fan - the notion that JP is too buff. I agree. While he's lovely, he is entirely too muscled. In some ways, character-wise, it fits for Sam to be physically stronger since leaving college for the hunt, but this is a bit much.

Plus I miss the bangs. ::sigh::

I'm really looking forward to January 15th!

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sneak peak of the next three eps. spoilerish, obviously.

welcome, mellenbal!

waves excitedly

You're here! You're here! Yay!

Hi there, Anne Friend!

Hi mellenbal! Welcome!

::sits next to JP since no one else will::

::he pulls her onto his lap with gigantor hand::

::starts snogging like snogging things::