Comic-Con 2008 - Supernatural Panel with J2 and Others - Enhanced Edition Con Video

Comic-Con 2008 Supernatural Panel Features J2 (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles), Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble, and Ben Edlund. This event took place on Sunday, July 27, 2008. The source videos are not my own. Links to the originals are below. I "enhanced" them as described below.
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ENHANCEMENTS
1. Improved video quality. For this video, that included upscaling the original videos, correcting bad aspect ratios, and color corrections. I had great help with the color correction from sensitivehandsomeactionman on Tumblr. Check out the source videos below to see how big of a difference this made!
2. Added content to help explain references that viewers might not be familiar with, and to identify Supernatural episodes and/or scenes being discussed.
3. GOOD, color-coded subtitles. For this video:
Red = Jared
Blue = Jensen
Brown = Eric Kripke
Pink = Sera Gamble
Purple = Ben Edlund
Green = General audience
Yellow = The person asking the questions (moderator or fan)
White = Publicist or staff
Orange (2 shades) = surprise guests
VIDEO REFERENCE NOTES
1. The fan report I referenced to verify what was seen in the season 4 preview video came from here: www.dreadcentral.com/story/sdcc-08-supernatural-season-4-update
2. The following article indicates that episode 4.05 (Monster Movie) was actually filmed third. On the season 4 gag reel at around 07:56, there's a clapboard showing day 8 of episode 3 with a date of August 5, 2008. Unlike other clapboards, this one is in black and white because Monster Movie was black and white. Counting backwards and excluding weekends, day 1 would have been Friday July 25, 2008, two days before this event. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/OutOfOrder/LiveActionTV
3. The KZbin playlist with the Ghostfacers webisodes: • Ghostfacers Webisodes
4. An "Inside of You" video in which Jensen mentions that Bruce Campbell was originally asked to play present-day John Winchester. Link goes directly to relevant timestamp in video. • Supernatural's JENSEN ...
SOURCE VIDEOS
I used a total of 19 videos from 3 sources. To conserve space, I'm only linking to the first video in each series. We owe these people a huge debt of gratitude for capturing these videos in the first place!
1. The main videos that we see focused on Jared and Jensen came from the following source. Take a look and see what a huge difference there is in image quality after the enhancements! • Supernatural SDCC 2008... (7 videos)
2. When there were small gaps in the above videos, I inserted videos from the following source to fill those gaps. A large portion of the talking head bubbles also came from these videos. • Supernatural Comic Con... (7 videos)
3. This source was also used for talking head bubbles. • SPN at SDCC 08: Panel ... (6 videos, I used 5)
OTHER SOURCE REFERENCES
The brief audio of Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas came from here: • Kansas - Carry On Wayw...
The group photo of the panelists shown near the beginning of the video came from here: www.supernaturalwiki.com/File:Panel.jpg
The photo of Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Watchmen came from here: dc.fandom.com/wiki/Jeffrey_Dean_Morgan
The photo of Gordon Walker came from here: breezewiki.com/villains/wiki/Gordon_Walker
The image of the Charles Manson newspaper article came from here: www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/charles-manson-dead-latest-obituary-serial-killer-cult-leader-terrified-nation-sharon-tate-leno-rosemary-labianca-murders-a8064906.html
The photo of Phil Sgriccia came from here: www.supernaturalwiki.com/Philip_Sgriccia
The bad photoshop job of the wheel bearing fruit was done by me. I combined the wheel from here (antiquitynow.org/2015/05/07/our-most-popular-post-of-all-time-the-invention-of-the-wheel/) and the fruit from here (www.ufseeds.com/fruit-growing-guide.html).
The image of Trigger and Roy Rogers came from here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_(horse)#/media/File:Roy_Rogers_and_Trigger.jpg
The photo of Bruce Campbell came from here. thetvwatchtower.org/2010/07/23/long-live-bruce-campbell-a-sci-fi-favorite-and-now-the-star-of-his-very-own-sam-axe-movie/
The photo of Mitch Pileggi in X-Files came from here. x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Mitch_Pileggi?file=Skinner_Standing.jpg

[@DetailTilted]

Regarding the things Eric said around 12:25+ that I couldn't explain, somebody left a comment on my Tumblr post with a lot of helpful info! You can see the post here: www.tumblr.com/detailtilted/744070066543509504/comic-con-2008-enhanced-edition-of-supernatural The below info is all from them. Regarding #1, I've uploaded a corrected subtitle file to properly show "Raven-Symoné". 1. What I had incorrectly subtitled as "Raven Snow" was actually "Raven-Symoné", a new character added in Season 6 of The Cosby Show. Eric referenced this again in a 2009 interview here: www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a147268/supernatural-creator-discusses-plot-twist/. 2. The Hawaiian wedding might be a reference to either Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003) or a trip to Hawaii taken in The Cosby Show. 3. "We're in London now" may be a reference to the characters going to London on the TV show Friends. They also mentioned that "shark jumping" is a reference from Fonzie on Happy Days.

