How did Supernatural get a fake herpes commercial on the air? How did Supernatural manage to end all its storylines without ending the show? Check out two exclusive excerpts from Supernatural's season five companion, on "Changing Channels" and "Swan Song."
Inside secrets of two of Supernatural's most pivotal episodesWe're happy to be able to feature two excerpts from Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 5 by Nicholas Knight, published by Titan Books. Here are the sections on the classic episode "Changing Channels" and the fifth season finale, "Swan Song." Find out how the show's creators came up with the idea of putting Dean and Sam in a sitcom, and how Eric Kripke managed to stage a Sergio Leone-esque showdown between Lucifer and Michael — and why Castiel's "death" was a last-minute decision.
CHANGING CHANNELS
"The clear winner for my favorite episode of Supernatural, period, is ‘Changing
Channels'," states creator Eric Kripke. "Of anything we've ever done on Supernatural, it's the closest approximation of my true sense of humor, which is to say, juvenile. I just loved it. On top of that, to have it not just be an exercise in whimsy, but have a solid and unexpected mythology reason for it, really grounded it.
"The idea originated with Jeremy Carver," Kripke continues. "He began by saying,
‘This pitch is stupid and you're not gonna wanna do it, but I'm just going to say it so that I can get it out of the way. I wanna do Supernatural as a half-hour sitcom. We'd have the laugh track and a whacky neighbor and two goofy monster-hunting brothers who live in a motel and all the wackiness and adventures they have.' My initial reaction was, ‘I love it! We have to do it. But they can't live in a sitcom for the whole episode, so let's figure out other TV genres we wanna have fun with.' We knew we wanted to parody CSI and Grey's Anatomy, because they were our timeslot competition. They're such monster hits, so I always say we're the Japanese businessman cowering for cover beneath Godzilla and Mothra. We're just trying to dodge debris. So it felt right to take out a slingshot and take a few shots at those shows.
"Then Ben Edlund said, ‘We really should do a herpes commercial and build it into the show as if it's a real commercial.' We became enamored of that idea, but the network said, ‘We want to make sure everyone knows that's still part of the show and they don't change the channel or fast-forward on their TiVos or whatever.' We said, ‘But that's the entire point - it rewards people that are paying attention.' The network got really nervous, but we stubbornly insisted on doing what we were gonna do.
"Then we were talking about the shows we loved as kids in which the cars were characters, so we thought, ‘We should do Knight Rider, except that Sam is the car.' We were like, ‘How much crazier can this episode get?' but it always found a way to get one notch crazier. I think the Japanese game show just came out of a desire to watch the guys get hit in the balls. Purely juvenile."
"I was so happy during the nut-cracker scene," says Jensen Ackles with a laugh, "because generally Dean gets the brunt of all the physical practical jokes, and it was nice to actually have Sam get it." In fact, when they filmed the game show, Jared Padalecki was "extremely nervous. I was standing in those ski boots with that big metal bar there, and Lou Bollo showed me how far it would go - but I still put a cup on! I grew up playing football, so I've been hit there before with a cup. It doesn't feel good, but it doesn't make you throw up like getting hit without it. I was definitely nervous, but it was pretty funny."
"When we did the game show I was crying with laughter the whole time," concurs director Charles Beeson. "We got the crew to do the laughter and the ‘oohs' and ‘ahhs', which gave the whole thing life." Editor Tom McQuade would have loved to be in the audience for that, saying, "I hope nut-cracker goes down in TV history! "That whole episode was a hoot to cut," adds McQuade. "Tears were rolling from my eyes from laughing." Composer Jay Gruska also found the whole episode "hysterical. Writing that theme song as if it was a 1980s sitcom theme was an incredible amount of fun," he says. "You gotta love the sitcom!" exclaims Richard Speight Jr. "How many times have we watched terrible sitcoms on TV and thought, ‘Who's laughing at this? Who did they put in the audience?'
"I had some friends who'd never seen the show, so I told them to check it out," Speight continues. "Well, ‘Changing Channels' opens with a really weird, goofy spoof of sitcoms, so my friends found it completely confusing!"
Then again, it could have been even more confusing. Who knows what else went through the writers' minds? "We kicked around a number of things," says executive producer Robert Singer, "but we didn't want to overdo it and make it such a joke that there wouldn't really be room to tell a story in there. There were plenty of other things we could've mocked. Imagine if the show had opened on a spoof of Emeril Lagasse banishing angels with Enochian sigils drawn in pork blood, shouting his trademark, "Bam!"
"You get to do things on this show that you'll remember for a long time," Singer concludes. "‘Changing Channels' was one of them."
