Supernatural Season Six Description

I know I've been away for awhile and I plan to find some way to make it up to you- perhaps I'll post a bunch of interviews and things from the SPN Magazines(with proper crediting of course)- but I bring happy postings, if it's been a description of the up coming season of Supernatural you've been looking for.

From our peeps at the CW and The Futon Critic.

SUPERNATURAL SEASON 6 DESCRIPTION:

Returning for its sixth season, this haunting series follows Sam and Dean Winchester, two brothers bound by tragedy and blood to their dangerous, other-worldly mission. This past season, Dean and Sam faced their toughest foe yet: the Devil himself. As the Apocalypse raged on around them, the brothers, aided only by a dwindling band of fellow hunters and rebel angel Castiel, sought a way to stop Lucifer and save the planet. Ultimately, they discovered a way to force Lucifer back into Hell and end the Apocalypse - but at tremendous cost: Sam’s life. Season six will be a season of mystery and shadow. Heaven and Hell have been left in complete disarray since the apocalyptic events of season five. And now, monsters, angels and demons roam across a lawless and chaotic landscape. And so Dean Winchester, who has retired from hunting and sworn never to return, finds himself being pulled back into his old life - pulled back by none other than Sam Winchester, who has escaped from Hell. The two reunite to beat back the rising tide of creatures and demon-spawn, but they quickly realize that neither are who they used to be, their relationship isn’t what it used to be, and that nothing is what it seems.
The series stars Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester, Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester and Misha Collins as Castiel.

SUPERNATURAL is from Warner Bros. Television in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision, with executive producers McG (”Nikita,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “The O.C.”), Eric Kripke (”Boogeyman”), Robert Singer (”Midnight Caller”), Sera Gamble, Ben Edlund and Phil Sgriccia.



S.Wesson
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Source:
The Futon Critic and the CW.
Supernaturalfansonline.com

Just to Clarify

Just To Clarify

A Skeptic Fan

I just want to clarify.
I don't think I've been entirely clear and I just need to keep it simplistic. It's not that I think a sixth season is impossible. It's very plausible to come up with any number of storylines for a sixth season and I have read a few that I like. I'm particularly fond of the rebuilding of the boys relationship from the broken, shattered pieces it's become. Other suggestions I've read just aren't realistic such as the 'Simpler Times' storyline. Things aren't going to be simple for them, not anytime soon. They are broken boys.

Now, even though I have agreed that there is always the potential to create a sixth season, that doesn't necessarily mean I like the idea. My biggest draw to the series was always the story line, of which Sam and Dean's relationship plays heavily into. My question is, where does the series go after they have built it up again if they can?

Also, my greatest concern and everything that I've been arguing for is how it will effect the story told in the previous seasons. Sure season six will be a story of its own, but you can't simply ignore the first five seasons to do that. They're going to impact each other. Everyone has this kind of blind faith in Kripke's team, but this is a slippery slope to climb with everything that has happened. I just don't want to see the integrity of the previous story hurt. And when I read some people's response it's like that isn't even taken into consideration and that kind of... annoys me because Kripke has put so much time and effort into his original story. To suddenly have to be change it to adapt it for another season. It feels like it's taking away from that first story.

I'd love to keep watching the boys, but not at the cost of the storyline.

S.Wesson

Oh Captain, My Captain

Season Six Ship Sets Sail

Is Kripke still our Captain

 There is a big fluster amongst fans: Is Kripke still sailing this Supernatural ship? Well we haven't received any confirmation yet, but the word around the ship yard is that our Skipper is stepping down and handing the wheel over to Executive Producer Sera Gamble who has been with this ship since it set sail in 2005.

Now, now my distressed little sailors let's all keep our hats on. Our Captain may be stepping down, but he's not stepping off.  A little insight from our friend Ausiello over at EW says that even though our once proud Captain has stepped aside he will still be an acting Lieutenant on this rig and have a continually active role in the making of Supernatural, just not nearly as big as before.

According to a article posted on Variety.com back in June of 08 Kirpke signed an exclusive 'pact' under which he would continue to develop projects for Warner Bros. which may have some part in Kirpke's stepping down, as mentioned by Ausiello, "Kripke is said to be finalizing a new deal with Warner Bros. that will feature a big development component. In other words, his diminished role on Supernatural will free him up to create another awesome show."

