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meg_tdjDuuuuude... they wore matching sweaters in their family portrait. ;)
This ep was just... amazing. Pure and simple. I mean, every single second of it was so gripping and emotional, right from the opening shot of the teaser - the Impala's new license plate! *mourns*
I love that the title card is interrupted for that horror movie, LOL. And then Dean wakes up in bed with a "hot chick." Wearing a medallion on a chain instead of the amulet on a cord, I might add. It looked like a religious type of medallion, too. I wonder what it was? But now that we know the amulet is all about Sam and Dean's relationship, the fact that he wasn't wearing it in this reality makes a whole heck of a lot of sense, doesn't it?
The whole phone call with Sam was absolutely perfect. Setting aside that we could see Sam at school when Dean didn't know about it yet (I can excuse a non-Dean POV moment that once just for plot's sake :P), the conversation between them walked the line so well between these-guys-don't-know-each-other and wait-is-this-our-Sam? You really couldn't tell at first what the subtext was supposed to be, but once you know that they never talk, you can see that Sam was genuinely surprised to hear from Dean, thought something terrible must have happened, then figured he was just drunk-dialling and hung up. Which is really kind of sad.
I find it funny that Carmen looked so much like Lisa. Footage from this episode is actually used in Dean/Lisa vids, they're so much alike. Intentional casting? If Carmen was supposed to be his ideal woman (who also looked a lot like the Crossroad Demons he's dealt with, which also go by what the person's ideal mate would be so as to tempt them more easily into making the deal), maybe they looked for a similar-looking actress to play Lisa, knowing she would become a major love interest for Dean? Hmm.
Okay, I have to say it - I almost fell in love with Dean during this ep. Almost. :P I just love that his one wish was for his mom to be alive. Gah! How can anyone not have tears in their eyes the moment that door opens and we see Mary standing there?? It turns him into a little boy again the second he sees her, I love it! And he was so happy in this "normal life" up until he realized what a wedge it had driven between him and Sam. He just wants his whole family back together so bad. :(
The dorky photoshopped pictures were hilaaaaarious. And all done with real photos of the actors, too. Love it!
I love that everyone keeps asking him if he's been drinking. Poor Dean, without hunting he'd be so bored. I can totally see him getting drunk all the time.
The lawn-mowing scene!! Absolutely classic with a capital C. He was so happy! Totally want to see more of that kind of scene in season 6, where he's enjoying "normal" but completely clueless about it at the same time.
Preppy!Sam cracks me up. Dean glomping Jess was too dang sweet. And the restaurant scene! I really wish it had all been real. *sigh* Dean was so unbelievably happy... until he realized he and Sam had no bond whatsoever. OUCH. Poor guy, that was heartbreaking. And poor J&J had so much trouble NOT having chemistry in that scene, LOL. Usually they're oozing with it, you know? I'll talk about that more in my commentary commentary. :P
Notice how many times someone tells Dean to get some rest? I always wonder if that was his subconscious talking. He's said many times that he's tired.
The cases Dean looked up were from Something Wicked and Playthings. That said a lot to me, especially coming right after his conversation with Sam - Something Wicked was such a personal case for him because he felt like he'd almost gotten Sam killed through his negligence, and in Playthings it was Sam who had saved the little girl from drowning. He really had a one-track mind at that point - Sam.
The cemetery scene was so gorgeous and tearjerking... but again, I'll talk about that more in the commentary commentary.
