A kind of ranty response to vague SPN spoilers...

[saone]

The Grim Reaper is hitting Supernatural again. - executive producer Sera Gamble told TVGuide.com at Sunday's PaleyFest that the season finale will feature at least two unexpected deaths.

"There will definitely be deaths," said Gamble, who penned the penultimate episode for Season 6. "I would say that the last couple of episodes are pretty dark..."

First of all, they're not unexpected deaths now, are they, Sera? :P


You know, I've just figured out why all the character-killing on SPN rubs me the wrong way - besides the fact that they've thrown away some amazing actors and roles over the past few years - it reminds me way too much of how tptb treat death in comic books.

When death isn't used as a temporary thing to spark major events (Captain America, Batman), it's used as a cheap, easy way to bring 'ze drama' and as a slight of hand to hide real problems within a story.

Having a huge, multi-book crossover, but you don't think the story's popping the way it should? Kill off a few secondaries! Written yourself into a corner with a character and trying to change him/her would be too much work? Sound the death knell! Having trouble selling copies and you think 'shaking things up' would help? Dust off a few old, beloved characters, then slaughter 'em wholesale!

I guess I just can't help thinking about Buffy and how, regardless of the show's other problems, it handled death so well. That was another show about a group of people involved in constant battles against monsters and evil, but the difference is, when a character died on Buffy, I usually bawled like a little baby. Death was used sparingly, so it had a much, much greater impact.

In comics I've been trained to associate death with meh, and damn if I'm not there in Supernatural-land as well.

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