What does the future hold for our Creator, Captain and over all Master of all things Supernatural? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

S.Wesson

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Sources:
EW.com, The Ausiello Files
Variety.com, Eric Kripke scores WB TV deal.

A Skeptic Fan

A Skeptic Fan

Hmm

Now that the Sixth Season has been confirmed by The CW and the parties are in full swing, I have to voice a few doubts and concerns regarding a sixth season. Kripke has worked on a five year plan, ending the series with the fifth season, a big bang, the Apocalypse. This was the BIG FINALE. So if he's been working on this five year plan, what could he possibly have in store for a sixth season, for anything that could top the finale of the fifth or at least not hurt the integrity of the story that's already been told? Right off the bat we know that neither Sam or Dean are going to die in the fifth season finale, not anymore anyway if there is a sixth season, and even if they do, they won't remain dead for too long. Kripke has already stated in an interview that there is no Supernatural without Sam and Dean. They're the driving force, and if there are no Winchesters, there is no Supernatural. So, unless Kripke is looking at something like 'The Days of Our After-Lives' I don't think we'll be seeing any lasting deaths of The Brothers Winchester.

According to an interview from BuddyTV with Sera Gamble, Ben Edlund and Exec-Producer Robert Singer, they're looking to turn this car around and head for more simpler times after this Apocalyptic journey is over. They want to get back to what the story has always been about, and that is, without a doubt, Sam and Dean. Well good news to everyone who's missed that weekly monster hunt with the "Who's that monster!", but the question that falls for all those who have followed the storyline is, what is the driving force?

Despite the easy going nature of the first season when compared to the fifth, there was always a driving force, a storyline underneath all that monster business, and that was to find John. That was the hook from the first episode, finding John. Where's John? So when the final boss is beaten what is left in terms of a storyline for the boys? How are you going to make this 'monster of the week' idea work? How are you going to make anything work without hurting the existing storyline and the integrity of it?

I feel that going on would make the intensity of the fifth season rather anti-climactic. You have this intense rising action, a dramatic climax, but then you deviate into a whole new storyline. They're saying that they best way is to start with a new story, but the last story was five years in the making. It was THEE story. I think that the idea of getting back to basics and focus on the boys is a great idea, but I can't see how it could be done without hurting the previous seasons, the previous story. It's not impossibly to make a sixth season, I just think it's impossible to do it without taking away from everything before it.

I love the boys and I love Supernatural and it would be great to see it go on, but when you want to consider the story it's telling, the story that was told, do you really think it can go on? I don't. And I would've had no problem with this being the end because it was a fantastic story. It was dramatic and funny and had all the right balance of elements and it looked, for a while, like it was building to a great ending. But now I'm not seeing how to bring an actual ending with a sixth season. I have this doubt growing in my gut that says this is going to become something ugly.

S.Wesson
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BuddyTV.com, After the Apocalypse: Supernatural Writers on Season 6 Plan

THIS JUST IN: Supernatuarl Sixth Season!

THIS JUST IN

SUPERNATURAL SIXTH SEASON

This just in ladies and gentlemen, straight from the horses mouth. Supernatural has been picked up for a sixth season. No more speculation. Now you can get out those hats, pour the champagne an throw the confetti, our boys are coming back. 

Now we pose the real question: What ARE you up to, Mr. Kripke?

Congratulations cast and crew of Supernatural and thank you for all your hard work

S.Wesson

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Sources:

CWTV.com, The CW Blog

Supernatural News Update

Supernatural News UPdate

A Miscellaneous News Update.

More Sixth Season Speculation.
Our buddy Ausiello over at EW.com gives us a definite 'a sure thing' regarding the sixth season of Supernatural. Exciting right? Right. But isn't it enough with the speculation already? Sure we get it. Supernatural, definitely getting a sixth season. But instead of constantly posting speculations can we finally just sit back and wait for the confirmation from The CW? I'm a lover of the show- obsesser, even- but I'm tired of reading speculation, so let's just wait for the real thing.

Casting Spoiler
Not always the reliable source, but IMDB.com gives us a little casting spoiler for episode 5.16 'Dark Side of the Moon'. It would appear that the ever talented Traci Dinwiddie will be reprising her role as everyone's favorite psychic, Pamela Barnes.
(Whatever happened to Missouri?)

