It makes me smile to think of Mary being the inspiration for Buffy. :)

That's the closest I've come to not being skeered by RPF...

It's awful. Hurty awful times a hundred.

I love it. Dysfunctionally, and everything. Can't wait.

They're showing Sam, Interrupted this week and Swap Meat next week. Why can't they repeat from earlier in the season? I still have Swap Meat on my TiVo.

That's the closest I've come to not being skeered by RPF...

yeah, RPF is the only drawback. Maybe the whole story is told and then the aside is the name of the little boy that saw the woman warrior. There is probably a better way but the thought of it makes me smile.

eta: It could be like a Paul Harvey story. "What was the name of that little boy? And that is the rest of the story. Good day."

The more time goes by, the more I dislike Swap Meat. I really wish they'd gone in another direction and had Jared play the kid and vice versa. I think JP would have been outstanding. But then I wonder if the kid could have pulled off being Sam and that's why they went with what we got.

I can't help but think that was a missed opportunity for JP.

I really wish they'd gone in another direction and had Jared play the kid and vice versa.

What do you mean? That *is* what we got, isn't it?

I know JP's got a good hand with comedy, but can he do impersonations? At the very least you need to construct a character and have both actors play him, and then have the new guy do a Sam impersonation.

JP played a good goof, but was he really playing the same character as Colton James?

You guys are confusing me.

I don't think JP was supposed to be really playing Gary, because he didn't know what Gary was like. And the Gary only had about five minutes of figuring out what Sam as like. So ... they didn't need to be impersonating each other.

Or are you suggesting that JP should have been there in all the scenes with Dean after the swap, and vice versa?

I swear I haven't been drinking.

Or are you suggesting that JP should have been there in all the scenes with Dean after the swap, and vice versa?

This. The brief moments when JP was Gary in Sam's body (particularly in the bar at the very beginning), I just thought he was great. I would have liked to have seen Jared play Gary for the duration of the "swap". I think Jared could have pulled it off, but I'm not sure Colton could have pulled off playing Sam.

I am fine with not having seen it. In a post Enver Gjokaj world, I'm okay with people just not trying. Especially if it's supposed to be contemporaneous. Chad Everett was merely okay--if there hadn't been delight at it being Chad Everett, it would have been less entertaining.

In a post Enver Gjokaj world, I'm okay with people just not trying.

The what with the who?

Also, this is probably a question for you, ita: People get knocked unconscious SO easily on TV. Born Under a Bad Sign is on this morning, and one good crash of Jo's head to the bar and she's out. That's not really realistic, is it?

Enver Gjokaj, from Dollhose. He did some crazy uncanny impersonations of established characters on the show that have just set the bar so high (seriously freakish stuff) that I'm okay with not seeing people try and do less well.

That's not really realistic, is it?

Knocking people out like a light is *hard*. And having them stay that way. Of course, many lesser blows end up with more lasting trauma, and that we never see, so it's just a bunch of head injury lies.