I love the recreation of the fight scene from the pilot, especially with Sam taking a bat because he can't fight a lick, hahahaha! "That was so easy I'm embarrassed for you!" Poor guy. :P
And even though there was no bond between them, and Sam seemed almost ready to disown Dean when he caught him rummaging through Mom's silver... Sam still went after Dean to help him out of whatever trouble he was in. I know none of it was real, but obviously somewhere in Dean's mind he truly believes Sam would do that for him. And that, yet again, makes me want to cry. Stupid episode! :P
And then, of course, Sam freaks out over the blood, goes to call 911, Dean tosses his phone out the window, and Sam has a hissy fit. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
I also love that back in the real world, Sam knew Dean was okay the moment he started quoting Wizard of Oz, LOL. Anyone else might have thought he was delirious. :P
I honestly think Dean would have stayed but for the thought that the real Sam was out there in the real world all alone without him. Poor Dean, he was so depressed at the end. Knowing what's coming next for him... owwwwwww! No wonder he takes such a desperate action. :(
I want to know what Sam's wish would have been. I want to know SO BAD. Btw, I love that he knew he and Dean hadn't gotten along in this other reality as soon as Dean said he was a wussy. He knows he's gotta be tough to earn Dean's respect, you know?
My favourite scenes - Meeting preppy!Sam and the distance between the brothers. Sam keeps backing away from him, it's so heartbreaking!
Randomness -
*The Impala's new Ohio plates - CNK 80Q3. I still don't have them memorized.
*The boys were in Joliet, Illinois, which is the setting for the series Prison Break. I swear that had to be intentional. ;)
*Rachel Nave (actually the name of one of the writers in season 1) was mentioned for the first time in this ep as Sam's prom date.
*When Dean was channel-surfing, he passed over Thundercats, which wee!Sam was watching in Something Wicked. Somebody on the show must be a fan or something.
Quotes -
Sam: Yeah, being a fugitive is a freakin' dance party.
Dean: Hey, man, chicks dig the danger vibe.
Dean: *looking in weapons-free trunk* Well, who'da thought, baby? We're civilians.
Dean: That lawn looks like it could use some mowing.
Mary: You want to mow the lawn?
Dean: You kidding me? I'd LOVE to mow the lawn.
Mary: Knock yourself out.
Dean: *looks excited*
Mary: You'd think you'd never mowed a lawn in your life.
Dean: How did I end up with such a cool chick?
Carmen: I've just got low standards.
Dean: I'm dating a nurse. That is so... respectable.
Sam: Look, whatever stupid thing you're about to do, you're not doing it alone, and that's that.
Dean: I don't understand. Why are you doing this?
Sam: Because you're still my brother.
*pause*
Dean: Bitch.
Sam: W-what are you calling me a bitch for?
Dean: You're supposed to say jerk.
Sam: What?
Dean: Never mind.
Sam: Where are we?
Dean: Well, we're not in Kansas anymore. *chuckles*
Dean: No, I'm pretty sure. Like, 90% sure. But I'm sure enough.
Dean: You shoulda seen it, Sam. Our lives. You were such a wussy.
Sam: *laughs* So we didn't get along then, huh?
Dean: No.
Sam: Yeah.
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And now for the commentary, which Kripke did on his own. I've gotta say, that man gives awesome commentary. I swear he comes prepared with a list of things to talk about, because there's very little dead air, and when he talks it's always something interesting. He's just as much a fan of this show as the rest of us, so it's loads of fun listening to him ramble on about it. :)
He says he knew right from the start of the season that he would be directing 2x20, so he was like a dictator in the writers' room, rejecting story ideas left and right because he wanted his episode to be special.
The original idea was for Dean to be a total loser and a drunk in the alt!world, because it made sense to Kripke that without hunting he would be totally lost, and his only reason for wanting to stay would be because Sam was happy. He was talked out of that. People tried to talk him out of the distance between Sam and Dean, too, but he was stubborn on that point. He didn't want the episode to be like 7th Heaven.
The photos - they used Jensen's real prom photo and Jared's real graduation photo, and the rest were all photoshopped using real childhood pics. Kripke's favourite was the matching sweaters. They had way too much fun making that one.
Kripke: *talking about Jensen* He blew the doors off this episode, in my opinion. That kid is SO good. I mean, both of them are genius actors, and we get so much out of both of them. They're like working with surgical instruments, man.
Kripke told Jensen to play it like seeing his mom takes him right back to that 4-year-old kid. When you strip away his self-defense mechanisms of the snarking and fighting, this is the real Dean behind it all - a little boy who loves his mom. With turning Dean upside down like that and also the lack of his natural chemistry with Jared, Jensen kept saying he felt like he was falling down the rabbit hole with this episode, and Kripke would say, "Excellent! That's exactly what you should be feeling."
