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BOBBY SPOILERS
Nothing is more disheartening to a fan than the death of a longtime character. For Supernatural fans, the death of Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver) was a blow. But as many people have pointed out, it ultimately lacked the finality of, say, the death of the boys’ father - whose body was ceremoniously burned after death, signaling the unlikeliness of a return. And showrunner Sera Gamble indicates that there may very well be some sort of life after death for Bobby.
“In a matter of speaking, that was sort of like a cliffhanger or a question coming out of episode 10,” Gamble says. “That was the offer put to him by the reaper. Come with me and be done, or stay here and be a ghost and face the consequences. So one of the questions we are left with is, well, ‘Did Bobby move on or didn’t he?’ The great thing about the show is none of these options preclude seeing Jim Beaver again at some point down the line. We can always flash back to an earlier time in their lives, we can send them to Heaven at some point, or we can say that he made the morally ambiguous decision and became a ghost and we can explore those consequences.”
While Beaver has already booked an upcoming multi-episode arc on Justified - hinting that we might not see him on Supernatural for a while - an insider tells me reports of his indefinite goodbye are “misleading.”
But for the time being, Gamble added, ” We really want to play with expectations for a while and explore what’s going on with Sam and Dean in their grieving process, [complete with] emotional fallout. But they must be wondering the same thing we are: ‘Did he move on? Is he still with us?’ I think grieving for them is not that much different than grieving for the fans.”
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CASTIEL SPOILERS
IGN: We know Castiel is coming back. Anything at all you can say about where we might find him, who's been through quite a bit himself in the past couple of years?
Singer: All I'll say about that is that the Castiel we find is not exactly the Castiel we left.
IGN: Last we saw, Castiel had briefly switched back to the guy we knew -- after proclaiming himself God -- and then the Leviathans took him over.
Singer: He went through a lot! [Laughs]
IGN: [Laughs] So will this be a brand new iteration or a variation on something we've seen before?
Singer: It's pretty much a brand new iteration.
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SPOILERS FOR 7x12
In this week’s episode, “Time After Time,” Dean meets Prohibition lawman Eliot Ness (Nicholas Lea, a familiar face to fans of “The X-Files”), while Sam (Jared Padalecki), stuck in the present, frantically tries to get him back. The force behind the time travel here is Chronos, the god of time, played by guest star Jason Dohring, known for his regular role on “Veronica Mars” as well as playing vampire Josef on the short-lived “Moonlight.”
“He was just perfect for this role,” said “Supernatural” showrunner Sera Gamble. “He has the ability to be a bit sinister, but he also is quite emotionally vulnerable, and this character is both.”
This god of time is partially inspired by “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” the bestselling 2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger that presents a man who is unpredictably pushed and pulled through time. Gamble said the show’s writers found a compelling starting point in the notion of time jumping that can’t be controlled.
“The character does have that god side to him but also a real life and real relationships and problems that arise,” Dohring said. “That made it really open to some vulnerable stuff that’s going to come out.”
[...] Though “Time After Time” is throwing some new things into the mix with Chronos, there’s one thing that isn’t changing since the show’s last time travel episode: Dean’s giddy excitement about taking a blast to the past. In the sixth season’s “Frontierland,” that glee leads to considerable comedy as he saddles up and tries to present himself as an authentic Old West spirit. In “Time After Time,” Dean is thrilled to find himself with a fedora and reveals that he’s a huge fan of Brian DePalma’s “The Untouchables.”
“For such a practical, down-to-earth, macho hunter, he is a tiny bit of a clotheshorse,” Gamble said. “He actually enjoys getting to put on the clothes of that time period - just to blend in and be a good investigator.”
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