G R O W Y O U R W I N G S

To TV Guide here.  (No spoilers)


Eric Kripke's Top 10 Supernatural Episodes (in alphabetical order)
"Bloodlust"
"Crossroad Blues"
"Devil Trap"
"Faith"
"Ghostfacers"
"Hollywood Babylon"
"Mystery Spot"
"Night Shifter"
"Supernatural Christmas"
"What Is And What Should Never Be"

I did my own back at the start of September here.

Mine
Mystery Spot
What Is and What Should Never Be
A Very Supernatural Christmas
In My Time of Dying
Bad Day at Black Rock
Born Under a Bad Sign
Tall Tales
Jus in Bello
Nightshifter
Skin

*Note: I've been rewatching S1 & S2--I'm too lazy to go back to change my post but today I'd take out Jus in Bello and replace it with Shadow. 

via missyjack HERE.  Who found it in Variety HERE.

Supernatural executive producer Eric Kripke has scored an overall deal at Warner Bros TV.

Under the terms of the two-year exclusive pact, Kripke will continue to exec produce and showrun CW's Thursday staple Supernatural, which enters its fourth season this fall.

Kripke also will start to develop new projects under the deal. There's no word if one of the new titles might be a Supernatural spinoff; Kripke has said in the past that he's interested in doing a prequel of sorts that takes place in the Old West and centered on the show's mythology.

Kripke's at work crafting the show's fourth season, following up on the season three cliffhanger that sent Dean (Jensen Ackles) to hell.

Way Cool!  A two-year exclusive pact?  Fifth season anyone?  Plus an prequel perhaps????

Missyjack also links to an Aussie interview with Jared.  (More later).

A great opinion blog on Kripke and the LA Con can be found here.

I agree with everything she says.  Kripke is fantastic.  I love how much he respects the fans, but still also holds on to his vision.  "Trust the Kripke" should be a pledge of this fandom because so far he hasn't let us down.

And I'd also chip in for a fund for classic rock.  Athough, as Kripke said at the LA Con, Zeppelin would still be too expensive.  But wouldn't it be great if the fans provided a slush fund for other more affordable classic rock for the show.  As this blogger mentions, could anyone picture the end of Nightshifter without Renegade by Styx.  Or the use of "Don't Fear the Reaper" in Faith.  I've really missed the classic rock.

On a different note.  Today was my first day back at work since the LA Con.  Luckily it was a good day and I nothing was able to squash my residual energy and squee from this past weekend.  Despite not having enough sleep over the entire weekend, I've never returned from a vacation feeling more refreshed and energized.  Everything seems so bright and shiny to me.  I guess that's what comes from being "confined" with 1,000(?) positively charged fans for 3.5 days.

And now fickleone is lobbying for us to go the Dallas Con.  I am so, so tempted.

Last week I posted that I had started reading Neil Gaiman's "American Gods".  I mentioned how much it reminded me of Supernatural.  Not to long later I was browsing LJ for meta's on either Mystery Spot or WIaWSNB and came across a post by setissma where she mentioned "American Gods" and said: 

"I know the novel is listed as an influence on the show, and the connections are obvious..."

So I guess Kripke must have been partially influenced by "American Gods."   I just thought it was my mind's habit these days to somehow connect *everything* to Supernatural! 

I'm really enjoying this book.  The main character just realized the fellows he's been traveling with are actually old gods.  He's just identified his main traveling companion as the old Norse god Odin.  This prompted me to go off and read about Odin.  Which is cool--I'm half Norwegian and I just realized today how little I know about Norwegian folklore.  I find myself wondering how much my grandmother (who was born in Norway) would have known about old folklore.  I'm betting not much--she was a no-nonsense type of woman who was also a very strong Lutheran.  But who knows?

More rambling thoughts... I found myself thinking about Kripke earlier this morning.  I was musing on how it must be to be a writer, to create a set of characters, imagine them in a world that you created.  And then to have it "come to life" so to speak by directors, cinematographers, and actors who breathe life into them.  I've heard that Kripke is a Jensen-fan.  I wonder if it's partly because of the depth of life Jensen has given to the character of Dean.  Which made me wonder if Dean is somehow partially an aspect of Kripke's self and/or a fantasy self for Kripke.  Kripke has said he loves classic rock, as does Dean.  Kripke loves the gore and lore, as does Dean.  I'm betting Kripke self-identifies a bit with Dean. 

Of course I'm not a writer myself, so I can only speculate what it must be like to create something and see it come to life.