So after all the flurry of the TCAs and ComicCon, it's back to normal Hellatus news as we trudge towards the wonder of October 7!
This week, the CW posted a video which was like the most epic Road So Far ever, to promote the new season, but also a bit of a tease for the Supernatural Retrospective that will be running on October 6, before the premiere of season 10 the following night.
2 Brothers. 10 Seasons. 200 Episodes.
How freakin' epic is our show! I mean, COME ON! So awesome. I feel like I'm going to explode with pride!
Suzanne Gomez was in the Supernatural offices and tweeted about some of the behind the scenes interviews that will be featured in the retrospective.
Kripke, Bob Singer and The Carver were all there.
She couldn't be too spoilery but she did tweet a few little tidbits about what we have to look forward to in the special
Kripke shares stories about Kim Manners, the creation of angels and the Impala, the story behind Bobby Singer being named after Bob Singer. He talks about his favourite demons, one of course being the YED, and his favourite angels, one of which is Castiel. He also talks about Misha and Mark and their rolls on the show.
Bob Singer talks about favourite episodes, one of which is Changing Channels and he talks a lot about casting Jensen and Jared.
There's discussion of fans and conventions. That Jeremy and Kripke insisted that Knight Rider feature in Changing Channels and there's lots of BTS on the boys.
The Retrospective will air October 6 at 9/8 on the CW! I CAN'T WAIT!
Of course, this past week was also full of the insanity of GISHWHES!
Misha kicked off proceedings in a park with a whole lot of French Maids! Over 800 of them! Which broke another World Record!
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Misha even happened across one of the teams attempting one of the scavenger items!
Then there were the heads. So many heads!
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Congratulations to everyone who participated and good luck for the outcome!
One of the cool events to happen last week was Leaky Con which saw Supernatural writers and ultimate fanboys, Adam Glass and Robbie Thompson...known collectively as Rodam, take to the stage and answer some questions.
You can get a complete wrap up of the tweets via the Superwiki here
And here's a great interview with the guys by Heidi who covered Comic-Con and Leaky Con for the Wiki.
Since my last update, another monumental fandom event occurred! Croatoan Day! On August 1 fans all over the world wrote Croatoan on their arms...including yours truly!
This is my real tattoo from "The End"
Misha joined in!
As did Robbie - who loves Robocop, in case you didn't know
There was also art and hoarding of toilet paper!
And Croatoan Day trended Worldwide!
For a look at the many, many photos of written on arms click here!
Remember at Comic-Con how poor Mark didn't have his very own Crowley Pop Vinyl doll? Well a couple of very clever fans sorted that out!
You can read about the whole thing here! It's super cool.
And on the official Funko Pop Vinyl front, we finally got to see the Winged Castiel and Charlie figures which are due out soon. Hopefully Crowley will follow! Come on Funko!
Supernatural Alum, Todd Stashwick had some cool news! He's been cast in the new SyFy series, 12 Monkey's based on the Brad Pitt movie.
Todd will play will play Deacon, the cunning leader of a brutal band of scavengers in the year 2043 called The West 7. Deacon amassed his followers with a “survival of the fittest” attitude… and by burning down the last few government quarantine zones.
There was speculation that Big Daddy Winchester, Jeffrey Dean Morgan would star in Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice as the Caped Crusader's dad, Thomas Wayne. Which kind of makes sense seeing as Dean Winchester is actually Batman!
It's just a rumor at the moment, but this picture was snapped of a painting on set of Thomas Wayne that resembles Jeff, who has worked with Zach Snyder before as The Comedian in The Watchman movie.
What do you think? Do you think this portrait looks like JDM? Read the article at ComicBookNews.
And another of our favourite Supernatural stars had a fabulous interview on scenelousiana.com
"Richard Speight, Jr. is a veteran actor from Nashville, Tennessee. He is best known for his roles on the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, on The CW’s Supernatural and as Deputy Bill Kohler on Jericho. He can next be seen alongside Danny Trejo and Lin Shaye in the film Mucho Dinero."