Back in January our most recent and awkwardly helpful demon, Crowley, or rather his actor Mark Sheppard, tweeted to all us fans that he was going to be returning to the show. For fans of this very Good Omens-esque Crowley, we have a few more specifics thanks to Maureen Ryan, The Watcher, over at the Chicago Tribune. Our good buddy Crowley, if there was ever that kind of demon, is slated to appear in episode 20(101) of season 5-- "and don't be surprised if Crowley is around for more than one episode."
I feel a little tingly.

DigitalSpy.com brings us a cast spoiler. For fans of the show EastEnders prepare for a treat. EE actor Adam Croasdell is on board for a future episode in which the 29-year-old actor will be playing Baldr(Baldur, Balder), the Norse god of light.

Outside Supernatural
Curious about what the Boys Jackles are doing outside of Supernatural in their professional lives? Well ladies and Gentlemen, fanboys and fangirls, the Los Angeles Times tells us our ghost busting hottie Jensen Ackles will be lending that sweet voice to the likes of Bruce Timm and Brandon Vietti in the upcoming animated feature and newest installment in Batman, Batman: Under the Red Hood as a title character the Red Hood.
Written by Judd Winick, this installment is based on his 2005 Batman Comic storyline. In this Batman will be facing up to another vigilante, Red Hood, who doesn't seem to mind racking up the body count. This "violent look into the crime on the streets" will be executive produced by Bruce Timm and directed by Superman Doomsday co-director Brandon Vietti.
Ackles will be joining the voice talents of Bruce Greenwood, Neil Patrick Harris, John DiMaggio and Jason Isaacs.

Cast and Crew
Kevin Parks, second unit and assistant director, is joining The Ride to Conquer Cancer in honor of the late, great Kim Manners as well as the many family, friends and co-workers impacted by this disease. The Ride to Conquer Cancer is two-days cycling from Vancouver to Seattle and takes place in June. If you wish to support him visit his page: Kevin Parks.

and finally...
A Word from Our Boys
It's no secret that there are people out there who'd love to take advantage of our dedication and admiration for the Boys Jackles on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Well, they just want you to know that it's not them. Keep it in mind when that guy you're talking to says he's Jared or Jensen.



We're sure they'd be ever grateful if you'd pass the message along.


S.Wesson

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Sources:
EW.com, The Ausiello Files
IMDB.com, Supernatural 'Dark Side of the Moon'
ChicagoTribune.com, The Watcher
DigitalSpy.com, Ex-'Enders Actor Joins Supernatural
Los Angeles Times, Batman: Under the Red Hood
Conquer Cancer, Kevin Parks

Supernatural: A Sixth Season? Cont'd

Supernatural: A Sixth Season? Cont'd 
Jumping the gun?

A little follow up on yesterday's blog. A friend of mine at www.supernaturalnet.net gave me a little article posted on coventrytelegraph.net in which David Bentley sat down with our favorite ghost hunting brothers back in June in Birmingham for Asylum 3, the UK's SPN convention and asked about their future in the show and afterward. Bentley doesn't hold back when asking about a sixth season. Ackles confirms that if there is a sixth season he is in, "I have to. I have a six-year contract." and the same goes for Padalecki, who follows up with the details that the show, in its fourth season, had the highest ratings they'd seen for it, and were still climbing- always a reassurance for a network.
Unfortunately some fans have taken the news that Jensen and Jared are signed on six year contracts as a confirmation of a sixth season, which is not the same thing. It simply means that if the sixth season is picked up, the boys are obligated to be in it if they're written into it. Though, Padalecki has confessed that if the show really does 'jump the shark' he will not go on.
So don't get ahead of yourself ladies and gentleman. The BOYS have six year contracts, not the show just yet. That article may be getting a little ahead of itself. Don't start partying just yet, save that confetti for the official CW confirmation.


S.Wesson

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Sources:
ConventryTelegraph.net, Supernatural stars sensationally reveal: We WILL be back for Season 6

Supernatural: A Sixth Season?

I'd like to tackle the subject of a sixth season.

There is tons of speculation and both 'yays' and 'nays' from fans on the idea of a sixth season. Some fans are worried, how does one top the Apocalypse? Other fans are just happy to see the Winchesters. The big questions is still really "Is there going to be a sixth season?" Kripke is by no means adverse to the idea of a sixth season despite all his plans to go out with a big bang and ending this Apocalyptic Arc with the fifth season.

