Sunday, March 8, 2020

Winter/Spring Musings - The 2019 Padalecki Pickle and Liam Payne Please, But Hold the Mayo Pt 1 of 5


It had been so long since I anchored this particular post,


that I had to do some major editing to the opening because it was about the anticipation of Thanksgiving.  LOL! Good grief.  It's almost like learning how to walk again.  Okay, it's not quite that bad.  Just feels like it.

But speaking of post-holidays, it brings to mind a couple of actors who seem to have been on holiday most of this filming season thus far - Jared and Jensen.  But on that rare day when one of the OTP twosome is working, one could pay a visit to the Supernatural filming set and this could be a live spotting of Mr. Jared Padalecki:




Narnia wouldn't be surprised if he was always looking over his shoulder to see who's going to throw him off and then under that bus next.  Now, while we jest a wee bit, it's not that far off the mark, why?  Because a strong narrative like a "rotator cuff injury/broken arm" requires Jared to be given a heads up on what's coming around the bend.  And he and Jensen, because they're a package deal, sign off on these given narratives.  The latest "Jared skewered over the fire pit" roasting, without a doubt, has to be the crowning briquette in a stack of Kingsford narratives his and real life partner Jensen Ackles' team have heaped upon the tall, lanky actor.

 

















Listed in no particular date order, let's take a look at just a few of these briquettes.

• May 2012 - Jared cancelled his appearances at 1) Asylum8 Convention in Birmingham, UK, 2) AECON3 (Germany), AND 3) the Apocalypse Con in Paris, France due to:

"...being away from the baby has been tough and therefore, Jared is unable to attend the May events hosted by Rogue Events in the UK and Germany. While we are very disappointed at the decision we have to understand that Jared has just recently become a father for the first time and obviously this decision has not been taken lightly" [edit.] - source: thewinchesterfamilybusiness.com.

These cancellations would occur following Tom Padalecki's birthday which is supposed to be March 19, 2012.  And oh look, it appears that Jensen Ackles wasn't scheduled for Apolcalypse either. Hmmm...


•  April 19, 2013 - Jared vs. American Airlines.


• May 24, 2014 - Jared allegedly breaks his arm/shoulder/rotator cuff (depending on the source which anatomy part) during some "horseplay" amongst many of the celebrity guests, with the main "break-er" being Supernatural guest star, Osric Chau. Handler Clif Kosterman allegedly "re-sets" Jared's shoulder two times and the lead star is "unable" to fulfill the remainder of Saturday's events, although he is seen in a photo taken after a group dinner later that evening. He returns to the convention on Sunday with a makeshift sling made out of a stylish scarf.  Jared's abrupt absence on that Saturday JibCon morning sidelines him out of sight and allows a Cockles dominant panel to take place.





• August 10, 2014 - Jared rants on twitter to American Airlines (again) over a delay on his flight. (notice Jared suddenly became British "whilst" tweeting)  




• May 15, 2015 - Jared allegedly suffers a "mental breakdown"/exhaustion and flies back to the United States. His appearance at Jus in Bello (JibCon) 2015 is cancelled entirely and again, the weekend is heavy on the Cockles and "fun without Jared" theme, although Jensen adds an effective and teary musical "tribute" to his "fallen comrade".




^^ Remind anyone else of another fake "couple"?


 
Huh. Well, it seems the above tweet has been deleted now.  In fact, the entire account seems to have disappeared!  Well, fortunately, we still have the pictorial. ;-)








and...


[Two different anti-OTP narratives, folks.  Same tactics.  Same playbook.]

After Jared's distress signal tweets (and Facebook postings), his manager Dan Spilo issued this statement, which formed a rather similar explanation parallel to the 2012 cancellations:

"Jared wanted everyone to know he loves meeting his fans around the world and was very upset at having to cancel his trips to Rome and Australia.  Jared has pushed himself to his limits and is suffering from exhaustion.  His SPN family is so important to him, and he asks that they Always Keep Fighting.  At this time he needs to be home with his family.  He's doing better already and is excited about shooting Supernatural season 11 this July.   For now he's taking a break, but is so appreciative of his fans, and sees and feels their love and support." - eonline



• June 2015 - Jared vs. Verizon Wireless. Another social media blow up.

 
 
• Aug 2016 - This is the one where there was an alleged big blow-up at a hospitality employee following the Minneapolis Con.  An excerpt from one of Jared's Facebook posts: 

Hey BK at @ConstantineMpls you are the meanest human being that I have ever, in my adult life, been around. I hope you find your peace. Please know that I will never ever in my life be back at @HotelIvy or @ConstantineMpls in Minneapolis because I have never felt the hatred and spite and judgement that I feel from you.



• February 12, 2017 - Jared publishes a verbally abusive tweet to a an upper level hotel employee, one which features a photo of the alleged perpetrator to his personal well-being at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.
 



