Okay, what is the new story line?
KRIPKE:
One
of the first things Sera and Bob talked to me about was that the
angel thing
is rightfully exhausted, so where do you go from there? Not
to say that
angels and demons won’t be a part of the story line,
because they will.
Castiel will be there. Crowley will be there. The
beloved characters will be
threading into the story. But the great
undiscovered country of
Supernatural is kind of right in
front of our face: creatures and
monsters. We have had so many creature
episodes but we haven’t actually
explained where they came
from—[similar] to the way we have explored angels
and demons. How do
they feel about the situations they are in? Are they from
here? Where
did the first ones come from? How did werewolves and vampires
and
shape-shifters all begin anyway? I thought that was a really
smart
notion on [Sera and Bob's] part, just exploring the history of
that,
because that was something that we never investigated on the
show.
How does Grandpa [Mitch Pileggi] fit into
this?
KRIPKE:
He’s representative of the other side of this
exploration, which is
that Sam and Dean have a family of hunters that they
never knew they
had. Their grandfather is the head of that family. Remember,
it’s not
the Winchesters who are famous hunters, it’s the Campbells. And we
are
saying that the Campbells are part of a timeline of hunters that
have
been there since the country’s origins. As Sera put it, they
were
hacking heads off vampires on the Mayflower. For Sam and
Dean
to really tap into a family history, which they never knew they had
and
again never really investigated before, is pretty interesting to
us.
Want more scoop on season 6? You should definitely check out
the
show’s Comic-Con panel on Sunday, July 25, at 11:15 a.m,
starring
Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins, and Jim Beaver, as
well
as EPs Sera Gamble, Ben Edlund, and Eric Kripke.
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