Posts Tagged ‘ Supernatural ’

I appear to be short a blog post this morning, unfortunately.

This is a shame as there’s a lot I want to blog about…

Lost, and how much I’m enjoying this season, where I think it’s going and what’s bugging me about the Man In Black. Oh, and that I’m maybe thinking about doing something kind of big and kind of cool when it’s all over.

Fringe, and (again) how much I’m enjoying this season, and what’s bugging me about all this alternate world stuff.

Supernatural, how much I love it and why I only watch it on DVD so I’m years behind.

Doctor Who, why I wasn’t sold on it when it relaunched, how I’ve come round to it slowly, and what I think of the new Doctor and the first episode of the new season.

Torchwood, now that I’ve watched it all.

And that’s just on the TV side, not even counting comics…

How the characters that returned in Blackest Night weren’t worth the characters that died.

Why I’ve bought the Fantastic Four through every crappy creative team in the past twenty-plus years, and yet the pretty-much universally acclaimed Jonathan Hickman’s run has it on the chopping block.

Which other ‘Forever‘ branded books I want in light of New Mutants Forever being announced.

What else I’m on the verge of cutting, but what trades I’ve got on preorder.

Why I loved Criminal, yet was disappointed in Incognito.

Then there’s books that I want to recommend, movies I want to recommend – and things that I really, deeply want to not recommend but warn people away from.

So there’s a lot around that I want to blog about, I just need to get around to it.

I also need to get around to answering some Formspring questions – just as soon as I get a few more…

According to THR and, oh, everywhere, the future Captain America is amongst these actors; and since they are all apparently on a 30 day holding contract pending casting, it sounds pretty real:

Mike Vogel

Age: 30
Height: 5′ 10″
Pros: Pretty, in Cloverfield, in She’s Out of My League which looks pretty funny, turned down role of Angel in X-Men 3.
Cons: Pretty, in Cloverfield, short (well, same as me).

Michael Cassidy

Age: 26
Height” 6′
Pros: Was in Smallville and The O.C.. Tall.
Cons: Was crap in Smallville and The O.C.. Not blonde. A bit young.

Patrick Flueger

Age: 26
Height: 6′
Pros:Virtual unknown with no baggage in spite of being in The 4400, blonde, right height range.
Cons: Virtual unknown, a bit young, looks like a smug arse in this picture.

Scott Porter

Age: 30
Height: 6′
Pros: Awesome in Friday Night Lights (which is also awesome), was front runner for Superman in that botched JLA movie, looks the part, can sing and dance a bit.
Cons: Was front runner for Superman in that botched JLA movie.

Wilson Bethel

Age: 26
Height: 6′.
Pros: Virtual unknown, was in Generation Kill which is apparently pretty good, right height range.
Cons: Virtual unknown, bit skinny, scary eyebrows.

Chace Crawford

Age: 24
Height: 6′
Pros: Pretty, is in Gossip Girl, which isn’t exactly a pro, but worked for Blake Lively on the superhero front and was all I could think of.
Cons: Pretty, too young, is in Gossip Girl, is Chace Crawford.

John Krasinski

Age: 30
Height: 6’3″
Pros: Plenty tall, could bulk up, can act, has fanbase.
Cons: Has huge amounts of preconceptions and baggage, may be too comedic a draw, will break internet in half and lead to even more ‘Steve Carrell as Red Skull, Rainn Wilson as Baron Von Strucker’ jokes than we’ve had in the past day.

Apparently in the running but with scheduling conflicts:

Garrett Hedlund

Age: 25
Height: 6′ 1.5″
Pros: Plenty tall, virtual unknown with no baggage, is in Tron Legacy.
Cons: Looks a bit weedy, virtual unknown, bad hair.

Jensen Ackles

Age: 31
Height:6’1″
Pros: Pretty, right height, can act, was in Smallville and, of course, is Dean Goddamn Winchester and really that should be enough.
Cons: If by ‘scheduling’ issues they mean, ‘is shooting Supernatural season six’ then that’s a pretty big problem. Otherwise, not a one.

Of the listed contenders, I know who I’d prefer (Ackles or, failing that, Porter) but is this a real list, or is it just a smokescreen to cover for someone inexplicably not on the latest list, but was mentioned earlier:

Ryan McPartlin

Age: 34
Height: 6’3″
Pros: Is Awesome in Chuck, literally.
Cons: May be too Awesome.