Tag: desire

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minorkeepsakes:

Fan: I don’t understand what’s going on with Dean and Amara – I’m so confused!

Jensen: Me too!

He went on to say that the writers were at first going down a path of attraction and desire, but that didn’t make sense to him – it made more sense that Dean would be confused.

Jensen: It’s something he’s unable to put a name to. In a scene coming up, I play it like he’s in shock and awe, like he’s powerless. The script said desire, but luckily it was Phil and he agreed with me – it’s not something you can put a word on like that, it’s not lust or desire.

–https://fangasmthebook.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/houscon-jared-and-jensen-meet-and-greet-tidbits/

Honestly, if Jensen didn’t have this kind of influence and pull, I probably wouldn’t be watching the show anymore. I can’t imagine how badly that scene at the end of “Love Hurts” would have sucked if he hadn’t put his foot down. Not to mention that the tone of all the subsequent episodes would be entirely different as well.

Clearly, part of this is about protecting his own character, and bless Jensen for that, so hard. But what’s amazing is that this is also about defining what the Darkness is, what this power is. So this isn’t just about Jensen changing a line in the script so that Dean sounds more in-character. This is Jensen making a pretty serious decision about an element of the plot that is connected to Dean but not entirely internal to him. It’s about understanding the nature of the Darkness, and how desire could never come from this kind of emptiness. Pretty weighty philosophical stuff, that the writers were quite prepared to dumb down to the equivalent of a tropey love spell. 

Seriously. Not to mention though he doesn’t say so, the noncon aspect played as love or desire is not cool. And good on him for questioning that.