Kripke: He really delivered, and delivers again and again. They both do. It's... we're unbelievably lucky to have these two guys. They're raging pains in the ass, but great actors. I'm just kidding.
The professor scene was inserted late in the game because Dean only had himself to talk to while trying to figure it all out, and Kripke thought it was getting lame.
Kripke: My God, man, Vancouver rains like a mother!
He talked about how hard it is to hide the rain every time, and it's such an ourdoors show, so they're always filming in the mud. People complain about how dark the show is...
Kripke: "Can you make it brighter?" And we're like, "Yeah! Freakin' turn on the sun, man!"
The lawn mowing scene was the one exception, because it was bright and sunny that day, and only that day. People who complained about the darkness called and said that was what they'd wanted, thanks for finally doing it, and Kripke said, "Don't thank me, thank God." People thought he'd made a deal with the devil for it, because the one day they needed sunshine, they got it.
Kripke loves Friday Night Lights, which Adrianne Palicki stars in, but it was really hard to steal her away from them for a few days. They shot the episode for 5 days, shut down production for another 5 days and worked on 2x21, then when she became available they went back to 2x20 for 3 days and shot all of her scenes.
Having 3 beautiful women around made Kripke and Bob Singer question why they kept killing women off and only have 2 dudes around every day. Ha!
The production crew are used to building grimy old sets with a sense of danger and loneliness about them for this show, but for this ep they were told to make the most beautiful, warm, affectionate sets they'd ever seen. And they pulled it off.
Kripke called the show "a modern-day western with monsters." That's how they look at it as they're making it and designing the sets.
Kripke pointed out the "Supernatural troubled profile" at the end of the scene where Sam and Dean talk in Mary's house. He says to count how many scenes end with one of the boys giving a troubled profile to the camera. So true!
Kripke: That previous scene you just saw, that scene between Jared and Jensen where they don't have a connection as characters, it was really sort of charming, they took me aside afterwards and said, "That was really, really hard, because through all the hell you've been putting us through for two years, the one thing we have is our bond with each other, how tight we are with each other, and helping each other out. And when you all of a sudden walk up to us and play a scene, you say, 'Uh, you guys don't really like each other, and you don't have any history, and you don't have any subtext, and it's not like you're mean to each other, you're just strangers. So, you're strangers. Okay, action!'" That was really hard for them, that was really troubling for them. You know, they did a great job with it, but I think it... it sort of disturbed them in a way, because you were taking away the primary comfort they've had through two years of the hell we've put them through.
The studio wanted a Dean/Carmen sex scene, but Kripke couldn't justify it. Yay, IMO, because it would have seriously messed with the flow of the episode.
He talked about the long hours they work every day. As a writer he's always just thrown scripts up to them in Vancouver and told them to make it good, and calls himself "an insensitive bastard" for not listening to them when they'd say how hard some of the stuff would be to shoot on a TV schedule. When he directed for himself, he finally understood.
The cemetery scene - they put two cameras on Jensen and just let him go. Even the gruff ole grips were crying. The shot they used was the unbroken second or third take.
Kripke: He and Jared both make the rest of us look good. In a lot of ways, 90% of good filmmaking is casting, and damn did we luck out with these two guys.
Kripke got "obsessed" with recreating the pilot scene and matching angles, lighting, and music with the original.
He says a TV director's job is fitting 20 pounds of crap in a 10-pound bag, in other words trying to make a feature film in a fraction of the time. His plan for his first day of directing, for example, called for 30 hours of work, which they had to squeeze into 14 hours. It's a sprint.
The warehouse they used was used a lot in KyleXY.
This episode was edited by the same editor as BUABS, who loves flash-cuts.
The actor playing the djinn couldn't take his makeup off during filming. He was cool with it, but said it was impossible to get a cab, and he freaked people out in the supermarket. Kripke admired his dedication to his art.
