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SUPERNATURAL CREATOR ERIC KRIPKE ANSWERS FAN’S QUESTIONS – PART III
APRIL 26, 2008 LIANA BEKAKOS
For better or worse, Eric Kripke, the creator, Executive Producer and writer of CW’s popular series Supernatural has made the fans an important part of his show, and not just as ratings numbers. He has often stated that he has a roadmap for the series, a core story that he wants to tell, which he has never wavered from. “It’s the saga of the Winchester clan — who the brothers really are, who their parents really are, why Demons are so closely intertwined with them, and what their destiny really is. It’s an epic, emotional, family story at its heart.” Outside of that core story there are elements that come and go and his writing team is flexible enough to make those adjustments. He states that a decision to keep or discard a storyline combines elements of writers’ opinion, the realities of actors’ schedules, and even opinions of the fans on occasion. Fan response is valued such that when they overwhelmingly reject something across multiple online forums, it is given proper attention. “There’s always room to make the show better, and that means trying new things, keeping the things that work, losing the things that don’t.”
This humble admission truly elevates Eric Kripke to a unique position among showrunners. If the excellent writing, acting and directing were not enough to entice the viewer, then feeling like an integral part of the creative process certainly is. That and the fact that Eric appears to be a fan’s best friend — someone to sit down with, share a cup of coffee, and have an open exchange of ideas for story elements that are past, present and future.
Without a doubt, Supernatural is HIS baby. But unlike other parents who have no interest in anyone’s input regarding the development of their children, this is one parent who is willing to listen to input that might make the child-rearing process a bit smoother for all. And this is indeed rare. For fans of genre shows, who generally tend to obsess more than normal, such form of collaboration only serves to increase the obsession tenfold. This ultimately results in a form of over-protectiveness of the show and its main characters that easily puts all older brothers to shame and makes for a very vociferous fandom. For better or worse.
This final part of the Question & Answer session took place at the Salute to Supernatural Convention sponsored by Creation Entertainment and held in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. It will cover the analytical discussions about the mythology, what we can expect for Season Four, and just how painful this season’s finale will be for viewers to watch. Answers containing spoilers for the remainder of the third season, as well as the upcoming fourth season, have been labeled so that the reader can safely skip over those questions.
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Q: With the writer’s strike, it became necessary to switch the order of the last two episodes shown for the potentially shorter season in order to end on more of a finale-type episode. Do you prefer the new order?
EK: Actually, I think this is one of those things that was meant to be. I actually prefer the new order now [with Mystery Spot ahead of Jus In Bello]. The arc was going towards seeing Sam become more hard-core, thus seeing what life might be like without Dean helped to really make him more hard-core going into the precinct episode. Thus happy accidents happen all the time!
Q: After the introduction of Lilith, debate is happening online on whether she is based on biblical myth, Mesopotamian myth, whether she’s a mix, or none of that…
EK: Ya know, this just reinforces that we have the smartest fans in the world, super-smart fans… we really do! She’s going to be a combination of all myths concerning Lilith. We have done our homework. Digging into the biblical legend, the name was chosen because it’s an older myth. But like we do with everything at Supernatural, everything is sort of pan-myth.
Q: Where did your inspiration come from for Lilith because it appears that Lilith and Sam are the two opposites that are supposed to lead this demon army and she’s this little girl and he’s this big, tall man such that it looks like Mighty Mouse versus the Jolly Green Giant… EK: But she’s got skills!! …She’s this adorable little girl with the creepy white eyes….
[spoiler warning!] EK: Currently that’s just the meatsuit she’s wearing. The reason we were inspired by Lilith is that we’re moving up the demonic hierarchy. Lilith is higher than Azazel, Yellow-Eyes. She’s a pretty high echelon demon, you don’t get much higher than her until you start digging into Lucifer territory. So don’t be fooled by the little girl… she will leave the girl and go into somebody else and go into different characters. Because we actually have references – (pauses in thought)… actually I’m going to drop that because I would spoil too much. But she’s a demon whereas Sam is human. Heck, if I was a demon, I would follow the other demons! So Sam has his work cut out for him and he has some twists and turns about what his destiny might be and whether or not he achieves it.
