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"Who would vote for that?" (sez Jensen Ackles)... The hottest brothers on TV.
I was wondering the other day if the marked increase in brother stories was some kind of way to feature dudes-together and/or boddy-cop stories without having to worry overmuch about justiying the homosocial space (ie instead of forcing love interests, wives or girlfriends on the heroes). (Speaking of Heroes, according to the promos, it looks like Peter remembers some of the powers he picked up from Sylar. And has rage issues. *anticipates*)
But then I was also wondering about the possible connections between Victoriana, Edwardian graphic design and 60s psychadaelia, so maybe I should stop spending all day in the library. (Speaking of which, today I found an interesting book about disaster movies, which explained how traditional disaster movies have ensemble casts so you can play the "who survives" game, but 80s disaster movies are action-disaster movies with a smaller cast and a hero-villain split.)
ETA TV stuff
The best part of The Office was the visual quotation of Nosferatu. The best part of Supernatural was how the previouslies consisted entirely of snark. It was totally the "we're having way too much fun on set" episode. It's like they decided to "homage" all the crackiest X-Files episodes (and once again, Dean = Mulder and Sam = Scully) and crossed their fingers that Ackles and Padalecki could turn out performances to carry the episode. Lucky for them, they pulled it off.
They really do have too much fun on that show. (And what the hell was with the show turning into a Buffy ep for two minutes there at the end?)
Win #1: Wrestling for the money clip. LOVED Dean whipping the clip out of Sam's reach. Sam may be bigger, but Dean's quicker. And then they rolled about together on the bed.
Win #2: The Padalecki hair flip. That's the one thing about the New Hair. We've got a 7-foot-tall mutant psychic demon hunter who flips his hair. Emo-empath Petrelli I can understand doing the flip, but ol'Sammy? I know he's the sensitive one, but really. (Speaking of Heroes, according to the shows, Dean and Peter are like the same age.)
Also?: Hell is a Winchester car trip. Bobby needs to show up more often. Bobby and Claude from Heroes should get together and tell war stories about the prima donna-y dopes they have to work with. Papa Winchester is so forgiven for being a hard-ass if that's what the boys were like as moody teenagers.
I was wondering the other day if the marked increase in brother stories was some kind of way to feature dudes-together and/or boddy-cop stories without having to worry overmuch about justiying the homosocial space (ie instead of forcing love interests, wives or girlfriends on the heroes). (Speaking of Heroes, according to the promos, it looks like Peter remembers some of the powers he picked up from Sylar. And has rage issues. *anticipates*)
But then I was also wondering about the possible connections between Victoriana, Edwardian graphic design and 60s psychadaelia, so maybe I should stop spending all day in the library. (Speaking of which, today I found an interesting book about disaster movies, which explained how traditional disaster movies have ensemble casts so you can play the "who survives" game, but 80s disaster movies are action-disaster movies with a smaller cast and a hero-villain split.)
ETA TV stuff
The best part of The Office was the visual quotation of Nosferatu. The best part of Supernatural was how the previouslies consisted entirely of snark. It was totally the "we're having way too much fun on set" episode. It's like they decided to "homage" all the crackiest X-Files episodes (and once again, Dean = Mulder and Sam = Scully) and crossed their fingers that Ackles and Padalecki could turn out performances to carry the episode. Lucky for them, they pulled it off.
They really do have too much fun on that show. (And what the hell was with the show turning into a Buffy ep for two minutes there at the end?)
Win #1: Wrestling for the money clip. LOVED Dean whipping the clip out of Sam's reach. Sam may be bigger, but Dean's quicker. And then they rolled about together on the bed.
Win #2: The Padalecki hair flip. That's the one thing about the New Hair. We've got a 7-foot-tall mutant psychic demon hunter who flips his hair. Emo-empath Petrelli I can understand doing the flip, but ol'Sammy? I know he's the sensitive one, but really. (Speaking of Heroes, according to the shows, Dean and Peter are like the same age.)
Also?: Hell is a Winchester car trip. Bobby needs to show up more often. Bobby and Claude from Heroes should get together and tell war stories about the prima donna-y dopes they have to work with. Papa Winchester is so forgiven for being a hard-ass if that's what the boys were like as moody teenagers.
