There’s a lot of levels of metanarrative that I like to play with. That’s why I like the Ghostfacers, because we actually managed to come back off the strike with an episode that claimed that the CW wasn’t able to get an episode of Supernatural done fast enough.
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Ben Edlund4 quotes“There’s a lot of levels of metanarrative that I like to play with. That’s why I like the Ghostfacers, because we actually managed to come back off the strike with an episode that claimed that the CW wasn’t able to get an episode of Supernatural done fast enough.”
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Ben EdlundBen Edlund And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.
Ben EdlundBen Edlund So the prelude to ‘Ghostfacers!’ is the Ghostfacers going, ‘Yeah, those fat-cat writers, we’ve got a show that’s better than that bullshit anyway.’ I mean, that’s pretty cool in the world of metanarrative, which is, I have to admit, one of my abiding passions.
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