It’s Time To Vote For Supernatural For The People’s Choice Awards
The nominations are done and the final ballots have been posted. It’s now time to vote for The People’s Choice awards!
Supernatural has four nominations in three categories. They are as follows:
– Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show
– Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor – Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki
– Favorite TV Bromance – Sam, Dean & Castiel
Vote here: http://www.peopleschoice.c
Voting goes on until December 5th, so vote often!
There are some fan efforts right now since Jared and Jensen are in the same category to vote for one instead of the other so not to split the vote and assure the chances of a win. We at The Winchester Family Business will not endorse or encourage voting for one actor over the other. You vote for who you want. My personal strategy is I’m going to vote for both actors evenly, because to me voting for one or the other is like choosing which child I love more. But to each his own, so vote the way you choose.
Also, this is more for our sister site TV For The Rest of Us, but Jim Caviezel (John Reese) of “Person of Interest” is up for Favorite Dramatic TV Actor. If you’ve got a little extra time when voting and love him in that show, please throw a few votes his way. We’d love to see him win.
Okay, happy voting everyone.
Alice Jester is the founder, editor-in-chief, head writer, programmer, web designer, site administrator, marketer, and moderator for The Winchester Family Business. She is a 30 year IT applications and database expert with a penchant for creative and freelance writing in her spare (ha!!) time. That’s on top of being a wife, mother of two active kids, and four loving (aka needy) pets.
You know if everybody votes for both Jared and Jensen they might actually tie for first and split the trophy. It’s not like you can only vote for one or the other.
As I understand it every time you vote for Sam/Dean/Cas for Bromance an angel gets his wings!
We should do that. 😉
It’s interesting that the CW has four out of five favorite Sci-Fi TV actors and three out of the five for favorite Sci-Fi show.
I don’t hold out too much hope for winning either category, since The Walking Dead has boo-goo millions of viewers and the J2s votes will be split in the actor category. (That’s what happened last year when Nathan won.)
I’m not voting in the bromance category this year, because Cas is included. I’m a purist and think it should have been just the brothers. I do expect a Winchester win there, though.
I intend to vote once for Jared & once for Jensen (many times), I love both of them equally. And yes, Cheryl42, it would be so grand if they tied and both of them would go up on stage! A fangirl’s dream come true. 😳
And Alice, I am most definitely voting for Jim Caviezel, he is so good on PoI.
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I’m not voting in the bromance category this year, because Cas is included. I’m a purist and think it should have been just the brothers. I do expect a Winchester win there, though.[/quote]
Fair enough, each to their own 🙂 , it wasn’t really a serious suggestion, as Alice said everyone should vote for who they want to.
I just feel the fandom is a bit like this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE[/youtube]
at the moment with all the trouble that has been going around the past few weeks and I though it would be nice if we could let the show know that we are behind them:
The PCA’s don’t seem to be helping with that, sadly.
eilf! This made me laugh out loud.. you hit the nail on the head with that one. Too much hullabaloo about not much at all.
[quote]eilf! This made me laugh out loud.. you hit the nail on the head with that one. Too much hullabaloo about not much at all.[/quote]
Thanks E, I am glad to hear it isn’t just me 😀
Yeah, I’m with you there, eilf and E. This whole fandom/award crap has me wanting to up-chuck. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
I am a Sam fan (surprised? 😛 ), but I think Jensen and Jared are both worthy of all kinds of awards, and I hate to choose between them. So, ok, according to Clif, the Js themselves tried to solve the matter for us. Coin toss. Sounds fair to me….
I started to vote for Jensen (winner of the coin toss), then found out fandom has thrown a hissy fit about it… so obviously that’s not going to work. I started to vote some for Jared as well, and saw the other half of fandom hissy fit about that…..
Now apparently, we aren’t happy about Cas being included in the bromance, either….
I give up. So much for family.
The show and the actors are all deserving of the awards. The fans are not.
[quote]Yeah, I’m with you there, eilf and E. This whole fandom/award crap has me wanting to up-chuck. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
I am a Sam fan (surprised? 😛 ), but I think Jensen and Jared are both worthy of all kinds of awards, and I hate to choose between them. So, ok, according to Clif, the Js themselves tried to solve the matter for us. Coin toss. Sounds fair to me….
I started to vote for Jensen (winner of the coin toss), then found out fandom has thrown a hissy fit about it… so obviously that’s not going to work. I started to vote some for Jared as well, and saw the other half of fandom hissy fit about that…..
Now apparently, we aren’t happy about Cas being included in the bromance, either….
