Fear...for the end is nigh

Season 5 for Supernatural started filming a couple of weeks ago. The internet is all abuzz with the news that J2 is signed up to do a 6th season but without Kripke. (Kripke just signed to do 5 seasons. It's not unusual for a show to go on without the creator in this industry, not for anything else but creative exhaustion)

This poses a small but serious sense of nervousness amongst the show's die hard fans. Eric Kripke has a very solid reason why he wanted to keep the show alive within a certain period of time - a lot of issues can pop up and as proven in last season's show, there already were parts of the mythos and ethos of the show that sagged. Losing Kripke may prove to be the tipping point.

Another issue that I personally can see here is this: The actors seem to be worn out. I'm not in any position to claim that I know exactly what they're going through but if experience were the basis of the opinion, I completely understand being in a box with a character for so long. Character bleeding is inevitable and it just drains you from who you really are. I can only imagine what they go through every day for 9 months; with the characters getting darker and more complex. These nuances are starting to show themselves in real life.

I've been watching interviews of Jared and I must say something's off. I know the guy's tired with work. I know how it feels to be running on empty and fumes. Been there, done that. Yet, in comparison to his previous interviews, his latest ones show the strain and the loss of his child-like awe of the world. It's always a sad day when a beautiful free spirit stops being free and starts becoming jaded. I think my heart broke a little bit more...

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Speaking of endings...

My current show will be ending soon. I've got to move my ass to get new projects... I've been on a diet for 3 weeks now and I'm always ravenous. It's not a good combination...