The TV Addict 

You have 174 comments to the Kripke statement. Where are the “thousands of fans who have been ripping Kripke apart all weekend long”? Have you chosen not to publish that many comments?

After reading through each and every comment on your site, I think the ones that would be deemed as “ripping apart Kripke” would be in the minority.

When Kripke decide to “poke the beast” , as you so eloquently stated, in order to defend the character of Dean, he certainly invited fans who are unhappy with the characterization of Sam Winchester and feel as though they haven’t been heard, to voice there concerns. When you have an opportunity to speak to the creator of a show you love, you grab it. I appreciate the tv addict giving us that opportunity to do so, but really resent the impliction that we shouldn’t have responded. The majority of comments were heartfelt, well written and to the point. Your implication is that they were otherwise and that the responders were in fact “Dicks” I find that misleading and insulting!

Hey Shelby. Chill out. I love Supernatural as much as the next guy, but the show’s fans are really out there on the edge sometimes. How ’bout we let Kripke make his own show, and stop dictating to him how we want his characters structured, who they can date, which new stars can stay, etc. It gets a little sickening. Just enjoy the freakin’ show.

Also, GREAT point, TVA…the next funny Keenan Thompson sketch will be the first one. SNL gets rid of the hilarious Horatio Sans…and keeps this overweight toad? He doesn’t even generate a smile, much less a laugh. I can’t stress enough how truly horrible he is on the show.

Apology accepted…thank you!
P.S. I concur that some fans are on the edge, but truthfully it is the passionate albeit obsessed fans (not all of whom I agree with) that have fought to keep this wonderful show on the air. It truly is one of the best shows on television!

Here’s some good “week in rewind” news:

Friday’s ratings for CBS:
9.95-million viewers for Ghost Whisperer (a good show)
5.65-million viewers for The Ex List (the Moonlight replacement)
9.07-million viewers for Numb3rs

Notice anything ODD there, CBS? Dear Les and Nancy, the next time we viewers try to tell you NOT to cancel a popular cult show at a time when vampires are way “in” and the show just won the friggin’ People’s Choice Award (clue: the VIEWERS are the “People”)….maybe you might wanna listen to us? Good luck with that 9pm timeslot.

Nick: Great observation on the Friday night line-up and the current vampire craze (on which I’m unfortunately out of the loop). Lots of lessons to learn from last season and this season; hopefully the networks will catch on.

TVAddict: I know what you mean about the getting old factor. It’s hard to believe Sarah’s character graduated from high school in 1998. That’s one year after I graduated from college. On the bright side, I skipped 1st grade, so I’ve always been roughly a year younger than those I graduated with.

Lindsay Lohan, while never impressive, was at least bearable for most of the episode, but that last minute or two really killed it for me. With Bravo doing a full week, pre-election marathon of The West Wing (unfortunately only selected episodes and in random order), I bypassed my 3-Strike Plan and removed the Ugly Betty and Fringe season passes from my TiVo. Had to make extra room for TWW. I’m keeping a thumbs up on both shows, so maybe I’ll catch the random episode occasionally, but I also need some productive non-TV-watching time back, and it was time for Ugly Betty and Fringe to go.

Amen Nick, amen, if people just continue to fight Eric Kripke on everything he does, and every episode he makes, then I’m kinda afraid that Supernatural won’t last much longer. They might just give up. Enjoy the show the makes people. Love the good ones, ignore the bad ones, he is only human.

oh hey kripke gets a medal for being the dean fans bitch!! hate to be so blunt but really does he have to apologize about everything he says about dean???

No wonder Sammy’s s/l is going nowhere, he is too busy trying to make a fanbase happy that in reality will never be happy!!

kripke should man-up, and tell the fans not to take everything so much to heart!!

For me the biggest “reminder you’re getting old” was the line in Greek where Rusty said he wasn’t even born in the 80s. Arghhh!

Kripke is a class act.

HA!!! CBS just cancelled “The Ex List,” effective immediately.

One must rub his chin and wonder: “Wouldn’t those 8-million diehard Moonlight fans look pretty good right now, sandwiched between Ghost & Numb3rs?” Hmmm. An *intelligent* network brass wouldn’t realized, “Hey, this show started out great, let’s give it some promotion, time to grow, and tie into the whole ‘Twilight’ craze.”

But, alas, that’s what an intelligent team would’ve done. Way to kill another show, Eye Net. And yeah, we’re absolutely saying “TOLD YA SO.” Because we said it loud and long, and you arrogantly turned a deaf ear.

You wouldn’t even put Moonlight on your sister/offshoot network in order to boost its viability. How exactly do you justify your horrid business decisions, CBS?

Good observations, Jonah.

In a way, CBS has become the new Fox. At one time, I never watched anything on CBS until Survivor came along, and then it was only Survivor (not counting David Letterman since that’s not prime time, and I only watch occasionally). Last year, however, CBS had Moonlight, Jericho, and Kid Nation. I actually watched *four* prime time CBS shows and looked forward to all of them each week. Thanks to cancellations, I’m back to Survivor only and have reservations about ever starting to watch another CBS show.

I love Eric Kripke for his passion and creative vision and for how he appreciates his fans. It is unfortunate he felt the need to apologize for anything on Supernatural. Most fans got the true message of why Dean was infected. Most fans appreciated the humor of Sam’s comment as brotherly bantering. There are always the vocal minority that think complaining and nit-picking every line will bring Kripke into line and he will give them the show they demand. I don’t want to watch what they want, I want to watch the show Kripke and his amazing team want to present.

It appears the real reason he relented and cleared up this falsehood is the media reviewers that failed to see the nuance in the script. Obviously they need to pay closer attention and learn that all is not what it appears on Supernatural. This show has depth and complexity and is not simple. True fans appreciate the layers Kripke and his amazing cast of Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki bring to Dean and Sam. These are heroes who are allowed to be real men, who do have fears and issues, but facing them and doing their job regardless is what truly makes them remarkable. Real fans knew immediately that Dean was not a dick, past, present or future. We KNOW Dean and have never had such a fascinating character to love and follow. It will be a sad day when Supernatural finally ends, and I hope Eric remembers how most fans absolutely loved the story he brought us, in all its complexity. B.J.

Kripke is class. That’s all there is to it.

“Most fans got the true message of why Dean was infected.”

Citation, please? I kid, but seriously, this isn’t true for the sites I frequent (which is BuddyTV and TV Guide). BuddyTV actually took a poll on the matter, and the majority (something like 60%) missed the actual reason why he was infected. (But I agree that I didn’t see anybody getting heated up about Sam calling him a dick as teasing… I think essentially everybody enjoys the brotherly banter.)

Maybe we’re not real fans, but most of us honestly didn’t catch it. But I agree that he put out the clarification because of all the reviews that didn’t get it right (80% of the reviews I read thought the dick explanation was the right one)… I think it was just new writers not emphasizing what should’ve been emphasized, and overemphasizing a one-off joke.