There are SPOILERS in this article for the fourth and fifth season of “Supernatural.” If you don’t want to know, please turn back now….
Last year, the Winchesters brothers released Lucifer and began the apocalypse on “Supernatural.” Now as the series begins its fifth season, the show’s writers say they won’t shy away from featuring the climatic battle between good and evil. They’ll just have to do it on the “Supernatural” budget.
“We’re not promising the Apocalypse and then hedging our bets,” series creator Eric Kripke tells SciFi Wire.
“However, we are doing the Playhouse 90 kind of apocalypse,” added writer Ben Edlund 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.”
They also said that much of the fifth season will be spent working on repairing the damage done last year to Sam and Dean’s relationship as the two work to try and stop Lucifer.
“We are not pulling our punches this season,” producer and writer Sera Gamble said. “But I’ll tell you, it’s not as dark as I thought it would be. Last season was pretty much suicidal at points, especially with Sam going so dark. I’m finding this Apocalypse surprisingly amusing. We are having so much fun with it, since it’s balls to the wall.”
“We are telling stories about the Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” she added. “We went A-list right away, so they are a completely other species. We had to ask ourselves, ‘What are they? Are they demons or angels? What do they do, and how do they feel?'”
Gamble added that the team spent a lot of time looking for the right actor to play the Prince of Darkness and that the recently cast Mark Pellegrino fits the bill perfectly.
“As with the best of our supposed villains on our show, he is maybe almost as right, or righter, than the good guys. We also said our angels are going to be dicks. We have a spectrum where some of them are good or seem to be bad with ulterior motives,” she said. “Lucifer is on that spectrum, and you might expect him to be all the way on the end of evil, but that’s not necessarily true. He has a very complex and interesting point of view, so he has been fascinating to unlock and figure out and understand. I am really excited about him and that he’s a real presence in the story arc.”
And in case you were wondering that if the show is going to give us Lucifer, does that mean we can expect a guest appearance by the Almighty, Kripke says the answer is yes.
“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.”
“Supernatural” returns on September 10.
I definitely would like to see Sam and Dean’s dad make a return appearance somehow.
Have the actor who played the dad return as the god character!