Watching Supernatural

(Protest sign of Ben Edlund, co-exec producer of SPN,
thanks to Emmett Furey)

Even though production shut down on December 5th, our Supernatural crew hasn’t been idling by. Ben Edlund, co-executive producer of the show, has been nearly everywhere in the strike. Last Friday, December 7th, Edlund joined his fellow former-and-present-members of Mutant Enemy, the production company that produced Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, in their protest at Fox studios. According to IGN, he was joined by other writers, actors, and fans of Joss Whedon.

Also, TV Guide recently interviewed SPN creator Eric Kripke on the new episode tomorrow night, as well as the fate of the few future episodes ahead.

It turns out that Ridge Canipe, the actor who played young Dean in Season 1’s “Something Wicked” (the first episode where the young Winchesters were featured) is returning to star in the flashbacks for the upcoming “A Very Supernatural Christmas.” Unfortunately, Alex Ferris, who played young Sam in “Something Wicked” is being replaced by Colin Ford for “A Very Supernatural Christmas.” If you ask me, Ford looks more like a younger Sam than Ferris did, which is nice.

According to Kripke, there are four more episodes left after tomorrow night’s (a total of twelve episodes for this season) until they start running repeats. Now, for the remaining episodes Krike says:

“We actually spend a little more time with how Dean himself feels about going to Hell because right now he’s accepting that he’s going to Hell and he’s unwilling to do anything to stop it. That changes 180 percent in Episode 10. Something big happens to him that makes him realize he desperately wants to live and he desperately doesn’t want to go to Hell. We also have a great Groundhog day episode coming up… Sam basically wakes up every day and it’s the same day and Dean dies at the end of every single day. It’s actually quite funny. Dean dies maybe 10 different ways on camera, and off camera, maybe he dies 200 different ways. Sam doesn’t go through just three or four Tuesdays, he goes through something like 150 Tuesdays. We have a great witch episode and we have a big mythology episode where we pay off the Agent Hendrickson storyline in a very climactic way.” (Source)

As for Ruby and Bela,

“Ruby is appearing in that episode with Hendrickson; she’s also appearing in the witch episode. We reveal something pretty surprising about her backstory. She’s a demon, and we learn a lot about demons and how they came to be demons. Bella makes an appearance in a dream episode, where Sam and Dean take this medicine man drug where they go dream walking, which is going into other peoples’ dreams. So we spend the majority inside Bobby’s dreams, inside Dean’s dreams… We have this storyline that we’re building towards — whether Dean goes to Hell and what’s really happening to Sam, dovetails together in a really surprising and satisfying way. If we have a full season, Dean’s time will come up and we’ll definitely answer what team Sam is going to be fighting for. If we have a half a season, stay tuned for Season 4. So we’re excited by that story and we hope to tell it this year.” (Source)

If, by some chance, the strike ends in time for us to have more than 12 episodes,

“There’s a fun one where we bring back the Hellhounds, the bumbling ghost hunters back from Season 1. The whole show is an episode of their reality show. So we’re shooting an entire show on hand-held video Blair Witch-style. Like when X-Files did their episode of Cops. It’s our loving tribute to Ghosthunters on Sci Fi. (Source)

If you’d still like to do something to help out the protesting writers, why not join the Pencils2MediaMoguls Campaign? You also have until December 31st to buy music from iTunes via the Music of Supernatural page.

TAGS: supernatural, eric kripke, WGA strike, ben edlund, mutant enemy, joss whedon