How did J2 feel about Misha misbehaving with Jared on stage?
One of my awesome doll faces sent me this interesting question about the above gif:
Thought you might find this interesting. This is probably the first thing that gave me a very bad vibe about Misha. The first part is what I’m talking about, how Misha behaved and then Jensen. Misha is just so gross and completely violates Jared and makes both of J2 uncomfortable and Jensen especially just looks upset. I thought he was actually going to walk off stage. Watch the video, it’s very cringy and made me actually upset. Let me know what you think.
Thank you to doll face, for that ever-so-awesome question which I had to crop slightly. Apologies for that. Now, remember, I am not a shipper. I am a slash fiction fan [there is a difference] so I will not let me sexual fantasies govern how I interpret this.
For those five sad creatures in fandom who still haven’t seen the footage, what have you been doing, hunny? I am helpfully providing a link here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IqeQ8vSiDQ
So they were all signing shirts to be auctioned off for charity. Misha chose to sign Jared, doggy-style. SMH. Jared takes the time to do a spot of cleaning because he had thrown candy wrappers all over the floor. He blushes and laughs when he stands up to his full height. If you look at the footage, Jensen looks away, very scandalized. He even shoots out of his chair and goes to the farthest part of the stage, the minute Jared approached him. When Jensen gets back, he still keeps his distance from both Jared and Misha and says [although the audio is not totally clear] “I don’t want to be a part of this”. Even as the auctioning starts, Jensen hovers around the stage uncomfortably, before giving up and perching himself on the seat farthest away from the other two. Now for the analysis.
Misha is attracted to none of the men on that stage. He is not gay. He is a straight, sexual deviant. He likes females, young and stupid being his preference, hence his wacky fan base. However, what ever he does on stage is communication for his fans. Misha calculates his moves with his fans. He wants to arouse a bunch of them simultaneously without doing it manually, if you understand what I mean. So throwing inappropriate shipping nonsense like this, out there [kid friendly audience or not] is one way he does it. He also wants to communicate that he is the Alpha. If he is on stage with someone, he wants sexual power over them. That is why usually he doesn’t prefer people like Jared and Sebastian, because they are not fazed by his antics and are also sexually outspoken. He doesnt even want Robbie, because when he kissed Rob once, on the mouth, Rob just kissed him back. Even at this moment, Jared blushed but didn’t scurry away from Misha’s grasp. That is why he plopped himself back into his seat afterwards. He didn’t expect Jared to just laugh about it. Jensen’s reaction is probably why he chooses Jensen. Jensen gets uncomfortable and that gives him power. That is why his fans consider him to be the Alpha is the Jensen/Misha pairing. He puts himself in that position.
There is a scene where Casifer is speaking to all the fledgling angels who are petrified of their demonic older brother. That is the closest Misha came to playing a character similar to his own because he really went all out for it. At one point, he very nonchalantly straddles one of the kids. And that poor kid is so uncomfortable that he almost never raises his eyes to make eye contact with Misha. That was not scripted. Misha told nobody he was going to do that. That includes the kid he was straddling. And the discomfort shows on the poor kid’s face. Then Misha gets up and ruffles the lapel on a blond kid’s coat. And for a split second, you see dread in the kid’s eyes, the minute Misha touches him. When another actor says “evil incarnate”, and Misha approaches him, the kid flinches backwards as if petrified that Misha is going to straddle him or something similar. Misha was in his element. He loves that. Notice how there is no gag reel for this scene. Nobody was having fun. Nobody laughed. The straddling was done once and the cast didn’t react. So the scene when on.
There’s the link for anyone who hasn’t seen it, or who had blocked it out of their memory. The hellers were gushing over it. Misha is so “gay and funny”. SMH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zIgwK28E5k
In his TSA short movie, Just Relax [which he co-penned], he put himself in a position of sexual power over the actor who was supposed to be Jensen’s stand-in. In the gas station scene where Cas went to buy pie for Dean, grabbing the kid at the counter was not in the script. The kid was not notified of Misha’s plans, so his reaction is authentic. Misha really likes doing that a lot. See, what I mean by sexual power.
Jared is also straight, but unlike Jensen, he is less shy about his body, touching and being touched. I hate when people use the words “sexually comfortable”, because it automatically gives foolish people the impression that anyone who is opposite to that is prejudiced. No, they are not. They just don’t want anyone to touch them unless there is some familiarity, thank you very much. Jared also engages his fans, from a slash point of view. But there is a difference between him and Misha. Look at the gif. Jared stumbled ever so slightly while Misha was bending him over. That means that Jared was not made aware of what Misha was going to do. This goes back to Misha and his need for sexual power. He wanted to take Jared by surprise, so he was controlling the situation.