Q: In another interview you said that you would never tackle angels or the existence of God, so how does that…
[spoiler warning!] EK: how does it all work? What I had said is that we weren’t going to necessarily see positive, glowing, ethereal versions of Supernatural because for one it’s not necessarily scary and two we’re not like that Touched by an Angel stuff. But down and dirty versions of different factions are a possibility. I’ve also learned to never-say-never, just as long as we can find a cool, bada** sort of way to do something. There’s a debate on Lilith and whether she was in fact Adam’s first wife, but her two primary roles seem to be destroyer of children and seducer of men. We plan on exploring those two facets of her personality. But for now it’s just the destroyer of children since she is in a body of a ten-year-old. I’m in the middle of writing the finale — I’m actually in hell right now ‘cause writing sucks! — and she’s still a ten-year-old girl and we have great fun with the creepy stuff that she does. She’s a bada** character and she will give Fred Lane [the Yellow-Eyed Demon] a run for his money for sure.
Q: Dean always seems to struggle with religion and believing in God, whereas Sam seems more readily to do so. How can Dean struggle with that and yet use a rosary to create holy water, or use <christo>, or other religious tools?
EK: I think that is something very interesting about the core of the character. He is ultimately pragmatic and says that he only believes what he can see. He doesn’t really have faith, he doesn’t believe in destiny and he only has what he can see with his own eyes. But he tends to see all kinds of crazy stuff and he uses the religious tools because he has seen them work. He doesn’t think it’s the power of God making it work, for all he knows it might be some occult spell. All he knows is that it works. He’s practical, therefore uses it. He believes in demons because he has fought them and uses those tools against them. But because he has never seen angels or God, and has no direct experience with them, he just doesn’t believe in them. What makes the character so interesting — because in my mind HE’S the hero of the show in so many ways, so my apologies to the Sam lovers. Whereas Sam is that very classic Joseph Campbell with the prophecy and all that, Dean is the character who doesn’t believe in that stuff yet he keeps coming across it. So how he deals with it and how he reacts to it is interesting. At the end of the day, the soul of the show is about humanism, humanity, and making your own destiny. Basically Dean says f— all that prophecy crap, we’re brothers, and I love you. (loud cheers) And that’s basically the core of the character.
Q: I’m in the minority since I like the character of Bela and the majority of fans do not. I was wondering how you were going to address that and whether she will be in the fourth season.
[spoiler warning!] EK: Hey, that’s the question I was waiting for! (laughs from the audience) I’m glad you like the character and I DO want an honest response here… clap if you like Bela (mild applause). Clap if you don’t like Bela (loud applause and cheers). There’s some things I can’t say and a lot of that question that I can’t answer because there’s this bada** piece of information that ties her in to a lot of the season’s thematics, and then we cliffhang the hell out of her and leave her in dire straits. I can’t really talk about the future because of issues that are transpiring as we speak, but I can acknowledge two issues with Bela that I can look back and say were kind of mistakes — And I promise you, there are few showrunners that care as much as I do about what you guys think and look back on material and be as hard on [the material] as me. I have my story and I’m telling my story the way I want to tell it, but I’m open to always working to improve the material. And the two things are that she made the boys look stupid once or twice too many times, and she was never tied in to the mythology. She always just showed up [without good reason]. Whereas I like Ruby a lot, she’s working for me — and if you don’t like Ruby, tough, because she stays. (cheers from the audience with some yelling for a new actress). Ruby is tied into the central mysteries of the show and doesn’t have to explain why she shows up, whereas Bela is not and that is something that her character would need.
[spoiler warning!] We’ll bring Bela back once more this season and we’ll have a reveal that’s closer to the mythology. And the second thing, which I absolutely insisted on in the writer’s room, is that she NOT show up the boys, but that the boys show her up (resounding applause). I agree with you that she’s been an unpopular character this season — believe me I’m aware of it — but Lauren is a classy actress and very interesting. To be honest with you, even last season before the episode ever aired, I looked at the Jo character and wasn’t so sure that she was working. And when the fans seemed to agree, it just confirmed what I suspected. Even though Alona [Tal] was awesome, she was always more of a little sister than what her character was created to be, which was a love interest for Dean. But I have to say that you guys are entitled to your opinions — and bless you for them — but [Bela] took me by surprise. Because in the beginning I thought she was really bada**, cool, and slick, but obviously there has been a lot of fan resistance. But, you figure these things out as you go along.
