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This turned out longer than I thought it would.
Okay. I'm going to say something and it might not make much sense but I still want to say it. I usually don't make these opinionated posts very often because I kind of suck at getting my thoughts together, but WHATEVER. XD
I don't think Kripke "panders to the fangirls" as much as a lot of people are making it sound like. If he really listened to the fans, Ruby would be played by a different actress. I know that the character Ruby is being fairly well-received by the audience, but you'd have to be blind to not see that Katie Cassidy gets way more hate than Lauren Cohan as an actress.
If he really listened to the fans, fan-favorites Andy and Henriksen would not be dead. I mean, did you SEE the amount of Kripke-bashing that went on when Henriksen died? If he really listened to the fans, Sarah, by far the most beloved female love interest Supernatural has ever seen, would have shown up again. Ellen would have actually been in season three. There would be plans for a body-swap episode. Sam and Dean would be gayer than the gayest thing that ever gayed.
So, I think that Kripke takes fan reaction into consideration only when he himself agrees with their criticisms. I know a lot of people hated the Roadhouse storyline and think that because of poor fan response that it was dropped, but you knowwww, Kripke hated the Roadhouse, too. He made no secret of it. He said it was a valiant effort but that it just didn't make sense to have a home base on a road show. It was not surprising that he burned that mofo to the ground.
And a few weeks ago at the convention in LA, he tried to get an idea of the audience's opinion of Bela. Ruby, however, did not get that. Kripke basically said that if you don't like Ruby? Tough. She's staying. And there are a lot of people who don't like Ruby, yet he doesn't pay them any mind. Because he's in love with her, apparently.
So basically what I wanted to say was that I do not think Kripke panders to the fangirls. And I really hate it when people say that he does. It makes me sad. *sadface* And you don't have to agree with me, but this is my opinion and I have never once wavered from it, not even when my darling Meg was killed, or my baby Gordon was killed, or my other baby Henriksen was killed. :( Or Andy. Or Ava (granted, I didn't like her much once she went evil). I know it sucks to lose a character, but this is his story and he's going to make creative decisions based on whatever criteria he sees fit, and I respect that even when I want to go kill something in rage. :D
Um. I should probably have just posted this quote from Kripke himself WITHOUT my senseless input. @_@
"The reality is, I have a core story that I want to tell, and I've never wavered from it, not once. It's the saga of the Winchester clan — who the brothers really are, who their parents really are, why Demons are so closely intertwined with them, what their destiny really is. It's an epic, emotional family story at its heart, and to me, that's what Supernatural is really and truly about. Beyond that, story elements come and go, some are introduced, and others discarded."
Anyway, I don't want to get into an argument with anyone! :D I'm not trying to convince people that I'm right, I just wanted to put my opinion out there.
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