“I did set out [to] tell a five-season storyline, quite frankly, I never expected [the show] to make it to five years. But now that we’re in our fifth year, I have every intention of ending the story with a bang and not drawing it out or watering it down.... That having been said, I’m looking at this season as the last chapter in this particular story. That doesn’t mean there can’t be a new story. Buffy did it. The X-Files did it. You close a chapter on a big mythology storyline and then you begin a new one." (EW.com)

The real issues isn't Kripke's willingness to go on to a new story, but rather a matter of being picked up for that sixth season and from the buzz around town, it doesn't seem like that's going to be a problems, according to Dawn Ostroff, “The ratings are up, we have more young women coming to the show than ever before. There aren’t a lot of shows that you can say are doing better in their fifth year.”(Sixth Season or Bust?, EW.com)
Not to mention this thrilling little update from SpoilerTV.com: "Apparently THE CW is deep in contracts negotiations and is finalizing the paperwork for renewing :
Gossip Girl ,90210 ,Smallville ,Supernatural , ANTM and The Vampire Diaries for next season.
Expect official renewal annoucements for the above shows later this month." (SpoilerTV.com) 

All we're waiting for now, it would seem, is for The CW to confirm it. 

Kripke, who has given hints of interest in a sixth season, despite all previous claims that he's working on a five year plan, has not hinted at any real ideas for a sixth season, which leaves some fans worrying; what could The Kripkeeper be up to? A suggestion made was the extension of the storyline of the fifth season, but Kripke has every intention on wrapping up the Apocalypse with the end of the fifth season. So what's next?

SN502_D2745b If there’s a sixth season, how do you top the apocalypse?  
"Well, the trick is to not go big but go intimate – at least those are the initial conversations we’ve had [if the show is picked up for a sixth season]. We always set up this five-year storyline, because in my heart of hearts, I just never imagine we’d actually go five years, much less beyond. We are going to climax the storyline and really wrap up the story of Satan and Michael and the apocalypse. The big question is, how do you follow that? We look at this as a unique challenge but also an opportunity to really launch a new storyline next year. We’re almost looking at it as the sequel to a movie. Rather than as a lot of genre shows do as they get on in years, becoming so convoluted and almost collapsing under their own mythology and getting to the point where you just can’t follow any of it anymore, we’re really looking forward to the opportunity of just sweeping it all clean and starting over with something else. We talk about returning to a stripped-down version of the show that’s almost similar to season one, in which the mythology was just as simple as finding their father and finding something that’s really personal and meaningful to Sam and Dean. One of the things that’s hard about the end of the world is sometimes it’s hard to have your characters emotionally connect with it, because it’s so big. But if their emotional storyline for, say, season six is to save a loved one, then that’s something you can really understand and get behind and actually have some really emotional storytelling that takes you through a lot of the scary episodes."(Interview with Eric Kripke, USA Weekend)

But what about our boys? Will they have a role in this new adventure? The Destiny decided for The Brothers Winchester is that one must fight the other. Will they survive? Kripke doesn't say but I think this all but gives it away:   

So you think about what you’ll do in the next season — how about who you’ll do it with? We don’t know yet if Sam and Dean will survive the end of the world. Are they in your plans? "Oh, absolutely. The one thing I can say is there's no Supernatural without Sam and Dean. If they’re not driving the bus, then I’m not sure there’s a bus to drive. Maybe they’ll survive this year and maybe they won’t, but we’re at the point where, hilariously, death on our show for our main characters has now basically become an inconvenience. [Laughs] Even if they don’t survive, they’ll certainly be back for a season six. I just don’t know how to tell this story without Sam and Dean." (Interview with Eric Kripke, USA Weekend)

So, whether our climactic battle ends bloody or not, if there is a sixth season there are going to be Winchesters. And from the looks of it, We'll be seeing them again soon.

What do YOU foresee in our boys futures?

S.Wesson
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Sources:
EW.com The Ausiello Files
EW.com The Ausiello Files
SpoilerTV.com CW Early Renewal Status
The original USA Weekend Interview with Eric Kripke can't be found but it can be found posted HERE