Q: Well, if she shoots Sam one more time, then even though I like her, that’s it for me too.
EK: No, but I will say this other thing about her. An idea, which is a misconception and everyone seems to be sweating, is that she is going to be redeemed somehow in a manner of <i learned my ways and now let’s just kiss>. And I can say this for the character, she’ll NEVER be redeemed… it’s impossible, how can you possibly redeem that character? (overwhelming cheers and applause) She shot Sam, she sent psycho-killer Gordon after them, threw them to Henriksen knowing that Dean has a death sentence, and stole the Colt. So at this point she can’t say ‘I’m sorry’ and have them say ‘Oh, that’s okay Bela’. You have to enjoy her as a bad guy, but obviously most of you do not.
Q: Well, I personally didn’t like Red Sky at Morning, but I did want to thank you for putting Jensen [Ackles] and Jared [Padalecki] in tuxedos.
EK: Yes, the tux part was the good part. You’re welcome!
Q: I love that in Supernatural everything has a backstory and there are many shades of gray and I was curious as to the whole parallel between demon-God and human-God. Did you have all that planned originally or was it something that was just a cool idea?
EK: I’ll be honest, probably more than I should for my own good as a showrunner… there are certain things we knew and certain things that evolve as the show goes on — that’s just the reality of telling a story. One of the things that evolved is that we’ve never seen Lucifer. Ever since season one we have this ‘show-Bible’, which is just a 15-page document about what the conflict with the demons will be, where it’s going to end up, what their ultimate plan is and what those demons have to be in order to get you to that place. And they had certain characteristics in that they possess people, and the color of the eyes, the black smoke, and all that. I also knew that we weren’t going to see Lucifer. There’s just this idea of a demon army without their King Demon. But we had a lot of discussions regarding the dialogue in [the episode] Sin City. I’m not so sure I would divulge so much if I did the episode again… the less you know about demons, the scarier they are, so I don’t know if it was the best thing to learn a ton about them. In that episode, we spent a lot of time talking about demons in that we tried to use metaphors for modern terrorism: they are hidden among us, they’re striking in terrorist acts, and look at what would motivate them. We decided what would motivate them was to be religiously fervent and we decided to give them a religion with some believing in Lucifer while others don’t. So ultimately that’s where the idea came from, trying to make it all run a little better.
Q: There are theories on the internet about the symbolism of colors, such as yellow or red. Do you do that on purpose or it that something that’s just been latched onto? Because there are some episodes that are sincerely color-heavy where everything is red (the hotel room, the covers, the curtains)…
EK: If there are theories about it, then my answer is…. =maybe=! (audience laughs) That should be my answer from now on… maybe!
Q: Are you ever going to throw us a bone about how it was that their mother Mary knew who the demon was?
EK: Yes, 100%. It was going to be included in this season, but the strike delayed it. But I promise it will be in next season. There’s going to be a big episode with all that mythology and how Mary knew the demon
Q: You’ve mentioned about losing out on some of the mythology this season. So are you going to go more mythic and get into less gore for next season?
EK: Um, no. I love that sh&#, what can I say! We have this episode coming up with the Doc Benton urban legend that is so gory and I just love that stuff!!
Q: Assuming that Dean will be saved at the end of this season, is there a significance to the fact that his life has been saved in every season?
