I think they've written Dean completely exaggerated. Jensen used to have room to work with in the scripts but now it's like they've constricted him alot more within the script itself. There is no way to save lines like that Gumbey, for example. The only way to save it is to not say it which would have left Dean without about 5 lines total these last two episodes. :)
The writing in these last two episodes has been atrocious in my opinion. Honestly I didn't think there was anything at all that good about JP's stuff either, he's just not being written over the top. There was still nose flairing, pinched brow acting on JP's part, just like there was in previous seasons, he's just not being written as an ass, like Dean is. I actually was listening to it again tonight and some of those lines JP was saying were just very...flat. Which I can't blame him for either, because they writing was completely uninspired and there's not much one can do to breath life into it.
I honestly don't blame JA because he's had absolute crap to work with, worse than usual(where let's face it, they've really never been the best writers, they just sometimes had moments of being really good:). When he has room to work, he's still doing alot of the same stuff just as well as he ever did, IMO. For example I loved the way he told the demon they had tied up he was going back to Hell and then told them to send him back as he walked away in Mag 7, his physical acting was also spot on throughout, he really LOOKED like a dangerous hunter who knew what the hell he was doing, when they weren't using him for a joke. And he actually had some really nice subtle scenes in TKAA I thought, you just had to try hard to spot them while dogding all the falling anvils. Jensen built a character for two years, and Kripke back in the first season pretty much admitted that alot of what Dean ended up being came out of JA's initial performances, and now the writers just up and decided to rip the rug out from under him by writing Dean like a caricature. I can imagine it would be kind of hard to find one's footing in a situation like that for an actor.
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Date: 2007-10-16 05:36 am (UTC)The writing in these last two episodes has been atrocious in my opinion. Honestly I didn't think there was anything at all that good about JP's stuff either, he's just not being written over the top. There was still nose flairing, pinched brow acting on JP's part, just like there was in previous seasons, he's just not being written as an ass, like Dean is. I actually was listening to it again tonight and some of those lines JP was saying were just very...flat. Which I can't blame him for either, because they writing was completely uninspired and there's not much one can do to breath life into it.
I honestly don't blame JA because he's had absolute crap to work with, worse than usual(where let's face it, they've really never been the best writers, they just sometimes had moments of being really good:). When he has room to work, he's still doing alot of the same stuff just as well as he ever did, IMO. For example I loved the way he told the demon they had tied up he was going back to Hell and then told them to send him back as he walked away in Mag 7, his physical acting was also spot on throughout, he really LOOKED like a dangerous hunter who knew what the hell he was doing, when they weren't using him for a joke. And he actually had some really nice subtle scenes in TKAA I thought, you just had to try hard to spot them while dogding all the falling anvils. Jensen built a character for two years, and Kripke back in the first season pretty much admitted that alot of what Dean ended up being came out of JA's initial performances, and now the writers just up and decided to rip the rug out from under him by writing Dean like a caricature. I can imagine it would be kind of hard to find one's footing in a situation like that for an actor.