You wanna talk fic? Some part of me was crazily hoping that the slow-burn Croatoan apocalypse we saw in "The End" really would be the foundation for next season. I personally think "The End" was just about one of the best episodes this show has ever cranked out and it could have provided as much fodder for Season Six as it's did for fic. Not to mention it would have been one hell of a ballsy thing for the show to do. Which is probably why it never even crossed their minds. I know for certain it never crossed Kripke's -- he was clearly hell-bent on writing the series finale of his dreams. Unfortunately while indulging himself he also managed to stick it to the show just as he was abandoning it.
I have major issues with Kripke's creative vision and apparently laid-back showrunning style, and at one time I might have thought that his departure could be a good thing for SPN. But now I just feel like he dumped the show because he couldn't think of anything else to do with it. He wrote his finale and then winked out like Chuck, leaving the whole damn thing in Sera Gamble's hands and I just can't imagine her taking the show in any particularly exciting direction. It's really difficult for any show to thrive once the creator leaves, and while I don't think Kripke was exactly spectacular at his job, I'd still rather have him running things if only because that would at least sustain the feel of the show. So yeah, I think S6 is going to be really weird and I'm really kind of annoyed that the show's creator just wasn't creative enough to stick around for another season or two.
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Date: 2010-05-18 11:59 pm (UTC)I have major issues with Kripke's creative vision and apparently laid-back showrunning style, and at one time I might have thought that his departure could be a good thing for SPN. But now I just feel like he dumped the show because he couldn't think of anything else to do with it. He wrote his finale and then winked out like Chuck, leaving the whole damn thing in Sera Gamble's hands and I just can't imagine her taking the show in any particularly exciting direction. It's really difficult for any show to thrive once the creator leaves, and while I don't think Kripke was exactly spectacular at his job, I'd still rather have him running things if only because that would at least sustain the feel of the show. So yeah, I think S6 is going to be really weird and I'm really kind of annoyed that the show's creator just wasn't creative enough to stick around for another season or two.