Ausiello's interview with...
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katikat... Eric Kripke can be found here, beware of spoilers for S6, of course!
That sounds all kinds of awesome, doesn't it? I hope that S6 will be like S1, monsters etc., but slightly darker. And I hope that they will handle the Lisa situation carefully. Ausiello namely posted this spoiler in his weekly Ask Ausiello column:
That makes me a bit worried, to be honest. It seems like a big part of the plot will be Dean wavering between Lisa and Ben on the one hand and Sam on the other. And I kinda fear that they'll make him go for Lisa and Ben, that he'll be resentful of Sam for taking him away from his happy family :( I hope that I'm wrong though.
What do you say to those fans who felt the show should have ended with season 5?
KRIPKE: My answer to that is time will tell. I have high hopes for this season. I remember the same kind of concerns when we bumped off Yellow Eyes in season 2. We killed their Big Bad and where were we going to go now? We always found a different place to go. People forget that I didn’t [originally] want angels in the show. Then we introduced the angels and then it spun the story line in a way that was really rich for us. This is a show that ends story lines and starts new ones and re-invents itself. I think because it is hard-wired into the DNA of the show it will weather a lot of transition and growth. The question is not should it have ended, the question is, Is the new story line compelling and interesting and is it an arena of this universe that we haven’t explored yet and is it putting Sam and Dean into new situations that we haven’t seen before? I think it does all of the above.
Okay, what is the new story line?
KRIPKE: One of the first things Sera and Bob talked to me about was that the angel thing is rightfully exhausted, so where do you go from there? Not to say that angels and demons won’t be a part of the story line because they will. Castiel will be there. Crowley will be there. The beloved characters will be threading into the story. But the great undiscovered country of Supernatural is kind of right in front of our face: creatures and monsters. We have had so many creature episodes but we haven’t actually explained where they came from—[similar] to the way we have explored angels and demons. How do they feel about the situations they are in? Are they from here? Where did the first ones come from? How did werewolves and vampires and shape-shifters all begin anyway? I thought that was a really smart notion on [Sera and Bob's] part, just exploring the history of that, because that was something that we never investigated on the show.
How does Grandpa [Mitch Pileggi] fit into this?
KRIPKE: He’s representative of the other side of this exploration, which is that Sam and Dean have a family of hunters that they never knew they had. Their grandfather is the head of that family. Remember, it’s not the Winchesters who are famous hunters, it’s the Campbells. And we are saying that the Campbells are part of a time-line of hunters that have been there since the country’s origins. As Sera put it, they were hacking heads of vampires on the Mayflower. For Sam and Dean to really tap into a family history, which they never knew they had and again never really investigated before, is pretty interesting to us.
That sounds all kinds of awesome, doesn't it? I hope that S6 will be like S1, monsters etc., but slightly darker. And I hope that they will handle the Lisa situation carefully. Ausiello namely posted this spoiler in his weekly Ask Ausiello column:
Ausiello: Season 6 will revolve around Dean’s new life as loving husband to Lisa and doting father to Ben. I kid! I made a funny! Here’s the real answer to your question: Despite the domestic situation Dean found himself in at the end of last season, exec producer Eric Kripke assures me that Supernatural will continue to be about the Winchester brothers “on the road together.” That said, Kripke confirms that “Dean’s situation creates all sorts of angst and conflict. The question [we'll be] exploring is, How can you be a hunter when there are actually people that you care about? I think we will mine it for all of the emotional angst and conflict that we can. But [Lisa] is not — nor is anyone — going to be riding in the backseat of the Impala with Sam or Dean.”
That makes me a bit worried, to be honest. It seems like a big part of the plot will be Dean wavering between Lisa and Ben on the one hand and Sam on the other. And I kinda fear that they'll make him go for Lisa and Ben, that he'll be resentful of Sam for taking him away from his happy family :( I hope that I'm wrong though.
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Date: 2010-07-15 07:28 pm (UTC)we've got Azazel back, Grandpa Campbell, cousin campbell (which suggests mary had brothers/sisters) and a few other things that can only happen with 1) a major retcon or b) parallel universes
ie a universe where mary and john didn't meet (or were hooked up by the heavenly contingent) ie dean was never born - never killed azazel etc
all that demon summoning and whatnot it's not that a big a stretch to move them over
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but the dean/lisa/sam thing, it would be sam feeling guilty for pulling his brother away whilst dean feels guilty for breathing because he's using someone else's oxygen (his oh woe is me is starting to get a bit tiresome, I just watched season 2 where he's still super awesome and i miss snarky who gives a crap dean, not oh dear oh dear i have doomed the universe dean)
yeah, so - there's my take, parallel universes (alternatively I've made some lovely knit hats watching SG1 so i might be going in odd directions) but i betcha - parallel universes
or azazel pulls a retcon out of Johns Journal at some point
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Date: 2010-07-15 10:34 pm (UTC)