Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is finally speaking out about the two new cast members, doing some damage control and trying to soothe fans’ fears. “[F]ans, I love you all, but stop worrying,” he tells TVGuide’s Michael Ausiello.
Now, about that hated word, “regular.” Here’s what Kripke tells TVGuide: [T]he perception online, because I read online as much as anybody, [is] that suddenly the show is going to be Scooby-Doo. And that it's going to be Sam and Dean with these two girls in the backseat of the Impala, and they're going to cruise from town to town, they're going to do a little go-go dancing, and then they're going to fight some monsters. That is not the case. The girls are recurring regulars… which means that our contracts with them, tops, puts them in 12 out of 22 episodes. That's tops.”
OK, we love the Scooby reference, and we’d pay money to see some Winchester go-go dancing. But we’re mostly just thrilled that Kripke answered the “regulars” question the way he did.
Kripke also puts the kibosh on “love interest” talk: “We are not turning into One Tree Hill with monsters — I swear. I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.”
[We’ll pause to let OTH fans register their outrage. Moving on…]
“They're not being introduced as love interests; they're being introduced as antagonists… [Exec producer] Bob Singer and I always said to ourselves in Season 2, if we were to bring girls into the show, the way to bring them in is to make trouble for the guys, not to be helpful. To introduce them as their own fleshed-out characters in their own right, who are raging pains in the ass, and trouble, and dangerous, and then sort of see what happens. I've already broken the first 10 episodes, and, so far, there's nothing even close to romance. It's closer to they're going to come to blows with each other.”
OK, good, that’s promising. We can’t help but think the plot of just about every single romantic comedy out there is “Boy meets girl, boy hates girl, boy suddenly realizes he loves girl, audience fails to be surprised.” But we’ll trust Kripke on this one – “[H]onestly, I swear, at this point, I don't have plans for the girls to pair up with the guys. They might. But until I see who works best with whom, I'm just not going to pull that trigger.”
Kripke also talked with iF magazine, covering a lot of the same ground, but dropping some more hints on what’s to come in Season Three. For example, he spins a convincing argument for why fans should embrace the demon war direction: “Quite frankly, the danger with an ongoing mythology that goes for too many years is that it starts to fold in and collapse in on itself. So, it’s very satisfying to end a storyline and lead it organically into a new storyline for the next season. …It’s a more exciting story than we’ve dealt with before because war has begun and we’re living in a war time season. We always aim for the mythic storytelling of LORD OF THE RINGS or STAR WARS, and we finally have reached the point where the chessboard has been set and its time for all of the big battles to begin…. In a way it’s a much cleaner mythology than the yellow-eyed demon and what his plans are for Sam and what the psychic children are here for. Now its wartime to choose a side, fight, and that’s what’s at stake.”
He also spills a bit more on the new (RECURRING) regular players: Ruby is a nasty hunter, which we knew, but she also has a “shocking secret” that will be revealed around episode two. We have our guesses, what are yours?
And Bela, she’s a mercenary – she’s not in it for the greater good. “All of these amulets and all of these occult objects that the boys find to stop these creatures are very valuable to the right people and so she is a thief more than she is a hunter. So say the boys need an amulet, but she’s absconded with it. So she’s much more of that Humphrey Bogart model of not being interested in the altruistic, revenge-minded, or heroic motives all of the other “freaks” have; she’s in it to make a dollar. There’s no good and evil. There are just market forces.”
Kripke also spills a bit on the characters we know and love who we’ll see again: Gordon, Bobby (yay!) , Ellen, (double yay!) and Agent Henricksen.
OK, between the interviews, the soothing words, the and the hints about next season, we’re in a much better mood. What do you think? Did Kripke make you more confident about the upcoming season? Or do you think it’s lies, all lies, and the show is going to hell (in a bad way)? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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