So they were saying Covid but it also sounds like more to it. This article has a fascinating tidbit:
“Yeah, so, during the hiatus between season 14 and 15, Jared and I went out to L.A. and sat down in the writers’ room, which I think is the first time we’ve ever done that,” Jensen said. “It wasn’t like a brainstorming session. It was, like, ‘This is what we have, take it or leave it.’ And I just walked out of there kind of uneasy. I don’t know if it was just the fact that I just heard the ending of a show that had been going for 15 years and I’m just too close to it to really accept a finality to it.”
I belatedly remembered that in spring/summer 2019 lots of noises were made about how the cast would have input into the show's final arcs. Google didn't pick up much though because there's so many new articles coming out right now. But either 1) the cast did have more heft on this and so their leaving the writers to hang like this is a dick move, or 2) the cast THOUGHT they would have more power than they did, which seems backwards. And on the other, other hand apparently that final special removed Cas's "I love you" and J2 had to keep saying "Cas is the third brother" so like, there's some power plays going on...
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Date: 2020-11-24 04:16 pm (UTC)“Yeah, so, during the hiatus between season 14 and 15, Jared and I went out to L.A. and sat down in the writers’ room, which I think is the first time we’ve ever done that,” Jensen said. “It wasn’t like a brainstorming session. It was, like, ‘This is what we have, take it or leave it.’ And I just walked out of there kind of uneasy. I don’t know if it was just the fact that I just heard the ending of a show that had been going for 15 years and I’m just too close to it to really accept a finality to it.”
I belatedly remembered that in spring/summer 2019 lots of noises were made about how the cast would have input into the show's final arcs. Google didn't pick up much though because there's so many new articles coming out right now. But either 1) the cast did have more heft on this and so their leaving the writers to hang like this is a dick move, or 2) the cast THOUGHT they would have more power than they did, which seems backwards. And on the other, other hand apparently that final special removed Cas's "I love you" and J2 had to keep saying "Cas is the third brother" so like, there's some power plays going on...