kind of like when Joss Whedon stepped back and let Marti Noxon take over the reigns.
SUPERNATURAL Renewed for S6
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Actually the already well have meet god.
And why do people seem to think that they must go bigger? That it is the only avenue open to writers.
They have already stated this isn't a Buffy trying to up the Big Bad each year. This isn't like Buffy were the main writer is being replaced by a writer who wrote worse. Sera has consistently written better material then Erik (who has always been more shock then character).
I do hope then Edlund is back (he mentions that he is looking forward to season 6, so I assume he is).
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I'm hoping that instead of going bigger-and-badder they go more into the history of the hunters themselves. I'd love to see season six feature numerous flashbacks and analogs of Samuel Colt as the Winchesters go about patching up all the aftereffects of dispatching Lucifer (if that's how season 5 ends up, anyway). I'm particularly interested in seeing how he created that railway devil's trap.
Every single season of Supernatural is along that same line. It's maybe 80% monster-of-the-week filler episodes which are all exactly the same as each other, and 20% story episodes that are not.
For that reason, Supernatural could go on forever since copy and pasting the monster-of-the-week formula and making the same episode almost every week (as the show has done for its 5 Seasons already) takes no creativity whatsoever.
Yup, by making the same episode almost every week. Apparently it doesn't bother most fans, but the only reason the show did fine was because it doesn't. The show certainly didn't do fine from a quality perspective, though.
I doubt they even put out 3 seasons worth of meaningful, non-identical episodes in the 5 Seasons that have aired so far.
Sera Gamble will be showrunner. At least Kripke will still be involved. As long as Ben Edlund continues to write, there's hope. He penned last Thursday's wonderfully gory, yet heartbreaking "My Bloody Valentine" that introduced Famine. Wonderful episode.
Supernatural is more about characters than plot, Navaros. The episodes aren't all the same. Didn't Kripke say in one of his Q&A's that the plan for season 6 is to go smaller and more intimate? I've been very wary of a season (and I'm thankful the J's contracts are up after this season) but I am encouraged that they seem to know that they can't top Lucifer. Perhaps something to do with hunters' history, or with the family.
Supernatural is more about characters than plot, Navaros. The episodes aren't all the same. Didn't Kripke say in one of his Q&A's that the plan for season 6 is to go smaller and more intimate? I've been very wary of a season (and I'm thankful the J's contracts are up after this season) but I am encouraged that they seem to know that they can't top Lucifer. Perhaps something to do with hunters' history, or with the family.
True although I thought season 4 showed the series could do both. That season was what I wanted.
They kinda are when it comes to the monster-of the week stuff. Very few of those hold any suspense and a lot of them are fashioned on very familiar chestnuts that I would bet a lot of fans have seen before and saw done better. The key to make them work is put a new spin on it that makes it interesting but they've rarely delivered for me in that regard.
Plus they tend to be formulaic--the one staple that has stood out to me has been the cliche of a dangerous situation with no sense of jeopardy involving one or both brothers in peril that usually involves a predictable fight sequence and supernatural mumbo jumbo to save the day followed in the epilogue with a quiet reflective scene. They also tend to exist as a means to an end--such as seeding new threads that really don't get much mileage until the resolution phase of the season. The episodes on their own don't stand up much on their own in my opinion.
They said that several times in regards to other seasons usually in conjunction with their budget being cut. So these quieter intimate stories wouldn't be all that new. I don't know what you could all the bottle shows focusing on the brothers' interactions we've gotten over the years. Rarely are we treated to a big epic battle or a large cast or VFX or ambitious arc storytelling. I think in that regard it has been a mixed bag so I would sorta expect much of the same next year. Really what has helped the show out up until now has at least been the season long arc that is loosely threaded each year.
I strongly disagree on both counts. Supernatural is for the most part, about nothing other than MOTW filler episodes, which are all identical to each other.
The only episodes that have any sort of character development are the few that are not identical MOTW filler.
Supernatural would have been a great show if 100% of the episodes were about characters, instead of 20% at max. Because its not, that's exactly what makes it a mediocre show.
The Famine episode is a perfect example of MOTW filler. All they did was change the MOTW's name a bit and add the descriptor 'horseman' to him to make him sound tougher, but really, other than those meaningless, superfluous changes, the formula was no different than any of the several other dozen episodes that use the same MOTW formula.
Did you watch My Bloody Valentine, Navaros? Famine was not a mere substitution for a run of the mill monster of the week. He brought Dean to the point of openly begging for help from God. He didn't pussyfoot around and almost pray like he did in "Monster at the End of This Book." That's a defining moment in the life of Dean Winchester. He brought Dean to the point of freezing instead of being able to act (cutting off the ring finger) when he saw his brother drinking blood and using his powers again. That's a crossroads in Dean's life. It's a mytharc episode and then some.