Twenty years later, and followers nonetheless love Supernatural, perhaps much more than they did when it first premiered on September 13, 2005. To have fun the anniversary, TV Information Journal put collectively the Supernatural Afterlife: twentieth Anniversary Particular subject, and after we spoke with showrunner Andrew Dabb to get particulars concerning the sequence finale ending that was initially deliberate earlier than COVID pressured a serious pivot, we requested him concerning the present’s legacy and what he hopes folks will proceed to remove and keep in mind.
“I feel particularly because the present has completed after which aged in the best way it’s going to age, you might have lots of people nonetheless discovering it. You could have lots of people that use it as type of consolation meals, which is extremely flattering. The message of the present was at all times — and to not be tremendous cloying or something — anyone generally is a hero, not that it’s going to encourage folks to exit and combat crime, however I feel that’s a very helpful message, particularly, I imply, I used to be going to say proper now, however honestly anytime,” Dabb mentioned. “You’ve obtained these two guys which might be extremely competent going out and doing issues and serving to folks. And I feel it offers folks consolation in a method that’s actually nice.”
He continued, “Supernatural, we by no means received an Emmy, we have been by no means a kind of reveals. However I feel that present, particularly for the folks which might be watching it now and for the folks that watched it when it was going, it actually does appear to have wound its method into folks’s DNA, which to me is the most effective legacy of the present you possibly can have.”
Dabb pointed to the bond between brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean’s (Jensen Ackles) as a contributing issue to why folks nonetheless love the present. “You don’t see loads of reveals about male bonds in that method,” he defined. “Most reveals, you place two characters collectively, they’re meant to be at odds, proper? And Sam and Dean, they have been at odds. That they had variations of opinion, all the things like that, however on the finish of the day, they nonetheless cherished one another. And I feel that’s what allowed it to chop by means of all the things.”
He additionally credited Padalecki and Ackles for his or her performances. “They began out once they have been actually younger, they usually threw themselves into it,” he mentioned. “After which I feel we obtained actually fortunate in that we had loads of writers come by means of that present that have been extremely gifted and will are available and do episodes and make the episodes their very own and make them really feel like, the most effective circumstances, these actually well-crafted tales that folks can return to and that do rise up, that do type of maintain up in a method that frankly, for my part, it’s uncommon for reveals to carry up in addition to Supernatural holds up — to not say all the things holds up, to not say the politics are at all times excellent as a result of they’re undoubtedly not. However I feel by way of the storytelling and the enjoyment of it, hopefully that holds up for some folks.”
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