“There’s so many more stories to tell,” Robbie Thompson says of the Supernatural universe.
Warning: This post contains spoilers forThe Winchestersseason 1 finale.
And that is how you wrap up a season!
Drake Rodger and Meg Donnelly on ‘The Winchesters’.Eliot Brasseaux/The CW
ROBBIE THOMPSON:You and me both!
I got teary-eyed writing it, but then on the day, that one got me.
I think he’s gonna go places."
Jensen Ackles on ‘The Winchesters’.Eliot Brasseaux/The CW
[Laughs] We always knew this scene was coming.
We always wanted this moment.
But he is such a special actor.
And I don’t think I realized how much I missed Dean Winchester, but there he is.
We obviously had him in the pilot, but we didn’t even mic him for sound.
It was a tease, and this was a real scene.
How’d you come to that story?
When we first first talked about it, the original core idea was just: young John and Mary.
It was like, “Well, we love this, but how is this gonna work?”
We did not want to do anything that would upend past, present, and most importantly, futureSupernatural.
At first that sounds very limiting, but it was actually very freeing.
But when we started thinking about the multiverse path, it did a couple things for us.
Obviously it leaves theSupernaturaluniverse intact.
So we wanted to find: What was the emotional story that we could tell for him as well?
We had two pockets that we could exist in.
And that felt like the most rich, fertile area for us to live in.
What do you reflect on at the end of your life?
And what in the Supernatural universe/multiverse would you maybe want to go take a look at?
And then, you know, Dean’s gonna Dean.
[Laughs] He can’t help himself.
They say it in the episode: Even in death, hunters keep hunting.
I love the idea that this might be the universe where the Winchesters get a happy ending.
I want to see that!
He doesn’t want them to feel like all roads lead to a 1967 Chevy Impala.
They have to tell their own story.
And different versions of characters that we’ve seen before, maybe actors in different parts.
[Laughs] We have a lot of different options.
[Laughs]
There’s that beautiful montage at the end of the episode.
Yeah, 100 percent.
The montage was not scripted.
We wanted to see the kids on the road.
But in watching them, this movie popped in my head, this Steven Soderbergh movie calledThe Limey.
There’s an editorial technique where he kind of just pops in and out of different timelines.
It was definitely designed that way.
This was basically always the story that we wanted to tell.
[Laughs]
It feels like this show and this story has opened more doors than it’s closed.
There’s so many more stories to tell and death has never, ever stopped those characters.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