Notice, that Misha hasn’t really done that again since. Because no matter what, Misha is a straight man, and he is afraid Jared will take that as a cue to “make the next move”. Never dare Jared Padalecki. Misha doesn’t want that. Remember, the gag reel in a previous season, where Jared grabbed Misha and pretended to kiss him. And Misha screamed his annoying signature high-pitched voice. I cant stand that sound. That is what Misha doesn’t want. He doesn’t want a tall, broad guy like Jared having that kind of power over him. He wants to be the Alpha. Remember Honocon, when Jared was speaking like Mark S and caressing Misha. Go watch it again. Misha got uncomfortable. He doesn’t have sexual power over Jared and he knows it.
Another difference between Jared and Misha is that Misha takes liberties with other people’s bodies whether he is familiar with them or not. Jared has common sense. He plays pranks on his co-workers, sure. But he doesn’t make them uncomfortable to the point where they don’t make eye contact. Take the tattoo scene with Alex. In the gag reel, he is seductively caressing a grinning Alex’s chest before Jensen gigglesnorts and triggers a laugh attack from the younger actor. Alex, until that point, has known Jared for about two weeks [unless you count promo work during hiatus] and is comfortable with him. He is not flinching during the whole scene. He is just laughing and blushing. Side note: Alex has an adorable laugh. Before using a gag reel, SPN editors ask an actor’s permission to use a gag clip. Alex said yes. Jared made him laugh. He didn’t make Alex feel uncomfortable.
Unlike Misha, Jared doesn’t force people to think he has sexual power. He sort of just does. The only thing that bothers him, is that pesky depression. I find it insulting when people think Jared is physically and sexually weak because of depression. Shame on you. But other than that, sexually Jared is not a man you want to dare. He shares his body generously, especially if he knows you. One thing to note here, is that Jared doesn’t sexually cross boundaries with Jensen, whom he loves the most from all his co-stars. Well, not in public anyway. According to BuddyTV, whilst rehearsing an argument scene between Dean and Sam, during Season 2, both Js suddenly stopped and started leaning in, very seductively, to kiss each other. The director yelled cut and told the giggling scoundrels to “do it properly this time”. So why did Jensen get so angry when Misha bent Jared over on stage?
If I guess correctly, Jensen is exactly like me. Remember, the Vancon where Richard was not available to MC the event and the Wayward whatevers took over? Remember their sexual display in front of Jared, Jensen and Rob? I hated that sequence. That is one of my favorite cons, because of Jared and that cardboard cutout, amongst other things. So I always re-watch it and I always skip that bit. I don’t want to see that. Two reason why. First, Kim and Brianna overdid it. The joke carried on for too long especially with children in the audience. Second, I am a straight woman. Their display neither aroused me or interested him. I watch porn. I watch gay and straight porn but the men have to be beautiful. I am not going to sin with ugly men, thank you very much. I don’t watch girl on girl. I don’t like it. And to have an exhibitionist do that right in front of my face, will tick me right off.
Jensen got irritated because he doesn’t need to see that expletive right in front of his face, and in a public setting no less. When he realized that Jared was not at fault, he signed his autograph over Jared’s chest with a smile. After all, Misha took the choice out of Jared’s hands. But Misha didn’t get that courtesy. Jensen constantly reminds Misha [and his hellers in fact] that “this is a family show”. Even Jared respects that rule and keeps his humor playful and without swearwords. I noticed that with the Wayward whatevers Jensen just acknowledged that they were “different”, he involuntarily enjoyed it [he is a straight man after all] but he didn’t appreciate the display in that type of setting, because they were in public. Jared seemed a little more uncomfortable with their display, ducking his head and turning away from them. I think Jensen was able to school his facial features more than Jared, but both disapproved to a certain extent. They are married men after all. If Misha was there, he would have joined it.
Jensen is just like me sexually. He is not a prude, he appreciates slash fiction for exactly what it is, but he doesn’t like vulgarity and exhibitionism. He does make dirty penis jokes with Jared, but they are not so over-the-top that you regret attending the con with a younger person. Jensen is more shy that Jared is, especially around strangers. Jensen is known for keeping his private life private [well he used to], which is why he cringed when Danneel said “this is where the magic happens.” when referring to their bedroom. That is not a part of his life he wants to share with fans because unlike Misha, Jensen is actually a gentleman. Jensen is not trying to be an Alpha. His body language and baritone voice betrays him. I think Jensen actually tries to be a big brother or nurturer to other people. The Alpha thing is sort of accidental, just like with Jared.
Like me, Jensen doesn’t like to strip down in front of cameras. Jensen, just like me, can be very provocative with the right person. He once took a ripped shirt photo with Jared and Sebastian. They was trying to make deep cleavage shirts. The deep cleavage idea belongs to Jensen. He will never do that on stage though because he doesn’t want the cons to go from family shows to something vulgar. Jensen, like me, doesn’t want to be crass and use cuss words during conversations. If he is asked to speak about sex, I think he will speak about it very intelligently, without making it childish [like Jared would] or filthy [like Misha would]. Jensen was extremely succinct and accurate whilst discussing wincest. It shows that he not only understands sex but also women and how the mind of a woman works.
I hope this answered your question sweetie. If anyone disagrees, kindly let me know. After all, it is just an opinion. Sincere apologies for this long post.