Richard talks about how he became an actor and some of his influences. Read more about our favourite Trickster here.
Photo via the Supernatural Wiki
And another interview you should read is Jules from the Supernatural Wiki's catch up with Kevin Parks. Kevin talks all about directing season 9's Bad Boys.
Kevin discusses the challenges of the episode, how he approached working with the younger cast and shooting that awesome death in the bathtub scene! It's part of the Wiki's Script to Screen series and you can check out the whole interview here.
In other news!
Travis Aaron Wade, who will be playing the mysterious Cole, has been tweeting up a storm from set! Including this...which reveals the title for the season opener, which though recently rumoured, hasn't been officially confirmed... but here's his script all signed and with the title for 1002 (that's 02 in shooting order - this will air as 01) as "Black".
Some fans caught up with filming again, this past week. These pics of Jensen are via @mommabear75. This will be episode 1002 on air - 1003 in the shooting schedule.
And the set dressing...
Jared shared a couple of adorable pics this week, one of him and Thomas wearing the same hat. He told the story at Comic-Con about how he and Thomas both had that hat.
And another of Gen and the two boys. Gosh Thom is a mini Jared and he's getting big! Such a lovely photo.
And of course, I can't leave you with out a shot of our gym junkie King of the Selfies.
In 8 days. 8 DAYS! I head to Vancon! Keep your eyes peeled for Vancon updates and photos - I will have my camera - and follow me @AmyinSydney for lots of Vancon craziness.
Here Misha talks about handing out coffee to the Hall H queue
Here's Happy Cool's interview with Mark
More from Mark
Mark via Flicks and the City
And finally, it's Happy Cool's interview with Jeremy Carver
More from The Carver about the boys
And this from Carver about the mythology of the season
FlickDirect caught up with all the guys on the Pressline
Interviews with everyone by Clevver News
TV|Line sat down with Misha and Mark
Here are the (what I hope are) the first of the CW fan Q&A vids - with Misha and Mark
The Chaos of the autograph line!
And here's Jensen looking dreamy...*sigh* via carpe-armor
Here's a fantastic write up from ScreenFad of first the panel and then the press room.
9.36am – Robbie Thompson comes by to talk to reporters, is wearing a SuperSleepy shirt.
10.03am – Don’t forget there will be a Supernatural retrospective airing on Monday, October 6 @ 9/8c on The CW
10.05am – Jensen comes on stage to thunderous applause and screams to introduce a clip from his upcoming episode (10.03). Robbie Thompson screams “he’s so dreamy! He smells like Baby Jesus!” behind me.
10.06am – The scene is Dean confronting Sam for the first time since becoming a demon (so they won’t see each other again until episode 10.03, folks). Sam talks about hating demons, Dean says “I got a hell of a lot more running through me than demon juice.” Dean has made it back into the Men of Letters bunkers and tells Sam that he knows what he did trying to find him, so which one of them is “really the monster?”. The two are fighting each other in one of the bunker halls after Dean stalks his brother with an axe.
10.13am – Jensen says that Demon Dean will be taking the car, but he doesn’t care about it as much as regular Dean. Mark Sheppard is very sad that he doesn’t have a funko doll.
10.14am - Dean being a demon will be a huge part of the upcoming season. am, in particular, is focused on how to rescue Dean from being a demon, while Dean struggles with what it means to be a demon. Jeremy says he and the other writers are excited with the brothers “questioning who the real monster is.”
10.16am – What’s it been like playing Demon Dean? Jensen says that Demons usually possess a meatsuit, but this is Dean’s soul that is twisted. It was interesting trying to make it a different character but still make it the same character (but a twisted version of it). Jensen also reveals that Demon Dean will be “tied up most of the time” in 10.03.
10.17am – Misha says early on in the season Castiel is worried about trying to help Dean, but he’s also “fading” from his grace problem.
