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Talking about why this scene was rewritten/cut. Says he would get notes saying they know what the subtext is, bury it, use language less to the core but he wants to go straight to the core. Says its still clear Castiel is totally ride or die by Dean. He has to show it not tell it.
You were not crazy, folks, and I need to lie down.
let's all talk about supernatural. i'll start. in 2009 kim manners told misha collins it was gay to sit on a bed. due to the lack of distance. he was right. and misha collins did it anyway. what followed was 12 years of television subject to different directors writers and actors all with different opinions on the subject of whether or not dean and castiel were gay. because of this rotating list of minds and directions the messages you receive are varied. but crucially. there is groundwork laid in closeups. standing five feet apart in bobby's kitchen filmed as if they're face to face. across the room from each other in tmwwbk but cuts between close up to close up. now you could easily argue that camerawork that rejects this method is trying to convey a different message of less empathy. but. we are not working only with camera work that conveys distance. we're working with a foundation of intimate conversations filmed as intimate closeups . followed by intimate conversations filmed with yards and yards between them. for an amv i was trying to use the s8 talk where cas is sitting on the bed and dean walks over sits down and says talk to me and i eventually had to scrap it because they're never in the same frame. i was going frame by frame in that scene trying to get maybe three seconds where you can see both of them but you never can. in the scene where dean sits a foot away and asks. what's wrong. you can tell me. you can talk to me. and cas proceeds to bare his soul. which is one of two things: bad directing, or purposeful directing. bad directing requires us to operate under the assumption that people who work on supernatural are bad at their jobs (likely). purposeful directing requires us to operate under the assumption that people who work on supernatural are good at their jobs, and given an intimate conversation, looked for ways to dilute the emotion in it, and did so. this is also likely. when supernatural shows me castiel telling dean i love you, and does it with shoddy camerawork, they are practicing tell not show. they are turning to the camera and telling me. this means nothing. disregard this. dont you see how they're a good court length apart from each other. doesn't this distance make you feel like you should interpret this with a platonic lens. but what they are showing me. is castiel telling dean winchester. i love you. which comes across even through the janky disjointed shots. the diluted effect still has an outsized emotional impact. so my takeaway is not. well i guess this means nothing. it is. i see the tricks you are trying to use on me. and they dont work on me because i know how to interpret storytelling and i'm not young and shiny and stupid. my takeaway is . wow. dean and cas., are in love for real, and they put it on my screen, and i am going to plant dynamite in director richard speight's home
happy one year anniversary to jackles proving once and for all that he is thee most unhinged supernatural actorman and deangirl
here comes my lame ass birthday boy you better clap or i'll blow this whole place up
he’s 45, dude
misha collins, salute to supernatural (creation entertainment), new jersey, 2022 / spn 5x04 “the end” / stands (april 25th, 2022) / this post by @casgirl / misha collins (april 26th, 2022) / cemetry gates, the smiths / lament for icarus, herbert james draper / litany in which certain things are crossed out, richard siken / brokeback mountain dir. ang lee (2005) / nice dream, radiohead
one of the most compelling parts of supernatural to me is dean seeing cas and addressing him as an equal, literally what does that do to someone that has existed inside a hierarchy that implicitly looks down on everyone beneath you in the hierarchy and everyone outside of it, every time i see a complaint that dean treats cas like he's a person and not like an angel i'm like yeah exactly that's the point, that's the thing that's compelling, he doesn't pray to cas because he worships him, he prays to cas because he knows he'll be heard, that's his friend, they are the same in every way that matters
actually supernatural is about sam putting his giant hand on eileen’s face
Happy 3 years to this particular image from my camera roll
the people of 2005 were really defending dean's right to be bisexual btw
#bisexualism identified immediately by the good people of 2005 #he's literally always been like this (via @ilarual)
people from that country are so cool
Supernatural fans are next level in terms of brain worms. Someone will be like "well we all know the show's production designer Jerry Wanek and how he named the Margiekugel beer that Sam and Dean drink after his mother and so you can see them drink this beer during family bonding scenes--" and everyone is nodding like "yes we are familiar with Wanek and his beer symbolism"
people who aren't spn fans probably think that is just some nonsense example you made up to illustrate your point like glup shitto instead of 100% real and accurate
so you know how the first use of mansplain was on a spn livejournal comment
Ten Years. You're not crazy. I might be though.
