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sylvia_bond You can read my review of the Supernatural episode "Long Distance Call" at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
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However, Wardrobe needs to realize that Sam is now a strapping tall lad with pecs out to there and shoulders as wide as an axe handle. We’ve seen the pictures. He can pound nails with his neck. He can decapitate a vampire man with a piece of wire and his bare hands. To pretend otherwise is to attempt to ignore the changes that Sam has gone through. To expect the audience to ignore the changes as well is to do us a disservice. We’re not blind. Oh, we’d happily go blind staring at Sam’s physique, yes indeed. But we’re not blind. (Plus, if Show wants Sam to look young and harmless? Then they need to bring back The Bangs. Get Makeup involved and check out pics of Season One. Now there, you got you some classic Samhair. With bangs.)
Hands, in pockets:
An excerpt:
However, Wardrobe needs to realize that Sam is now a strapping tall lad with pecs out to there and shoulders as wide as an axe handle. We’ve seen the pictures. He can pound nails with his neck. He can decapitate a vampire man with a piece of wire and his bare hands. To pretend otherwise is to attempt to ignore the changes that Sam has gone through. To expect the audience to ignore the changes as well is to do us a disservice. We’re not blind. Oh, we’d happily go blind staring at Sam’s physique, yes indeed. But we’re not blind. (Plus, if Show wants Sam to look young and harmless? Then they need to bring back The Bangs. Get Makeup involved and check out pics of Season One. Now there, you got you some classic Samhair. With bangs.)
Hands, in pockets:
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Re: maybe lj won't eat my html this time...
Date: 2008-05-13 07:56 pm (UTC)I'd like to be a nice person, I really would, but if the ep was off just based on the story - the boys at odds because they can't properly communicate about Dean's Deal - that would be one thing. And even though I am nice, I can't do it. The whole thing was off - it was like the events that came before it never happened, and the boys were like strangers to each other. And while I might have suffered through the dialog and believed it, what really got to me was the static staging. I can't accept that the staging was meant to represent the disconnect between the boys because each and every scene was staged exactly the same way, with the boys standing there, with their hands in their pockets. That's not Show's usual style. I put it down to a two-man protest of Ackles and Padalecki on account of they were peeved about something, but I have absolutely nothing to support that, just nothing. But you look at them, the actors, and they are not their usual brilliant selves. I'll give anyone and everyone and especially them the benefit of the doubt, but this went beyond that. Not yelling, just confused. Something went on there, behind the scenes, like my old English professor used to say, "If you think there's a story there, there probably is." (Or, where there's smoke, there's fire...)
I have been informed that the boys rent the suits and do not carry a bunch of them in the trunk of the Impala.
And I still believe that is true, but there is a lovely little ficlet involving suits in the trunk that I suspect you'll enjoy.
Oh THANK YOU! I will check it out! And just to let you know, it wasn't any official notice that I got that the boys rent suits - it was just I got so many comments (yours included, I think) that were pretty convincing as to the whole rental issue.
I'd love for it to be a gas-guzzling 2008 Impala because the irony of that would be too delicious I can't really tell either, but in my heart it's one of those bland personality-free new Impalas.
Someone else posted that the car was a Monte Carlo which in this particular Chevy line is meant to be considered as the "younger brother" to the Impala. I liked the poetry of this, oh yes I do.
It's brown and shabby and it's meant to look old, as if we were meant to believe that it's a jacket he's always had. Oh, but it is a coat he's always had! As I shamelessly yelled when I noticed it, "It's Sam's Carhart coat!!!", the one he wore all the time in season one & which I thought we'd had to give up in exchange for those shoulders. I love that coat! & I think Show is absolutely using it to make Sam seem younger, more vulnerable here. I approve most heartily!
I totally agree that it's meant to be the same coat that Sam's always had and I love it as much as you do! But...Padalecki has put some muscle on that beautiful body of his, so there's no way it can be the exact same coat...either Wardrobe let it out at the seams, or they recreated it. I think my syntax was off because I never could get my meaning across there -
plus, my other argument here is that by Season Three it seems a little silly for Show to pretend that Sam himself has not grown, that he's still the studious college student, a little lean and hungry and just waiting for the opportunity to go back to school. Sam's come so FAR from that point in his life, why not show that in his clothes? Why (suddenly, inexplicably) dress him like it was three years ago? Do you see what I mean here? Sam has grown, and while I love the Carhart coat (what is a Carhart coat by the way) and I'm not saying that he wouldn't still be wearing it, but if it is the same coat and he IS still wearing it, then it would have patches on the elbows and the cuffs would be halfway up his forarms. : D
Re: maybe lj won't eat my html this time...
Date: 2008-05-14 02:43 am (UTC)I actually never noticed that until you pointed it out.
a two-man protest of Ackles and Padalecki on account of they were peeved about something... Something went on there, behind the scenes
Put this theory to the right people & I bet some epic J2 fic would ensue.
