Thanks for posting this. The whole bit about the production timeline kind of puts how I've thought about the writing and its cohesion in a different light. It's cool to know about how they are assigned the episodes too. I'm glad you got to talk with him.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I wish I could have chatted more with him, but I a)didn't want to monopolize him - there were a lot of Silk fans there too, and b)I had my own busy schedule!
And yeah, the writing stuff is interesting to think about.
Love the details about what goes on in the writers' room! It gives validity to my thoughts that sometimes the episodes aren't what they could be simply because writing for an evolving TV show is very different that writing a novel.
Don't suppose Robbie would contemplate coming back though? Miss him so much...
Well, Jeremy left and came back, so never say never - but right now I don't think it's likely. Robbie is still focusing on the projects that he left SPN to work on. Unfortunately for us, of course! He knows that we miss him and would have him back in a heartbeat though, so that's something.
But yeah, ever evolving TV show and constraints on writing that the audience isn't aware of... so, yeah, there are many reasons why an episode might not be what it could be, and I think very few of those reasons have to do with writer decisions.
I think if you're trying to pick out writer issues, you have to look for consistent failures across episodes, rather than specific "decisions." Though, given how much Robbie argued against killing Charlie, I'm still chalking that disaster up to a poor writing decision backed up by nepotism and I'm never forgiving it. ;)
Oh what a really interesting conversation to have had! (Or set of conversations, I suppose....). That's a great insight into how things work on SPN from a writing perspective. I've often wondered how episodes are allocated and how the writing is done. This reinforces my wish that SPN didn't have such a large pool of writers and could find more cohesion in laying out the main arc for the season - though bringing in the character constraints puts a new spin on that.
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And yeah, the writing stuff is interesting to think about.
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Don't suppose Robbie would contemplate coming back though? Miss him so much...
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But yeah, ever evolving TV show and constraints on writing that the audience isn't aware of... so, yeah, there are many reasons why an episode might not be what it could be, and I think very few of those reasons have to do with writer decisions.
I think if you're trying to pick out writer issues, you have to look for consistent failures across episodes, rather than specific "decisions." Though, given how much Robbie argued against killing Charlie, I'm still chalking that disaster up to a poor writing decision backed up by nepotism and I'm never forgiving it. ;)
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Fascinating stuff!
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Glad you enjoyed it! :)
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