Positive and negative

Bullet points:

• I received some good news about the health of someone I'm really close to and now I feel like walking on Cloud 9, really :)
  
• The Street Justice DVDs that Amazon shipped to me on Dec 27th are still not here. The heck if I know what's going on with the Czech post these days! X( And the Harlequins that I ordered for my mum are not here yet either! Grr...
  
• If you want to get in a better mood, listen to the music of Steve Carlson. Awesome!
  
• I'm reading J. L. Langley's "The Tin Star" at the mo, a nice gay romance :)
  
• I have so many comments/entries to respond to but I really want to finish translating "The Dragons of a Lost Star" today so I'm off to work first, diligently!

ETA: Well, at least the Harlequins are here now. They wrote my address wrong, a completely wrong part of the town! For christ's sake, all they had to do was print out the address I gave them. Is that SO hard?

Now the post office is holding hostage just my DVDs!

Kripke responds to fans' questions...

... here! Spoilers, beware!

What caught my interest and bothered me the most...

Kripke on Bela:
... but I think we need to push a little harder, we have to do a better job muddying up the character, making her human and real to the audience.

Beware, Kripke! Push hard enough and what didn't bend will break! It bothers me that he was ready to kick out Jo based on the fans' negative response but instead of doing the same with Bela, he wants to "humanize her" *rolls eyes* You wanted a bitch? Keep her a bitch! Don't give us a doozy back-story, really.

Kripke about the "bright look" of S3:
It was very intentional. We wanted to create a more dramatic contrast between the "real" world, in which we all live, and the "secret" supernatural world that exists just beneath the surface.

I think that this experiment definitely failed, at least IMHO. I miss the dark and blue atmoshpere of S1. The only thing lacking in S3 are blooming flowers and bunnies hopping around, really. It's a horror show, not some afternoon special!

Though what I do like is how confidently he talks about "we will do this and that in S4", like S4 is a done deal already.