#andrew dabb

[beatsheetromanroy]

sooo crazy to think about how all first three supernatural showrunners were jewish (life on this planet is all that matters, heaven is a false dream and a bit of fascist state) and then BAM. mormon andrew dabb. heaven ending = happy ending. kill the protagonist. his cruel father lives down a sunlit road. peace forever (what’s free will again?)

[carnalsaturn]

Tim Minear got Kripke “kill all your characters” pilled and washed it down with Dabb “make sure it’s the ones that represent hope and perseverance that die for plot” juice

[winchestress]

we been knew

[metanaturalsbitch]

DABB ERA POPPIN OFF.

Aka at least one clip per episode part 4.

(Minus season fifteen. I was gonna make its own thing, but the place I illegally downloaded it from isn't working anymore and idk where to find it.)

[femslashspuffy]

Watching brokeback mountain is just like and I recognize this shot from dabb's supernatural and of course that one is classic dabb's supernatural and that whole location pretty sure they used it or a similar copy in.... dabb's supernatural. And wow look at that that was also in dabb's supernatural

[eyelinerdean]

saw a post like this for dw and wanted to steal it cause i thought it was compelling

[dreamytfw]

So let me get this straight. Chuck Shurley, THEE author-insert character of SPN, has three completely different personalities under three separate show-runners:

Kripke's Chuck: nervous wreck, timid, low-key horny, very much does NOT want to be here, implied heavily but is not confirmed to be God leaving fans with much to speculate about and analyze.

Carver's Chuck: chill but irresponsible dad, confident, appreciates fan works, has a "repairing familial bonds" theme, openly bisexual, not wholly evil or wholly good and is more just doing his own thing. Builds off of his previous characterization and has thematic cohesion with it.

Dabb's Chuck: a petty vindictive asshole, actively sadistic, decides to tear down the whole multi-verse out of spite for both his characters (mostly Sam and Dean) and his audience (the rest of us plebs). Throws previous characterization out the window completely and has no thematic cohesion with previously established canon.

Which could mean nothing...

[coupleofdays]

Hey there, Tron fans! Do you want yet another piece of cancelled Tron media to feel miserable about, since we most likely never will be able to see it finished? Then look no further than the planned 2004 Tron 2.0 comic!

The Tron 2.0 Wiki has a comprehensive summary of everything we know about the comic, and there's also this archived interview with the creators. What we know is certainly tantalizing. It seems to have been intended to be a sequel to the game, with a superheroic tone, with Jet Bradley jumping between being an ordinary human in the Real World and a colorful, superpowered protector of the digital world. Mercury would of course be his partner/sidekick, but what's especially interesting is the descriptions of two entirely new characters: A "digital viking" named Tek, and Odorus, who can apparently track Programs with his sense of smell (wait, computers programs have a sense of smell? How does that work? What does that represent?). The plot on the first planned miniseries (named "Derezzed") apparently revolved around these characters solving a murder mystery.

Sadly, the comic was never published, though we did get some cool cover images, including this one that appears to depict some new villains:

Some sketches for pages have also surfaced (they're all available on the Wiki page linked above), and I believe that one of them might actually show the "viking" character, in the lower right corner:

Another page has Jet and Mercury talking to an unknown character. Could they be Odorus? Or perhaps the murder victim?

Another intriguing thing is that there were apparently also plans for a story about the characters from the original film. This sketch page might be for that comic, or maybe a flashback sequence in the 2.0 comic:

Of course, we did eventually get a comic sequel to Tron 2.0 in the form of Tron: The Ghost in the Machine, but that was certainly something very different from the cancelled comic.

[spn-rewatch-ventzone]

More shame on 10x09 for trying to convince me that John was a good father that “raised Dean right” because just THREE episodes later, in 10x12, Dean is bonding with a woman in a bar by talking about how he had to get creative with the way he cooked Mac n cheese because he would be stuck cooking it for him and Sam so often

And like to really drill the point home, his creative liberties to improve the Mac and cheese were ketchup and tuna.

