gwaevalarin | So, Paley Festival...

A few thoughts on all things Paley Festival, just based on articles and Twitter, as I haven't seen any videos yet:

At least two unexpected(!) deaths in the season finale? Please tell me it's not Cas. They can't kill him, right? Bobby neither. Why do I always have to worry again at the end of the season?
Then again, this is Supernatural, so "unexpected death" might just be teasing us and not mean final. Not that this kind of death is unexpected at all any more.
If they take Cas and Bal away from me... I don't even want to think about that.
Hm, then with Lisa and Ben apparently coming back - do not want! - maybe they will be the two unexpected deaths. Which would be really cruel. I mean, I don't like them - or rather I don't like how the show has handled this storyline - but killing them off, which pretty much means Dean getting them killed, not gonna be fun.
The only other somewhat "unexpected" ones I can think of are Meg, Crowley (mainly because right now we are not even supposed to expect him to be alive in the first place) and maybe Raphael.
Eve is expected. Rachel will probably be expected. So is Balthazar, unfortunately. :( How about an unexpected staying alive here, show?
Cliffhanger ending? Really? Damn! Now I do want a season 7. We can't have it all end without any ending at all.
Ben Edlund is (writing and?) directing a Castiel-centric episode, told from Catiel's point of view. With flashbacks (can those have Balthazar and their friendship before the war, please?) OMG! Perfection!
Kripke writing the finale gives me some hope, too.
So we will get closure on some of the storylines then: Purgatory, Eve, Sam's Wall and the war in Heaven. Since they are working with a season 7 in mind, I kinda wish they'd give the war in Heaven a little more time. There is so much potential there, it seems a waste to wrap it up so quickly. But I guess I can be glad that they do plan to give it some attention and wrap it up at all, so I won't complain.

I might do a Misha at Paley Festival post like I did for Comic Con last year. Anyone interested?

I'm from the same neck of the wood (as you probably know ;)) and yes, it does seem like getting rid of Cas - either by killing him off or simply sending him back to Heaven never to be seen again - would lose them a lot of viewers. But, to be honest, I'm not sure how people in the majority of the fandom think about it, I don't exactly get there much.

Killing Bobby doesn't sound like a much better idea if they don't want the wrath of fandom. Then again, people wouldn't probably stop watching if Bobby weren't around any more.

I've never watched Smallville but I've heard bad things about the road it went down, and I certainly don't want that for my show.
Can Ben Edlund please take over already?

Heh, yeah, I don't know the stats from the majority of fandom either. But I do know that Castiel is a beloved fan favorite, they wouldn't completely off him entirely unless they really want to suffer a huge backlash.

Oh yes, it's been ten seasons (I think?) and people are just like LET IT DIE ALREADY! Which this is its last season. Some cast members left because they thought it was becoming too much or ridiculous to handle, and when your cast is saying that you know shit isn't going right. At least the cast of SPN are all still enjoying and loving what they do, which is good.

PETITION FOR EDLUND AS SHOWRUNNER. WE NEED TO CREATE ONE NOW.

I still haven't been able to watch any videos from Paley, but from what I read it sounds like everyone on the show is aware of how awesome Edlund is as well. They said they trust him whenever he comes up with his crazy ideas, right?
So trust him and put the fate of the show in his hands already.

So, Paley Festival...

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