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.

so it's just a bunch of head injury lies.

I thought so! Hmph.

Yeah, I'd imagine Rupert Giles would have been in a managed care facility asking a nurse to remind him he likes jello by Season 3 if head injuries were treated more realistically on TV.

And, oh, the scars these pretty boys would have on their faces. Part of me is irritated, but the shallow and therefore important part of me knows what's what.

And, oh, the scars these pretty boys would have on their faces.

Oh yeah. Buffy I could handwave with the super slayer healing powers, but the Winchester boys would have a road map all over their bodies.

And yet, I like the pretty, so. And I know how hard it would be for the makeup department to carry that off over five seasons, too.