SWAN SONG
"The pressure's always on when you're doing a season finale," points out Jensen Ackles, "because they're always the big climactic ending to not only a storyline or whatnot, but to the season itself. After shooting twenty-one episodes it's like running a marathon and then being asked to sprint the last mile. There's a lot of pressure, and I think that raises the level of creativity and raises the bar as far as what people are doing. Like, for the scene with Dean and Sam talking on the hood of the car, I did two takes and I was happy with what I'd done, but being the final episode, I thought, ‘You know what? Let me do one more,' and that ended up being the better of the three. So I think that added effort and that added desire of making this a special episode is definitely something cool."
Something else that's cool is creator Eric Kripke's knack for predicting - or possibly controlling - the weather. "Eric wrote this big sequence with Michael and Lucifer at Stull Cemetery, and any way you scheduled that, it was at least three days' worth of work," says director Steve Boyum. "Plus, Eric wanted a specific consistent Sergio Leone look to this thing. So we searched and struggled to try and find a wide open enough space that we could actually shoot this in and have it be within our field of permitted work areas. Just on the weather forecasts alone, I thought, ‘Am I going to get three days that match? In Vancouver, in March, what are the odds of that?' The odds are so weighted against you. In the week leading up to those three days - we had a Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday scheduled for the Stull Cemetery - the forecast varied where it was going to be rain one day, sunny two days, then sunny two days and rain one day, and it kept veering back and forth and back and forth. It all takes place in ten or fifteen minutes, so you can't have it raining in one minute and then not in the next. But it ended up being three consistently cloud-clear days, which was unthinkable. It's just the luck of Eric Kripke to pull this off."
As amazing as the Stull Cemetery scenes turned out, Boyum says, "The mirror scene with Sam and Lucifer is my favorite scene in ‘Swan Song'. I cracked the mirror very specifically so that the vantage could move from one part of the mirror to another part to another part. That helped me tell the story, because the camera operator did a great job of putting Jared wherever we wanted his image to be in that mirror. I just thought that the whole scene was creepy and weird and unnerving."
The most unnerving part of the episode was probably when Castiel exploded, which was payback from Lucifer for Castiel throwing a Holy Fire Molotov Cocktail at Michael. "They were gonna have Misha Collins chuck it at me from really far away and try to hit me in the chest," Jake Abel recalls, "and I was like, ‘Um, I don't feel comfortable with this.' So they moved him in closer, and thank God they did because the bottle would not break. It was sugar glass, but they have these double-paned ones so that you can throw them without them shattering in your hand, and it just wouldn't break on my chest. It's in the gag reel, so it was worth it."
"That scene has a certain kind of quirk to it, because I just didn't want everything to feel so heavy," says Kripke. "Michael and Lucifer were having conversations about fate and destiny, and I just had this instinct to puncture it, so Dean plays Def Leppard, and Castiel's dying words are calling somebody ass-butt. I just wanted to take the stink off the pretension as much as I could more than anything.
"Other than that, it was about giving it stakes. In the original outline, Cass did not actually die. I think Lucifer did that little hand wave and Cass goes flying into a tree and he's knocked unconscious, but it was one of those things you discover as you're writing it. As I was writing it I said, ‘He just burned Lucifer's brother and Lucifer would kill him! So it was very natural to me that Lucifer's going to snap his fingers and Castiel will explode. For Bobby, the same thing. You gotta make this feel like it's got weight. Sure, he does get an angelic get-out-of-jail-free card, but in the moment of the action, you can't pull your punches. You just have to go for it."
Executive producer Phil Sgriccia agrees. "It was good to have that moment of, ‘Whoa, we're clearing house,'" he says. Jim Beaver certainly "wasn't shocked" that they finally killed Bobby. "I think I secretly thought maybe I'd be the one character who never got killed off on the show," Beaver says. "But dramatically, it was a strong choice. I wasn't surprised or relieved to be brought back to life, because it's beenclear to me for a long time that the producers have no intention of losing Bobby's character for long, unless they've got a really, really good reason. My job is to make sure they never have such a reason."
Almost as shocking as the deaths of Castiel and Bobby was the brutal beating that Dean suffered at the hands of his possessed brother. Ackles was glad that it was Padalecki and not some other actor opposite him in that scene. "It's always good to go up against him during fight scenes because we know each other so well," he says. "My left eye was closed, and I couldn't see his right hand punching me, but he helped me by saying that he was going to lead with his right shoulder to indicate that the punch was coming and that's why I reacted accordingly. If I was doing that [scene] with a guest star that would never have occurred to them."