• September 14, 2019 - Jared cancels a publicized, scheduled appearance at the Vancouver Whitecaps Charity soccer match.  Jensen still played and there was plenty of video and pictures to show this.  When Jared later showed up that same evening (via social media pictures), not at the soccer match, but at a UFC event held nearly across the street, there were several explanations pondered by fans for his RSVP cancellation, 

 -  Well, he did "hurt his ankle" during the marathon in Switzerland
-  And well, it was the Whitecaps who promoted Jared as being a guest; Jared himself never "said diddly" that he was going to play in the game.  [I mean, really?]
-  Or this one.  Could the reason really have been this simple?  ;-)  Jared "really didn't wanna play soccer", but "has trouble saying no".
  
Another possible explanation was allegedly the real reason and provided by Jensen Ackles in a quote, via a "civilian fan"s twitter account that same evening. Winning the prize for Best in Originality":














Ohhhhhhhhhh...well,




















Anyway, lol, long story short, as covered in a previous post, Jared was promoted to be in attendance at a charity event, but ended up looking like an uncaring cad instead, by attending another event across the street - as a spectator. 

Since at least 2013, Jared Padalecki has been portrayed on social media as uncontrollably temperamental, rude, "a dick", emotionally fragile, angry, selfish, and mentally unstable.  

Over the years, this self-assured, at-no-loss-for-words man,


























became this Jared through at least the latter five years.











 










































































"Poor little fella" - cryptically posted by Jensen just prior to the 2015 "breakdown", that Jared was "tuckered out".







And more times with the beanie, than not, hiding the mane of hair that he had become known for, hence even given its own nickname, Padahair.



As pointed out in Narnia's post "Behold the Emasculation Proclamation!  Pt. 4 - Revelations", this is the same beanie that Jared couldn't seem to remove quick enough as soon as he exited the convention stage:


 

Jared is "incapable".  From Spn Goss, just one of many:

Re: J2 sighting - Sunday Night 5/7 - Post Con

Anonymous

May 8 2017, 12:16:13
 

The leader? Your observational skills seriously suck. He does go rogue out of pure desperation sometimes, because the lies pain him. But Jensen is the one who ultimately makes the decisions. And he is the "shrewd one" if you can call either of them that.



Jared became Art "Norman" Carney to Jensen's Jackie "Ralph" Gleason.  Tom Smothers to Jensen's Dick Smothers.  The Barney Fife to Jensen's Sheriff Andy Taylor.





"My big, dumb friend" - November 5, 2019


 



"Jared - big dumb Moose, Jensen - smart squirrel"


 
 



Someone who needed petting and soothing:




And while this 'soothing' was part of their convention stage schtick and intended to be humorous,





There were times when they were used on the heels of fandom drama:



And again.


 (Wondering if that helps Jensen to deal with him publicly abandoning Jared???)

And apparently, again at the last con in Jacksonville FL, on stage:


https://jarpadxmasjensens.tumblr.com/post/189342055667/feeling-grateful-for-a-decade-of-j2-moments-vid



And don't think this narrative of about-to-fall-apart-at-the-seams-Jared is not further enforced as well on tumblr posts, on Dreamwidth's Spn Gossip and in group chats by "I heard"s  and "anonymous friend or social media mutual" or someone in a convention Meet and Greet.  Someone who "happened" to witness a moment at a convention autograph table and has the twitter or tumblr account to spill all of the details.   

Jensen was given the unproblematic beard, Danneel Ackles.  Jared was given the beard with all of the negative backstory, Genevieve Cortese; the one who rubbed many in the Supernatural/J2 fandom wrong nearly from the beginning of her introduction, with frequent tales of using the children as bargaining chips against Jared, a frequently sour facial expression and high visibility on social media (although now Danneel poses a worthy rival in that department).   

Jensen was also given a meard by the name of Misha Collins, who appears to have a guaranteed role in the show and is given the off-leash park to play his mearding games every year at Jus In Bello in Rome while Jared is either sidelined or has had his beard shadow him, like she did in 2016.  And in what is mostly fandom-contained, Jensen has another meard - Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the man who plays father John Winchester and stars in The Walking Dead.  [But in this particular case, this author believes the history with JDM is more complicated because there does look to be undeniable signs he carries with him a legitimate carry-on bag.   Jared has perhaps just put up with that mearding being pushed into his face by the insensitivity of his SO]. 

Nonetheless as we bring ourselves back to the present 2019, it is Jared who, while left to his own devices in Austin, TX, was suddenly arrested in Austin, TX on October 26, after getting into a scrape-up with a few individuals who were employees at the very bar, Stereotype, that he is allegedly a part investor of.  And then he was filmed being resistant to police in a video that looked more like the shooting of a Winchester Brothers scene than a real scuffle.

03.08.20 - Well, it seems this video is disappearing on twitter at this point, as evidenced above as this tweet is now gone.  *hmmmm*  Here's a screen shot from The Sun's tweet, which still has the story.


The story broke on TMZ, posted at 12:42 PT, which translates to 2:42 pm Central Time (my time zone).  TMZ tweeted the story at 2:46 pm Central Time.  And someone posted the story from TMZ at 8:06 pm UTC on Spn Gossip, the open blog for J2 chatter.  Several hours later, the story was already being tweeted by People.com.