Dabb is gonna catch hands from me for writing/approving the “He raised me right” line

[roundandroundthemulberry]

Supernatural showrunners credit Misha Collins specifically as Castiel, and the angels' storyline generally, as contributing to the show's rejuvenation and as part of its longevity.

1) Eric Kripke

Source: YouTube

Erik Kripke (at min 0.13):

You know, and I get this question a lot. I mean, here's the reality, and I'm always accused of being, probably too honest. You start these things with like a cocktail napkin sketch of the five-year plan. I mean, the five-year plan is a couple of pages. It's not much.

And it was always driven by the demon side of it. So, yes, the progression of the demon ladder ending with Sam inadvertently going dark side, bringing on the apocalypse and having to deal with the apocalypse and kind of moving up the ladder from Yellow Eyes to Lillith to Lucifer. That's the plan we've been on.

You know, the angels, you can go back and find interviews that I gave as far as - there will never be angels on the show over my dead body - hur, hur.

And, you know, obviously it's probably one of the coolest parts of the show. And that came from us, I think in the writers room, realizing that, like, we had a really cool, evil empire, but we didn't have, outside of the few cool hunters we had, we didn't really have the rebellion. Like, we didn't have, you know, you couldn't have these awesome off-camera battles that sort of lent a real epic feel to the show.

And that we felt there was a missing puzzle piece that kind of evolved through as we went along. And that's where really the angels came from.

And God, they did because totally rejuvenated season four in no small part to this guy (gestures to Misha).

And - and Jim's too.

And so, the angels quite frankly evolved; that part did evolve as the process. But the part of building up and facing down the devil has, that part at least, that thumbnail has kind of almost been around since the beginning.

2) Jeremy Carver

Source: TV Guide 2014 SDCC edition

Jeremy Carver:

Castiel helped send the series in a different direction, introducing the notion of Heaven. Beyond the [appeal of the Winchester] boys and their chemistry, he's the biggest reason that this show has lasted.

3) Andrew Dabb

Source: Supernatural Homecoming Exploring Episode 300

Andrew Dabb (at 3.00 mark):

Cas's introduction in season four, the introduction of angels generally, is probably the reason the show has continued and lived as long as it has.

[sweetonsugden]

Confirming that there wasn’t any romantic undertone to the Amara of it all. Dean was attracted to the “nothingness”

[velveteencryptid]

Seriously though, why are they not doing graphic novels of Supernatural? There are literally HUNDREDS of talented artists already drawing Team Free Will. Fans would love it AND they could make new money off the show. They don't even need to write new stories, just... literally turn the episodes into graphic novels. That's it. I'd buy and read the shit out of those. Would I dedicate a whole shelf to 15 seasons, over 300 individual graphic novels (episodes), just to Supernatural art? You bet your ass I would.

I can't even pick a GIF to add to this because there are too many beautiful options!!!

[carnalsaturn]

Rewatching dabbnatural is just an endless cycle of Sam wouldn’t say/do that but he won’t be given enough time to resolve it anyways, Dean character development retcon…, and somehow Castiel gets taken down by rando demon number seven, and the whole overarching message of the show has lost the plot because the writers were snorting glue

[explainslowly]

Thinking about that Andrew Dabb Happydale bio again....

[ladyluscinia]

The thing about Andrew Dabb is I know he had bad finale ideas that we cannot even imagine. But. Due to the everything involved and how all of it shook out with the actual creation, editing, and airing of the spn finale I cannot with confidence link him to the bad ideas we did see 🤷‍♀️ and so he remains paradoxically responsible for terrible things and the guy who probably backed some of the good stuff they cut (Destiel, Empty Plot, Saileen) and got fucked over by the network too

Life's great mysteries...

[ananke-xiii]

“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

I hate SPN finale but fuuuuck, I read "On The Road" when I was 18 so... ages ago... and obvs I only remember its main gist but this? Like, this is the book's closing AND SPN's ending... I mean, DO YOU SEE IT? Don't get me wrong, Sam is my heart but Dabb had it bad for a fictional character named Dean Winchester and it's almost embarassing but also very tender (in its own way).