"Jensen was such a trooper," says Boyum of the scenes where Dean's face was all bruised and puffy. "He was in that prosthetic makeup for probably six hours, and he had cotton in his mouth simulating the puffy cheeks, and he had blood in his mouth and everything else. He's so good at bringing tears when he needs to, so the hardest thing for him was the tears building up behind the prosthetic that was over the closed eye. They had to keep going in and opening it up and letting the tears drain out."
Fortunately, Castiel fixed Dean up, having been resurrected new and improved by God. The big question though is: Is Chuck God? "We didn't want to give a hard and clear answer," says Kripke. "I think you can draw your own conclusion. We did try to raise that possibility. We tried to ask that question in a way that didn't get too pretentious. We wanted to raise the question and give a provocative possibility. We weren't interested in any character ever saying, ‘Well, that's because I'm God.' We presented a little twist, and people will make of it what they will.
"My character starts the season declaring, ‘I'm going to find God,' notes Misha Collins. "I kind of rolled my eyes at that, thinking, ‘How are they going to do that?' Like, ‘Really? God?' Then they kind of resolve that in the last episode. I'm pretty impressed, actually. The episode delivers. In the writers' room, they actually were like, ‘You know what? We're going to do the Apocalypse!' I would have thought, ‘You know, maybe we shouldn't do the Apocalypse. That's kind of daunting.' But they did it!" Similarly, Beaver says, "When we got the scripts for the last episode, I confess I read it thinking, ‘How are they going to do this?' I got through it and thought, ‘This is an incredible wrap-up for this season.' It's a great plotline, and innovative in the extreme, which is what I expect out of Eric. It's audacious. The arc ends brilliantly, I think. I'm always shocked at how well they get themselves out of corners dramatically."
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
New Supernatural anime series debuts
A new trailer for the Supernatural anime series has made its way out into the world and it clocks in at just over two minutes. Unsurprisingly, there are no subtitles so it's just a visual feast as well as an interesting choice of music that you do not often hear with anime releases simply because of licensing issues (especially if it's used in the show and the series gets released in the US, it could be even more problematic).
The show will be done as a twenty-two episode series and will see a home video release in Japan on 01/12/2011 with the first volume containing the first two episodes. A month later, the first box set will ship with episodes 3-12 and then in April, the last half of the set will be released. The show will be available on both DVD and Blu-ray.
This release will apparently cover the storyline from the first two seasons of the live action series while also having some new original stories mixed in that will include material of the Winchester brothers' younger days and more such as anime-only enemies and stories focusing on the supporting cast from the live-action version.
The Warner Bros. Japan site has listed the specs for the media release in Japan:
Supernatural The Animation Blu-ray vol.1 2011/01/12 - 980yen. Includes episode 1 and 2.
Collector's box 1 2011/02/02 - 12,800yen. Includes episode 3-12.
Collector's box 2 2011/04/06 - 12,800yen. Includes episode 13-22.
The show will be in Japanese and contain English subtitles and the Blu-ray's will be playable in US players.
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The show will be done as a twenty-two episode series and will see a home video release in Japan on 01/12/2011 with the first volume containing the first two episodes. A month later, the first box set will ship with episodes 3-12 and then in April, the last half of the set will be released. The show will be available on both DVD and Blu-ray.
This release will apparently cover the storyline from the first two seasons of the live action series while also having some new original stories mixed in that will include material of the Winchester brothers' younger days and more such as anime-only enemies and stories focusing on the supporting cast from the live-action version.
The Warner Bros. Japan site has listed the specs for the media release in Japan:
Supernatural The Animation Blu-ray vol.1 2011/01/12 - 980yen. Includes episode 1 and 2.
Collector's box 1 2011/02/02 - 12,800yen. Includes episode 3-12.
Collector's box 2 2011/04/06 - 12,800yen. Includes episode 13-22.
The show will be in Japanese and contain English subtitles and the Blu-ray's will be playable in US players.
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TV Guide: Supernatural recap : the third man
Castiel's back just in time to deal with a rogue angel who's acting like he's a crossroads demon. Balthazar is living large and buying up souls; he's not worrying about the impending heavenly civil war. Meanwhile, all is right with the world because Dean's in the Impala, Sam's working out, and most importantly the Winchester brothers are working together and posing as FBI agents.
Well, not all is right: Dean knows something's wrong with Sam.
Yes, "The Third Man" happens to be the Season 6 debut of our favorite angel in a trench coat. Castiel is back and we find out he's dealing with a lot. His time as heaven's head honcho seems to have been a tumultuous one. Even though the apocalypse is over on Earth, there's an angel civil war brewing up in heaven. God's still MIA, so Rafael the Archangel is taking this opportunity to stage a coup.
