SDCC 2013 | S9 Spoilers | Some General Thoughts
I guess most of you will have seen the panels and reports from Comic Con by now, so what are your thoughts? Personally, I could not say that I am particularly happy with the information Carver & Co released about S9 so far, but that does not really come as a surprise to me.
( Here be spoilers! Beware! )
( Here be spoilers! Beware! )
I'm still bitter that Gamble was so deplored by huge swathes of the fandom just for trying to do something different with the show and breathe new life into it, which it desperately needed and does again now more so than ever - alas, the angelic rot had already set in at that point and those that latched onto it will apparently not settle for anything else, to hell with what that does to the integrity of the show.
I'd like to say 'yes, stop watching, preserve the love you once had', but it hasn't worked like that for me, I stopped watching and now still can't even look at the early seasons because all that does is remind me of how far the show fell. :( So I totally understand your resentment because it's a large part of what drove me away and keeps me away - I guess this is how you came to feel about AtS (and I've still never managed to rewatch S5 of that myself, despite owning the DVD for so many years).
But I'm dissatisfied with a lot of things at the moment, which might also contribute.
I do want to watch the early seasons again someday, when I can get past my upset over how far the show drifted from that original vision. If I can focus on the episodes and not let myself think about the turgid mess it descended into in later years... Not yet, though.
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I'm still bitter that Gamble was so deplored by huge swathes of the fandom just for trying to do something different with the show
I know! I really miss her clear sense of direction and most of all her clear sense of the characters and their history. The lack thereof is my biggest gripe with the current creative team. And now that Edlund left the team as well, there is no actual writer left who was with the show in the early years. I don't count Carver, because for some reason he lost his deft touch with the characters during his absence from the show. Not to mention that I am under the impression that he didn't care to catch up on what he missed in S6/7.
I'd like to say 'yes, stop watching, preserve the love you once had', but it hasn't worked like that for me
I am not at the point with SPN yet, where the current downward spiral affects my love for S1-7. I've just rewatched Fresh Blood and Mystery Spot and I felt as affected by them as always. However, I fear that my love for the show may not recover from 3 years (S8-S10 possibly) of watching it be driven into the ground by Carver & Co.
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What I loved most about the Gamble era was that she allowed the characters to grow up. She took them beyond the childish, fratboy humour rut they'd been mired in and let them mature into the seasoned adults they should long since have become. She also allowed their story to be driven by what had gone before - she kept them moving forward. I can't even describe what Carver's team has made of the characters, but forward certainly does not describe their character movement. Bah. Even talking about the show makes me glad I stopped watching. :(
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And I couldn't agree more about Gamble. I also loved that she turned away from internal conflict between the brothers and rather explored what their past life had done to them as individuals and how they deal with that. /sigh It's so tremendously sad that such a huge potion of fandom was unable to see how beneficial Gamble was for the show. :( And yes, Carver regressed the characters. Basically he tried to re-tell the brothers' S4/5 arc in one season - only way, way worse than Kripke - making the characters look like idiots in the process. Ah, well. Nothing we can do about it. Best to ignore it and move on, for our sanity's sake.
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