Info out of Comic Con
Panel vids and interview videos are starting to be posted from this weekend's San Diego Comic Con. I've watched the panel and the Jensen vid I found, which have very minimal spoilers. I have not read anything, and what my eyes accidentally fell upon, I really didn't want to know.
Minor-ish spoilers behind cut.
Okay, so. The panel didn't really reveal anything. At all. Which was kind of interesting. Some of what Jeremy Carver said makes me apprehensive. Some of what he said makes me very excited.
Some of what has been said, in the panel and in the Jensen interview (plus the accidental spoiler I didn't want to know), make me think that we're going to re-visit S4 and S6, only in reverse. I am somewhat apprehensive of that. (I'll get into that in a little bit.)
Something Carver did say that makes me very happy is that they're going to lighten up on the mythology archs and focus on the brothers. Which, yay! \o/ (Mytharch is fine, but such archs, in my observation, are in the habit of collapsing under their own weight. I felt that SPN did this in several ways.)
I've seen in pictures and it's been mentioned during the panel that Sam will have a "love interest." Jensen mentioned in his interview that Dean has been gone for a year. This is the oft-maligned S6 time jump/"domesticated Dean" storyline in reverse. I don't want to go in anticipating the worst (hence my self-removal from fandom discussion boards), but I have a concern that it will work out better for Sam than it did for Dean, which makes me sad.
As those who've been around my journal for a while know, I liked Lisa. I thought she was good for Dean. She was what he needed at that point in time, and there was a genuine caring there between them. Not "OMGYoucompleteme!" hearts-in-the-eyes being in love, but a genuine love and concern and caring for each other. And it was nice to see a side of Dean that I knew existed but he rarely got to show. I knew it wouldn't work out for them, but it makes me sad.
I haven't re-watched S6 recently, but I'm in the process of re-watching S7, and watching it back-to-back, minus fandom discussion board influence, makes for a different kind of storytelling. And in this way, there's a certain unevenness with Sera that wasn't there in early seasons. She writes some of the very best eps of the season/series ("Death's Door,") for example. But then the pacing of the overall season seems wonky.
I've also found several of the MotW eps less satisfying as stand-alone eps. In the early days, a MotW ep would delve into the urban legend and maybe turn it sideways or make it "real." Now, so often the MotW just seems to be a generic plot device, if that makes sense. (Contrast the djinn, or even the hookman or scarecrow with the vetalla in "Adventures in Babysitting," for example.) I kinda hope they get back to the older feel of the MotWs in S8.
Oh. I see there are more Jensen interviews available. *steals a moment when the office is empty*
Okay. Sounds like we're going to get a variation S4 minus the Apocalypse/angels/demons stuff.
We're also going to get Purgatory in flashbacks. Hopefully since it's not Hell, we'll get something a little more concrete. Also? I would LOVE if one of those flashbacks was about Gordon.
Oh! I've also got a new hope (fruitless though it might be) that we get to see Todd Stashwick again. Would be awesome if he was the "spoiler I didn't want to see" that Jensen also talked about in one of the vids.
Also? Given the rundown of Jensen's ep that he gave, I'm getting a sense of Sam and Dean returning to their S1 mindsets, with Dean being all "saving people, hunting things" and Sam being all "big picture, find the important guy."
Overall, can't wait until the new season!
Minor-ish spoilers behind cut.
Okay, so. The panel didn't really reveal anything. At all. Which was kind of interesting. Some of what Jeremy Carver said makes me apprehensive. Some of what he said makes me very excited.
Some of what has been said, in the panel and in the Jensen interview (plus the accidental spoiler I didn't want to know), make me think that we're going to re-visit S4 and S6, only in reverse. I am somewhat apprehensive of that. (I'll get into that in a little bit.)
Something Carver did say that makes me very happy is that they're going to lighten up on the mythology archs and focus on the brothers. Which, yay! \o/ (Mytharch is fine, but such archs, in my observation, are in the habit of collapsing under their own weight. I felt that SPN did this in several ways.)
I've seen in pictures and it's been mentioned during the panel that Sam will have a "love interest." Jensen mentioned in his interview that Dean has been gone for a year. This is the oft-maligned S6 time jump/"domesticated Dean" storyline in reverse. I don't want to go in anticipating the worst (hence my self-removal from fandom discussion boards), but I have a concern that it will work out better for Sam than it did for Dean, which makes me sad.
As those who've been around my journal for a while know, I liked Lisa. I thought she was good for Dean. She was what he needed at that point in time, and there was a genuine caring there between them. Not "OMGYoucompleteme!" hearts-in-the-eyes being in love, but a genuine love and concern and caring for each other. And it was nice to see a side of Dean that I knew existed but he rarely got to show. I knew it wouldn't work out for them, but it makes me sad.
I haven't re-watched S6 recently, but I'm in the process of re-watching S7, and watching it back-to-back, minus fandom discussion board influence, makes for a different kind of storytelling. And in this way, there's a certain unevenness with Sera that wasn't there in early seasons. She writes some of the very best eps of the season/series ("Death's Door,") for example. But then the pacing of the overall season seems wonky.
I've also found several of the MotW eps less satisfying as stand-alone eps. In the early days, a MotW ep would delve into the urban legend and maybe turn it sideways or make it "real." Now, so often the MotW just seems to be a generic plot device, if that makes sense. (Contrast the djinn, or even the hookman or scarecrow with the vetalla in "Adventures in Babysitting," for example.) I kinda hope they get back to the older feel of the MotWs in S8.
Oh. I see there are more Jensen interviews available. *steals a moment when the office is empty*
Okay. Sounds like we're going to get a variation S4 minus the Apocalypse/angels/demons stuff.
We're also going to get Purgatory in flashbacks. Hopefully since it's not Hell, we'll get something a little more concrete. Also? I would LOVE if one of those flashbacks was about Gordon.
Oh! I've also got a new hope (fruitless though it might be) that we get to see Todd Stashwick again. Would be awesome if he was the "spoiler I didn't want to see" that Jensen also talked about in one of the vids.
Also? Given the rundown of Jensen's ep that he gave, I'm getting a sense of Sam and Dean returning to their S1 mindsets, with Dean being all "saving people, hunting things" and Sam being all "big picture, find the important guy."
Overall, can't wait until the new season!