He praised Raelle Tucker's amazing writing, especially the deep emotional exchanges, which Kripke says he sucks at.
Kripke: Watch this. See, look at this... (Dean leans into Mary's hand as she strokes his face for the last time) Look at that! This kid's so good, he breaks your heart!
Jess was blue-screened into that warehouse scene because she wasn't there the day they filmed it.
Kripke said they really made Jensen shove a knife into himself. "Sacrifice for your art. We had a paramedic standing by. And he pierced his heart, and 9 months of recovery later, he was back for the next episode." He said it so softly and earnestly, like he really meant it, LOL. Later on - "He didn't really do that, by the way, folks. It was a prosthetic chest that he stabbed his knife into. In case anyone was really gonna write me letters, or post their anger online. I read some of that stuff, and I'll be honest, it hurts my feelings sometimes!"
Kripke compared directing to a kid playing with a train set. Fun! But with lots of caffeine, no food or sleep, tons of stress, body starting to fall apart... but it's worth it.
He talked earnestly about how much it means to him that so many people work so hard on this show, it blows his mind. He thanked the fans, too, for being supportive... except some of those people online who know who they are. ;)
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Btw, in case anyone is watching these eps along with me, I thought I'd let you know that there's no way I can watch All Hell Breaks Loose part 1 without watching part 2 right after. Even after all this time, the wait would still drive me crazy, heh. So I'll be watching them both tonight and talking about them in the same post tomorrow.
This ep was just... amazing. Pure and simple. I mean, every single second of it was so gripping and emotional, right from the opening shot of the teaser - the Impala's new license plate! *mourns*
I love that the title card is interrupted for that horror movie, LOL. And then Dean wakes up in bed with a "hot chick." Wearing a medallion on a chain instead of the amulet on a cord, I might add. It looked like a religious type of medallion, too. I wonder what it was? But now that we know the amulet is all about Sam and Dean's relationship, the fact that he wasn't wearing it in this reality makes a whole heck of a lot of sense, doesn't it?
The whole phone call with Sam was absolutely perfect. Setting aside that we could see Sam at school when Dean didn't know about it yet (I can excuse a non-Dean POV moment that once just for plot's sake :P), the conversation between them walked the line so well between these-guys-don't-know-each-other and wait-is-this-our-Sam? You really couldn't tell at first what the subtext was supposed to be, but once you know that they never talk, you can see that Sam was genuinely surprised to hear from Dean, thought something terrible must have happened, then figured he was just drunk-dialling and hung up. Which is really kind of sad.
I find it funny that Carmen looked so much like Lisa. Footage from this episode is actually used in Dean/Lisa vids, they're so much alike. Intentional casting? If Carmen was supposed to be his ideal woman (who also looked a lot like the Crossroad Demons he's dealt with, which also go by what the person's ideal mate would be so as to tempt them more easily into making the deal), maybe they looked for a similar-looking actress to play Lisa, knowing she would become a major love interest for Dean? Hmm.
Okay, I have to say it - I almost fell in love with Dean during this ep. Almost. :P I just love that his one wish was for his mom to be alive. Gah! How can anyone not have tears in their eyes the moment that door opens and we see Mary standing there?? It turns him into a little boy again the second he sees her, I love it! And he was so happy in this "normal life" up until he realized what a wedge it had driven between him and Sam. He just wants his whole family back together so bad. :(
The dorky photoshopped pictures were hilaaaaarious. And all done with real photos of the actors, too. Love it!
I love that everyone keeps asking him if he's been drinking. Poor Dean, without hunting he'd be so bored. I can totally see him getting drunk all the time.
The lawn-mowing scene!! Absolutely classic with a capital C. He was so happy! Totally want to see more of that kind of scene in season 6, where he's enjoying "normal" but completely clueless about it at the same time.
