Thoughts on S5 DVDs and recent S6 spoilers

[hells_half_acre]

S5 DVD - I really hope there's Kripke-commentary to the final episode (I'm sure there will be), and in it, I hope Kripke tells us how it would have ended if there'd been no S6. The production person said on twitter that there WERE rewrites once S6 was announced, but she can't tell us what they were. I'd love to know.

Because it occurred to me yesterday that Kripke's arc was indeed a tragedy. I remember reading a meta in the past year that pointed out that Supernatural was following the basic rules of a classic tragedy - and at the time, I thought "Nooooo" because although my favorite play is Hamlet, I don't actually like the fact that everybody dies in tragedies. I like it when people dog-sled off into the sunset to find the Hand of Franklin.

That being said, I don't mind that Kripke's arc was a tragedy, and that really illustrates how awesome Supernatural is, because here are some facts about me:

1)I don't like one hour dramas.
2)I don't like horror
3)I don't like it when my favorite characters die (and they mostly always do, because I tend to fall for the expendable crew member.)

Yet: My favorite show is Supernatural.

Anyway...I got off track there...let's talk about S6 spoilers:

1)There will be a time-jump
-You know, a lot of people are freaking out about this and I don't know why. I think it'd be way worse if Sam were to just show up after only a week or 2 months or 4 months - it would totally diminish the sacrifice he made, and it would also diminish the loyalty Dean is showing to him by trying with Lisa even though he wants to die or get Sam back. 

2)Jensen will direct an episode.
YAY! That's awesome. I can't wait. Also, if Jensen is directing, I'm assuming that it'll mostly be a Sam episode - because dude, Jensen is overworked as it is! So, that'll be neat.

Alright, well there isn't much point to this post, I'm just bored. So I'll go now.

Comments

[liliaeth]

I had the same thought, if Sam's just back within a day, or even a week, then what does his sacrifice really mean?

To use an example from another fandom. A few years back, before Spidey went down the drain, thee was this huge storyline called 'the Other' that had Peter killed by a bad guy called Morlun. You get this one beautiful moment where MJ, Peter Parker's wife, is coming to grips with the fact that he's gone. And then the next issue he comes back and ... we don't even get to see anyone else react to his death. His death had no real consequences. Compare that to the death of Captain America, which lasted over a year in comic time and had in universe reactions to his death.

Back to spn, one of the great things of the start of s4, is that even though we start right back up with Dean coming back to life, for the characters four months had passed and we see some of the consequences of Dean's death on Sam and Bobby. It's because we see the pain they went through with Dean gone, that Dean's death remains that meaningful at that point.

I also don't get why people seem to think that SPN is going to make a time jump of years.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Well, the translation of Jensen's interview has him saying "years" - but who knows how accurate that is. It can't be THAT many years, given that the boys aren't going to age.

But yes, I totally agree - Dean's death had an impact because we saw the effect it had on Sam and Bobby. If Sam came back right away, we wouldn't get the emotional payoff that his sacrifice deserves.