(Longtime EP Sera Gamble has been tapped to succeed him.)
Why did you decide to step down as showrunner?
I knew that we were closing this chapter and opening a new one.
It was a lot about Sera and her enthusiasm and her ambition.
We try really hard not to do the same thing.
She has a different sensibility.
What exactly will your role be?
Im in the room so far for every episode break.
Im giving some script notes.
Im still in it; I think, frankly, Sera and Bob wish I backed the hell up.
[Laughs]
Will you be writing any episodes?
KRIPKE:I think I will certainly be writing an episode this year.
I am also slated to direct an episode in February.
What do you say to those fans who felt the show should have ended with season 5?
KRIPKE:My answer to that is time will tell.
I have high hopes for this season.
I remember the same kind of concerns when we bumped off Yellow Eyes in season 2.
We killed their Big Bad and where were we going to go now?
We always found a different place to go.
People forget that I didnt [originally] want angels in the show.
This is a show that ends story lines and starts new ones and reinvents itself.
I think it does all of the above.
Okay, whatisthe new story line?
Not to say that angels and demons wont be a part of the story line, because they will.
Castiel will be there.
Crowley will be there.
The beloved characters will be threading into the story.
But the great undiscovered country ofSupernaturalis kind of right in front of our face: creatures and monsters.
How do they feel about the situations they are in?
Are they from here?
Where did the first ones come from?
How did werewolves and vampires and shape-shifters all begin anyway?
How does Grandpa [Mitch Pileggi] fit into this?
Their grandfather is the head of that family.
Remember, its not the Winchesters who are famous hunters, its the Campbells.
As Sera put it, they were hacking heads off vampires on theMayflower.
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