Warning: The following comprises spoilers for The Winchesters‘ finale. Proceed at your individual danger!
While watching The Winchesters‘ (season?) finale, you might have asked yourself, “Am I actually watching Supernatural?” Because Tuesday’s episode not solely included a number of scenes with Dean Winchester himself, aka government producer Jensen Ackles, but additionally sudden appearances from hunter Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver) and Heaven’s new God, Jack (Alexander Calvert).
Let’s recap simply how Mary and John’s tweaked love story matches in with the Supernatural mythology: After studying that the Akrida queen was a hunter that turned on humankind earlier than being banished to a different world, Mary and the gang summon the mysterious stranger (aka Dean), utilizing his journal, however all that seems is his beloved automotive, Baby, as a result of he’s already useless. Mary makes use of the Impala to drive the queen straight by means of a portal, then returns with Dean behind the wheel.
Dean identifies himself as a hunter (alias: James Hetfield) and explains that when he acquired to Heaven (within the Supernatural collection finale), he took Baby for a drive by means of the multiverse in quest of an Earth the place his household had a shot at a cheerful ending. That’s when he caught wind of the Akrida, one in every of Chuck’s final creations to wipe out existence if he failed. With Sam nonetheless alive, Dean wasn’t going to let the Akrida presumably make their method to his brother’s Earth. So as he defined to Bobby in an earlier scene, he gave John the letter from Henry to nudge him in the correct route.
Jack exhibits as much as warn Dean about interfering, however Dean argues that Sam deserves a great, lengthy life, and if Jack desires to forged him out of Heaven, so be it. Of course, Jack provides him a move and tells him to complete what he began. Dean provides John and Mary his journal, then warns Mary to be careful for a yellow-eyed demon, earlier than handing her the Colt. Now that the Akrida are gone, John and Mary are free to decide on their very own future, which they do by leaving city collectively, and Dean believes that he could have lastly discovered a model of his dad and mom with a real probability at happiness.
Below, showrunner Robbie Thompson talks about Dean’s “pretty heavy” story within the finale and what a possible Season 2 may appear like for The Winchesters. (The present has but to be renewed or cancelled; click on right here for Thompson’s feedback on its future.)
TVLINE | As promised, we now have solutions: This is one other world’s John and Mary, and Dean is coming in from Heaven. So why was this the correct approach into this story for you?
When Jensen and Danneel [Ackles] first got here to me and pitched me the concept, which was John and Mary’s love story informed from the angle of them searching collectively, all of us knew, clearly, as a result of they’d lived it and I had written a few of it and all of us watched it, that didn’t fairly line up. But all of us actually beloved that core premise, and we additionally actually beloved this concept of listening to this story by means of Dean’s viewpoint. We’ve usually talked about, on Supernatural, the methods wherein the Winchester household, God bless them, [has] quite a lot of intergenerational trauma and points and shenanigans. It began a dialog like, “OK, how does this work?” We began speaking about that core challenge.
I had no real interest in upending something, for lack of a greater expression, previous, current or way forward for Supernatural. We’re just a few years away from, I’m going to name it, the For-Now Finale, as a result of, hopefully, there will likely be extra story personal the highway… Obviously, the concept of the multiverse was fairly one-stop buying, when it comes to that developing fairly shortly. And then once more, it was a query of, “Will this still be an emotional story for Dean?” And it felt like we had a extremely attention-grabbing alternative to inform a narrative with Dean’s character, though he wouldn’t be essentially in each single episode… There have been dozens of the way to make it work, however this one felt just like the one that may really feel probably the most emotional, with out clearly upending something, and it felt like a narrative that we might inform about Dean, about the place he’s at once we meet him in, technically, the pilot, however all through the finale of our first season.
We had a few alternatives once we have been a timeline challenge of the place might we exist that may, once more, not upend something, and there was actually form of solely two spots inside that. There was the spot that takes place in between Episodes 19 and 20, when what occurs to Dean occurs to Dean… So there was a possibility to inform tales there, however that simply didn’t work for me as a result of we wouldn’t have entry to Sam in that approach, in a approach that we might simply clarify or at the least emotionally clarify, and that simply didn’t really feel prefer it was a narrative that definitely I wished to inform and none of us did. And the opposite possibility was when he was, clearly, in Heaven, as a result of we see him arrive there and he has the scene with Bobby, however then he goes for a drive. That was immediately very thrilling to all of us when it comes to an area for us to dwell in and inform our story.
(*1*)TVLINE | There is quite a lot of Dean on this episode, which I’m certain goes to please Supernatural followers rather a lot. What form of conversations did you and Jensen have about Dean’s presence on this episode and his mission? Did Jensen have any sturdy emotions about any of the main points? Did he have any concepts for this specific episode you could share?
With the finale, [it] was actually form of the identical speaking factors that Jensen had from the start, and I don’t need to converse on his behalf, however he was actually very clear about he wished to relate, he wished there to be a Dean story, however — I’m paraphrasing right here — he didn’t need it to look like this was The Dean Show. This wanted to be a narrative about Mary and John. At the identical time, he acknowledges there’s a sturdy need to see that good-looking face once more behind the wheel of that automotive.
So it was actually a balancing act. When we have been breaking the story within the room, I known as him up and pitched it to him. I used to be very clear, “This is going to be two scenes, but the second scene is a meaty one. It’s going to have, obviously, some exposition because we’re going to reveal what you’ve been up to,” however actually, it was the emotional facet of it. I used to be like, “This is going to get pretty heavy.”