10.19am – Mark says no one will ever believe Crowley “didn’t know what was going to happen” and we’ll “have to see whether Crowley has any control at all or whether he’s in charge.”
10.20am – Jared is talking grammar on the stage. About the 200th episode, Jeremy says it’s “musical-ish”. It’s very much “Supernatural’s own spin on a love letter to the fans.” Jensen also says there is singing and music involved in the season premiere, but he’s being cagey as to what kind. Jensen hints that “Demon Dean likes to karaoke. Or does he?” Robbie says “he does.” Mark jokes (?) “what about the triplets?”
10.22am – Jared wants everyone to know how grateful they are to the fans. He says they just “wouldn’t exist” without them.
10.28am – When asked whether he would like William Shatner on Supernatural, Misha said it would be great, but he would “have to audition like everyone else.”
10.29am – Mark says “Crowley is always right. The world revolves around Crowley. You’ll catch up eventually.”
10.30am – Jensen says that Dean is so popular because he’s the kind of guy you want around in a jam. “Or if you want to jam,” Jared jokes. Jensen says that at some point Crowley is going to say “this was a bad, bad idea” about Demon Dean.
10.32am – Jared says that at the beginning of the show Sam wanted to be a homebody and Dean was the wanderer. The difference between Sam at his core and Dean at his core drove the show at the beginning and kind of echoes during the current seasons. Dean has more relationships outside of Sam than Sam has of Dean. So Dean meets and connects with more people as he wanders the road.
10.32am – Jared says they joke that characters are more likely to come back if they die than if they live.
10.36am – Misha says they’re trying to prepare a “cease and desist package” to stop Constantine from looking too much like Castiel. Misha says there’s talk of aSupernatural spin-off and Misha thinks the strongest move would be to make it Sam and Dean-centric and leave him and Mark behind on the original show. Jared’s joke: “did you hear about the new movie Constipation? It hasn’t come out yet.” Jensen groans “for ten years I’ve listened to those jokes. They’re still not funny.
10.38am – Someone comes up to ask a question in full costume and doesn’t speak. Once he finally rips off his hood we see it’s Osric Chau! He asks when Kevin’s coming back. Mark says “I carry a little piece of Kevin with me at all times.” Behind me, Robbie Thompson says Osric’s appearance was “Tran-tastic.”
10.40am – A fan asks what the characters’ list bucket lists would be. Jared says, for him, it would be “10 more Hall Hs at Comic-Con.” Mark’s is “try not to die in season 10″ and Jeremy says “good luck.” Jared says “that conflicts with Jensen’s bucket list which is kill Mark Sheppard as soon as possible. Not Crowley, but Mark Sheppard.” Misha thinks that Castiel doesn’t have a bucket list. Misha says for Castiel is “stay alive” (Jensen jokes “it’s ‘don’t kick the bucket’”).
10.43am – A fan asks if they can expect any female series regulars. Jared asks “where’s Felicia?” Jeremy says that series regular is just a technical term, but “you can expect a very healthy of new and returning very strong, very powerful female characters this season.” Jared says that “Crowley is ambiguous enough that he could be a ‘she’.”
10.46am – Jensen says this past week Demon Dean fought and killed a guy on Tuesday, beat a guy close to death on Wednesday, and then beat a guy and killed another guy on Thursday. He says he was having a great week because all of his anger and frustration was being taken out on set.
10.49am – Jensen says there was a part of them that thought Misha might retaliate when he was directing but then he thought “he’s not that dumb.”
10.50am – One fan asked each actor to summarize their character’s dating profile and they answered in turn. “Sam Winchester: tall, floppy hair, all past girlfriends have died, tall, call if you’re interested but be prepared to sign an affidavit.” “Castiel: disrespect for people’s personal space.” “Dean Winchester: Rolling through town, no strings attached…interested?” “Crowley: Hello, girls (sexy Mark voice), or Hello, boys (sexy Mark voice).” Jeremy got pity asked at the end and he said his would be “have booty, will travel.”