"younger brother" to the Impala. I liked the poetry of this, oh yes I do.
Ooh, that's a whole new layer! I like!
But...Padalecki has put some muscle on that beautiful body of his, so there's no way it can be the exact same coat...it seems a little silly for Show to pretend that Sam himself has not grown
You know, both boys have bulked up quite a bit since the pilot, but it's never been acknowledged & we never see them train or even hear them mention it in throw-away dialogue, so I think Show is pretending that he's been this size since we met them.
what is a Carhart coat by the way?... but if it is the same coat and he IS still wearing it, then it would have patches on the elbows
Carhart is a brand of work clothes (identified by that little leather patch on the front). The lined coats are really warm & they wear/wash up soft, but they're made out of this tough canvas. They're pretty expensive, but they last forever, even if you're doing rough work, so they'd be a good investment for the boys.
I like to pretend that John got it for Sam, maybe a little big, just after his last growth spurt, not so long before Stanford. Seriously, as long as Sam manages not to get it snared in, you know, barbed wire or vicious claws, it'd totally last him seven years without falling apart on him.
Re: maybe lj won't eat my html this time...
Date: 2008-05-15 12:17 am (UTC)I actually never noticed that until you pointed it out.
Sadly, you will probably never be able to watch this particular ep without noticing, or at least that's how it works for me. Hands in pockets and a lot of standing about.
a two-man protest of Ackles and Padalecki on account of they were peeved about something... Something went on there, behind the scenes
Put this theory to the right people & I bet some epic J2 fic would ensue.
Part of me really believes it, that something happened, a quarrel between director and actors. Everything was too off not to be something.
"younger brother" to the Impala. I liked the poetry of this, oh yes I do.
Ooh, that's a whole new layer! I like!
Nice, huh? I wish I'd thought of it.
But...Padalecki has put some muscle on that beautiful body of his, so there's no way it can be the exact same coat...it seems a little silly for Show to pretend that Sam himself has not grown
You know, both boys have bulked up quite a bit since the pilot, but it's never been acknowledged & we never see them train or even hear them mention it in throw-away dialogue, so I think Show is pretending that he's been this size since we met them.
But whyyyyyyyyyyyyy? It makes no sense. They are both three years older, much wiser, and one of them was ressurected from the dead, so why would Show do this? And besides, I am only really peeved about this because it's only been apparent to me in the last three eps - before that, Padalecki was bursting out of his clothes. In Long Distance Caller is when I noticed them trying to pretend. There's nothing to be done about it but complain, I suppose.
what is a Carhart coat by the way?... but if it is the same coat and he IS still wearing it, then it would have patches on the elbows
Carhart is a brand of work clothes (identified by that little leather patch on the front). The lined coats are really warm & they wear/wash up soft, but they're made out of this tough canvas. They're pretty expensive, but they last forever, even if you're doing rough work, so they'd be a good investment for the boys.
Yes, yes, I think I know the type you are talking about now. They sell them at salvation army stores and the like, yes?
I like to pretend that John got it for Sam, maybe a little big, just after his last growth spurt, not so long before Stanford. Seriously, as long as Sam manages not to get it snared in, you know, barbed wire or vicious claws, it'd totally last him seven years without falling apart on him.
I love your idea. It is fanon to me. But it still begs the question him having worn it for seven years (4 at Stanford and 3 on the road with bro) it has not a mark on it? (My problem is a strong DESIRE for realism and continuity in Show.)
Re: maybe lj won't eat my html this time...
Date: 2008-05-15 02:37 am (UTC)Maybe. It'd be like a holy grail kind of item to find at a thrift store, though. I'm thinking most people who lay out for one wear it until it disentegrates. You'd get a new one at a Farm & Fleet-type store.
My problem is a strong DESIRE for realism and continuity in Show.
So you want patches on the coat for the same reason I want scars on their bodies? Good luck with that! ;)
Re: maybe lj won't eat my html this time...
Date: 2008-05-15 09:40 pm (UTC)Yes, yes, I think I know the type you are talking about now. They sell them at salvation army stores and the like, yes?
Maybe. It'd be like a holy grail kind of item to find at a thrift store, though. I'm thinking most people who lay out for one wear it until it disentegrates. You'd get a new one at a Farm & Fleet-type store.
Oh, oh, I meant to say Army Surplus store....
My problem is a strong DESIRE for realism and continuity in Show.
So you want patches on the coat for the same reason I want scars on their bodies? Good luck with that! ;)
Hey. I've been bitching and demanding first aid and haven't we gotten that? Haven't we? Next we'll have cooking and folding laundry, and THEN, yeah, patches and nekked nudity. It could happen. All you have to do is wish upon a star.