LOL Well, logically, if one of the actors wanted out but the show went on, the formula and concept would have to be tweaked accordingly to show the other actually having to deal with life alone. Expanding the roles of existing recurring characters would be the only way of realising it, in practical terms, because that solo brother would need other characters to interact with, if only for ease of exposition! But it isn't going to happen, of course. I'd rather have Jo back than Ruby, in that case. *G*
There's a lot of speculation about them sending Dean to hell for a while, let the contract actually play out and Sam then freeing him, which would be an intriguing concept, except that I don't think they have the budget to actually realise hell on screen. Plus, separating the brothers for a longer amount of time is just unthinkable. I think if they went down that route they'd have to not show hell, just have Dean gone and Sam in bits, and then deal with the aftermath once Dean was back, the inevitable trauma, and whatnot, if he returned with memory intact. But the problem with that theory is that, Sam aside, people on this show do not come back from the dead. If Dean died and went to hell, releasing his spirit later would not bring him back to life; his body would already be gone. Unless they repeated the same trick that was used with Sam, but I can't see them going for such direct duplication. So the only way to do it would be to have Dean dragged bodily into hell, which seems less likely now that we know more about what goes on in hell. If the whole point is to trap human spirits down there and burn their humanity away until they become demons, there'd be no point at all in taking someone there whose spirit was still attached to a body...
Okay, my brain hurts now.
*sigh* All we can do is wait and see what happens! And keep hoping for a resolution to the strike, so that we can have new episodes made sooner rather than later.
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Date: 2008-02-06 04:19 pm (UTC)There's a lot of speculation about them sending Dean to hell for a while, let the contract actually play out and Sam then freeing him, which would be an intriguing concept, except that I don't think they have the budget to actually realise hell on screen. Plus, separating the brothers for a longer amount of time is just unthinkable.
I think if they went down that route they'd have to not show hell, just have Dean gone and Sam in bits, and then deal with the aftermath once Dean was back, the inevitable trauma, and whatnot, if he returned with memory intact. But the problem with that theory is that, Sam aside, people on this show do not come back from the dead. If Dean died and went to hell, releasing his spirit later would not bring him back to life; his body would already be gone. Unless they repeated the same trick that was used with Sam, but I can't see them going for such direct duplication. So the only way to do it would be to have Dean dragged bodily into hell, which seems less likely now that we know more about what goes on in hell. If the whole point is to trap human spirits down there and burn their humanity away until they become demons, there'd be no point at all in taking someone there whose spirit was still attached to a body...
Okay, my brain hurts now.
*sigh* All we can do is wait and see what happens! And keep hoping for a resolution to the strike, so that we can have new episodes made sooner rather than later.