The brothers are on the road together again, but they're driving two different cars, which is kind of sad. No worries though. By the end of the episode, Sam and Dean are reunited in the Impala. But before Cas and Rafael's henchman total Sam's car in that four-story fall, we do get a brief Impala versus Charger scene. Dean can't help but race Sam to the doomed cop's house. Go Impala!
The case involves three cops who died pretty gruesome deaths which mirror three of the plagues (Blood, Boils and Locusts). All three deaths were a little hard to watch. I'm not sure which one was worse. I'm going to go with the first death where the officer liquefied and turned into a pool of blood and skin. So gross! Not as disgusting as the couple that ate each other alive from "My Bloody Valentine" but close.
Sam and Dean find out the three police officers killed a kid and then framed him. Other than that, they've got nothing so it's time to call Cas. Sam understandably is skeptical because when he first got back from hell he tried to call the angel a few times. It turns out Dean had the magic touch because after he tries, Cas suddenly shows up. It's a funny little scene and a nice entrance back into the Supernatural world for Castiel.
I do feel bad for Sam, however, because Sam needs answers. I wish Cas had been there for him, especially after the sacrifice Sam made for the world. I'm happy Dean tried to stick up for Sam here. But I also like how Cas came after Dean called him. After all, Cas is the one that raised Dean from perdition. As the angel states, they do have a "profound bond."
Unfortunately, Cas doesn't have any intel on how and why Sam's back from hell, which is kind of scary. He was so essential in bringing Dean back that I was hoping he'd know something. What he does know is that there's only one thing that could have caused these plague-like deaths: the Staff of Moses. This staff is one of heaven's weapons and in the confusion since the apocalypse ended, it was stolen.
It turns out the brother of the kid that was killed then framed sold his soul to get revenge on the cops. Here's where I start seeing similarities between Sam and Cas. Cas transports the boy (along with Sam and Dean) back to the hotel room. The only way he can find out who claimed Aaron Birch's soul is by torturing him. Dean immediately balks at this action and Sam stands back and lets Cas do his thing. Castiel doesn't listen to Dean; he knows what he has to do. He's been gone from the world for a year and the humanity that he had started to develop has taken a back seat -- just like when Sam's emotion chip has been turned off. Or that's what it feels like anyway. While he did manage anger at Cas for not answering his call, Sam is all business. He knows the only way for Cas to get the information he needs is to hurt the boy, so that's what has to happen.
So for now, Sam's hardcore hunter mode includes breaking down doors without a second thought, standing back while someone causes a kid pain in order to get the latest intel, and paying for sex. Our Sam is paying for sex! Talk about someone who doesn't want any emotional entanglements whatsoever. This disconnect I keep talking about in each blog continues. I'm just wondering how long it's going to be before Sam reboots and all the emotion of what he went through in hell, and even before that, comes flooding back. I greatly anticipate that moment.
Cas' efforts have paid off. An angel that he thought had been killed in the war is at the bottom of it all. He confronts Balthazar who's taking advantage of the chaos that's going on in heaven. He's the one that stole the weapons and he's buying people's souls because they're hot commodities right now. He's tasted freedom and he loves it. He admires Cas' rebellious phase and wanted to experience it for himself. Balthazar seems misguided but not a total villain. It feels like Cas and Balthazar had been allies. They'll stay allies as long as Cas doesn't interfere with his nefarious plans. Thankfully after the archangel Rafael returns (we haven't seen him since Season 5's "Free to be You and Me") and gives Cas a serious beat down, Balthazar shows up with some sort of rock/crystal thing that turns Rafael into a pile of salt: "Same thing happened to Lot's wife."
Dean a.k.a. "the hairless ape" sets the angel trap and Balthazar is forced to let the soul of Aaron Birch go before exiting stage left. I wonder if we'll be seeing this character later on in the season. I guess it all depends on how much time the show spends on the angelic civil war. Balthazar is an okay character. I liked him but he doesn't really add much to the action. Well, except for those handy weapons he stole. I do like the actor who plays him, however. Sebastian Roché is good at playing villains. He's currently playing Newton on Fox's Fringe, but I remember him as Jax's brother on ABC's General Hospital.
As quickly as Cas appeared, he disappeared, leaving Dean to ask Sam what in the world is going on with him. He's different. And he went to hell and he of all people knows what that does to a guy. Sam says he's OK. Dean may have been tortured by hell (and continues to be tortured by it), but he's different. Life in the cage didn't affect him. And we know that's not true. The fact that he's acting all robo-Sam isn't just due to the fact that he's hunted hardcore for the last year. This is more than "rough around the edges." Sam wants Dean to know that his not being affected by his time in hell doesn't mean he's stronger than him, it just means that he's different.
