I saw it as spelling out to the audience exactly how low the self esteem of Dean Winchester can go. The boy is so very very broken.
So much this.
It's the last occasion I remember being this anxious and trepidatious at the same time.
Me, too. I think because (speculatively spoilery for plot points Kripke talked about at ComicCon) I want less of the war that's apparently looming, and more of Sam trying to figure out how to save Dean, and what Dean is thinking/doing as he heads into his last year on earth. I want the angst. Gimme angst, Kripke. Please.
AmyLiz, you don't think that they will do both?
I certainly hope so, sumi! I just ... want the angst a lot.
Captain Crunch:
I know they're connected, too -- both of them are committed to the life and the hunt, and Sam especially I think will feel a lot of responsibility that in their quest to finally kill the YED they ended loosing more demons on the world.
It's just like Buffy was for me -- saving the world was good and fine, but how Buffy felt about it, what happened to *her* was the draw for me. Which is probably obvious, but worth stating.
When I watched the pilot, I never expected the realtionship between these boys to be so incredibly rich and complicated, or for either of them to be so gorgeously broken (especially Dean. Oh, DEAN).
I know they're connected, too -- both of them are committed to the life and the hunt, and Sam especially I think will feel a lot of responsibility that in their quest to finally kill the YED they ended loosing more demons on the world.
It'll also be interesting to see how Dean reacts at first. He's always carried "kill the YED" as the end-all goal. (Though probably one could argue that that started to shift as we got further into S2.) To be a hunter, but not to be hunting the YED, feels like it should be a different thing to me.
Kripke interview - I hope that they do the un-Santa.
Not overly spoilery but if you have NO IDEA what shape the arc may take don't read it. (It just give it a name.)
It'd be like a crossover with Buffy's demonic Santa!
I think Kripke is saying "mythology" when he means "season arc" though... I always thought of a show's mythology as the accumulating background info of setting, how things work, who's allied with who, etc.
I agree, Matt. Know your terms, Kripke!
Well, they talked about the YED arc as the mytharc and I think that's what he means and the
demons escaping from hell; battle of good vs. evil
stems from the first one so he thinks of that in the same way.
(Not reading the interview. For now. I may weaken later. Soon) For my personal preference, I enjoy the angst, too. I'd like to see more Sam whumpage, actually, since I think Pada-somebody has gained the chops to portray that. I'm not ruling out Dean whumpage, but he got whumped so frequently and so hard last season that I actually hope they'll lighten up on him a little.
When it's nothing but constant whumpage, I grow calloused and immured. I'd like there to be about half the season of merry merry whacking of demon ass, and, um, tapping of mortal ass too as Dean gives in to his hedonistic side in a frantic and frenetic attempt at distracting his attention from his ticking clock. I'd like there to be brotherly bonding and bickerage, and I'd like to see Sam trying to balance keeping things light and humorous with Dean and slowly sliding into despair as one theory after another proves useless. I want Sam to carry the weight. Mid-season, they can ramp the Dean whumpage. But I want a nice long break from it, so that when the Ackles brings it, it'll be all the sharper and more painful.
