That moment shows why Comic-Con is such a great event, it’s not about seeing your favorite shows or getting the scoop on future movies, shows, comic books, etc…
It is all about the fan experience!
Here’s to another great Comic-Con.
Thanks to @kelly_LastBite and Rochelle for helping with the coverage of this year’s Con and we’ll be back next year!
XOXO,
~M.
HuffPost caught Jared Padalecki, Jeremy Carver, Ben Edlund, Jim Beaver and Mark Sheppard on the press line (sadly no Misha Collins or Jensen Ackles this time) to discuss what’s coming up for the Winchesters, their allies and enemies in the next season.
Jared Padalecki
On Sam’s mindset and emotional stability going into Season 8: “He’s happy; he’s Winchester brother happy! [Laughs.] Nothing’s ever going to be lollipops and candy canes, he’s obviously had a lot of hurt and a lot of loss in his life; obviously he’s had demon blood in him, he’s done it all. He’s able to finally resolve himself to get out of it, to get away, to say ‘listen, I’ve lost everything — I got it back and lost it all over again, it’s too much.’ He’s wanted to live a normal life for a long, long time, so he’s able to finally go ‘You know what? I’m gonna go try to live a normal life and walk away from it, to get a job and get a dog.’”
On his new love interest: “We do see his love interest but we see it only in flashbacks. This one’s not a demon, she’s not going to end up on the roof, the Yellow Eyed Demon is dead, Sam’s out of the life so he’s not putting anyone in harm’s way as far as he’s concerned. But he has a relationship with this girl. It’s not gonna affect Sam and Dean’s relationship because Sam and Amelia are done by the time Dean shows back up.”
Jeremy Carver:
How he approached coming back to the show after being with “Being Human”: “The most significant change for me is that for the last two years I’ve been telling stories from the monsters’ point of view, and this year I’m telling stories from the perspective of two guys whose mission in life is to kill monsters so that’s the biggest shift. [Laughs.] But truly, it was an honor to be asked back.”
On the broad strokes of next season: The boys have spent a significant amount of time apart from each other, when they reunite they’re coming from slightly different perspectives — or renewed perspectives on life, it takes a special sort of quest to get them back in the mire together and it’s one that again, is very near and dear to their hearts and they’re very much interested in going on the offensive.
On bringing it back to the emotional core of the characters: “For me, the main attraction to the story has always been the emotional connection between the boys. After seven seasons, we have such a deep, deep mythology that it can be a little hard to keep track of. My idea was to reel it back just a little bit and make the mythology almost a reboot, so that everyone can catch their breath and so that we can set up a — hopefully — seasons long mythology.”
Ben Edlund
On where we’ll find Sam and Dean mentally next season: “Maybe a little shocked to realize that in this profound period of separation, they’ve figured out how to survive without each other. That’s part of it, a little bit growing up and realizing that they can’t be the only things to each other or they have too closed a world or too closed an emotional complex. [They'll meet] new people, have new relationships, and are looking outward from this partnership that is both highly functional in terms of saving the world but also highly dysfunctional in terms of how you might relate to the world.”
On Castiel’s arc next season: “I think he’s — in the most general sense — he’s moving back towards his roots in a way. He’s an angel who’s had all these strange experiences with free will and he’s actually starting to gravitate back towards … towards home in a sense, but that’s gonna be a different home because the angels’ home has been destroyed. He’s got a story to play, but it’ll take a little longer than the other ones because we kind of front-load it with the boys and then bring him in.”
The Doctor and Mal
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