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Hi Bella and everyone else, sorry I've been MIA. I'm afraid I spend almost all my online time now being appalled at the state of my country and the world, not to mention dealing with personal family stuff, that I pretty much let fannish things go by the wayside, for the most part. I try and check in here occasionally, but I haven't really been posting on any boards. I don't know if I'll get my groove back, but I'm not gone entirely, just quiet.
As for the question at hand, you know the thing has to end at some point. But I believe when it's the last season the CW will make a big announcement about that. Pedowitz is correct that the show will linger until the Js finally say, 'we're done'. And that may come next year, who knows.
Of course, that could change and 14 could become the last one if the Js' current contracts end this year and at some point in the year they decide not to renew them. But I think these guys would give everyone more of a heads up than that.
I actually hope dropping the episode count is a way to maybe use the brothers more in every episode while adhering to their current half-time contracted schedule by cutting out three episodes and over a month of shooting. We'll see. I certainly don't think less episodes is a bad thing seeing as these showrunners don't have enough story for 3 episodes much less 23.
I'm assuming this guy is a troll. Best to ignore him.
Normally I agree that it's annoying when characters are constantly killed off only to return, because it cheapens the deaths. But that cheapening death ship has sailed and sunk a long time ago on this show. No one watching the show cares about "death" anymore.
However, WRT Rowena, she damn well needs to come back because her off screen demise was tasteless and tacky and overall a cheap stunt that was the result of the bad blood between the showrunners and Mark Sheppard at the end. Ruth became collateral damage and that wasn't fair.
So I want her to come back and stick around. She's a good character and Ruth is a doll.
I've gone to a few of the LA cons, a couple of Vegas cons, and I went to Hawaii - though I used that one solely as an excuse to go to Hawaii.
I'm attending Sunday this coming weekend in Orlando only because it's annoying as hell that after 13 years they finally come to Orlando where I live and I don't care anymore, but feel like I have to at least attend one day. So I only bought a one-day ticket.
I intended the Hawaii con to be the last one, sort of a last hurrah, because, yes, they're insanely expensive, and we've received less and less over the years for the ever-increasing cost of attending as a gold, silver, or copper level attendee.
I've really been enjoying all the articles and posts and whatnot about the brewery opening, and hearing how hands-on the entire family is, which is honestly expected in any new business for the first year or more to get it up and running.
I love how much of a family project it really is, and I wish them all the best. I hope it's successful because I'd like to take a trip to Austin in a year or so, and of course stop by the brewery.
I've been checking in periodically, but I admit for the most part I've ignored the boards because I've been really busy the last couple of months. Family drama, plus when I do spend time online, it's mostly twitter and facebook decrying the state of the union.
Of course, there's not much to talk about show-wise unless you're a rabid fan, or one of the multitude of sockpuppet supporters, of the Wayward project, which I am not. So since that's apparently all any of the producers, writers, showrunners, and the cw want to talk about/focus on/advertise, I feel like Supernatural is pretty much over anyway. I know tomorrow night's episode is nothing but Wayward, and next week's focuses heavily on Donna, who is also Wayward-adjacent, so I'm just waiting to see if and when the regular show comes back.
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It's about damn time! I'm very excited!!!!!
I enjoyed this episode more than I anticipated, and was shocked at how Deancentric it was. Dean was actually allowed to interact with the guest stars and take the lead where necessary - a surprising change of pace from mute wallpaper!Dean of season 12.
I was also surprised at how, after having been mostly nasty to Dean about his depression issues up to now, suddenly Sam was all concerned about Dean. Not sure why, to be honest.
The best thing about this episode is that it wasn't "Jacknatural" - the kid was finally benched, and it made a huge difference. Not only that, the case in general had the feel of a strong Kripke-era episode, with some actual continuity for a pleasant change of pace. It really looked like Yockey had done some research over hiatus.
I also liked the promotion of Billie to Death, and the explanation worked well enough. She was a lot less annoying as Death than she was as some random reaper. I really enjoyed the "hall of records" set. The whole feel of it harkened back to seasons 4/5.
This was the first episode of the season that I not only wanted to watch, but actually watched twice.
Though as much as it was nice to hear Billie say Dean was important (Sam too), fool me ... a gazillion times? I'll believe this is going to lead to something when it's actually written down on paper, filmed, and aired on TV. Until then, not getting my hopes up.
I'm also not convinced that Cas hasn't done come back wrong, per usual. It'd be redundant, but that's how this show rolls.
All in all, though, best episode of the season so far.
[quote]I don't want any more characters to be brought back from the past just to be dun in. [/quote]
Yet it's what they like to do, so it's likely to happen again and again, because the show is all about paint-by-numbers.
I honestly always expected Misery to die because they needed an impetus for Patience to become a Wayward whatever. Given how much I despised the character in [i]Home[/i], and at best felt nothing for her in this episode, this was an off'ing I didn't care about.
Actually I think Berens went rapidly downhill the minute Carver left and Dabb took over. If Carver accomplished anything, it was bringing in Berens and getting good writing and ideas from him. But Berens' writing and focus changed dramatically and for the worse under Dabb, IMO, so I didn't expect a whole lot from this episode, and didn't receive it.
But just a reminder that the whole point of this particular episode - much of the point of the entire season - is the spin-off, which I still believe Jack will become a part of given the fact that the showrunners have turned the entire series over to him from the premiere.
Patience is another Wayward whatever, and she was to be introduced in this episode. So, sure, she was going to be the annoying heroine to some extent - which was only slightly more annoying than the super bad psy abilities.
Yeah, I thought she was weak, and thus fits right in with the crowd. Get used to her.
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