SPN ending with Season 15
Mar. 22nd, 2019 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fufarawI'm...oddly not upset. I've felt this coming, not because the show's not the same sort of format as the other CW shows, or the guys aren't the young hotties of the other shows, or there're no flashy costumes and superpowers.
I've heard the Js say again and again that the show is a cottage industry that keeps a whole community employed, that it's a family, that they have felt and do feel a responsibility for that family and that possibility of continuing employment. But I've also heard them both not-actually-complain, but express regret that their babies are growing up without them being there to see it. That their lives are passing while they're so deeply absorbed in work. I've seen the con videos and observed the microexpressions, and exchanged expressions when such subjects come up.
This isn't a surprise. In one of the articles already online the writer stated this is not a network decision, but a creative one, which is just this side of saying, the guys are finished with this, and want to stop. Maybe to rest awhile. Maybe to move on to something else. But they've done more than could ever have been expected of them, and for them, it's time to stop.
It's also so very gentlemanly and like them to give their fans a whole season's heads up, to give us a chance to pay attention to the farewell tour, to savor it as it winds down to the end.
For myself, I just hope Butch and Sundance are off the storyboard.
ETA: I'd just like to add that closed canon doesn't mean closed fandom. SPN has given us so much fodder for casefics, AUs, RPFs, continued exploration of themes and memes and fairytales. I don't for a second expect SPN fandom to fade just because there are no new episodes. Not every ep in fifteen seasons has been mined nearly bare for fic and art and vids. So, though I know some folks will move on to new shows, to other fandoms, I think we'll still be up and running in SPN for a long time.
I've heard the Js say again and again that the show is a cottage industry that keeps a whole community employed, that it's a family, that they have felt and do feel a responsibility for that family and that possibility of continuing employment. But I've also heard them both not-actually-complain, but express regret that their babies are growing up without them being there to see it. That their lives are passing while they're so deeply absorbed in work. I've seen the con videos and observed the microexpressions, and exchanged expressions when such subjects come up.
This isn't a surprise. In one of the articles already online the writer stated this is not a network decision, but a creative one, which is just this side of saying, the guys are finished with this, and want to stop. Maybe to rest awhile. Maybe to move on to something else. But they've done more than could ever have been expected of them, and for them, it's time to stop.
It's also so very gentlemanly and like them to give their fans a whole season's heads up, to give us a chance to pay attention to the farewell tour, to savor it as it winds down to the end.
For myself, I just hope Butch and Sundance are off the storyboard.
ETA: I'd just like to add that closed canon doesn't mean closed fandom. SPN has given us so much fodder for casefics, AUs, RPFs, continued exploration of themes and memes and fairytales. I don't for a second expect SPN fandom to fade just because there are no new episodes. Not every ep in fifteen seasons has been mined nearly bare for fic and art and vids. So, though I know some folks will move on to new shows, to other fandoms, I think we'll still be up and running in SPN for a long time.
