One of Supernatural’s biggest stars will be missing for a portion of the upcoming 14th season. According to co-showrunner Andrew Dabb, the lack of Dean made this an extremely difficult season to write. “The show’s built upon two pillars, and those two pillars are Sam and Dean, Dabb told TVLine. “We’ve taken Sam away for little chunks of time here and there, but never in a huge way. He’s been soulless and things like that, but he’s still kind of present. Demon Dean was kind of a one-episode thing, and largely, the action happened off-screen.”
He continues to say, “One of the pillars of the show is gone, basically, and that, in some ways, makes things very difficult, because the show is Sam and Dean, and their interplay. It’s challenging to write episodes without Dean Winchester in them because he is such a fundamental part of the show. But it’s also exciting [for] Jensen and us [to have] the opportunity to play around with this new character. It gives some other characters a bit of breathing room in terms of Castiel and Jack, and Mary and Bobby.”
“The hardest thing about a show like this, sometimes, is every year, you have to create the new Big Bad,” he further explained. “You have to build that character. You have to build that actor to find a comfort level with the show and everything else. With Jensen playing Michael, there’s none of that. This is an actor who everyone loves, who knows exactly what the show is, who knows exactly who he is, who knows exactly [and] very smartly how to approach this character. So it’s really given us, like instantly, a great bad guy, which is kind of obvious, but it’s something where you’re like, ‘Oh, wow, that’s really, really cool.’”
Fans of the show may be disappointed with the news.
