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Kitt
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09-05-2000
| Wednesday, September 03, 2025 - 2:46 pm 
Sanfran, if you've left watching Countdown with Jensen until you can binge it, the finale aired today (or maybe yesterday to you).
Don't get put off by Jensen's lines in the first episode, they are a bit... contrived... maybe, but from the next episode onwards he gets regular person lines.
I'm not sure about the plot(s) or some of the writing, but it is a pleasure watching Jensen be so Dean-like, with Jensen/Dean mannerisms and humour. It's worthwhile watching it just for that.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 4:38 am
The 20th anniversary of the pilot episode is today!
A special with the boys at Entertainment Weekly:
https://ew.com/supernatural-reunion-20th-anniversary-jensen-ackles-jared-padalecki-misha-collins-exclusive-11807662
And a video version of the 20 questions part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5-zT3QD_MI
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-16-2000
| Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 10:31 am
"Sanfran, if you've left watching Countdown with Jensen until you can binge it"
I started it this week. I'll likely watch it all, but not really "binge" it one ep after another. It's okay, but I feel like I've seen it before...as if it came from a Hollywood special task force factory. Jensen is fine in it but this show doesn't really allow much of a range for him. To me, he's like toned down "Dean" but without a "Sammy" or the fun of monster hunting.
I just realized that after watching the first 3 or 4 episodes, I don't even remember any character's name! That's always a sure sign that a show just isn't grabbing me. I had a similar reaction with "Walker". The problem wasn't the actor(s), it was just the overused premises and plots.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-16-2000
| Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 10:42 am
" QUESTION 6: Name three essentials in any motel room set.
ACKLES: Partitions."
Ya know I don't remember noticing those when I originally watched it...took our binge to get my attention. 
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 11:52 am
Countdown never grabbed me, right the way through. It got a lot of positive attention at first, but a lot of the reviews haven't been kind, so I think it will be touch and go whether it will be renewed. It's always telling when a show ends and there isn't a renewal announcement within a few days.
Walker though... I loved that. Jared in it was so needy but tried so hard, it touched all my buttons.
Somewhere in a storage cupboard somewhere will be all those partitions... waiting .
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-16-2000
| Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 2:29 pm
Hey, there should be a Supernatural Museum! They could display everything from those partitions to Paris Hilton's head!
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 3:08 am
I'd certainly visit!
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:17 am
Countdown has been cancelled. That's two Jensen new series cancelled at the end of S1, hope they don't start passing on him for the lead.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-16-2000
| Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 12:16 pm
I still haven't gotten to ep 2 of Countdown. I haven't totally rejected it but every time I wanted to watch something, there was always some other show that appealed to me a lot more.
However, I must admit that Countdown didn't feel like something "new" to me. It felt like I was watching any one of a dozen other cop shows.
edited to add - I just read up a few posts and I see that I must've already seen several eps. The fact that I only remember starting it says a lot about how it never pulled me in.
Jensen would've been great in Farscape! He does well in unique shows.
Btw, are you still watching Farscape? If so, what season are you on now?
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 7:47 am
Yeah, the show itself wasn't... special. But I think it did probably showcase Jensen's ability to physically portray everything he is feeling in a really believable way, which might have caught some people's eye, or reminded them (I noticed Supernatural is on the "popular" list again on our Amazon, for example). He was definitely the best part of the show... although perhaps I am a little biased ;).
Yes! Still watching Farcsape, but slowly. We are half way into Season 3 watching with my hubby, and I am at the beginning of Season 2 re-watching by myself, because I always fall asleep in the evenings watching together. Not the best strategy as it's all a bit confusing with the various stages of Scorpius, but it does stop me missing things. We tried to wait on the together watching until I caught up, but I was too slow at that too, as once again, keep falling asleep.
Maybe one day I will go back to be able to get a full night's sleep and be a relatively normal functional human being.
Oh, was shocked that a certain blue person is no more!! I kept thinking that would be fixed, but at least so far it hasn't been. I am not keen on the screaming woman who's her replacement. Actually not keen on the whole section where Crichton is too messed up by Scorpius to function. We're mostly past that now, but it was tough.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-16-2000
| Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 10:29 am
"I am not keen on the screaming woman who's her replacement."
I liked Jool, especially her insane ability to get upset and scream like a banshee....which causes metal to melt! lol I never thought of her as a "replacement" of Zhaan though. Nobody could replace our favorite blue plant priestess. She's just an addition to the cast at a sad time and there will be more... Jool also grows and loses some of her obnoxious mean entitled girl attitude.
Btw, at first I hated that she was gone and then I learned that Virginia Grey had a good reason for leaving. All the beautiful blue makeup was causing her to develop health issues according to some sources but this is Virgina Hey's explanation:
Why did Virginia Hey (Zhaan) leave Farscape?
https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/24613/
As for Supe's Mr Ackles...he's still "Soldier Boy" on The Boys, although we still have to wait for "sometime in 2026" for the next season. I don't know if it's good or bad that Jensen's work is best when he's playing a role in some other kind of world. He just seems more boring as a typical hard headed cop in a typical cop show. He belongs in an "out of this world" world. Yeah I'm type casting him but he seems a bit too special to play a boring cop. It might be fun to see him in a "American Psycho" type role.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-16-2000
| Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 10:32 am
PS - I'm glad you're enjoying Farscape after all my insistence that you try it!
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 12:58 pm
Thanks for the link, wow, I hadn't noticed the shaved eyebrows, I assumed they were covered. That would be the worse thing, as she could have worn a wig for hair. Definitely would have taken quite a toll.
Many of the Star Trek characters have spoken about how long it takes in makeup, and that they had only a few hours sleep after late filming, and 5am calls. It's hard to blame her for wanting to go.
Yes, Jensen didn't really stand out on Big Sky as a regular Sheriff. And on Tracker I like him a lot, but that's because I think of him as kind of a real-world tame version of Dean. It must be hard to shake off a tv character you spent probably the 15 most significant years of your life becoming, in terms of shaping your own (real life) character, I'm not sure any tv character would seem as fulfilling. Maybe he can keep getting short seasons of interesting unique characters to entertain us and top up his Supe funds .
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