This is a Ben Edlund special so of course I laughed a lot in this episode. I just love his humor. "The Third Man" is not quite as quirky as his episodes usually are, but I feel this is another good hour of Supernatural. This show is three for three this season and I'm looking forward to the next installment which happens to be Jensen's directorial debut, "Weekend at Bobby's.
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Well, not all is right: Dean knows something's wrong with Sam.
Yes, "The Third Man" happens to be the Season 6 debut of our favorite angel in a trench coat. Castiel is back and we find out he's dealing with a lot. His time as heaven's head honcho seems to have been a tumultuous one. Even though the apocalypse is over on Earth, there's an angel civil war brewing up in heaven. God's still MIA, so Rafael the Archangel is taking this opportunity to stage a coup.
The brothers are on the road together again, but they're driving two different cars, which is kind of sad. No worries though. By the end of the episode, Sam and Dean are reunited in the Impala. But before Cas and Rafael's henchman total Sam's car in that four-story fall, we do get a brief Impala versus Charger scene. Dean can't help but race Sam to the doomed cop's house. Go Impala!
The case involves three cops who died pretty gruesome deaths which mirror three of the plagues (Blood, Boils and Locusts). All three deaths were a little hard to watch. I'm not sure which one was worse. I'm going to go with the first death where the officer liquefied and turned into a pool of blood and skin. So gross! Not as disgusting as the couple that ate each other alive from "My Bloody Valentine" but close.
Sam and Dean find out the three police officers killed a kid and then framed him. Other than that, they've got nothing so it's time to call Cas. Sam understandably is skeptical because when he first got back from hell he tried to call the angel a few times. It turns out Dean had the magic touch because after he tries, Cas suddenly shows up. It's a funny little scene and a nice entrance back into the Supernatural world for Castiel.
I do feel bad for Sam, however, because Sam needs answers. I wish Cas had been there for him, especially after the sacrifice Sam made for the world. I'm happy Dean tried to stick up for Sam here. But I also like how Cas came after Dean called him. After all, Cas is the one that raised Dean from perdition. As the angel states, they do have a "profound bond."
Unfortunately, Cas doesn't have any intel on how and why Sam's back from hell, which is kind of scary. He was so essential in bringing Dean back that I was hoping he'd know something. What he does know is that there's only one thing that could have caused these plague-like deaths: the Staff of Moses. This staff is one of heaven's weapons and in the confusion since the apocalypse ended, it was stolen.
It turns out the brother of the kid that was killed then framed sold his soul to get revenge on the cops. Here's where I start seeing similarities between Sam and Cas. Cas transports the boy (along with Sam and Dean) back to the hotel room. The only way he can find out who claimed Aaron Birch's soul is by torturing him. Dean immediately balks at this action and Sam stands back and lets Cas do his thing. Castiel doesn't listen to Dean; he knows what he has to do. He's been gone from the world for a year and the humanity that he had started to develop has taken a back seat -- just like when Sam's emotion chip has been turned off. Or that's what it feels like anyway. While he did manage anger at Cas for not answering his call, Sam is all business. He knows the only way for Cas to get the information he needs is to hurt the boy, so that's what has to happen.
So for now, Sam's hardcore hunter mode includes breaking down doors without a second thought, standing back while someone causes a kid pain in order to get the latest intel, and paying for sex. Our Sam is paying for sex! Talk about someone who doesn't want any emotional entanglements whatsoever. This disconnect I keep talking about in each blog continues. I'm just wondering how long it's going to be before Sam reboots and all the emotion of what he went through in hell, and even before that, comes flooding back. I greatly anticipate that moment.
Cas' efforts have paid off. An angel that he thought had been killed in the war is at the bottom of it all. He confronts Balthazar who's taking advantage of the chaos that's going on in heaven. He's the one that stole the weapons and he's buying people's souls because they're hot commodities right now. He's tasted freedom and he loves it. He admires Cas' rebellious phase and wanted to experience it for himself. Balthazar seems misguided but not a total villain. It feels like Cas and Balthazar had been allies. They'll stay allies as long as Cas doesn't interfere with his nefarious plans. Thankfully after the archangel Rafael returns (we haven't seen him since Season 5's "Free to be You and Me") and gives Cas a serious beat down, Balthazar shows up with some sort of rock/crystal thing that turns Rafael into a pile of salt: "Same thing happened to Lot's wife."
Dean a.k.a. "the hairless ape" sets the angel trap and Balthazar is forced to let the soul of Aaron Birch go before exiting stage left. I wonder if we'll be seeing this character later on in the season. I guess it all depends on how much time the show spends on the angelic civil war. Balthazar is an okay character. I liked him but he doesn't really add much to the action. Well, except for those handy weapons he stole. I do like the actor who plays him, however. Sebastian Roché is good at playing villains. He's currently playing Newton on Fox's Fringe, but I remember him as Jax's brother on ABC's General Hospital.
