Inteview with Eric Kripke... and me hating some on Bela :D

[katikat]

There is a new interview with Eric Kripke! (Thank you for the link, janglyjewels!) TV.com and Eric talk about the strike and the show's mythology etc. My most favorite part?

So we're looking to do the same thing [with Ruby and Bela]. We don't want to push it. In fact, I would say the one episode this year (and again, hindsight is 20/20) where we did push it was this episode called "Red Sky at Morning," which I think was by far the least successful episode this year because it really kind of became the Bela show, and it wasn't as much about how the women complicate the lives of the boys. This also is to answer your "What do you regret?" question--I would say I regret the episode of "Red Sky at Morning." [Laughs.] It's probably not an episode I would do again because I think we tried to do a little too much, too fast. So it's about everything in moderation.

Hurray! I'm not the only one who disliked the episode a lot! Bela is annoying even in moderation. That episode was an ode to the amazing Bela, a real Bela show, and that turned me off so much that I started to hate her with vengeance. Yes, I still haven't re-watched this episode. Whenever that... woman is even mentioned, I feel like hissing like a cat! I don't understand how Ben Edlund could up come with such an amazing character like Henrickson and with such a walking-talking two-dimensional bitchy cliché like Bela *shakes head*

But I can't wait to learn more about Ruby and to see her interact with Dean. I hope that we will see them together soon. And Ellen! I would so like to see Dean and Ellen together. Oh my, they would rock as a couple! I also find it quite annoying that they just dropped Jo. I would like to know what's happening to her. I liked the "little sister" theme they had going with Dean and Jo :)

Comments

[ckll.livejournal.com]

He regrets for 'Red sky' episode, lol

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I think he regrets adding Bela but he can't say it out loud since Dawn Ostroff demanded a second female character X(

[ckll.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. Darn CW!!

[misty-writes.livejournal.com]

I have to be honest, I was ECSTATIC when they gave Jo that graceful exit. I was so disappointed that they pushed the Dean/Jo OTP FOREVER thing so hard, it really turned me off from Jo. She could have been a great little sister figure, though. They should have just made Alona Tal play a 16 or 17 year old girl. She could pull it off. To me, it seemed they didn't give her a role of her own... she was just "the love interest". And when they decided not to go that route, they had given Jo's character NOTHING of her own, so they couldn't even keep her on the show. Oh well.

But Bela... urghhh. PLEASE let her be one of the people that dies at the beginning of an episode. I hear you, I DO NOT get how Ben Edlund could have come up with her! He's an amazing writer. Yet, Bela exists. o_O

Dean and Ellen would be awesome. Unfortunately Kripke would never go that route, hahaha. I love Ellen! Thanks to this strike she won't even get to film her episode now. :(

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Yes, I hated Jo as a love interest. But I loved the way Dean behaved towards her. It was such a cute little sis relationship... I mean, the scene in the bar in 2x02 where he starts asking her out and then adds, "Never mind" and talks about how these days... It's one of my most favorite scene of that ep!

If they wanted female characters, why couldn't they bring back Sarah? I mean, she would have been much more plausible, handling antique objects that could be cursed. Or Kathleen from The Benders, the sheriff, she would have been a great hunter but a strong woman of her own. They had so many great one-ep female charas, why come up with such a cliché like a bitchy mercernary who is actually a misunderstood little girl whom nobody loves? Sheesus on a pogo stick! She would have been bad as a girl-of-the-week but as a regular? She ruins every ep she's in because it's so obvious that she was simply shoehorned into it!

[lostandalone22.livejournal.com]

You know, he could completely do away with both Bela and Ruby, and I would be a very happy person.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

True true *sigh* But if a girl had to stay, then I would chose Ruby because she at least adds to the storyline. Bela is just an annoying tag-on that has no actual reason to be there. I mean, why couldn't they bring back for example Sarah? She deals with antique objects. She could pop back from time to time with a cursed this or cursed that. And it wouldn't feel so forced.