EK: I would argue that that’s not entirely true. He had that moment with the Reaper, and then John made the deal to save him…. Q: Well, in Season 1 in Faith he was saved, then Season 2 he was saved by his father… so is he “special”… ? EK: In reality I guess we keep going to that place because it’s a show about intense emotions and the dangerous, hellacious life that these guys lead. But in a show about life, death and the after-life, sometimes these characters die because it gives you good material to talk about as long as it happens in a different way or as long as something comes out of it that you can twist into angst and drama. Allow me to be the pretentious pr–k guy for a second… there’s this thematic of the show that the Winchester family has turned against the rightful path of nature and fate. They keep presenting themselves as targets because they are so obsessed about saving each other; they take self-sacrifice to this pathological level. It actually serves as a character flaw. What they are willing to do for each other is both a strength and a character flaw. And with each occurrence they keep turning further and further against nature. The right thing would’ve been to let Dean die, but they couldn’t do it. Things are getting worse and worse for the guys because they just can’t let each other go and so it becomes this ongoing thematic of their weakness. And you’ll see in the season finale how it’s about that in a lot of ways. They have an Achilles’ heel and we’re exploring that. That’s why we go there… in a show about brothers who are willing to die for each other, sometimes in our show… they DO.
Q: The boys are SO good at hugging… can we have more of that?
(audience awwws) EK: See, now we can’t have them hug exactly because you guys want it! Because if they hug all the time then it becomes no big deal, they’re hugging again. But if they hug once every two years then everyone reacts to <yes! they did it! they hugged!> Q: But they haven’t mutually-hugged!! Both hugs so far have been one-sided! (laughs and cheers, Eric just laughs and shakes his head)
Q: I’ve read your interviews where you have stated you have the entire storyline and you anticipate ending in five seasons, so I was wondering if you would think a little harder about maybe ending in say, 7 or more seasons. There’s so much more to explore out there!
EK: Yes, there is certainly more to explore. But we sort of have this 5-year map. And Jared and Jensen like the idea of a 5-year map because we work them so hard. It’s possible, but I don’t know. I make the same joke in all the interviews that in Season 6 you can start expecting all the weddings, Raven Symone will show up, an episode will be in Hawaii, and Dean literally gets on a motorcycle and jumps the shark tank. But a lot of these issues are beyond my control at the corporate level with ratings, etcetera. But my personal feeling is that I still want to go out in year five (audience awws and disappointment), It’s better to go out strong and on top than to be 8 or 9 years into a piece of sh#&. You want conclusions… you want to end it. It’s an epic story and epic stories deserve a good ending.
Q: Please convey to your entire production crew and writers how much we really do appreciate them.
EK: I will, thank you!
Q: And thank you for writing a show that really brings people together, like in this weekend.
EK: You’re welcome!
Q: Since you have all been given an early pick-up for Season 4, just how bad of a season cliffhanger will you be giving us?
EK: (very gleeful) It’s going to be a real bit#&! You guys will hopefully be biting your nails. Sorry, it won’t be a restful summer. But for the record, I was going to give you this cliffhanger even when we =didn’t= know we were coming back and you guys would be saying (multiple expletives). But now we all know we’ll be back and it will all be resolved, so you’ll see.
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We'd love to see the Winchester Brothers go up against these monsters one more time on #Supernatural
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"Welcome to the end," God (Rob Benedict) informed Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles), and Castiel (Misha Collins) in the Supernatural Season 14 finale, before unleashing souls from hell and leaving them in the middle of a cemetery full of zombies.
And as we saw elsewhere, monsters they'd already faced, going back to Season 1, were back, too. We saw a Woman in White approaching a man in a car, a clown arrive at a kid's birthday party, and Bloody Mary in a mirror.
There are some other monsters we'd like to see the series revisit before the end, so click through the gallery above for our picks.
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TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke
Mythology and folklore have captivated people for centuries, but perhaps no one more than television producer Eric Kripke. With a passion for the unknown and unexplained, Kripke pitched his idea of a pair of demon-slaying brothers in a Chevy Impala, which would eventually become the fan-favorite Supernatural.
Now in its third season, the show has broken out in all-out war, added a few major characters, and seems poised to be its best yet. Kripke talked to TV.com about the new season, the delicacies of introducing new characters to a rabid fan base, and classic rock-and-roll.
TV.com: Eric, thanks for talking to us. We're going to jump around all over the place, but right now, let's just go general. What was your inspiration for making the show?
