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   From: jayembeenospam@snurcher.com   
      
   "Jim Beaver"  wrote:   
      
   > "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> He's doing some fine work on Supernatural. Overall, an OK   
   >>> series strictly for genre fans, but he is very good in it.   
   >>   
   >> I like "Supernatural" a lot of the time. Sometimes they manage   
   >> to pull off genuine suspense rather than just being gross; it's   
   >> better those weeks.   
      
   It's been methadone for BUFFY addicts. I've liked it from the   
   git-go, but it got seriously better over the course of the   
   second season, and has kept on chugging so far in the third.   
      
   >> They comedy episodes tend to be better than the angsty ones.   
   >> The season opener featuring the Seven Deadly Sins was hysterical.   
      
   Last year's "Hollywood Babylon" was a scream.   
      
   >> The problem with the show is Jared Padalecki who has too little   
   >> personality.   
      
   In some respects I agree, but I think he properly balances Jensen   
   Ackles. Dean is the extrovert, and Sam is the introvert. Manic,   
   depressive; yin, yang.   
      
   > What did Rory ever see in him?   
   >   
   > I never saw Gilmore Girls, and your opinion of what you see   
   > on-screen is yours, but I'll say this: in person, Jared Padalecki   
   > and Jensen Ackles have more personality than just about any people   
   > I've ever met. Amazingly funny guys, and good, good people, too.   
   > A rarity among hunky TV stars, I've found.   
      
   I never watched GG, either. Well, regularly. A friend tried to get   
   me hooked on it, but in the one episode I tried, I found every   
   character grated on me.   
      
   Anyway, I don't recall if Padalecki was in the episode I saw, but   
   I don't recall seeing him in anything else, so SUPERNATURAL is   
   the only thing I've seen him in, and I think he's fine, relative   
   to what I've said above about balance.   
      
   Ackles I can remember only seeing before this show during his one   
   year stint on SMALLVILLE. I thought his character there was so   
   awful, I wasn't sure whether it was just him or the way the   
   character was written. After seeing him on SUPERNATURAL, I'd say   
   it was the latter.   
      
   >> I take it Bobby Singer has been used on so many episodes because the   
   >> producers feel that killing off the father was bad for the show.   
   >   
   > I'm not so sure killing off John was bad for the show, at least from   
   > a practical standpoint.  Maybe with the audience, I don't know. But   
   > from a production standpoint, it was apparently getting very difficult   
   > to schedule Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who was juggling several gigs. And   
   > scheduling difficulties cost money.   
      
   I think in terms of the Sam/Dean character arc, it was a good thing.   
   They needed to become their own men, and as long as John was around,   
   they were still going to be just his sons.   
      
   -- jayembee   
      
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