(points to Cass' post) What she said, on both counts.

I twitch when people repost from this ep for laughs, especially Tuesdays on tumblr. I don't think of it as funny--it's really really awful to me. There are no funny ways to kill your sibling. At best exhausting, when you know you'll do it again tomorrow. And the robot he becomes--those are the pictures I repost, or Sam holding Dean in the parking lot. It isn't even sad, it's flat out horror.

I don't see the Jensen bits though, since I think of Eye Of The Tiger as Dean and not the actor.

I don't see the Jensen bits though, since I think of Eye Of The Tiger as Dean and not the actor.

When I didn't realize he did the bit twice, I thought of it as Dean thing. But going meta and knowing some of his friends? Feels like a Jensen party trick. It's just too damn rehearsed. Which I say happily and amused. It was really cute. (I'd recently pulled up the Eye of the Tiger to watch, so I noticed it obviously more than I did when eps just aired.)

And I'll admit I used to think of Mystery Spot as really dark humor. But watching from a few seasons on, it's not even funny to me.

Rehearsed doesn't make something less Jensen for me (especially since roles and rehearsing go hand in hand), but basically I know nothing about Jensen (and less than nothing about his friends) and what party tricks he may or may not do--the choice to scratch his arm puts it firmly into Dean territory for me, and precisely Dean in Yellow Fever territory. If Jensen also had an itch that day I'll chalk it up to curious coincidences.

I also don't consider an actor using his own reactions, etcetera, as bleedthrough, so that might be the source of a fundamental disconnect. If it's conscious, it's reuse. I saw that in Eureka all the time. Bleedthrough is, to me, when they likely don't know they're doing it--I wonder about some of the times when their accents get more Texan, for instance. Do they know that? Are they doing that? Do they have any interest in redoing the take in the more neutral Winchester accent?

I also don't consider an actor using his own reactions, etcetera, as bleedthrough, so that might be the source of a fundamental disconnect.

That's likely the difference. I find it charming. And I'm guessing because I don't actually know her.

But I still feel like I can usually "tell" when he's in character or not especially in pictures. Which is guessing because I don't really know him. Still Dean has the low voice and doesn't smile as openly. Like seeing him play different versions of Dean differently. Or Jared playing Sams different.

And since the singing had that huge smile and was very choreographed, it felt Jensen to me. In a fun way. And in a way where I really don't know the guy. Still I'd forgotten that he did it in more than one ep.

Hi everyone, I hope those who celebrate the holidays are enjoying themselves. I just stopped by to offer the following: The Jared-for-God's-sake-Stylator for your amusement.

That's awesome Morgana, thanks! I do wonder what Jared would look like with short hair. The buzz and the blond side-part look especially militaryish--Generation Kill style.

Waitress at dinner reminded us a lot of a family friend so we finally asked her name so we'd stopped wanting to call her Summer. Her name was Samara. Which, one, is too similar sounding and, two, I can't explain that name well without referencing SPN. I really liked SPN's Death.

I was reading a D/C fic on the shuttle back from the airport today, and the chapter had just featured Cas rejoining Dean in the parking lot where he was lying down in the Impala''s front seat, and the shuttle radio started playing Eye Of The Tiger, and my L was OL, for sure.

I did catch a fic the other day whose fact checking let it go through with '68 Impala, which is just sad. Or, I guess, something incredibly AU deft.

In case anyone has 50 or 60K lying around.