The site AOL has up a new interview with Sera Gamble and Robert Singer.
They talk about the Season Premiere and what we can expect from here…
‘Supernatural’ Spoilers: What Just Happened?
So, you’ve seen the ‘Supernatural’ season premiere. If you’re anything like us, you’re probably wondering, What the hell just happened?!
Never fear, because we have more from our group Q&A with Sera Gamble and Bob Singer to shed a little light on the shocking events of the first episode.
Even though the producers were wary of revealing too much about their plans for the season so early on, there are still a few answers here to clear things up a bit.
Join us after the jump for more, and in case it wasn’t obvious, huge spoilers for the season premiere ahead!
So Castiel was redeemed, as many fans hoped, and then the writers threw another huge curveball at us (we knew it couldn’t be that easy). Where that storyline goes from here, of course, is something we’re praying Episode 2 will reveal, but it’s far more likely that Castiel’s fate and the nature of the Leviathans will be a season-long arc. Here’s what Gamble and Singer would tell us:
What are the Leviathans?
Gamble: We’ll develop what the Leviathans mean this season. They certainly don’t want to go home and we open the idea of Purgatory and the idea that there were monsters there and that it’s an awful place, and Hell’s an awful place, and Heaven frankly sounds kind of boring to me. When you think about it, Earth is sort of this Eden, slightly corrupted, but full off possibilities, and it seems like everybody wants to be here. So there’s a lot of directions we could take [the story] and we’ve been having a lot of fun with that, I must say.
What’s their endgame? (I compared them to The Joker in terms of having fun rather than setting their sights on world domination, which Gamble agreed with.)
Gamble: Like the other bad guys who emerge a little as time goes on, their personalities will become clear in the next few episodes, but I think that sense that they are having fun and they’re not like here to like hail fire and brimstone on the world and just be evil, I think you’re picking up on something that’s right and that we wanted to definitely weave in with these characters. Part of that is that they’re here to have a good time.
Singer: But they’re not chaotic, they’re smart.
Gamble: In fact, smarter, I think, is part of the problem. Yeah.
Should we take them at their word that Castiel is dead?
Gamble: You should never take anyone for their word that anyone is dead, especially when they’re trying to get you out of their way. You certainly should not just ring the final bell on seeing Cas or Misha just because you don’t know what episode he’ll show up in next.
Will the Leviathans take different forms?
Gamble: You’ll have to tune in to find out what we’re going to do there.
Will Mark Pellegrino be back?
Gamble: Yeah, you’ll see him in the next episode and perhaps …
Singer: Maybe thereafter, maybe.
How did you decide who Castiel’s targets would be while he was “god”?
Singer: If you know my politics, that’s easy! [Laughs]
Gamble: We talked about people who were doing stuff in the name of God that was corrupt or wrong. In the case of the motivational speakers, perhaps misguided … but we were looking for fairly big off-screen targets, people who would be ruining a lot of people’s lives and we tried not to make it just left wing, right wing politics. It really is about hiding behind God to do wrong things to people, at least in Castiel’s mind. Now he feels like that’s his personal responsibility to clean house. We wanted to get a cross section of stuff that he wanted to do; he had things he needed to do in Heaven, things he needed to do on earth, and the idea is that there’s a progression for him in the episode. There are things that come from, I think a really pure old place for him, things that he has wished for a long time that he wished his dad would get his ass back here and do.
Is there an overall theme for this season?
Gamble: We have a few things that we talk about a lot when we’re in the room. A lot of things come up again and again, but one thing that is a through line that we keep seeing is that Sam and Dean now feel like they are kind of part of a small and almost outmoded way of fighting evil and they feel outmatched in a way that they didn’t before. They feel like the world around them has really changed.
Singer: From the beginning, these have always been morality tales, sort of like classic westerns are generally morality tales. I think we’re always telling a morality tale. What make it interesting is our characters aren’t perfect and they’re very flawed and susceptible to temptations of their own, but at the end of the day, right and wrong is kind of really what drives the show.
‘Supernatural’ airs Fridays at 9PM ET on The CW.
Episode Schedule
Thu, Oct 10 | 15.01 - Back and to the Future - Season Premiere |
Thu, Oc 17 | 15.02 - Raising Hell |
Thu, Oct 24 | 15.03 - The Rupture |
Thu, Nov 7 | 15.04 - Atomic Monsters |
Thu, Nov 14 | 15.05 - Proverbs 17:3 |
Thu, Nov 21 | 15.06 - Golden Time |
Thu, Dec 05 | 15.07 - Last Call |
Thu, Dec 12 | 15.08 - Our Father, Who Aren’t In Heaven |
Thu, Jan 16 2020 | 15.09 - The Trap |
Thu, Jan 23 2020 | 15.10 - The Heroes' Journey |
Thu, Jan 30 2020 | 15.11 - The Gamblers |
Mon, March 16 2020 | 15.12 - Galaxy Brain |
Mon, March 23 2020 | 15.13 - Destiny's Child |
Thu, Oct 08 2020 | 15.14 - Last Holiday |
Thu, Oct 15 2020 | 15.15 - Gimme Shelter |
Thu, Oct 22 2020 | 15.16 - Drag Me Away (From You) |
Thu, Oct 29 2020 | 15.17 - Unity |
Thu, Nov 05 2020 | 15.18 - Despair |
Thu, Nov 12 2020 | 15.19 - Inherit the Earth |
Thu, Nov 19 2020 | 15.20 - Carry On - Series Finale |
* This Schedule might change as new info come.