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| 'Supernatural' boss on why he stepped down and what's coming up | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 17 2010, 03:56 AM (965 Views) | |
| Miss Rhi | Jul 17 2010, 03:56 AM Post #1 |
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'Supernatural' boss on why he stepped down and what's coming up A new Friday time slot isn’t the only major change facing Supernatural as it heads into its sixth season (beginning Sept. 24). Series creator Eric Kripke—whose five-season-long end-of-days-themed arc came to a close last May—is stepping down as day-to-day showrunner in favor of an advisory role. (Longtime EP Sera Gamble has been tapped to succeed him.) In the following Q&A, Kripke sets the record straight about the reason he relinquished his top-dog status, and previews the “undiscovered country” at the heart of the show’s top secret second act. Why did you decide to step down as showrunner? ERIC KRIPKE: We were reaching the end of this five-year story line [so] I thought the timing was right. I knew that we were closing this chapter and opening a new one. It felt like it was the right time to take a step back and focus on new projects, but still keep my grubby little mitts in the show. It was a lot about Sera and her enthusiasm and her ambition. I really think after five years of all of my crap, to have someone who has a fresh perspective and a fresh energy on these characters and this universe is healthy for the show. Supernatural has always been a show about reinvention. We try really hard not to do the same thing. I thought that Sera’s [increased] involvement really helped guarantee that this season is going to feel a little different, a little fresher. She has a different sensibility. What exactly will your role be? KRIPKE: I see my job as being a safety net and just making sure that the show falls in the broadest possible parameters…. Sera and Bob [Singer] are pitching episode ideas to me. I’m in the room so far for every episode break. I pitch a couple of episode ideas, pitch a couple issues of how to fix some problems and some breaks. I’m giving some script notes. I’m still in it; I think, frankly, Sera and Bob wish I backed the hell up. [Laughs] Will you be writing any episodes? KRIPKE: I think I will certainly be writing an episode this year. I am also slated to direct an episode in February. What do you say to those fans who felt the show should have ended with season 5? KRIPKE: My answer to that is time will tell. I have high hopes for this season. I remember the same kind of concerns when we bumped off Yellow Eyes in season 2. We killed their Big Bad and where were we going to go now? We always found a different place to go. People forget that I didn’t [originally] want angels in the show. Then we introduced the angels and then it spun the story line in a way that was really rich for us. This is a show that ends story lines and starts new ones and reinvents itself. I think because it is hardwired into the DNA of the show, it will weather a lot of transition and growth. The question is not should it have ended, the question is, Is the new story line compelling and interesting and is it an arena of this universe that we haven’t explored yet and is it putting Sam and Dean into new situations that we haven’t seen before? I think it does all of the above. Okay, what is the new story line? KRIPKE: One of the first things Sera and Bob talked to me about was that the angel thing is rightfully exhausted, so where do you go from there? Not to say that angels and demons won’t be a part of the story line, because they will. Castiel will be there. Crowley will be there. The beloved characters will be threading into the story. But the great undiscovered country of Supernatural is kind of right in front of our face: creatures and monsters. We have had so many creature episodes but we haven’t actually explained where they came from—[similar] to the way we have explored angels and demons. How do they feel about the situations they are in? Are they from here? Where did the first ones come from? How did werewolves and vampires and shape-shifters all begin anyway? I thought that was a really smart notion on [Sera and Bob's] part, just exploring the history of that, because that was something that we never investigated on the show. How does Grandpa [Mitch Pileggi] fit into this? KRIPKE: He’s representative of the other side of this exploration, which is that Sam and Dean have a family of hunters that they never knew they had. Their grandfather is the head of that family. Remember, it’s not the Winchesters who are famous hunters, it’s the Campbells. And we are saying that the Campbells are part of a timeline of hunters that have been there since the country’s origins. As Sera put it, they were hacking heads off vampires on the Mayflower. For Sam and Dean to really tap into a family history, which they never knew they had and again never really investigated before, is pretty interesting to us. Source: ew.com |
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| Michael Baldwin | Aug 6 2010, 08:07 AM Post #2 |
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Can't wait to see season six!!! Just saw Supernatural Anime Teaser Trailer. |
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| Michael Baldwin | Aug 10 2010, 02:30 PM Post #3 |
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Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, and Misha Collins on the Supernatural set great pictures :cheer: |
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| Michael Baldwin | Aug 17 2010, 02:44 AM Post #4 |
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Supernatural S5 gag reel :biggrin: |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 10 2010, 09:06 AM Post #5 |
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S6 Promo |
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| Daytime | Sep 10 2010, 10:53 AM Post #6 |
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Oooo, I can't wait! Thanks for posting MB! :) |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 10 2010, 11:17 AM Post #7 |
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Me too :D I didn't watch SPN till this summer. Somwhere in June, I was bored and I decided to watch first episode... all five seasons I finished for about two months :D You're welcome Daytime. |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 10 2010, 11:33 PM Post #8 |
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Friends promo Family promo |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 10 2010, 11:48 PM Post #9 |
