Comments on: Television: Supernatural Behind the Scenes – We Q&A With Writer Jeremy Carver about In The Beginning

By: Penny Stock Picks

Penny Stock Picks — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:05:07 +0000

Penny Stock Picks…

This is a very good and informative post. I look forward to see more….

By: josiepops

josiepops — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:14:34 +0000

I said that when I first saw the episode and my friends thought I’d lost it. None of it would have happened if Dean hadnt gone back in time. I love the idea of time travel and have thought about it alot – blame Back to the Future! However lets not forget who sent Dean back in time…

The Angels must have know that it was going to happen like that. As they know all and can bend time they know the past they see the future so they knew what effect Dean was going to have on his parents and grandparents and everyone else by going back. If they wanted to stop the YED they shouldn’t of sent Dean back in time and found another way to kill him…

But then there would be no Winchester story and it would be a whole other show…

By: Andra

Andra — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:11:47 +0000

I still think it’s ridiculous. If Dean couldn’t change the past then he couldn’t CAUSE any of it either. That makes no sense, for them to say he can affect it but he can’t change it. If he can affect it, he can change it and if he can’t then he didn’t even need to be there for what happened to have happened and they are nothing but cheap manipulators for trying to put the blame on Dean for it.

What is worse is that Dean already faced a similar choice in “What Is and What Should Never Be” in Season 2 and he made the RIGHT choices there to not interfere, to not try and save his family. So they had to write Dean out of character, regress the character to unlearn a lesson he already showed he knew in a past episode, to make him do this and to put the blame for everything that happened to his family on him.

By: Anna Beck

Anna Beck — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:23:04 +0000

Thank you for this article. I enjoy it tremendously when we hear from the writers and get a feel of what was in their head when they write an episode. I wish more writers were so willing to share as the SN writers are, from other shows as well.

By: IMTheresa

IMTheresa — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:48:41 +0000

It’s always a treat to find out what went on in the writing process *after* I’ve seen an episode. I can’t wait to see how the events of “In the Beginning” play out in season four. I still think it was rather cruel for Castiel to send Dean back with the idea that he could change the outcome, though.

By: donilou2

donilou2 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:01:31 +0000

Dean cannot be held responsible for any of this, even though he will probably want to shoulder the blame and the writers will continue to try and make the viewers believe it too.
Castiel sent Dean back at God’s command, so it is God’s fault, if it is anyone’s. He always knew this it the course the Winchesters’ live would take and to try to blame a mere mortal for it is ludicrous.

By: Andra

Andra — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:38:07 +0000

If they make Dean responsible for everything that happened to his family because he attracted the YED’s attention(rather than just making him unable to stop something that was always going to happen whether he was there or not) , I’ll totally lose respect for any of them as writers or storytellers and never watch another show any of them are involved with. That would be twisting things and distorting things so ridiculously and so unnecessarily. Neither the show nor the character needs more angst. It was totally unnecessary as a reasoning for the story. I could say more but I think it might desolve into cursing so that’s all I have to say.