Sorry. This'll be brief. I'm having a bad morning, but I had a bad morning last installment too.
Anyway, what I think this chapter captures well is how since Jensen developed a disability, he doesn't have the same level of privacy he had before. Given that Jensen doesn't seem like a "Talk about your feelings" guy, having to deal with all this emotional crap and being unable to do it in private must be driving him nuts. Jeff gets stuck in this horrible position of trying to be supportive while all Jensen wants is not to have his emotional crap hit the fan with a frakking audience, and the irony of it is that that's the last thing he's going to get.
I do think that the story has a fair amount of flexibility based on the fact that Jensen is already an established star, and Hollywood tends to be kinder to actors with disabilities who are already stars when they become people with disabilities, as opposed to actors with disabilities who are just starting their careers. Eric Kripke and Robert whatshisface seem to have a lot of loyalty, but I wonder if the network will be as understanding. I suspect that a lot of it would have to do with how successful the series was at the time of the accident and how much it would cost to keep filming with Jensen, and how much pull Kripke et. al. had at the time. (The timing of this is weird, as I was just talking about a play in which the question of the casting of actors with disabilities to play characters with disabilities was being discussed. Timely.)
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Date: 2008-05-05 02:54 pm (UTC)Anyway, what I think this chapter captures well is how since Jensen developed a disability, he doesn't have the same level of privacy he had before. Given that Jensen doesn't seem like a "Talk about your feelings" guy, having to deal with all this emotional crap and being unable to do it in private must be driving him nuts. Jeff gets stuck in this horrible position of trying to be supportive while all Jensen wants is not to have his emotional crap hit the fan with a frakking audience, and the irony of it is that that's the last thing he's going to get.
I do think that the story has a fair amount of flexibility based on the fact that Jensen is already an established star, and Hollywood tends to be kinder to actors with disabilities who are already stars when they become people with disabilities, as opposed to actors with disabilities who are just starting their careers. Eric Kripke and Robert whatshisface seem to have a lot of loyalty, but I wonder if the network will be as understanding. I suspect that a lot of it would have to do with how successful the series was at the time of the accident and how much it would cost to keep filming with Jensen, and how much pull Kripke et. al. had at the time. (The timing of this is weird, as I was just talking about a play in which the question of the casting of actors with disabilities to play characters with disabilities was being discussed. Timely.)