As quickly as Cas appeared, he disappeared, leaving Dean to ask Sam what in the world is going on with him. He's different. And he went to hell and he of all people knows what that does to a guy. Sam says he's OK. Dean may have been tortured by hell (and continues to be tortured by it), but he's different. Life in the cage didn't affect him. And we know that's not true. The fact that he's acting all robo-Sam isn't just due to the fact that he's hunted hardcore for the last year. This is more than "rough around the edges." Sam wants Dean to know that his not being affected by his time in hell doesn't mean he's stronger than him, it just means that he's different.
This is a Ben Edlund special so of course I laughed a lot in this episode. I just love his humor. "The Third Man" is not quite as quirky as his episodes usually are, but I feel this is another good hour of Supernatural. This show is three for three this season and I'm looking forward to the next installment which happens to be Jensen's directorial debut, "Weekend at Bobby's.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Supernatural season 6: Returning to it Roots
When Supernatural returns for season 6 on September 24th at 9pm on The CW, there will be a new day-to-day showrunner. Eric Kripke has taken a step back and now executive producer Sera Gamble will be running things. So how will that affect how the show turns out this season?
Season 6 - Returning to Its Roots
When the show first started, there was an underlying theme: this family was on the hunt for the demon that took Mary away from them. Throughout seasons 1 and 2, as they hunted, the Winchester brothers (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki) hunted a different monster each week. When season 3 began, the Yellow-Eyed Demon (Azazel) was dead, and the brothers spent time still hunting, but with Dean's deal that would send him to hell at year's end over their heads. Once season 4 started, so started the mythology that introduced angels to the show. Season 5 was all about Lucifer and Michael, and in the end, Sam locked Lucifer up in his cage in hell--while he was using the younger Winchester brother as his vessel. Season 6 is supposed to be returning to that "monster of the week" feel of season 1, as the next part of the story is beginning after the "5-year arc for the show...ended."
Kripke to Gamble - What's Changed?
Now that the "guard change" has taken place, "the show's totally different, just in the way that certain scripts are written," according to Ackles, who plays older brother Dean. He went on to say that "Eric controlled the size of the script....he was able to really dial it back and make it a doable show within our budget and the time frame that we were filming." So has that changed noticeably? It won't affect the final product of the show, so it shouldn't be visible to the viewers, but apparently "this year it's increasingly more difficult to film because the shows are so big," Ackles said, adding this required more time and a larger budget. This prompted Padalecki to crack the joke that they "fired Misha [Collins]." As always, there's the humor from those two. But that doesn't mean that they don't trust Gamble to do her job right. Also, apparently Padalecki is "naked a lot more," at least according to the actor. Whether that's true or not, only time will tell as season 6 airs this fall. If it is true, fans certainly won't be complaining. The show was originally going to end after five seasons, so viewers are sure to be happy to see more Supernatural.
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Season 6 - Returning to Its Roots
When the show first started, there was an underlying theme: this family was on the hunt for the demon that took Mary away from them. Throughout seasons 1 and 2, as they hunted, the Winchester brothers (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki) hunted a different monster each week. When season 3 began, the Yellow-Eyed Demon (Azazel) was dead, and the brothers spent time still hunting, but with Dean's deal that would send him to hell at year's end over their heads. Once season 4 started, so started the mythology that introduced angels to the show. Season 5 was all about Lucifer and Michael, and in the end, Sam locked Lucifer up in his cage in hell--while he was using the younger Winchester brother as his vessel. Season 6 is supposed to be returning to that "monster of the week" feel of season 1, as the next part of the story is beginning after the "5-year arc for the show...ended."
Kripke to Gamble - What's Changed?
Now that the "guard change" has taken place, "the show's totally different, just in the way that certain scripts are written," according to Ackles, who plays older brother Dean. He went on to say that "Eric controlled the size of the script....he was able to really dial it back and make it a doable show within our budget and the time frame that we were filming." So has that changed noticeably? It won't affect the final product of the show, so it shouldn't be visible to the viewers, but apparently "this year it's increasingly more difficult to film because the shows are so big," Ackles said, adding this required more time and a larger budget. This prompted Padalecki to crack the joke that they "fired Misha [Collins]." As always, there's the humor from those two. But that doesn't mean that they don't trust Gamble to do her job right. Also, apparently Padalecki is "naked a lot more," at least according to the actor. Whether that's true or not, only time will tell as season 6 airs this fall. If it is true, fans certainly won't be complaining. The show was originally going to end after five seasons, so viewers are sure to be happy to see more Supernatural.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Supernatural Highlights at Comic-con 2010
The Supernatural panel at Comic-Con was back to normal with the return of stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. After ending creator Eric Kripke's five-year plan by sending Sam to Hell and somehow bringing him back, season 6 has a lot of questions to answer.
