However, as adored as Jensen seems to be by the entire cast and crew, I still find it unlikely that they'd create an entire episode just for him to direct. That may have been part of it, but I rather suspect that the writers are nowhere near as weary of Bobby as the audience has become, and thought it would be both fun and funny to have an episode that was all about him.
I tend to think that it was a combination of the fact that the writers still lurve Bobby, the Directing gig was a sweetner for Jensen and it gave Jared the time off the Js are so often heard agitating for.
I had some of the same problems with the Demon scene as you, but the torture aspect passed me by. On reflection you are completely right – it seems that torture is only bad when Dean does it.
There was a widespread rumor last year that Jensen's wedding was supposed to take place in Scotland, and part of me wonders if shipping Dean and Sam off to the Hebrides, of all places, wasn't some kind of inside joke.
I’ve pondered on the Scotland stuff myself – between the faux Campbell Clan, the trip there and the Highlander shout-outs it’s being kind of hammered home at the moment along with the stuff about souls and the paying of debts. Since the Campbells weren’t the MacLeod’s usual foes (that dubious pleasure goes to some of my own ancestors) I don’t think they’re setting up some sort of ancient feud, but I like your explanation better than my own of SG having family ties there.
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Date: 2010-10-17 10:20 am (UTC)I tend to think that it was a combination of the fact that the writers still lurve Bobby, the Directing gig was a sweetner for Jensen and it gave Jared the time off the Js are so often heard agitating for.
I had some of the same problems with the Demon scene as you, but the torture aspect passed me by. On reflection you are completely right – it seems that torture is only bad when Dean does it.
There was a widespread rumor last year that Jensen's wedding was supposed to take place in Scotland, and part of me wonders if shipping Dean and Sam off to the Hebrides, of all places, wasn't some kind of inside joke.
I’ve pondered on the Scotland stuff myself – between the faux Campbell Clan, the trip there and the Highlander shout-outs it’s being kind of hammered home at the moment along with the stuff about souls and the paying of debts. Since the Campbells weren’t the MacLeod’s usual foes (that dubious pleasure goes to some of my own ancestors) I don’t think they’re setting up some sort of ancient feud, but I like your explanation better than my own of SG having family ties there.