The seventh season of Supernatural is almost here!
Today following a screening of the premiere – which airs at 9PM (ET) on Friday, September 23 on The CW – KSiteTV along with many other media outlets attended a press Q&A with Supernatural executive producers Robert Singer and Sera Gamble. During this time – some spoilers may have come out – including some discussion of the premiere that won’t be posted here until after the episode has aired on the West Coast on Friday. But, if you’re looking for highlights, you’re in luck… but beware of spoilers!
* When asked about the damage recently inflicted on the Impala, Robert Singer says the car will be back and Dean will fix it. “It’ll be back. Like the show, it’s a car that will not die,” he jokes. Sera Gamble tells us that the rebuilding of the car serves as a good way to show the passage of time. “You’re watching Castiel doing this amazing stuff, and we didn’t want it to feel like he did all that stuff around the world in one day, so watching the Impala slowly be restored is a good way of letting you know that some time has passed,” she says of that process.
* We will be seeing more of Crowley (Mark Sheppard). “Crowley’s sort of the ultimate self-interested character. He always finds a way to bend whatever is happening to his own best uses. And as the weather changes, he figures out how to insert himself in a situation. There’s a reason he’s lived this long. There’s a reason he always finds the parachute under his seat. So as things evolve this season, we’ll see him try and adapt. He’s always fun, so we keep throwing stuff at him,” Gamble says.
* We’ve heard some Sam spoilers. But what about Dean? “Dean will have lots of issues this year that he’s going to have to deal with,” Singer reveals. “I think in the first, probably 13 episodes, he probably will carry a rockier journey in an odd way, of how he feels emotionally, and the things that he has to deal with, probably [more] than any other season. He’s in a real roller coaster. We don’t want to give away too much, but Jensen has plenty to do.”
* Robert Singer is directing an upcoming episode where Dean is on trial with an Egyptian God, Osiris. “He weighs your heavy heart against a feather, and if your heart is heavier than the feather, then he does you in. It’s all about carrying guilt, and that sort of thing; not just ‘Do I feel bad’ but ‘do I feel guilty?’ And that’s a turning point episode for Jensen’s arc this year,” he says. Jo (Alona Tal) is back in that episode, at the trail. “She’s great in the episode. We put in some flashbacks, back to episodes she was in years ago and she has matured and incredibly grown as an actress. She’s just wonderful. I hadn’t really worked with her for quite some time, and I was just blown away by what she did. She was great,” Robert Singer adds.
* Dean’s not the only one with challenges this year – Sam is hiding something that he won’t be able to hide for very long. “It comes out very quickly that he is dealing with this awful [spoiler deleted] situation, which escalates really dramatically in the [second] episode, which Ben Edlund wrote. It becomes something that Dean is trying to deal with, and Bobby is trying to deal with, and it was an interesting thing to throw at him,” Sera Gamble teases.
* Buffy The Vampire Slayer veterans James Marsters and Charisma Carpenter will be appearing together as a married couple in the fifth episode of the season. Gamble tells us that this casting was not a coincidence. “That was really hard work on the part of our casting directors. The first idea floated by the network was ‘is there a real couple we could cast?’ And then our very creative and savvy casting directors came back with this genre-specific idea that I think is great, because I think it speaks really directly to our fan base. Our casting directors really understand the people who watch the show,” she explains.
* Gamble tells us that Sam and Dean will have some new allies, including an old acquaintance of Bobby’s named Frank who is “a bit off the grid.” DJ Qualls will be playing a quirky hunter named Garth that helps Dean at a time he can’t get assistance from Bobby or Sam. “You know what’s really awesome is when you write ‘a DJ Qualls type’ and then you get DJ Qualls. It’s very exciting,” the elated Sera Gamble says.
* All of this talk of Sam and Dean individually made one reporter ask if we’ll be seeing them working together. “We’re always guided by where the stories take us, and if they naturally take us where they all split apart and come together, that’s where we go. If the story idea is one that requires them to be locked at the hip, we do that. Be we try to mix it up and let them have their own adventures in some episodes,” Robert Singer tells us. “I think at this point, having gone through so much of the same stuff, it’s hard. Especially for Dean this season, that they’re dealing with it in such different ways. It’s really important to both of them to try and stay together. They don’t have very many people. They’re clearly better working together, and they need each other in so many ways. But we explore how, over the seven years that we’ve just been watching them, they’ve developed in really different ways, and they deal with things in really different ways. They’ve gotten past different things and they’ve held on to different things. There’s just a lot of material, just from the stuff we’ve seen them go through on screen at this point,” Gamble adds.
* If and when a character appears to die, should we assume they’re gone for good? “You should never take anyone for their word that anyone is dead,” Gamble says.
* Finally, could this be the end? Is there an end game in mind for Supernatural? “I think what we’ve planned for is to tell a season-long story and see how that goes,” Singer says. “As we get closer to the end, I think we leave it a little open ended for ourselves to see what the ratings are, if there is going to be a ‘next year.’ We know what we’re headed for, but I don’t think that we necessarily think in terms of a two-year plan or a three-year plan. We take it year by year,” he adds.
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I’m really looking forward to what the Supernatural writers, producers, directors, cast and crew have in store for us this year! I haven’t been disappointed yet over the past six seasons and I don’t expect that will ever change with the enormous amount of talent this ensemble of people have, keep up the great work guys – I love Supernatural!