Kripke Interview Stripped of Spoilers
So I am a spoiler whore and I love that Eric Kripke cannot keep a secret. I adore him.
So there is an incredible spoiler filled interview up at Buddy TV. And my insane Spoiler Phobic Flisters cannot read it.
Seriously. Do. Not. Look. There. Are. Spoilers.
Hi, this is John from BuddyTV, and I'm talking to Eric Kripke, the creator of Supernatural. Hi Eric.
Hey, hi.
Lots of questions stemming from this most recent episode. You kind of upended or changed a lot of what people thought about the mythology of this series. What was behind the decision to do this whole demons are humans thing?
Well, we thought it sort of opened up the mythology in an interesting and complicated way. The idea that demons are all corrupted human spirits was something really attractive to us, because we always sort of believe among the writing staff that the worst evil is the evil inside all of us. This seemed like an interesting way to do that, and would allow us to have demon characters have interesting dimensions. Like Ruby, the fact that Ruby was once human. So for that reason, because it makes it not just black and white, but makes it sort of nicely complicated that such dark evil can exist in the human heart under the right conditions. Then also for the very personal character reason, which is saying that right in front of Dean, it's what he's going to become. He's going to go to Hell, and over the centuries Hell is going to burn away his humanity and he's going to become this thing he hates most. That was sort of too tasty an idea to pass up. To give credit where absolutely credit is due, it is our esteemed writer Ben Edlund who in the writers' room pitched this idea when we were talking about it way back when, he said, "Well what if all demons were once human?" That was an idea we latched on to immediately, and it just makes you look at it in a new way.
With that final scene between Dean and Ruby, if we can trust her on this, was she telling the whole truth? Can you tell us if she was? She can't help Dean at all, so there's no way to help him escape this clause?
Tune in and find out. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER That much is true.
One of the other new twists that this last episode added is the idea of a new leader challenging Sam, rising in the West. Will we see more of that in these last 3 episodes still to come?
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER AND THE EPISODE IT HAPPENS IN.
I don't know how much you can say, but is this a new character? Is it somehow someone we've met before on the show?
SPOILER.
One of the other things a lot of fans at BuddyTV are wondering is that in the beginning of this season, a lot of people thought that somehow Sam had changed and he was sort of different. But in this last episode, it was revealed that Sam is changing himself to be more like Dean to acclimate himself to living without him. Is that what happened, or is there still the possibility that Sam isn't the same Sam as before?
ANSWERED!
n the last day or two there's been all these rumors that the WGA is very close to a resolution to the writers' strike, and that in the next week there could be a deal and shows could come back. Do you have any information on that, and if there is a deal soon would Supernatural possibly come back earlier than next fall?
I've only heard the same rumors that everyone else has heard. I'm very hopeful that there will be a deal announced sooner rather than later. I'm certainly ready for the strike to be over and I'm ready to get back to work. I hope it does happen, I'm optimistic that it will. I can't say for sure of course, but I'm optimistic. In terms of what that means for Supernatural, I just don't know yet. Believe me, I ask the question at least twice a week, and I think the network up to this point has not presented a firm answer. Every possible scenario has been discussed, from coming back for a few more episodes this season, to shooting and airing episodes over the summer, to not having any more episodes this season but having an extended season 4. All of those options and more have been discussed, but we just don't know which way it'll shake out just yet.
For the rest of this season at least, we know for the next two episodes there's the SPOILER episode and the SPOILER episode. Are we going to continue very dark, or how light is the SPOILER going to be?
You know, we bounce around in a zone pretty nicely. I think the SPOILER episode is pretty emotional. SPOILER is going to be quite funny. We have moments where it takes a darker, more emotional turn, because you really see SPOILER. SPOILER There's a new writer this year for us who has been kicking ass. He really nails this tone of humor, emotion, and scares, really everything Supernatural is supposed to be, this writer Jeremy Carver. Then SPOILER " the final episode, is really slam-bang action more than anything. It's directed by Phil Sgriccia, and it's very similar in tone to an episode he directed last year, which was our bank robbery episode. Just kind of big and epic and cinematic and action packed. We end on sort of a big action movie note.
Something to leave the fans, if it's the last one for awhile, something to leave the fans excited and pumped for whenever it's going to come back.
Yeah, exactly. It wasn't actually originally going to be our last episode. It was going to be second to last, but it was just so big and SPOILER that we felt we had to end it with a bang, so we chose to end it with that episode.
If it was originally intended to be the second to last episode, were you able to work in how you wanted to end it? Or does it end sort of on a penultimate cliffhanger?
No, it kind of ends on a cliffhanger. We didn't have time to change to script, we just had time to finish the script just to get 12 episodes done. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER. [The jist of it is that they had an episode with an cliffhanger ending feel - like Nightshifter last year - it's not a true cliffhanger, but it'll do in a pinch so they switched the order of the last two so it will be what airs last.]
Definitely, I think all the fans are really looking forward to these final episodes, and they just want it to come back as soon as possible with as many more episodes as possible.
I couldn't agree more. I'm dying, and all the other writers are just dying to do more. The one silver lining is that everyone's slept and rested, read a lot of books and seen a lot of movies, and from what I'm talking everyone's really just spilling over with enthusiasm and ideas that they're excited to pitch when they get back to work.
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