I could have sworn I’d made the connection between Alan J. Corbett and Ashley J. Williams through Alan Turing and the Harvard/MIT poet William Corbett before, but I can’t find it anywhere on my blog. So I’ll just make it again. Alan was an Ash mirror, and not the first one in the season.
Did you guys notice how pretty much every episode in season 3 contained the thematic of dead spouses and romantic companions? Probably co-incidence. But what isn’t happenstance is that Ghostfacers was the biggest fuck-you from the makers of Supernatural to the network to date. Just review Ed and Harry’s introduction of the episode:
Ed: If you have received this tape, you must be
some sort of bigwig network executive. Well, today is your lucky day,
mister.
Harry:
Because the unsolicited pilot you are about to watch is the bold new future of “reality TV.”
Ed: We know you’ve had it hard during the crippling writer’s strike.
Harry:
Lazy fat cats.
Ed:
Who needs writers when you’ve got guys like us?
The subtext the uninitiated are missing here is that the network stepped in and forced changes in the show, and the writers’ strike changed the story-line of the season in a big way (and they’ve been revisiting the original intended storyline during seasons 9/10, which many viewers have noticed and pointed out). Among these changes required by the network was the introduction of recurring female romantic leads, which Kripke didn’t like (me? I love Bela and Ruby, Mk I) because way to fuck with the story he was writing. And it’s funny how, while matching them in outward appearance, both Ruby and Bela were actually the polar opposites of Jess and whatshisface. Dean’s Jess. Burnt in a demonic fire with the flames reaching “sky high”.
Ben Edlund told us in no uncertain terms what the story was about in this network fuck-you. You know the line. The famous line.
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