During the panel the cast talked about what's coming up for their characters, what new episodes and monsters we'll see and they showed a video from the Jensen-directed fourth episode of Supernatural season 6.
Here are the highlights from the panel:
-At the panel they showed a video preview of the fourth episode, "Weekend at Bobby's," directed by Jensen Ackles. The episode will focus on Bobby trying to get out of the deal he made with Crowley to give away his soul at the end of season 5.
-Though Eric Kripke's five-year plan is over, he sees season 6 as a sequel to his Supernatural.
-New showrunner Sera Gamble talked about the driving mythology of season 6 being based on the monsters of the week. We'll see more monsters and their backstories will play into the new season. The show will also get back to simpler things, like shooting monsters in the face.
-How did Sam get out of Hell? "Practice," joked Jared Padalecki, stealing the old line about Carnegie Hall. But in reality, he still doesn't know.
-Dean won't be kissing demons anytime soon. However, Sam and Dean will have some lady drama in an episode featuring a female relative of the Winchesters.
-Misha Collins said that Castiel is still busy cleaning up Heaven in season 6.
-Jim Beaver believes that Hell will freeze over before Bobby gets a girlfriend, so don't hold your breath.
-Ben Edlund is writing an episode about fairies that will feature little people.
-Jensen Ackles revealed that the hardest part of directing was having to pay attention to every single line of dialogue in the script and not just worry about his own character. Jim joked around about wanting to give Jensen a hard time by considering staying in his trailer for 30 minutes after being called to set.
-Everyone would love for Jeffrey Dean Morgan to return, but unfortunately he has a very busy schedule.
-Eric Kripke said that he made some changes to the season 5 finale due to the show coming back, but it mostly stayed the same. He said that if it wasn't renewed, major characters probably would've stayed dead.
Supernatural season 6 premieres September 24 at 9pm.
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During the panel the cast talked about what's coming up for their characters, what new episodes and monsters we'll see and they showed a video from the Jensen-directed fourth episode of Supernatural season 6.
Here are the highlights from the panel:
-At the panel they showed a video preview of the fourth episode, "Weekend at Bobby's," directed by Jensen Ackles. The episode will focus on Bobby trying to get out of the deal he made with Crowley to give away his soul at the end of season 5.
-Though Eric Kripke's five-year plan is over, he sees season 6 as a sequel to his Supernatural.
-New showrunner Sera Gamble talked about the driving mythology of season 6 being based on the monsters of the week. We'll see more monsters and their backstories will play into the new season. The show will also get back to simpler things, like shooting monsters in the face.
-How did Sam get out of Hell? "Practice," joked Jared Padalecki, stealing the old line about Carnegie Hall. But in reality, he still doesn't know.
-Dean won't be kissing demons anytime soon. However, Sam and Dean will have some lady drama in an episode featuring a female relative of the Winchesters.
-Misha Collins said that Castiel is still busy cleaning up Heaven in season 6.
-Jim Beaver believes that Hell will freeze over before Bobby gets a girlfriend, so don't hold your breath.
-Ben Edlund is writing an episode about fairies that will feature little people.
-Jensen Ackles revealed that the hardest part of directing was having to pay attention to every single line of dialogue in the script and not just worry about his own character. Jim joked around about wanting to give Jensen a hard time by considering staying in his trailer for 30 minutes after being called to set.
-Everyone would love for Jeffrey Dean Morgan to return, but unfortunately he has a very busy schedule.
-Eric Kripke said that he made some changes to the season 5 finale due to the show coming back, but it mostly stayed the same. He said that if it wasn't renewed, major characters probably would've stayed dead.
Supernatural season 6 premieres September 24 at 9pm.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Comic-Con 2010: Supernatural panel on sunday!
TV shows have never been out in force like they are this year at Comic-Con. It’s the place where series such as Psych and Smallville can reconnect with their core fan base, and where people can see pilots and footage of new series that could hold their attention. Fringe had its debut two years ago, and V last year — this year, No Ordinary Family and Nikita are being rolled out for the con contingent. I am lucky enough this year to be involved with some of the TV goings-on, as I’ll be moderating the Supernatural panel on Sunday featuring creator Eric Kripke, new showrunner Sera Gamble, fan favorites Misha Collins and Jim Beaver, and the CW show’s big stars, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. (Perhaps I will get a question in every so often in between all the screams for those two!) There are other must-see presentations to be had, though, so read below for my top 10 TV list. Let us know what TV shows you’re most interesting in, and check out this sneak preview of the new NBC show The Cape, starring David Lyons and Keith David.