[@samilasousa]

I'm in love with your work on this channel❤

[@tranquilityhope392]

Coming back to add - I laughed out loud at the "wheels bearing fruit" image! Not bad photoshop at all. It was wonderful and kinda complemented Ben's whacky comment! 😄

[@DetailTilted]

LOL, I’m so glad you liked that! I often wonder if the occasional silly things I throw in there make anybody else smile or if I’m only amusing myself and everybody else thinks I'm bonkers. 🤣

[@tranquilityhope392]

@@DetailTilted Oh I revel in goofy playful kind of humour. It brightens my day!

[@rose_mnor]

Thanks so much for this video, I'm really enjoying watching these early seasons panels. That Bruce Campbell guy that they wanted to bring in but he declined, he was supposed to be older John Winchester. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was only supposed to be in the flashback scene to 22 years ago in the pilot, and a different one, Bruce Campbell, was approached to play the older (S1) John. Since they were unable to get him, and because he was the only actor they had considered, they were left to come up with a new solution. As Jensen put it, "They kind of threw their hands in the air, and they're like, 'Well, maybe we can gray Jeff up and have him come back and play an older version of himself.'" (from 'Inside of You' Michael Rosenbaum's podcast with Jensen).

[@DetailTilted]

Thank you! It always makes me especially happy if people enjoy this particular video because it was the largest amount of work out of all the ones I’ve done so far. 😅 On the video, under Bruce Campbell’s picture, I actually have a blurb saying “Supernatural's producers originally wanted Bruce Campbell to play present-day John Winchester. See video description reference #4.” And then in my excessively long video description under reference 4, there’s a direct link to the part of that Inside of You video where they talked about that. I figure not everyone reads those little sidebar blurbs though - understandably so, since they could be staring at Jared and Jensen instead. 🤣 I had actually hoped the notes would be unobtrusive so people could ignore the ones they weren't interested in. Until I did the research for this video, I hadn’t known about that. Actually, I have to admit I hadn’t even known who Bruce Campbell was! I’ve learned all sorts of random pop culture things while doing these videos. It’s hard to image someone other than JDM in the role, but I guess we might be saying the same about Campbell if things had gone that way.

[@DetailTilted]

Ha, and then when I checked my video description to make sure the link was really there, I noticed I had a typo saying he was asked to play “present-day John Campbell”. Thank goodness that same typo wasn’t in my video itself, because I couldn’t change that! But I CAN (and did) fix my video description. I’m glad you brought it up!

[@rose_mnor]

@@DetailTilted I did not check your video descriptions I totally forgot to check those out! Lol, now I'm gonna deep dive into those links there! ... thanks for that.

[@DetailTilted]

@rose_mnor No worries, I definitely don't expect many people to notice or read all that! The "Video Reference Notes" section is the only part that contains additional info to supplement the video's sidebar info. All the rest of those links are credits for the many resources I used when creating the video.

[@tranquilityhope392]

Wow! 19 videos! Kudos to your patience. I really love the talking head bubbles. Also, thanks for adding all the references. As a non American, I can infer that they're making pop culture references but it's good to actually know what they are talking about 💜 It was an entertaining panel as usual but Eric had to handle most questions because they were about S4 and only Eric was authorized to answer 😄 which he did with great flair. But the usual shenanigans from J2 were slightly subdued. Jared in particular was uncharacteristically quieter 😂 My favourite moment is Jensen talking about two cowboys and the audience erupting into laughter 😉😀

[@DetailTilted]

Haha, thank you so much! I saw your comments come in while I was working and it was a big bright spot in what was otherwise a hectic day. 😀 I was especially happy to get your comment on this particular video because it was so challenging for me. It’s the only one so far that nearly burned me out, but I was happy in the end with what I learned while doing it. I’m relieved that you liked the talking head sometimes-bubbles! 😅 I agree, the cowboy part was hilarious! I missed the higher level of J2 shenanigans in this one, but I did gain a better appreciation for just how funny Eric and Ben could both be.

[@tranquilityhope392]

@@DetailTilted Oh for sure Eric and Ben have amazing sense of humour. I'm also kind of in love with Ben's accent. And his laugh 🥰😁 I love his interviews on Spn Then and Now. He has some wonderfully deep observations.

[@AdinaIspas]

Hot guys. Lol so was the "two cowboys" an unintentional reference to Brokeback Mountain, hence the audience losing it and Jensen saying he walked right into that one? 😂

[@DetailTilted]

Haha, I was never quite sure if people were laughing because they thought it had Brokeback Mountain implications or if they were laughing because they thought his analogy was a bit of a stretch. But since we both thought of Brokeback, I bet it's likely that's what a lot of the other fans were thinking too. 🤣

[@DetailTilted]

If you have any old convention videos you’d be willing to contribute to this project, please e-mail me at [e-mail]. If you know anyone who might have some, I’d also greatly appreciate it if you could let them know about my search. Even if your videos are on KZbin, I’d rather get my hands on the original files if you still have them. The originals are much more likely to upscale well. If I use your videos, I’ll of course credit you. Also, if I can get your videos to upscale (I can’t always), then I’d be happy to send the upscaled versions back to you for your collection. Thank you!