Jump the Shark, Rapture

[feliciakw]

Watched "Jump the Shark" the other night, and it makes me wonder. It makes me wonder when they started plotting out that Adam would be Michael's vessel. And what makes me wonder if they were in fact planning it this far out is this:

When the end credits started running, Geo turns to me and asks, "What was the purpose of that episode?"

To which I replied, " . . . "

After puzzling a moment, I said, "Well, they introduced Adam. Other than that . . . to show that Sam has become more and more like John?"

And to give Dean angst, of course. But I didn't say that.

So it makes me wonder if they introduced Adam, knowing what they were going to do with the character later, or if they decided Adam was a convenient out of the corner they'd written themselves into. I'm somewhat inclined to give them credit and say that they at least had a notion of what they were going to do.

Truly, though, there's a lot that I like about the ep, and much of it has to do with Dean. *nods*

The same question could be asked about "The Rapture." Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed this look at what Castiel's vessel is like. And I kinda wish we could have had more of Claire!Castiel. And there were good bits throughout. But it seems that the whole upshot of the ep was Castiel being re-oriented to his primary duties, and Dean discovering about Sam and the demon blood.

So I guess if that's the jumping off point ("We need to do A and B. What's the most interesting way we can do that?"), then the ep served its purpose. And of course we have the ending with Sam in the panic room.

Which brings us to the final stretch of the season.

Comments

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

What's making me think that they might have at least had a notion is that there are only three eps between this one and "Sympathy for the Devil" (S5 opener) wherein Dean is revealed to be the Michael Sword. Yes, there was the summer hiatus in between, but I wonder if they were starting to hash it out at this point. They would have had to have had some sort of notion where they were going because their storytelling time would have been limited.

It'd be an interesting question to ask, though I'm not sure we'd ge a straight answer from them at this stage in the game.

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Yep but as many writers ерыу ones like to add some hints here and there they could use later. The same was in 213 (iirc) with deliberate showing Micheal's icons and zooming on Dean. If the show would go according Kripke's plan as he saw it in S3 Michael thing wouldn't happen at all yet there was a mention in S2. Just in case.

It'd be an interesting question to ask, though I'm not sure we'd ge a straight answer from them at this stage in the game.
It would be very interesting question to ask but i'm sure we never get the honest answer. Too much was changed and no one likes to admit he was wrong.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

yet there was a mention in S2. Just in case.

Personally, I don't think it was a "just in case" situation. Sera has apparently always seen Dean as a metaphor for Michael, whether angels were ever going to be in the mytharc or not. I think it was a fortuitous little bit of story that ended up meaning more in the overall series than originally intended.

That happens with good writing--when things just fall together like that. (I'm not saying the final execution of the angel stuff was good. I think they forced a lot of it, which isn't good. But I hope you understand what I'm saying.)