Eric Kripke: I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. Ever since I was a kid, I always loved those stories...the really fun, bloody, gory stories with a twist at the end. I was always attracted to them and began studying them in college, and started exploring the deeper levels of those stories. And you really learn a lot about a culture by studying what it's afraid of... They're really just wonderful little sociological capsules of American culture.
I really was attracted to the idea that America had its own mythology, as really fleshed out as any world mythology, and it just wasn't that well publicized. Our mythology needed a better publicist. I had a half-dozen different versions of a show to do that, basically just be a delivery system for urban legends.
At one point I wanted to do an anthology show. Another time, I wanted to do a series about a reporter who works for a tabloid magazine, pretty much a rip-off of the original Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And then, finally, just through development with the studio, settled on this idea of telling these stories in the format of this Route 66: Great American Road Trip with these two brothers.
TV.com: Well, it worked well.
Eric Kripke: It's sort of funny how it all worked out. I literally had scribbled [the idea] in a notebook the day before my meeting with the studio, and then I came into the studio and had pitched them my reporter idea. And they didn't like it. They said, "What else do you got?" I didn't have anything. So, I tap danced and said, "Well, I got this great idea about two brothers on a road trip." They loved it, and it ended up being the show. So, it's funny how that works out.
TV.com: What was the overall theme for season three? How would you describe it as different from the previous two?
Eric Kripke: Season three was and is this "wartime season." It was the season that I personally have been waiting for, where there are a lot of really big story triggers that we pull, and a lot of big mythology triggers that we pull. And it was the season with which really all hell breaks loose--very literally--in which these hundreds of demons are unleashed upon the American landscape. Sam and Dean and other kind of sweaty, frightened, scared, outgunned hunters out there, all have this war on their hands. And [the question for them is] how do you fight it? And what did that mean for Sam and Dean? Very specifically, Dean has a year to live, and we're not entirely sure if Sam is 100 percent Sam, and that Sam is truly all right or is he going to become something else? He has this sort of dark destiny that we're toying with, or that we ask on the show whether or not he's going to fulfill.
And if he does, what does that mean for Dean, and are Dean's obligations towards his brother to save him or to stop him? And so that really becomes sort of the central questions of this season.
We're really aiming for a more epic, more intense season as we've just escalated into this nationwide war, but all very beneath the surface. It's a war, but it's a secret war. It's never one you'd see on the six o'clock news, but it's there nonetheless. And there are these very select group of soldiers who have to fight it.
TV.com: I'm impressed with the way the storyline is developing over the course of the seasons and was wondering how much of the series do you actually have planned out?
Eric Kripke: We have about five seasons worked out, but those are the roughest cocktail-napkin sketches of a road map. We know roughly where we want to shake out every season, and we know roughly some of the major turning points we want to hit. But you leave that road map very intentionally blank because so much gets filled in in the day-to-day, and you just have to allow for the happy accidents and the pleasures of discovery when you find a character who really works for you. For instance, when you find a storyline that you really like--we have this brilliant group of writers who are constantly coming up with this stuff--you have to give the writers the freedom to fill in the blanks because they'll come up with stuff much better than anything you ever originally conceived.
The character Gordon, who became one of my favorite characters and one of the best storylines of the show, was never a part of the mythology. [Writer] Sera Gamble came up with such an intriguing character that we just started developing storylines for him. The same with what [writer] Ben Edlund did with Agent Henrickson. And even the idea of the boys being wanted by the FBI, it all just came out of just an episode that Ben wrote. So, you let a lot develop as you go.
TV.com: Now, let's talk about the strike. How has it affected your show?
Eric Kripke: It sucks, man. It sucks out loud. We want to go back to work. We have written 12 episodes. We have now shot all 12 episodes. That's 12 total for season three. [editor's note: The CW has confirmed to TV.com that new episodes of Supernatural will return to the air on January 31.] Vancouver, which is where we produce the show, had to shut down. And things are very quiet here [laughs] at Supernatural. It's a terrible, awful thing. The reasons I find it so awful and sad and tragic and depressing have nothing to do with telling the story of the show.
