What a long, sad trip it's been

I, for one, am very glad to hear that Jensen has backpedaled on his now-infamous comments about the direction of Season Six.

I have labored mightily to gain mastery over my crush on Jensen Ackles. I have managed to do so primarily by telling myself that pretty though he might be, he's probably as dull as a slice of Wonder Bread. Then out of nowhere, there was suddenly this new incarnation of Jensen Ackles. Feisty!Jensen! Rebel!Jensen! Shitstirring!Fanboy!Jensen! fighting for his character and the show! Defying the powers that be! Boldly airing dirty laundry in public! Good God! This Jensen challenged all my previous assumptions about Jensen! Who was this beautiful man with the moxie and the passion and the using words like "chagrin"?!

I'm aware that all of this may have been part of an incredibly deft strategy to exert influence over Sera Gamble, which would make him rather alarmingly clever on top of being passionate about his work and of course, stunning to look at. But I prefer to go with the interpretation that Jensen is back on message and is once again the good boy. Now all I need are some shots of him at a golf tournament, preferably wearing an argyle sweater-vest while his apple-cheeked wife sits in the stands looking like she came straight from a Young Republicans of America fundraiser. Then I'll be good to go.

(h/t to mangokulfi for pointing me to agt_spooky's transcript)

...if Jensen has kept up a relationship with Raelle Tucker, because if he continues to be unhappy with what the show is doing with Dean, then I'm sure she could find a slot for him on True Blood. Of course, a role on True Blood more or less requires an actor to be comfortable with a) being bucky-tail stark naked in a variety of situations (q.v. Sam Merlotte) and b) simulating explicit sex at least once per season (q.v. everyone on the show).

I'm also wondering what I could trim from my expenses in order to upgrade to an HBO subscription if this should ever come to pass. Because there's no way I could ever wait a whole year to catch that action on DVD.

Can anyone confirm whether it's true that Jeremy Carver has left Supernatural?

I hope it's not true because he was pretty much the last writer on that team that I had any faith in.