//I am so tired of the Jensen is perfect rhetoric , someone on another blog has just called him an ethereal angel ffs ! //
I inclined to still like Jensen. I certainly think he’s made mistakes and he’s not as "humble" or "caring" as some of his fans have bought into. But, I can relate to him in some ways, at least I can understand some of his actions even if I don’t agree with them. And I don’t think every nice every nice thing he says or does is calculated or fake. And I do think he truly cares about Jared, but his ego can get in the way at times.
Anyway, I enjoy him, or enjoyed him, as Dean Winchester (until like season 13 where he’s an asshole). I thought he did a decent job as Alec in DA, comparable or better than lots of that cast anyway. And looking back, I even enjoyed him as Beau Arlen in BS because he still showed some charm and charisma in that role, imo. He was still like a Dean variant, but one I found sort of charming and likeable. On the other hand, I think he was boring and not particulary likable in Countdown, and I think his Soldier Boy was super one note, not helped by the writing, and even in Season 3 I didn’t find him that compelling, more amusing in an asshole way.
Anyway, all of this to say that I agree about the over-hyping and people thinking he is perfect being tired. It’s so annoying, and honestly baffling. He’s so very clearly not perfect. If so many of the SPN fandom could just acknowledge that he’s not always bringing his A-Game then the things they do praise him for that are actually decent wouldn’t be so annoying. And let’s not normalize heaping praise on really unremarkable stuff, like him eating in a scene or the stupid perfect man tear.
He’s certainly not a rockstar because he doesn’t sing on key way too often for that label. I actually feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I watch him perform a song, cringing at several off notes, that see fans wetting themselves over his performance, claiming it’s not fair he’s so perfect, that he can do everything so well. My guy/girl, he didn’t sing on key consistently, and yelling his way through a song is not only not an indication of perfection, it’s an indication that he’s not even a particularly proficient singer. Now I don’t think he’s alway off, even in more recent years, I have enjoyed his performance of some songs, but there are more misses than hits imo.
And his dancing in season 15 was basic as hell. People out here calling the man a triple (or more) threat, and the dude isn’t even a double-threat. 🤷♀️
It drives me crazy that people say Jared’s acting went down hill in later seasons, but can’t see that Jensen's did too. I have to be honest, I think both could still bring it in certain scenes, but I also think both phoned some things in or played them over the top, or just couldn’t make themselves care about a scene. This notion that it’s just accepted that Jensen was the best thing to come out of SPN, or carried the show is so obnoxious. You pair that with people calling him perfect for the bare minimum, and it’s truly frustrating.
Jensen as a person to me isn’t awful, just a typical actor with an ego. Most of them are like this especially when they’ve been praised too much and gotten their way too often. His biggest issue with me honestly is more that he’s just not interesting. He doesn’t stand out, he doesn’t have any conviction, I don’t know what he even cares about or who he even is, he repeats the same character on less interesting projects. It’s just…meh. Nothing special to me.
I never know what people are talking about. There are far more talented and interesting actors that have real personalities. Jensen has to often mirror people around him because he hasn’t developed his own sense of self. He digs into Dean Winchester and uses him to hide behind. I bet no one can describe Jensen Ackles to me without using Dean Winchester.
In terms of SPN, I thought he was fine. In the late seasons I really felt it went downhill. People that think otherwise just think over the top acting is good and subtle acting is bad. He was quite hammy on multiple occasions, the tap dancing and karaoke was embarrassing. There is a joke that he was using season 15 as his audition reel because he seemed to be more showing off than being in character. That’s how off his acting in that season was. He even forgot how to be the character entirely with the prequel. I think he was more lucky from spn than some wonderful talent that was discovered from it. Or you would have seen his shows do better.
