Comic Con Roundup Post #2: Pressroom Spoilers

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(Sorry this is so late! We wanted to have this up a few days ago but LJ hasn't been letting us post all week.)


There's a lot of articles out from the pressroom, but hopefully this covers most of the important S7 stuff not covered in Sunday's post!

Major Supernatural Season 7 News

• Season 7 will pick up seconds after the last season, and the first crop of episodes will focus on Castiel having fun with his new God powers, his pride and the consequences of it.
• The big bad of the season will be revealed in the second episode, and the character of Sheriff Mills will be roped in to deal with it.
• After Season 5 didn't end the show, Edlund said they are very conscious of an endgame for the series should further seasons prove to be the last, but they always leave room open for it to continue. "The fact that the story never ends is interesting. The Winchesters' curse is that it will never be over for them."

The Scoop on Supernatural Season 7

• “[Sam and Dean] are reeling from what’s been going on with this character that they’ve been best friends with,” says Gamble. “They didn’t see this coming from Castiel. If stuff wasn’t falling apart so fast, they would be emotionally falling apart more. Castiel has declared himself anew god to fall apart. The substance of episode 1 [Season 7] starts there.”
• “We’ll also have shapeshifting creatures, angels, demons,” she adds. “We always pull a couple of variations out of our pocket with some new creatures we will reveal over the course of some episodes.”
• Edlund says they’ve created a very “self-contained” challenge in Season 7 to keep everything fresh and new.

Supernatural Press Room at Comic-Con: Season 7 Spoilers & What Happens to Castiel

• Ben Edlund said that Castiel is still the new God and “his story is about stabilizing this God complex” and the “ramifications of what he’s done”.
• Castiel’s is a story of “absolute power” Edlund said, as well as one of pride. Edlund imagines that “redemption will be part of it”, although perhaps his path to redemption will be slightly tarnished.
• Jim Beaver said that what happens to Castiel is “so different from what the audience may expect”, but couldn’t elaborate any more.
• Jared said that Sam and Dean will be off on their own in season 7, on the road and on the run. The focus of the season will be back on the brothers.
• Beaver hinted that there will be “interesting geographical and infrastructure shifts in the show, so a lot of things that Sam, Dean and Bobby have counted on are going to get reshuffled.”
• What happens to Sam will be “a true break in someone’s psyche and maybe this is something that can never be fixed”. It will be a problem the boys haven’t faced before.
• Dean in particular will feel a profound betrayal about Castiel and his actions at the end of season 6. Sam may be more willing to cut Cas some breaks, but Dean truly feels that Castiel is lost to them, Gamble explained.
• Beaver thinks [Sheriff Mills will] “be around somewhat.”
• Jim Beaver said that Bobby will be in the first three episodes of season 7 and will likely be in as many episodes as he was last season.
• Dean will appear more in [7x03] than in “Weekend at Bobby’s”, but it will focus primarily on Sam. The episode will deal with a case that Sam worked on with Dean and John when they were younger. The elder Winchesters dropped Sam off at a motel and then kept calling him for research and help while they were working a case. Young Sam ended up meeting a girl (played by Jewel Staite as a adult).
• We don’t know too many details yet about it because it’s early days, but Edlund said “there are visits to heaven already planned to tell various parts of the story. And I imagine that further into the season we’ll probably play more into it.”

Sera Gamble Interview

• Gamble wrote the season premiere.
• Dean has a lot to deal with in the first part of the season. As usual Dean is worried about Sam and Sam is worried about Dean, sort of like the core, the foundation on which “Supernatural” is built, these brothers worrying about each other. Dean has suffered an enormous amount of loss this season if he wasn’t running and gunning to try to save the world at all moments he would just collapse under the weight of it. Or you know, just buy drinks and pick up chicks, but that would be his version of collapsing, maybe. We find him in place where he’s got a lot of soul searching to do and he has to ask himself why does he do what he does. I think that he sees everything that has happened to him, everything he and has brother have seen, all stuff that happened to him in season six, we’ve brought him to the point where he asks himself why he’s a hunter anymore.

'Supernatural' scoop from Comic-Con 2011: Bosses and stars tease Sam and Dean's rough road ahead. Also, will the brothers face ninjas? Or go to space?

Sam and Dean…broke? “We’ve talked about this for years. Sam and Dean have always had the same car. How are we not in FBI databases? How do we not have people after us? How do they not have pictures? So we start to play with that this year and say Sam and Dean are starting to be found,” Padalecki said. “Now, what are they going to do about all these credit cards? How are they going to get money? People are on to their ploys. And on that note, also, we see that Castiel at the end of season 6, isn’t a friend anymore. So we can’t say, ‘Hey, Cas, we need some help.”

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After years of skirting the law, the boys are “starting to be found,” Jared Padalecki teased at Comic-Con, which means the Winchesters are “losing a lot of our aces in the hole.” Adds executive producer Ben Edlund, “We’ve been saying that they do things a certain way. Their techniques, their methods - they know what they’re doing. They know their job. They have their support networks. Those things in their lives are going to challenged.” Insert the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid feel showrunner Sera Gamble teased to us back in May, and, “They’re going to find themselves, in a sense, running from lots of guns,” continues Edlund. “The stuff they face this season, it’s massive.”

San Diego Comic-Con 2011: Demons, Angels and Gods, it's All Supernatural

Throughout the years, each brother has already died several times and both have gone from hell and back, as in literal hell where actual demons lived. I asked producer, Gamble, if this is going to strain the relationship between Sam and Dean. "In certain ways it's a strain but as usual Dean is worried about Sam. Sam is worried about Dean," Gamble answered. "These are dynamics that are as old as Supernatural and will probably never go away. But it's not our plan to have this be a wedge that's driven between the brothers on a 'Ruby-like' level."

'Supernatural' Interview: Misha Collins at Comic-Con

"[Castiel] sort of starts the season off letting sleeping dogs lie with [Sam and Dean] because they're completely ineffectual and powerless against [him]. But, of course, they end up being the thorn in [his] side, as they always do." -Collins

'Supernatural' Interview: Executive Producer Ben Edlund at Comic-Con

"I think we're doing a good job of actually taking a bunch of pieces and making out own quilts, so there'll still be Judeo-Christian aspects, and it'll still ultimately be like a post Judeo-Christian show. I think, in a way, we're taking some of the wind in the sails of the Cthulhu mythos. We're using some of that as some of our sort of street cred for some of the things we're doing." -Edlund

'Supernatural's' Jared Padalecki talks Season 7: Sam is 'tortured' but 'honorable'

Mostly about Sam in S7. If you want to hear more about it from Jared, there's a video at the link!

From @lauinla: Ben Edlund told me he aims to direct episode 20 (again!) of #Supernatural s7.

From Jared's NerdHQ panel: The hell wall will fall and Sam will remember past deaths. He won't remember what reality or what year he's in at times.

a_way_of_sin hasn't been able to access LJ to update the other post with videos and links, so check out Superwiki to find more!

And here's the WB's official Supernatural Comic Con video!

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