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Date Posted: 03:42:50 10/22/11 Sat
Author: kim
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Subject: JM and CC were delightful on SPN

Articles about it:

'Supernatural': Charisma Carpenter on her reunion with fellow 'Buffy' alum James Marsters
by Sandra Gonzalez

Tonight’s episode of Supernatural will feature a fandom clash of epic proportions as Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel alums Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters hit the small screen as a husband and wife witch team in an episode titled “Shut Up, Dr. Phil.” For Carpenter, who hadn’t shared a scene with Marsters since their days on the WB, it was an on-set reunion worth waiting for.

“We go way back,” she says. “It was fun to see an old friend on set and catch up on each other’s lives and talk about our kids, music, and books and talk about what it was like when we were working on this show and that show. It was a lot of intimate conversations about the old days. It was great.”

For fans who have been eagerly anticipating this episode ever since the announcement about the guest casting, Carpenter says it will be worth the wait. “She has some issues,” says the actress of her character, a scorned wife named Maggie, who unleashes her wrath on the town. “She’s a girl with issues and a lot of power, which is not a good combination,” she adds with a laugh. But as dark as the storyline gets at times, Carpenter assures, “There were a lot of funny moments in ‘Shut Up, Dr. Phil’ that were just a crack up. [Jensen Ackles] is quite good at the funny. It’s a special brand of talent to pull that off and [the cast and crew] do it so well.”

After years of being away from the, er, supernatural world, how was returning to a set similar to her old Buffy and Angel stomping ground? “Very easy,” says Carpenter. “It was like riding a bicycle. No trouble at all.” The only thing that didn’t come as easily? Getting back into the groove of learning foreign languages for spells.

“I was freaking out,” she says of the scene that required her to learn and recite Romanian dialogue after a tight schedule brought her practice time to nearly nothing. “I was literally on the brink of having a meltdown … I always have to put my best foot forward but there was just no time.” Luckily, she pulled it off, but it left her in admiration of what her co-stars have done for seven seasons. “Jensen had a two page Latin scene he had to recite while yelling at someone — it’s not easy this stuff. But they pull it off. It’s old hat after seven years, but I haven’t had to do that in ages. And Romanian! You can’t even fake an accent. I can fake Spanish and French. It’s just terrible. I’m sorry Romania, if you’re watching.”
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/21/supernatural-charisma-carpenter-buffy-james-marsters/


and from E!Online:

"Excuse me, I have to call everyone I have ever met. Right now."

This iconic line from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Cordelia Chase basically sums up our reaction when news broke that the CW's Supernatural would be staging a mini Buffy reunion, with James Marsters (Spike!) and Charisma Carpenter (Cordy!) guest starring as a wicked married couple going through a hostile divorce. (Buffy and Angel must be so jealous, by the way).

In honor of this joyous union between two cult favorite shows, we chatted with Carpenter about teaming up with Marsters and what it was like working with Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki.

Any other Whedonverse alums Carpenter keeps in touch with?

"Last year I went trick-or-treating at Aly's [Hannigan] house and we were together on Veronica Mars. I love seeing Nicky [Brendon], and Julie Benz and I are really close. I'll be in her wedding."

As for her character on Supernatural, Maggie, Carpenter describes her as "a very powerful witch with a bad temper" and says "she was an absolute doll and a lot of fun to play."

Of course we had to ask Carpenter what it was like working with Ackles and Padalecki, whom she calls "great."

"They are both from Texas...I guess they don't really have their accents anymore, but they are really laid-back and down-home and normal," Carpenter says. "Seven years on the same show, you don't always get that, so it was really nice for me."

The Buffy alums' appearance on Supernatural bridges together two of the biggest (and loudest) fan bases in TV history, and Carpenter says the response has been huge.

"It's been really enormous. It has been so positive," Carpenter gushes. "The fans are kind of the same, very die-hard, radical, fanatical and happy, not in a bad way, but just hellbent and true."

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[> JM and CC's character just got a free pass for murder -- ck, 04:53:43 10/22/11 Sat (NoHost/210.245.199.83)

JM and CC's character just got a free pass for murder

The wife witch murder a few people , and the husband witch murder a woman with magic.

They just got a free pass becuse the husband save the brother's life in the last few minute.


Just a few weeks ago Dean kill a nice monster lady , she only kill some people to save her son.

That doesn't seems fair

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[> [> Don't discount the Leviathan -- kim, 15:31:59 10/22/11 Sat (cpe-75-82-47-112.socal.res.rr.com/75.82.47.112)

Even if they came back to deal with the Starks, they still had to deal with the Leviathan immediately before it wakes up.

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[> hey, we give free passes to the -- Lewis H., 11:06:02 10/23/11 Sun (adsl-98-85-40-220.mco.bellsouth.net/98.85.40.220)

good looking vamps on Vampire Diaries all the time. Only ugly monsters should be killed. Cute monsters should be punished by being required to go shirtless, if male or wear lingerie if female. We'll take care of that right now





There, I'm sure they'll behave from now on or else we'll make them wear even more revealing items.

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[> Re: JM and CC were delightful on SPN -- chuckit25, 12:50:59 10/23/11 Sun (cpe-76-84-134-239.neb.res.rr.com/76.84.134.239)

First off. YOWZA. Um hmmmm. Your movie are good stuff! Reclaiming speech and some measure of grammar.

Supernatural is setting up the moral nature of killing and pre emptive killing in asking "what is someone's nature?" WHAT IS THAT? S&D--funny, admit it, are REALLY doing "guilt." Is it useful? Does it help sublimate the "impulsive" (natural) nature of someone? Afterall, it is basic Freud that sexual frustration long enough becomes sublimation aka "civilization."

Loved the surprise re James' character and that these two are hundreds of years old, even if "dealing with them" was not wrapped up in a bow, AND, their murders were "just" ignored. The idea that the mother monster having killed to save her child is "primal." We all kill to live, and "how far" would you go in saving your own child's life?

Well, Angel had no problem destroying LA to do it, and in fact season 8, the world itself; I won't begin to argue BUFFY SCREWED UP, despite what the writers say, as I have studied the myths on which season 8 is built. Western myths along the "kundalini" rarely rise above the 3rd cakra and there are 7. Season 8 "made it" to 6.

ANYWHO, the fact is proven that should the boy become sick again, the mother would kill again, and "the numbers" would be untold. THE FACT is that Sam and Dean may be seen as "justice" for past offenses, but ALSO do pre-emptive strikes. (Recall Giles saying Buffy wouldn't murder Ben, as she is a hero and doesn't take such actions: the future is NOT guaranteed).

HOWEVER, I don't think the murders are even the relevant subject. The guilt is in LYING to his brother in both trying to re-establish "pure" trust. I guess the murdered people get to haunt us for Hallow's eve, all for not complaining loud enough with the writers that THEY are the stars of the show and count more, being dead and all.

It was NOT a "tight" episode, but fun and I got to see a little of the comedic from CC--I felt vindicated! ha!

I think "body talk" did not cover over James' character as a "not Spike" person. He did a good job hiding the 'surprise' of his part in the partnership. And, they were actually pretty together, too. I thought CC would over power him in "extroversion," but she pulled it back into a sense of their world view as long, winding, tumultuous, yet comfortable and comforting.

IT WAS ODD that "walking away" from that pair was an option. Maybe the problem is in the nature of an IMMORTAL HUMAN thrown into the mix. No vomiting clouds of demon essence or souls or whatever.

It was a "patchwork" episode, but WHO CARES? Good times, yeah?

Be well
chuckit25

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