I give up. So much for family.
The show and the actors are all deserving of the awards. The fans are not.[/quote]
Yes I voted Jensen / bromance / show because if it is about the show then all that is fair (since that is what they asked us to do), if it is just about the fans one-upping each other (as it appears on Tumblr and Twitter) then I don’t want to play…
I dont know whether it is about fans upping each other. And I have heard about the coin toss although nothing from either of the boys.
I have voted for who I think deserves that vote in the awards not really based on some Disney idea we are a family and we all should row the same way. I like the show to pick up awards but not at the expense of making fans feel guilty because they dont fall into line for not voting for the one they are being told to vote for . It sorts of defeats the object really of it being the Peoples Choice .
I agree with eilf, st50 and E. This “family” isn’t the Waltons, that’s for sure! 😀
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I like the show to pick up awards but not at the expense of making fans feel guilty because they dont fall into line for not voting for the one they are being told to vote for . It sorts of defeats the object really of it being the Peoples Choice .[/quote]
Well that is true Sharon – the PCA’s should be about what the people choose. And I don’t think anyone should have to feel guilty for the way they vote but (from my perspective) they should be voting because they LIKE the category they are voting for and because they LIKE the show / actors performance. Not to prove some point to another set of fans of the show.
Clif (who tweeted the coin-toss SUGGESTION with the approval of J2 apparently) had to come out and say the following:
Vote for whomever you want, people. Please stop attacking me and anyone who doesn’t vote the same as you. Its just wrong,
and
Voting is supposed to be fun, not malicious.
which leads you to wonder what exactly people were tweeting to him?
Having said that it is likely not that many people who are voting with any other reason except to show their appreciation of the show, they are just the noisiest ones 🙂
[quote]I agree with eilf, st50 and E. This “family” isn’t the Waltons, that’s for sure! :D[/quote]
LOL I am laughing at the idea of how the ‘Goodnight grandpa’ ‘Goodnight Johnboy’ end sequence would go if the SPN family were doing it 😛
Goodnight Grandpa.
It would be a better night if it wasn’t so warm!
Goodnight Jim-Bob
It’s going to rain!
Goodnight Sue Ellen
Sue Ellen isn’t one of the Waltons – stop breaking canon!
I kid, I kid, I love my SPN family 🙂
The point, as I saw it, was our huge fandom could most likely assure one of the actors an award if we worked together. The coin toss was just a way to be fair. I was willing to vote for either one this year and next year vote for the other one. That they both are in the same category assures they will NEVER win. I know it’s only the PCA’s but I liked the idea. I don’t think anyone was trying to dis Jared or strong arm anybody. Oh well, the point got lost in the hubbub. I do think the show will win Sci/Fi and bromance.
Eilf- 😆 😆
[quote]The point, as I saw it, was our huge fandom could most likely assure one of the actors an award if we worked together. The coin toss was just a way to be fair. I was willing to vote for either one this year and next year vote for the other one. That they both are in the same category assures they will NEVER win. I know it’s only the PCA’s but I liked the idea. I don’t think anyone was trying to dis Jared or strong arm anybody. Oh well, the point got lost in the hubbub. I do think the show will win Sci/Fi and bromance.[/quote]
I can see that idea being good on paper and in principle but not in reality. Also for alot of Jared fans his performance’s where he took himself and Sam physically and emotionally have been too outstanding to get behind the one for all vote for Jensen.
I agree and completely understand but the result is that neither will win. I would have been absolutely thrilled to vote for Jared this year and Jensen next year. The bigger picture, for me, was to try and honor both of them for their years of outstanding performances before the show ends. It is just not in the cards so I am happily voting for both of them, the Show and Bromance!! No big deal. 🙂 ( I did write- in Jared’s name for TV Drama actor a zillion times during the nomination process but he probably wasn’t eligible as he was up in another category)
Leah I don’t understand why the fandom doesn’t get this…if you vote for both, if everybody voted for both boys they would get the same amount of votes equally. This seems to be a very powerful fandom. I think if everyone got on board with voting for both Js there is a good chance they would both win. It seems like a win win to me. They both deserve it.
