The remarkably durable Supernatural is going into Season 8 this fall, and is showing little sign of slowing down. In fact, in a vote of confidence, The CW is moving the show from Friday nights to Wednesdays, paired with their new series, Arrow.
Supernatural has a new showrunner this fall, Jeremy Carver. While Carver’s last couple of years were spent on the US version of Being Human, he’s no stranger to Sam and Dean Winchester, having written for Supernatural for several seasons in the early days.
I recently spoke to Carver about taking the reins of the show from previous showrunner Sera Gamble, his plans for Sam and Dean in Season 8 and more about what’s to come this year.
IGN TV: What’s it like for you to jump back in to Supernatural after you’ve been away from it for a couple of years?
Jeremy Carver: It’s an enormous thrill to be back. The show has developed wonderfully well over the last couple of seasons, and the timing was fortuitous. So yeah, it’s really exciting.
IGN: Did you talk to Sera at all about where they were leaving off, or did you sort of say, “Okay, this is what she left me. We’re going to just go here with it now…”?
Carver: Sera and I had many conversations, but specifically in terms of story I think she said, “I think I left you with a lot of options. Good luck.” I think that was it. But no, we had a great conversation about it. We looked at it anew and decided to go where it’s going to head.
IGN: Was it exciting for you, daunting, or a little of both that you weren’t going to be a part of setting up these storylines as much as seeing, “This is the last crisis we’ve left them with,” and kind of figuring out where those puzzle pieces will fit?
Carver: I don’t know if you’re a fan of Top Chef?
IGN: Yes, I am, actually!
Carver: The Top Chef challenge where one chef starts, and then the other chef is blindfolded and has to come in and start? It’s a little bit like that. The show always has the base to fall back on, which is the brothers. You can go a lot of different directions as long as these guys are at the center of it. So yeah, it was very exciting, but coming off a couple years where I was starting something -- that’s still something I’m still working through. You’re being held to such an enormous canon. It’s very easy to be in the room and throw something out there, and someone’s like, “You can’t do that. We did that. We can’t do that.” That said, it’s worth it. I think the staff is feeling very invigorated and fun, and they’re introducing new characters and lots of new structural things to the show. It feels like we’re doing our best to keep things fresh and exciting.
IGN: Piggybacking off of what you just said about not wanting to repeat things, we’ve seen storylines about both Sam and Dean returning from Hell and the very different way that that shaped them and they dealt with it. How will Dean’s time in Purgatory shape him, and how do you make it different from what happened before?
Carver: I’ll say this: each brother had starkly different transformative experiences over this past time that they were apart from each other. I think, first and foremost, they’re still dealing within themselves about how it’s affected them, both emotionally and in the relationships that have sprung up in their time alone. It’s the process of starting to be able to relate with each other anew that forms a lot of the basis for that -- at least in the earlier episodes. I think one of the things that’s nice is that there’s always secrets and everything, but what happens when it completely changes your outlook on life or who you are or what you want to be in 15 years? I often say it’s like when you talk to your best friend when you’re 20 and then you talk to them differently when you’re 30, because life is catching up to you.
IGN: When I spoke to Jared at Comic-Con, he talked about the fact that Sam is trying something Dean tried and failed at, which is to make a life away from this all and to find someone to settle down with. We know, from the beginning the series, that Sam is different guy than Dean. Might he be successful where Dean failed in that regard?
Carver: I think one thing we’re playing with this year is that success is very much in the eye of the beholder. There’s a lot of perception issues this year. What one brother might perceive as success may not seem that way to the other. That’s part of it - what’s going on with each one. To answer your question, we’re very much exploring just that. I don’t know that Supernatural will ever field the typical notion of success. The show has constantly played with that throughout the years, and I think we’re doing that again this year.
Continue to Page 2 to see what Carver had to say about Crowley, Castiel and Bobby and more.
Source : ign[dot]com
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