Regular casting is not about a character being in every episode of the whole show. It isn’t about it becoming the Sam and Dean and Castiel show. It is about securing the actor in place of the role. Look at Heroes. Many of those people are regulars, but they don’t appear in every single episode. But the makers of the show have to sign them to a contract in order to keep them. Even if the actor is signed up for something like twenty episodes, that doesn’t mean he has to appear in all of them. He just has to be paid for them.
Kripke lost out on other characters like Hendrickson because they never had him to a contract, and when it came to Supernatural or another well-paying, probably more stable job, he chose the latter. Jim Beaver would have been signed, but he has a new show, and therefore is unable to appear in that many episodes or be signed to a contract. Misha is already signed on for another six episodes this season, but if at some point and time during the break he gets a better job offer and leaves, the show would have a huge amount of crap on there hands. Really they would have to choose between killing the character off the camera or making Castiel 2.0, both likely to piss of the fans.
It’s unlikely they would ever sign up Genevieve Cortese as Ruby since she is not very well liked, and therefore they can just have Ruby body hop when needed. This is why Cortese becoming a regular is less-likely. But that doesn’t mean Ruby is leaving anytime soon, just means Cortese might be leaving soon.
Now I am just worried that with negative reactions to this news (from what I've seen), they are just going to end his arc this season. I never understood the fear of this becoming anything less then the Sam and Dean show just because another regular is introduced to the show. Honestly, if it takes that much for them to keep a good actor and character on the show, and not constantly introduce, then kill or have the characters disappear, then I am all for it.
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Date: 2008-12-17 01:46 am (UTC)Kripke lost out on other characters like Hendrickson because they never had him to a contract, and when it came to Supernatural or another well-paying, probably more stable job, he chose the latter. Jim Beaver would have been signed, but he has a new show, and therefore is unable to appear in that many episodes or be signed to a contract. Misha is already signed on for another six episodes this season, but if at some point and time during the break he gets a better job offer and leaves, the show would have a huge amount of crap on there hands. Really they would have to choose between killing the character off the camera or making Castiel 2.0, both likely to piss of the fans.
It’s unlikely they would ever sign up Genevieve Cortese as Ruby since she is not very well liked, and therefore they can just have Ruby body hop when needed. This is why Cortese becoming a regular is less-likely. But that doesn’t mean Ruby is leaving anytime soon, just means Cortese might be leaving soon.
Now I am just worried that with negative reactions to this news (from what I've seen), they are just going to end his arc this season. I never understood the fear of this becoming anything less then the Sam and Dean show just because another regular is introduced to the show. Honestly, if it takes that much for them to keep a good actor and character on the show, and not constantly introduce, then kill or have the characters disappear, then I am all for it.