Danneel is somebody who’s a extremely great barometer for like, “Are we making sure we’re telling a story for both Supernatural fans and Winchesters fans?” It needed to work for each of them, and we didn’t need Dean to only kind of take over the episode. But all of us knew that as quickly as we confirmed him in that {photograph} on the finish of Episode 8, that there could be quite a lot of curiosity in, “Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Is Dean going to come back?” In truth, I bear in mind one in every of my first conversations with Drake [Rodger], we have been simply in New Orleans and hanging out… And then as we have been form of stepping into the nuts and bolts of the present, he was like, “Hey, so like obviously Dean is in the pilot here at the end. Is there any chance that we’ll have scenes with him?” He actually was only a fan of the present who wished to behave alongside Jensen. And I knew that if we [got] picked up, this was the place we’re going to construct to on this first season. I used to be like, “Buddy, if we get there, I got you covered. Don’t worry about it.”
[Jensen and I] acquired actually granular on the [second] scene about who we have been going to reference, who we weren’t going to reference, totally different little callbacks to totally different moments within the collection. He improvised some stuff on the day as effectively… He was like, “When Carlos asks this query, I need to say like, ‘That’s a great query, Carlos.’ We had talked about this, and we by no means mentioned it formally, however I referenced the title Carlos in an episode of Supernatural, and in my thoughts, it was at all times the identical Carlos, only a totally different universe. It was form of a method to acknowledge that a bit of bit in a approach with out him meddling any additional on this universe.
TVLINE | Fans are in all probability anticipating Dean showing due to all of the hints you’ve laid into the season, however Jack and Bobby being within the finale was a nice shock. Can you speak about bringing them into it and what made these characters the correct ones to incorporate?
I believe all of the writers in all probability had their very own separate listing of legacy characters that we wished to deliver again. For me, there was no order of like, “Oh, this is my No. 1 or whatever,” however the first title I wrote down was Bobby Singer, and there was two causes: Jim Beaver has been in each single season of Supernatural, whether or not or not Bobby was alive or useless. So I used to be like, “Well, he absolutely has to be in Winchesters.” But I really like that character, and Jim Beaver as an actor is simply somebody that I completely adore, and I had a blast. I had by no means met him in individual, and so the night time we have been on the market capturing, it was pure pleasure, simply hanging out with him, speaking about outdated films… For me, Bobby was form of a no brainer and an ideal found-family determine in Sam and Dean Winchester’s lives. And he was additionally the final individual that Dean had seen in Heaven earlier than he went on the drive, so it made sense that he could be the individual to doubtlessly observe and assist out.
With Jack, we form of desperately wanted him to return in as a result of we, actually, wanted a bit of little bit of a deus ex machine there on the finish. Jack was a personality that was created after I left [Supernatural], so I by no means acquired an opportunity to work with Alex, however I’m simply an enormous fan of his… We wanted any person who had that stage of, frankly, like energy and his gravitas to essentially step in there on the finish and kind of proper the ship.
TVLINE | Season 1 had this very clear story trajectory with John and Mary assembly, the Akrida because the Big Bad, after which the thriller of how all that is taking place inside the Supernatural mythology, which you resolved. With this finale, there’s a way of closure to John and Mary’s story. They go off collectively, there’s that stunning montage, which feels very very similar to, “We’re wrapping this up.” What do you see a possible Season 2 being about it if the present is renewed?
That’s an ideal query, and I’m going to be considered with my reply as a result of I don’t know what’s going to occur, clearly, [at The CW]. I don’t suppose anyone does at this level. These are attention-grabbing instances, as the children say. We checked out [our first season] as chapters, and this primary 13 episodes, whether or not we have been going to get solely 13 or 22, we wished to finish this chapter, each on the emotional facet with Dean and on the plot facet with the Akrida. That was by design, and a few of it’s precisely what you simply mentioned, which was this was the large romance of the, for lack of a greater phrase, meet-cute of all of it, and to me, it was an ending [to] that a part of the story.
In phrases of the place we will go, the size of this was, “It’s the end of the world,” and all the regular hijinks. But that additionally form of matches the size of what you’re feeling once you’re in that younger romance, the place you’re like, “Oh, my God, it’s us versus the world.” In success in a Season 2, with out spoiling something, we definitely know the place we’d need to go, and I believe perhaps you and I even talked about this as effectively once we spoke earlier [this season], the romance of this was at all times what was most interesting to me as a author as a result of I’d by no means actually written a lot of that stuff in my profession. The first act of that’s at all times the assembly and the falling in love and the depth of that. But then it’s a query of how do you maintain it, and what does that appear like, particularly in a universe the place monsters are actual? And so we now have an unimaginable alternative, given an opportunity to inform extra story, to essentially get into the meat of what it means to be in a relationship in this sort of context, what it means to maintain love, not simply fall in love.
It’s one of many explanation why we ended it the way in which we did. We didn’t actually change something once we came upon we have been solely going to be 13 episodes. We wished it to really feel like this chapter had closed and that the plot mechanics had closed, however that, emotionally, there was room for extra story. There’s a lot extra story to inform about the place these two youngsters go. And as a result of now, as Dean says on the finish of the episode, they’ve an opportunity to write down their very own story that doesn’t need to be essentially what occurred on our model of Supernatural, we now have a possibility to essentially go into some attention-grabbing locations. I’m hopeful that we get an opportunity to do this.
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