The pilot cold-opens on a graveyard in New Orleans, where a man dressed like Indiana Jones runs into trouble with some kind of monster. There’s no evidence of that yet in The Winchesters, which dives right into the action. It’s hard to see how the show moves forward without changing Supernatural’s established canon, though the Ackleses and showrunner Robbie Thompson have insisted viewers will ultimately be satisfied with how the mythology comes back around.
Most of these questions aren’t answered in the pilot, which, like the past four seasons of the source material, is a touch too plot-heavy to form an opinion about how the rest of the series is going to go. Don’t we know that John and Mary met at a movie theater, had coffee, and bonded over Led Zeppelin? How can they hunt together if John didn’t know about the supernatural until after Mary died in 1983? How is Dean going to narrate, considering they sent him to Car Heaven in the series finale? Are we memory-holing Sam? Where’s Castiel? Do we really need more of a 327-episode TV show? Ackles narrates the season as Dean based on some pre-prequel drama, it does not seem as though Sam will be showing up.įor those of us who have watched the original, The Winchesters’ premise already raises a few flags.
Produced by Ackles and his wife, Danneel, the CW’s The Winchesters takes us back to 1972 to watch Sam and Dean’s parents, John Winchester and Mary Campbell, hunt demons together and fall in love. What started as a WB show about two (hot) brothers hunting monsters and searching for their missing father eventually turned into a bloated CW fantasy juggernaut that put Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) Winchester through incessant angel-on-angel wars, alternate dimensions, fourth wall–breaking, multiple trips to Heaven and hell, the violent murders of all their friends and family, and a full season centered on Dean having a crush on God’s sister.Īnd since nothing Supernatural-related ever stays dead, now we have a prequel.
By the time Supernatural ended its 15-season run in 2020, it seemed as if the series had wrung out every possible story line.
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