I'm sure we can figure out something about the John thing, make him going away a useful part of the story.
re: Sam's disappearance, maybe we can pull an AHBL1 and have him more or less *poof*, but surrounding carnage indicate that he didn't just run away to join the circus. I like the idea of them not knowing and having no way to find out what happened to him. I feel like the Dean/Jess tensions are more interesting if they don't know whether he's dead or not.
I definitely think J & D should have no idea about the marriage - for one reason or another. Maybe they did a low-key town hall wedding cause they're too PC to go for the Judeo-Christian patriarchal floofy-white-dress variety (plus Sam doesn't want to admit he has no one to invite.) My thought is that when John and Dean arrive, the apocalypse is already really, really obvious, so Sam's filled Jess in and they're hunkered down defending themselves. (And actually, already have kind of a vision of the first scene - will email.)
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re: Sam's disappearance, maybe we can pull an AHBL1 and have him more or less *poof*, but surrounding carnage indicate that he didn't just run away to join the circus. I like the idea of them not knowing and having no way to find out what happened to him. I feel like the Dean/Jess tensions are more interesting if they don't know whether he's dead or not.
I definitely think J & D should have no idea about the marriage - for one reason or another. Maybe they did a low-key town hall wedding cause they're too PC to go for the Judeo-Christian patriarchal floofy-white-dress variety (plus Sam doesn't want to admit he has no one to invite.) My thought is that when John and Dean arrive, the apocalypse is already really, really obvious, so Sam's filled Jess in and they're hunkered down defending themselves. (And actually, already have kind of a vision of the first scene - will email.)