Don’t forget what Kripke said about why they chose a siren
MR: Were you saying to yourself in Season 1, "Yeah, we're going to do that -- that's our show?" Did you know it would be that specific mixture from day one?
Eric Kripke: No, no, not all. When we started out, we were going to make a horror movie every week. It was about the monsters, and it was about Hook Man and Bloody Mary and the urban legends and and the boys honestly, in the beginning, Sam and Dean were an engine to get us in and out of different horror movies every week. Because that's when "The Ring" was burning up the box office, and so we were really setting out to tell bring the horror movie esthetic to television.
I would say right around Episode 4 or 5 [of Season 1, executive producer/director] Bob Singer and I were watching the episodes, and we just started saying, "God, those two guys and their chemistry is so much more interesting than the horror movies we're showing."
And then we started re-breaking story for that. And if you look at Season 1, the first half, almost it's a little repetitive, but it really picks up and catches on right around about, I think, episode seven or eight, when they go home for the first time. That's when we started realizing that we should play to the strengths of what's in front of us, which is these two amazing actors who have this unbelievable chemistry. And sure enough, now that's really, more than anything, that's what the show's about.
What's funny is, in Season 1, we would start [story-breaking sessions with], "What are the episode ideas?" And we'd start with, "What's the monster?" And now we do that last.
We break with, "OK, what should we put Sam and Dean through?" And then we say, "Oh, we should have them be confronted with an author who's their 'creator,'" or "We should see what their lives were like in high school," -- we come up with all of these different random notions of [what they are going through]. The siren episode came from, "We just want them to beat the crap out of each other, and all their angst to bubble to the surface and let them confront each other." And then we say, "OK, what's a monster that'll let us do that?"
And sometimes we don't even have the monster until way late in the break, once we get all the angst and the drama done first.
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