schmerzerling:

hi our names are brad buckner and eugenie ross-leming. you may know us as your very favorite writing duo on the CW’s fave dead horse to beat, Supernatural. lately, we’ve gotten a lot of inquiries about what it is we do here in the writers room when we’re not busy fellating robert singer. good question! the fact is, we play a vital role here at Supernatural Central. in the spare moments before and after whackin on bobbo’s schlubby old dong, you can often find us:

  • researching your expectations so we can more confidently not meet them
  • low-key hating women and poc
  • forcefully connecting portions of broken-up scenes like wet pieces of an incomplete jigsaw puzzle to form semi-cohesive narratives
  • experimenting with the viability of star wipes as scene transitions in a major network television program 
  • squandering episodes’–and sometimes whole seasons’!–worth of character and plot potential
  • stripping away crucial character traits like old skin on a sunburn
  • forgetting–and sometimes ignoring!–long-established canon
  • learning the basics of human conversation and then utilizing them in realistic on-screen dialogue that actual living humans would possibly probably say maybe
  • trying to make sexual assault funny
  • developing techniques we can use to quickly and efficiently alienate and condescend to a whole fanbase 

and last but certainly not least

  • looking for new and exciting ways to disappoint you!!!!

SPN Season 13 Finale Musings

Upon further reflection of the Gabriel possessing Dean scenario, I do have to say this: it makes a lot of sense in the context of the episode. Yes, Buck/leming are piss-poor writers. But they don’t have full control, and I believe there would have been a lot of stink raised with so much time and effort spent with Gabriel’s revival and story arc to just kill it off right there.

Also, consider that, again, while BL are awful at writing dramatic battle scenes, Gabriel did go down astonishingly quick, lack of juice or not. Even as someone as invested in the fight as Gabe is now, I doubt he would have seen holding the line as something necessary since there were almost 30 people jumping out specifically to regroup. Gabriel said he wasn’t going to run away anymore, but that wouldn’t have been running away. It would have been adding to the forces.

Furthermore, it makes more sense for Gabriel to go after Lucifer and Michael in the first place. There was that huge speech from Gabriel to Lucifer about why he was evil. About why Gabe hates him. About why humans should hate him. Michael’s only ax to grind is that he and Lucifer were destined to fight each other. And we all know how well destiny goes over on this show. Lucifer and Michael have destiny to fight over. Gabriel and Lucifer are on opposing sides of humanity. And Michael pretty much became in the AU what Lucifer would have been had he succeeded eons ago before God locked him away. That’s a two-for for old Gabriel there.

So, Gabriel possessing Dean as an ace up the sleeve is a tactically sound position. Better than jumping to his death, which he knew was going to happen if he actually stayed.

What I hope, is that so much time spent on Gabriel and his beef with Lucifer, as well as his desire to help finally, is setting him up to still be around. 

Otherwise, there was very little point to saving him and giving him more than one episode of story, except to make the fans happy. And as we are all well aware, that doesn’t really happen.