10.56am – Jensen says he’s been given a false sense of security playing Dean Winchester because he thinks he can kill ghosts now if he ever encountered one.
10.56am – Jared says that Supernatural is about humans, instead of being a guy or girl. He says he cried more on Supernatural than on Gilmore Girls, although Jensen probably cried more on Days of Our Lives. Jared says that the show is about two guys, but there’s still a lot of emotion.
10.58am – The panel is done, but they’re going to show some of the season 9 gag reel.
The state of Demon Dean. Last season we saw Dean as a tortured soul, according to Jensen. He lost his sibling relationship and it became very business-like. He had the guilt of tricking Sam into being possessed by an angel and he had a lot riding on his shoulders last season. For season 10, he wanted to do a contrast for demon dean that was Dean without any of that stuff. That Dean is kind of the same guy but without any care in the world. It’s “scary how little he cares about every and anybody. Even himself. Even the car.” Jensen says there’s nothing funny about it at all. Dean is so carefree and careless, he’s just busy doing whatever he wants to do, whether it’s karaoke or having sex with women. He described a scene he just shot with Dean singing karaoke in a bar and everyone is booing him and he doesn’t care and just sings louder. “A lot of bar fights, a lot of booze, a lot of babes, that’s Demon Dean”. He’s a little bit more smirky, has more swagger to him. It wasn’t anything specific that Jensen was going for, it was just a mental state he was trying to get into.
Sam’s search for Dean. Jared says “we get to see fully human Sam doing things to other full humans that we wouldn’t expect. We certainly will no longer doubt Sam’s loyalty and commitment to [saving] his brother. But we do tease morals and ethics and how far one can go before they become a monster themselves. We tease that more this season than we’ve done in seasons prior.”
Cole and Sam. We know about a new character named Cole who is also searching for Dean when the season begins. Jared said that Cole is someone from Dean’s past and Sam encounters him early on before Dean does. Sam isn’t aware of how Cole knows Dean and vice versa, but Sam is in a position when he knows Dean is a demon and tells Cole that he should stop his pursuit. Jared also revealed that Cole witnessed something back in season 1 when he was ten years old and is now searching for Dean because of it.
What will happen to the brothers? Fans of the Winchester brothers’ relationship might be concerned that Dean being a demon will drive a real wedge between them this year. But Jeremy says “I feel like at the end of last season [the brothers] reached a certain good place. Not necessarily a happy place, but a good place. Dean died and even over the course of the last episode, there was a real maturation in terms of Sam accepting that Dean is walking into death and being OK with that.” That good place they were in carries on into season 10. When the season starts Sam has no idea what happened to his brother. He has some suspicions, but he’s not sure. “Sam is very hot and heavy on the pursuit. I think you’ll see the bothers, when all is said and done….I like it a lot. [It's] something a little bit different than what we’ve seen in the past couple of years in the way they react in the aftermath. I think there’s a certain amount of healing that has to go on with it. Both acknowledge [it needs to be done] in their relationship and just on a personal level. You’re going to see the boys really, for lack of a better term, go to ground when this is done and saying ‘we need to get better’. Now, of course, the supernatural always follows them. But it’s not the same bombastic ‘you idiot!’ [reaction]. For everything they go through, they actually end up in a good place.”
What state is Castiel in? According to Misha, Castiel is finding himself getting weaker and weaker as we see him again in season 10. He says that it’s not like a human being getting sick, but his powers are very depleted. He is, however, mentally alright. Despite that, he is trying hard to help with the Demon Dean situation, although we’re not sure how helpful he can be while he’s this weak.
The key to Castiel’s grace. “I think, probably, Metatron is key to getting Cas’ grace back and Cas knows that,” Misha said. “We establish that early on in the season. And we also establish that Cas is unwilling to cooperate with Metatron or ask a favor of him. I would not be surprised if later on in the season it turns out that Metatron does end up rectifying the [grace] situation somehow. Because he certainly is, as far as we know, the one who knows how to do that or where Cas’ grace is? [Is it still in existence?] I don’t know. It seems so.”