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Jared Padalecki Interview |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 12 2010, 06:38 AM Post #10 |
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EW scan http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2562/c7859791d9ddba152e0e992.jpg |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 15 2010, 02:27 AM Post #11 |
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http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/09/14/supernatural-season-6-trailer/ Trailer is so goooooooood!!! :hail: :hail: Can't wait!!!! |
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| Daytime | Sep 15 2010, 08:03 AM Post #12 |
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OMG! MB, that trailer gave me goosebumps!!!!!! Like Wow! I wonder if Sam is still possessed when the season starts... Oooo, I can't wait!!!!!! That trailer was so good!!!!! This gives me high hopes for this season, but I wonder if it will be the last. :( Thanks for staying on top of things... :) |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 15 2010, 08:40 AM Post #13 |
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In one previous interview, Kripke told that he is very satisfied what Sera Gamble plan to do with season 6. I can't wait to see this because hers episodes in past seasons were one of the best (Heart, All Hell Breaks Loose I, Dream a Little Dream of Me...) :) |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 17 2010, 09:31 AM Post #14 |
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Excellent :hail: |
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| Daytime | Sep 17 2010, 10:18 AM Post #15 |
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Oh wow! I am gleeming with anticipation! I cannot wait for this season, but I thought they were moving SPN to Fridays, but the promo said Wed...I wonder if they changed it again? |
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| Michael Baldwin | Sep 23 2010, 09:02 AM Post #16 |
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Zap2it visited the show's Vancouver set while the stars were filming Episode 8, "All Dogs Go To Heaven," and we had to ask whose tour of hell was worse - Sam's or Dean's. "I'd say mine, I think," Padalecki says, explaining that not only was Sam in hell, but he was in "Lucifer's cage with an archangel battle." "Crowley (Mark Sheppard) says, 'I can't imagine what it's like in the cage, and I can imagine so many things,'" Padalecki continues, "So we get the idea that Sam was in the bad part of hell. He wasn't like, in the penthouse. He was slumming down there.'" The experience has changed Sam significantly. "I come back much less lovey-dovey, and more like 'All right. I've been to Hell a couple times. I've been to Heaven. I've died; I've come back, I've done this, and I've done that; so I think Sam's kind of more no-bulls***." In the scene we observed on set, Sam and Dean pose as experts at a crime scene. "We go up to this dead body, and my line is 'Yeah, we're specialists. We answer the questions of mouth-breathing d*** monkeys.' Stone-faced. 'You're going to tell us what's going on?'" Padalecki says. Ackles chimes in, "He's come so far!" Meanwhile, Dean has the added pressure of a girlfriend and a child to worry about. The more nurturing side of Dean doesn't necessarily sit well with Ackles. "There was a big shift in Dean's character, actually, much to my chagrin," admits Jensen. "I was not happy with it. Dean was really kind of being written soft. We spent five years with this guy being a tough, shoot-first-ask-questions-later kind of guy, and now all of a sudden he's lived one year in more of a domesticated life and he's gone soft on us." Ackles feels for the fans who might be missing "old Dean" as Season 6 begins. "As a fan of the show myself, that kind of made me upset, but I did my best to kind of curve that in the acting. It read pretty soft on the page, but I think I toughened it. I'm like 'Look, if I've got anything to do with it, I'm gonna beat this guy up a little bit.'" Padalecki jumps to his co-star's defense, explaining that Ackles wasn't going against the writers' wishes - he was just doing his job as an actor. "You kept it true to the character," he says. "It wasn't like you were just not doing what the writers were writing for. It was like 'How can I work this in to where I don't completely lose Dean?'" The changes have made playing Dean come less naturally to Ackles. "I had no idea what the hell I was doing," Ackles laughs. "Even the dialogue, the way it was written, being so soft and affected. I was like, 'This is not the guy I'm used to playing.' I would kind of skew the dialogue a little bit to make it work in his favor. But it was definitely different. It was an odd situation for Dean to be in." "After five seasons of playing this guy, now I actually have to think harder about how to play this guy correctly than I have before. I'm like, what happened to the gravy boat here?" "We talked to [Smallville's Tom Welling], and he's like, yeah, Season 6, it's easy from there on out," Padalecki says. "We're like, it got harder!" Though Sam and Dean have definitely grown apart, they are working on rebuilding their bond -- though they may be going about it in different ways. "I think the common denominator is also that Sam and Dean both want it to be better," Padalecki says. "In their own way, albeit; but they at least both want the same things. Maybe they work differently, but it's no longer Sam going 'Alright, I've got this demon... you do whatever you want; we'll meet up later.' I think we're just wording differently what we want. We're trying to work together and let it flesh itself out." Of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and before things get better, they will get worse. Dean is upset with his brother from the get-go. "When Sam shows back up unexpectedly, obviously there's surprise, but then there's also anger. 'How long has he been around, and why hasn't he told me?' That's the first bit of friction," Ackles says. It only gets messier from there. "In the trailer, there's a shot of me hitting him, and that wasn't edited to look as though it was; that actually happened," Ackles promises. "There are physical confrontations. There are verbal confrontations between the others. But they do have their common denominator, and that is that they're both hunters, so they get back on the right track eventually. There is still a strain in the relationship that has yet to be worked out [by episode 8]." Will there be more physical fighting between the brothers? "I hope so!" Padalecki laughs. "It's fun. Source |
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