The last episode of Supernatural seems awfully familiar

[alias_sqbr]

This vid, Channel Hopping, made a year and a half ago, is Supernatural footage recut so that Sam and Dean appear to be in various tv shows, including Knightrider. The latest episode, Changing Channels is Sam and Dean trapped inside various tv shows..including Knightrider. (I'm not watching that far ahead, but Cam showed some of it to me)

Next episode: Sam and Dean are tricked into attending a Supernatural convention by their super-fan Becky.

The line between canon and fanon is sometimes very thin...

EDIT: And now, the fic! The "Kripke Started It" Changing Channels Free For All Meme

Comments

[velithya]

I hate to be the squee-harsher here, but... spoiler warnings? :(

which is to say, I was more sadface about the next episode than about the premise of 5.08. In more general SPN fandom, we warn for the preview/premise of the following week's episode (and also for upcoming episodes) separately. Because we CRAZY LIKE THAT.

which is to say, I hope this was okay and that you didn't take offense!

[alias_sqbr]

Oh, no, you're absolutely right, I'm just so used to being SO behind on SPN it didn't occur to me I might spoil anyone.

Sorry for spoiling you! I've edited the cut text.

[velithya]

♥

SPN fandom generally waits a week after airing before losing the LJ-cuts, using episode-specific/spoilery icons, etc. :)

[alias_sqbr]

*nods*

Have you seen the The "Kripke Started It" Changing Channels Free For All Meme?

[velithya]

Clex is my BB! Which is to say, yes I have, and when I have seen the episode (I am currently two behind, I haven't seen 5.07 either) I am going to highly enjoy reading what people have written :3

[alias_sqbr]

They're a lot of fun :) (I gave up on Supernatural spoilers a few years ago, when Cam was all "IT'S SO AWESOME CAN I TELL YOU ABOUT IT?" :))

[velithya]

I figured if I can last a whole year between wincons and only pick up peripheral spoilers, I can survive a couple weeks of being behind ;P

[alias_sqbr]

*coughs*

Yeah, you'd think so..

sorry again!

[velithya]

Oh, that totally wasn't meant to be a burn on you or anything! Just a statement of fact ^^;;

♥

[seaya.livejournal.com]

You know, JMS used to say he did not read fanfic, because he did not want to get ideas from it even remotely, as then he'd be stealing ideas. Well, I think the makers of this vid should be paid, unless of course they already have been.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Meh. Every artist is a cannibal.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

If they work for a big company with lots of money and they they are making a huge profit off of someone else's idea, they should pay pay pay.

If they are just you know doing something free as well, then that's different.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I don't have any problem with the idea that the law in this area is a monstered outgrowth of the best thing anyone could think of one or two hundred years ago.

I suppose I just don't think that present systems of intellectual property survive contact with reason.

[alias_sqbr]

Hmm...I really can't decide if they must have seen the vid or it's a coincidence. Once you have the basic premise, Knightrider is a pretty obvious choice given the focus on the car :)

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

That's rather cool actually. I wonder if they use the same new writing team every time they decide they're going to squeeze another season or two out of a "cult" TV show by being relentlessly quirky, self-referential, meta-fictional, structurally playful etc. So many shows go through that phase - and the corresponding episodes tend to reward the hardcore fans.

If so, they should get these pinch-hitters of meta-narrative and give them creative freedom on their own projects!

[alias_sqbr]

I imagine anyone working on the same show for a while develops their own backlog of "Ideas that would be fun to write but are too zany and meta" to draw on once zany and meta becomes acceptable.

The fact it might be new writers didn't occur to me. Hmm. A real supernatural fan might know but I have no idea :)

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know either. The X-Files had a lot of "stunt" directors and writers in latter seasons. William Gibson wrote an ep for example.

I think the usual pattern is that the show's creator has less and less creative involvement as it progresses, so the scripts tend to become more "reinterpreting the original vision" than "realising the grand plan" at the same time.

Interesting aspect of the medium. I'm always terribly impressed by shows that buck the trend and have grand narratives that don't peter out or become incoherent over the span of five or six seasons.

[alias_sqbr]

*nods*

I'm also impressed by shows that are willing to say "Right, that's it, better to stop now while we're still good'