Last week, about 250 crewmembers who work on Supernatural went out of work, pretty much everyone in the Canadian production office. And these are brilliantly talented people who bust their ass on the show, and have sacrificed so much working day in and day out at Supernatural. And [executive producer] Bob [Singer] and I had to put them all out of work. So, it's bad. It's bad for everybody. And it's painful. And I happen to agree with the reasons that we're striking, but it doesn't make it any less painful. I just hope the powers that be on both sides can settle as quickly as possible so we can get back to work. And, yes, part of it is because I want to continue telling the story, and I want to keep telling stories about Sam and Dean, and I want to create more product for the fans.
But I have to say my most driving impulse is I just want my crew to work. And I hate that they're out of work going into the holiday season.
TV.com: Everyone is hoping it ends soon. Now we're going to touch on some fan questions if that's okay with you.
Eric Kripke: Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I checked out your Web site, by the way. It's cool.
TV.com: Thanks! What are the toughest decisions you had to make concerning the story of the show? And do you have any regrets, or would you have made any different choices?
Eric Kripke: The toughest decisions we had to make... That's a really hard question. I don't know. I mean, it's just that every day is this evolution of trying to make the best decisions that you can. An expression from Bob Singer is, "Show runners make decisions, and they have to make them quickly. And they might not always be the right decision." But we're in the job of making decisions.
So you never really know [at the time], and you're obviously making what you think is the best and smartest decision. Hopefully, you're right more often than you're wrong. But nobody bats a thousand. Very rarely do you make a day-to-day decision where you say, "Oh, oh, that's a tough decision, and the wrong one." Every day you say, "Yeah, this is probably what's best." And then a month later, you look back on the episode and it sucked out loud. And you say, "Well, maybe that wasn't the best decision."
Something that I regret... I probably never would have introduced the Roadhouse [in season two]. I feel like that was a large concept that didn't really work out, and was the only thing I wasn't completely satisfied with in that season. Overall, I love that season. I was really proud of it, but for just that one little aspect of the Roadhouse. So, if I were to do it again, I probably would never have introduced it.
TV.com: When you were casting Sam and Dean, what were you looking for, and what have Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles added to the roles?
Eric Kripke: When we started casting, we had archetypes in mind, which were Han Solo and Luke Skywalker. We were really looking for Sam to be empathetic, kind, and likeable, and really the audience surrogate. The person who the audience would most see themselves as and really carry the story through their eyes. And that required a really unique likeability. For Dean, we were looking for Han Solo. We were looking for devil-may-care, charismatic, a little rough around the edges, a little edgy, says things that are not always the kindest thing, as long as they're funny. And that was really what we started out with.
And Jared and Jensen both just so inhabited those parts, and then proceeded to blow us away with how dimensionalized they were. For Jensen, the level of emotion and totally flawed, screwed-to-hell psyche that he brings to Dean, we really are enamored with. This idea that on the surface here's this Han Solo devil-may-care persona, but when you really scratch beneath the surface, you see that anyone who has that persona has it because they are just so messed up, and that you would have to be so screwed up and damaged to be the person who always jumps first off a cliff.
So, he really brought Dean to life in a really three-dimensional way, and Jared did the same thing with Sam. Yes, Sam was likeable, and the audience surrogate and all the things he was supposed to be, but also angry, and disaffected, and, at times, hilariously funny, loyal, and despondent. He brought in all of these different colors that have really brought these characters to life, which I think is probably very rare for a genre show to have--characters as dimensionalized as ours--and I'm really proud of it. It has a lot to do with Bob Singer and the other writers probably more than it had to do with me. I came in just looking for good kills, and through the talents and abilities of the actors and the writers, they just brought these guys to life in a way I never really dreamed, obviously.
TV.com: Regarding the "Mary's Dead Friends" storyline, one user specifically wants to know what happened with that. It seems to have been dropped.
Eric Kripke: No. It's definitely coming back. It's a big reveal--it happens later on, but I'm not going to say when. We just introduced it to let the fans and let the audience know that it is alive, and it is out there, and it is a concern, and we wanted to reference it. But no, the answer is coming down the line.