Ackles eating gummi treats!
Newlywed Jensen Ackles snacks on some gummy candies while shooting the sixth season of his hit CW series, Supernatural, on Thursday (July 22) in Vancouver, Canada.
On Sunday, the 32-year-old actor will attend the Supernatural panel at Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego, Calif. The panel will also feature creator Eric Kripke, new showrunner Sera Gamble, and some of the show’s other stars including Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins and Jim Beaver.
On Sunday, the 32-year-old actor will attend the Supernatural panel at Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego, Calif. The panel will also feature creator Eric Kripke, new showrunner Sera Gamble, and some of the show’s other stars including Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins and Jim Beaver.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Creation Entertainments Salute to Supernatural
This weekend, July 9-11, is Creation Entertainment's Salute to Supernatural in Parsippany, NJ. Guests are Misha Collins (Castiel), Samantha Smith (Mary Winchester), Aldis Hodge (Jake Talley), Alona Tal (Jo Harvelle), Katherine Boecher (Lilith), Rob Benedict (Chuck), Matt Cohen (young John Winchester), Fred Lehne (Azazel), and Steve Carlson
for more info click here
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Supernatural Casting news for season six!
Corin Nemec has landed the recurring role of
Christian Campbell, Sam and Deans Supernatural
cousin!
Christian Campbell, Sam and Deans Supernatural
cousin!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
vote for Jensen!!!
Day five and we are just getting started with E! Online's annual Tater Top Awards. You should all feel privileged and honored to be a part of this monumental moment in TV history. So be honored, dagnabit!
Save the drama for your mama. Or, for these nominees, save it for your screentime. Yes sir, today's Tater Tops categories are all about the angst! The pain! And the wonderful gals and guys who brought their A game to our TV sets each week. Get ready for some real drama makers…
From your minds to our comment sections, we've collected your nominees for Drama Mama and Drama King. Because what's a TV season without the furrowed eyebrows and choked-up line delivery that make a dramatic monologue?
We've got two more weeks of Tater Tops, so keep sending in your nominations and keep voting for the other categories right here. And since robots will be taking over the world eventually anyway, we've made sure to keep them out of our Tater Tops Awards. We are anti-cheat here at WWK, so rest assured, these votes are 100 percent authentic.
The winners will be announced July 20, and that's so far away! You've got so much time! So vote below, nominate some more, and tell us who deserves the Golden Tater!
to vote click HERE
Save the drama for your mama. Or, for these nominees, save it for your screentime. Yes sir, today's Tater Tops categories are all about the angst! The pain! And the wonderful gals and guys who brought their A game to our TV sets each week. Get ready for some real drama makers…
From your minds to our comment sections, we've collected your nominees for Drama Mama and Drama King. Because what's a TV season without the furrowed eyebrows and choked-up line delivery that make a dramatic monologue?
We've got two more weeks of Tater Tops, so keep sending in your nominations and keep voting for the other categories right here. And since robots will be taking over the world eventually anyway, we've made sure to keep them out of our Tater Tops Awards. We are anti-cheat here at WWK, so rest assured, these votes are 100 percent authentic.
The winners will be announced July 20, and that's so far away! You've got so much time! So vote below, nominate some more, and tell us who deserves the Golden Tater!
to vote click HERE
Supernatural Vancouver convention
Creation Entertainment is auctioning of a 30 minute private Q&A with Jared and Jensen for 20 people at the upcoming Vancouver convention.
"Actors Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester) from television’s SUPERNATURAL will hold a private 30 minute Q&A session with TWENTY (20) lucky winners! This event will take place on Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre—our convention hotel host property. Time/location will be provided to the winners a few days prior to the show."
for more info click here
"Actors Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester) from television’s SUPERNATURAL will hold a private 30 minute Q&A session with TWENTY (20) lucky winners! This event will take place on Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre—our convention hotel host property. Time/location will be provided to the winners a few days prior to the show."
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Jared and Genevieve on list of 10 stars that tied the knot!
Some brides and grooms wish for clear skies on their wedding day, but for Supernatural star Jared Padalecki and his bride Genevieve Cortese from FlashForward snow was exactly what they were wishing for on their winter wonderland wedding day. The bride looked elegant in her Monique Lhuillier gown on February 27th in her hometown of Idaho at the Valley Club where they danced in the snow and felt the warmth of each other’s love and the love of their friends and family. What season will you plan your wedding for?
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