Supernatural update: ‘Dean is not a d***’
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- October
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Just got an e-mail from the good folks at Warner Brothers, and apparently there’s been such a huge fan outcry to yesterday’s episode, “Yellow Fever,” that creator and executive producer Eric Kripke asked them to pass along a message for him.
I’m posting it after the break, because he used a four-letter word that isn’t really really bad, but isn’t really at place in a family blog, though I’m sure you can figure it out from the headline to this post.
After the break, Kripke’s message, verbatim, and then three clips from next week’s episode, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester.”
Also, if anyone wonders: I’m only on Season 2 of SPN, so I haven’t been posting updates on the show this season, because I don’t want to be spoiled. Hopefully I’ll catch up by the winter break and then be able to watch Season 4 and erase the eps from my DVR and blog regularly in the new year.
OK, now the break:
Here you go, Kripke’s message:
So I’ve never before responded directly to the fandom’s comments about an episode, and I don’t plan to make a habit of it, but I couldn’t resist dropping in a thought about the episode “Yellow Fever.”Which is this:
Dean is not a dick.
None of the writers, or anyone on the creative team of Supernatural, think Dean’s ever been a dick, past, present, or future. He’s a hero. Dean did NOT contract the ghost sickness because he’s a dick. Victims contract the illness because they use “fear as a weapon.” Dean asks Lilith at the episode’s end, “why did I get infected?” And she cryptically responds, “you know why. Listen to your heart.” We, as the writers, probably should have emphasized this mystery more, I take responsibility for that omission. But the point is: the reason he was infected is because of a SECRET he’s keeping. A dark secret that will be revealed in Episode 10. And not at all because of any dickishness, implied or otherwise.
Thanks, gang.
I have tried not to read the message, because I really don’t want to know so much, but I failed miserably. I’m glad, however, that Kripke thinks so much of the fans and the character’s he’s created to respond in such a way.
Now, the clips:
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No. 2:
No. 3:
Photo courtesy of The CW.
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Hee!
Really? Fans were up set about that? I thought it, along with several parts of that episode, was hilarious. But Kripke is to be commended for that nice note.
Can’t wait for you to catch up with us, Amy!
What Erika said.
While I firmly consider myself to be a “Deangirl”, I really had no problem with that whole sequence of events. If you were paying any attention at all, you got the whole “fear as a weapon” angle to contracting the disease. Although, Kripke’s comment about the dark secret and episode 10 took me by surprise, I’m intrigued now.
As you’re finding out Amy, SPN has a very very devoted following, and they’re quite protective of the Winchester Brothers. Even to the point of protecting them from their own creator and writers, apparently.
Oh, and Amy, thank you for blogging about SPN even while desperately trying to avoid spoilers. You are my hero.