Who should come to mind?

[feliciakw]

So. We have a very popular local author here in Culpeper. She has self-published a book "about" the Civil War, a historical romance, fictitious, that has very good reviews on Amazon. Otoh, to talk to a few of the more cynical locals, I'm told that it is very dry, and more fictitious than historical. I have not read the book myself, but I have read the synopsis, and it doesn't sound like something that would appeal to me. The story is about how a spunky Southern belle falls in love with a Northern officer.

Still, having not read the book, I shouldn't pass judgment. And Culpeper did change hands several times during the course of the Civil War.

However, I was reading some of the Amazon user reviews. One of the less favorable reviews said the reader stopped reading when "the incredible young heroine meets the 6'2" hero . . . "

My first thought?

"Oooh! Jensen!"

Followed by imaginings of Jensen in a Union uniform.

Yeah.

(I have long thought that Jensen and Jared would look great in period costuming, and in my head, I always put Jensen in blue and Jared in gray.)

If I keep Jensen in mind as the hero of the story, maybe I could convince myself to read it.

Comments

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Total n00b here. What color southerns were? Because i see Jensen only as from South.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Hee. Not a prob. Not your national history, so I won't pop quiz you on it. :-)

The Union (North) soldiers wore blue. The Confederate (South) soldiers wore gray.

Yes, that's putting a Texas boy in Union (Northern) colors. But I think it would be so cool.

It would also mean learning a new dialect. IIRC, the Union officer in this story is from New England, which has a very distinctive dialect.

But that's also just always how I picture it: Jensen wearing Union blue and Jared in Confederate gray.

[leelust.livejournal.com]

As you know i don't care about jp in any shape or form so leave it at that.
But now i'm of two minds about Jensen. On the one hand i'd like to see him doing somethin unexpected like playing an union boy but otoh i so see him as classic southern boy i want to see it too. I think i want a story about twins :) both played by Jensen of course.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Well, actors being actors, it doesn't really matter which part of the country he's from whether he plays a Yankee or a Reb. Heck, Vivian Leigh, best known as Southern belle heroine Scarlett O'Hara, wasn't even American. And Clark Gable, who played Southern smuggler Rhett Butler from South Carolina, was actually from Ohio (a Northern state).

Now, about playing twins . . . Jensen could do that easily. Heck, he's done it twice already. Not technically twins, of course, but Dean and dream!Dean, and Dean and future!Dean.

If the brothers were from a border state, it could easily be that one fought with the North and the other with the South. That particular war split up a lot of families.

In fact, if you want to watch a good miniseries about cousins fighting on opposite sides of the war, I suggest watching The Blue and The Gray. One of the Southern cousins becomes an embedded journalistic artist with a Northern unit, and having ties to both sides, tries to remain neutral. And at one point, the Southern cousins sneak their Northern kin behind Southern lines for a night of partying. The miniseries is kind of cheesy in that way 1980s miniseries had, but I like it better than the John Jakes epic soap opera North and South. Though a point of interest with N&S is that it was Patrick Swayze's first major success.

Anyway, Jensen in Yankee blue. Yes.

[leelust.livejournal.com]

What had Patrick in it? B&G or N&S? Because one of those series been shown here a long time ago (that when i learned something about your war). The series wasn't great (yes in the mean of 80/s tv) but it was interesting to see a part of history we barely touched in school.
Still i'd love to read a story (a fic maybe) about those twins :) I'd imagine jensen doing both parts :)

Now there's a thought to put a smile on my face.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to go sit and think about J and J in blue and gray for a while, now, thank you.