Today, KSiteTV visited the set of Supernatural, which is currently filming what looks to be a fun episode by the name of “Hunteri Heroici.” While here, we and other journalists were able to speak with Jared Padalecki (Sam), Jensen Ackles (Dean), and Misha Collins (Castiel).
Look for all of those interviews (and video!) in the coming days, but first… we thought you might like to hear what Jared had to say about Sam’s new relationship. Whenever a girl is brought on to Supernatural, it’s usually controversial. Will this one be any different? It very well might be, since the relationship starts while Dean and Cas are thought to be long gone.
“The relationship between Sam and Amelia, which I really enjoy, is done in retrospect,” he tells us. “It’s sone mostly in flashbacks. We will get into it in the season, a real-time relationship; but I’ve kind of been not petitioning in the literal sense of the word, but vocal about ‘guys. I love when shows will go back and show what’s happened,’ and I’ve loved the episodes of Supernatural that have done it, like ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer.’ I’ve loved episodes that have gone back in time and told a cool story that you can’t tell in the present tense as well as you can tell in reflection,” he says.
“So we see a lot of Sam and Amelia in flashbacks, which is nice, because we all see Dean and what he kind of did in his flashbacks,” Jared continues. “They’re very opposite sides of the coin, where one guy is happy and content and living a quote ‘Supernatural Winchester normal life,’ and the other is in Purgatory, fighting for his life. So we see Sam and Amelia develop this relationship; they’re both misfits, they’re both going through a loss, and they’re both not outcasts so much, but they’re brought together by a bizarre set of extenuating circumstances, and they find each other in each other’s arms, in each other’s minds, and say ‘this is good, what we’ve got. Why look a gift horse in the mouth? Let’s just kind of go with it’.”
Jared wasn’t sure that this new storyline would work when he initially heard about it. “At first, maybe I’ve become like a fangirl of the show, but I was like ‘A GIRL? FOR SAM? WHAT’S HE DOING?’ But as I’ve learned about the relationship, I was so happy to explore that role, and that character. Sam, from the get, has been hoping to reinvent himself as the person that he always thought he was, which is kind of backwards-speak. But he was the one who, in the pilot, wanted to stay in the college. He was at Stanford, hoping for his test scores to come back. He’s always fought for the normal life, and he’s always fought for the relationship, not always to his credit. He’s made some wrong turns. But we basically find out, in retrospect, what’s happened. As the show opens, the relationship’s in the past, but it’s still on Sam’s mind,” he says.
The return of Dean will bring an end to Sam’s new life, and going back to a hunter’s life might not be the top thing on Sam’s mind. “He’s not willing,” Jared says. “I think Sam, in this season, is different than Sam in other seasons where Dean was in Hell, or when Sam was in Hell. Usually when they’ve been split up, there’s been the impetus of ‘my brother’s in trouble. I’ve got to save him. I’ve got to help him. He’s got to help me. He’s got to save me.’ But here, Sam is like ‘you know what? [Everyone's gone]. I’m going to take off the hunter garb, and just live a normal life, because I have nothing tying me back’,” he says.
Amelia is in flashback for most of the first third of Season 8, though Jared does tell us we will see her in the present day as well. “Sam certainly hasn’t written her off. Sam’s not BS-ing when he says to Dean and Cas ‘I want out. I’ve been out, and my heart is not here. I’m doing this to make good on my commitments, but my heart’s elsewhere.’ So we do see Amelia in the present tense, but we do kind of play with present tense and past tense, which I’m really excited about,” he says.
Supernatural Season 8 begins Wednesday, October 3 on The CW.
Disclaimer: Travel and hotel arrangements for our Supernatural set visit were provided by Warner Bros. Television.
Dean's pretty much a hypocrite when it comes to hanging with supernatural creatures, and Castiel is the biggest hypocrisy ever, and that's what I really object to. It doesn't matter to Dean if his best buddy hurt, attacked, and nearly killed Sam and destroyed his mind, because Sam's craziness can't possibly compare to Dean's grief over 'losing' his brother's attacker. Castiel was the *villain* of Season 6, the actual villain for that season, and everyone is giving the character a free pass for it. Or worse yet, completely woobifying him for it, oh poor Castiel, he's such an innocent child angel, boo hoo. Well, I don't buy that and Dean shouldn't either. Why did he kill Ruby and Amy then? Because they were connected to Sam, because they were women? Yet if Dean wants to work with monsters, it's totally acceptable for himself. Just not Sam, or Castiel, or anyone else. It's bull shit. And SPN should be better than bull shit.
