Supernatural could have ended greater than 4 years in the past, however the sequence creator has a giant deal with in retailer for followers who haven’t but forgotten the adventures of the Winchesters and their prolonged household. Former star Jensen Ackles already had a task on The Boys; now he’ll be joined by fellow Supernatural alums Jared Padalecki to probably deal with a lingering finale challenge in a really humorous manner.
It isn’t an enormous shock that Padalecki at the very least goes to indicate up after earlier feedback by Eric Kripke, who created Supernatural for The WB (which might change into The CW) years earlier than creating The Boys for Prime Video. Misha Collins is extra of a shock, and his inclusion is what jogged my memory of my lingering challenge with how Supernatural ended.
However earlier than we get into that, check out the announcement video and be aware the long-lasting Supernatural quote:
“We bought work to do” is a line from the tip of each Supernatural‘s 2005 pilot episode in addition to the Season 15 premiere in 2019, and the fandom for this present is such that loads of folks absolutely caught it… even when The Boys followers en masse may not have. Even when it might be a while earlier than information breaks of who Misha Collins and Jared Padalecki will probably be play, and although it is doable that the three actors will not even share scenes, I’ve a manner that it may deal with what I nonetheless see as a shortcoming of Supernatural‘s final episode.
The Supernatural finale was divisive for numerous causes, not the least of which was – spoiler alert, I assume? – the very unceremonious demise of Dean Winchester, performed by Ackles. I’ve gone forwards and backwards on how I really feel about how he was killed off (and stayed lifeless for the primary time), and the one two issues that I have not actually modified my thoughts about in any respect are 1) Jared Padalecki’s transformation into outdated man Sam for the flash-forwards was just a little bit goofy and a pair of) Misha Collins ought to have been there as Castiel.
Will Ackles, Padalecki, and Collins be taking part in the Winchester brothers and the angel Castiel on The Boys? After all not. For one factor, Ackles is already Soldier Boy, and loads of Supernatural vets have already appeared on the Prime Video present with out vastly meta nods to outdated CW sequence.
However as a TV fanatic after which an leisure journalist, I’ve seen and been a part of many fandoms, and I do not suppose there’s any fandom fairly as devoted because the Supernatural viewers on the subject of taking canon and selecting what to do with it.
Actually no present I’ve seen approaches meta episodes the way in which Supernatural did, to the purpose that the two hundredth episode was actually about an in-universe musical in regards to the Winchesters, primarily based on an in-universe ebook sequence in regards to the Winchesters, full with jokes about ship names, the Samulet, and the truth that Sam and Dean form of forgot about Adam for a very long time.
All of which is to say that I’ve full religion and Supernatural followers can watch The Boys with Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins all presumably taking part in completely different characters, and make it humorous. It could possibly be an alternate universe, a la “The French Mistake” episode that featured Sam and Dean inserted into the lives of Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles via angelic shenanigans.
The primary 4 seasons of The Boys, together with each episode with Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, are streaming with a Prime Video subscription as properly, with Supernatural streaming through a Netflix subscription.