Preppy!Sam cracks me up. Dean glomping Jess was too dang sweet. And the restaurant scene! I really wish it had all been real. *sigh* Dean was so unbelievably happy... until he realized he and Sam had no bond whatsoever. OUCH. Poor guy, that was heartbreaking. And poor J&J had so much trouble NOT having chemistry in that scene, LOL. Usually they're oozing with it, you know? I'll talk about that more in my commentary commentary. :P
Notice how many times someone tells Dean to get some rest? I always wonder if that was his subconscious talking. He's said many times that he's tired.
The cases Dean looked up were from Something Wicked and Playthings. That said a lot to me, especially coming right after his conversation with Sam - Something Wicked was such a personal case for him because he felt like he'd almost gotten Sam killed through his negligence, and in Playthings it was Sam who had saved the little girl from drowning. He really had a one-track mind at that point - Sam.
The cemetery scene was so gorgeous and tearjerking... but again, I'll talk about that more in the commentary commentary.
I love the recreation of the fight scene from the pilot, especially with Sam taking a bat because he can't fight a lick, hahahaha! "That was so easy I'm embarrassed for you!" Poor guy. :P
And even though there was no bond between them, and Sam seemed almost ready to disown Dean when he caught him rummaging through Mom's silver... Sam still went after Dean to help him out of whatever trouble he was in. I know none of it was real, but obviously somewhere in Dean's mind he truly believes Sam would do that for him. And that, yet again, makes me want to cry. Stupid episode! :P
And then, of course, Sam freaks out over the blood, goes to call 911, Dean tosses his phone out the window, and Sam has a hissy fit. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
I also love that back in the real world, Sam knew Dean was okay the moment he started quoting Wizard of Oz, LOL. Anyone else might have thought he was delirious. :P
I honestly think Dean would have stayed but for the thought that the real Sam was out there in the real world all alone without him. Poor Dean, he was so depressed at the end. Knowing what's coming next for him... owwwwwww! No wonder he takes such a desperate action. :(
I want to know what Sam's wish would have been. I want to know SO BAD. Btw, I love that he knew he and Dean hadn't gotten along in this other reality as soon as Dean said he was a wussy. He knows he's gotta be tough to earn Dean's respect, you know?
My favourite scenes - Meeting preppy!Sam and the distance between the brothers. Sam keeps backing away from him, it's so heartbreaking!
Randomness -
*The Impala's new Ohio plates - CNK 80Q3. I still don't have them memorized.
*The boys were in Joliet, Illinois, which is the setting for the series Prison Break. I swear that had to be intentional. ;)
*Rachel Nave (actually the name of one of the writers in season 1) was mentioned for the first time in this ep as Sam's prom date.
*When Dean was channel-surfing, he passed over Thundercats, which wee!Sam was watching in Something Wicked. Somebody on the show must be a fan or something.
Quotes -
Sam: Yeah, being a fugitive is a freakin' dance party.
Dean: Hey, man, chicks dig the danger vibe.
Dean: *looking in weapons-free trunk* Well, who'da thought, baby? We're civilians.
Dean: That lawn looks like it could use some mowing.
Mary: You want to mow the lawn?
Dean: You kidding me? I'd LOVE to mow the lawn.
Mary: Knock yourself out.
Dean: *looks excited*
Mary: You'd think you'd never mowed a lawn in your life.
Dean: How did I end up with such a cool chick?
Carmen: I've just got low standards.
Dean: I'm dating a nurse. That is so... respectable.
Sam: Look, whatever stupid thing you're about to do, you're not doing it alone, and that's that.
Dean: I don't understand. Why are you doing this?
Sam: Because you're still my brother.
*pause*
Dean: Bitch.
Sam: W-what are you calling me a bitch for?
Dean: You're supposed to say jerk.
Sam: What?
Dean: Never mind.
Sam: Where are we?
Dean: Well, we're not in Kansas anymore. *chuckles*
Dean: No, I'm pretty sure. Like, 90% sure. But I'm sure enough.
Dean: You shoulda seen it, Sam. Our lives. You were such a wussy.
Sam: *laughs* So we didn't get along then, huh?
Dean: No.
Sam: Yeah.