The story took awhile to break (for some reason???), but once TMZ had published and tweeted it, the story spread like a wildfire for the rest of the day.  E!Online, LA Times, New York Daily News, The Daily Mail, Yahoo News, Just Jared, Buzzfeed, MSN, The Hollywood Reporter, ComicBook.com, Fox News, Deadline, US Weekly...

People, Daily Fail, TMZ, US Weekly...these are some of your bigger rag sites and when you see them all running with the same story angle, it's not because they had raced to the scene in the news van.  They were all fed the same story to release.  

While waiting for the given court date of December 13, Jared missed another convention, this time the guest appearance was to be at the Washington DC Supernatural Convention on Nov 1-3.  The saloon and street "dust-up" occurred on Oct 26 and Jared's cancellation was announced within days, on Wed, Oct. 30.  Amazingly, Creation was able to make a quick recovery:

UPDATE! October 30, 2019: Unfortunately, JARED PADALECKI is unable to attend the Supernatural D.C. Convention.

While we will miss Jared, we are pleased to welcome two new guests to the show: Alexander Calvert (“Jack”) and Jake Abel(“Adam Milligan”)! Alex and Jake will be appearing on Sunday for a Q&A, 30-minute meet and greets, photo ops and they will both be signing complimentary autographs for Gold and Silver, as well as for those with their a la carte autograph tickets. We will also be giving the Gold and Silver patrons a pre-signed photo of Jared Padalecki.

We've also added some Jensen Ackles photo ops on Sunday!  More solo Jensen ops are now available plus more Jensen/Misha duos have just been added to these long sold-out items.  And check out the new Jensen duo with Rob Benedict and trio with Jensen, Misha & Alex!  These photo ops are in limited quantity and available on a first come, first served basis at registration. - Prepared just like Boy Scouts

JibCon on stateside soil.  So within the past five (5) years, we've had three (3) very similar instances when:

a) Jared's had to change his fan convention RSVP to "sending regrets" due to personal reasons/melodrama and either partially or fully missed appearances - JibCon 2014, JibCon 2015, and DC Con 2019.  It's not that far out of the realm of sense to add JibCon 2016 with an asterisk, as that was the convention when Jared's beard, Genevieve Cortese was added to the guest lineup and served as his weekend attachment.  (With this kind of established pattern, Narnia strongly side eyes the entirely-missed 2013 Jus In Bello 4 with the stated family emergency involving Genevieve's sister.)

 b) Jensen has looked to abandon him by "plunging on ahead" as solo "J1".  In 2014, he "plunged on ahead" with the Saturday panels, which featured the infamous fake makeout with meard, Misha Collins during their panel. Both men then were portrayed for the remainder of Saturday evening, as having some "we" time, aka a date night.  And even though Jared joined the group dinner, he was assumed back in his room afterwards, convalescing.  Meanwhile...






























In 2015, while Jared was portrayed as fleeing home under psychological or emotional duress to be with his family, Jensen "carried on" at JibCon and then on the way to Australia for another con, all the while having his moves documented via Cliffy's Instagram as they all swam, hot-tubbed and toured the sites.
































  












And in the fall of 2019, while Jared was poking fingers into burly chests and flashing dollar bills to public safety while appearing to be having "another moment", Jensen was seen on his social media plugging his upcoming cd collaboration with enabler Steve Carlson and posing as Batman in a Halloween portfolio.








 











 








All for a narrative of "Jensen doesn't care" during Jared's times of "distress and crisis", only to be followed soon with a full body hug of support.  What a "brother".  What a friend.

And yet by the time the Jacksonville convention rolled around, it looked like both men were back in panel-form.  An amazing return to status quo.

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To be continued in Pt 2 of 5, along with Liam Payne, Six Degrees w/ John Mayer and Shawn Mendes, Jake and Austin's Fall/Winter2019-2020 and Spring Break2020 Hiatus, plus Stunting in the NFL?  Tell me it ain't so!!  And more.




  
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1 comment:

prairiegirl said...

Did you think I'd given up the ship? Packed up my little suitcase and ran away from home? Pffshawwww!

I've been living in H*ll!!!!!! aka my job. lol. Well, first I got swallowed up by the holidays and the playoffs/Super Bowl which was so worth it because my team, the KC Chiefs won it all!!! But I was just totally IMMERSED in it all.

And then my job became an absolute living hell, which I'm still living it and will be living it for the next couple of months probably. A lot of overtime, a lot of very stressful, full days, eating lunch at my desk, no fun, crabbiness, and all of that.

As you can see, I started this Musings waaaaaay back before T-Giving!!! I had to change my opening gif, which was so funny, and I'm bummed I had to take it out. But anyway, we're going for it and this is part 1.

It will be 5-6 days of Musings!!!! One post a night because that will be about all you'll be able to handle. This first one was so sizeable that it's only Jared and Jensen, and theirs needed to finish in Part 2.

We've got all kinds of topics, all kinds of pissing off to do. So hope you learn something. Don't have to agree with all of it, but these needed to be done.

Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 6:42:00 PM CDT

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