That would be lovely cheryl42. It would be great if they could both win!! It hasn’t worked in the past, the votes always got split, neither having enough to win individually, but who knows? I totally agree they both deserve it for their body of work on this series. 🙂
My whole fear of “vote for Jensen this year, vote for Jared next year” idea is that maybe it would work this year for Jensen while everyone is fired up and NOT next year for Jared, or vice-versa. I think that that would be just the most awful thing, worse than if either of them lost without such a plan in place. Imagine how the one who didn’t win would feel after having the fandom rally to get one of them the award and then not the other. We can’t guarantee that this type of thing would work for both the boys, so I think it should just be dropped altogether. The reality of the situation is that shows from major networks like Castle, Modern Family and NCIS with their 11-19 million viewers and 3.0 ratings share will always overwhelm a show like Supernatural when it comes to awards shows like TPC. We should all just vote our gut like we always do.
Oh, I’ll probably get crap for this, but here goes…
I remember years ago, when Burt Reynolds won his very first Emmy (and big acting award in general) for Evening Shade. He went up there and was rather stunned to see such an award in his hands. His joke, “I’ve won a lot of People’s Choice Awards.”
Sorry, I know our guys don’t get a lot of recognition for the amazing job they do, but if anyone thinks that a People’s Choice Award is a legitimate acting award in Hollywood, you’re just smoking something. I will vote for Jared and Jensen evenly because I love them both and admire them as actors. I won’t vote because I think they must have his award. They already know how much the fans love them. That is honestly reward enough. Such an award does not boost an acting career.
If either (or both) of them win, the best it’ll do give them a nice punchline should they ever find themselves in Mr. Reynolds’ position in the future. I know that sounds cynical, but there are certain realities about Hollywood that fans fail to understand. That’s why I’ll never jump on board with “vote for one and not the other.”
Okay, feel free to jump on me now. 🙂
Alice, sadly I agree with you. So I am doing likewise. Supernatural doesn’t need a PCA as much as a more mainstream network about 8 years ago and a lot more entertainment buzz in the main stream media. I personally discovered the show on TNT because I never watched the CW. Ah well. I was shocked to read recently that SPN doesn’t even command the advertising dollar amount that some of the other CW shows do like Beauty and the Beast.
I agree, alice.
Unfortunately, with the advent of social media voting, these types of awards have become even more about whose fans are the most rabid/have the most time to vote continuously than they ever were.
A PCA has absolutely nothing to do with quality movies/tv/acting now – if it ever did. An award from this show is essentially meaningless. My disappointment lies in the fact that – once again – the fandom has degraded into a tit-for-tat, us-against-them mentality.
Prix68 – Actually, this season Beauty and The Beasts is getting the lowest ad revenue of the entire CW. I have the ad rates posted on TV For The Rest of Us in the news section (can’t provide link right now). Supernatural has always been lower because the horror genre isn’t very appealing to advertisers. It’s subject matter. Law and Order: SVU has never been able to get a premium either. Rape doesn’t sell. Sorry, I’m kind of a dork when numbers are involved! 🙂
st50 – The fandom’s mentality lately has been ticking me off. This voting is just another example. It’s really killing my joy about things. Trying to stay positive!
Alice: I have to agree, my original comment about groups dividing into smaller and smaller factions was that I don’t see much purpose to the PCA except as a way of showing community spirit.
It was why of the three categories I liked the fact that the bromance category – which means absolutely nothing in terms of acting or even storytelling – showed that people were happy to convey to the show that we like the show and the actors on it…
Everyone involved in the show is enthusiastic about the PCA’s because WE are, not the other way around. They appreciate that this is our only way of telling them as a community that we like the show and so they get involved too. When people are fighting over it and insulting each other that negates literally the only point the PCA’s has.
Alice – the article I read was about SPN advertising rates going up this year. I thought it said BATB commanded approximately $40,000 last year and SPN about $37,000. If I was mistaken, sorry.
Prix68 – You’re definitely right about last year. That’s because Beauty and The Beast was a new show last season in a pricey time slot, right after The Vampire Diaries. This season though, Supernatural is getting $39,188 per 30 second slot while Beauty and the Beast in its new slot is getting $19,777. That’s a huge drop! That’s what I was referring to.
No crap from me Alice. 🙂 I went through the stages of thinking it was a good idea to maybe NOT such a good idea (fan grumbling) to being rather apathetic about the whole thing. I was under no illusions that this was a prestigious acting award, just a nice way for us to tell them they are appreciated as actors. It seemed like a good idea when Clif proposed it.
Wait, was this the one you were going to put my comedy motivational on? 😉
I’d like to see J&J both tie for the win, and given a special split in half trophy that they can then combine together like a BFF necklace.
Nate – I posted this on our Fandom Page too last week and your poster has been on that, but I forgot to include it here. So many damned details to keep track of! I put it in there now. Sorry!