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And now for the commentary, which Kripke did on his own. I've gotta say, that man gives awesome commentary. I swear he comes prepared with a list of things to talk about, because there's very little dead air, and when he talks it's always something interesting. He's just as much a fan of this show as the rest of us, so it's loads of fun listening to him ramble on about it. :)
He says he knew right from the start of the season that he would be directing 2x20, so he was like a dictator in the writers' room, rejecting story ideas left and right because he wanted his episode to be special.
The original idea was for Dean to be a total loser and a drunk in the alt!world, because it made sense to Kripke that without hunting he would be totally lost, and his only reason for wanting to stay would be because Sam was happy. He was talked out of that. People tried to talk him out of the distance between Sam and Dean, too, but he was stubborn on that point. He didn't want the episode to be like 7th Heaven.
The photos - they used Jensen's real prom photo and Jared's real graduation photo, and the rest were all photoshopped using real childhood pics. Kripke's favourite was the matching sweaters. They had way too much fun making that one.
Kripke: *talking about Jensen* He blew the doors off this episode, in my opinion. That kid is SO good. I mean, both of them are genius actors, and we get so much out of both of them. They're like working with surgical instruments, man.
Kripke told Jensen to play it like seeing his mom takes him right back to that 4-year-old kid. When you strip away his self-defense mechanisms of the snarking and fighting, this is the real Dean behind it all - a little boy who loves his mom. With turning Dean upside down like that and also the lack of his natural chemistry with Jared, Jensen kept saying he felt like he was falling down the rabbit hole with this episode, and Kripke would say, "Excellent! That's exactly what you should be feeling."
Kripke: He really delivered, and delivers again and again. They both do. It's... we're unbelievably lucky to have these two guys. They're raging pains in the ass, but great actors. I'm just kidding.
The professor scene was inserted late in the game because Dean only had himself to talk to while trying to figure it all out, and Kripke thought it was getting lame.
Kripke: My God, man, Vancouver rains like a mother!
He talked about how hard it is to hide the rain every time, and it's such an ourdoors show, so they're always filming in the mud. People complain about how dark the show is...
Kripke: "Can you make it brighter?" And we're like, "Yeah! Freakin' turn on the sun, man!"
The lawn mowing scene was the one exception, because it was bright and sunny that day, and only that day. People who complained about the darkness called and said that was what they'd wanted, thanks for finally doing it, and Kripke said, "Don't thank me, thank God." People thought he'd made a deal with the devil for it, because the one day they needed sunshine, they got it.
Kripke loves Friday Night Lights, which Adrianne Palicki stars in, but it was really hard to steal her away from them for a few days. They shot the episode for 5 days, shut down production for another 5 days and worked on 2x21, then when she became available they went back to 2x20 for 3 days and shot all of her scenes.
Having 3 beautiful women around made Kripke and Bob Singer question why they kept killing women off and only have 2 dudes around every day. Ha!
The production crew are used to building grimy old sets with a sense of danger and loneliness about them for this show, but for this ep they were told to make the most beautiful, warm, affectionate sets they'd ever seen. And they pulled it off.
Kripke called the show "a modern-day western with monsters." That's how they look at it as they're making it and designing the sets.
Kripke pointed out the "Supernatural troubled profile" at the end of the scene where Sam and Dean talk in Mary's house. He says to count how many scenes end with one of the boys giving a troubled profile to the camera. So true!
Kripke: That previous scene you just saw, that scene between Jared and Jensen where they don't have a connection as characters, it was really sort of charming, they took me aside afterwards and said, "That was really, really hard, because through all the hell you've been putting us through for two years, the one thing we have is our bond with each other, how tight we are with each other, and helping each other out. And when you all of a sudden walk up to us and play a scene, you say, 'Uh, you guys don't really like each other, and you don't have any history, and you don't have any subtext, and it's not like you're mean to each other, you're just strangers. So, you're strangers. Okay, action!'" That was really hard for them, that was really troubling for them. You know, they did a great job with it, but I think it... it sort of disturbed them in a way, because you were taking away the primary comfort they've had through two years of the hell we've put them through.