TV.com: Another user wants to tackle a pretty heavy issue. This season there seems to be a direction towards Christian demonology. Lucifer was mentioned. Is this focus going to continue? And do you think there will be any sort of negative reaction?
Eric Kripke: In terms of negative reaction, no. We've been pleased with it. It seems like the fans have been pleased with it. We don't really consider it Christian demonology as much as it is just more of a focus on demonology.
Last season, I would say the overall story followed different psychic children, and we were sort of excited that this year the mythology has a little more teeth, because it's just about all of these different demons and all the different things demons do. For us, it's very cross-cultural. We borrow from every world religion, every culture. The cosmology of the show is that if a legend exists about something somewhere out there in the world, it's true. So you really have this cross-pollination of different demons, different creatures, all from different religions.
But yes, we are exploring demons much more this season because they have sort of come into focus as our primary group of bad guys this year. That's been interesting because there's a really great variety of what they can do, and what they're capable of, and they're a little more fun to write because they're always such ascetic smart-asses.
TV.com: Can you describe the process of introducing Ruby and Bela without interfering with the main focus of the story, which is the brothers' journey?
Eric Kripke: We've always wanted to expand the universe and introduce new characters. And for us, it's about introducing them conservatively and in small doses. Because the fans are a protective and occasionally nervous bunch, we are always reiterating both in interviews and in practice that the show is about Sam and Dean. They are the two leads. It'll never be about anything else. It'll always be about the two of them, the issues they're going through, and then, first and foremost, their relationship with each other.
When we bring in Ruby and Bela, we don't bring them in where the whole episodes are about them. The episodes are about the boys. And the women come in, and they come in for a few scenes. They're there for important plot elements, but it's not the Ruby and Bela show, nor is it about the four of them cruising around in the Impala together. It's about the guys.
As the series progresses, and as we get more comfortable with these characters and they start to take on a life of their own, we are interested in sort of exploring stories about them further, and getting in deeper layers. We have an upcoming episode where we really get into Bobby's backstory. And we actually look at Bobby as the model of how we successfully introduced a character. He came in slow. He came in sporadically, and the audience got comfortable with him. And Jim Beaver is such an amazing actor that he makes it easy.
So we're looking to do the same thing [with Ruby and Bela]. We don't want to push it. In fact, I would say the one episode this year (and again, hindsight is 20/20) where we did push it was this episode called "Red Sky at Morning," which I think was by far the least successful episode this year because it really kind of became the Bela show, and it wasn't as much about how the women complicate the lives of the boys. This also is to answer your "What do you regret?" question--I would say I regret the episode of "Red Sky at Morning." [Laughs.] It's probably not an episode I would do again because I think we tried to do a little too much, too fast. So it's about everything in moderation.
TV.com: Last question: I love the kick-ass classic rock soundtrack. What is the ultimate demon-slaying road-trip song?
Eric Kripke: Oh, for [one] used in the show, I would say [AC/DC's] "Back in Black." If we ever got a chance, the one that we could never afford and never get permission it'd be Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog."
TV.com: Thanks for talking to us, Eric.
Eric Kripke: Thank you.
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Jensen Ackles - Dean Winchester di Supernatural - Parte 1
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Supernatural- Channel 10 commercial with Jensen & Jared
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in replica da questa sera la terza stagione di Supernatural
andrà in onda sempre sul canale 37 Warner TV alle 21.30 con n il 1° e 2° episodio
saranno preceduti dagli ultimi due episodi della seconda stagione, in onda dalle 19. 40
Supernatural
Stagione 2 - Episodio 21 ore 19.40 di seguito l'episodio 22
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Stagione 3 - Episodio 1 ore 21.30
www.sorrisi.com/guidatv/canali-tv/warnertv/
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sul canale 37 Warner TV da questa serà di nuovo in replica la terza stagione di Supernatural, andrà in onda il primo episodio alle 20.40 e sarà preceduto dagli ultimi due episodi della seconda stagione
www.sorrisi.com/guidatv/canali-tv/warnertv/
www.discoveryplus.com/it/channel/wbtv-italy?pc=866.
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