What’s happening in Heaven? According to Jeremy, the focus in the beginning of the season is much more what’s happening with some angels on earth. The angels in Heaven have largely gotten their act together, Metatron is in jail and angels up there are trying to work things out. In terms of stability in heaven, its more stable than its been in many years.
Is Cas involving himself in heaven’s politics right now?Misha says that he’s “more grounded on earth,” but wouldn’t tell us more. He did, however, say that we will be seeing Hannah with Castiel (she was introduced last year) early on in the season and a few other new angels.
I thought this was a super interesting quote from The Carver!
"I think something we’re very excited about this year is that the mythology is going to be very personal. It’s not going to be quite as quest-oriented a mythology, it’s going to be a mythology where we are very carefully laying some building blocks that are very personal to each of our main characters, starting with the boys and how they relate to each other and some of the decisions they make once Dean eventually does come back from demonism. Crowley and Castiel are both going to be confronted with some very personal issues. Last year we had people deciding who they wanted to be; if you think back last season everyone had to make that decision somewhere in the season, and this season is ‘I am who I am.’ And that may be a very good or a very bad thing."
The Geekiary got alot of great quotes from various sources together - nice and spoilery - check it out here!
Okay, must be some time for some snaps! I'm going to start with a favourite!
(via NerdHQ)
via Mrs Ackles herself, Danneel
Jared and his sling via @AllyForman
via @pattyreads
Jared and Jensen with Aisha
Aisha and Jared listen to Jensen's skittles story
via @WantAWinchester
via via @ialexgraham
Mark and his Crowley doll!
via @briantruitt
Signing autographs
Misha in the press room
via @SuperWiki
via christi(ashto)n
via playing for Dean tumblr
The boys checking out their Pop Vinyls!
COMIC-CON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY!
Misha and Mark were the first to head to Comic-Con, along with writers, Adam Glass, Robert Berens and Robbie Thompson and Executive Producer Jim Michaels. Alumni Todd Stashwick and Alana Huffman were also walking the floor and ex-Supernatural genius and now writer for Gotham, Ben Edlund.
The gang all out together!
First up ... Misha! Misha being Misha was seriously digging the Comic-Con scene.
Here's Misha and John Barrowman - John calls him "My Misha" :D
And with Chris Hardwick from The Nerdist
And with Paul Wesely and Robert Buckley
Then Misha posted a lot of photos of him just having fun!
With Mike Tyson!
Here's TVGuide Fan Favourites Panel that Misha took part in.
Part 2
Here's an interview with Misha on the Marvel Livestream
Here are a few panel tweets from Saturday
Mark and Misha! M2 :D
Aisha Tyler is a big fan of the show and she chatted a little about it...
And she wants Jensen for her Girl on Guy podcast! Fingers crossed!
Jared arrived a little later in the night
Fan sighting!
Then Jared and Misha swung by the fans queueing overnight for Hall H and the
Supernatural panel!
There are hundreds of fans with Jared selfies out there! I seriously can't post them all!
The amellywood/jarpad bromance continued when Jared matched Stephen's earlier photo!
Then they caught up to see each others faces in person.
Here they are with Carina MacKenzie
Jared caught up with Executive Producer and writer Adam Glass
And Supernatural alumni the lovely Todd Stashwick
Then he headed over to Geek and Sundry!
Partying up a storm!
But wait there's more!
Adam Glass caught up with Alaina Huffman - Abaddon.
As did Todd Stashwick!
The ladies from Fangasm met up with Ben Edlund
Executive Producer Jim Michaels also go sucked up into the excitement!
And Jared's manager Dan Spilo got into the fun!
Okay! I'll be back tomorrow with more awesome! Including information from the Supernatural panel, any sneaky video, tweets, photos, any press room interviews, NerdHQ panel and photos, photos, photos!