The studio wanted a Dean/Carmen sex scene, but Kripke couldn't justify it. Yay, IMO, because it would have seriously messed with the flow of the episode.
He talked about the long hours they work every day. As a writer he's always just thrown scripts up to them in Vancouver and told them to make it good, and calls himself "an insensitive bastard" for not listening to them when they'd say how hard some of the stuff would be to shoot on a TV schedule. When he directed for himself, he finally understood.
The cemetery scene - they put two cameras on Jensen and just let him go. Even the gruff ole grips were crying. The shot they used was the unbroken second or third take.
Kripke: He and Jared both make the rest of us look good. In a lot of ways, 90% of good filmmaking is casting, and damn did we luck out with these two guys.
Kripke got "obsessed" with recreating the pilot scene and matching angles, lighting, and music with the original.
He says a TV director's job is fitting 20 pounds of crap in a 10-pound bag, in other words trying to make a feature film in a fraction of the time. His plan for his first day of directing, for example, called for 30 hours of work, which they had to squeeze into 14 hours. It's a sprint.
The warehouse they used was used a lot in KyleXY.
This episode was edited by the same editor as BUABS, who loves flash-cuts.
The actor playing the djinn couldn't take his makeup off during filming. He was cool with it, but said it was impossible to get a cab, and he freaked people out in the supermarket. Kripke admired his dedication to his art.
He praised Raelle Tucker's amazing writing, especially the deep emotional exchanges, which Kripke says he sucks at.
Kripke: Watch this. See, look at this... (Dean leans into Mary's hand as she strokes his face for the last time) Look at that! This kid's so good, he breaks your heart!
Jess was blue-screened into that warehouse scene because she wasn't there the day they filmed it.
Kripke said they really made Jensen shove a knife into himself. "Sacrifice for your art. We had a paramedic standing by. And he pierced his heart, and 9 months of recovery later, he was back for the next episode." He said it so softly and earnestly, like he really meant it, LOL. Later on - "He didn't really do that, by the way, folks. It was a prosthetic chest that he stabbed his knife into. In case anyone was really gonna write me letters, or post their anger online. I read some of that stuff, and I'll be honest, it hurts my feelings sometimes!"
Kripke compared directing to a kid playing with a train set. Fun! But with lots of caffeine, no food or sleep, tons of stress, body starting to fall apart... but it's worth it.
He talked earnestly about how much it means to him that so many people work so hard on this show, it blows his mind. He thanked the fans, too, for being supportive... except some of those people online who know who they are. ;)
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Btw, in case anyone is watching these eps along with me, I thought I'd let you know that there's no way I can watch All Hell Breaks Loose part 1 without watching part 2 right after. Even after all this time, the wait would still drive me crazy, heh. So I'll be watching them both tonight and talking about them in the same post tomorrow.
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Date: 2010-07-06 01:44 am (UTC)I read some of that stuff, and I'll be honest, it hurts my feelings sometimes!
I wish more people understood that they do read this stuff and amazingly enough, they're real people with real feelings. Oh fandom, what am I going to do with you?
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Date: 2010-07-06 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-06 06:46 am (UTC)On AHBL - absolutely, you can't watch then separately; they are as dangerously codependent as Sam and Dean - and more heartbreak awaits...
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Date: 2010-07-06 07:39 pm (UTC)And yeah, it's impossible to watch What Is without crying, or at least tearing up every now and then. A more tissue-worthy episode does not exist!
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Date: 2010-07-07 01:41 am (UTC)I have to say, this is one more episode that proves A) how good of actors those two are, and B) that the characters are amazingly three-dimensional, real people.
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Date: 2010-07-07 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-07 03:11 pm (UTC)Watching this episode this morning, I had a totally shallow thought. ;P
Clearly, this was an illusion or dream of Dean's - both Carmen and Mary went to bed and got up in full eye makeup. ;)
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Date: 2010-07-07 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-07 09:05 pm (UTC)