Comic-Con 2011: Supernatural Pressroom – Season 7, Crowley, Cas and More

While sadly we didn’t get a chance to talk to all of the Supernatural team at Comic-Con this year, we got some great insight into where they are at with season seven. Showrunner Sera Gamble confirms that the demon king will be returning in season seven and assures us that Cas’s mysterious plans for Crowley are going to be revealed. Mark Sheppard, who plays Crowley, was incredibly surprised when the writers at my table informed him of this because he apparently had no idea! Sheppard also mentioned that he would like his own spinoff show called Oh Crowley and hopefully the powers that be get that memo.

As far as season seven goes, everyone was pretty tight lipped and did not want to give away too much, as they want to keep it a surprise for the fans. Gamble was able to tell us that they are returning to Supernatural’s roots, as mentioned in other interviews. She goes on to say that they are incredibly influenced by western tropes and that they’ve always viewed Sam and Dean as outlaw cowboys. This upcoming season they’re approaching the two main characters a la Butch and The Sundance Kid. Executive producer Ben Edlund adds that with the huge storylines that they’ve pursued over the years, they’ll be going for a B-movie feel this season because at this point it’s just too funny not to.

Right now they are still working on episode two of season seven. Gamble says that Cas will be back for the first few episodes and we’ll get to see what happens after last season’s explosive ending. Misha Collins was also quite secretive about how Cas’s character develops, but he did reveal that our favorite trenchcoat-wearing angel will be going the direction we first expect him to go early on and then it’s going to go somewhere else completely unexpected. But on Supernatural that’s pretty much the norm. Collins also adds that Cas isn’t looking for the heavenly father anymore and is satisfied that, “God has left the building.”

We can also expect to meet new hunters as well as Alona Tal returning as Jo. It might be as a ghost Jo since Gamble did mention that we’d be seeing them in season seven and I for one wouldn’t mind that at all. Colin Ford, who played young Sam Winchester, is also confirmed to be returning.

Gamble also mentioned that we’ll be learning new things about our favorite surrogate father Bobby Singer. Jim Beaver, who plays the character, was at the press room but sadly didn’t have time to chat with us.

Not to worry because we did have a chance to get some info from one Jared Padalecki. He explains that season seven Sam will be mellower and be more accepting of the life he has as a hunter. This has been something Sam’s struggled with all his life and it will certainly be interesting to see this version of him. Padalecki also spoke about how difficult it was playing Sam this past season. “So I was doing soulless Sam, post hell Sam and then doing season 1 and 2 Sam. And I was like where am I?  So it took on kind of a mind f-. It definitely took a lot of patience and hard work. And I love it,” he said.

Interestingly, Padalecki expressed how he felt that his own experiences have paralleled his character’s life. He began the show at twenty-two and just recently turned twenty-nine. During a time when Padalecki felt that he had to do everything to further his career, Sam was going through something similar. Now that he was a lot more calm and happy about being completely focused on the show, his character appears to have mellowed out as well. Padalecki definitely feels that he has ebbed and flowed with the younger Winchester.

When asked what other aspects of Sam’s life that we haven’t seen yet that he’d like to see explored, the actor answered by saying that awhile back he would have liked to see those few years that Sam was away from his family explored. But now he’s really more focused on the present and not worrying about the future. In the same way, Supernatural is also not looking back at the past in season seven but exploring what’s going on right now in the aftermath of everything that’s happened to the Winchesters, Bobby, and Cas.

Supernatural returns Friday, September 23 at 9/8c to The CW.

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