Rob Helmerichs
08-26-2009, 09:37 AM
Fun article (http://scifiwire.com/2009/08/supernatural-season-5-eve.php) about the coming season.
"Oh, it's the Apocalypse," Kripke and his fellow co-executive producers Sera Gamble and Ben Edlund said in a small group interview last month. "We're not promising the Apocalypse and then hedging our bets." (Major spoilers ahead!)
"However, we are doing the Playhouse 90 kind of apocalypse," the ever-quirky Edlund added with a laugh. "It will be like, 'Well, we don't have too much money, so don't swing the camera over there. We have to focus on the ruin we just made!' But that, to me, is interesting, because it's strategic. It's a puzzle to solve, and there are a lot of weird little details that we can throw into this notion of it being an Apocalypse. I've been on a lot of pre-apocalyptic shows, like Angel, where we get right to the moment, and that's the end. I loved it, but to be on a show that just goes 'F--k it! Let's do it!' and actually tries to navigate a sustainable, dramatic Apocalypse with almost no money is worth going to work for, I think."
:D
And guess who's coming to dinner?
"We are going to meet God this year," Kripke revealed. "Not anytime soon or in the first run, but God is a character. It has led to hilarious and heady times in the writer's room of Supernatural: trying to [story] break God's motivation. What's God want in this scene? We start laughing, because Gossip Girl's not having this problem."
Sounds like they're not holding back, which is what I've always been afraid of. But when season 4 ended where I thought the series would end, only with the bad guys winning, I had high hopes, and this reinforces my confidence.
"Oh, it's the Apocalypse," Kripke and his fellow co-executive producers Sera Gamble and Ben Edlund said in a small group interview last month. "We're not promising the Apocalypse and then hedging our bets." (Major spoilers ahead!)
"However, we are doing the Playhouse 90 kind of apocalypse," the ever-quirky Edlund added with a laugh. "It will be like, 'Well, we don't have too much money, so don't swing the camera over there. We have to focus on the ruin we just made!' But that, to me, is interesting, because it's strategic. It's a puzzle to solve, and there are a lot of weird little details that we can throw into this notion of it being an Apocalypse. I've been on a lot of pre-apocalyptic shows, like Angel, where we get right to the moment, and that's the end. I loved it, but to be on a show that just goes 'F--k it! Let's do it!' and actually tries to navigate a sustainable, dramatic Apocalypse with almost no money is worth going to work for, I think."
:D
And guess who's coming to dinner?
"We are going to meet God this year," Kripke revealed. "Not anytime soon or in the first run, but God is a character. It has led to hilarious and heady times in the writer's room of Supernatural: trying to [story] break God's motivation. What's God want in this scene? We start laughing, because Gossip Girl's not having this problem."
Sounds like they're not holding back, which is what I've always been afraid of. But when season 4 ended where I thought the series would end, only with the bad guys winning, I had high hopes, and this reinforces my confidence.