As for Sam and Amelia, to my mind, at least she is an actual real friend for Sam. When people talk about other characters on the show, those usually belong to Dean with very little Sam interaction. That's why I never believed in TFW. If they don't interact with Sam equally, it's not a real team and not a real family. TFW = more bull shit.
It's been 8 seasons, and this is the first positive character they've ever bothered to give Sam to interact with in a positive way. That, more than anything, shows how heartless SPN has become since they brought the angels into the show.
Poor Amelia will have a difficult start in this fandom, but personally, I'm looking forward to her and her relationship with Sam. I also hope Jared's "Dean and Cas..." means Castiel gets out of Purgatory and this isn't some "lost in translation" thing/misunderstandig. I need that angel to be alive and well. At least as well as it's going to get in Supernatural.
I'm really excited to see where this goes. I'm SO INCREDIBLY happy to have Cas back, and I'm really intrigued about this Amelia character. I'm keeping an open mind with both her and Benny. I want to give them a chance, and I think you guys should, too. Dean has his own special friend, why shouldn't Sam have someone he can call his own? I think it's great (and uh, healthy) that the boys form relationships outside of each other, because I have no doubt, that at the end of the day, they're still gonna be in each other's lives. So excited. :)
SAM AND JESSICA! :) ♥
I can't wait to have Cas back and I'm also excited about Amelia. Oh, and Sam and Dean, of course ;) I think it's a good thing the Winchesters form close relationships outside of each other and really about time. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy Sam and Dean and their relationship, it just means that it isn't enough for me anymore. This show is in its eight season. It's about time the Winchesters grow finally up a bit and expand their world with other characters they care about. It makes them that much more human.
This better not be the final Season!!
@Bea I agree! I'm so excited for Dean's new relationship with Benny! He sounds like a really interesting character and it looks like they really bonded in purgatory. I can't wait to see how it plays out topside.
I'm just here for the brothers. I'm not interested in Sam abandoning the search for Dean to play domestic!Sam, and I'm not interested in more of Castiel being wedged into storylines where he doesn't belong. I know I'm not alone in this--there are plenty of other, quieter fans who want to see the brothers together, as a unit, taking on the world. We didn't sign up for a supernatural soap opera, we signed up for two guys who care about each other more than anything with a badass car. I wish the writers realized that just because we're not as loud as certain other factions, we do exist.
@Junebug
Okay, I agree with you that Cas intentionally hurt Sam (although, I don't really agree with your wording), and I understand that you're upset because you think he got a free pass for it (again, I don't agree). BUT, Cas has done a lot of good deeds too, including sacrificing his life for Dean/the Winchesters (depending on how you look at it), TWICE. Are you suggesting that the brothers overlook that? 'Cause that would be a bit hypocritical. You don't want them to overlook Cas' crimes, then don't expect them to overlook his selfless accomplishments either.
And about Benny and Dean, come on, you and I both know that the relationship developed under life or death situations. You make it sound like Dean is working with Benny out of spite. Allies in Purgatory probably come few and far between. I definately don't think Dean WANTED to work with Benny, but he knew that he HAD TO, in order to survive...
LOL, it must kill the Wincesters that they can't force Casfans to fall into line with the "just the brothers" mantra. Tough. It's up to us as viewers to decide what we want the show to be about. A whole lot of you have decided it's about the brothers screwing each other. Well a whole bunch of us have decided it isn't. Suck it.
@Laura
So viewers are the ones deciding what the show is about (HA is all I have to say about that)? But if a whole bunch of us have decided the brothers were and should be the focus of the show--since you disagree with us, we should be ignored?
Logic, how does it work?
