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borgmama1of5 was kind enough to corner 1st AD Kevin Parks, who is the Supernatural-continuity expert on the Supernatural set, and ask him about the missing year between S5 and S6.
His answer, as told to me byborgmama1of5 is as follows:
They decided to do "soap opera time", because they didn't want to have to push the year forward for the rest of the show's run. So, just like in soap operas when people's kids are toddlers and then suddenly teenagers, so too can Sam and Dean spend a year apart while no time has actually passed in reality.
So, it sounds like it was indeed a conscious decision, though, he could just be good at covering their tracks. On the location tour today, Russ Hamilton was saying how the crew are always really impressed by our attention to detail. He said he was talking to Guy Bee about our indepth questions. (On Sunday,ratherastory asked Guy Bee the question about the timeline for me during his panel, he did not have an answer). Russ joked that people will get fired for their lack of knowledge, saying "How we didn't know that a year after 2010 is 2011, I don't know."
Either way, what's done is done. I'lll continue to push all my fics forward a year, but I'll keep the timeline true to the show.
borgmama1of5 was kind enough to corner 1st AD Kevin Parks, who is the Supernatural-continuity expert on the Supernatural set, and ask him about the missing year between S5 and S6.His answer, as told to me by
borgmama1of5 is as follows:They decided to do "soap opera time", because they didn't want to have to push the year forward for the rest of the show's run. So, just like in soap operas when people's kids are toddlers and then suddenly teenagers, so too can Sam and Dean spend a year apart while no time has actually passed in reality.
So, it sounds like it was indeed a conscious decision, though, he could just be good at covering their tracks. On the location tour today, Russ Hamilton was saying how the crew are always really impressed by our attention to detail. He said he was talking to Guy Bee about our indepth questions. (On Sunday,
ratherastory asked Guy Bee the question about the timeline for me during his panel, he did not have an answer). Russ joked that people will get fired for their lack of knowledge, saying "How we didn't know that a year after 2010 is 2011, I don't know."Either way, what's done is done. I'lll continue to push all my fics forward a year, but I'll keep the timeline true to the show.
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Date: 2011-08-30 06:08 am (UTC)Sorry. Sigh. It's still early in the day.
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Date: 2011-08-30 06:15 am (UTC)It means that it's SUPPOSED to be 2012, but everything on the show (including Sam and Dean's dialogue) says it's 2011, so my timeline says 2011. You have to add a year yourself if you want it to be true to "reality."
So, for instance, all though all the dates in my timeline say S6 took place in 2010/2011, in my demented'verse it takes place in 2011/2012.
Does that make more sense? Basically it's up to your own discretion whether you add the year, or keep the production decision to "lose" the extra year.
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Date: 2011-08-30 10:27 am (UTC)What they probably don't realize, since they're not really allowed to look at fic, is that we're an enormous writer's room, with an extremely stringent eye for detail, and so this stuff really matters to us!! Imagine if Guy Bee wrote a big bang, and didn't know what year it is, what the anon meme would say!! :P You know, after I wrote 35,000 words of coda to 5.22, during which, you know, the seasons went round, there were holidays, Dean had a birthday, I kind of noticed the passage of time in the story, and I had to deliberately decide when Sam would come back. Oh well!!
Plus, it seems like a good number of us have academic training, and we turn to good folks like you for material data to back up our claims. :D
Uhura wants this timeline thing sorted!
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Date: 2011-08-30 05:14 pm (UTC)I wonder if anyone on my flist has a PhD, I could get them to write me a reference if I ever want to go back to school again... :P
What would the anon-meme say indeed! Hahaha...ah well, I can understand on some level wanting to make their jobs easier, but I really don't think it was THAT hard to push forward a year. It's not like they use a lot of real-life events in their plots anyway.
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Date: 2011-08-30 06:13 pm (UTC)Young Severus should have been a Ravenclaw like me! :P
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Date: 2011-08-30 06:19 pm (UTC)I applied to a PhD program once, but was rejected. Oh the heartbreak. It was alright though, because I was a little uncertain if it was what I wanted to do at the time. Still, I might go back one day.
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Date: 2011-08-30 01:15 pm (UTC)I am unreasonably annoyed by the soap opera time thing. >:(
At least we got it clarified. I will be doing the same thing as you in my fic, and pushing dates forward when I need to.
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Date: 2011-08-30 05:23 pm (UTC)And yeah, haha...without me even directing them, my flist acted on my behalf to get me answers! Gotta love friends. :)
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Date: 2011-08-30 07:45 pm (UTC)I have to add, Kevin Parks didn't seem to see what the big deal was...annoying.
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Date: 2011-08-30 07:56 pm (UTC)Anyway, thanks for getting an answer! I really appreciated it. Also, you were probably more diplomatic than I would have been in the face of his uncaring. *rolls eyes*
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Date: 2011-08-30 05:24 pm (UTC)But it will bug me forever now.
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