The Sam spoilers make sense to me. Either the episodes as they unfold will elaborate and give us some Sam pov, or there will be some weird supernatural explanation for his decisions. Honestly, I'm hoping it's the former. SPN has gone to the well once too often on "something wrong with Sam" to explain why he does things. But none of these spoilers makes me feel Sam gave up because he doesn't love Dean or he's less devoted. The Winchesters have lost so much, over and over again, including each other. To lose Dean and everyone else, altogether, and have no idea what happened to his brother (or to Cas)--it makes sense that Sam might decide to leave hunting. Sam never really gave up on normal. He became more hardened and decided there was no getting out--I don't think he ever fully accepted that. Losing Dean would be a big blow to Sam's motivation.
I felt the Sam and Dean relationship got mired in season 7, caught in the same patterns. Yes they are the core of the show and I love them, but a partnership like theirs needs to grow and develop, it can't stay the same season after season. I'm really intrigued by these spoilers and a conflict between Sam and Dean that sounds like they'll be united but with differences of opinion and philosophical outlook. That's more exciting to me than Sam and Dean at each other's throats or divided, and more exciting to me than Sam and Dean lock step without variation or any conflict.
\o/ I hope Castiel really is back on earth with both brothers. Castiel's an amazing character. I'm excited about the Dean and Cas in purgatory stuff, but also I'd like to see Sam and Dean and Cas reunited. I'll never understand how being a fan of Castiel is considered some threat to the Sam and Dean show. Sam and Dean are the center pillars of SPN, everyone knows that. It gets real old hearing over and over that if you're cheering for Castiel, you've misunderstood SPN. I'm a fan of SPN and Castiel's a character on SPN and fans care about him. There is no downside.
Some commenters like @Junebug will complain no matter what, because outrage is a hobby and main source of pleasure.
This year is definitely a year that demands watching the episodes before criticizing. Because Carver is doing a clear reboot, and we need to know what first. But I suspect everyone is going to have plenty of grist for outrage, for every type of fan, after the story starts.
Mmmm .. so Dean was *tying* Sam back? I really can't believe Sam abandoned his brother like this. I hope there's a better reason to that. Doesn't make sense at all.
And yet again, Dean can't ever get a love story. They even took away his one night stands.
I'm sorry, good for Sam and all that he gets a romance, but why is he always the only one who gets any hit of true love but never Dean? And I'm sorry, we never saw the romantic side of his relationship with Lisa. Can we see this side of Dean just once please? I love Sam but to me, Dean always gets the short end of the stick.
Blame the Dean/Cas shippers for why Dean can't get a love interest. They think he's already betrothed to "his angel" and that the romantic relationship is actually canon. It would be cheating on his true love. *snorts*
Also about Sam, what the hell are you talking about always gets the romance? He hasn't been in a real loving relationship since Jess died and that was more than 8 years ago! Put down your biased Dean goggles. Most of the recurring characters end up more Dean oriented and favor him over Sam. Both Bobby and Cas flat out said they favor Dean. It's only fair that Sam finally gets a friend of his own and at least one person that cares about him more.
Agree with Wendy.
Why do the fans have to fight? Why not enjoy the show and everything that goes with it. I love all the characters. Yes Sam and Dean are my favourites, but each character has a place in the show. Dean was the last character to have a steady romantic relationship, Lisa anyone. Sam hasn't had a steady romantic relationship since Ruby really. Even Ruby was really using Sam to help free Lucifer, but that is another thing all together. The point is neither guy has had a steady relationship in a long time. I am looking forward to this storyline and I am looking forward to the new season. I think things are going to be interesting. I don't think this will be the last season either.
I agree with Wendy too.
Ok gotta say this first, my biggest yes to this season is that they're bringing back the Impala!! Season seven's finale had me saying " Oh no, not the car :( ". As for the rest, I'm glad to see that Cas, Sam, and Dean will be back, also glad to see that they will be bringing in more characters. I think the influx of new blood will liven the story line. But I have a hunch that in the end it will always be Sam and Dean (+ the impala) back to back no matter what. I think that all of us SPN fans have trusted the story line for 7 seasons, and should again for season 8.
I just don't believe that Sam wouldn't at least try and find out what happen to Dean? It seems out of character. I am glad Sam is getting a girl but for him to disregard Dean like that after everything Dean has sacrificed for him, it doesn't seem right. Excited Cass is back and I am interested to see and learn about Dean's new friend.